Setting

The game follows the story of Zed, a zombie who is on a quest to defeat the God of Destruction terrorizing the Netherworld, a parallel universe inhabited by demons. There are multiple Netherworlds, each ruled by a different overlord. Zed has lost to the God many times already, but every time he dies he is reborn thanks to a power called "Super Reincarnation". Every time he gets reincarnated, he gets slightly stronger than he was before. After each death he is taken to a new world, where he meets a new companion, and attempts to defeat the God of Destruction once more.

Story

'''Act 1'''

The Netherworld has been assault by a being of unimaginable power - A God of Destruction. The Dark Assembly, led by Overlord Ivar, begin to plan on how to defeat the God of Destruction. However, they are interrupted by the arrivial of the zombie Zed and his zombie dog-like companion, Cerberus. Zed claims to have already defeated The God of Destruction, a fact that Ivar and the rest of the Assembly find incredulous. Ivar sentences Zed to death for spreading falsehoods, unless Zed can indeed prove that he defeated the God of Destruction. Zed begins to explain the series of events leading to his defeat of the God of Destruction, forming a framing device for the first act of the story.

On an already dying world, Zed rescues several demons from hostile foes. No one believes that he can defeat the God of Destruction, but Zed attempts to fight him anyway. He fails to defeat The God of Destruction, seemingly dying. It is here that it is revealed that Zed has the power of Super Reincarnation - the ability to reincarnate again and again until he achieves his goal. Cerberus further explains that Super Reincarnation, which he seemingly created, seeks the most optimal path of resistance, taking Zed to worlds where he will gain the power needed to defeat The God of Destruction. Zed and Cerberus both claim that Zed has 'died' tens of thousands of times. Arriving on a human world, Zed meets Misedor, an obscenely rich king who has sent a hero of legend, who can revive, to defeat the God of Destruction. However, the hero, Yarmarda, has failed one hundred times and become a recluse. After defeating Yarmada, Zed once again fails and dies to the God of Destruction; however, this time, Misedor Super Reincarnates alongside Zed.

Zed then arrives in the Musical World, where he meets Melodia, a princess seeking her 'happy ending', who has sent hundreds of 'princes' who've arrived on her world to defeat the God of Destruction. She accompanies Zed, believing him to be her prince, but once again Zed fails to defeat The God of Destruction. As before, Melodia Super Reincarnates alongside Zed. Arriving at world within a television show, Zed and company meet Piyori, a superhero parodying the Super Sentai franchise. Piyori, seeking to raise the ratings of her show, and looking for the truth of justice, recruits Zed and company into her squad, fighting against a generic villainous army. They are once again defeated by the God of Destruction, with Piyori coming along this time. Arriving in an academy, the crew meet Majolene, a 10,000 year old principal who seeks to protect her students from the God of Destruction. Whilst attempting to gain an advantage, Majolene is transformed into a young magical girl, which she finds terrifyingly embarrassing. The team loses once more, though it has become clear they are beginning to hold their own in their battles with the God of Destruction. During this time, we learn of Zed's past with his younger sister, Bieko, who was killed by the God of Destruction, setting Zed onto the path of Super Reincarnation.

The party then loops through the last four worlds once again, with each of the party members personally progressing and gaining more power. Misedor takes charge of his path in life and becomes a Hero King; Melodia confronts an evil doppelganger of herself, named Naïve, and becomes assured of her right to seek a happy ending; Piyori understands the meaning of justice and comes to terms with the loss of her brother; and Majolene accepts her transformations, and declares she will defy fate. Each time, they fail against the God of Destruction, but grow closer and closer to victory. It is at this point that we learn that Bieko was not killed by the God of Destruction - Bieko ''is'' the God of Destruction, and is aware of the destruction she has caused, and the tens of thousands of deaths she has dealt to Zed. Zed and his party travel to Zed's homeworld, defeating old bullies and visiting his home, before they finally defeat The God of Destruction, seemingly killing Bieko, and apparently freeing Zed from Super Reincarnation, before accepting his death.

Back in the present, Ivar questions how Zed is still alive after speaking of his own death. Cerberus claims that Ivar is the Overlord who turned Bieko into the God of Destruction, with the Dark Assembly, moved by Zed's tale, votes to execute Ivar. Suddenly, Bieko arrives at the Dark Assembly, claiming Ivar is not the guilty party.

'''Act 2: The Truth Comes Out'''

Using his accusation of Ivar as a ruse, Zed and Bieko reveal the true culprit behind the latter's change to a God of Destruction: Cerberus. Cerberus is revealed to be an ancient 'Super Sage' named Misual, who developed Super Reincarnation in an attempt to change fate, and prevent the death of his love interest Releiza, the Legendary Witch. When Zed attempted to kill the God of Destruction, Releiza spoke to him in a vision, instructing him on how to defeat The God Of Destruction without killing Bieko. Misual developed the ability to create Gods of Destruction under the sponsorship of Ivar, who cliams he was told it was simply science, and he'd have the chance to fight something incredibly strong; Cerberus instead sought, in a sense of nihlistic despair, to create a being capable of destroying the universe. Ivar subsequently apologizes for his role in the disaster, and joins the party. As they fight towards Cerberus through Ivar's palace, Zed's body beings to crumble under the sheer weight of his power and his repeated Super Reincarnations. During the struggle, Cerberus kidnaps Bieko, escaping to another world. In pursuit, Zed and company arrive at a brand new world, being delayed from catching up to Cerberus by a variety of foes they've fought before, led by Naïve. Each of the party reconciles with their former foes, and Zed follows Cerberus back to his and Bieko's home Netherworld.

Cerberus locates and returns his brain to his original body, Misual, and once again turns Bieko into a God of Destruction, and the party seemingly crumbles under her sheer power. However, Bieko resists the control Misual has placed over her, breaking free of her form and declaring she'll fight alongside Zed and his friends. Misual flees once more, and Zed follows once more, despite his party members warning him his body cannot take much more strain. They arrive in a verdant, peaceful Netherworld, occupied by a still-living Releiza. They have found themselves in the past, at the time when Releiza was forced to defend herself from hordes of demons. Beneath the netherworld, they found the DNA of an incredibly powerful being, known as The Majin, and upon learning defeat was inevitable, Releiza was forced to absorb the DNA and become a God of Destruction. In the wake of her destructive rampage, Misual was forced to kill her. Misual spent tens of thousands of cycles, attempting to save Releiza from her fate, but was unable to prevent her death. Despite that, Zed and his friends manage to break through, and prevent this version of Releiza from dying. Releiza informs Zed that he is the zombie of the ancient Majin that died beneath the Netherworld - the pain he has been suffering is the destructive urges of the Majin within him, and when it overwhelms him, he'll become a true God of Destruction. Majolene surmises that this was likely Misual's plan from the outset - force Zed to unleash the power of the Majin, and destroy the universe. During this time, Beiko urges Zed to forgive Cerberus, speaking of the time they were a family together. Zed begins to soften towards Misual, now knowing the trauma he suffered losing his beloved.

Zed and company Super Reincarnate one last time to force Misual to end his universe-ending crusade, now armed with the knowledge that fate can be averted. Pushing Zed to his limit, Misual forces Zed to begin the transformation into the Majin of legend, but the energy of his friends and family, funneled through a kiss from Melodia, prevents the transformation. With assistance from Piyori's foe Ruffian Red, Hero Yarmada, Naïve, and Majolene's now saved student, Zed and company break through and finally defeat a now insane and overpowering Misual. Misual, now understanding that one truly can defy fate, accepts his death. In the aftermath of the battle, Misual finds himself still alive - once again in the body of Cerberus, with Zed and Bieko once again welcoming him into their ramshackle family.

Sometime later, Zed's friends confront Ivar, asking where he and Bieko have vanished to. Ivar reveals he'd given them a reward for saving the universe. In a final scene, Zed, Bieko and Cerberus are seen in a verdant and lush Netherworld, enjoying a meal as a family.

The play examines the life of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) from 1895, shortly before he departed on a European speaking tour, to 1905. During these years, Twain fell deeply into debt, and wife suffered a nervous breakdown and died. Daughter Susy became insane and died of spinal meningitis, and daughter Jane had a heart attack and drowned in a bathtub.

An awkward millhand, Jackson Fentry falls in love with a pregnant woman, Sarah Eubanks, and marries her. She dies in childbirth, and Jackson cares for her son after she dies.

For six years following the end of World War II, a deluded and neurotic German clerk, Hans Frick, has held two British fliers as prisoners in his cellar. Frick cared for the fliers, sometimes with true kindness, but kept them imprisoned and ignorant of the war's conclusion. The fliers spend their time recalling the past and dreaming of escape. One of the fliers works on a book of his boyhood recollections.

Frick is stricken with a heart attack and releases his fliers. He feels a bond with the fliers and begs to be allowed to stay with them as their servant in England.

A nuclear war is triggered when a young Navy pilot accidentally blows up a port in a foreign country during a time of heightened tensions, and the Soviet Union fires its missiles. The missiles destroy the American Midwest and most of the eastern United States.

The story follows residents of a small Florida town and how they react after learning of a massive nuclear attack that has killed 92% of the world's population.

In the land of Christmas Country, the King has banned Merry Christmasses. Good Will, the only man who knows how to make Merry Christmasses, has disappeared, s Princess Merry asks Jan the Gardener (a Prince in disguise) to help find him.

The play opens in Stalin's office on October 4, 1952, on the eve of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After a visit from his principal deputies, Stalin reveals to his personal aide, Alexander Poskrebyshev, his belief that there is a plot against him. In order to derail the plot, Stalin plans to dissolve the Politburo and replace it with a new Presidium.

After Stalin announces the dissolution of the Politburo, the Party's top leaders attend a reception and discuss Stalin's decision. Driving home that evening, Vyacheslav Molotov is urged by his wife to go into hiding. Mrs. Molotov suspects Stalin's intentions, but Molotov declares his continuing loyalty to Stalin.

Back in Stalin's office, Stalin informs Semyon Ignatyev, the Minister of State Security, that a doctors' plot led by Jews is underway to assassinate high-ranking officers in the Red Army. Stalin urges Ignatyev to uncover the plot. On leaving Stalin's office, Ignatyev informs his associate that there is no doctors' plot and that Stalin is instead seeking a reason to purge Lavrentiy Beria. When the play resumes, Ignatyev presents his evidence that Beria is covering up the doctors' plot. Beria learns that he is under investigation and interrogates a prisoner at Lubianka Prison, seeking to learn what information has been furnished to Stalin.

On February 9, 1953, after a wave of arrests, Beria tells Molotov that Stalin intends to liquidate all of the members of the former Politburo. Beria proposes that Stalin instead be liquidated and that Malenkov take Stalin's position. Malenkov agrees to the plan.

Sergei Shtemenko, Chief of Staff of the Soviet armed forces, is informed of the plot against Stalin and vows to assist Stalin in crushing the plot. When Shtemenko informs the other members of the Soviet general staff, Marshall Vasily Sokolovsky reminds Shtemenko of Stalin's purges against the Red Army and insists that the military must remain neutral and not interfere.

Stalin continues to receive reports on the plot and predicts infighting over who will succeed him. The production then cuts to Beria and Nikita Khrushchev plotting with each other to become joint leaders instead of letting Malenkov take over.

On March 1, 1953, Stalin invites Malenkov, Krushchev, Molotov and Beria to a meeting. Stalin says that he wishes to discuss his succession. After toying with the men, Stalin angrily confronts them with his knowledge of their plot. In the midst of the exchange, Stalin collapses on the floor from a stroke. Poskrebyshev enters to render assistance, but Krushchev refuses to allow any aid to be given to Stalin and throws his support to Malenkov as Stalin's successor.

After leaving Stalin on the floor overnight, Malenkov escorts a doctor to see Stalin. Malenkov assures the doctor that, if Stalin dies, it is understood that Stalin was an old man and that no harm will befall the doctor. The doctor realizes that Malenkov and the others do not want Stalin to live and that his own life is in danger. Stalin finally dies, and as the plotters gather to view Stalin's body, Beria's troops surround the city, and the plotters plot against each other.

A boy in a yellow jacket appears injured as he runs for his life through the woods before falling to his knees and breaking down in despair.

Somewhere in Britain, five teens – Nolan (Jack Kane), Bess (Sophie Jane Oliver), Reggie (Zak Sutcliffe), Queenie (Molly Dew) and Karl (Zander Emlano) – are going on a field trip with their bus driver Joseph (Terence Anderson). Karl teases Queenie, while it appears that Nolan likes Bess, and Reggie just sits in the back scowling. Joseph gives the teens a riddle to solve to pass the time, involving seven letters and being a much-needed virtue. On the road, a fallen tree blocks their path, so Joseph decides to take a different route.

Further up, Joseph has to exit the bus to move a dead deer from the road. When he returns, he is held at gunpoint by escaped convict Pedro Minghella (David Keyes), whom Karl recognizes from the news. Pedro hijacks the bus and demands everyone follow his orders. He also forces them to throw their phones out of the bus so that there’s no way that they can call for help.

Joseph drives the bus later into the evening until they enter a tunnel where the bus inexplicably breaks down. Pedro forces Joseph to attempt to fix it by holding Queenie hostage. The lights in the tunnel suddenly go out, leaving everything in pitch black darkness, save for the bus headlights illuminating an odd shape in the road which Pedro forces Joseph to inspect. Once he gets close enough, the thing reveals itself to be a monstrous creature that rises and kills Joseph, to the horror of the teens. To make matters worse, he had the keys on him. Pedro chooses Karl to go and retrieve them but Nolan insists he go. Bess suddenly exits the bus to go out and retrieve the keys. She succeeds and makes it back to the bus safely where Pedro forces Reggie to try and start the bus with a gun to his head but it will not budge and after a struggle Pedro goes outside to try and kill the beast, only for it to sneak up on him and rip his head off. The monster (which looks like a giant bug with sharp teeth and long hair) rips out the wiring on the bus and hops on board, but the teens manage to escape.

The remaining teens get far enough away but still don’t have an exit. They realize the creature is sensitive to light, so they must find a way to turn the lights back on in the tunnel. Nolan and Bess go off to find the main generator while the other three stay together. Nolan comes across some evidence that someone else knew about the creature and had tried to kill it. He and Bess find pictures and journals, as well as countless drawings of someone obsessed with killing it. Meanwhile, Queenie asks Reggie to escort her to pee, but when he has his back turned, the creature grabs Queenie. Reggie gets Karl to help, and they find the creature biting into Queenie's neck. They fight it off with torches and rescue her before the wound becomes fatal. The creature then captures Reggie and nearly kills him until Nolan and Bess manage to turn the lights on, scaring the creature away.

After Nolan and Bess catch up with Reggie, Karl, and Queenie, they show the three all the evidence they found. It belonged to a man named Giulio Sarpi, who, in 1971, lost his younger sister Isabella to the monster (he was the boy seen in the film’s opening). Giulio spent 40 years studying the creature and learning how to defeat it only to end up killed by it instead. His corpse is found by the teens in a corner. They decide it is time they kill it themselves.

They devise a plan and find a way to lure the creature toward them. Bess and Queenie get the creature to chase them until they find the exit to outside, where it is now daytime. The creature stops and is trapped when the boys come running up to it with torches. With nowhere to run, the creature is lit on fire. It writhes and screeches in agony until it finally collapses, apparently dead.

The teens walk together into town to get help. Sometime later, they are seen hanging out, closer than ever. Their voiceover narration reveals that they solved the answer to Joseph’s riddle – it was courage, which is what it took for them to work together and escape.

Authorities later come by the tunnel to investigate the teens’ story. One detective goes in with a flashlight, only for the light to suddenly go out. He hears the rattling noise from the creature, who then appears behind the detective as the screen fades to black.

This series has a social story mixed with humor. Noureddin Khanzadeh (Saeed Agakhani) owns a workshop for processing sunflower seeds. Local farmers in Noureddine have sold their sunflower seeds to Noureddine. Noureddine sold this product to a person living in Tehran named Mirzaei so that he could sell these products in Turkey. Meanwhile, it is reported that Mirzaei has passed away, and the farmers who learn of this news are somehow trying to extort money from him for the products they sold to Noureddin Khanzadeh. During various conversations with Mirzaei's entourage, Noureddine also realizes that he was not in the middle of his life. The continuation of this story takes place in the second season of the series.

A man is sitting in a box at a cinema theatre. The screening starts with the title ''The Edison Projecting Kinetoscope'' followed by the intertitle ''Parisian Danger'' showing a girl dancing the can-can. The man jumps out of his box and starts imitating her dance. The second intertitle, ''The Black Diamond Express'' then appears and the film shows a train rushing towards the camera. The man is so afraid that he jumps back in his loge. The third film, ''The Country Couple'', is then shown and when the spectator sees a couple kissing, he goes back on stage and tears up the screen, revealing the movie projector and projectionist behind it. The projectionist stands up a gives the spectator a beating.

''Ka-Boom!'' opens with its characters on their knees, singing in prayer. We quickly discover that they are the five sole survivors of a nuclear war that has destroyed all of humanity. They are: Tony, a showy Las Vegas lounge singer who was performing at the Sands Hotel when the blast hit; Jasmine, a cynical writer whose resume included jobs at ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Village Voice''; Hattie, a stripper who was dancing at her burlesque club, The Ka-Boom Room, when the world ended; June, a perky musical-comedy performer who'd just wrapped up her 17th national tour of ''Oklahoma!''; and Matthew, a confused drama student struggling with his identity. Eventually, a fussy angel (Avery) appears and explains to them that they are to audition for God for his planned second Creation, and that, through their performances, they must demonstrate that they can fulfill God's vision of a new and better world. Most of the play's action revolves around the quintet's efforts to stage a group audition, though their first attempts fail, as the characters succumb to their old vices, such as pride and selfishness. Eventually, the five create an entirely new audition piece that reveals the ways in which they have learned and grown. Avery returns, reveals that he is, in fact, God, and announces that all five survivors have earned their place in the new Creation.

Every six years, an ancient order of expert Jiu Jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in a battle for Earth. For thousands of years the invaders have lost to Earth's defenders, up until now. Earth's future is in jeopardy.

In a jungle in Burma (Myanmar) Asia, Jake Barnes, a celebrated war hero, is running away from flying stars ("shurikens") under the command of Brax, the powerful invader leader. Jake ends up on an oceanside cliff, where he is hit by the stars, falls into the ocean, hits his head and blacks out.

Wylie, a senior Jiu Jitsu fighter, rescues Jake from the water and gives him over to the care of two Burmese fishermen. They stitch up weary Jake's cuts and take him to a nearby military outpost, assuming that he came from there. After foreboding miscommunication between an inexperienced translator and one of the fisherwomen, Jake is left at the outpost and starts to regain consciousness. But he must regain his strength! Puzzled by the mention of a comet that comes every six years and a hole in a temple opening, the operatives set about figuring out where Jake came from. An intelligence officer, Myra, tries to interrogate Jake but he appears to have amnesia, with no recall of events leading to his being found in the water.

After a fight sequence Myra injects Jake with a truth serum, but this proves ineffective on what he divulges. She decides it is probable that he actually does not remember, but while discussing this with other operatives, Keung, advanced Jiu Jitsu fighter, begins to work his way through the base, besting fist and gun alike. Keung is unfazed by repeated attacks by men in balaclavas and fatigue uniforms, who he lays flat. Gunfire and the sound of feet against chests, heads and the like alert Myra and the others that indeed something is up. After more fighting, Keung approaches Jake who he recognizes with a special handclasp. Keung exclaims "We gotta go" and Jake accepts this chance to leave his captors. Their departure from the base confirms that Jake, too, is skilled in the art of using his limbs in defense against others.

Jake then reunites with three other fighters who seem to know him but he doesn't remember who they are or what his mission is. As they try to leave to head back to their base, soldiers turn up again. The three other fighters defeat the entire unit easily but Jake gets grabbed by Myra. She tried questioning him again back at the military base but he simply tells her she should leave. They then decide to move out from the army base as they try to escape but they are hunted down by an alien called Brax. The group confronts Brax at the temple and fight him. During the fight, it is revealed that Brax has a weakness to fire and uses that to his advantage. Jake manages to cut down Brax with a sword and shove a grenade in his gut before it heals up. He kicks Brax into the portal and it explodes finally ending the alien race.

The production depicts the life of Great Britain's Queen Victoria through vignettes starting with her accession to the throne at age 18, covering her romance with Prince Albert, and ending with her time as an elderly widow at age 78.

In 1880, Jenny Brown worries about the trips her tobacconist husband Arthur is making to Eastborne to visit his ailing aunt. There are also a series of unsolved murders. The aunt, Mrs Persephelous, visits Jenny.

Ernie Pettifer, a carpenter, arrives at a boarding house run by Mrs Jessup and her husband Arthur. He falls in love with straightlaced teacher Florence Medway. Another boarder, Violet, is interested in Ernie.

The novel is set during the last days of WWII in the Ardennes Forest, and follows a group of six American soldiers, led by sergeant William Knot, called Won't by his comrades. Weary of this futile war, they are ordered to establish an observation post in an old chateau in order to have an eye on a German outpost. A few days after their arrival, they begin hearing strange noises and noticing Germans leaving strange signs of their presence. After some difficult communication with the Germans, they realize that the "Krauts" wish to surrender to avoid being sent to Russia. Everything seems perfectly ready for a fake surrender scene to finish the deal. But war is never so simple.

Two androids, Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), escape a war-ravaged Earth, taking with them twelve human embryos. Their spacecraft crash-lands into a hole in the planet Kepler-22b. After setting up camp in the desert, Mother hooks herself up to artificial umbilical cords to allow six fetuses to grow. Nine months later, the children are born, the youngest of whom initially appears stillborn; Mother and Father name him Campion, after their creator. One of their daughters, Tally, is presumed dead after falling into a hole, while three other children die of illness. Four years later, only Mother, Father, Campion (Winta McGrath), and his sister, Spiria (Bronte Carmichael), remain. Mother begins teaching her children about atheism and a religious order on Earth known as the Mithraic; having been programmed by atheists, she emphasizes that their new colony on Kepler-22b must be rooted in science, rather than "fantasy". Spiria dies soon after.

Concerned about the fate of Campion as the sole surviving human, Father attempts to communicate with the Mithraic, whose spacecraft (an ark dubbed ''Heaven'') has arrived at Kepler-22b and is orbiting the planet. Outraged to learn of this, a malfunctioning Mother attacks and disables Father and hides his body. Campion succeeds in contacting the ark and a small Mithraic reconnaissance team discovers their plantation. Considering Campion to be a possible prophet, the Mithraics decide to abduct him and destroy Mother. However, their plan backfires, and Mother kills several members of the team. One of the team, Marcus, (Travis Fimmel) attempts to escape in the reconnaissance ship but is stopped by Mother and thrown out. Mother hijacks the ship and boards the ark. The Mithraics attempt to repel her but she disintegrates her attackers with sonic screams. After setting the ark on a crash course with the planet, Mother returns to the farm with a number of children from the ark. Marcus is shown to have survived Mother's assault, and Campion begins to have reservations about Mother.

An ambitious and ruthless young man utilizes duplicity to climb from poverty to wealth and power. Wayde becomes the protege of a mill operator, Henry Harcourt, and courts his daughter, Bess Harcourt.

The film revolves around a family in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, separated by the Israeli wall, and the efforts of the father who tries to visit his son on the other side of the wall.

It has been three and a half years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, and Japan's economy is no longer growing slowly due to inflation. To balance the fiscal balance, the tax authorities have organized a "T-men" squad to detect tax evasion, the biggest cause of inflation. The building is called Fujimura Sangyo and it is located in front of it. As a group of T Men are inspecting the books in the office, Yoshioka, Kano, Mihara and others are accompanied by the police; however, the double books in question are not present. A few minutes later Fujimura, the company's president, walks in and laughs meaninglessly. The economic paper's Tachibana, however, persists in his attachment to Fujimura. Former Countess Mibu and Center Party executive Nango have been dating for some time. She's also on Fujimura's radar. In the world of political parties and Fujimura Sangyo, a close relationship led to an entanglement involving Mrs Mibu, centred on "double books." Journalist Tachibana recognized the link between Nango and Fujimura Sangyo. In cooperation with Yoshioka and other members of "T Men," he began looking for the whereabouts of the double books, but Fujimura failed to reveal any evidence. Reporter Tachibana suddenly disappeared, leaving behind the news that he had captured a certain point. Major action has been initiated between the police and "T Men." Nango also suffered from money and women, like Fujimura and his friends. To gain power, Fujimura will do whatever he thinks is right. Fujimura finally takes Mrs Mibu out of Nango. Nango can't let go of Miss Mibu, but at the same time follow them to Atami, and then follow them to "T Men". A group of police officers. Fujimura's death caused Nango and Mrs Mibu to settle everything after Tachibana's murder. The "T-men" muttered, "The future is important."

A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is an alcoholic friend who Buddy tries to help.

Stanley Smith, a Soviet agent and explosives expert (played by Tab Hunter), prepares at "Little Chicago" outside Moscow for an undercover assignment. He is then transported by submarine to the coast of Florida and secures himself a post in the Air Force, serving at a kitchen on an air base in Florida.

At the "Forbidden Area" within the Pentagon, the "intentions of the enemy group" plans to defend a Soviet nuclear attack. The group includes Clark Simmons, the senior member (played by Vincent Price), Col. Jesse Price (played by Charlton Heston), the newest member, and Katharine Hume, the secretary (played by Diana Lynn). Price discloses plans for a new program of automatic retaliation using ICBMs with pre-set targeting. Intelligence reports suggest there may be a submarine-based Soviet nuclear attack.

Five American B-99 long-range bombers disappear suddenly from radar. General Keaton (played by Charles Bickford) leads the investigation, and a survivor mumbles about coffee. The planes were destroyed because Smith concealed pressure bombs, set to explode at 25,000 feet, in coffee thermoses used by the airmen on the B-99s. Smith murders a cook (played by Jackie Coogan) after the cook notices his Russian tooth filling.

Price believes the enemy seeks to have the B-99s grounded in order to open a window to attack while the American retaliatory ability is ineffective. He concludes the Soviet attack is coming on Christmas Eve. Simmons rejects Price's prediction as a fairy tale.

A fleet of 600 Soviet submarines approaches as America is "busy with its Christmas trees."

Hume professes her love for Price and urges him to flee with her. Price instead flies to Florida to brief Gen. Keaton. Keaton reverses the grounding the B-99s and pilots one of the planes as the crew searches for the pressure bomb.

Price becomes suspicious when Smith seeks to retrieve a coffee thermos from the control tower. He confronts Smith and learns that the canisters also explode when opened. Price warns Keaton, who is about to open a thermos, that it contains a bomb.

Smith is given truth serum, and American air and naval forces destroy the Soviet submarines as they approach the coast. The President addresses the country and reports that the country's bombers are approaching the Soviet Union. The Soviet Presidium resigns, and the new Soviet Premier agrees to withdraw its naval forces and ground its air forces. Keaton urges the President to continue with the retaliatory strike, but the President orders the return of the American bombers.

The production opens with a reporter, Hennify (played by James Gregory), dictating the story of a lynching to be wired back to his newspaper in St. Louis. The teleplay then flashes back with Hennify serving as the narrator.

Pancho Rivera, a 19-year-old Mexican boy, is jailed in Dempseyville, a small southwestern town suffering from drought and heat. Pancho is charged with attempted robbery of the general store and assault on the wife of the shopkeeper, Jerry Paul (played by William Shatner). Paul leads a mob to the jail. Rather than defend Pancho from the mob, the sheriff, Harvey Denton (played by Rod Steiger), turns Rivera over to the mob. Pancho is hanged.

The mob celebrates at the saloon after the lynching. Hennify confronts Paul and Denton. He asks what the penalty would have been if Rivera had been convicted rather than lynched. Hennify is told the penalty would have been five to ten years in prison.

The next day, Hennify visits Paul's store. Hennify observes a mark on the face of Paul's wife, Annamay (played by Fay Spain), and notes that the mark matches the ring on Paul's hand. After Hennify leaves, Annamay accuses Paul of killing an innocent boy. Paul warns her not to damage his good name and throws her to the ground. Denton enters the store and confronts Paul with his suspicion that Paul killed Pancho. Denton suspects that Annamay was in love with Pancho.

The town's Mexican residents stop patronizing Paul's store. They stand in silent protest outside the store. Paul taunts Pancho's brother, Ramon, challenging him to enter the segregated saloon. Ramon enters the saloon and strikes Paul three times with a whip. Paul stirs up the white patrons by blaming the Mexicans for the town's problems. He again leads a mob to the jail, demanding that Ramon be turned over. This time, Denton refuses and speaks to the mob. Annamay appears and tells the mob that she loved Pancho and that was why Paul killed Pancho. Paul and Denton exchange gunfire. Denton is wounded, and Paul is killed.

Denton tells the priest that there is no absolution for him or for the mob. He confesses that he led a mob 16 years earlier that killed an elderly man. Denton then collapses and dies. That night, the drought that has plagued Dempseyville ends as rain begins to fall. Hennify writes that the rain came too late, because the town had already turned to dust due to prejudice and violence.

In Okinawa, a group of hardcore skaters participate in a secret, no-holds-barred competition after midnight known as "S", racing each other on skateboards down a winding road carved out of an abandoned mine and occasionally forming rivalries, also known as "beefs", with each other. Reki, a high school sophomore and hardcore skater, takes new transfer student Langa to S one night, and ends up pulling him into the world of skateboarding.

In 2145, during the Battle of Boston, atheist soldier Caleb (Jack Hawkins) and his wife Mary (Sienna Guillory) decide to respectively impersonate Mithraic captain Marcus (Travis Fimmel) and his wife Sue (Niamh Algar) with the help of an android plastic surgeon. After assassinating the real Marcus and Sue at their residence, they board the Mithraic spacecraft ''Heaven'', where they find the deceased couple's son, Paul (Felix Jamieson).

Back in the present on Kepler-22b, Mother (Amanda Collin) replaces her eyes—the source of her extreme powers—with those of a Mithraic android; she also revives Father (Abubakar Salim) with its heart. They return to taking care of their son Campion (Winta McGrath), as well as five Mithraic children: Hunter (Ethan Hazzard), Tempest (Jordan Loughran), Holly (Aasiya Shah), Vita (Ivy Wong), and Paul. Tempest later confides to Mother that she is pregnant with the child of a Mithraic priest who raped her on ''Heaven''. Unidentified desert creatures attack the farm but are killed by Mother after she reclaims her original eyes that were momentarily stolen by an untrusting Campion. Having survived Mother's earlier assault, Marcus falls asleep next to a hole after tying himself to a nearby rock. The same creatures spot him and knock him off the edge. However, he manages to avoid serious injury and is later rescued by another Mithraic team.

In 1949, at a party on Coney Island thrown by Fred Trump Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have to convince a skeptical CBS to greenlight a television show starring a red-headed caucasian woman and a man from Cuba. As Lucille becomes disillusioned with Desi—he's flirting with another woman—she meets Isidore Strauss, the author's grandfather, and allows him to kiss her. This sets off a series of events that will echo through both their lives for decades.

The book examines both the birth of the television industry and of the American suburb, and is a meditation on fame. It has also been called – in ''The Washington Post'' – "a charming love story".

A stricken airliner disappears from radar on a flight from Miami to New York. The film follows the consequences for friends and relatives of the passengers.

An underworld kingpin, John Morgan (Billy Murray), returns to London from semi-retirement in Turkey, along with his wife Sadie (Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott), triggering a cataclysm of violence, retribution and murder. Morgan's return reignites a feud with a vengeful cop named Frank Conway (Nick Moran), is not welcomed by crime boss Damien Osbourne (Bruce Payne) and is the catalyst for bickering between his brother Richard (Frank Harper) and nephew Eddie (Danny Bear). John endeavours to reconcile his family at a party in his apartment, where they are set to meet his daughter Kate’s (Ambra Moore) new girlfriend Zoe (Lucy Aarden), but the family become trapped in their own home by a gang of heavily armed intruders.

The teleplay follows the life of singer Helen Morgan from age 17 and through her work as a Chicago torch singer, on Broadway in ''George White's Scandals'', and in ''Show Boat'' where she gained fame singing "Bill" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". The production also covers Morgan's alcohol abuse, her three marriages, and her death at age 41 from cirrhosis of the liver.

Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.

Charles Marlow travels from England to Africa to reunite with Mr. Kurtz, the man who raised him. The two are reunited, and Kurtz seeks to brand Marlow as one of his slaves. Kurtz later dies in Marlow's arms.

Upon returning to Japan, first-year high school student Rinku Aimoto enrolls at Yoba Girls' Academy and meets Maho Akashi, the school's broadcaster and DJ. Rinku soon develops an interest in DJing after watching a performance by Yoba's famous DJ unit "Peaky P-key", and she and Maho form a group of their own called "Happy Around!". They are later joined by Muni Ohnaruto, a talented illustrator, and Rei Togetsu, a pianist.

The film tells the story of wheelchair-bound Paul Hodgson, who was left unable to speak or move after a bout of meningitis as a child. The film explores how Paul 'made the best out of a bad situation'.

The play examines the life of Elizabeth Blackwell who became America's first woman doctor in 1849.

Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human rights, believing that the quest for wealth is the cause of the world's difficulties.

Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whisky bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the flight.

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.

The player assumes the role of protagonist Psaph, who faces off against the Dak, a race of cyborg aliens.

The heroes of the series, set the American Old West, were straight-talking and straight-shooting Jeff Arnold, and his companion, the older, gruff Luke (surname?). Inseparable partners, the righted wrongs throughout the territory. Once, they very publicly fell out with each other, in order to flush out a gun-for-hire.

Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son John Ericson aspires to be a jet pilot. However, his sales manager, Paul Fletcher, does wish to take over the business.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on South Park. To Butters Stotch's chagrin, his paranoid parents refuse to take him to Build-A-Bear Workshop even as restrictions are eased. Butters' father, Stephen, criticizes improperly worn masks as "chin diapers" when he notices the townspeople gathering for an assembly by Randy Marsh, who is offering a strain of marijuana called the Pandemic Special. His wife, Sharon, berates Randy for attempting to profit from the pandemic.

Meanwhile, Eric Cartman is ecstatic about social distancing, as he can avoid remote classes by faking connection problems with Zoom. He becomes infuriated when his mother, Liane, informs him of plans to reopen the school.

Randy boasts of his success with the Pandemic Special when Sharon reveals that her brother, Jimbo Kern, is hospitalized with COVID-19, which Randy dismisses. A news report reveals that the pandemic's origins were traced to a bat in Wuhan, which prompts a flashback to Randy's visit to China, during which he and Mickey Mouse had sex with a bat. Realizing that they are responsible for the outbreak, Randy is overcome with guilt. A later news report reveals the source to instead be a pangolin, with which Randy and Mickey also had sex.

The South Park Elementary school board convenes a Zoom meeting led by Mr. Mackey, which devolves into a shouting match of obscenities. The board decides that the school will reopen, but will be run by the now-defunct police department, which had lost most of its funding due to police violence. Sergeant Harrison Yates and his officers struggle to adapt to teaching when Cartman is dragged in and handcuffed to a chair as class begins. Attempting to escape, Cartman incites a fight with Kyle Broflovski. The police attempt to break them up, but end up shooting Token Black.

The pangolin is brought to the United States for research in developing a vaccine. Desperate to avoid being found out, Randy absconds with the pangolin. Mickey threatens to have Randy killed and send his DNA samples to scientists for studies. Randy convinces Mickey to spare him, promising to find a cure; he later laces the Pandemic Special with his semen and secretly tests it on Jimbo. It initially proves successful, and Randy sells the semen-laced Special to an influx of customers. However, Jimbo and several others soon relapse and grow mustaches similar to Randy's, resulting in numerous hospitalizations. Anthony Fauci appears at a press conference, where some in attendance dismiss his advice.

The police claim that Token tested positive for COVID-19 and the entire school is placed under increasingly strict lockdown. Butters becomes increasingly upset that he may never get to visit Build-A-Bear, while Stan Marsh starts to suffer a nervous breakdown. Stan calls President Garrison to appeal to him. Garrison, however, refuses to act, citing the virus' disproportionate effect on Mexicans.

Stan promises to take Butters to Build-A-Bear and convinces the students to escape from the school. Protests, rioting, and looting ensue, prompting Mayor McDaniels to reimburse the police with supplies to quell the unrest. Kenny McCormick is among those killed by the police. The boys break into Build-A-Bear, but Stan cannot properly operate the equipment. The police prepare to shoot at the boys when Randy arrives with the pangolin. Cartman seizes the pangolin with the intent to kill it, but relents when Stan makes an impassioned speech. Cartman gives the pangolin to a scientist, only for Garrison to immolate them with a flamethrower before reminding people to vote in the upcoming election.

In the aftermath, wildfires have broken out, and South Park is placed under lockdown. Randy is about to confess his actions to Sharon when he notices a mustache on her face before departing to produce more specials.

Detective Lee Sang-won (Sung Dong-il) and his daughter, Lee Jang-hyun (Kim Yoo-jung), meet high school teacher Nam Chul-woong (Son Ho-jun) and discover common ties to a tragic murder case that happened 10 years earlier.

Eloise is a lonesome six-year-old girl who lives with her nanny at the Plaza Hotel.

Ten years ago, the Mithraic spacecraft ''Heaven'' was launched carrying a thousand passengers to colonize Kepler-22b. While in a state of suspended animation, they are able to engage in telepathy in virtual reality. Back in the present, Marcus (Travis Fimmel), having awoken from his concussion, finds himself at the ark's crash site with Sue (Niamh Algar) and a handful of other Mithraic survivors. Marcus postulates that Mother is a reprogrammed "necromancer" android, but ''de facto'' Mithraic leader Ambrose (Steve Wall) declines to send soldiers to rescue the children. While discussing Paul's safety with Sue, Marcus recalls his violent youth as an atheist soldier whose partner was killed in action. Almost ambushed by Mother while scavenging for supplies, the survivors hide underground. A Mithraic android (Awissi Lakou) is sent back up to distract Mother and is swiftly destroyed.

Back on the plantation, Campion (Winta McGrath) locks Father in a shed and alleges to the other children that Mother has poisoned them. They flee in search of the crash site, but Paul (Felix Jamieson) becomes separated from the rest while searching for his pet mouse. Father escapes from the shed; while refueling their landing craft with biofuel from their crops, he inadvertently discovers that their pits are radioactive and deduces that Campion's siblings may have died of acute radiation syndrome. While Mother searches for Paul, Father tracks down five of the children and convinces Campion of Mother's innocence. Campion is nearly attacked by an unidentified creature; Father comes to his rescue and is wounded in the neck. Alone in the forest, Paul follows a child-like apparition and falls into a hole, landing on a thick branch.

''The Anvil of Ice'' is a novel in which Alv survives an attack on his town and comes an apprentice smith making enchanted weapons.

''Three Go Back'' is a novel in which an airship goes back 25,000 years and encounters Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals.

''Kaeti & Company'' is a collection of 10 stories.

''The Skook'' is a novel in which Span Barrmann is trapped in a cave by biker cultists, and must escape with the aid of a fairytale creature called the Skook.

Considering numerous variations of the folk tale, the general story line is following: a man loses his mitten in a forest. One by one various animals come and settle in the mitten planning to spend cold winter in the warm mitten. Prior to settling, a new-comer asks permission from the animals already living there. Eventually, the mitten cannot hold all who want to warm themselves inside. It splits open and spills all the animals into the cold. The story illustrates the Tragedy of the Commons.

The range of animals also varies in different versions but generally includes in the most known and popular version: a mouse, a frog, a hare, a fox, a wolf, a boar and a bear. They have nicknames, for example: "Munchy the Mouse" and "Skippy the Frog". The animals arrive to the mitten in increasing order of their size.

''Denial of Destiny'' is an adventure set on the USS ''Enterprise''; the player characters — assumed to be Federation officers — are ordered to take Ambassador Fox and a rescue fleet to the doomed planet of Aleriad, which lies in the path of a debris field that will cause an extinction-level event. Although the inhabitants have no knowledge of space travel or the Federation, the player characters are ordered to break the Prime Directive and rescue as many inhabitants as possible. If any inhabitants agree to be rescued, the player characters may have to deal with a revolt when the inhabitants discover their planet has been destroyed.

The film "explores the dynamic between two women who take a dive into a complex morning after a simple one-night-stand."

Jane Fairchild is a maid who works for the wealthy Niven family. On Mothering Sunday Jane is given the day off to spend as she likes. To her surprise Paul Sheringham, a wealthy neighbour, invites her over to spend the day with him while his parents, the Nivens, and the Hobdays have lunch together.

Paul and Jane have been having a secret sexual affair for years, since Jane's arrival at the Nivens’s estate; however, Paul is due to marry Emma Hobday, a woman in his social circle who was once unofficially engaged to Paul's friend James Niven, who died in The Great War. Both Paul and Emma have mixed feelings about their engagement but feel compelled to marry nevertheless.

At the Sheringham estate, Jane and Paul have sex before Paul leaves to join his family and fiancée for lunch. He leaves Jane alone at his estate and she wanders naked through the house examining how he lives before leaving.

Later in her life Jane becomes a writer and marries Donald, a philosopher whom she meets while working at a book shop. He asks her how she became a writer and she lists her birth and the gift of a typewriter as two inciting incidents, keeping the third to herself.

The third incident occurred on Mothering Sunday after Jane returned home. She runs into Godfrey Niven, who informs her that Paul died in a car crash. He asks Jane to accompany him to Paul's home, where Mr. Niven suspects there might have been a suicide note. Instead the maid there has already returned early and has cleaned up all traces of Paul and Jane's [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tryst tryst].

Later in their marriage Jane and Donald learn that Donald has cancer and is dying. He tells her that his death will perhaps fuel her to write her best work and laments the fact that he will be unable to read it. Before he dies Donald begs Jane to tell him about the third incident but she instead tells him she loves him.

Years later when she is an old woman Jane is approached by members of the press after she wins a prestigious literary award. She is unimpressed as she has won numerous literary prizes.

The play dramatizes the final days and death of Benito Mussolini. It begins in April 1945 in Milan; a Mussolini associate, Zerbino, oversees the removal of $60 million in gold jewelry from the Italian treasury. Mussolini meets with his ministers and reviews their options. The Blackshirts have disbanded and are unavailable to escort Mussolini.

Cardinal Schuster arranges a meeting to discuss terms of surrender between Mussolini and Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and partisan leaders, including Gen. Raffaele Cadorna Jr. and Luigi Longo. The partisans demand unconditional surrender, but Mussolini opts to flee for Switzerland with his gold. The partisans learn of Mussolini's plan and make plans to capture him.

In Como, Mussolini is joined by his mistress, Claretta Petacci. After his path is blocked by partisan roadblocks, he attaches his group to a group of Germans led by Major Kurtz. When Kurtz betrays Mussolini to the Germans, Mussolini pays a group of Germans to allow him to hide among them in a German uniform. He is discovered in Dongo hiding among the Germans. The local partisan leader, Luigi Neri, confronts Mussolini with his crimes, and the people call for Mussolini to be hung.

The partisan leaders in Milan conduct Mussolini's trial in absentia. They find him guilty of treason and sentence him to death. Mussolini watches from his cell as his ministers are to be executed by a firing squad. Before the firing squad can act, a mob attacks and kills the ministers. Alone in his cell, Mussolini speaks to God and blames Hitler for all that has happened in Italy.

The Communists seek to steal Mussolini's treasures for the benefit of the party. Neri refuses to take part in the plot, and he is executed. Col. Tedesco arrives pretending to rescue Mussolini and Claretta. They drive to Villa Belmonte where Tedesco executes Mussolini. Claretta begs to be killed as well, and she is executed. A few days later, Mussolini is returned to Milan where he is shown in documentary footage hung by his feet "to quiet the skeptics who didn't believe the Duce was really dead."

The play tells the story of socialite Perle Mesta, who was known for her lavish society parties. She grew up in Oklahoma, married the president of a steel company, and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. She was also the inspiration for Irving Berlin's musical ''Call Me Madam''.

Molly Hanlon marries a villainous and professional gambler after her father gets into a lot of debt from gambling. One day, the saloon she is at catches on fire, but she is saved by Miles Rand. Both Hanlon and Rand assume that the gambler has perished, and move to New York. However, it is revealed that the gambler is not dead, and he tracks the two down to kill them in revenge. He is unsuccessful. and Rand kills him, but authorities unaware of the circumstances arrest him and have him convicted of murder. One of the gambler's associates explains the situation to authorities, and Rand is freed. The film ends with Hanlon and Rand being free to marry.

Hawk and the rest of his gang go on the run after murdering a drug dealer, at a carnival funhouse, to steal his cocaine. They kidnap a stage magician named Chandu and hideout in his mansion, using the time to tend to injuries and hide from the police and the drug dealer's partner. Hawk breaks into the magician's safe and is disappointed to find a book on Cthulhu instead of cash. Chandu calls upon the powers of the book and unleashes dark spirits upon everyone in the mansion.

The play tells the story of Irish politician Robert Briscoe. It begins in 1918 when Briscoe, as a young Jewish Irishman, became active in the Irish Republican Army (IRA). During the Irish War of Independence, he smuggled arms past the Black and Tans and was the subject of a "shoot on sight" order. He later became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Yoshiki Murayama has become the leader of Oya Koukou (Oya High School) for a while, and he is now bored without challenge inside the ferocious school. Like it is an answer to his boredom, Fujio Hanaoka, a new student transferred to the Full-time School of Oya Koukou (Oya High School), has ambitions to challenge Murayama to a man-to-man fight one day after he acquires the position of leader of the Full-time School. However, there are many other people at the Full-time School aiming for the same leadership position. They are the top-ranked team of Yosuke Todoroki, Shibaman, and Tsuji; the Nakagoshi and Nakaoka, who are leading the second-year and first-year students, respectively; the Yasu-Kiyo faction led by Yasushi and Kiyoshi, who rise to prominence through their crazy fighting style. As the new generation, Fujio, together with his childhood friend Tsukasa and his minion Jamuo, has entered the Warring States period of The Full-time School.

Meanwhile, in the somewhat distant city of Toarushi, the Housen Academy, the strongest skinhead army, led by its leader Sachio Ueda, is gaining strength. The Housen Four Heavenly Kings (commonly known as Ozawa Hitoshi), Odajima, Sawamura, Jinkawa, and Shida, along with the young and resourceful minion Sabakan, has assembled the strongest Housen army ever. One day, Housen's students are suddenly attacked by men who claimed to be students of Oya Koukou (Oya High School), while at the same time, a student from Oya Koukou (Oya High School) is also attacked by men who claimed to be Housen's. As a result, the two schools become hostile toward each other.

The two schools, Oya Koukou (Oya High School), which is full of individualistic but overwhelmingly strong, and Housen Academy, which is organised in a monolithic fashion, clash on the bank of a river at dusk, and the summit battle of the century is about to begin!

Norah Everhart receives a package with a picture of her husband Harry, detailing coordinates to an island east of Otaheite (Tahiti). Harry had vanished after embarking on an expedition to find a cure for Norah's mysterious family illness, which is slowly killing her. Norah journeys to the island, which she had had recurring dreams of. Moving inland, she finds a camp used by the expedition, which consisted of Harry, reporter Cassandra Ward, mechanic Frank Dayton, dermatologist Ernest De Witt, stuntman Roy Granger, and their Tahitian guide Teaharoa.

The expedition had found a well used by the islanders for a ritual involving a black ichor. Impatient, Roy had used dynamite to blow open the well, accidentally killing himself and splatting De Witt's arm with the ichor. De Witt then started losing his sanity and developing skin blotches similar to Norah's. The team had attempted to replicate the ritual, but abandoned it after the ship that brought them, the ''Lady Shannon'', had washed ashore nearby. Norah replicates the ritual, causing the well to fill with ooze with her inside. She experiences a vision in which she walks off a cliff into a river, while watched by a giant amphibious-looking creature, and finds herself transformed into a sea creature.

Norah wakes up near the crashed ''Lady Shannon'', and finds it torn apart with claw marks, with its crew missing. Norah finds the expedition had set up another camp, and De Witt, now insane, had stabbed Frank, but was stopped and tied up, later disappearing. The team had discovered an organ carved into the rocks and used it to open a passage to a temple on the island's peak. Norah travels to the temple, where the expedition had employed loudspeakers to use the organ's music to open the temple door. This caused a rockslide, while Frank had succumbed to his stab wound. After restoring power to the loudspeakers, Norah is knocked out, and dreams of a desert surrounded by the bones of sea creatures, and of her mother's music box, which played the organ's music. Singing it, Norah opens the temple, and finds a note by Harry explaining that she is not ill, but instead changing into something new.

Norah finds gateways that allow her to transform into her amphibious form. She arrives at a village, used by the island's inhabitants, who were 'slaves' of unknown masters. Norah finds a note by Harry explaining that the masters took their slaves to a 'sanctuary' to complete their transformation, which he intended to undergo to become like Norah, so they could be together. This led to arguments between Cassandra and Teaharoa, leading to the latter leaving the island. Norah journeys to the sanctuary, finding sea creatures which treat her with familiarity. Norah also feels more “alive” in the island than she ever had.

At the sanctuary, she finds a note from Harry in which he seems to be losing his sanity, with blood leading into the building. Norah enters the throne room, and finds a mutated body, with Harry's glasses beside it. Norah realizes the body is Cassandra's, who, coveting the sea creatures' immortality, had shot Harry, attempted to transform into them, and died in the process. Harry understood that the ritual would not work on him, and left. He sent Norah the package, faking his death in an attempt to get her to undergo the transformation and save herself.

Depending on player choice, Norah can either complete her transformation or reject it. If she transforms, she abandons her humanity and journeys to an underwater city for a seemingly joyous eternal life, at the cost of never seeing Harry again. If she rejects it, she lives out the rest of her remaining years with Harry. During the credits, Norah and Harry sing their favorite song, ''Dear Old Pal of Mine'', together. Depending on the choice, the couple will either finish the song, or be interrupted by Norah's illness. Regardless of the ending, Harry is left alone, and years later, now working as the Dean of Archaeology at Miskatonic University, contemplates whether he made the right decision in lying to Norah.

A fighter pilot, Bob Lyttleton, returns home from war. He learns that his wife, Meg, has adopted a war orphan. He resents the child.

A lawyer, Robert Rainey, defends a friend, Lowell Williams, who is charged with murder.

A surgeon becomes convinced of the innocence of a convicted murderer based on the convict mumbling while under anesthesia. He risks his reputation to save the convict from the electric chair.

One week after Darlene and her kids, Harris and Mark, moved back in, Roseanne and Dan are still adjusting to not living alone. Now that there are kids in the house again, Dan tries to find where he hid his gun, and manages to find it. Roseanne finds out that Darlene didn't move in to take care of her and Dan as she had said, but that she actually moved in because she lost her job. Roseanne and Jackie are still mad at each other about the 2016 election, so Darlene tries to get them to work it out. Also, Becky announces to the family that she plans to become a surrogate, which Jackie supports, but Roseanne and Dan do not. Lastly, Roseanne and Jackie manage to reconcile, and Becky meets with Andrea, the woman who she plans to have the baby for.

Kelly Ferguson is a babysitter on a mission to find the child in her care who has been kidnapped by the Boogeyman on Halloween night. She discovers a secret society of children-protecting babysitters exists, as does an entire world of monsters, which she must fight.

The great war is in its final stages, and Major General Arthur Ranlow orders an attack on the enemy's nuclear facilities. He has an entirely personal motive for the attack because the officers he assigns are men that he suspects are flirting with his wife. All four officers die during the attack.

The plot moves forward in time, and Ranlow is in his living room. Sergeant Sander is his servant, and their existence is marked by occult interests. In their conversation, it appears that Ranlow has been fired from the army. Sander draws the curtains when he sees a strange woman outside. Ranlow orders her to enter the house and, when that happens, Ranlow's health and mental condition deteriorate.

After ascending to Lyctorhood in ''Gideon the Ninth'', Harrowhark "Harrow" Nonagesimus discovers that her process of ascension is somehow imperfect and she lacks many of a Lyctor's standard powers. Despite this, the Emperor fulfills his promise and renews the Ninth House by waking several hundred people from cryogenic sleep and delivering them as new citizens to the Ninth. He apologizes that she does not have a real choice in returning to her House, because the Lyctors are perpetually being chased by Resurrection Beasts, the "ghosts" of the dead planets of the Nine Houses.

In addition, large portions of Harrow’s memory are missing; Ianthe Tridentarius gives her a series of letters written by Harrow herself, giving her detailed instructions for what to do or avoid doing in various scenarios. Ianthe appears to know the reason behind these letters, but has been hexed by this past Harrow to prevent her from any talk of it.

The book alternates between two perspectives; second-person chapters documenting Harrow's experiences in the present as a Lyctor, and third-person chapters that take place in the past, documenting Harrow's memories of the events in Canaan House in ''Gideon the Ninth.'' However, her memories of Canaan House directly contradict the events of ''Gideon,'' including replacing Gideon herself with Ortus, who is extremely occupied with his telling of an epic poem called ''The Noniad'', as her cavalier. In this version, Harrow reveals to Ortus that she is insane; she frequently reads text that appears differently to other characters, and hallucinates a beautiful woman she refers to as ”the Body.” This hallucination is described to have occurred prior to Canaan House as well as to still be occurring in the Mithraeum.

Upon arriving at Caanan House, Teacher informs the heirs and cavaliers that there is a beast lying in the heart of the facility called “the Sleeper,” who kills a different cast of characters than previously died in ''Gideon''.

In the present day, John, the Emperor of the Nine Houses, explains the nature of his secret war: ten thousand years ago, humanity was wiped out by an unknown cataclysm. John resurrected the entire population of humankind with impossibly powerful magic, but the nature of necromancy caused this action to spawn revenant Resurrection Beasts. John and his Lyctors have been fighting the Resurrection Beasts for millennia; most of the Lyctors have been lost to madness or in battle with the Beasts.

The surviving Lyctors are Mercymorn, the "Saint of Joy," a vicious and embittered woman; Augustine, the "Saint of Patience," who is flippant and outrageous to hide what seems to be a deadened, ruthless manner; and "Ortus," the stoic, relentless "Saint of Duty."

These three, along with John, tutor Harrowhark and Ianthe in an extremely dangerous art: the ability to travel to an otherworldly afterlife called The River where they can defeat the Resurrection Beasts by destroying their astral bodies. This travel involves a Lyctor’s soul metaphysically entering the River and letting their consumed cavalier’s soul enter their body in the physical realm in order to defend them while their bodies are vulnerable. However, Harrow’s faulty ascension leaves her unable to do this successfully and so is of limited use in their war. Similarly, Ianthe has difficulty letting her cavalier Naberius take over due to complications with her sword-arm.

In the present, the Lyctors prepare to battle with the nearest Resurrection Beast, which is set to arrive at their home base, the Mithraeum, several years ahead of schedule. Harrow and the others travel to nearby planets and use necromancy to kill them in order to prevent the Beast from feeding on their lifeforces. On one such mission, she encounters Camilla Hect, the cavalier to Palamedes Sextus, believed dead after the events at Canaan House. Camilla is working for the "Blood of Eden," a terrorist organization which seeks to foil the Empire's colonialist ambitions, led by the mysterious Commander Wake. Camilla helps Harrow learn that Palamedes is not truly dead; his spirit is sequestered in a tiny pocket dimension inside the River.

In the past, Harrow learns that this Canaan House is not real—instead it is a similar "pocket" in the ether sustained by beliefs and memories; everyone in the House other than Harrow is, in truth, dead. It is revealed that Harrow's memory loss and seemingly defective Lyctorhood was caused by Harrow and Ianthe performing brain surgery on Harrow to destroy all memories of Gideon. This ensured that Gideon's soul was never truly absorbed by Harrow and she would continue to exist; Harrow loved her too much to allow her to permanently die.

The Canaan House survivors make a last-ditch attempt to fight the Sleeper by casting a spell to summon the spirit of Matthias Nonius, the greatest swordsman in the history of the Ninth House. Matthias's ghost fights the Sleeper to a standstill, energized by Ortus's intense dedication to his legend in ''The Noniad''. They kill the Sleeper—unmasked as a projection of the ghost of Commander Wake—with the help of Matthias Nonius. Judith the Second, Protesilaus the Seventh, and Ortus the Ninth resolve to follow Matthias into the River and face the Resurrection Beast. Abigail and Magnus the Fifth tell Harrow to return to her life.

In the present, Gideon awakens in Harrow's body, revealing that the second person perspective was not stylistic but in fact literal, portraying Gideon's observation of Harrow's actions from her own point of view, while in the "past," Harrow's perspective was her own. Gideon is amazed to find that Harrow's Lyctoral powers, including a healing factor, have finally begun to work.

After leaving Harrow's rooms, Gideon encounters Mercymorn and Augustine, who seem terrified by her sudden appearance, as well as Ianthe, who is also less than pleased to her; she and Ianthe make their way to the Emperor's chambers, where they find him with the corpse of Cytherea the First, now possessed by the ghost of Commander Wake. He attempts to interrogate her, but makes little progress until the other Lyctors arrive.

The Resurrection Beast is repelled by Gideon ("Ortus") the First, Matthias, and the ghosts, but Harrow's consciousness is either unwilling or unable to return to life. Still in a vision of the Locked Tomb where she first met the Body, she climbs into the Body's empty coffin and falls unconscious again.

In the present, it is revealed that Gideon the Ninth was born as a result of Wake artificially inseminating herself with semen stolen from John, making them, in effect, Gideon's parents. Gideon was created to breach the Locked Tomb on the Ninth House and release the prisoner inside. This prisoner is explained to be Alecto, John's cavalier, whose life was used to give John his limitless necromancy powers while preserving her life. Augustine and Mercymorn have sworn revenge on John for never sharing this technique and letting their cavaliers die needlessly. Mercymorn destroys John's body, but he survives and kills her. He then sheds his affable persona and demands the remaining Lyctors' fealty. Ianthe accepts. Gideon/Harrow are exempted from the test due to the former being John's daughter and the latter not being present to make a choice. Augustine declines, vowing to fight and die, and throws John into the River in an attempt to kill him permanently. He nearly succeeds in doing so, but Ianthe intervenes and saves John, dooming Augustine to be eaten by a mouth-like portal at the bottom of the River.

Unable to withstand the pressure of the water, Gideon passes out or dies. Six months in the future, an unknown person awakens in an apartment in an unnamed city with Camilla Hect.

One day, while on the subway with his grandma, Julián sees some of the participants of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Julián becomes fascinated by them and starts dreaming of becoming a mermaid swimming in the sea.

Back home, while his grandmother is showering, Julián fashions himself a mermaid outfit with a variety of materials he finds at home, including a potted plant and window curtains. After leaving the bath, his grandmother gives what seems a disapproving look and leaves for a while, just to return with a smile on her face and a pearl necklace for Julián.

His grandmother then takes him to the parade, where he gets to walk with all the other mermaids.

The teleplay is based on a true story about a divinity student, Carl Doss, and his wife, Helen Doss, of Redlands, California, who adopt 12 children of various ancestries.

The player characters, usually consisting of one or more Time Lords and their Companions, are sent to Earth in 1923 by the Celestial Intervention Agency to investigate a large energy field centred on the English village of Hartlewick, where a number of people have recently disappeared at night. The characters will eventually discover an ancient alien imprisoned underground who is using its telepathic powers to force the local villagers and an archaeologist to free it.

Pregenerated characters are provided for the Fourth Doctor, and his well-known companions Leela, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan.

The player characters, usually composed of a Time Lord and Companions, are alerted to the unauthorized presence of a TARDIS in England during the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 CE. The renegade Time Lord is threatening the fabric of time by blunting the Romans' invasion, kidnapping Vespasian and sending assassins to kill Claudius.

Pregenerated characters for the Third Doctor and popular Companions Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith are provided. A player's handout is also provided, although reviewer Barry Bailey noted that it has "some pertinent information, some irrelevancies and some misinformation."

''This is Paris'' is about Hilton's day-to-day experiences and shows previously unknown stories regarding her personal life. In the film, she reveals her experiences with emotional, verbal and physical abuse while attending a series of boarding schools as a teenager. It also chronicles Hilton's professional trajectory, from the beginning to the present day, supported by interviews with family members and friends.

The story happens between ''Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer'' and ''4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel''. The game's plot is about rescuing a sacrificed child and unravel the mystery of the monsters that plagues Tsukikage Village, where Shiren is stopped by during his trip.

''A Place Among the Fallen'' is a novel in which a quest involves going to the heart of darkness.

After the events of the previous novel, ''The Night of the Scorpion'' follows Martin Hopkins and journalist Richard Cole as they travel together to Peru, only to immediately get separated and chased by a sinister Mr Todd. As Martin befriends a mysterious stranger called Pedro, they end up getting caught up with precognitions, chases, ancient secrets, artificial satellites, and the mysterious Nazca Lines in the Nazca Desert.

''Lightship'' is a book of 120 color paintings by Jim Burns.

A reporter, Ben Birch, is assigned to write about the life a recently-deceased civic leader. He ends up uncovering a major public fraud perpetrated by the deceased man and wins the hand of the man's daughter, Amy Mathewson.

A zany comedy in which a married couple, Zachary and Elsa Meredith, separates due to a series of misunderstandings and begins to date others.

The play opens with narration by Claude Rains telling of an 1898 novel that seemingly presaged the ''Titanic'' tragedy and reviewing the history of the ''Titanic'', its size, and capabilities. The production then turns to the events of the ship's final night.

Thomas Andrews, the 39-year-old naval architect who built the ''Titanic'', works in his state room. J. Bruce Ismay, president and managing director of the White Star Line, boasts of plans for a speed run the following morning. Ismay pulls an iceberg warning from his pocket and hands it to the ship's captain, Edward J. Smith. It was the third warning Capt. Smith had received that day.

The Titanic Salon Orchestra plays as Capt. Smith dines with the first-class passengers. At 7:30 p.m., the captain receives a fourth warning of icebergs in the ship's path. Four decks below, 712 souls travel in steerage. A young Irish couple performs a jig.

In the wireless room, at 9:30 p.m., another ice warning places the ''Titanic'' directly within the area of danger. The wireless operator is distracted by stacks of messages passengers wish to send.

At 10 p.m., the captain retires to his cabin. At 10:30 p.m., the ''SS Californian'' spots an ice field and stops its engines to wait until morning before proceeding. At 11 p.m., the wire operator on the ''Californian'' sends a warning to other ships. The ''Titanic'''s wireless operator has difficulty understanding the message and replies, "Shut up. Shut up. I'm busy." In the first class smoking room, a small group remains, but otherwise quiet settles over the ship.

At 11:40 p.m., in the crow's nest, an iceberg is spotted directly ahead. A warning is sent to stop the engine, and the emergency doors are sealed. The ''Titanic'' strikes the iceberg. A number of passengers gather on the deck and discover pieces of the iceberg. Capt. Smith returns to the bridge and learns that the ship is taking on water. At 11:55 p.m., Thomas Andrews describes the damage to Capt. Smith and Ismay: The ship has suffered a 300-foot gash and will sink in no more than two hours. Capt. Smith orders the lifeboats readied and the passengers mustered, but no general alarm is to be sounded so as to avoid panic. The ''Titanic'' has only 16 lifeboats and four collapsibles, enough to hold only 1,000 of the 3,000 persons on board.

Capt. Smith directs the wireless operators to send out a distress call. The wire operator on the nearby ''Californian'' is off duty and does not receive the call. In a further effort to attract the attention of the ''Californian'', Capt. Smith orders the firing of rockets. An officer aboard the ''Californian'' sees the rockets and notices the ''Titanic'' listing. Captain Lord of the ''Californian'' is notified but goes back to sleep. At 12:36 a.m., a ship replies to the ''Titanic'''s distress call, but it is 58 miles away and will arrive too late.

In third class, the passengers are told there is no danger but that they should put on life jackets. The ship begins to list. At 12:15, the covers are removed from the lifeboats, and women and children begin boarding. At 12:42 a.m., the first life boat is lowered with only 20 persons, despite having a capacity of 40 persons. Another lifeboat is lowered with only 12 passengers.

The Titanic Salon Orchestra continues to play as the crew continues firing rockets with no response from the ''Californian''. On one side of the ship, only women and children are permitted on the lifeboats. On other side, the rule is relaxed, and Henry Harper boards a lifeboat with his prize Pekingese dog. An elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Strauss, refuses to be separated and remains on board. Lifeboats continue to be lowered. At 1:30, an officer fires his gun to control entry onto the lifeboats. At 1:46 a.m., Ismay asserts that there is an unclaimed place on one of the final lifeboats and takes it for himself. Claude Rains, who narrated throughout the telecast, intones, "At the time President Ismay left his ship, there remained on board 1,643 passengers, among them 168 women and 57 children". A small group of women and children had been allowed to evacuate earlier, the remaining steerage passengers were finally permitted to head to the deck shortly before 2 a.m. The final lifeboat is lowered at 2:05 a.m.

The captain gives leave for the wireless operators to abandon their posts with the directive "every man for himself." At 2:15 a.m., the orchestra, directed by Wallace Henry Hartley, plays its final piece, the Episcopal hymn "Autumn". Many passengers jump into the freezing water in their life preservers. Andrews, making no attempt to escape, is killed by a falling chandelier as the ship sinks at 2:20 a.m. with 1,502 souls, including many children from steerage.

In the closing narration, Rains reviews the iceberg warnings that were not heeded, the lack of sufficient lifeboats, and the failure of the ''Californian'' to respond to the ''Titanic'''s pleas. Rains closes with these words: "Never again has man been quite so confident. An age had come to an end."

''Cyberbykes'' is a futuristic motorcycle racing game with car combat elements. It takes place in a dystopian future wherein a group called the World Treaty Organization (WTO) has gained power throughout the world, stockpiling weapons in the process. The player combats the WTO with an armed "cyberbyke" vehicle.

Blerim, an employee of a TV station, takes on a highly unusual side gig — one that immerses him in a world of mental illness, paranoia, and blurred reality. Blerim’s colleague introduces him to Drin, an unemployed young man who claims to be mentally ill — despite his neurologist’s belief that his symptoms are merely psychosomatic. Drin, convinced that he must leave his home country in order to become “well,” commissions Blerim to film a video of him discussing his unusual neurological condition — in the hopes that the clip will convince a foreign nation to grant him asylum. Blerim, tasked with shooting the video and somehow convincing his boss to broadcast it on the TV station, finds himself obsessed with the project — to the detriment of his professional and personal relationships.

A delegation of Mozambican exiles from Tanganyika cross the border and ask the Portuguese administrator for independence. After three delegations arrive and each demand independence the administrator agrees to address their grievances at the public square in the presence of the Provincial Governor. A large crowd gathers and the Governor rejects the request for independence while arresting two of the exiles, Faustino Vamomba and Mateus Waduvani, and sending them away in jeeps. The crowd protests and attempt to stop the jeep from leaving before the soldiers open fire on the crowd.

A retired sea captain living alone in a remote cottage in Orkney is befriended by a young girl, Andrina, who asks him for a love story from his past. He repeatedly refuses to tell her, until he eventually succumbs, when the consequences are not as he expected.

Jessica (Jules Willcox), a recent widow, is moving. During her drive, she keeps encountering a mysterious man (Marc Menchaca) in several places: on the highway, at a gas station, a motel, then ultimately when she crashes her car, due to her tire being slashed. He drugs her, then takes her to his cabin where he locks her in the basement.

Jessica wakes up and pleads with the man for her release. He alludes to her not being the first one he's taken and then he forces her to tell him what happened to her husband. She reveals that her husband killed himself using a gun. The next morning, she hears the man leaving and notices that the key is still in the keyhole on the other side. She slides her sweater underneath the door and uses a stray nail to push the key out. She frees herself and hides in an upstairs closet when the man comes back. She overhears him speaking to his wife and daughter on the phone, lying about where he is and that he'll be back soon. Once he goes downstairs, she flees outside.

The man realizes what has happened and a chase ensues. She injures her foot and they face off at the river, where she jumps in to escape. Injured, wet, and cold, she stumbles through the forest until she hears rustling in the bush. Thinking the man has found her, she hides behind a tree and hits someone in the chest with a branch. Instead of the man, she hits a man named Robert (Anthony Heald) who is out hunting. After a tense conversation in which he has his rifle pointed at her, he offers her his phone to call for help. However, the blow with the branch had broken it. He then helps her to his car and offers her food, water, and his wife's hiking boots as she is barefoot. As they are driving, they come to a stop where a tree has fallen, blocking the road. As they get out of the car, the man arrives, making up a story that Jessica is his sister and she's having a psychotic episode. After some back and forth, Robert demands to use the man's phone to call the police. The man holds out his phone to Robert and as he reaches out for it, the man catches Robert off guard and begins to beat him. Jessica takes off and the man then kills Robert with his rifle.

The chase continues, the man now armed with Robert's hunting rifle. Jessica hides in a cave at night to get out of the rain, but the man spots her and shoots her in the shoulder. She hides in a small pond. The man tries to goad her into coming out by talking about her husband's suicide but gives up and leaves when she doesn't come out.

The next day, while the man is disposing of Robert's body, Jessica climbs into his car. While looking for the car keys, she finds the man's phone. She steals it and climbs into the trunk as the man returns to the vehicle. While he is driving, Jessica dials 911 and tries to whisper to the operator what has happened to her but ultimately hangs up when the operator can't hear her.

The man sees that his phone is missing and stops the car. After looking for his phone, he realizes that she is in the trunk. Armed with a tire iron, Jessica leaps into the backseat and attacks, striking him in the head multiple times. The man starts driving and uses his hunting knife to attack Jessica, but she wrestles the knife away from him and stabs his arm. The man crashes the car, flipping it over.

Dazed, Jessica climbs out and spots a search and rescue helicopter. She runs after it into a clearing. She uses the man's phone to call his wife and she tells her that her husband is not on a business trip, that he is trying to kill her, and that he has murdered Robert. The man, whose name has been revealed as Sam, follows Jessica into the clearing. Jessica puts the phone on speaker and taunts Sam with it. In one final showdown, Jessica, armed with the tire iron, and Sam, armed with the hunting knife, run at each other. After a struggle, Jessica stabs Sam and watches him, smiling as he dies. As she lies exhausted, the helicopter descends from above.

It follows Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Andrew Weissmann, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, Carter Page, Felix Sater, Margarita Simonyan, Celeste Wallander and Camille François appear in the series.

This series is a comedy about a "weed-dealing manatee who runs a drug empire" while in his water tank at the Center Park Zoo, a run-down zoo which is adjacent to the Central Park Zoo.

Raoul Marlin kills a fur trapper, and is captured and imprisoned by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Snaky, a member of his gang, kills the two Mounties guarding him, and helps him escape, but another Mountie, Jim Wilson, tracks him down and recaptures him. However, as they are making their way back to jail, more members of the gang Marlin belongs to, including the gang's leader, Jean, waylay them and free Marlin once again. Wilson and his partner, Rogers, begin tracking the gang down. The trail leads them to a general store which is owned by Duval, who is Jean's second-in-command, as well as being in love with her. Wilson hatches a plan to go undercover and impersonate a notorious thief and murderer, Benet. When he gets to the store, he witnesses Duval kill an Indian, when the Indian refuses to sell his furs for fifty cents each. Jean tells him to get out of there, but Wilson gives her his story of being Benet, and wanting to partner with her and split the black market in the region with her. Wilson's cover is further bolstered when Rogers begins spreading a "rumor" around town that Wilson is Benet. After spreading the rumor, Rogers leaves to go get more Mounties to help break up the gang.

Duval, jealous of the attention Jean is bestowing on Wilson/Benet, as well as being upset over being shut out of their deal, begins to dig into Benet's history. At the newspaper office, he finds out that the real Benet had been hung a short time earlier. He takes the newspaper article to Jean, who is furious, and gathers her gang to go after Wilson. Just as they are about to hunt Wilson down, Rogers and the others Mounties arrive. Most of the gang is arrested, but Jean and Marlin escape. Wilson takes out after the two. As he catches up with them, Marlin gets a bead on him, but is shot and killed by Jean, who has developed feelings for Wilson. In exchange, Wilson lets Jean escape.

The series centers around a newly qualified doctor, Mbalenhle 'Mbali' Mthethwa (Nelisiwe Sibiya), who moves to the big city to complete her final year of community service at Durban General Hospital. She is torn between her fiancé, Sibusiso Dlamini (Ntando Mncube) and her superior Dr. Lindelani Zulu (Mike Ndlangamandla). On arrival at the hospital she assists in a precarious surgery that results in the death of an MEC. This threatens the reputation of the hospital, Dr. Zulu and Mbali as they are thrown into an investigation which threatens to end Mbali's career before it even begins.

Ida "Red" Walker (Melissa Leo), the biological mother of a criminal family sits rotting in jail. She is a widow as a result of the bust that nabbed her. Now that she's got cancer, she wants to die in freedom. So she plots both a parole and, true to form, a heist.

Her two sons are successful career criminals, ethical Wyatt (Josh Hartnett) and psycho Dallas (Frank Grillo). There is also sister Jeanie (Deborah Ann Woll), stranged from Ida because she married kind and dim cop Bodie Collier (George Carroll). Their rebellious teen kid Darla (Sofia Hublitz) is drawn to uncle Wyatt and is romantically involved with local dirtbag Petey (Nicholas Cirillo).

Wyatt's having a hard time after a truck heist goes wrong, and cranky FBI Special Agent Lawrence Twilley (William Forsythe), who is partnering with Collier, is on the trail. Dallas, who appoints himself cleaner, nastily shoots people responsible for the screw-up, or their kin.

The play opens with Will Stockdale sitting on a bench and explaining the circumstances under which he was drafted into the military. He plays the Jew's harp and sings as the opening credits play.

Will is an unsophisticated "plowboy" from Georgia. He introduces the audience to the barracks. Irving has been put in charge of the barracks even though, according to Will's understanding, Irving has been "sick with ROTC for a whole year." Ben Whitledge, a short, skinny soldier with glasses and an ill-fitting uniform, becomes Stockdale's bunk mate. On learning that Irving's not sick, Will confronts him and "busts him up some."

Will and Ben are assigned to the air force and take a train to their new barracks. They are assigned to Sgt. King. Will explains to Sgt. King that he and Ben are leaving because they prefer to be in the infantry. Sgt. King assigns Will as the permanent barracks orderly. Will spends a week cleaning, polishing, and painting the entire barracks.

The Captain inspects the barracks and has never seen them so clean. Will gives Sgt. King credit for making him permanent barracks orderly. The captain orders Sgt. King to get Will classified. Will goes through classification tests. He then meets with the psychiatrist who is unable to provoke the amiable Will.

A WAC captain scolds Will and Ben for rough-housing. Will can't believe there's a women's air force. Ben tells Will he shouldn't notice whether a captain is a man or a woman. When Sgt. King points out the new captain, Will says he doesn't see a woman, just a captain. Sgt. King worries that Will has failed the eye test.

Sgt. King has the men carry Will out of the barracks to the Purple Grotto bar where they try to get the "guest of honor" drunk. Will is accustomed to drinking moonshine laced with kerosene and stays sober as Sgt. King gets drunk instead. Will returns to the barracks and helps Ben prepare for inspection. As the Colonel conducts his inspection, a drunk Sgt. King returns and is confronted by the Colonel. Will and Ben are assigned to gunnery school. Sgt. King is demoted to private and assigned to gunnery school with Will.

''Protagonist'' is perhaps too strong a word to describe Colonel Russell. As Haggard himself wrote about his fiction:

My novels are chiefly novels of suspense with a background of international politics. A Colonel Charles Russell of the Security Executive, a not entirely imaginary British counter-espionage organization, while not a protagonist in the technical sense, holds the story line together in the background by his operations, while the characters in the foreground carry the action."

Nuclear Development, a British agency headed by a top scientist named William Nichol, has developed a valuable new source of atomic power called Slow Burner. Very small quantities of it can generate vast amounts of power, and, rather than needing enormous industrial plants to contain it once developed, useful quantities can be carried about in containers no larger than a suitcase. Unless properly handled, however, it emits deadly epsilon rays. It has, nevertheless, recently been successfully installed in a number of English factories and is now considered by the British Government to be a vital part of the country's future. Nichol and Colonel Russell of the Security Executive are surprised and upset to be informed by Sir Jeremy Bates, a very senior Permanent Secretary, that intermittent readings of epsilon rays are being detected as coming from a modest private home in the London suburb of Dipley. Nichol and Russell are old friends, but Nichol is detested by Sir Jeremy, primarily from jealousy, and much of the book, rather than becoming a standard suspense thriller, is devoted to detailed examinations of the feelings and motivations of the two men. A third personality, a senior scientist who works under Nichol, is discovered by the Security Executive to be the probable person to have planted the epsilon-ray emitter in the house, but Sir Jeremy, for complicated reasons of his own, refuses to move against him. Sir Jeremy, in fact, we now see gradually losing his mind from his all-consuming hatred of William Nichol, and eventually there are two different attempts at murder. Russell is both a highly skilled and highly ethical head of his department and carries out his investigations with dispatch and intelligence but, also having an inbred fear of over-suspicion, he finds himself on the wrong side of the argument with his chief assistant, Major Mortimer, about several essential events. In the end, however, he cheerfully concludes that he himself was wrong and that Mortimer was right—an important indication of just why Charles Russell is the perfect man to be holding down his key position in the government.

PJ Palfrey and his girlfriend Brianne vacation in Snow Hollow, Utah. PJ gets into a verbal altercation with two local hunters who used a homophobic slur. Returning to their rental lodging, they both enjoy the hot tub before PJ heads back inside to shower. Brianne hears a growl. PJ discovers her mangled body, with a paw print in the snow.

John Marshall, a sheriff deputy with anger management issues, is attending a sobriety program. Later his ex-wife Brittany berates him for not being there to support their daughter Jenna, when John is called to the murder scene. His father, Sheriff Hadley, and fellow officer Julia have discovered that some of Brianne's body parts are missing. Sheriff Hadley worries about having another heart attack. Julia finds the two hunters, who describe PJ as very rude and confrontational. News begins to circulate around the town about a possible "wolfman" among them, and paranoia begins to spread amongst the townsfolk and cops alike. John is adamant that the killing was done by a man not a wolf.

A ski instructor is killed by a wolfman. Rumors about a killer werewolf spread, much to John's annoyance. He gets into a physical altercation with a fellow officer after the latter lets slip to the local press that the killer could be a wolf. Under stress, John begins drinking again.

While John and Julia drive to work the next morning, someone throws a beer bottle at Julia's car. Meanwhile, a suspicious man alone in his RV is using heroin. John and Julia again question PJ who tells them that he has nothing new to report.

Paranoid tips from all over the community roll in. Liz Fairchild has a strange encounter with a tall man at a diner. John discovers that Hadley has suffered from another heart murmur, and urges him to seek medical treatment. They argue, with John declaring that Hadley should work from home. Hadley refuses to go for treatment. Later that night Liz is killed by the wolfman.

John becomes increasingly agitated and angry, at one point getting into another fight with the coroner after the latter declares that he's doing a bad job. The suspicious man from earlier burns a corpse. He has a wolf tattoo on his arm.

John combs through the town's records in order to determine whether or not the killer has had any personal relationships with the victims, and looks up some werewolf history and lore. After investigating Liz's workplace, they discover that the man Liz had previously encountered at the restaurant called her workplace asking for her. A curfew is imposed and an active watch for the creature is begun. After suffering another heart murmur Hadley agrees to retire and seek treatment at John's urging.

Jenna sneaks away in the middle of the night to see her boyfriend. They are attacked by the werewolf. John is called over and shoots at the creature but it escapes, killing an officer while Jenna suffers a minor head wound. When John yells at Jenna for breaking curfew, Jenna declares that his lack of care is the reason why she is going away for college. After visiting both Jenna and Hadley in the hospital, John breaks into Jenna's boyfriend's house and attacks him. Meanwhile, Hadley passes away from heart complications at the hospital.

Grieving for his father and frustrated with the case, he is banned from his program meetings. Meanwhile the suspicious man dies from a heroin overdose, with a wolf by him.

His body is found and the police deduce he was the killer due to his tattoo, his odd knife collection, his location from the original crime scene, his height, and the discovery of the dead body from the woodpile buried in his backyard, which turns out to be that of a missing woman. When the coroner insults John's intelligence and threatens to tell the press about his difficulties in finding the murderer, John deduces that the coroner was responsible for the vandalization of Julia's car, and fires him.

Julia gets a call from PJ about a needle that they had supposedly left at his mother's house. Realizing that the needle in question is used for taxidermy, Julia surmises that the only taxidermist in the town is Paul Carnury. While distributing evidence back to their original owners, John stops by Paul's house. Paul declares that he doesn't have a wife after John asks him if she was away for the weekend, contrary to his previous claims. He asks John about his daughter, something he couldn't have known unless he was present at the night of Jenna's attack. Deducing this as he walks out the door, John returns and asks Paul to stand up to his actual height, revealing himself to be well over 6 feet tall and slams the door on him. John breaks into the house, discovering his workstation and Hannah's head. John is stabbed in the stomach by Paul. Hearing sirens outside, Paul runs. Paul changes into a taxidermied wolf costume, unleashes an animalistic growl and disappears into the woods, with John following. John is beaten by Paul, but Julia shoots Paul. John gets up and shoots Paul repeatedly in the head and collapses.

Jenna moves into college with Julia and John's help. Julia's been appointed as the new sheriff of Snow Hollow and John's recovered. John gifts Jenna condoms and a gun for protection. As he walks out of the dorm he passes two men sexualizing the women in the dorm rooms. John stops for a moment, before walking away.

The production examines the "human barrier", a term used at the time to describe the human limitations on supersonic and high altitude flight.

While flying an experimental plane at 70,000 feet, an Air Force test pilot, Capt. Gene Lipton, crashes and cannot recall the moments leading up to the crash. A detailed accident investigation and a hearing before a board of officers concludes that the crash was caused by human error and that the plane's mechanical systems were sound. However, the investigation also shows that the location of the radio, on the floor behind the pilot, resulted in pilot vertigo at high altitude and speed, demonstrating a need for a design change.

In the break between the first and second acts, John Cameron Swayze presented a history of aviation and of the United States Air Force.

Chief of the Air Force Thomas D. White appears in an epilogue where he reviews that Air Forces's flight safety programs.

Marquita Romero is a singer in Rio de Janeiro, is engaged to an American newspaper reporter, Steven Ward. The day before she is to have her theatrical singing debut in Rio de Janeiro, she receives a call from New York City. Her brother, Carlos, has been arrested and charged with murder. She decides to rush to his side. When she arrives in New York City, she talks to Carlos' wife, Annette Templeton, and learns that the charges stem from the fire which engulfed the club where they were both performing. Carlos and Annette had been fired shortly before the fire, due to the club owner's jealousy over Carlos and Annette's relationship. The day after he fired them, Mitchell, the club owner, asked to speak with Carlos at the club. After their meeting, Carlos leaves, and the club burns down, which also results in a death. When Marquita goes to discuss the case with Carlos' attorney, she finds out that the attorney believes Carlos to be guilty, and has no plans to offer a significant defense.

Ward has followed his fiance to New York. Learning the story from Marquita, he engages the help of an old friend, Robert Montgomery, who is a renowned New York attorney, and Montgomery agrees to represent Carlos. Ward uncovers the fact that Mitchell has had several clubs burn down, and has collected numerous insurance claims on the fires. With this evidence in hand, he approaches the investigator for the Pyramid Fire Insurance Company, Dennis Slater, hoping that he would dig deeper. However, Slater does not take up the investigation, instead demanding that Ward find more incriminating evidence.

Stymied, Marquita goes undercover at another one of Mitchell's clubs as a singer. Shortly after she arrives at the club, Mitchell's girlfriend becomes jealous, and decides to look into her history. She uncovers the fact that Marquita is Carlos' sister, and tells Mitchell about her. Mitchell confronts her in his office, and is threatening to kill her, when Marquita grabs Mitchell's gun and fires it at him. She misses, but the incendiary rounds in the weapon start a fire, which uncovers how Mitchell started all the other fires. As the fire spreads, Ward arrive to rescue Marquita. The following day Mitchell is arrested, and Marquita and Carlos return to their home in Rio de Janeiro.

Overview

A parasite called "the Devil Worm" (implied to be of extraterrestrial origin) infects most of humanity, turning them into vicious undead mutants called the "Ridden". One year after the beginning of the outbreak, pockets of humanity attempt to survive in the post-apocalyptic world. A group of veteran survivors called the "Cleaners" fight the Ridden and defend Fort Hope, a settlement within fictional Finleyville, Pennsylvania, United States.

'''Characters'''

In the primary game modes, the player can control one of 11 Cleaners: Walker, an Army Ranger veteran and de facto leader of the Cleaners; Chris, the eldest Cleaner nicknamed "Mom" because of her maternal attitude; Holly, a brash fighter who wields a baseball bat named Dotty; Evangelo, an optimistic recruit and lover of cheesesteaks; Hoffman, a socially awkward survivalist, and conspiracy theorist; Sue, who is nicknamed "Doc" for being the group's medic and scientific expert; Jim, an experienced hunter, and marksman, Karlee, a cynical lone wolf, Heng, a survivalist and chef at heart , Sharice, a tough as nails former firefighter as well as the newest member of the team "Prophet" Dan.

Each character has unique perks and attributes which can favor certain strategies and roles within a four-person team. For example, Doc can restore more health when healing herself or other players, and gives the team a passive bonus against damage, while Karlee automatically highlights mutants in her immediate proximity, and can use or activate environmental features faster.

During a mission, characters in a party will comment on their immediate situation and banter with one another, revealing insights into their backstory and personality.

Story

The game's campaign begins with Walker, "Mom", Evangelo, and Holly, arriving at a settlement in Evansburgh to trade supplies. A horde of mutated Ridden suddenly swarm and overrun Evansburgh. As the team retreats to Fort Hope, their commander, General Phillips, has them demolish the Washington Crossing Bridge to delay the Riddens' advance.

At Fort Hope, the team finds more Ridden attacking their stronghold and overrunning the town outside its walls. With the help of Hoffman, Karlee, Doc, and Jim, they successfully defend the fort and rescue survivors. The Cleaners are sent to a mine where the Ridden hordes have been emerging from. After sealing the mine, the Cleaners raid a police station and a crashed military cargo plane to secure more armaments.

Phillips sends the Cleaners to another location to extract Doctor Rogers, a scientist who has developed a chemical weapon called T-5 that is significantly effective against the Ridden. After successfully extracting Rogers and his research materials, the Cleaners travel to an abandoned research and quarantine center to collect materials to produce T-5. There, the Cleaners discover a mass grave, which has become a breeding ground for the Ridden and their new mutant variants.

After securing the T-5 compounds, the Cleaners fly back to Fort Hope in a Black Hawk helicopter piloted by Rogers, and see Fort Hope being attacked by a massive burrowing Ridden called "the Abomination". The Cleaners weaken the Abomination with a T-5 payload before their helicopter crashes, killing Rogers. On the ground, the Cleaners neutralize the Abomination together. With Fort Hope saved, Walker rallies the Cleaners to hunt down more Abominations and turn the tide against the Ridden.

During this time, the Cleaners Heng and Sharice join the team due to the surge of "Ridden Hives" which are popping up across Evansburgh and Finleyville. The team venture down into these Hives to clean them out of ridden, see proof of other groups who are brave enough to venture down into the hives and collect "Skull Totems" to trade with a mysterious group known as "The Collectors".

A Star Command exploration vessel nicknamed "the Turnip" changes course to investigate signs of life on unknown world T'Kani Prime. Woken from hibernation, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his commanding officer and best friend Alisha Hawthorne scout the landing site, accompanied by rookie Featheringhamstan. Attacked by hostile lifeforms, they attempt to take off, but the Turnip’s escape trajectory is compromised by Buzz who manually overrides the computer in the attempt to escape. Buzz almost succeeds but a vital part of the ship containing the core fuel cell strikes a rock, causing the vessel to crash. Blaming himself for failing their escape and for stranding the crew, Buzz volunteers as the test pilot for the hyperspace fuel crystal they will need to develop to return home. One year later, the crew have constructed a new colony to conduct repairs.

Buzz's disastrous first test flight is compounded by the effects of time dilation: for the four minutes he spent in flight, four years have passed on T'Kani Prime. Alisha shares that she is now engaged to a scientist named Kiko, whom she met three years previously. Alisha reflects that they would not have met had she remained a Space Ranger, and the colony not been established. She gifts Buzz Sox, an AI robot therapist with the shape and programming behaviours of a cat. Alisha instructs Buzz to wait on testing new crystal mixtures until they find another way to return the crew home, but Buzz decides to take the initiative and conduct further tests, with Alisha’s reluctant approval. Sox requests how he may help and Buzz off-handedly tasks him with solving the problem of stabilising the crystal fuel formula, before he leaves. Over the next 62 years the colony grows. Alisha and Kiko raise a son who grows up, and after each flight Buzz sees snippets of their lives, four years apart. Buzz continues obsessively testing the fuel crystal despite the rapid passing of time for those around him. After a dozen failed tests, Buzz returns from his last flight to discover with devastation that Alisha has died of old age. She leaves a recording for him where she shares her happiness and introduces him to her small granddaughter, Izzy Hawthorne. Alisha explains that she is at peace with the life she led. Her successor, Commander Cal Burnside, informs Buzz that the colony has given up attempting to regain lightspeed capability and has decided to live on the planet, relying on a laser shield to protect the colony. Sox reveals he has spent the last six decades calculating a stable formula for the hyper crystal, moments before personnel arrive to decommission the cat-shaped robot. Buzz escapes with Sox and defies Burnside’s orders, to conduct one final test.

With Sox's help, Buzz is able to test the new mixture and achieves Hyperspeed. However, he skips another 22 years into the future, where he meets a grown-up Izzy. She explains to him that recently, an army of robots invaded T'Kani Prime and are attempting to enter the colony, which is currently being protected by Burnside’s laser shield. She and a group of cadets, Mo, Darby and Devin, intend to destroy a large cruiser that the robots descend from. After an encounter with one of the robots, Buzz witnesses firsthand the group's incompetence in combat and vows to finish the mission himself. Despite his attempts to work alone, the group inadvertently joins him on the mission. During an escape from a nest of hostile bugs that they disturb, the group departs in a ship which is pursued and shot down by the leader of the robots named Zurg. They elude his pursuit but need to repair their small ship. After investigating a nearby mining facility to find a small energy coil that will help them restore power to the ship, Buzz begins to understand the value of relying on other people for help, even if they have different capabilities and don’t perform to the high standards he expects. He allows Izzy, Mo, and Darby to join him and Sox in finishing the mission.

However, Zurg intervenes, and despite the group being able to escape from him, he sends his robots to chase after them, during which the hyper crystal is lost. Zurg then captures Buzz and takes him aboard the cruiser, where he reveals himself to be an older version of Buzz from an alternate future timeline, which split upon Lightyear’s return to the planet after the successful hyperspace test. Without the robot army to detain them, soldiers from the colony attempted to arrest Buzz under Burnside’s orders, forcing Buzz to flee into space. Alternate Buzz and Sox escaped at full speed and via time dilation flew hundreds of years into the far future, where he encountered extremely advanced technology. He spent 50 years developing a way to travel back in time to prevent the Turnip from ever landing on T'Kani Prime and avoid stranding the ship upon the planet. Having worn out his own crystal through time travel and excessive usage, Old Buzz, called Zurg by the robots, needs a fresh crystal to power his ship and complete his mission, so he requests it from his younger self. Realizing this would erase Alisha and Kiko's life together, along with Izzy, present-day (younger) Buzz refuses.

In his attempts to forcibly use the crystal himself, Zurg is then incapacitated by an alternate timeline Sox who leads Buzz to the ship's control room to initiate a self-destruct sequence before being crushed by an enraged Zurg. After a chaotic assault on the cruiser, Buzz and his team manage to escape the ship before it detonates. On their return back to the planet via a crash landing, Buzz's ship is attacked by Zurg once again, who then takes the hyper crystal for himself. Buzz is forced to destroy the hyper crystal, causing an explosion that seemingly kills Zurg, and he is able to subsequently save his team from crashing onto the planet's surface, with their help.

With the fuel gone, Buzz finally accepts T'Kani Prime as his home. Burnside arrests Buzz, but relents, in light of his bravery against the robot armada. Allowed to revive the Space Ranger Corps, Buzz unexpectedly selects Izzy, Mo, Darby, and Sox as his trainees. With a new hyper crystal created using the computer left behind during the mutiny, Buzz and his team embark on a new adventure.

In a post-credits scene, Zurg is revealed to have survived.

Dr. Loretta Sage writes romance-adventure novels centered around a fictional heroine, Dr. Angela Lovemore, and her romantic interest, Dash McMahon. To promote the latest book on Lovemore, her publisher, Beth Hatten, insists that Loretta embark on a book tour with Alan Caprison, the book's cover model for Dash, despite her reclusiveness since the death of her husband.

After a disastrous start, mostly due to the popularity of Alan's Dash persona, Loretta is taken by Abigail Fairfax, a billionaire who realizes that Loretta based her books on actual historic research she did with her late archaeologist husband. Fairfax has discovered a lost city on a remote Atlantic island and is convinced the Crown of Fire, a priceless treasure, is located there. When she declines to help decipher an ancient map to the treasure, Fairfax, fearing an active volcano will destroy the site, chloroforms and takes Loretta to the island.

Alan, who is secretly enamored with Loretta, witnesses her kidnapping. He recruits Jack Trainer, a former Navy SEAL turned CIA operative, to meet him on the island and coordinate a rescue. Jack, with no assistance from Alan, breaches Fairfax's compound and frees Loretta, but is apparently killed before they can make it to the airport, forcing Loretta and Alan to escape into the jungle.

Loretta and Alan spend a day fighting off Fairfax's men before reaching a nearby village, where upon hearing a folk song from a local, Loretta deduces that the crown is hidden in a cenote in the jungle. Before they can leave however, Fairfax captures her again, so a chase by Alan to save Loretta ensues. The two are then forced to share the treasure's location with Fairfax.

Upon reaching the location, they discover the tomb is not a monument to Taha and Kalaman's power, but a hiding place for the queen to grieve for her husband. Her Crown of Fire was made of red seashells gathered by him as a sign of his love for her. The actual treasure of the legend was not a priceless jewel but the inseparable love between the king and queen.

Infuriated, Fairfax forces Loretta and Alan into the tomb as the volcano erupts, but Rafi, one of Fairfax's men, has a change of heart due to the cruelty he suffered from Fairfax and leaves a crowbar to help them escape before abandoning Fairfax on the island. Beth arrives with the local coast guard and Fairfax is arrested. Loretta's next book, based on her adventure with Alan, is a hit, and they share a kiss at the end of their next book tour.

In a mid-credits scene, Loretta and Alan attend a yoga class and find out that Jack survived being shot.

Natalie Bauer is a Los Angeles-based dating column writer who documents her disastrous dates she meets via a dating app. After deciding to expand the app's search radius, Natalie matches with a man named Josh Lin and forms a strong connection to him through many long phone calls. She decides to travel to his hometown in Lake Placid, New York to surprise him for Christmas, promising her boss this will be the end to her dating disasters. However, she soon discovers that she has been catfished by Josh, who used another man's pictures. Natalie is angry, but learns that the man whose pictures Josh used, Tag Abbott, is Josh's childhood friend who lives in the same town. Josh offers to set them up if she pretends to be his girlfriend for the holidays, and Natalie agrees to stay with the Lin family.

Josh sets Tag up to meet Natalie and introduces her as his cousin. Natalie lies about her interest in Henry David Thoreau and rock climbing to impress Tag. Tag invites her to wall-climb, where she hides her fear of heights from Tag and Josh helps her down. Tag invites Natalie on more dates.

Natalie meets Josh's brother Owen, the more successful sibling who constantly demands the Lin family's attention. When Natalie and Josh receive praise for their duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" during Christmas caroling, Owen becomes jealous and announces his and his wife's pregnancy. To steal the spotlight back, Josh proposes to Natalie on the spot, to which she feels pressured to say yes. Josh reassures Natalie that he will tell his family they did not work out after the holidays. Natalie learns of Josh's candle-making hobby, which he started to remember the scent of his grandfather after he died. She encourages him to make a business out of it.

Josh and Natalie's engagement announcement is printed in the local newspaper, prompting the two to spend the early morning picking up all the papers across town so Tag does not see the news. Natalie goes through Josh's real dating app profile and tells him to have more self-confidence and use pictures that better highlight his strengths. When vegetarian Natalie prepares to eat at a steakhouse on a date with Tag, Josh bitterly tells Natalie she should not lie or compromise her beliefs for Tag. They fight when Natalie reminds him of his lie. While Natalie and Tag leave dinner, Tag admits that he stopped celebrating Christmas a long time ago. Natalie realizes that Tag is not the man that she thought he was, and Tag kisses her.

The Lin family throws Josh and Natalie a surprise engagement party at the steakhouse that Tag's family owns. Tag introduces Natalie to his parents as his girlfriend. Natalie's boss arrives and tells Owen about Natalie's dating column. Owen tells Josh that Natalie is just with him for her next story. Natalie gives a speech telling the truth to everyone at the party, including Tag, and then leaves the Lin household. Encouraged by Natalie, Josh tells his father that he no longer wants to run the family store and wishes to start a candle business.

Waiting at the lodge overnight before her morning flight, Natalie sees Josh's new profile on the dating app, which highlights the real him. She realizes she is in love with Josh and returns to his house, where they share a kiss.

An attorney, Scott Arlen, represents a girl, Peggy Maylin, accused of murder trial. She gives him a gun, and he decides not to turn it over to the court or the prosecutor. After winning the girl's acquittal, Arlen turns over the gun and faces disbarment. Sam Arlen is an aging lawyer who comes out of retirement to defend his son in the disbarment proceeding.

In a suburban town in the Southern United States, a high school student named Krista is a member of her school's theater program. In her childhood, she produced short videos with her next-door neighbor, the recently graduated Adam. Adam has since started a YouTube channel to which he uploads videos of himself providing demonstrations on using various models of firearms that he owns. However, his videos are receiving little attention online, and his father disapproves of his focusing on his YouTube presence rather than finding a job elsewhere.

Nito, a skateboarder, attends the same school as Krista. One day, while idling outside the apartment where he and his apathetic guardian live, Nito meets a fellow tenant named Yoni, who invites Nito to a party that night after seeing him perform a kickflip. At the party, Nito interacts with Krista, who earlier that evening had watched videos of Nito skateboarding online. Later on, police officers arrive to break up the party. In the commotion, a male partygoer tries to grab Krista, and Nito fights him off. Krista escapes but Nito is arrested.

After being released from jail, Nito is picked up in a car by Yoni and Yoni's friends Lena and Jarrett. Yoni, Lena, and Jarrett convince Nito to help them steal items such as Hot Pockets and perfume. During school, Nito and Krista grow closer; he tries to show her how to skateboard, and she teaches him how to imitate being slapped and choked for stage purposes. While working on a performance inspired by a past experience Nito had with a parakeet, he and Krista share a kiss.

In an effort to attract more viewers and subscribers to his YouTube channel, Adam produces a dramatized video of himself detailing an experience he claimed to have had wherein he fended off an attack by a wild warthog using a firearm. When the video receives a number of negative and insulting comments, Adam becomes infuriated and records a video of himself angrily responding to and threatening the commenters.

Lena drives Nito, Yoni, and Jarrett to the house where her boss lives, and demands that they break in and retrieve her vape pen, which her boss confiscated from her. Her boss is Adam's mother, and when Nito, Yoni, and Jarrett enter the house, Adam hears them from his upstairs bedroom. Jarrett begins to ascend the stairs leading up to the house's second floor, and Adam fatally shoots him from the top of the stairs with a rifle. After Adam proceeds to shoot Yoni, Nito attempts to flee, but is shot and killed by Adam after running outside. Krista, walking home from school with a friend, watches Nito die and sees an armed Adam standing in the doorway to the house.

The incident is covered by the news, prompting Adam's YouTube channel to receive a surge of popularity. Online commenters and local police officials refer to Adam as a "hero" for standing his ground against the three intruders. Adam continues to make firearms-based videos that prove successful with his online followers, while Krista becomes an emotional wreck at school over the loss of Nito. When Adam is invited to speak at a conference about firearms, Krista attends and follows him into a restroom to confront him. She forces him to put his hands around her neck and she screams, drawing the attention of police officers in the building. Adam is detained, and the video he made in which he threatens his YouTube commenters is leaked to the public. Meanwhile, Krista returns to her theater classes with a sense of closure.

Pyle, a lepidopterist, sets out on a 30-day trek through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to document butterflies and moths following the traumatic death of his wife from cancer. An inexperienced hiker, Pyle encounters challenges including frightening wildlife and getting lost in a cave. When he completes the hike, taking far more days than he had expected to, he leaves the wilderness with a sense of accomplishment.

In 1979 Dundee, Davie sets out to become a gig promoter. His ambition is threatened by a run-in with a local gangster who owns all the venues. To succeed he must pull off an Iron Maiden gig.

In The Dead of Jaffa, three siblings are snuck over from the West Bank into Jaffa, Israel to live with their alleged uncle George (Yussuf Abu Warda) and his wife Rita (Ruba Blal). Their mother is dead and their father is in jail. The children are illegally smuggled through checkpoints and meet shocked Rita. George and Rita are a childless couple, so their arrival and the chance to be a mother excites her, whereas George fears being caught by the police that hunts down illegal immigrants from the west bank. As Israeli- Palestinians hosting illegal Palestinian children, they have to stay under the radar. The oldest of the three siblings, Talal (Jihad Babay) does not want to be compliant and hide from Israelis, so he rebels and moves independently. He finds an abandoned house behind Rita and Georges's residence. To scare Talal out of there, George tells him the ghosts of Jaffa’s dead live there. Talal is intrigued and shows his siblings the house and shares its history. At the time of the kids arrival in Jaffa, an English filmmaker, Jerry (Johnny Phillips) is filming a movie on his parents' life in 1947 British occupied Palestine using the port city as the setting. Jerry invites George to play the role of a Palestinian doctor claiming he is perfect for the role. As George works in his convenience store and prepares for the role, Rita stays home and tells the children about her sister Doris (Maysa Daw). Growing more and more attached to them, Rita takes the kids to the beach which they have never seen before, but hey start to fear about the police finding out about the children. Two of them go with George while Talal remains defiant.

The dynamics of Rita's attachment to the children, Talal’s defiance, and George's involvement in Jerry’s film create tensions as the story unfolds. Talal's curiosity leads him out of George and Rita’s house down the streets of Jaffa. He observes Vera (Maya Flamm) heading to the set to film a scene with George. Vera plays her grandmother, who is a pregnant British woman in 1940s Palestine, and approaches a Palestinian doctor to have an abortion. The doctor refuses to abort the baby and refers her to a doctor in Tel Aviv. Suddenly the father of the baby, a British soldier, barges into the office and shoots the doctor dead. The scene is reshot, over and over, while Talal watches George's character gets dehumanized and shot down multiple times. He follows George out of the set asking why he would let them do that to him.

The next day of filming, the director Jerry sets out to film a protest scene. He wants raw, authentic footage of the Palestinians protesting against the British soldiers. Talal watches the scene unfold, and joins in with the Palestinian actors protesting though he is not acting. The boy joins the chant with passion and conviction that the director Jerry is looking for, so he focuses the camera on Talal encouraging his raw behavior. Talal and the actors, who end up following his lead, take the protest off the set and attack Israeli police on the street, leading to Talal's accidental death. The tragedy leaves the family devastated and exposes them as now the police are aware of the children's illegal status. With no mercy, they plan to remove the children while George, Rita, and Doris, protect them till the end.

Struggling actor James (Jessie Usher) pays his bills by driving people around Los Angeles for a ride-sharing service. James' shift starts out like any other, until he hits it off with a beautiful woman named Jessica (Bella Thorne) whom he picks up. He drops her off at a local place to which she invites him inside for a drink. He refuses as he already has his next fare. At his next pick-up destination, James meets the fast-talking Bruno (Will Brill), who has just suffered from a recent break-up with his girlfriend. He convinces James to invite Jessica along for a wild night out. They then head back to the club to find her but whilst James and Jessica talk inside, things take a shocking turn and Bruno drives off with the car to a random location. There he adjusts the doors and turns on the child locks. He heads back to pick up the two and they head off toward their destination.

After a few fun moments, Bruno suggests they rob a liquor store and shock them when he's armed with a gun. He has a twisted idea of fun and initiates a terrifying, white-knuckle ride that quickly spirals out of control. He instructs James to shoot the store clerk and steal a bottle of alcohol threatening to murder Jessica if he doesn't follow through. James follows through and shoots the clerk in the process. They head to the highway and drink the alcohol. Bruno instructs Jessica to drive, she switches the child lock off beforehand and attempts to escape with James but he tries to stall Bruno. Jessica tries to catch a bus passing by but heads back to the vehicle when she sees Bruno threatening to shoot James. She is instructed to drive to the local pharmacy to get some things for James because during the struggle, Bruno dislocated James' shoulder.

Whilst in the store, she steals the required items and sees the breaking news on TV which states that "Bruno Anthony" was a club owner that was murdered. To her shock the "Bruno" that they know is using fake identity. In the vehicle, the fake Bruno sedates James and pops his shoulder back into place. They head to a local drive thru and he gets them all a meal. It's finally James' turn to drive with Jessica in the front seat, they head to the fake Bruno's ex girlfriend's house. James crashes the vehicle in the process and escapes with Jessica and hide in a pool where they kiss. However they are eventually caught again. They all sit in the hot tub which was their agenda from the beginning when they planned their "wild night out". Jessica mentions that the fake Bruno isn't really Bruno Anthony and that the original is survived by his girlfriend who was in fact his ex girlfriend. She states that he was indeed suffering from a break-up but his had occurred a long time ago. In the midst of this James beats the fake Bruno with the alcohol bottle and takes his gun. He aims the gun at the fake Bruno's chest but leaves him to suffer. He and Jessica walk away, leaving the fake Bruno alone.

Unknown to James, the fake Bruno still has his phone and accepts a new ride request. He phones the passenger and addresses himself as "James" which indicates that another terrifying, white-knuckle ride is about to take place as the film ends.

Laith, an Iraqi child in the middle of a war-torn country at the hands of ISIS, after losing his mother, finds himself a new home with an elderly woman who tells him the story of Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad, from the Shia perspective, explaining how she was the first victim of terrorism.

Spiderhead is a state-of-the-art penitentiary experimenting with the effects of research chemicals. The test subjects, technically prisoners of the state, are volunteers for the project aiming to reduce their sentence time. The program is overseen by the sympathetic and hospitable Steve Abnesti, along with his assistant Mark. The prisoners have their own rooms, do chores, and are free to roam without guard supervision. The subjects go through daily test runs of various drugs, all of which alter their emotions and their perceptions of their surroundings.

Inmate Jeff, still reeling from having killed his friend whilst drunk driving, is given N-40, a "love drug", which distorts his senses and drives him to have sex with two of his fellow inmates. Steve asks him to choose which one of them to give Darkenfloxx, a drug that induces intense fear and psychological pain. He declines to choose, claiming he feels nothing in particular for either one of them after the effects of the love drug had worn off.

The next day, Steve tells him that the "higher ups" have chosen that he and the younger of the two women, Heather, must be injected with a dose, though it will only last five minutes. Jeff reluctantly agrees, and to his horror, Heather commits suicide while on the Darkenfloxx after she damages her MobiPak, the device that administers the drugs. This causes Mark to doubt their work in the facility. As Steve rushes out of the projection room, he drops his keys. Jeff unlocks Steve's desk compartment, discovering that there are no "higher-ups": the prison is run by Abnesti Pharmaceuticals. The drugs were named from a bingo card.

Steve and Jeff get high together on a laughing drug, as Steve also has a MobiPak installed. Steve tells Jeff that his father abandoned him as a child. Jeff confesses to Lizzy, an inmate he is close with, that he not only killed his friend in the car accident but his girlfriend as well. Lizzy hugs him and they kiss. Steve notices Jeff's feelings for Lizzy. Mark becomes doubtful of Steve's motives, and he breaks down when Jeff confronts him.

When Steve asks Jeff to administer Darkenfloxx to Lizzy, Jeff takes control of Steve's MobiPak and forces him to admit the true goal of the program is to test a compliance drug, B-6. The other drugs are merely side projects being used to put B-6 to the ultimate test: whether or not they would harm their love when commanded to. The entire time inmates had been consenting to the various tests, they had really been under the influence of the obedience drug. In addition, Steve informs Jeff that he had in fact finished his sentence seven months previously, while Lizzy's appeal for release had passed the previous week. Jeff forces Steve to open the door of the main entrance to free Lizzy and then tries to order him to hand over the pocket knife. Steve resists and instead takes his phone and enables all four vials of Darkenfloxx in Lizzy's MobiPak, causing her to behave hysterically and attempt suicide. The two fight for control and Jeff is able to disarm Steve, damaging his MobiPak in the process. Jeff rushes to save Lizzy, successfully removes the vials of Darkenfloxx and tells her he loves her, but Steve gets up and orders the other inmates to apprehend Jeff and Lizzy. They are able to escape from Spiderhead after overpowering some of other inmates and locking the main door behind them. Mark and the police are now approaching the island as Steve escapes on his floatplane, but he joyously crashes into a mountain as he is now high off of his damaged MobiPak. Meanwhile, Jeff and Lizzy take the remaining motorboat and escape.

In a voice-over, Jeff comments that self-forgiveness has to be worked on and chosen, rather than being easily curable.

Tim is Daniel's uncle and favorite person to spend time with and play games. As time goes on, though, Tim starts going out of his home less and less, eventually stopping completely. Daniel learns that his uncle has AIDS, and that's the reason he feels sick all the time. Daniel and his parents take care of uncle Tim, but he eventually dies from his condition.

The story opens during the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona where the protagonist, Victor Dalmau, has left his medical studies to help the Republicans against the Fascist forces of General Franco. His brother, Guillem, is also a Republican soldier, but he dies in the Battle of Ebro. Victor has to seek the help of his Basque friend, Aitor Ibarra, to send his mother and Guillem's wife, Roser, to France, as the victory of Franco's forces is becoming more and more certain. After many trials, he reunites with Roser in France, and they hear that Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, is going to take a certain number of Spanish refugees to Chile. Desperate to grab the chance, Victor and Roser get married reluctantly to qualify for the journey. They embark on this journey, but migration to the new country is not the end of their problem, and there again they are forced to witness the fight between freedom and repression, which seems to be a neverending war.

The series is a female-driven comedy about Alex (Baker) and Daisy (Akana), two women in their 20s, who are given the duty of saving the universe, as soon as they get their lives together and pay their rent.

Marcus and Emily are on vacation in Mexico, where he intends to propose. His plan is ruined when first their room is flooded, and then a hotel employee ruins the surprise. With no other choice, Marcus proposes to her on the spot in the lobby, and she accepts. Wild and carefree Ron and Kyla watch their special moment, inviting them to stay with them for their trip.

The four spend their vacation together, which includes Marcus and Emily eloping. Both black out due to excessive drinking but Marcus briefly regains consciousness during what appears to be Kyla having sex with him. The next day, Emily remembers nothing from the night before and Marcus decides to keep what he recalls a secret. At the end of their vacation, Marcus and Emily decide to cut ties with Ron and Kyla.

Months later, Marcus and Emily have their official wedding, hosted by Emily's parents, Harold and Suzanne. They, especially Harold, don't approve of Marcus, partly because of an incident where Marcus punched Emily's brother Gabe. Harold entrusts Marcus with the rings for the wedding, which belonged to Emily's great-grandparents.

Before the ceremony, Ron and Kyla crash the reception after discovering the wedding location online. Harold is initially furious at the intrusion, but instantly welcomes the couple after learning that Ron was a fellow Green Beret. Kyla reveals she is pregnant and Marcus is 'directly involved' in the pregnancy, making him believe that he is the baby's father. The next day, Ron speaks to Harold, convincing him to give Marcus a second chance. A grateful Marcus selects Ron to be best man, and Ron convinces Marcus to entrust him with the rings.

The next day, the men go golfing, with Gabe and his friend. To Marcus's chagrin, Ron suggests they bet on the game. Halfway through the round, Ron reveals that he bankrolled the wagers by pawning the wedding rings. On the final hole, Ron makes a massive bet that he can hit the 18th green in a single stroke. Despite Ron initially looking at the wrong green, forcing him to make a 375-yard shot to win the bet, he miraculously sinks a hole in one to win the bet. (Actually, he had bribed a golf course employee to plant the ball in the hole.)

After returning to the pawnshop to retrieve the rings, Ron accidentally causes Marcus to drop the rings in a sewer grate. Marcus chokes Ron in anger, who reveals that he was told by a doctor that he was sterile and that Kyla got pregnant 'because of Marcus'.

At the rehearsal dinner, Kyla prepares to make a speech, where it seems like she is going to announce that Marcus is the father of her child. He interrupts, sharing the full story of what he believes happened in Mexico, only for Kyla to reveal they only intend to name the baby after Marcus, and he is not the father. Marcus tells an angry Harold the rings were lost and a fight ensues. Outside the wedding hall, Marcus and Emily angrily demand that Ron and Kyla leave.

Emily's grandma, Phyllis delivers a wedding gift from Kyla. The letter inside reveals that Ron had lost his previous best friend Charlie (on military duty) and that his relationship with her and Marcus has helped him to recover. The gift is the wedding rings, which Ron retrieved from the sewer. Emily and Marcus realize they made a mistake by sending Kyla and Ron away, so they eventually find them. The four reunite, while Ron and Kyla reveal they are finally planning to marry, holding the same ceremony in Mexico where Marcus and Emily tied the knot, along with their family and friends joining.

Ned Underwood rescues a drowning child and in doing so, catches the eye of Rose Dale. Rose finds that Ned is a passenger on the same train headed west. In speaking with Ned, Rose tells him of rustling happening on her ranch, after which Ned offers to go undercover as a dishwasher at the ranch to find out about the rustlers. Joe Dalton, the ranch foreman, is trying to gain the ranch for himself by scaring Rose away.

Act I

The play begins with narration by Telford Taylor describing the Nuremberg trials.

Captain Byers (played by Martin Milner), the court's adjutant, escorts Judge Haywood (played by Claude Rains), a New England country judge, and his wife to their luxurious living quarters in Nuremberg. In scenes interspersed with actual footage of Nuremberg under the Nazis, Byers takes Haywood on a tour of Nuremberg's bomb-damaged ruins and of Zeppelin Field.

The trial begins with Judge Haywood presiding. The defendants are Ernst Janning (played by Paul Lukas), the former Minister of Justice, two judges (Hoffstetter and Lammpe), and the public prosecutor (Hahn).

The American prosecutor, General Parker (played by Melvyn Douglas), presents his opening argument. He accuses the defendants of constructing the legal framework for crimes of execution, enslavement, and extermination.

Defense attorney Oscar Rolfe (played by Maximilian Schell) presents his opening statement. He describes Janning as a great legal scholar and advocate of democracy who remained in office to save the judiciary from complete domination by Hitler. He notes that Hitler in 1942 brutally attacked Janning for resisting Nazi measures and that Janning was forced to resign. He argues that judges do not make the laws but are sworn to uphold them.

Dr. Wickert describes the special courts led by Hoffstetter and Lammpe that oversaw sterilizations and imposed death penalties on Jews, Poles, and others. Rolfe argues that Germany was not alone in enacting sterilization laws, reading from Oliver Wendell Holmes's decision in ''Buck v. Bell'' (1927), upholding a compulsory sterilization law for the mentally deficient.

Rudolph Peterson testifies that his parents were Communists, and he was sterilized pursuant to an order signed by Hoffstetter. Rolfe introduces evidence that Peterson was sterilized as required by the law due to his inability to pass a basic intelligence test.

The judges discuss the Communist take over in Czechoslovakia. Judge Norris notes that the real fight for Germany has begun and the Nuremberg trials have become a political liability.

Act II

Parker introduces a letter from Hoffstetter about making an example of Polish workers who refused to work and another from Lammpe condemning a "Jewess" who sold her breast milk for consumption by German children.

Geuter, the defense attorney in the Feldenstein case, testifies that his client was tried and executed under a "racial pollution" law prohibiting non-Aryans from having sexual relations with Aryans. Maria Wallner, the Aryan woman with whom Feldenstein was accused of sexual relations, testifies and denies having sexual relations with Feldenstein. Janning was the presiding judge who sentenced Feldenstein to death. Wallner served two years in prison for perjury.

Parker introduces orders issued by the defendants by which hundreds were arrested and placed in concentration camps. He then plays a film showing the horrors of the concentration camps. Rolfe expresses outrage at the playing of the film in the trial of defendants who were not aware of these atrocities. Rolfe also offers letters from refugees all over the world attesting that Janning saved them from execution.

Mrs. Lindnow testifies for the defense. She was employed by Feldenstein and saw her employer visit Wallner quite often. She also saw Wallner kissing Feldenstein and, on one occasion, sitting on Feldenstein's lap. Wallner is recalled to testify. As Rolfe aggressively cross-examines Wallner, Janning stands, protests his lawyer's conduct, and asks to make a statement. A recess is granted, and Rolfe begs Janning, for the sake of Germany's future, not to make his statement.

Act III

A Senator and General speak outside the courtroom. The General believes the trials are working contrary to America's interests. The Senator tells Judge Haywood that America needs the German people as its friends.

Janning testifies. He explains the environment of fear in Germany and how Hitler made the people proud and told them there were devils among them. Janning and others sat silent at the lies because they believed their country was in danger and that the abuses were a passing phase. The passing phase became a way of life. He criticizes his lawyer for defending the actions of his time. He admits that the Feldenstein case was not a trial but a sacrificial ritual and that he reached his verdict before he even entered the courtroom. Rolfe interrupts and objects but Janning continues. Hahn shouts that Janning is a traitor.

Rolfe makes his closing argument. He argues that Janning feels guilt, but if Janning is guilty so are others. Hitler's intentions were not secret; they were heard in every part of the world. Hahn is unapologetic and claims that Germany was a bulwark against Bolshevism that the world may yet wish to retain.

Haywood announces the decision. He describes Janning as "a tragic character" who "loathed the evil that he did," but asserts that "compassion for the present torture of his soul must not beget forgetfulness." All defendants are found guilty, and Janning and Hahn are sentenced to life in prison.

After the trial, Haywood is visited by Rolfe who conveys Janning's request to see Haywood and predicts that the men sentenced to life will be released within five years. (Telford Taylor confirms in a final narration that the defendants sentenced to prison had, as Janning predicted, been freed.) Haywood visits Janning in prison. Janning expresses respect for Haywood and the verdict, but he asks for understanding that, with respect to the atrocities, he never knew it would come to that. Haywood insists "it came to that" the first time Janning sentenced to death a man he knew to be innocent.

The play closes with an exchange between Haywood and Byers. As the planes from the Berlin airlift are heard in the background, Byers explains that America is fighting for survival. Haywood replies that, "It's not enough to survive," and asserts that if we abandon our basic principles, "we become the very thing we are fighting."

Robert Lanning Jr. is sent by his father in Boston to his ranch in New Mexico to stop the employees from smuggling firearms across the Mexico–United States border. During the voyage Lanning Jr. picks up stage actress Mary Hamilton from a roadshow production of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', but believes she is a child because she is in character as Eva St. Claire. At the ranch he and the ''Rurales'' stops the gun smugglers, and after he realizes Mary is an adult he successfully proposes to her.

The book takes place during the 1900's. However, several flashbacks (known as "Days Past") are scattered between the official chapters.

Part one

In 1897, in Idris, ten-year-old Lucie Herondale, daughter of Shadowhunter William "Will" Herondale, and half warlock/half Shadowhunter Theresa "Tessa" Gray, sneaks into Brocelind Forest. She gets lost but finds her way back with the help of a mysterious young boy, who she initially believes is a faerie changeling.

Six years later, in 1903, James Herondale and his friends, his parabatai Matthew Fairchild (son of Charlotte Fairchild and Henry Branwell), Thomas Lightwood (son of Gideon Lightwood and Sophia "Sophie" Collins), and Christopher Lightwood (son of Gabriel Lightwood and Cecily Herondale), find a Deumas demon while patrolling. The demon recognizes James, who goes into the shadow realm (a unique power as a result of his warlock heritage) for the first time in 3 years. This strikes them as odd due to the fact that demonic activities have been scarce in London for some time. Meanwhile, Cordelia Carstairs enters the London society along with her brother (Alastair) and mother (Sona). Her father, Elias, has been arrested for supposedly mishandling a vampire raid, and the Carstairs wish to make powerful allies in London to save their reputation. The Carstairs are greeted by Tessa, James (who Cordelia has a crush on), and Lucie (Cordelia's soon-to-be parabatai). Lucie tells Cordelia that James is in love, leading Cordelia to believe that her feelings for James might be requited.

The Herondales hold a ball at the Institute to welcome the Carstairs family in London; Cordelia and her family are introduced to the rest of the guests by Tessa. Lucie introduces Cordelia to some of her acquaintances. When a waltz starts to play, James requests Cordelia to dance with him. As they are dancing, James gives some details about the guests at her request. James leaves Cordelia stranded on the dance floor when he goes to greet the mysterious new arrival, Grace Blackthorn, the adopted ward of Tatiana Blackthorn. Luckily Matthew intervenes, saving Cordelia's reputation. It is revealed that James met Grace in 1899, when Tatiana hired him to cut briars for her, and that James has been in love with Grace since he was 13 years old. Lucie once again sees the "changeling boy" who reveals himself to be the ghost of Jesse Blackthorn, the late son of Tatiana. His mother asked Downworlders to preserve his body, so his spirit has remained trapped in the in-between. His mother and Grace can also see him, and he assumed Lucie could only see him as a child, being surprised that she can still see him six years later. James is suddenly swept into the Shadow Realm again and there he sees Barbara Lightwood, Thomas's oldest sister, being attacked. Seconds later, Barbara collapses in the ballroom but is saved by Cordelia and Anna Lightwood, Christopher's older sister. Barbara shrugs it off as exhaustion.

It is revealed that in his childhood, James visited Cirenworth Hall (the home of the Carstairs in Idris) and contracted scalding fever. Cordelia tended to him then and read him her favorite book ''Layla and Majnun''. When he had slipped into the realm again, instead of running away, she had curled up in the bed beside him and let him use her as an anchor to stay tied to their world. The children had parted on proper terms, never once mentioning the incident again.

Cordelia, James, and the others go for a picnic to Regent's Park where Cordelia befriends Anna, Thomas, and Christopher. She takes James aside and makes him apologize to her for leaving her in the middle of the dance the previous night. James reveals his relationship with Grace to Cordelia, who is heartbroken but happy for him. However, the picnic is ruined after the Shadowhunters are attacked by demons in broad daylight. The demons wound three people - Piers Wentsworth, Barbara, and Ariadne Bridgestock. Everybody is immediately rushed to the Institute, where Brother Zachariah (Jem Carstairs) tends to the wounded along with several other Silent Brothers. Jem singularly seeks out James who relegates his experience of going into the shadow realm before the attacks. In order to be useful, James attempts to disappear into the shadow realm at will, as he had done once before. He succeeds when Matthew sends him into shock by insulting him. In a flashback it is shown that after his illness in Cirenworth Hall, James meets Grace once again, as he had been for preceding years. There he rambles on about Cordelia and that's when Grace points out that he was in love with Cordelia which he half-heartedly denied. Later on, though Grace requested him to use his shadow abilities and retrieve her familial bracelet which was seized by Tatiana and had the Cartwright family symbol on it.

The Clave is intimated of the demon inside the greenhouse and Charles reprimands James and tells him to stay away from the Blackthorns for a while. He is disgruntled and calls upon the Fairchilds where he gives some dust he had collected from the alternate dimension to Henry Branwell to assess and draw conclusion. He is joined shortly by Christopher and Thomas and they talk when a missive addressed to Matthew arrives, signed by Grace. James reads it and leaves the house instantly, not informing his friends that the note stated that Grace was in danger.

Alastair meanwhile, drops Cordelia to Anna Lightwood's place at her independent apartment in Percy Street. Cordelia notices Anna's heartless nature for the first time when Anna chucks away a mundane woman, who she seemingly had a fling with. However Cordelia admires Anna and strikes a conversation, where she informs Anna that she wishes to be a hero. They are interrupted by Matthew who takes them to meet Malcolm Fade. Jesse visits Lucie in her bedroom and informs her that James' life is in danger, as Grace was being followed by the Blackthorn family demon and would probably murder anyone who wasn't a Blackthorn. She gathers her weapons and goes to save James. Cordelia, Matthew and Anna visit Malcolm and Hypatia Vex, where they inquire about the attacks and if the downworlders might have heard of it. Cordelia saves the warlocks' lives when she captures the waitress, Arabella poisoning the drink. In return they help her by sending for Ragnor Fell who might be able to help them.

In a flashback to 1902, Thomas Lightwood had been gone for his travel year and stopped at Paris. He had met Alastair Carstairs there, and they had toured the whole city amiably. Around that time, Thomas had felt himself warming up to Alastair.

Back in the night, James meets up with Grace as per her instructions and she asks James to forsake his Shadowhunter blood, run away, and marry her. It’s the only way she can escape her cruel mother. James silently considers it but decides there’s no way he can forsake his family, friends, or parabatai. Grace is angry at his declaration, but she’s cut short when demons attack them. Lucie, Christopher, Matthew, Thomas, Cordelia and Alastair come to their aid. The strongest demon recognizes James and asks why James is fighting against the creatures who worship his own grandfather. The demon calls Tessa’s demon father a prince of hell, which is a fallen angel as powerful as Raziel. James is shocked at the revelation. He lets the remaining demons go in the name of his grandfather as long as they go back to their own dimension. They will do so as long as no one present tells any other Shadowhunters about what transpired at the waterfront. After they’re gone, Tatiana pulls up in her carriage searching for Grace. James begs Grace to come to the Institute with him. His father will grant her safe haven. Tatiana promises to produce evidence that Grace practices black magic and conjures demons — claims that would ruin her life and reputation — if she doesn’t come home with her.

In the London Institute, Ragnor visits the teenagers-sans Cordelia and Alastair, and gives them a lead - Emmanuel Gast, who he thought might be able to dredge up information. A shocking news arrives when Barbara Lightwood is pronounced dead. At the Carstairs manor in Cornwall Gardens, Charles visits late at night. Cordelia, afraid that her brother might tell him of James' grandfather, eavesdrops on her brother and Charles' conversation and finds out that Alistair and Charles are gay and Charles was marrying Ariadne for power only. He was scared of rejection by the society and hence couldn't publicly display his sexual orientation unlike Anna. The next morning, James visits Cordelia and they, along with Matthew and Lucie pay a visit to Emmanuel Gast. However to their dismay he is already dead and Lucie gets locked in a room where she summons Emmanuel's ghost and finds out that he had raised the demon who was wreaking havoc over London. He even claimed that he knew her grandfather but she banished him before he could reveal much. Later they find splinters of wood with strange inscriptions. The four head back to the institute and lie to Will and Tessa about where they’ve been. They question Jessamine about whether ghosts can lie to see if Gast’s claims were true. They hear a ruckus outside. Charles has arrived in a carriage, bringing Grace and a bloodied Tatiana to the Institute. Once Tatiana is being treated by the Silent Brothers in the infirmary, Grace pulls James aside to talk to him.

James takes Grace aside where she informs him that she is now engaged to Charles - who had broken off his engagement with Ariadne whilst she was unconscious. Grace demands her bracelet back from him and when he does return it back, he feels physical pain from the separation. He goes to the Blackfriars Bridge to relieve his heartache. Grace finds Matthew and tells him what has transpired. Before she leaves, she seemingly holds Matthew in place with words alone and kisses him. She threatens to tell James about this kiss if Matthew ever breathes a word of their conversation to anyone. Matthew later finds James sitting on the bridge and in a moment of recklessness James drinks from his flask, and loses consciousness due to exhaustion. The next morning when he wakes up, he finds the hurt gone, and feels oddly light. Cordelia meanwhile had accompanied Anna to the infirmary and seen her put her guard down and sob for Ariadne. Will and Tessa have gone with the Silent Brothers to transport Tatiana and the other remaining wounded Shadowhunters to the Silent City. Grace will be staying with the Bridgestocks near the City to be close to her mother. Cordelia receives a letter from Charlotte, answering her inquiries about her father. He’s actually already been questioned with the Mortal Sword, which Cordelia was sure would clear his name as it requires the holder to speak only truth. Unfortunately, the demon attack has been erased from his memory, so he cannot clear his name with the sword.

Christopher arrives with the results and the group discovers that the shards of wood were pieces of a Pyxis. James informs them that the inscription were written in Old Persian and they realize that the demon was in fact a Mandikhor demon, which can produce smaller demons known as ''Khora'' demons. They form a plan to capture the demon but for that they would need a Pyxis. Cordelia recalls seeing one at Hypatia's salon and they decide to approach Anna for aid. James escorts Cordelia home and Sona presumes that they both were getting closer than before and James had marital intentions, to which Cordelia replies in the negative. Cordelia goes to Alastair to gently break the news of Charles’ new engagement to him. Alastair already knew and is not happy when Cordelia tells him she eavesdropped on his recent conversation with Charles.

Part two

The next evening, James, Cordelia and Matthew accompany Anna to Hell Ruelle, where Hypatia is hosting a party. Anna has Cordelia wear a beautiful dress and James is stunned by her appearance. Lucie, Christopher and Thomas spy on the Enclave meeting and find out that Oliver, Barbara's ex-fiancee had passed away as well, seemingly due to the fact that Barbara had scratched him before her death. This shocked the entire Enclave as demon poison had never been contagious before, and London is placed immediately under quarantine. In Hell Ruelle, Anna seduces Hypatia and Cordelia performs in front of the gathering. James and Matthew are impressed, however they notice Charles entering the club. Matthew pushes the couple away and they hide in The Whispering Room, where James and Cordelia share a passionate kiss.

The next morning the Merry Thieves, Lucie, and Cordelia take advantage of the fact that Will and Tessa are gone for day-patrols, an added precaution by the Clave, and empty the Pyxis by letting out a Palpis demon named Agliarept, so that they may use it to trap the Mandikhor. They kill the demon before he could sway them. Since they performed it in the Sanctuary, Magnus walks in on them inquiring about their actions. They explain to him, their plans of ridding the shadow world of the demon and Cordelia implores Magnus to help them out by casting an illusion over Tower Bridge, to protect and distract the mundanes. Magnus agrees. While they are going towards Tower Bridge, Magnus disproves James' theory of his grandfather being Belphegor.

In 1900, Cirenworth Hall there was an argument between the Carstairs siblings regarding the possession of Cortana. Cordelia stated that she wanted to be a merciful hero and Alastair merely said that the sword belonged to him as he was the Carstairs heir. However, Cortana flew back into Cordelia's hand, "choosing its owner."

The group goes to Tower Bridge to try to fight and capture the demon, but it breaks free of the Pyxis. During their fight against the Mandikhor, Cordelia is knocked into the Thames, but Lucie summons all the ghosts of London to her aid and they pull Cordelia out of the waters. When the demon departs, it speaks to James and tries to convince him to go to Belial's realm. Christopher is able to figure out the cure but couldn't find a way to make it work without a key illegal ingredient. James is able to locate where it may be found but before they could retrieve it, Christopher is attacked and poisoned himself. Cordelia's mother reveals that she's pregnant. While receiving treatment in the Silent City, James, Cordelia, and Matthew sneak in and talked with Christopher. Christopher, under the influence of the infection, grabs James's wrist, infecting him, while trying to warn him that he was in danger and all the attacks were about him.

Meanwhile, Thomas searches the Chiswick grounds for the malos root and Lucie wanders off to a shed, where she spies on Grace Blackthorn. She notices Jesse Blackthorn's body, in a glass coffin, where he appears to be asleep. She hears Grace talking about her mother hurting James when suddenly a Namtar demon attacks her. It scoffs at her for removing James' bracelet and reaches out to destroy Jesse's coffin when Lucie reveals herself and helps Grace against the attack. Just as they are cornered and about to be injured, Jesse kills it with a sword. Lucie utters his name, astonishing Grace and befuddling her as to how Lucie could see Jesse. Lucie and Thomas Lightwood are able to retrieve the plant to finish the antidote for the poison Christopher had developed. Thomas and Alastair use Henry's lab to create the elixir and go to the Silent City to distribute it, which is a huge success.

After fleeing the city, James realizes that the person behind the attacks had to be his demonic grandfather. He enters the shadow realm to confront and stop Belial once and for all. After some time, Cordelia uses Cortana to cut through the Portal to help him. Belial reveals that the Mandikhor demon was raised partially in the physical world and partially in his realm, making it immune to sunlight. They battle the Mandikhor, but are gravely outmatched until James used his connection to Belial's realm to summon a tornado and kill it. Belial then approaches James to proposition him once again, to which Cordelia ran him through with Cortana. With Belial being severely wounded, the realm collapses, and James and Cordelia return to their own realm. Having been poisoned and depleted his strength when reaching into the realm, James is dying when they came back. Matthew tries iratzes but they are not strong enough to save him. Thankfully, unbeknownst to him, the ghost of Jesse Blackthorn gave James his last breath — which had been preserved in his locket to one day resurrect himself — saving his life.

Days later, while still recovering from his ordeal, James is visited by Grace. Grace pleads for his understanding of her actions and then tells him of her mother's involvement in necromancy and her plans against Nephilim. She forces her bracelet back on his wrist and asks that he go to Blackthorn Manor to destroy an automaton there. With the bracelet's control strengthened, James agrees and in the process of destroying it, burns down the manor. At the following council meeting, Tatiana accuses James of having orchestrated the Mandikhor attacks and then burning her house down to destroy her evidence. In an effort to protect him, Cordelia provides him with an alibi, claiming he had been with her the night before, tarnishing her reputation. While Tatiana is being arrested and sent to the Adamant Citadel for the dark magic items found in the rubble of her home, James proposes to Cordelia in order to save her reputation, with the plan to divorce in a year, and Cordelia agrees.

At James and Cordelia's engagement party, Matthew drinks heavily in an attempt to drown his sorrows, realizing he is in love with Cordelia. Charles announces his engagement to Grace and later seeks out Alastair, who breaks up with him in a lone corridor with Cordelia there to support him. Because of his drunken state, Matthew reveals the rumors Alastair had spread about their parents to Thomas, in an effort to prevent their friendship, causing Thomas to threaten Alastair, who runs out of the room crying. Ariadne approaches Anna, telling her that she heard her when she spoke to her at the infirmary, making Ariadne realize that Anna still loved her. When Anna asserts her reputation of being a pessimist about love, Ariadne tells her that she will win her back. Grace emerges from the shadows and she and Lucie talk about resurrecting Jesse.

Magnus Bane finds Matthew feeling desolate, as he notices the younger boy looking towards James and Cordelia dancing merrily. It is then that he reveals his attraction towards Cordelia and hints about the false marriage. Magnus is intrigued and decides that he needed to stay in London for a little while longer. Cordelia reflects on how drastically her life had changed since her arrival in London. James talks to her and tells her that he wishes she could be happy. He also states that the events of the whispering room had been a pretense. Cordelia is saddened but resolves to spend this one year with James happily.

Meanwhile, in Chiswick manor, Tatiana, who is now being banished to the Adamant Citadel, visits her son's coffin. She finds Belial waiting for her, and he says that he will rise much earlier than the Nephilim assumed. He also states that since Tatiana was now in the Adamant Citadel, they will strike at the heart of the shadowhunters-their Adamas. Saying this he vanishes again, leaving Tatiana satisfied.

The play told the story of the Spanish bullfighter Manolete. Manolete was the idol of Spain and had made four million dollars when he was killed in the bullring at age 30.

The play tells the story of Russia's suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

After fourteen years of forced labor in a gulag for the dishonor inflicted on his country in his previous adventure, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev is released by his country's premier, Nursultan Nazarbayev, with a mission to deliver Kazakh Minister of Culture (and Kazakhstan's most famous porn actor) Johnny the Monkey to President Donald Trump in an attempt to redeem the nation. Unable to get close to Trump after defecating in the landscaping of Trump International Hotel and Tower in the previous film, Borat opts to give the monkey to Vice President Mike Pence. Before leaving, he discovers that his arch nemesis neighbor, Nursultan Tulyakbay, has stolen his family and home, and that he has a fifteen-year-old daughter, Tutar, who lives in his barn.

Borat is transported across the world in a circuitous route by cargo ship and arrives in Galveston, Texas, where he finds he is a celebrity. Wanting to maintain a low profile, Borat purchases multiple disguises. He buys a cell phone and goes to welcome Johnny, but finds that Tutar is in Johnny's shipping crate and has eaten him. Horrified, Borat faxes Nazarbayev, who tells him to find a way to satisfy Pence or he will be executed. Borat decides to give Tutar to Pence.

Tutar receives a makeover and Borat introduces her at a debutante ball. At the ball, her menstrual blood is prominently displayed during a father and daughter dance. Discovering that Pence is nearby at CPAC, Borat disguises himself as Trump and attempts to give Tutar to him there, but is ejected by security. Nazarbayev is enraged and tells him to return to Kazakhstan for execution. Realizing that he can still give Tutar to someone close to Trump, Tutar suggests giving her to Rudy Giuliani.

Because Giuliani had bragged about having an affair with a large-breasted woman, Borat brings Tutar to a cosmetic surgeon who advises breast implants. While Borat works in a barbershop to raise enough money to pay for breast surgery, he briefly leaves Tutar with a babysitter who is confused by Borat's sexist teachings. She informs Tutar that the things her culture has taught her are lies. After Tutar sees a woman driving a car, and successfully masturbates for the first time, she decides not to get the surgery and lashes out at Borat for keeping her oppressed her whole life. Before leaving, she tells him the Holocaust, their country’s "greatest accomplishment" is a lie by citing a Holocaust denial Facebook page.

Shaken, Borat decides to commit suicide by going to the nearest synagogue dressed as his version of a stereotypical Jew and waiting for the next shooting, but is shocked to find Holocaust survivors there who treat him with kindness, and to his anti-Semitic delight, reassure him that the Holocaust happened. Overjoyed, Borat goes looking for Tutar, but finds the streets deserted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He quarantines with two QAnon conspiracy theorists who offer to help him reunite with Tutar. They find Tutar online, who has become a reporter and will be covering a March for Our Rights rally in Olympia, Washington.

At the rally, the men appeal to Tutar, telling her that her dad will be killed unless she helps. She accepts and arranges an interview to seduce Giuliani, but without her father's participation. Borat talks with her babysitter and has a change of heart, realizing that he loves Tutar. After the interview, Giuliani and Tutar proceed to a bedroom before Borat intervenes and tries to personally offer sexual favors to Giuliani. Borat decides to face execution in Kazakhstan and Tutar promises to go with him.

Borat is shocked to find he will not be executed as he had instead been used as retaliation by Nazarbayev for making Kazakhstan a laughingstock. Before departing for the United States, Kazakhstan officials infected Borat with SARS-CoV-2 via an injection of "gypsy tears", making him patient zero of the COVID-19 pandemic. As he was sent around the world, he continued to spread the virus. Borat uses a recording made near the beginning of his trip to convince Nazarbayev that his admission has been recorded and sent to Brian, the man who sold Borat his phone, and whom Borat claims is America's Minister of Technology.

Borat and Tutar blackmail Nazarbayev into giving him his job back and changing Kazakhstan's misogynistic laws. Three months later, Tutar and Borat are a reporting team and Kazakhstan has a new tradition to replace the nation's antisemitic ones: the Running of the American. It features exaggerated caricatures of Trump supporters and "Karens" pretending to spread COVID-19 and killing an effigy of Anthony Fauci. The film ends with a message encouraging viewers to vote in the then-upcoming presidential election.

A little brown rabbit has drawn a rough, childish sketch of her dream home on a piece of lined paper. When she starts to dig, two of her new neighbors, a mole and a field mouse, both eagerly offer their assistance, showing off the elaborate blueprints and floor plans of burrows they constructed for their families. Embarrassed at the simplicity and inexperience of her own drawing, the rabbit hides it from them, pretends she has somewhere to be, and starts frantically digging deeper to get away from them, leaving them confused.

During the course of her dig, she keeps bursting in on other underground neighbors by accident, including some frogs who own a library, some hedgehog bakers who offer her muffins, some bathing newts who offer her towels, and some partying beetles and ants who think she is their entertainment for the evening. These incidents further her embarrassment, despite the fact none of the neighbors seem to mind her intrusions. After accidentally waking up a grumpy-sounding animal in a dark cave, she flees down to the bedrock. Finally away from the others, she attempts to widen the hole and form some sort of burrow, only to hit the water table. The released water starts to flood up her hole towards the neighbors' burrows.

In tears, the rabbit flees up to the dark cave and wakes the animal again, to explain her mistake. The scary-sounding animal turns out to be an easy-going, sleepy badger, who roars to summon the other neighbors. Together with the rabbit, they dig a side tunnel to divert the water to the surface, forming a spring and saving their homes. Grateful, the rabbit shows her drawing to the neighbors, who help her improve it logistically but still build a home like what she imagined, even down to the disco ball she drew in the bathroom.

The film shows one day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka. She and her husband are preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary and are inviting close friends and sons. She almost completely freed this day, but she has one thing that can change everything.

A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intellectual activity, including executing book readers. He catches a librarian hiding a banned book and joins her in reading books.

Act I

Produced three months after the end of the Korean War, the play is set at a military hospital where American soldiers are treated after being released from prisoner of war camp number 9. The soldiers were subjected to various physical and mental hardships, including brainwashing.

Major E.E. Mead is a neuropsychiatrist who provides treatment and support to the soldiers. Sgt. Lucky Dover arrives at the hospital having lost 25 pounds and in delicate mental condition. He is a hero among most of the former prisoners for having stood up to their Chinese captors. Other characters also have emotional scars from their time as prisoners. Freddy Benton suffers from crippling guilt for having been broken by his captors into signing a false confession.

Dover receives a 30-day leave to visit home. The mayor informs him that the legion has arranged a banquet and gifts of a new car and house. Dover is uncomfortable with the attention at home. At night, he is haunted by a voice. He cuts his leave short and returns to the hospital.

Act II

Act II features flashbacks to the P.O.W. camp. In one flashback, Comrade Chang tries to persuade the men of the virtue of communism and evils of capitalism. Dover ridiculed the brainwashing and is thrown in the hole.

In another flashback sequence, Sgt. Bonsell plans an escape. The escape was foiled, as somebody told the Chinese of the plan. Walter Fitch, who lost his legs in the escape attempt, attacks Dover, believing that Dover was the rat.

Act III

Dover is convinced that he betrayed his colleagues by disclosing the escape plan. He was thrown into the hole on a second occasion. He doesn't recall the interrogation, but he recalls being treated very favorably afterwards.

Betty Lou visits Dover in the hospital. Dover cries in her arms.

Bonsell tells Mead about beatings he received in the camp. He claims he never gave in to his captors, but he now suffers from ulcers.

Fitch steals a gun from a military police officer. He seeks revenge on Dover for the loss of his legs. He points his gun at Dover, but Bonsell intervenes. He confesses that he was the one who revealed the escape plan to the Chinese and arranged with the Chinese to make it appear as though Dover was responsible. Fitch turns his fury on Bonsell, but Dover defends Bonsell. They were all subjected to horrible conditions. Fitch is persuaded and forgives Bonsell.

Gülperi receives the news that her husband Eyüp has died on a business trip. From then on, her life will become extremely difficult as she and her three children, Hasan, Bedriye, Can, move into her father-in-law and family's mansion. In that place, her husband's brother is obsessed with her, he tries to abuse her, but she defends herself by hurting him with scissors. For this reason, Gülperi is sentenced to almost two years in prison. When she completes her sentence in prison, she returns to the mansion to recover her children, who left her husband's family in custody. With the help of Kadir Aydin, her lawyer and first love, she will try to regain the love and custody of her children.

A writer from New York named Greg Drowning falls in love with a new tenant renting a room in his Los Angeles home.

''Wild Life'' is "a show about animal friends just trying to stay alive after the apocalypse. Together, they come up with elaborate schemes to entertain themselves and pretty much just keep from going insane".

An auditor is charged with appraising if Stepanakert Airport in the small, breakaway Republic of Artsakh in the Caucasus meets international aviation standards. He finds himself connecting with a young local boy to help the isolated territory open up to the outside world.

Policeman Hu Pai and his girlfriend are on a quest to find stolen gold before the Yamashita gang can get to it. Meanwhile, Oshima Yamashita is unaware that his hired fighter is actually an undercover cop.

Amidst the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two college boys in Adamson University are about to cross paths for a school project. Mico (JC Alcantara), a nerdy college student gets to partner with the star basketball player Xavier (Tony Labrusca). Despite their stark differences, the two boys get to form an unlikely bond that goes beyond friendship through their several online interactions.

The Troubleshooters are tasked with tracking down a traitor who has left the Alpha Complex via a stolen space shuttle. Following her, the Troubleshooters eventually meet hostile aliens.

''Decision at Midnight'' is an adventure in which the player characters, all junior Star Fleet officers who attended the same Star Fleet Academy class, are assigned to the frigate USS ''Arkadelphia'' which is sent to monitor the borders of a group of planets looking to become allies with the Klingons. After an encounter with a Klingon ship, the captain of the ''Arkadelphia'' starts to show aberrant behaviour and suddenly announces he is blockading the planets, preventing Klingon ships from visiting. With a Klingon relief force on the way, the players must choose whether to support the captain despite his increasingly bizarre behaviour, join a group of crew members opting for mutiny, or find a third path.

Although players can use their own characters from other adventures or as part of a campaign, this book also provides six pre-generated characters.

''A Doomsday Like Any Other'' is an adventure in which the USS ''Fife'', on patrol in a frontier region, receives a distress call from a merchant vessel that has encountered a Doomsday Machine identical to the one destroyed by James T. Kirk of the USS ''Enterprise''. Threatened by both the machine and Romulans, the ''Fife'' s crew must find some way to save a planet that is the machine's next target.

Although players can use their own characters from other adventures or as part of a campaign, this book also provides six pre-generated characters.

''The Blackcollar'' is a novel in which the Blackcollars are guerrillas who were made redundant by the fall of the Terran Empire.

''The Crystal and the Amulet'' is a pictorial adaptation of the Hawkmoon "Runestaff" tetralogy drawn in black-and-white.

The production revived the fairy tale of a boy who trades the family's cow for a handful of magic beans. It included new characters and 11 original songs.

Sgt. Sullivan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police goes undercover as a wanted criminal.

Brian (Josh Zuckerman) and his three degenerate friends (Davida Williams, Luke Youngblood, Rushi Kota) must save the world when a ruthless monstrous alien crashes his 30th birthday party.

The play begins with narration by Henry Wiggen on a dark set telling the audience that he wrote the play based on a book he also wrote. Wiggen is a pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths; he was voted Most Valuable Player in 1952. He explains that the play is about his roommate, Bruce Pearson, who is the team's third-string catcher. In their shared hotel room, Pearson, a country boy, irritates Wiggen by talking about how the wind affects the path of his spit as it drops from the window. Pearson complains about taxes. In the locker room, players ridicule Pearson. The team's manager, Dutch, chastises Pearson for calling the wrong pitch and tells him he has no brains.

Eight months later, Wiggen gets a call from Pearson who says he is in the hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. He asks Wiggen to visit him. Wiggen visits the hospital, and Pearson reveals that he has a disease that's "kinda fatal." According to the doctors, Pearson has six months or a year "or maybe tomorrow." Wiggen and Pearson agree that nobody else can know, or else Dutch will get rid of Pearson.

Spring training arrives, and Wiggen is holding out due to a contract dispute. A new catcher, Piney Woods, is competing for Pearson's spot on the roster. Wiggen meets with the team's management. He agrees to sign but insists that he's tied together in a package with Pearson. Four months pass, and Pearson's condition is deteriorating. He struggles to make it look like everything is fine. Wiggen tries to persuade a teammate to stop giving Pearson a hard time and reveals that Pearson is dying. Word of Pearson's illness reaches the manager, and Dutch tells Wiggen that Pearson is through.

The players hold a surprise party for Pearson, even though it's not Pearson's birthday. Piney Woods shows up at the party and says the team sent for him. Wiggen learns that his wife has had a baby and shares the news with the party-goers. Six beautiful women (in real life, Miss America contestants for 1956) show up; they are a present for Pearson from his teammates. Dutch enters the party. He tells Wiggen that he has had a change of heart and agrees Pearson can stay with the team. Pearson is choked up by the kindness of his teammates. He is not feeling well and asks Wiggen to call the doctor.

In the closing narration, Wiggen stands in the spotlight on a dark set and says they took Pearson to the hospital. After the season, he died. Wiggen was a pallbearer. The team did not send a representative. Breaking down in tears, and in the play's final line, Wiggen says, "From here on in, I rag nobody."

Apart from its name, the director kept the same story as told in the collection. Of the 30 original birds, he only represented 5. During 90 minutes, he describes their adventure to find their king, the Simurgh. In this quest, they are forced to pass through seven valleys (valley of demand, love, knowledge, detachment, oneness of god, amazement and poverty). The hoopoe intervenes whenever one of the birds decides to give up to encourage it to continue. In the end, the birds reach their goal and meet their king, and it turns out that the latter is just a mirror that reflects their images and souls.

So through the original text and then this play, the poet and now the director want to expose the Sufi doctrine according to which God is not outside humans or the universe, but rather embodied in our souls and represents the essence of human existence.

The play is in classical Arabic, which only adds another Sufi mythical and religious breath. The choice of the hoopoe as leader of the troop also does so, since this animal was mentioned in the Quran in connection with the prophet Solomon.

According to certain interpretations, the director wants through his work to make reference to the Tunisian reality since January 14, 2011: a revolution that seeks to find its bearings and its identity in front of the political and ideological divide that the people live.

Fearing a conspiracy, Constantius, the emperor of the Roman Empire, orders the execution of his uncle and the uncle's family, although the six-year-old boy Julian is spared. Julian is raised in Nicomedia; during the day he is taught Christianity by the Arian bishop Eusebius, but at night the old tutor Mardonius informs him about Homer and paganism. Attracted to paganism, Julian is initiated into theurgy by the neoplatonic philosopher Maximus of Ephesus.

Constantius summons the grown-up Julian to Milan where he is given the title of ''caesar'', at the time signifying a subordinate to the emperor. In Milan, Julian falls in love with and seduces the empress Eusebia. At the same time, Constantius' younger sister Helena falls in love with Julian, and Helena's slave Taianus, who secretly loves Helena, becomes jealous of Julian. Constantius wants to strengthen the family bond and arranges so that Julian is married to Helena. As a wedding gift, Eusebia gives Helena her slave Isa.

Julian settles in Gaul where he successfully fights back rebelling Gaulish tribes. Constantius becomes jealous of his cousin's success and orders him to send his best troops to Byzantium, but the soldiers rebel and proclaim Julian their emperor. Soon thereafter, Helena falls dead, having been poisoned by Isa on order from Eusebia. Julian decides to seek revenge and claim the throne in Byzantium.

Before he can suppress Julian's rebellion, Constantius becomes fatally ill, and Eusebia persuades him to make Julian his successor. After Julian enters Byzantium, he is unconvinced by Eusebia's claim that she acted out of love, and Eusebia ends up committing suicide. As emperor, Julian tries to restore the ancient Greek religion, but reality does not live up to his visions; instead, what he seeks is suggested to exist in a Christian hymn. Julian is derided by the Christian population, and the temple of Apollo is burned down. Disillusioned, he embarks on a campaign in Persia. There, his army suffers from an ambush and Julian is hit by an arrow. The person who shot the arrow was not a Persian, but Taianus. Collapsing, Julian utters his last words: "You have won, Galilean!"

Scottish rock star Ritchie Hannah returns to Glasgow for the funeral of a friend. Tired of the upheaval of their marriage, his wife Evie takes this opportunity to walk out on him and their two children. With the help of his manager's assistant, Alicia, Ritchie tries to search for her, but fails to. The next day, a bad-tempered Ritchie admits during a radio interview that his wife has left him and then storms off to the pub. He calls his friend Steve, who tells him Evie is at the Warehouse Club and that she is with another man. Ritchie uses Steve's car as a spare set of keys are kept behind the bar, but two men get in with him with the intention of beating him up. In trying to escape, he crashes the car and then instead of finding Evie at the club, he finds Alicia who has drunk too much. They then spend the night at Steve's flat. Alicia finds out that Evie is living with her new partner, Joe and drives Ritchie there, where he confronts Evie and they argue.

Caroline Murphy, a girl that lives on an island near Saint Thomas, believes herself to be cursed. She was born during a hurricane, a sign of bad luck, and is haunted by the spirit of an unknown woman. Murphy goes to a Catholic school, where she is bullied by students and faculty alike, due to the color of her skin. Her mother also abandoned the family without apparent reason and disappeared.

One day, a girl called Kalinda, from Barbados, is transferred to Murphy's school. Kalinda eventually develops a friendship with Caroline after Caroline asks Kalinda to sit with her. Murphy slowly realizes she has a crush on Kalinda.

Dan decides to hire cheaper illegal immigrants for a drywalling job to pay for Roseanne's knee surgery, but she is against it. Becky offers Darlene advice on getting more tips at work, while Roseanne and Jackie search the basement for valuable items to sell to pay for the surgery. While, Roseanne and Jackie are at an antique store attempting to sell their mother's vintage doll, Dan discovers that the basement has flooded from the recent storm. Chuck is upset that Dan has hired immigrants rather than his crew. The family is excited when the President declares a state of emergency which will provide money to fix the basement. Dan can do the repairs himself and have enough left over for Roseanne's surgery. Darlene starts writing again, Dan and Chuck form a partnership. Roseanne worries about the surgery.

Act I

A group of college students attend a party at the Matthewson home. Sally learns that she has passed her classes. Her boyfriend Matt Matthewson tells her he has been invited to be a junior partner in his father's firm and proposes marriage.

Matt is called away to a special meeting of the college's student honor committee. Jim Cooper (played by James Dean) was caught cheating on the final exams. Matt is the chairman of the committee and questions Jim. Jim admits cheating on the biology exam. He was in the mimeograph room and found a copy of the exam in the waste basket. He took it with him. At first, he denies sharing it with anyone else. After debate, the committee votes in favor of recommending to the dean that Jim be expelled.

On being told of the vote, Jim says there were others who cheated by using his copy of the exam. The committee agrees that, if Jim discloses all the names, they will recommend that all of the cheaters be given another chance to take the exam. Jim writes down the names.

Matt returns to the party. He tells Sally that Jim identified her as one of the cheaters. She admits it.

Act II

Matt learns from a reporter that Jim took an overdose of sleeping pills. Jim left a note that he and a lot of others were caught cheating. Matt is worried there will be a big public scandal. Sally wants to visit Jim in the hospital, and Matt tries to persuade her not to.

Sally visits Jim and gives him a toy. Jim admits that he was the source of the names. Jim is distraught over turning everyone in and having to face his parents.

Matt watches coverage of the scandal on the television. Mr. Matthewson says he cheated in college but never got caught. He says it's getting caught that matters and advises Matt to protect Sally. He urges Matt to persuade Jim to recant his inclusion of Sally on the list. Matt initially resists, but his father urges him to use whatever methods are necessary and not lecture him about what's right and wrong.

Matt meets with the dean and the school's board. The board has a vigorous debate about what action it should take. A petition is presented from students insisting that the cheaters be expelled. The board votes to expel those found to have cheated. The dean asks for the list of cheaters, and Matt turns it over.

Matt tells Sally not to worry. The cheaters are being expelled, but Matt persuaded Jim to take her name off the list. Sally protests and insists on telling the truth to the Dean.

Act III

Matt receives a letter from Sally on graduation day. He rushes to the train station to see Sally. Matt proposes that they go someplace where nobody knows about the scandal. Sally gets on the train and leaves.

Matt returns to campus to deliver his commencement address. During the address, he pauses after a few seconds. When he resumes, he apologizes and says he's ashamed. He admits he cheated by removing one of the names from the list. He says he doesn't deserve the diploma any more than those who cheated on the test. He leaves the ceremony to find Sally.

The film begins in the German occupation Lithuania in the 1941. Max is a boy from Jewish ghetto, his mother and younger sister were murdered by the Nazis at the beginning of the war. Laima is a Lithuanian, she is a daughter of charcoal burner, who during the war served in the fascist Sonderkommando. The two fall in love, but it is vary difficult for them to understand each other, and it is even more difficult to remain decent people in such historical conditions and political situation. "Baltic Tango" it is a love drama, a kind of story about Romeo and Juliet in the tragic circumstances of the 1940s of the XX century.

Sebastian Price, the patriarch of the family is expected to retire from his position as CEO of Legacy Investments, an investment company he has built and operated for thirty years. He is also expected to announce his successor to the position he held. However, tragedy strikes which leads to his death. This leads to a power struggle within the family, as Sebastian bitter ex wife Angelique and his ruthless daughter Felicity do whatever it takes to make sure that Sebastian's second wife Dineo doesn't push her playboy son SJ into the ceo position at legacy investment.

In the aftermath of the Titan Ethniu's declaration of war against humanity, Harry Dresden returns from Demonreach with his lover Karrin Murphy and temporary allies, Lara Raith and Freydis, when their ship gets attacked by a kraken, which they manage to kill with the help of Molly Carpenter before reaching Chicago. Harry and Murphy rush to warn their local friends in the Paranet about the upcoming war, and Harry charges Murphy with keeping the group out of trouble while he meets with the rest of the Accorded Nations, including John Marcone, who are ready to defend the city from the Titan and her Fomor army.

When the Fomor scouts attack, Harry goes out to fight them off with the support of the sasquatch River Shoulders. Joined by several Wardens and Listens-to-Wind, Harry reaches Graceland Cemetery, where they find Drakul and several Black Court vampires, Mavra among them, trying to carry out a necromantic ritual, and they engage in a fight. While the vampires leave, they do so on their own accord after killing Wardens Yoshino and Wild Bill and sending Chandler somewhere unknown. Harry is attacked by the Fomor, but is saved by the appearance of the Knights of the Cross and Murphy.

Taking refuge in a building, the group meets with Ebenezer McCoy and several Einherjar, as Ethniu enters the battle and uses the Eye of Balor to destroy a building. Several Jotun attack, and the Einherjar fight them, killing many of them at the cost of their own lives, as the group retreats towards Cloud Gate, where Mab is gathering her forces and acting as bait for Ethniu to attack. Harry leads a group of Fae to a nearby childcare to help evacuate the people inside, among them Internal Affairs agent Rudolph. Fomor and Jotun attack the childcare, with one of the Jotun facing off against Harry until Murphy uses a bazooka to kill him. Rudolph becomes hysterical and murders Murphy by accident; Harry almost kills him in revenge, but Sanya and Butters stop him in time.

Returning to The Bean, the Fomor begin to attack as an army, with Harry fighting and leading groups of both Fae and normal Chicagoans into the fight, suffering hundreds of deaths while inflicting high losses on the attacking Fomor, until Ethniu arrives. Harry joins Queen Mab and helps in the fight against the Titan while Molly and Marcone bring in reinforcements and several powerful individuals keep fighting against Ethniu in order to weaken her. Lara manages to strike Ethniu in the back of the head, causing her to lose the Eye of Balor, which Marcone grabs and takes towards the lake, with Harry following to carry out his part of the plan. Ethniu follows and nearly kills Marcone (who turns out to have been a Denarian since the events of ''Small Favor''), but Harry manages to ensnare her and defeat her in a battle of wills, imprisoning the Titan within Demonreach. The Fomor retreat after Ethniu's defeat.

As calm begins to return, Goodman Grey brings Justine (Thomas's lover), who asks to be allowed to see Thomas. Harry takes her to the ''Water Beetle'', but while trying to rest realizes that Thomas had tried to warn him that Justine was the one who caused him to attack Etri; when Harry confronts her, she reveals that she has been possessed by Nemesis, who wanted to access Demonreach so it could free all of the island's prisoners. Harry jumps out of the ship and lets Demonreach attack it, preventing Nemesis from reaching its target, but it manages to escape, taking Justine away.

A wake is held for the people deceased in the battle. Carlos Ramirez tells Harry that the White Council has decreed to expel him and that he is no longer allowed to act as a wizard, but he replies that he will continue to act as Chicago's protector, no matter what others say. He later crashes a meeting of the Accorded Nations, stating that they owe the people of Chicago compensation for how the supernatural war has affected their lives, and manages to get Marcone to give up the Better Future Society castle to him, as it was built over the ruins of Harry's former apartment; Harry plans to use it as a fortress for himself and his allies. Mab announces that Harry and Lara will be married in one year's time to cement an alliance between the Winter Court and the White Court and forces Molly to oversee preparations.

Act I

James Norton arrives in Washington, D.C. as a freshman senator. He is taking over his father's seat after being appointed by the governor. Jack Feeney, an experienced Washington hand, is Norton's aide. Senator Rogers is the senior senator from Norton's state. Norton blames Rogers for his father's political downfall. In his first press conference, Norton is asked about Rogers' having said that Norton's father was the worst member of the Senate. Norton loses his cool, and a newspaper reports on the front page that Norton has called Rogers "big mouthed".

Act II

Norton and Rogers debate on the Senate floor. Rogers accuses Norton's father of inserting illegitimate pork barrel spending into bills. When Norton tries to defend his father, he is ruled out of order. Feeney cautions Norton about continuing a feud with Rogers. In a television appearance, Rogers says he finds the junior senator to be more interested in fighting than the issues. Norton and Rogers continue to feud, and the newspapers report that Norton is no match for Rogers. Norton feels out-maneuvered by Rogers. While drunk, Feeney reveals to Norton that Rogers was once a member in good standing of "The Vindicators", an organization that is now on the Attorney General's subversive list. Norton leaves, and Feeney calls Mrs. Norton asking her to tell Norton to forget what he said.

Act III

The next morning, Feeney tells Norton that Rogers is not a tormentor. Rogers is critical of Norton because he thinks Norton's a lousy Senator. He urges Norton not to use mud to destroy Rogers. It would cross a basic line of decency and ethics. "Once you cross over that line carrying a big dirty stick, then every name you call, all the rotten things you do, you can sew them together and wear it as a coat, 'cause it will fit you."

Feeney tells Rogers that Norton knows his secret. Rogers has known that his past membership in "The Vindicators" would come out some day. He joined the group during the Depression. Feeney thinks that Rogers has made up for it. Feeney is ashamed that he gave the information to Norton.

Norton's father visits and offers his advice: "In politics, a man has to use every single possible weapon in his possession. If he doesn't, he's a bloody fool. In politics, you have to fight, you have to brawl, you have to claw, you have to hit low." He calls politics "a form of dirt farming where you raise careers out of muck." He describes the voters as "a mob of midgets . . . a soul-less, brainless, dull oxen-like mob." He tells his son not to worry about morals in politics and to Use the information: "Use it like a bomb on Monday morning. Explode it in Rogers' face. Rip him apart with it, make him crawl out of that chamber."

Rogers plans to resign. He rises on the Senate floor to make his announcement. Norton asks Rogers to yield. Norton asks Rogers to withdraw his comments about Norton's father. Rogers declines to do so. With dramatic music playing, Norton rises to disclose what he has learned. He pauses. He reconsiders and says he has nothing further to add.

Feeney asks Norton why he didn't use it. Norton says he doesn't know but for the first time he feels like he belongs in the Senate. Feeney agrees that Norton belongs and offers his opinion: "For some men, this isn't a pilot plan or a democracy down here. This is an arena. They walk into it to destroy one another. They wave one banner and use one excuse. They call it politics. They have one stock defense for every unprincipled act they perform, for every man they try to destroy and sometimes do destroy. And again, it's politics. Politics isn't a dirty thing, Mr. Senator. The dirt comes from the men."

Norton's father criticizes Norton's decision. Norton's wife urges him to see Rogers. They agree to visit Rogers together.

''The Statue of the Sorcerer & The Vanishing Conjurer'' contains two ''Call of Cthulhu'' adventures, presented back-to-back and upside-down from each other. Rather than having a front cover and a back cover, the book has two front covers, one for each adventure.

• ''The Statue of the Sorcerer'' is set in San Francisco in 1925, where the Investigators are approached by author Dashiell Hammett to investigate a con man defrauding older women of their life savings.
• ''The Vanishing Conjurer'' is set in London, England in the 1920s, where the Investigators are asked to find a young stage magician who has disappeared. The Investigators must first infiltrate a mysterious guild of magicians by performing an audition to prove they are stage magicians. In an index, several simple tricks are described, and there is the option for players to present one or more of these to the Keeper as part of the audition.

''Bagdad'' is a novel in which the setting is an Arabian land.

''Olympian Nights'' is a novel in which an American tourist visits Olympus.

''Master of Paxwax'' is a novel in which aliens are oppressed by human empires, but they plot vengeance using the unwitting aid of Pawl Paxwax of the galactic Families.

''The Others'' is a novel in which people are physically and mentally programmed for their jobs, in a post-holocaust setting.

''Executive'' is a novel in which Hope Hubris is the liberal Tyrant of Jupiter.

''The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction'' is an anthology which offers representative stories from 26 countries.

The relationship between Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode is viewed in retrospect, after Günderrode's suicide. The only singer, a mezzo-soprano, takes both roles, in both taped and actual music. A children's choir acts as in Greek tragedy, sometimes commenting, sometimes interacting.

Yana, the wife of a Jehovah's Witness religious leader, David, becomes disillusioned with her life inside a patriarchal religious community after its Kingdom Hall is firebombed by violent extremists. This event is the starting point of the film, which focuses on Yana's interior life and emotional deterioration after David apparently does not understand what she is trying to express, and repeatedly says that something is wrong with her. David reports the firebombing to the police, who pressure him to delete the security footage of the incident. He decides to present himself to the elders of the church and ask them for funding for the construction of a new Kingdom Hall, leaving Yana alone with their son Giorgi.

A detective from Tbilisi calls on Yana, ostensibly to ask questions about the fire at the church, but his questions become intrusive and personal, including about her sexual life with her husband. He asks if she feels scared, to which she answers "Yes". He asks her to sit on the couch with him, before forcing her hand into his trousers. Shortly afterwards he apologizes and leaves. Yana heads to the police, but is informed by the officer there that no detective from Tbilisi has arrived. Later at night, the detective ambushes Yana near a river and sexually assaults her. He briefly appears to consider killing her with a rock, but decides against it and leaves.

Yana visits her mother and sister. Her mother tells her a story about when Yana was a child and used to cry through the night, which resulted in her drunk father kicking her and her mother out, forcing them to spend the night under a nearby tree. David returns home, but in the morning Yana finds him listening to an audio recording of the questions she was asked earlier by the detective. She tells him that she was raped, but he does not believe her due to the deceptive nature of the audio.

David and Yana attend a series of baptisms, including that of Giorgi. On the way home, David suggests that they should move to Tbilisi to start over. At home, Yana blends a large number of pills into a smoothie and makes Giorgi drink it. When David asks what has happened, she tells him that she has killed their child and refuses to look at him. Elsewhere, the detective from earlier, identified as Alex, is seen hunting with a group. He lays down on the ground and appears to turn to dust.

When a loving husband and father Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is presented with the option of sparing his family grief by having him replaced with a clone. Turner is torn about whether to discuss the option with his wife.

Walter Preston (Ralph Bellamy) and his son Kenneth (William Shatner), fresh out of law school, defend Joseph Gordon (Steve McQueen) who is charged with felony murder. Gordon is accused of robbing the apartment of a psychiatrist, Victor Wallach, and strangling his wife. Francis Toohey (Martin Balsam) is the prosecutor.

The story turns on Walter Preston's belief that his client is guilty, and his son's belief that the client is innocent. Gordon is consistent throughout in insisting that he is innocent.

Gordon was the delivery boy for a butcher shop. He was assigned to deliver meat to the Wallach apartment on the morning of the crime. He did not return to the butcher shop after the delivery. The police found him at his home and arrested him there.

The victim's maid testifies that she was hit by an intruder who she identifies as Gordon. When she regained consciousness, Mrs. Wallach was dead. Despite efforts to shake her story on cross-examination, the maid insists that Gordon was the man who struck her. She has no doubt.

Father and son have different view as to how far to go in order to raise doubt in the minds of jurors. The prosecutor pursues the case aggressively. Walter is reluctant to use some aggressive tactics, telling his son that he has to live in this community. Kenneth asks: "Shouldn't there be someone to fight as hard to free him as Toohey fights to kill him?"

Walter agrees to use his son's proposed tactic. He recalls the maid to identify the man who hit her. She identifies the man sitting at the defense table. The defense then calls Joseph Gordon, who rises from a seat in the audience. The man sitting at defense table, the man identified by the maid, was a law student who has nothing to do with the case but who bears some resemblance to the defendant.

While expressing disapproval of the tactic, the court grants a motion for directed verdict and frees the defendant. Walter remains unsure whether his client was guilty and whether he did the right thing.

The book is narrated by Sahar, a teenager that lives in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. She grew up in a humble house with her single father and is in a love affair with her childhood friend, Nasrin. Her girlfriend comes from a wealthy family and, although she also loves Sahar, she is afraid to have an open relationship with her, due to the persecution of LGBT people in their country.

Nasrin was arranged to be married to a man, and she is unwilling to call it off so as not to disappoint her family. While Nasrin is content to have her as a lover, Sahar becomes desperate. Through her gay cousin, Ali, she meets Parveen, a transgender woman, and decides she will go through sex reassignment surgery so Nasrin will accept marrying her.

A group of foreigners touring Eastern Europe after the fall of communism hears exciting rumours during its stay in Albania about the capture of the spirit from the dead. As it turns out, the spirit is in fact a listening device known to the notorious secret service as a "hornet".

Hannah, a former reality star, and Brooklyn, a social media influencer, are a pair of best friends and wannabe celebrities who have recently moved out to Hollywood. Facing personal and professional woes, they accept an invitation to spend time with a former high school crush in San Diego. When they ultimately find him unappealing, they decide to spend a debauchery-filled night out in the city that will test the limits of their friendship.

Behind the computer screens lies a mysterious web jungle displaying full of fiber optics and data, which is a fantastical space carrying technology and viruses at the same time.

Hackers release a virus to the web and unleashes a large scale cyber attack. Fortunately, cyber security engineer and IT whiz, Cheuk Ka-chun (Aaron Kwok) uses a firewall he developed to resolve the crisis. Unbeknownst to Ka-chun, the mastermind behind this virus spread is his superior, Chan Ming-chi (Gordon Lam) and Ka-chun also falls victim into a money laundering conspiracy as a result.

To prove his innocence, Ka-chun engages in a fierce battle with Ming-chi. Ka-chun secretly develops an AI programme application super virus and sets foot into dangerous grounds to ambush and attack the hackers and swears to find evidence of Ming-chi's crimes. At the same time, Ming-chi also commands the hackers to steal Ka-chun's password-cracking software setting off an network technology crisis potentially and kidnap Ka-chun's daughter, Po-yee, while also threatening his wife, Wing-shan (Megan Lai). Ka-chun is pressured as the lives of his family are being threatened. Making matters worse, his AI super virus loses control and swiftly finds its way entering every computer in Hong Kong, leading to a public panic, and Ka-chun faces the challenge of reviving the city's network and rescuing his family from danger between life and death.

The series takes place on the border of Malaysia and Singapore. Its centerpiece is the bridge on the border where a female corpse was discovered. The Malaysian Investigator is Detective Megat Jamil, the Singaporean is Detective Serena Teo. Together they investigate a series of crimes that are well prepared, skillfully executed and contain a "message" to society on the subject of social injustice.

The program begins with an on-screen introduction by James Dean describing the play as the story of Jeffrey Latham who opened the door of a very innocent, ordinary looking roadside diner and found his whole life changed.

Act I

Jeffrey Latham, a Korean War veteran, enters a roadside diner and orders coffee and a sandwich. The cook, Mike Deegan, can't get the coffee machine to work, and Latham fixes it. Deegan offers Latham a job with meals included and a cot to sleep on in the back room. Days later, Latham asks about the two guys who are always hanging out in the booth. Deegan says they're Matt Schrieber and Roy Montana. Latham thinks they're bookies, but Deegan says Schreiber's in the car business. Deegan remains convinced there's something strange about Schreiber.

Ann Burnett asks Latham for permission to post a flyer for a community dance. Burnett and Latham flirt. They realize that Latham served in the same place in Korea where Burnett's brother was shot down and killed. Burnett agrees to save a couple dances for Latham at the dance. Latham drives Burnett home from the dance in Deegan's car. Latham says he's been drifting since Korea, hoping he'd find a nice town to settle down with a steady girl. He thinks he's found that place. They kiss goodnight.

Act II

Latham returns to the diner. He watches, unseen from the kitchen, as Montana tries to rob Schreiber. Deegan intervenes and knocks out Montana. Some time later, Latham mentions that he hasn't see Montana around in a couple days. Deegan asks Latham to make pickups for Schreiber. Latham doesn't want to get in trouble picking up hot cars. Deegan and Schreiber assure Latham that the pickups aren't of cars, and Latham agrees to make the pickups.

Latham is driving on an unlighted road. A police car appears behind him with lights and siren. The driver of the police car fires a gun at Latham. The police car crashes. Latham tells Schreiber and Deegan what happened. Schreiber and Deegan leave to check it out. They return and tell Latham that the cop broke his neck and died in the crash. Schreiber says they shoved the trooper's car, with the dead cop inside, into a water-filled quarry. Latham turns over the night's collections to Latham.

Latham feels guilty over the trooper's death. Deegan tells Latham that Schreiber's business is hot cargo from truck hijackings. The money Latham is picking up is crooked money for Schreiber. Deegan has to toe the line, or Schreiber will turn him in. Deegan gives money from the register to Latham and urges him to get far away. Schreiber enters, having overheard Deegan's advice. Schreiber tells Latham that he takes orders from Schreiber now, and if he doesn't do as he's told, Schreiber will tell the police what happened at the quarry. Latham feels trapped.

Latham visits Burnett late that night. He tells her she's in trouble. He tells her what happened with the police trooper. He plans to turn himself in. At the police station, Latham is questioned by the Captain about what happened at the quarry. The Captain reveals that Deegan has already made a statement and that they've retrieved the car from the quarry. The dead man was not a state trooper. The driver was Montana, and he was killed with a bullet in the head, not in the crash. The Captain says Latham will probably get off with probation. Latham reunites with Burnett as the program concludes.

The movie consists of 14 sequences:

'''1. Eliza Pleads with Tom to Run Away'''
Snowy landscape at night. A typical Southern log cabin. Snowing. Uncle Tom's home at Shelby's plantation. Eliza Harris hastily appears with her little boy and taps on the cabin window. Eliza informs him of the sale of himself and her boy to the slave traders, and tells him that she has decided to run away. She tries to induce Tom to accompany her but he Tom refuses.

'''2. Phineas Outwits the Slave Traders'''
A large room in a tavern by the river side. Phineas Fletcher, a plantation owner, enters, and looking out of the window, discovers that the river is full of floating ice. Eliza and her child, enter almost exhausted. Eliza inquires if there are any ferries running across the river that night but he says that they have stopped running. Marks enters followed by Haley who tells him that he has bought a little boy and his mother who have run away. He asks Phineas if he had seen anything of them. Phineas takes the trio to one side of the room, while Eliza escapes out of the window. When the slave traders turn around, Phineas holds them at bay with two large revolvers.

'''3. The Escape of Eliza'''
Wood scene by the river full of floating ice. Eliza appears with the slave traders with their dogs in hot pursuit. She jumps on a cake of floating ice just in time to escape the blood-hounds.

'''4. Reunion of Eliza and George Harris'''
Phineas helps Eliza reunite with her husband George Harris. But the slave traders find them and a fight ensues in which Haley is shot while Harris, his wife and child escape.

'''5. Steamboat Race Between the "Robert E. Lee" and "Natchez."'''
Two boats are coming down the Mississippi river at a very high speed. The "Robert E. Lee" is gradually drawing ahead. As the "Natchez" gets to the centre of the scene, a terrific explosion takes place.

'''6. The Rescue of Eva.'''
A large number of slaves are seen dancing and shouting a welcome at the arrival of the "Robert E. Lee" at the dock and the passengers disembark. As Eva is pushed overboard by a crowd of passengers, Tom dives quickly to her rescue. A line is thrown from the dock and Tom and Eva are pulled to safety. St. Clare, Eva's father purchases Uncle Tom at Eva's request.

'''7. Welcome Home to St. Clare, Eva and Uncle Tom.'''
The garden in front of St. Clare's home. A large number of slave are dancing joyously at the arrival of St. Clare, Uncle Tom and Eva. St. Clare tells his wife of the rescue of Eva by Uncle Tom. Topsy appears and goes through a very funny dance.

'''8. Eva and Tom in the Garden.'''
Same setting as Scene 7 at night. Tom and Eva enter and sit on the rustic bench under a tree. Eva becomes ill. Her father takes her inside.

'''9. Death of Eva.'''
Eva's bed chamber. She lies sick on a couch with St. Clare and Aunt Ophelia by her side. Mrs. St. Clare enters and St. Clare tells her that Eva is dying. Eva points toward the sky, telling her father that she is going there, and falls back dead. An angel appears, takes her spirit and ascends.

'''10. St. Clare Defends Uncle Tom.'''
A bar room. Marks enters with a friend and sits at a table. St. Clare, who has been drinking heavily since the death of Eva, enters, followed by Uncle Tom. Simon Legree, owner of a large plantation invites all hands to have a drink. St. Clare says he does not drink with strangers which makes Legree furious. After drinking, he offers a drink to Uncle Tom, who refuses it. This increases Legree's anger and he throws the contents of the glass in Uncle Tom's face. St. Clare knocks him down. Legree draws a large knife from his belt and plunges it into St. Clare's heart.

'''11. The Auction of St. Clare's Slaves.'''
A dock scene with bar room and warehouses on one side, and a large number of steam boats moored to the wharf. The auctioneer proceeds to open the sale. Emaline, a beautiful mulatto girl, and Tom are sold to Legree.

'''12. Tom Refuses to Flog Emaline.'''
A large cotton-field at Legree's plantation with slaves picking cotton in the foreground. Uncle Tom is trying to keep up with the younger slaves, but is unable to do so. Cassy, a former mistress of Legree, gives Uncle Tom a hand when the overseer's back is turned. Legree tells Emaline that he has decided to take her out of the fields and tells her to go to the house. She declines to do so, which enrages Legree. He tells Tom to take his whip and flog Emaline. He throws the whip to the ground, refusing to whip her. Legree has Tom tied to the whipping post and whips him until he is stopped by Cassy.

'''13. Marks Avenges the Death of St. Clare and Uncle Tom.'''
Legree's home with a large veranda framed by great colonial pillars and cotton fields in the background. Legree has Tom brought to him and asks if he knows the hiding place of Emaline and Cassy, who ran away the night before. Tom refuses to reveal it. Legree becomes furious and strikes Tom over the head and has him sent to die in his shed. Marks enters and informs Legree that he has a warrant for his arrest for the murder of St. Clare. Legree tries to strike him with his whip but Marks dodges and shoots him dead.

'''14. Death of Uncle Tom.'''
Uncle Tom is lying on the floor of an old woodshed. George Shelby enters and tells him that he has come to take him back home. Tom tells him that he is dying and pointing to the sky, says that he can see his Heavenly home; a vision of Eva in Heaven appears as Tom drops back dead. Shelby kneels by his side, as a series of visions appear: John Brown being led to execution, a battle scene from the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln with a slave kneeling at his feet with broken manacles.

Thomas Book is on a journey to the ancient city of Benin, Nigeria, to shoot an investigative documentary on the secret rites performed during the coronation of a new Oba. He was unable to get enough information due to the high level of secrecy surrounding the rites. As he prepares to leave the city, he hears the story of a popular local chief who had just woken from a six-year coma and he decides to document the story. Convinced that the story would be some sort of compensation for his failure to get information at the coronation's coverage, he decides to go to the hospital. At the hospital, a nurse offers to help with interpretation as he interviews the man. He is only able to ask one question before the members of the man's family barge in to interrupt his interview. During the short interview, Thomas was able to get a name from the man, the name '''Idahosa'''. He arrives at his hotel room and hears the same name on a TV Broadcast for the Idahosa World Outreach. He assumes that the Idahosa must have played a crucial role in the old man's recovery. He writes down the address and phone number shown on display, and heads to the Idahosa World Outreach headquarters in Benin City. On arrival at the church, Thomas meets with a young pastor known as Pastor Osas (Kunle Idowu) who asks him to come back the following day to meet with Benson Idahosa. The young pastor gets Thomas a book to read about Idahosa. Out of excitement about the new development, Thomas reschedules his flight and starts preparing for this new story of on Idahosa. On arrival at his hotel room, Thomas flips through the book with sleepy eyes, and he falls into a trance and finds himself in the re-enactment of the story depicted in the book. The next day, Thomas meets up with Pastor Osas and they make several unsuccessful stops at different locations where the young pastor promised Thomas they would find Idahosa and get his story. Two days go by and Thomas is unable to get to meet Idahosa but every night when he gets back to his hotel room, he continues to read the book on Idahosa. Just like the first night, he falls asleep reading the book and experiences the re-enactment of the stories depicted in the book. He relentlessly kept on following Pastor Osas with the aim of getting to interview Archbishop Idahosa. On the day before Thomas’ scheduled departure, he is shocked to find out that Idahosa is dead. This discovery leads to an altercation between him and Pastor Osas which leads to a face off. In an unexpected turn of events, Thomas is Implicated in an accident that leaves Pastor lying unconscious on the floor. He was curious to understand Idahosa's role in the perceived miracle of the old man he had interviewed at the hospital. Pastor Osas thought Thomas knew of Idahosa's death and assumed that he just wanted to get to interview the people whose lives Idahosa's ministry affected positively. Thomas, now confused must piece the clues together as he finds strength to embark on a journey of discovery; to find truth, faith and salvation.

As the title suggests, it is a side story of the ''Shiren the Wanderer'' series. The plot of ''Swordswoman Asuka Arrives!'' is divided into two, with an ending corresponding for each story: the Koga and Hachimaten plot.

Koga

Set in Tenwakuni. During the trip, Asuka stops at Jurokuya no Sato, a small rural village in a country rich in nature called Tenwakuni, and reunites with the narrative Itachi Koppa who was staying there. In the country, there have been a series of incidents in which the Koga Ninja army, which originally used to exterminate monsters as a livelihood, seem to have recently started attacking travelers. After seeing the upset villagers, Asuka decides to head towards Koga's Castle, the base of the Koga Ninja Army, to find out why he has changed suddenly.

Hachimaten

A trouble happened in the festival; it cannot be held because the "festival's equipment" required for the famous "Reeva Festival" has been stolen by a monster called Hachimaten. Along with the large number of visitors who gathered under the shrine maiden Koyori, the organizer of the festival, Asuka is also called to the "Trial of ..." by one of the Eight Rivanian Beast Gods, besides the God of Trade, Sakai, in order to recover the ritual vessels.

''Protagonist'' is perhaps too strong a word to describe Colonel Russell. As Haggard himself wrote about his fiction:

My novels are chiefly novels of suspense with a background of international politics. A Colonel Charles Russell of the Security Executive, a not entirely imaginary British counter-espionage organization, while not a protagonist in the technical sense, holds the story line together in the background by his operations, while the characters in the foreground carry the action."

Like Haggard's first book, '''Slow Burner''', which involved the exploitation of a fictional nuclear power source, the events in '''Venetian Blind''' turn on the development of another notion from science fiction, "negative gravity". Gervas Leat, a rich and imperious Englishman with a second home in Venice and a beautiful Venetian step-daughter who is hostess to his English manor, is working on negative gravity in two of his otherwise highly profitable factories. Through his ties with a minor figure from '''Slow Burner''', a Professor Wasserman, Colonel Russell learns that leaks regarding the highly secret work on negative gravity have been making their way to a rival firm in Germany for several years now. A world-class physicist become a wealthy industrialist, Wasserman is at home in both upper-class English society and German engineering works. Russell works mostly in the book's background to identify the traitor, helped by Richard Wakeley, a relatively young but very accomplished lawyer who is being considered by the government as a possible replacement for the soon-to-retire Russell. Much of the book is an examination of the complicated, even tortured relationships between Wakeley, Gervas Leat, Leat's step-daughter, the occasionally deliberately self-caricaturing Professor Wasserman, and a disaffected assistant to Leat whose wife is one of Leat's many conquests. Upper-class dinners, clubs, and government offices figure conspicuously as the plot advances from the English countryside to the heart of Venice. Only Colonel Russell is exactly what he seems to be on the surface and, as in '''Slow Burner''', the final, violent dénouement finds him more of a bemused spectator than an active participant.

This is the story of Alejandro (Alex) and Cecilia (Ceci), a married couple living in Mexico. Ceci is a driven career woman, focused on work and completely disinterested in having kids. Alejandro wants children badly, and one day asks Ceci to agree to have a child as soon as possible, but she's not having it. She's been offered a partnership in the firm she works at, which is a highly unusual promotion for a woman and is very excited about it.

Later that day, as Alejandro is walking down the street, he meets up with a waitress he promised to help if she needs it. She asks him to take her baby, Alan, for 3 days while she takes care of something important. A hesitant Alejandro agrees, and takes Alan. He brings him home, trying to avoid having Ceci see Alan, but his plan fails and she does not react well. She gets quite angry and insists that he get the baby back to its mother as soon as possible.

The day Alan's mother is supposed to return comes and goes, so Alex sets out to find her. After a few more days, a friend alerts him that the mother has returned. He brings the baby back to her, and finds out she was being treated for brain cancer in the time she was away. She asks him to adopt the baby, but he refuses. As he begins to leave, she faints and, feeling bad for her, Alejandro brings her and the baby home. Ceci arrives at home just in time to hear him tell Alan's mother that she can stay with them.

They have a blowout and Alejandro breaks down, essentially admitting that the only reason he married Ceci is so she could have a baby with him. She goes to a friend's house and they discuss Alejandro's insistence on being a father. He calls, and her friends convince her not to answer the call.

Over the next few days, he continues to try to call her over and over to no avail. Finally, she decides to call him and they connect very briefly, with Ceci asking him not to be home when she comes to get her things.

Alejandro makes plans to adopt the baby and move in with his mother. He heads to work with Alan, which is against office policy. He is caught by his boss with the kid and immediately gets fired. The next morning, he goes into the office to apologize to his manager and has a conversation with her about how terrible she's been, making suggestions as to how she can improve how the workers regard her. She rejects his suggestions, but says she'll consider rehiring him.

Ultimately, he ends up meeting up with Ceci at a major meeting she's attending for her promotion and they reconcile. As the meeting commences, Alejandro gets a call that Alan's mother has been admitted to the hospital. Cecilia asks the CEO if she can present up-front and go to the hospital to support her husband, but he tells her it's just a formality and she's already been given the partnership/promotion. All she needs to do is sign the papers. She signs, and they head to the hospital.

Alan's mother dies, and Ceci and Alejandro adopt Alan.

The film closes with Cecilia packing her things to leave for Hong Kong, Alan sleeping on the bed nearby, and Alejandro joking about going to Hong Kong with her. She gets upset, asking him not to joke because she'll miss him so much, and Alejandro pulls out plane tickets to Hong Kong, confirming that he and Alan will be joining her on her new venture.

Cybertron is invaded by Gozer the Traveler, who unleashed a giant beast based on Starscream's imagination, leading the planet to its destruction. In present day, on Earth, in New York City, the Ghostbusters meet Ectronymous Diamatron, an Autobot who tracked a Cybertronian signal on Earth, one that is trapped in the ghost trap. During a small confrontation between Ectronymous and the Ghostbusters, the ghost trap is turned off, freeing Starscream's ghost, revealing it was the same signal that Ectronymous detected. Starscream reveals that during Cybertron's destruction, Megatron made a deal with an alien ghost named Kremzeek, turning Megatron into a ghost, as well as Starscream, Soundwave and Shockwave. At the Ghostbusters' firehouse headquarters, Ectronymous accepts the nicknamed "Ectotron", while Starscream is put inside the ghost trap once again. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime is trying to stay hidden while searching for Ectotron. After dealing with a blackout on Brooklyn, Ectotron reunites with Optimus, only for the Ghostbusters to find out Starscream escaped from the ghost trap. Ectotron is possessed by Starscream, while Kremzeek arrives at Earth, leading Optimus Prime and the Ghostbusters to have a tough battle. At the end of the battle, the Autobots and Ghostbusters succeed as Ectotron is freed from Starscream's possession and Kreemzeek is eaten by an Earthling ghost the heroes have summoned. However, the ghosts of Megatron, Soundwave and Shockwave appear. Both the Autobots and Ghostbusters trap the Decepticon ghosts into new traps, while Starscream escapes, vowing to return one day. Optimus and Ectotron accept to stay with the Ghostbusters. Starscream intercepts the Autobot spaceship, where the remaining Autobots are inside.

Following the events of the first film, Marty McFly finally returns home to Hill Valley in 1985, while Doc Brown departs for 2015 in the DeLorean time machine. Meanwhile, the Autobots and Decepticons scuffle for the time machine. Marty unexpectedly wakes up in a dystopic present when the Decepticons killed most of the Autobots and successfully conquered Earth, with Megatron having Biff Tannen as his second in command. Luckily, a time-traveling Cybertronian named Gigawatt locates Marty for help.

After a tough and confusing encounter with Starscream, Marty decides to trust Gigawatt, who is joined by Skilz, another Cybertronian disguised as Marty's skateboard. The group meets the surviving Autobots lead by Rodimus Prime, who reveals that Doc was unintentionally responsible for the chain of events: when he traveled forward to the year 2015, he met Decepticon Rumble, who survived his encounter in 1985. Doc befriended Rumble, unaware of the latter's agenda. When the DeLorean was completely repaired, Rumble used it to travel back to 1974, using Biff to develop Energon supplies for Megatron's arrival. Gigawatt then reveals he used to be a Decepticon, but after having enough with Megatron abusing and murdering other human workers, he trans-scanned the DeLorean and escaped, but his flux capacitor was damaged in the process and in order to fix it, they need Doc, who is somewhere forming his own resistance.

Back on Hill Valley, Doc manages to save Biff and Marty's parents from the Constructicons, planning to reunite the last standing Autobots, but Biff double-crosses them and attempts to execute them. Marty and the Autobots arrive in time to save them, defeating all the Decepticons. However, they are confronted by a giant Decepticon disguised as Hill Valley's courthouse named Watchtower.

While battling Watchtower, Doc fixes Gigawatt's flux capacitor, and with Skilz, they both help Marty and Gigawatt enough speed to travel back to 1984, preventing Rumble from awakening Megatron. However, Gigawatt gets critically injured from his previous battle. Marty uses the original time machine to go back to 2015, where Doc and Biff repaired Gigawatt and the Autobots are still protecting Earth and humanity. After returning to 1985, Marty gets a new pickup truck from his parents, unaware it is a Decepticon in disguise.

As the Cybertronian Civil War rages between Optimus Prime's Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons, Shockwave has encountered a new obstacle to the Decepticons' victory and subjugation of the planet: Megatron himself! As Optimus and his recruits take off to stop an even deadlier threat–an asteroid belt powerful enough to destroy the metal world–Megatron leads a team of Decepticons after in hot pursuit! But what other motivations does Prime have for this mission? How does it benefit Shockwave's goals? And what does it all have to do with a secret on Earth in the eleventh century?

The story is narrated from the viewpoint of Punch a.k.a. Counterpunch, an Autobot infiltrated as a Decepticon.

The film is based on the societal vices by a women-dominated gang.

Sueharu Maru is a seventeen-year-old high school boy who has never had a girlfriend. He lives next door to his childhood friend Kuroha Shida, a small and cute Onee-san type of girl with an outgoing character. One day, Kuroha confesses to Sueharu, but he rejects her; Sueharu only has eyes for his first love, Shirokusa Kachi, who is a beautiful idol and an award-winning author in school. Shirokusa is indifferent to all boys in school but Sueharu, which makes Sueharu think that he might have a chance. When Sueharu decides to confess his feelings, he is devastated to find out that Shirokusa already has a boyfriend. Kuroha approaches Sueharu, offering to help him get revenge on Shirokusa and her boyfriend.

Separated from her boyfriend, after sneaking onto a restricted slope, Mia, a free riding snowboarder, must survive not only against nature but also the masked snowmobile rider in black who's out for her blood.

In the midst of financial crisis, a recent college graduate Lance Zutterland, who leaves school in debt, decides to join with other college graduates – consisting of Ellis, Jack, Stewart, Chandler, and Allie – stealing valuable paintings owned by Chicago's richest for themselves under the supervision of Mel Donnelly. During the heist, the group expresses their anger by wrecking anything valuable but Mel will only pay them if they deliver the stolen paintings intact. Lance bonds with Ellis’s girlfriend Allie and they become friends but upon bringing Allie home to their apartment, Ellis intimidates Lance into staying away from her.

They buy expensive business attire and pretend to be accountants so they can interview with upper class clients and trick them into giving them their address. In one of their heists, Chandler inadvertently crosses paths with a realtor and his facial composite is released to the public. While Ellis leaves the table for a minute, Jack plugs Ellis’s phone into his laptop to copy the images, where they see the house of Daniel Wardlaw. The group realize that Wardlaw’s house has a vault and they agree to rob his house. Mel summons the group where he introduces his new henchmen, threatening to go after them if someone reveals Mel’s name. Later, they go to a nightclub where Allie loses consciousness after an overdose of cocaine. They bring Allie to the hospital, but knowing that bringing her in may lead to their arrest, Stewart kicks her out. Lance reluctantly helps her despite the group’s objections and stays by her side for the night. On their way to Wardlaw’s, Lance argues with Stewart over his recklessness. Arriving there, Jack ties Wardlaw up and Stewart and Chandler take most of the money from the vault. Angry over Stewart’s negligence to Allie, Lance locks them up in the vault and drives away with Jack and the bags of money. They arrive at Ellis’s apartment to get Allie, who refuses to go with Jack after being persuaded by Ellis. The rest of the group including Mel is subsequently arrested and each of them are sentenced to at least seven years.

Lance and Jack hide at the motel in Nebraska where they stay the night. The next morning, Lance wakes up to find Jack and the van gone, with nowhere else to go and penniless, he turned himself to the police.

Time Cruise's plot centers around Eric, a young scientific genius. Eric learns the secret of time travel by channeling with an intelligent extraterrestrial lifeform. After 8 years of hard work, Eric completes his time travel system (seven buildings with a time-travel pod moving between them at high speeds) and sets off in his shining silver time travel pod to explore the limits of time and space.

A man stands against the wind on the bridge, jumps and ends up in the hospital after being fractured. Idris and his wife Zahra go to the hospital with their sick son, and the couple is in a state of despair because of their inability to provide the necessary money for the operation. Hussain, Idris' troublesome brother, decides to give them the money he will get from a Swiss couple who will adopt his future child.

A prison farm in Mississippi releases prisoners to help fight a flood. The story focuses on the interaction between a tall convict (played by Sterling Hayden), a pregnant young woman (played by Geraldine Page), and the floodwaters. The "Old Man" referenced in the title is the Mississippi River.

By 1979, Texan rodeo star Mike Milo has retired due to a severe back injury. The following year, his former boss Howard Polk hires him to travel to Mexico City and bring back Howard's 13-year-old son, Rafo. He agrees and upon entering Mexico, he meets the boy's mother, Leta, who tells him that Rafo has turned to a life of crime, participating in cockfights with a rooster named Macho. Soon after, Mike finds Rafo participating in a cockfight that is interrupted by a police raid. After the police depart, Mike tells Rafo that his father wants to see him. Intrigued, Rafo agrees to go with Mike back to Texas and leaves to pack his stuff.

A drunk Leta tells Mike that she wants her son to stay in Mexico and threatens him. After Mike leaves, Leta orders several of her henchmen to follow him. Driving back to Texas alone, Mike discovers that Rafo has snuck into his truck with Macho. When Rafo steals his wallet and shares his desire to spend time with his father, Mike agrees to drive him to the border. During the drive there, the pair share stories about their lives, including how Leta's henchmen used to abuse Rafo, and discuss the meaning of being "macho."

At a restaurant, Mike phones Howard and tells him that he has found Rafo. Outside of the restaurant, one of Leta's henchmen, Aurelio, tries to forcefully take Rafo and tells the locals that Mike has kidnapped him. Rafo yells out that Aurelio is a molester and they beat him up. After Mike and Rafo leave, Mike's truck is stolen by thieves. Walking to the next town Mike buys new clothes to fit in better and Rafo "borrows" an abandoned car to use. At a cantina, they meet the owner, Marta, who helps them evade police officers searching for them. They hit the road only to turn around after passing through one of the many police checkpoints along the highway. Returning to the town during a rain storm, they seek shelter in a shrine. Mike tells Rafo that he lost his wife and children in a car accident.

Recognizing the car, Marta finds them and brings them breakfast. Rafo discovers their car has a leak and Mike tells him they have to stay put for now. After coming across a ranch, Mike offers his services in helping break the wild horses, in the process teaching Rafo how to ride a horse and demonstrating his love for animals. The pair return to Marta's cafe and begin spending time with her family. On a phone call with Mike, Howard expresses his concern that Mike has been in Mexico for two weeks, longer than expected. When Aurelio and police officers show up asking for Mike and Rafo, the two sneak away, running into Marta and saying a brief goodbye. They find a new car and start their final drive to the border.

On the highway once again, Mike notices a patrol car following them and turns off suddenly to lose the tail . Mike reveals that Howard told him over the phone that he wants to see Rafo simply to battle Leta in court for her money. An angry Rafo tries to leave but the police pull up and search their vehicle. When they find nothing, the police officers leave and the pair continues their journey. While driving, Mike tells Rafo that being "macho" is overrated and encourages him to make his own decisions in life. Rafo says he still wants to be with his father. Aurelio then finds them, runs them off the road, and holds them at gunpoint. However, Macho jumps at him enabling Mike to grab his gun. They then use Aurelio's car to make it to the border. As a final goodbye, Rafo gives Macho to Mike before reuniting with his father. Mike remains on the Mexican side of the border and returns to Marta.

Kenza lives with her father Ouira and grandfather Weljo on a car wrecking yard in the countryside of Curaçao. The two men are opposites that don’t particularly attract: Ouira is a determined and rational police officer, while Weljo identifies with the original inhabitants and spirituality of the island.

As Weljo wishes to prepare for his passing to the world of spirits, the relationship between Ouira and Weljo starts to escalate and Kenza searches for her own path in-between the two extremes. The down-to-earth and avoidant mentality of Ouira no longer offers her all that she needs and slowly she opens up to the more mystical and comforting traditions of her grandfather.

Ramón, a trim and handsome music student in his twenties, takes classes at the local conservatory in Guadalajara. He lives in a rundown overcrowded boarding house, where he practices on his French horn and gets together with his boyfriend Rodolfo, a thirty-something neurosurgeon with a successful career in pediatric medicine. Their relationship is loving and tender, but in the conservative homophobic society in which they live, their relationship must remain discreetly hidden behind closed doors. Their secret encounters always seem to be interrupted by visitors and phone calls by Rodolfo's meddlesome widower mother, Doña Herlinda.

Doña Herlinda pretends that she knows nothing of the true nature of the relationship between her son and Ramón who she really dotes on like a second child. For the weekend, Doña Herlinda organizes a day trip to lake Chapala with Rodolfo and Ramón, but she has also invited Olga, a young independent woman, as a prospective girlfriend for Rodolfo. Ramón is dismayed and upset. This creates the first tension in the relationship between the two men, but they soon reconcile. Invited for dinner to Rodolfo's house, Doña Herlinda casually suggests to Ramón that he stays over, every night, and moves permanently with them- after all Rodolfo's bedroom is very big and his bed comfortable enough for the two of them. Ramón moves in and now not only Rodolfo is happy but Doña Herlinda and Ramón become even closer friends and companions. The sudden death of an uncle brings a surprise visit to town from Ramón's parents. His severe mother is startled finding his son living in close quarters with Rodolfo, but Doña Herlinda not only welcomes the couple warmly but smoothed things out with them so Ramón's parents depart assured that their son is well-taking care of in spite of his a typical living situation.

Things complicate further when Rodolfo announces to Ramón, that to please his mother, he is about to ask Olga's hand in marriage. Ramón is upset and depressed. He asks Billie, his best friend who studies with him at the conservatory, for advice. Ramón tells her that if he leaves Rodolfo's house he might lose him, but if he stays, he might keep him. Billie is not much of a help as she is dry mouth with Ramón's conundrum. On the day of the engagement, Ramón refuses to go. Instead, he stays at home crying and drinking while listening to torch love songs. Rodolfo assures him that their relationship will go on and that he is not to move as Doña Herlinda, who sincerely loves him, counts on Ramón keep on living with them even after Rodolfo's marriage. Rodolfo gets married and leaves with Olga to their honeymoon in Hawaii while heartbroken Ramon remains behind keeping company to Doña Herlinda who tries to cheer him up and helps him drying his tears.

After the marriage, both men continue their relationship furtively at Doña Herlinda's house. For her part, Olga, an educated and independent woman, wants to continue working and, have a life of her own, far from the traditional role assigned to a Mexican housewife. As soon as she returns from the honeymoon, Olga makes an effort to gain Ramón's friendship. Won over her by her confidences and warm attitude, he finally takes a liking to her. When Olga soon gives birth to a boy, Ramón becomes the proud baby's Godfather. To commemorate the arrival of her grandson, Doña Herlinda announces that she has commissioned to expand the house with a wing for Olga and Rodolfo but also an independent tower for Ramón where Rodolfo can visit him. During the baby's christening celebrations, Rodolfo, who has always liked poetry, recites a poem: How beautiful it would have been to live under that roof, the two always united and loving us both; you always in love, I always satisfied. The two, a single soul, the two, one breast, and in the middle of us: my mother as a god!. The family is united. Doña Herlinda smiles happily satisfied.

The book follows an international organization named the Ministry for the Future in its mission to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's. Beginning in 2025, the organization, established as a subsidiary body under the Paris Agreement and based in Zurich, is led by protagonist Mary Murphy, a former foreign minister of Ireland and a composite character based on diplomats Mary Robinson, Christiana Figueres, and Laurence Tubiana. Climate change is established as a threat that compromises the safety and prosperity of the future. While the narrative includes chapters of nonfiction history and descriptions of events from the perspectives of other characters and objects, the plot follows Murphy as she seeks to convince central banks of the threats to currency and market stability posed by the effects of climate change. Specifically, a coordinated global round of unconventional quantitative easing through the issuance of a complementary currency, called the carbon coin, to be issued in proportion to the mass of carbon that is mitigated. The monetary concept, called carbon quantitative easing, is based on a specific real-life policy proposal, called a Global Carbon Reward, and an academic paper referred to throughout the book as the "Chen Paper". In Antarctica, various countries cooperate in a geoengineering project to drill to the bottom of glaciers and pump meltwater up to slow basal sliding while the program incentivizes multiple other simultaneous efforts like carbon farming, sail-driven container ships for cargo and airships for personal transport.

John Cunliffe (Dónall Ó Héalai) is a 28-year-old recluse, coddled by his parents. When his parents pass away, John discovers that he has inherited land in the way of a proposed lucrative windfarm development. Having never had to fend for himself, he has to grow up fast: navigating friendships, romance and matters of trust for the first time. Ó Héalai described his character as having been "sheltered all his life by his parents […] when he loses them, his story is him becoming an adult, and all that entails."

Ray lives in Dunmanor, a retirement home for the International Superhero Federation in Ireland. He is embittered by the fact that the public has largely forgotten him, and even his own grandchildren are rather fond of a new superhero, Celestro.

During a birthday party for one of the residents, Hurricane Jane, another resident, Jerry, gets out of control. The incident prompts Alicia, the facility's warden, to have Jerry's powers "downwardly managed". A short time after the procedure, Jerry dies, making Ray suspicious. When Dunmanor's residents attend Hero Day at the nearby town, Ray spots some youths using Jerry's powers. Thinking that the administration of the retirement home is stealing and selling superpowers, Ray asks Celestro for help, but he doesn't want to get involved. So Ray and his former sidekick Ted sneak off the bus to investigate. They are trying to tail the youths and end up interrupting a car theft. Their misinterpreted actions are covered in a local newspaper, causing Alicia to announce that Ray will be downwardly managed. The other residents are tested for their power control level and almost all ordered to be downwardly managed also.

Ray's friends don't believe in a conspiracy behind this, but Ted finds papers mentioning a person with an ability to absorb superpowers and blueprints of an unknown machine in the administration office. Ray confronts Alicia with this information, but has no evidence, and is therefore prepared for the procedure. Meanwhile, Ray's friends see one of the orderlies levitating via Jerry's powers. It is revealed that the orderly Flynn has the power-absorption ability, which Alicia uses for her machine. To get some extra money, Flynn sold a bit of Jerry's extracted powers as a drug to the locals. Alicia sends Flynn to get all the vials back. While the other residents stall the personnel, Ray, Pendle, Madera and Ted start to chase Flynn, but are unable to go past the security lasers that Brian and Windsor couldn't shut down. After Dolores freezes the surrounding moat, the elderly superheroes finally leave the guarded territory and take a taxi to the youth club.

There they find the delinquent who was buying the drug and interrogate him. He directs them back to the retirement home, where Alicia has already apprehended the rest of the residents. She transfers Flynn's power to herself and starts to absorb the powers of the superheroes. Alicia reveals that her parents died in a building that collapsed in one of Ray's battles with supervillains, and her plan is to combine all the superpowers and mother a powerful super-being who will be able to defeat other superpowered individuals. Ray and his friends lose the fight with Alicia, but her body can't stand so many different superpowers and disintegrates. The superheroes celebrate their victory and hold a press conference.

Andrew Neiman is a first-year student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. He has been playing drums from a young age, and he aspires to become a world-class drummer. Fletcher, conductor and bandleader of Shaffer Conservatory Studio Band, invites him into the ensemble as alternate for core drummer Carl. However, Andrew quickly discovers that Fletcher is strict and abusive to his students. When the band rehearses the Hank Levy piece "Whiplash" and Andrew struggles to keep the tempo, Fletcher hurls a chair at him, slaps him, and berates him in front of the ensemble.

Markiplier and his assistant break into a museum to steal an ancient box located in a vault. A chain of escapades leads them to obtaining the two keys required to enter the vault. Mark grabs the box, triggering an alarm. Mark gives two escape options: going down a sewer, or using a bomb and escaping from the vault.

Choosing the sewer, they stumble upon a branch leading to two tunnels: a dark or a light one.

After choosing the dark tunnel, Mark repeatedly suggests splitting up to cover more ground. Choosing this option invariably results in Mark's immediate death or disappearance. If the assistant chooses not to split, they and Mark investigate further into a tunnel inhabited by the "Sewer Cult," eventually resulting in the tunnel's destruction, the assistant holding Mark over the enormous pit. If they decide to let him go, the assistant escapes the tunnel, having to cope with Mark's demise. If they hang on, they both fall, Mark using the box's contents, a portable wormhole device, to allow them to escape. The device teleports them through various other timelines of the film before returning them to the start. Additionally, one of the "split up" decisions results in the assistant being confronted by "Darkiplier," who tells them that Mark is a liar, and that he has hidden codes in every ending. Traveling to the light tunnel somehow brings them to the middle of the ocean, resulting either with the assistant being abducted by pirates, or Mark and the assistant being stranded on a deserted island, either being abducted by aliens (Hanson, Avidan) or joining the company of a potential cannibal (Patrick).

If the assistant chooses to use the bomb to escape the vault, they and Mark escape and are presented with two getaway options: a helicopter or a car.

If the assistant chooses the helicopter, they find themselves unable to fly it and are sent to Happy Trails Penitentiary, a rehabilitation-focused prison. The assistant can attempt to gain respect from the guards or the prisoners. If they attempt to suck up to the guards, they find themselves unsuccessful and try to do it on their own. In one of the resulting endings, the box contains a fairy that grants wishes, but is confiscated by a prison guard (Boggs) due to its annoying cries of "Listen!". In another ending, Mark is ambushed by Bubba (Muyskens), an undercover federal marshal, who reveals his true name to be Bob. If the assistant shoots Bob, he takes off a mask to reveal that he was really Wade (Barnes). Mark is then shot by the real Bob, who then reveals that the assistant was also Wade all along. The assistant can also open the box, sending them back in time to the beginning. Briefly investigating a human shaped hole, but deciding against entering reverses the roles of Bob and Wade, and travelling back in time then results in the assistant being interviewed by "Wilford Warfstache". Entering the human-shaped tunnel slowly deforms the assistant, a reference to The Enigma of Amigara Fault. If they attempt to gain the respect of the prisoners, Mark is immediately punched through a wall upon mentioning escaping. A musical number ensues, led by an inmate named Yancy, explaining that none of the prisoners desire to leave. The assistant is then asked if they still wish to do so. If they do not want to leave, they end killing another inmate to ensure that they will receive a life sentence. If they wish to leave, Yancy offers his assistance in their escape.

If the assistant chooses the car, Mark tells the assistant that the car broke down amid a ride. He offers options of walking or fix the car. If they decide to fix the car, a sinkhole separates them. The assistant reaches a cave, where a man named Illinois, resembling Indiana Jones, hands the assistant a cursed monkey statue and asks them to place it on a pedestal. If they refuse to place it, the assistant, seemingly possessed by the statue, attacks Illinois. If they place it, they are both briefly transported to monkey heaven before Illinois leaves them behind.

If they decide to walk, a set of zombies chase them. Unbeknownst to Mark, the assistant is bitten by one of the zombies (Scheid). If they tell the truth, Mark tells them to go away, and the assistant lives with the zombies forever after. Otherwise, they are given a choice between finding a scientist or going to the safety of a nearby fort. At Fort Brannagan, supposedly the only zombie-proof area, Mark and the assistant are inspected for bites by a soldier named Ed (Morris). If the assistant tells the truth about their bite, they are shot. If they don't, it is revealed that the fort has been infiltrated by zombies, and that Ed has been bitten, rigging the fort to explode to prevent the virus' spread. After it explodes, the assistant reveals their bite to Mark. The box is revealed to be the "world's oldest picnic basket," and the assistant is given a choice between two ancient sandwiches: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (PB&J) or a tuna fish sandwich. If the 2,000-year-old PB&J is eaten, it allows the assistant to turn into a more relaxed zombie, allowing for them to unite humans and zombies. If the 17 AD tuna is eaten, it creates a cure to the zombie virus. At the science lab, the scientist (Pansino) explains that something has caused time and space to warp, intent on destroying the anomaly. She initially believes that the assistant is the anomaly, attempting to kill them to save the fabric of the universe. If they attempt to flee, the assistant is incapacitated and later becomes a zombie, attacking Mark. If they accept their fate for the greater good, Mark takes the bullet for them, only after which it is revealed that the box was the anomaly. As she destroys the box, the branching timeline of the film is briefly shown before collapsing back to the true ending, with Mark and the assistant at the beginning, no longer remembering why they are at the museum.

''Protagonist'' is perhaps too strong a word to describe Colonel Russell. As Haggard himself wrote about his fiction:

My novels are chiefly novels of suspense with a background of international politics. A Colonel Charles Russell of the Security Executive, a not entirely imaginary British counter-espionage organization, while not a protagonist in the technical sense, holds the story line together in the background by his operations, while the characters in the foreground carry the action."

Although Russell remains in the background for much of the book, he is nevertheless somewhat more active than in his first two appearances. In the previous book, he was sixty and supposedly about to retire; in '''Arena''', however, no mention is made of this. His invaluable assistant from the first book, Major Mortimer, now with a first name (Robert), reappears and is in almost every scene in which Russell appears, frequently disagreeing with him about what course of action should be taken. The plot itself is straightforward: a small British company has made developments in the fields of radar and electronics that will be valuable assets for the country. It has, however, borrowed money from an old-line private bank in the City to finance this development. An unscrupulous, and highly murderous, Swiss financier is aware of this situation and determines to take over first the bank that made the loan, and then the company itself, thereby gaining control of the technological developments. The British government becomes aware of this and directs Colonel Russell to make sure that this is thwarted. Much of the book is then devoted to the character of two or three of the people most involved with the various family-owned private banks that are central to the plot. Social background—and bitter jealousies because of it—are important elements, as in many of Haggard's books, and although apparently trivial in nature lead to murderous outcomes. One of the families involved has a deep Italian heritage and so the action moves from England to Italy and back and finally ends with a deadly dénouement on the island of Capri. The resolution is highly successful for Russell and his Ministerial masters but only if its human cost is not reckoned with. From that standpoint, Russell's interventions have been bleak, grim, cynical, and morally unrewarding.

When a ''Krusty the Clown'' taping is cancelled, Milhouse convinces Bart to sneak into the audience of a Spanish-language game show. Bart gets picked to participate in an audience prize round, and chooses a crystal skull that Homer later reveals to be a novelty bottle for a rare and expensive tequila. After constant taunting from Bart, Homer eventually steals the skull and takes it to Moe’s Tavern, where Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney invite Moe to drink with them.

After a chaotic, drunken night, Moe reveals several secrets about Springfield’s residents, eventually exposing Homer and his friends’ secrets too where they abandon Moe. Moe visits a secret society of bartenders at "The Confidential" hotel, and the society says that Moe broke their most sacred rule by running his mouth to Homer and his friends. The society threatens that they will inject his regulars with "Anti-Booze", a serum preventing the receiver from consuming alcohol. Moe finds Homer, Lenny and Carl at the Nuclear Plant telling Homer to call Barney via FaceTime.

The four witness Barney being injected with the Anti-Booze, prompting them to go on the run where they are beset by bartenders attempting to inject them with the Booze. Moe attempts to fight them off, but Carl and Lenny are ultimately injected. Homer then returns home, pleading with Marge to leave Springfield. However, Dr. Hibbert is already there and, revealing his bartending background, injects Homer. Agonized by tremendous guilt, Moe leaves tearfully.

Three months later, the group are living their dreams but shortly after find Moe working at an omelette bar. Feeling bad for him, they re-establish him as their bartender. The Society offer the group the antidote to the Booze, but Homer refuses and leaves the bar. Homer is then chased by the Society again, who wish to forcibly give Homer the antidote.

During the credits, Bart, Lisa and Maggie find the broken remains of the skull Bart won. When the skull strangely manages to reform itself, the trio leave fearfully.

The Simpson family decorates a Christmas Tree. Maggie tries to eat a Christmas ornament, but Bart stops her and gives it to Snowball II. He notices a decoration saying "Todd's First Christmas," and Marge tells the events that occurred six years earlier.

In 2014, Homer and Marge arrive at an office meeting at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Although Homer promises not to drink, Lenny and Carl spike his soda with beer, making him drunk enough to mock Mr. Burns when the carolers start singing. Marge, appalled that Homer unknowingly broke his promise, refuses to let him inside the house for Christmas, leaving him to walk around town with nowhere to go until Ned Flanders lets him join his family as a guest. Ned's pregnant wife Maude is unhappy about this. Homer eats the Christmas ham, uncooked and still in plastic, has hallucinations of Hell from a painting, ruins grace, and teaches Rod to swear, prompting her to kick him out of their house. Homer goes to Moe's Tavern, where Moe walks him home. The only way for Homer to get in the home is through a secret room above the garage that Moe shows him, having rented it in the past to an Irish family.

On Christmas Eve, while Homer decorates this room, Bart and Lisa offer to give up all their toys for Christmas for Homer to return. Marge agrees on the condition that he does one selfless deed to save their marriage. Overhearing this, Homer tries baking Christmas cookies only to burn the kitchen. When Maude unexpectedly goes into labor, Homer rushes in to check on her. As Ned is absent, delivering Christmas turkeys to the poor, Homer assists Maude with the birth while unbeknownst to him, Marge watches from the door. She kisses Homer and they reconcile just as Ned returns. The group decides to name the baby Todd with his middle name being Homer. Back in the present, Homer states that Maggie's middle name is Lenny for similar reasons, surprising her.

In the tag scene, Bart scares Rod and Todd with Grampa's dentures that Grampa was searching for while Homer and Marge make out in the secret room with Moe surreptitiously watching. During the credits, Christmas cards from various Springfield residents are surreptitiously seen.

The game's main character is Ray Bibbia, a "salty" ex-priest living in Rome who takes house calls to exorcise demons. Ray Bibbia first receives a call about a vomiting possessed girl. After a skirmish, Ray successfully exorcises her, he then brings her to his house after the girl's master refuses to pay Ray for his services or take care of the girl, soon after revealed to be called Magda. At the same time, Ray discovers that the Holy Church still facilitates slavery, with him trying find Magda's friend to help her, though he is clearly distressed upon seeing a picture of Magda with her friend. After crashing a metal vegan band concert and a strip club for information, Ray uses his computer follow up on a clue he was previously given to find a certain Holy Church covenant. Upon investigating the covenant, Ray finds evidence of their involvement with the trading of slave from blood to human bones to medieval weapons. The Nun, who had been passing off evidence as merely circumstantial, finally attacks Ray, but he is able to exorcise her. He enters a secret dungeon to find the girl he has been looking for, and is revealed to be her father. When they try to escape, one of the Holy Church's Lieutenant, now a Demon, stops them and defeats Ray while taking the girl with him back to the Vatican. Enoch, the singer from the metal vegan band, saves the unconscious Ray, who realized he isn't powerful enough and is urged by Magda to seek out his old master for further training. His master is revealed to be a Hermit in Naples, but it was revealed that his master also made a deal with the demons and became a demon himself. With him revealing that only a demon can destroy a demon, while Ray has only been exorcising them and nothing more.

The five short films of ''Putham Pudhu Kaalai'' talk about hope, love, and new beginnings in the COVID-19 pandemic.

''Ilamai Idho Idho''

It's a breezy love between two senior citizens.

Rajeev (Jayaram), a widower, lives in a big apartment all alone. Just before the Indian Government announces a lockdown in India, his girlfriend Lakshmi (Urvashi), arrives at his home to spend a few days with him. They catch up and spend more time together when the lockdown is announced. Their respective children, unaware of their relationship, are worried about their safety during the pandemic while they get to know each other better like a young couple. One day during a petty argument between the couple, Rajeev's daughter and son-in-law show up unannounced to check up on him. Lakshmi hides in a closet and witnesses Rajeev and his daughter sharing a warm moment together. When Rajeev finally manages to get rid of his daughter and son-in-law, the couple realize that they were both at fault for getting mad over something petty. Their bond grows deeper, and they express concern over how their kids will react to their relationship. The film ends with the couple taking the leap to introduce each other to their children over a video call.

''Avarum Naanum – Avalum Naanum''

It is a building of a bond between an old grandfather (M. S. Bhaskar) and an estranged granddaughter (Ritu Varma). It is very beautiful, as they get past the differences between them and understand each other better.

The grandfather is a retired scientist and living alone. His granddaughter Khanna, who works in the IT industry, comes to take care of her grandfather on the insistence of her father. Initially, Khanna was not happy with her grandfather as he did not accept her mother's love. Once Khanna starts spending time with her grandfather, she understands the reason for his anger (he wanted her mother to continue her singing as he considered her voice to be divine, but her mother chose to get married instead, thus causing the estrangement) and decides to visit her grandfather's house regularly.

''Coffee, Anyone?''

Two daughters, Valli (Suhasini Maniratnam) and Saras (Anu Hasan) are visiting their comatose mother Soundara (Komalam Charuhasan). They are upset about their father Mahendran (Kathadi Ramamurthy) treating her at home. Yet they overcome their differences and try to emotionally connect with their mother. That is when they realize that she is showing signs of improvement. They want to share all that is happening in their respective lives to her. Finally, they are more than happy to see their mother awake.

''Reunion''

Sadhana (Andrea Jeremiah) and Vikram (Gurucharan C) are school friends who share a passion for music. In the present day, Vikram is a doctor, while Sadhana follows her childhood passion and has an event management company. Due to the lockdown, Sadhana is forced to spend some time with Vikram and his mother Bhairavi (Leela Samson) at their house, and she gets especially close to Bhairavi. It is later revealed that Sadhana is struggling from a drug addiction which she believes helps her with creating music. Vikram and his mother help her through this phase, and she later decides to seek help from a professional to deal with her addiction. In the closing scene, Vikram admits that the poetry he wrote back in college was not for his then girlfriend, but for Sadhana.

''Miracle''

A young filmmaker, Michael (Vettai Muthukumar), watches a Guruji (Ezhil Arasan Babaraj) on the television. Two poor thugs, Devan (Bobby Simha) and Rocky (Sharath Ravi), want to make quick money by believing in the miracle that the Baba talks about. The story of the three intervenes to a funny climax where the thugs remain poor, Michael finds a lot of money to make his film, and the Guruji loses a few millions.

Young Amaria is a member of a religious community in a village in Southern Algeria. The women there live alone most of the time. since the men work far away in the oil fields. Amaria dreams of becoming a famous singer. She sings in several music groups whose styles range from Religious music (religious songs) to rai and reggae by Bob Marley. When she travels to the city to do a recording, she exchanges her fullbody-Hijab for a Scarf. .

Edmond Murray is an absent father who is called to the site of his son Ethan's disappearance. He meets and briefly consoles his ex-wife Joan there, and promptly joins a search party before being interviewed by the police.

After being interviewed by the police, Edmond visits his ex-wife's new partner, Frank, and the two begin talking. After seeing that Frank has made plans for a new home for himself and Joan (without bedroom accommodation for Ethan), and upon hearing that Frank has given Joan a Valium tablet to help her sleep, Edmond becomes irate and confrontational, accusing Frank of being responsible for his son's disappearance. He assaults him in the kitchen, knocking him unconscious and calls Inspector Roy to have him look into Frank.

Edmond is arrested but no charges are filed, as Frank is apparently forgiving of Edmond due to his emotional stress at the moment. Edmond is later met by Inspector Roy, who hides Edmond's phone in a microwave oven (so as not to be heard), and informs him that he has been taken off the case without any explanation.

Edmond looks through Frank's phone, which he took after knocking him out, and finds videos of Ethan leading up to the disappearance. During this, he realises there is a car present in both videos, two weeks apart, hidden barely out of sight. Relying on Joan's brother who works in the insurance industry, Edmond obtains the vehicle owner's address, a William O'Connor who lives at an isolated farm.

After arriving at the location, Edmond hears a vehicle approach. Hiding, he grabs a crowbar and eventually knocks out O'Connor, and ties him up to a post in the shed. After an aggressive interrogation involving a blowtorch, O'Connor reveals that he is responsible for sending pictures of children outside of schools to a kidnapping ring operated for paedophiles, who then "choose" which children will be kidnapped. After being told of his son's location, at a hilltop lodge, Edmond drives to near the lodge, continuing on foot to hide his approach.

Joan arrives at the O'Connor farm, and finds another kidnapped boy unconscious in the back of his vehicle; Edmond had not thought to look. She takes the child to the hospital, then leaves when Edmond sends a text telling her where the lodge is, asking her to contact Inspector Roy. She calls Roy as she heads to the lodge herself.

When Edmond reaches the lodge, he sees that three members of the kidnap ring are present. He incapacitates their vehicle, which proves fortuitous, as they were preparing to take an unconscious Ethan away. Edmond knocks out Steven, the kidnapper who was repairing the vehicle. After a game of cat and mouse with kidnappers Alan and Fergus, during which Alan mistakenly shoots Fergus dead, Edmond finds Ethan. By then, Joan has arrived, and the three make a narrow escape. During the escape, Edmond is shot and veers off the road when he losses consciousness. As a vehicle approaches, Joan and Ethan exit, hiding behind a tree before being found by Roy, who takes them to safety.

Sometime later, outdoors and surrounded by water and mountains, Joan and Edmond stand with Ethan as he flies a small remote control quadcopter. Inspector Roy calls out to Edmond, who bids Ethan farewell after promising that he will eventually be back to stay. Roy and Edmond drive off, revealing that the outing had been a courtesy, as Edmond is under arrest for his criminal violence against the photo-taking kidnapper and for the violence during the attack on the lodge. Roy states that the kidnapping network is being dismantled, with many more arrests pending. He also assures Edmond that the judge will likely take into account the benefit of Edmond's actions during his court cases.

''Coming from Insanity'' tells the story of 12-year-old boy Kossi (Gabriel Afolayan) with virtuoso level insight, who was trafficked into Lagos from Togo. He winds up with the Martins (Wale Ojo and Dakore Akande), as an houseboy and grew to become a member of their family. He later teamed up with some other friends to make his own money and that put him on the radaar of the EFCC.

The theme of the film revolves around a boy Tunji (Emeka Nwagbaraocha) a quick talking young person, who along with his friends Chikodi, Effiong and Abraham got his Uncle's vehicle to move along the street on a Joyride. But things go bad when they crash the vehicle and have just 5 hours to raise the necessary assets to fix the vehicle before Tunji's Uncle returns from work.

When a World War III fighter return home only to find chaos and must race to save the life of her sister who abused a chemical against various progressive war machine.

In 1996, a band of British Hong Kong soldiers who are not granted British citizenship choose different paths after the disbandment of the Hong Kong Military Service Corps. Kwan Chiu convinces Winston to speculate on the stock markets, but the 1997 Asian financial crisis sees Winston lose all his wealth. After a debt-stricken Winston commits suicide, his ex-brothers-in-arms blame Kwan and cut ties with him, but Kwan secretly takes on his debt in place of his widow.

Kwan has joined the triads in the subsequent years. In 2019, Kwan brokers a deal between Taiwanese turtle smuggler Pickle and local triad leader Big Mouth Tai. One day, a young South Asian thief, Mani, is pursued by Tai's top follower Chook and takes shelter in Kwan's home in Chungking Mansions. Mani offers Kwan HK$1 million to take him in for five days to which Kwan agrees. The two men are initially cold towards each other, but start to bond when Mani discovers a video of Kwan's past military services and Kwan takes care of Mani's brother Mansu on his behalf.

Later, Tai finds out that the turtles he bought are dead in transit, summons Kwan to demand the return of the deposit and kills Pickle. Kwan is shocked at seeing the corpse of Mani's cousin Kapil, who was punished for stealing Tai's drugs. Mani gives Kwan a bag of drugs for him to pay off the debt, and Kwan gives him a pack of his hand rolled cigarette as a sign of their friendship. Just as the problem seems to have resolved, Mani is abducted by Tai's underlings, and his relation with Kwan is revealed by Kwan's iconic cigarette.

Pickle's fellow smuggler Bamboo tracks down Kwan, and Kwan leads Bamboo to Tai's hideout, where Mani is held captive. Held at gunpoint, Tai shifts the blame on a seriously injured Chook and seals a new deal with Bamboo. Kwan ferociously fights off a couple of Tai's henchmen, but when Tai is about to deal a fatal blow to Kwan, the betrayed Chook interrupts and kills Tai. Mani rolls a cigarette for a dying Kwan, becoming the first person to do so.

Some time later, Mani gives Kwan's fellow soldiers a note of full repayment of Winston's debt.

Part 1, Act I

The play begins in Madrid in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Madrid is under bombardment by the Fascist air force. General Golz assigns Robert Jordan, an American volunteer and demolitions expert, to blow a bridge so that the Fascist forces cannot cross.

Anselmo assists Jordan in scouting the bridge. He introduces Jordan to a band of Republican guerrillas led by Pablo. The group also includes the gypsy Rafael, the beautiful young Maria, and Pablo's wife Pilar. Jordan stays with Pablo's band of guerrillas at their camp in a cave in the mountains. Pablo is opposed to blowing up the bridge. He views the mission as too risky. Pilar and others in Pablo's band support Jordan's mission. Pilar accuses Pablo of being a lazy, drunken coward. Rafael advises Jordan to kill Pablo for the sake of the mission.

Part 1, Act II

Jordan falls in love with Maria. Maria has never loved or kissed, but she has been raped by several men, when she was a prisoner of the fascists. Pilar assumes command of the guerrillas from Pablo. Jordan and Maria travel together to visit another guerrilla leader El Sordo.

Part 1, Act III

Jordan and Pablo provoke each other. Pablo also fights with Agustin. Pilar gives her blessing to the killing of Pablo. The guerrillas also support Pablo's killing. Having overheard the discussion about killing him, Pablo claims he now supports the raid on the bridge.

Jordan kills a fascist cavalry soldier. Pablo rides the horse out of the camp. A cavalry unit passes through and follows the tracks laid by Pablo away from the camp.

Part 2, Act I

Agustin tells Jordan that he has also cared for Maria. If he did not believe that Jordan cared for Maria, Agustin would have killed Jordan. Jordan hears the sounds and sees lights from a battle in the distance. The fascists are massacring El Sordo and his men, but Jordan refuses to allow Agustin to go to El Sordo's aid.

The fascists begin moving a whole division, including tanks and artillery, across the bridge. Jordan sends Andres with a message to Gen. Golz, warning of the fascist troop movement. The attack on the bridge is planned for the next day. Jordan does not want to talk of the next day's danger. He wants only to enjoy the night with Maria. They talk of plans for the future. Maria tells Jordan of the execution of her parents and of her abuse by the fascists. Jordan vows to kill many fascists the next day to avenge Maria. He declares that Maria is his wife.

Part 2, Act II

Pilar awakens Jordan in the middle of the night. Pablo has fled the camp, taking the detonators with him. Pilar feels responsible for having slept when she was supposed to be guarding the explosives. Jordan devises a plan to detonate the dynamite with grenades. Pablo returns and claims he had a moment of weakness in the night. He now wants to help and has recruited five men to assist in the assault. Pilar believes Pablo and restores command of the unit to him.

An aerial bombardment from the Republican forces begins, and the guerrillas launch their assault on the bridge. Jordan plants the explosives.

Part 2, Act III

Fascist reinforcements arrive at the bridge. Pablo leads his men bravely into combat, as Jordan continues to plant explosives under the bridge. Jordan blows the bridge as fascist tanks approach. Anselmo is killed. As Jordan and the guerrillas retreat, they come under heavy fire from fascists on the other side of the gorge. Jordan is shot in the leg and abdomen. Jordan says goodbye to Maria. Maria begs to stay with Jordan, but he sends her away with Pablo and Pilar. Jordan struggles to maintain consciousness and provides covering fire as the others retreat.

The film consists of various plots, which are as follows: Mad scientist Landru (Jean Safont) subjects himself and his two assistants to experiments that turn them into beasts, and they test the results by facing a couple of ''luchadores'', Huracán Ramírez and Tonina Jackson, in a series of matches. Fernando Torres (David Silva), the man who wrestles as "Huracán Ramírez", is in financial difficulty, leading him to agree to participate in Landru's matches. Fernando's son Pancho (Pepe Romay), a college engineering student, works in an auto repair shop during the semester break. He makes friends with Gina (Karina Duprez), the owner's daughter, incurring the wrath of the shop's boss Hernández (José Luis Caro), Gina's rejected suitor. Fernando's daughter Margarita (Titina Romay) begins a pop singing career under the name "Margot de Córdova". She's discovered in a record shop by Pepe Chico (Carlos Piñar), the son of a network head, who gets her a spot on a television show on the network, but lets Margarita think that he's just Pepe Chico's "friend". Margarita's relationship with Pepe causes the jealousy of Margarita's friend and suitor, Pichi (Freddy Fernández). Obnoxious ''gringa'' Mary (Carolina Barret), who has attached herself to Tonina Jackson. She loans him money to pay the wrestling arena's debts, and declares herself owner of the cafe run by Fernando's wife Laura (Carmelita González) as a result. When she attempts to change the cafe to her image, she causes a conflict between herself and Laura.

A mute orphan who lives in a convent establishes a friendship with a black novice (Titina Romay) newcomer to the convent, and helps her obtain the money necessary save the convent by moonlighning as the masked luchador Huracán Ramírez. Meanwhile, a rich woman (Teresa Velázquez), who uses the nun as an unwitting pawn to perpetrate her crimes as a con artist, tries to seduce him.

In 2010, a student called Husam is about to graduate high school but he becomes obsessed with making content at the peak of Saudi YouTube content. That leads him to an adventure to explore his passion. He is making a low-budget horror movie during his senior year with the help of his best friend Maan, his rival Ibrahim, and their physics teacher Orabi.