After receiving a holocron message, Ezra Bridger tells the ''Ghost'' crew that they must go to Tatooine to save Obi-Wan Kenobi from Maul. The crew refuses, as they believe that Kenobi is dead from Order 66 and the message is a trap set by Maul. Ezra and Chopper sneak away and head to Tatooine, but things go wrong as their ship is destroyed by Tusken Raiders. Guided by the holocron, Ezra and Chopper set off across the desert in search of Kenobi. After several hours of aimless wandering, Chopper runs out of power and shuts down. Ezra is then haunted by visions of Maul, telling him that he failed his loved ones. Shortly afterward, Ezra passes out. Upon awakening, he finds that Kenobi has rescued him and Chopper. Ezra tries to warn Kenobi that Maul is after him and asks him to help the rebellion. However, Kenobi refuses, saying that the rebellion already has what it needs to fight the Empire. He also has no intention of fighting Maul, though he knows it is now inevitable. As Maul finds the pair, Kenobi sends Ezra and Chopper to safety and faces off with Maul in a lightsaber duel; after a period of prolonged tension, Maul strikes first but is quickly countered and defeated by Kenobi. Before Maul dies, Kenobi stays by his side and reveals to him that he is watching over whom he believes is the Chosen One, with Maul's last words being, "He will avenge us".

Ezra and Chopper return to base on Maul's ship. Ezra tells the rebels that Maul is gone, and apologizes for sneaking away. The episode ends with Kenobi watching a young Luke Skywalker at the Lars moisture farm from a distance.

The protagonist, Sukurai, has just learnt that his wife Karmati had once been the fiancée of his ''jhum'' companion Wakhirai. Karmati says she and Wakhirai were to be married but on the night before their wedding a newly built dam submerged her village and separated them forever. Wakhirai moved out along with his family and his ailing father died on the way. Wakhirai tells Sukurai that his meeting Karmati is just a co-incidence. Sukurai, himself a victim of the same catastrophe, suggests a reunion between Karmati and Wakhirai. Karmati goes to Wakhirai’s house but finds him missing. But the poor woman is ready to face her destiny bravely and keeps waiting.

The Grand Opera house has staged a production of Carmen. They have yet to select a Prima Donna for the role of the gypsy girl, Carmen. The leading role has called out for auditions. When the tryouts finish, only two women remain Nine Angus and Violetta Andree.

Some years ago, Nina Angus married Richard Angus. Nina's husband had a son from a previous marriage, Richard (Dick) Angus Jr., and the couple has raised the 12-year-old boy as their own. Richard has a disability, and Nina provides the sole support for the family. Their finances have taken a turn for the worst, and the family depends on Nina securing this job. Recently, Nina has struggled to find work. Nina returns home to relax after experiencing another grueling day of auditions. The family has dinner together, and after Dick goes to bed, Nina has a serious talk with her husband. Nina mentions she only has one serious rival she must outperform. The problem, Nina admits, is her competition is more accomplished and can sing better than she. She explains her rival's name to be none other than Violetta Andree, the ex-wife of Richard and Dick's birth mother. Violetta is a local favorite in town, and her engagement book is seldom empty.

Richard reveals to Nina the reason he and Violetta divorced so many years ago. He tells Nina that Violetta was a flirt and always in the company of men. He said in the end; she had abandoned him, her home, and her child. Richard had no choice but to seek a divorce. Nina believed Richard's story, and the two commiserated together. Richard retires early. Later that evening, there is a knock on the door, and when Nina opens the door, Violetta is standing on the porch. She wants to talk about her 12-year-old son.

Violetta feels now that she is successful, she would like to gain full guardianship of her son. Knowing Nina and the family are financially strapped, she offers many inducements. Violetta finally offers to feint illness, thus giving the part of Carmen to Nina if she will give up custody of the boy. Nina still trusts her husband's description of Violetta's home-wrecking past. She refuses! Nina tells Violetta, she is the only mother Richard Jr. has ever known. She couldn't give him up now, especially with Violetta's history.

Violetta seems puzzled when Nina explained her reasoning for maintaining custody. She asks what Richard Sr. had told Nina of their previous circumstances. Now we find out the other side of the story. Violetta claims Richard Sr. was a heavy drinker, and she supported him for years. Then she met a man who sympathized with her plight, and they became fast friends. Richard Sr. became insanely jealous of their friendship and the man's wealth. He demanded a divorce. She sacrificed everything, including her son, to marry her current husband and continue her career.

Nina pondered over the sacrifices she had made, supporting her disabled husband and taking care of her stepson. She further reflected on the wrong influence she thought the boy's birth mother would have on him before discovering the actual truth. Nina has life-changing choices before her. The following evening, Violetta is sitting in her dressing room. A call-boy stops in and hands her a card. The card is a request from Mr. Richard Angus stating he would like to see her before the show's start. She tells the call-boy to escort him in.

A 12-year-old boy walks into her dressing room wearing a well-used evening suit. It occurred to Violetta that Mr. Richard Angus might be Mr. Richard Angus Jr., her son. Dick pleads with Violetta to let his mom have the part of Carmen. The young man knows his family is suffering and how desperately his mother needs this job. They chat awhile longer, and Dick tells Violetta that Nina became his step-mom when his birth mother had died. Dick reaches in his pocket and pulls out an old worn photograph. The picture is of Dick and a very young woman–Violetta. Violetta understands Dick does not know that she is his birth mother. Emotions overcome Violetta and she kisses the young man on the forehead. She decides for the sake of the boy, she will not disclose her true identity.

Violetta asks Dick to return to his mother, and she will see what she can do to help. After the boy leaves, she calls her husband. She says he must develop a means to support the Angus family financially. He agrees to do so. Then she calls the manager and notifies him she is too ill to perform. She suggests the manager call Nina Angus.

Upon awakening, an unnamed gamer finds himself in the avatar body and armor that he was using in his online game. Seeing his reflection in a river, he is shocked to discover that his appearance is that of a skeleton due to the special avatar skin『Skeleton』he used. In unfamiliar territory, the gamer decides that it would be best to hide his appearance by never removing his helmet and to search for inhabitants. He spies a band of bandits attacking a group at a distance and springs into action after seeing the bandits about to rape two women, killing the men. The women introduce themselves as Lauren, a noblewoman, and Rita Farren, her maid. Using his game name, the knight introduces himself as Arc and agrees to escort the two ladies to the town of Luvierte. While he refuses a reward (to avoid meeting Lauren's father Viscount Buckle du Luvierte, as it would cause complications should the noble ask to see his face), Rita gives him a copper passport to allow him easier passage through any city in the territory.

While dispatching a group of bandits using a cave as their hideout who had attacked him near the town of Diento, he discovers a wounded green-furred cottontailed fox (''"ventu vulpis"'') being held in a cage. Freeing the creature, he heals its wound with magic and befriends it. The fox indicates that it wants to travel with him, and he names it "Ponta".

Later, Arc encounters a male elf outside Diento and learns from him about the human trade in capturing and enslaving elves. The elf is surprised that Ponta (which he refers to as a "spirit creature") is so attached to Arc and that Arc doesn't seem to share the fear and prejudice against elves that most humans in this world seem to have.

Some time afterwards, Arc stumbles across two elf soldiers, one male and one female, battling a band of human slavers; when their leader uses the captured elf children as hostages, the female elf seems ready to surrender when Arc intervenes and helps the elves wipe out the slavers. After Ponta's presence convinces the elves that Arc is a friend and the captured elves are freed and healed of their wounds by Arc's magic, the female elf, Ariane Glenys Maple, hires Arc to help her free other enslaved elves being held in Diento itself. Meeting up with Danka, another elf soldier who has been scouting inside Diento for information (and the one whom Arc had encountered earlier), the three invade the slave warehouse. During their initial search, Arc encounters a female cat-eared/tailed ninja, who gives him information about humans involved in the slave trade and about other captured elves being held in the local lord's castle. After freeing the captured elves, Arc uses Teleportation magic to get them all away from Diento, then he and Ariane head for the castle while Danka escorts the freed elves home. After they free the two female elves (who then "punish" their captor/tormentor in a particularly gruesome fashion) and escape, Ariane asks Arc to accompany her back to their lands. Arc is reluctant and shows why by removing his helmet, revealing his skeletal form. While initially shocked, Ariane realizes that, despite his appearance, Arc is not evil but under a curse, and promises that the elves will keep his secret.

At the elvish settlement of Lalatoya, Arc meets and is welcomed by Elder Dillan and his wife Glenys, who are also Ariane's parents. At a meeting of Elders, at which the information about human Nobles involved in the slave trade and the clear violation of the Elf-Human peace treaty is discussed, it is decided that while no direct retaliation against the humans will be made, the secret operations to free elf slaves will continue. Dillan offers to hire Arc to continue helping Ariane, and as payment provides him with information about a magic pool in Dragon Lord country that may lift his skeleton curse. Arc agrees, and he, Ariane and Ponta begin their quest to free the captured/enslaved elves and totally end the slave trade. They are joined in their mission by Chiyome, a beast person ninja and member of the Jinshin Clan of beast people, who is engaged on a similar mission to rescue her fellow beast people who have also been captured and enslaved by humans.

Meanwhile in Olav, the capital city of the Rhoden Kingdom, King Karlon, who has learned of the possible involvement of nobility in the slave trade in elves thanks to the events in Diento, dispatches his daughter Yuriarna on a diplomatic mission to the Grand Duchy of Limbult (which trades with the elves and where his older daughter Seriarna is the ruler's wife) to arrange a meeting with the elves. However, her older brothers Sekt and Dakares both have ambitions to inherit the throne and are vying with other for power, and Yuriarna suspects Dakares of being involved in the slave trade and Sekt of knowing about it but trying to use it for his own advantage...and that both will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, even if it means destroying anyone in their way.

As Arc, Ariane and Chiyome's quest progresses and they gain friends and allies while traveling to the different kingdoms across the world, they learn that the slave trade is merely the tip of the iceberg and that the Holy East Revlon Kingdom, ruled by the ruthless Emperor Domitianus, and this world's main religion, the Holy Hilk Kingdom, may be behind all the evil they're fighting to overcome.

In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know.

But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a paladin.

"I promised you. It's gonna take a while, but I'll tell you everything. This is the story of the deaths of many heroes. It's the story of how we died, and it's the reason you grew up here."

''Breaded Life'' follows the adventures of an arrogant and spoiled son, who comes from a wealthy home and is made to learn life lessons the hard way. It follows a misunderstood but bratty young man (Timini Egbuson) who falls in love with a bread seller (Bimbo Ademoye). His mother (Tina Mba) however vehemently decries the situation. His life with the bread seller exposes him to a life in the underworld where he gets arrested. This sets him down a war path with his mother.

In a high school in Kasugai, Seto is a serious student who lives a quiet and ordinary life. But when his mischievous classmate, Anna Anjō, begins teasing and hanging out with him on a regular basis, it starts an interesting relationship between them. The story follows the lives and antics of the two polar opposites, both in appearance and personality, as they develop into a romantic couple through their many playful—and sometimes erotic—interactions.

Anjō is accompanied by her girl friends, Toyoda and Chita, while Seto is accompanied by his guy friends, Inuyama and Tokio. As they all grow friendly with one another, each person becomes romantically linked to their respective partner within the group as the story progresses.

During the Battle of New York in 2012, Loki escapes with the Tesseract, creating a branched timeline. At the Gobi Desert, he is quickly arrested by officers of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) and brought to their headquarters, where he cannot use his magic. TVA mascot Miss Minutes tells Loki that a past multiversal war between timelines was ended by the Time-Keepers by establishing a singular timeline and that to prevent another such war, the Time-Keepers created the TVA and its employees to maintain this timeline, the "Sacred Timeline". The TVA does this by "resetting" branched timelines and the "variants" that cause them.

Loki faces trial for "crimes against the Sacred Timeline", with Ravonna Renslayer as the judge. He initially does not take the proceedings seriously, before blaming the Avengers, whose own time-traveling caused him to come into contact with the Tesseract. Renslayer dismisses these claims, explaining that the Avengers' actions followed the Sacred Timeline while Loki's did not. She finds him guilty and sentences him to be reset, but TVA agent Mobius M. Mobius intervenes as he thinks this variant Loki could be of use to them. In the Time Theater, Mobius questions Loki's past misdeeds and revisits moments from Loki's life, such as his defeat at the hands of the Avengers. Loki says he wants to rule so he can free his would-be subjects from the burden of making wrong choices. Mobius questions if Loki enjoys hurting others, but Loki rails against the TVA's control of the timeline and insists that he has the power to make his own choices. Mobius reveals that in Loki's intended future, he inadvertently causes the death of his adoptive mother Frigga.

Loki attempts to escape but discovers that the TVA has amassed numerous Infinity Stones, which do not work at TVA headquarters. Overwhelmed by the TVA's power, he returns to the Time Theater and views the rest of his intended future, including his improved relationship with his adoptive brother Thor, the death of his adoptive father Odin, and his own death at the hands of Thanos. Loki realizes that he cannot return to his timeline, and agrees to help Mobius hunt the killer of several TVA officers, who has been stealing the technology they use to reset timelines. Mobius reveals that this fugitive is another variant of Loki.

Conflict started between two brothers of the same family over the share of property. After killing his father, the younger brother, blinded by greed for property, also planned to kill his elder brother. Then the elder brother fled with his family. One day unfortunately his only son Raja (Mohsin Polash) got lost. Raja grows up and finds his father. Then he finds out that his lover Moyna's (Jasmine) father is actually his younger uncle.

After graduating from college, the son of a railroad president takes a job working for the company under an assumed name to prove that he isn't as lazy as his father thinks. He falls in love but also makes a bitter enemy in the yard foreman. After exposing the man as a thief and a murderer, his antagonist breaks out of prison and seeks revenge by way of a runaway train.

After a Wall Street broker is ruined by his wife's lover, a business associated, he thinks of committing suicide off Brooklyn Bridge but instead heads to a western mining town.

Florence, a young aspiring novelist, gets hired as an assistant to the reclusive, celebrated writer "Maud Dixon", whose true identity is a well-guarded secret. Florence becomes obsessed with her employer and discovers her real name, Helen Wilcox. But when the two travel to Morocco for business on a research trip, Helen vanishes without a trace — leaving her entire life, including her valuable pen name, up for grabs.

"Long before time had a name", the First Spinjitzu Master created the realm of Ninjago using the four Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu: the Scythe of Quakes, the Shurikens of Ice, the Nunchucks of Lightning and the Sword of Fire. Before he passed, his two sons swore to protect the weapons from evil, but the older brother, Garmadon, was consumed by darkness and aimed to wield all four weapons so that he could recreate Ninjago in his own image. In the ensuing battle between brothers, the younger brother Wu cast Garmadon down to the Underworld and hid the weapons across Ninjago, placing a dragon to guard each hiding spot.Ninjago, Pilot Season "Way of the Ninja"

In anticipation of Garmadon's return, Sensei Wu seeks out four talented young teenagers to master the art of Spinjitzu and find the Golden Weapons before Garmadon and his Skulkin Army can claim them. Wu recruits Kai, a young blacksmith and trains him to become a ninja at the Monastery of Spinjitzu. There he meets three other ninja: Cole, Jay, and Zane.Ninjago, Pilot Season "The Golden Weapon" The ninja team up to find the four Golden Weapons and save Kai's sister, Nya, who has been kidnapped by the Skulkin. They find the Scythe of Quakes at the Caves of Despair, learning spinjitzu along the way. They then find the Shurikens of Ice and the Nunchucks of Lightning, confronting each dragon in the process. That night Kai retrieves the Sword of Fire from the Fire Temple, and frees his sister, but is confronted by the shadow of Garmadon. Although Wu arrives at the temple and fights off his brother's shadow, the Skulkin ambush Cole, Jay and Zane and steal the other three Golden Weapons.

Sensei Wu decides to enter the Underworld with the Sword of Fire, believing that this is the only way to stop Garmadon.Ninjago, Pilot Season "King of Shadows" The ninja follow him by crossing between realms on the backs of the dragons, who agree to help them. In the Underworld, Samukai, the Skulkin leader, attacks Wu but the ninja use Spinjitzu to create a Tornado of Creation, which defeats the skulkin. Samukai picks up the four Golden Weapons, but they are too powerful to be held together and they destroy him. This creates a portal for Garmadon to use to escape from the Underworld. Back in Ninjago, the ninja celebrate their temporary victory, with the expectation that Garmadon will soon return.Ninjago, Pilot Season "Weapons of Destiny"

The ninja begin training Lloyd so that he can face his father in battle. Meanwhile, Garmadon recruits the Serpentine, rebuilds the Destiny's Bounty as the Black Bounty and merges the Golden Weapons into the powerful Mega Weapon.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 1 "Darkness Shall Rise" Garmadon resurrects the original crew of the Destiny's Bounty, led by Captain Soto. They pilot the ship to Ninjago City, but the ninja engage them in battle. Eventually, Garmadon escapes with the Bounty.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 2 "Pirates vs. Ninja" Garmadon creates clones of the ninja as a way to defeat them. When the ninja visit Darkley's School, they are locked in a room by the students and forced to defeat the clones.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 3 "Double Trouble" They decide to enter a road race named the Ninjaball Run to earn the grand prize so that they can save Dareth's Mojo Dojo. Garmadon decides to participate to stop the ninja from winning. After fighting for lead position, the ninja narrowly win the race and Lloyd takes possession of the Bounty.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 4 "Ninjaball Run"

At Ninjago Museum of History, Garmadon uses the Mega Weapon to resurrect the extinct Grundal to destroy the ninja. When the ninja burst in, they are struck by the weapon and transformed into children. They are later forced to defend themselves from the Grundal in the comic book store, but Master Wu and Nya arrive and Lloyd uses Tomorrow's Tea to turn the Grundal back into bones. The ninja are transformed back to their present ages, but Lloyd is rapidly aged up to an adolescent.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 5 "Child's Play" Garmadon attempts to change the past by stopping the ninja team from forming, so the original four ninja follow him into a time portal to the temporal point when Wu first recruited Kai. They manage to restore the timeline by using the Golden Weapons of the past to blast the Mega Weapon into space.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 6 "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" At Ninjago Museum, Lloyd is reunited with his mother, Misako.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 7 "The Stone Army"

After being betrayed by Skales, Garmadon finds himself on the Dark Island with the disembodied voice of the Overlord. The venom of the Great Devourer seeps into catacombs beneath Ninjago and animates a Stone Army, which wreaks havoc on Ninjago City. Garmadon takes control of the Stone Army using the Helmet of Shadows.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 8 "The Day Ninjago Stood Still" The Ninjas, Lloyd, Sensei Wu and Misako journey to the Dark Island to find a 'Temple of Light' that can restore the Ninjas' elemental powers but are attacked by Starteeth (barnacle-like star fish) that start eating through their ship. Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 9 "The Last Voyage" The ninja travel to the Dark Island to stop Garmadon and reach the Temple of Light to harness their elemental powers and bestow Golden Power on Lloyd.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 10 "Island of Darkness" They fail to stop the Celestial Clock from counting down to the final battle. Garmadon's super weapon, Garmatron, is used to fire dark matter into Ninjago.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 11 "The Last Hope" The Overlord is revealed to be the dark lord from the prophecy. He possesses Garmadon and heads to Ninjago with his army.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 12 "Return of the Overlord" The ninja return to Ninjago on Ultra Dragon and are forced to defend Lloyd while being hit by dark matter, leaving Lloyd to confront the Overlord alone. The Overlord transforms into a massive dragon, but Lloyd uses his Golden Power to destroy the Overlord in an explosion of light, which purges Garmadon of evil and transforms Lloyd into the Golden Ninja.Ninjago, Season 2, Episode 13 Rise of the Spinjitzu Master"

The series is set in a Kyoto wagashi store. The protagonist is an only son, Nagomu Irino, who has dreams of becoming a member of a band, and ran away from home to live in Tokyo ten years ago. He receives a letter from home stating his father is in the hospital and asking him to take over the family shop, so he gives up on his dream and returns home.

While he's been gone, however, a ten-year-old girl named Itsuka Yukihira has started working in the shop. Nagomu's mom, having become a foster mom to Itsuka during the time that Nagomu was seeking his dream as a band member, declares that there will be a contest between Itsuka and Nagomu to see who will take over the family shop.

A devastated June (Jenna Elfman) digs a grave for John (Garret Dillahunt) and then grabs the gun that he was killed with, but Ranger Hill (Craig Nigh) stops her. June asks Virginia (Colby Minifie) why Dakota (Zoe Colletti) murdered John. At night, Virginia and the Pioneers interrogate Sarah (Mo Collins), Daniel Salazar (Ruben Blades), Grace (Karen David), Luciana (Danay García) and Wes (Colby Hollman) to find the whereabouts of Morgan (Lennie James). After not learning anything, they beat Daniel and Virginia decides to kill Grace. Morgan appears and tells the Pioneers the truth about the murder of Cameron and Janis, and this causes Strand (Colman Domingo) and some of the Pioneers to turn on Virginia. When Virginia tries to shoot the group, Strand shoots her in the arm and a shootout begins. Virginia orders Hill to take Grace and the others hostage.

Morgan captures Virginia and escapes with her. The next day, he treats Virginia's wound and tells her he plans to keep her alive in order to save Grace and Daniel. Virginia reveals to Morgan that Dakota is actually her daughter. Later, Sherry (Christine Evangelista) and the masked men arrive in the SWAT truck, forcing Morgan and Virginia to flee. Virginia’s injury makes it difficult for her to run, and Sherry catches her. Morgan tells her that he cannot kill Virginia as he needs her to keep his friends safe. Sherry reluctantly lets them leave.

Morgan takes Virginia to his community and tells Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), Dwight (Austin Amelio), Althea (Maggie Grace) and Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) that if Virginia dies, she would endanger the lives of Grace and Daniel and that they need to keep her safe. However, Strand, the rebel Pioneers, and Sherry's group arrive and demand justice from Morgan; Virginia accepts her fate. Morgan is about to execute Virginia in front of everyone, but can't bring himself to do it.

Later, Virginia confesses to Dakota that she is not her sister but instead her daughter, and Dakota rejects her. Sherry and Strand's group again demand Virginia be turned over to them, but Morgan tells them that killing her would not resolve anything. Morgan invites everyone to join his community, but Strand decides to remain with the Pioneers. In Virginia's cell, Alicia and Morgan tell her that she and Dakota are being exiled and will be killed if they return. June stays with her while the others get Dakota, and both discuss their past conflicts concerning their daughters. Enraged by the murder of John, June realizes that everything that has happened was because of Virginia, and kills her. Having gotten her revenge, June leaves Morgan’s community.

Trendel and his wife, Rhoda, have drifted apart: she is disillusioned by his change from idealist to party careerist and cabinet minister. She is attracted to Lecaile, who is in fact a dangerous anarchist whose real name, well known to the police, is Dangerfield. He is betrayed by a colleague, and resorts to burglary of Trendel's house to recover an incriminating document. Unknown to him, Rhoda is asleep in an armchair in the room he is searching. She wakes and confronts him. Trendel discovers the two together and jumps to the conclusion that they are carrying on behind his back. To save her reputation, Dangerfield admits his identity and his reason for being in the house. Trendel, touched by Dangerfield's gallant conduct, allows him to depart, but having let an anarchist go, he feels obliged to write to the prime minister resigning his office. Rhoda, moved by this evidence of humanity and scruple on her husband's part, is reconciled with him.

The main plot is interwoven with the romance of Trendel's nephew (and secretary) and the ''ingénue'' Esme in the face of her family's attempts to marry her off to an elderly peer. The action includes the comings of goings of friends and colleagues of varying degrees of eccentricity."The London Theatres", ''The Era'', 11 May 1895, p. 9

The plot is split among the points of view of the various characters, winding from one to the next, and eventually connecting. The setting is an empire consisting of many floating islands upon the Endless Sea.

Lin is the daughter of the tyrannical emperor of the Phoenix Empire, but must compete to become his heir with Bayan, his foster son. The Sulai dynasty rules the empire by wielding bone shard magic, using skull fragments from their citizens to harvest their life force in order to animate constructs that fulfill various roles in running the island empire. Four major constructs that use hundreds of shards are the empire's ministers, while simpler constructs serve as dock clerks or spies. Lin is struggling to recover her memories, lost after contracting a mysterious illness brought to the palace by Bayan. She and Bayan vie to become the more adept bone shard magicians and thereby receive the emperor's favor. Because the bones must belong to a living person in order to work, the emperor gathers what he needs through tithing festivals, where the young members of his empire are trepanned, some dying in the process. Not all bone shard donors will power a construct, but those who do will have their life force drained and die early.

Jovis is a smuggler, who is on a mission to find and rescue his wife, Emahla, who was taken some years prior by a mysterious figure captaining a fast ship with blue sails. As he chases after this ship, he narrowly escapes the disaster of an entire island that sinks for no known reason, drowning and killing most of its inhabitants in the process. He rescues a young boy from the tithing ceremony along the way, and once upon the water, brings onto his boat a creature he mistakes for a kitten, whom the boy names Mephi. Jovis quickly gains a reputation as a rescuer of children, and is in much demand by desperate parents. As he is swept into this activity, ostensibly for the money lost in the island disaster rather than altruism, he discovers that since partnering with the fast-growing Mephi, he has developed super-human strength, which he uses against the imperial forces now hunting him with even greater intent than when he was a mere smuggler. Mephi, to Jovis' amazement, is able to speak, slowly developing from simple one-word concepts to using complete sentences. He finds himself torn between his original mission to rescue his beloved and his burgeoning commitment to doing what's right, a dilemma that is exacerbated when he finds himself cooperating with the rebels on Nephilanu Island, one of the empire's largest islands.

One of these rebels is Ranami. Ranami grew up as a "gutter rat", and is determined to change the system, and replace it with one that is more just. Her partner, Phalue, is the daughter of the wealthy governor of Nephilanu Island. Phalue, who had given up her philandering ways upon meeting Ranami, yearns only for Ranami to agree to marry her. She is unable to understand why Ranami continues to refuse her. Ranami is very clear that she has no desire to be a governor's wife. She is frustrated by Phalue's insistence upon defending the existing social structure, and how she parrots her father's philosophies. She begs Phalue to read relevant books on the subject, eventually dragging her into rebel business. Phalue agrees to help, but because she loves Ranami, not out of commitment to the cause.

As Lin discovers the secrets behind her father's power, she is shocked by his actions and becomes determined to gain the throne and change things for the better. Her actions lead to additional confrontations, eventually leading to her meeting with Jovis, who approaches the palace on behalf of the rebels, thus tying together the four narrative strands.

In a mostly separate narrative, Sand resides on Maila, a remote island. She doesn't do much, just collects mangoes. Other island denizens similarly collect clams, and gather daily in a central location to get their food. One day, she falls from a tree, and almost immediately begins to remember things, including a different life in a different place. The other island residents insist they have all always been on Maila, but Sand's awakening continues, and she decides to awaken the others as well. They figure out that they all arrived on the island on a ship with blue sails, whose captain is the only one who knows how to make it through the dangerous reefs into the harbor. They want to overpower the captain, but discover they are somehow conditioned to do no violence. As they work their way around this limitation, Sand realizes that this must mean they are constructs. They succeed in their efforts to seize the ship and map the way out, and at the close of the novel, Sand exclaims that she will sail away with them and make them into an army.

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Upon the death of King Charles I in 1922, his close associate Prince returned to Hungary from Switzerland. During his brief spell as Hungarian Minister of Food Supply in 1918, he had misappropriated a large sum of money which he began using to fund Hungarian nationalist organizations. Windischgraetz met with Prime Minister István Bethlen, arguing in favor of uniting the various Hungarian irredentist organizations into a united front. Mészáros whose case had been dismissed by an Austrian court without going to trial, approached Windischgraetz with a plan to counterfeit the French franc. Windischgraetz agreed to provide funding for the operation with , the Chief Captain of National Police joining in the same year. The plan was put to a halt when Mészáros immigrated to Turkey and Windischgraetz realized that it relied on crude printing technology.

In the summer of 1923, Windischgraetz came into contact with prominent German nationalists Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler with Bethlen's tacit approval. German nationalists shared Hungary's animosity towards France and were eager to collaborate on clandestine operations. It was at that point that Ludendorff (a retired Prussian Army General) revealed to Windischgraetz that German industrialists from the French‐occupied Ruhr had financed a plot to counterfeit French francs. While the technical aspect of the plot had been nearly completed, it had to be abandoned due to the warming of Franco-German relations in the prelude to the Locarno Treaties. Ludendorff then offered Windischgraetz to execute the plot with the use of the left‐over equipment. German engraver Arthur Schulze was sent to Budapest, he in turn helped procure printing machines in Leipzig. In the meantime, Windischgraetz's secretary Dezsö Rába arranged for of special paper to be shipped from Cologne. The materials were transported aboard tugboats navigating the Danube River and in sealed railroad cars from Bavaria.

Windischgraetz provided 1,300 dollars for the operation while Postal Savings Bank director Gábor Baross gave 6,000 dollars in additional funds. Baross also advised the plotters on matters of distribution. In early 1924, the scheme received the approval of former Prime Minister Pál Teleki. Cartographic Institute technical expert Major György Gerő initiated his supervisor General Lajos Haits and the director of the institute, General Sándor Kurtz into the conspiracy. The printing press was then set up in the institute's cellar and dynamite was planted in parts of the building in order to destroy any evidence of the operation in case of a raid by the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control. Gerő then helped Schulze resolve the final technical problems with producing the plates for the 1,000 franc banknote.

Printing began in either 1924 or April 1925, by the summer of 1925 a lack of funds limited production to less than a thousand banknotes per day. The initial goal of producing 100 million dollars worth of counterfeits had to be scaled down to 100,000 banknotes worth 3.2 million dollars. The initial goal of destroying the French economy had to be abandoned. Participants of the plot offered conflicting testimonies regarding its other goals including conducting an invasion of Transylvania and funding a referendum in Slovakia. According to author Murray Bloom, the proceeds were to fund a coup that aimed to bring Archduke Albrecht to the Hungarian throne on Christmas Day 1925. When Baross showed specimens of the forgery to other Hungarian bank executives they decried their poor quality. Baross then discussed the issue with Bethlen who urged him not to disseminate the banknotes within Hungary. By September 1925, between 25,000 and 35,000 forged banknotes had been produced.

The conspirators met at the house of Catholic Chief Chaplain of the Hungarian Army who blessed the banknotes and led an oath‐swearing ceremony. Colonel Arisztid Jankovich, the brother‐in‐law of the Minister of Defense, Count Károly Csáky, was to act as the main distributor of the money. The notes were stored in Zadravecz's house and in the Windischgraetz family castle in Sarostpak near Tokaj. Nádosy provided the conspirators with passports, Jankovich's bearing a diplomatic courier stamp. He then transported the money to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry where it was placed into diplomatic pouches and shipped abroad. Gaspar Kovács, Windischgraetz's personal valet had previously sent six of the 1,000 franc notes to a personal friend, a Dutch bank cashier named Severing, asking him to convert them to Dutch guilders. After Severing failed to detect the forgery, Windischgraetz ordered twelve distributors to depart for abroad. Private banks in the capitals of the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Italy were to be successively targeted. The distributors were to transfer the genuine money to the respective Hungarian embassies which would then ship it in diplomatic pouches to the Cartographic Institute.

Discovery

The distributors departed Budapest on 10 December 1925. On 13 December, Jankovich reached the Dutch border by train. Upon inspecting his passport Dutch customs officials noticed that it lacked a visa. They opened Jankovich's luggage but did not dare to open the packages it contained because they bore diplomatic seals. He was ordered to secure a visa in The Hague by the end of the next day. This incident threatened to derail his plans as he was originally supposed to hand over the parcel addressed to the Hungarian Minister in The Hague to two other conspirators and then depart for Stockholm the following day. Upon arriving at the Amsterdam Centraal station he booked a room at a nearby hotel. There he opened the parcel and took out twenty-five forged 1,000 franc notes and went to the Amsterdam Bourse. György Marsovszky and György Mankowicz met Jankovich behind the Bourse at 2 p.m., the two were staying at another hotel and were using fake names and forged Romanian passports. While handing them the notes, two fell down and Jankovich picked them up and placed them into his wallet.

Having completed his assignment Jankovich traveled to The Hague early in the following day. He secured a visa at the passport office without incident and then went to a private bank to exchange one of the four 1,000 franc notes in his wallet (two being genuine and two being counterfeits). The bank's teller had stepped away from his post to respond to a phone call, so Jankovich was served by the bank's manager, a local expert in money forgery. It remains unknown whether Jankovich handed a counterfeit note on purpose or by accident, but the manager immediately became suspicious and ordered the bank's detective to follow him. The detective followed Jankovich to a local luxury hotel, alerting the bank and the police about his whereabouts. Two police detectives and the bank's manager entered Jankovich's suite questioning him about the incident. Jankovich professed his innocence declaring that he was a courier of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and therefore possessed diplomatic immunity. At that point one of the detectives noticed a 1,000 franc note protruding from under the bed, upon examining it he declared it to be a counterfeit. The detectives then opened a trunk in the corner of the room finding it to be stuffed with packets of money. Jankovich demanded to be taken to the Hungarian embassy.

Jankovich was escorted to the embassy where he was met by the Hungarian consul. Visibly irritated, Jankovich demanded to speak with the ambassador in person, declaring that he was carrying out a special mission on behalf of the Hungarian police. The Dutch detectives then handed over the case to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Unaware of the plot, the ambassador sent a telegram to Budapest on 22 January expressing doubts about the credibility of Jankovich's statement. Dutch police captured Marsovszky and Mankowicz in The Hague after finding a note with their hotel addresses in Jankovich's room, confiscating the entire shipment of forged money. The three plotters initially refused to cooperate with the investigation, however the Bank of France and Sûreté Générale contacted the investigators and presented them with the six counterfeit notes previously sent by Kovács. When the investigators revealed Kovács' ties to Windischgraetz, the three arrested plotters made a full confession. Dutch Police Chief K.H. Broekhoff telegraphed the confessions to Paris and Budapest and sent descriptions of the forged banknotes to other members of the ICPC. Forty Sûreté detectives were dispatched to Vienna and Budapest, arriving on 28 December. French Prime Minister Aristide Briand initially sought to strengthen his country's political influence in central Europe by politicizing the affair. Pushing for Bethlen's removal from power and his replacement by a more liberal politician.

The plotters began destroying the printing presses, but they forgot to get rid of the stocks of banknote paper which were later discovered by the investigators. Windischgraetz's secretary Rába sent all the money couriers abroad a telegram with the message "AUNT ILL COME HOME". By that time another courier Edmund von Olchvary, was tracked to Copenhagen and then arrested in Hamburg on 1 January 1926. The following day, Rába and Kovács were arrested. Reports of the case were widely discussed in the Dutch and French press, as well as Hungarian papers sympathetic to the opposition. Nádosy admitted his involvement in the operation to the Hungarian Justice and Interior Ministers. On 4 January, Windischgraetz and Nádosy were detained, the latter was also suspended from his position. The involvement of the Cartographic Institute in the plot prompted an appointment of a royal Hungarian persecutor to supervise the case. The Hungarian persecutor declared the case an internal affair and stopped collaborating with the French. In late January, French investigators leaked incriminating details about Bethlen's involvement in the plot to the press. On 20 January 1926, the Hungarian parliament approved the creation of a commission to investigate the government's involvement in the affair. The arrests of Haits, Kurtz and many other conspirators followed. Schulze was arrested on 16 February with the help of the German police. He died a month later under mysterious circumstances, allegedly due to being poisoned. Austrian police also assisted in the investigation.

The series involves WWE personalities, instructed by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, traveling across the country with A. J. Francis, searching for collectibles related to professional wrestling.

Helstrom siblings Daimon (in Portland) and Ana (in San Francisco) both have necromantic superpowers. Daimon both works as an ethics professor and aids Louise Hastings at the Saint Teresa Center for Mental Health, in which his mother Victoria resides after being possessed by a demon who calls herself "Mother". Ana works with Chris Yen at an auction house, though really that is only a cover for what they really do—murder those who deserve it. Victoria's husband and the kids' father was a Satanism serial killer named Marduk Helstrom. After talking to Victoria, Louise strongly suggests that Daimon work with Gabriella Rossetti, a Vatican nun-in-training.

Soon after the two meet, Keith Spivey, a security guard in Saint Teresa's goes missing, followed by a raid on a demonic tomb. Ana and ally Caretaker (real name Henry) find a mysterious skeleton in the tomb, and Ana grabs a one-eyed skull found at the scene to examine. Mother draws a symbol on the wall of her cell at Saint Teresa's. It is the same symbol on the skull Ana found. Meanwhile, Spivey, possessed by demon Basar, attacks trucker Alex Tilden at a Roxxon gas station.

Several years after the events of ''The Last Jedi'', the First Order now rules the galaxy with General Hux as its chancellor. Taking control of Coruscant, the First Order delivers daily public executions for members of a crushed Resistance and has blocked communications across the galaxy. Still free from the First Order's control, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Rose Tico and BB-8 steal a Star Dreadnought from the occupied planet of Kuat and take it to Korilev, where surviving members of the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, have established a new base.

On Mustafar, Kylo Ren discovers a Sith "holocron" in Darth Vader's castle, which leads him to seek the training of a 7000-year-old alien named Tor Valum, later revealed to be the one who instructed Palpatine's master, Darth Plagueis. During training, Kylo battles a phantom of Vader, and is taught to absorb the life force, but Tor Valum is killed by Kylo using the technique. Meanwhile, Rey learns from the sacred Jedi texts that a device capable of fixing communications is stored in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The team split up, with Finn, Rose, R2-D2, and C-3PO trying to restore communications using the device while Rey, Chewbacca, and Poe depart on a mission to Bonadan to find the planet of Mortis, the location of a vision Rey had with her duelling Kylo.

On Coruscant, Finn and Rose activate the device, which would allow Leia to send a message to the galaxy to inspire rebellion, but they are attacked by the First Order before completing it. After Rose is captured, Finn fights a stormtrooper with serial number RK-514. Finn, recalling that he is a redeemed stormtrooper, ultimately spares his life after defeating him, and RK-514 convinces other stormtroopers to defect and help Finn's cause. With the help of the droids, ordinary citizens, and defected stormtroopers, Finn leads a revolution on Coruscant, with Poe, Chewbacca, and an army of the Resistance arriving to assist in the battle against the remaining First Order forces. Having been convinced by Leia, Lando Calrissian arrives with an army of smugglers to aid the revolution. When he learns the First Order is nearing defeat, Hux kills himself using a purple-bladed lightsaber from his collection. After being tortured, Rose manages to free herself and rewires the hyperdrive of the First Order's base floating above Coruscant, causing it to crash.

After defeating Kylo’s subordinates, the Knights of Ren, Rey battles Kylo on Mortis, who blinds and defeats her, almost killing her with his new power to absorb life from the living. Luke Skywalker’s Force ghost offers moral support to Rey, and she confronts Kylo for a second time. Rey states that her masters were wrong in rejecting the dark side and embraces both sides of the Force, the dark and light co-existing in true balance, giving her the upper hand and allowing her to defeat Kylo. Kylo dies redeemed, healing Rey with the Force after Leia calls out to him. His last words reveal Rey's true birth name to be Rey Solana. On the verge of death, Rey meets with the ghosts of Luke, Yoda, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, who allow her to choose between staying dead or returning to life.

At the Resistance base, Finn, Poe, Rose and Chewbacca are given medals for their heroism. Some time later, Finn and Rose settle on the planet Modesta, where they create a home for force sensitive children. A silhouette soon approaches the homestead, revealing herself to be Rey, who vows to train the children in the Force, while showing how the balance of the light and dark sides will maintain peace in the galaxy.

Following the loss of Zane, the team splits apart, but Lloyd seeks to rebuild it. The ninja are reunited at Chen's Noodle House, where they discover that Zane is alive and are invited to compete in a tournament by Master Chen. Garmadon and the ninja join a group of Elemental Masters and Chen's second-in-command, Clouse, on board a ferry. On Chen's island, Zane is being held prisoner and is now the Titanium Ninja.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 1 "The Invitation" Upon arrival, Kai falls in love with Skylor, the Elemental Master of Amber, and tries to impress her. The competitors compete to obtain Jade Blades to remain in the contest, while the losers are dropped into trap doors. The ninja discover a secret tunnel which reveals Chen's Cultist Warriors.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 2 "Only One Can Remain" When Jay and Cole are forced to compete against each other, Cole allows Jay to win, and the two end their debate over Nya for good.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 3 "Versus" He is put to work in Chen's Noodle Factory, but plans to escape.

The ninja gain the trust of the Elemental Masters during a race between Lloyd and Camille, the Elemental Master of Form. When Lloyd wins the race, Chen tries to change the results, but the ninja are supported by the Elemental Masters.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 4 "Ninja Roll" Chen attempts to weaken the alliance by claiming that the winner will obtain the Staff of Elements, which he is secretly using to absorb their elemental powers. Dareth and Nya infiltrate the tournament, with Nya disguised as a kabuki, while Cole finds Zane and releases him. The ninja realise that one of the Elemental Masters is a spy for Chen. It is later revealed that Skylor is not only the spy, but Chen's daughter.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 5 "Spy for a Spy"

In the next contest, Chen sends the contestants to a jungle island to capture Nya. In the jungle, Kai and Skylor team up, but Skylor reveals herself as Chen's daughter and everyone aside from Garmadon, Lloyd, and Nya are captured.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 6 "Spellbound" Chen offers Kai greater power if he betrays the ninja and Kai pretends to switch sides. When Lloyd is captured, Kai uses an opportune moment to take the Staff of Elements, which begins to corrupt him, but he manages to destroy it, which restores all of the elemental powers.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 7 "The Forgotten Element" In the jungle, Clouse and Garmadon fight, resulting in Garmadon throwing Clouse into a portal to the Cursed Realm. Chen and his army escape from the island but are pursued by the ninja and Elemental Masters riding on their elemental dragons.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 8 "The Day of the Dragon"

When Chen performs a spell to transform his army into Anacondrai warriors, he realises that to make the spell permanent, he needs the essence of a true Anacondrai. As Pythor is the last remaining Anacondrai, he is captured by Chen, who uses his sweat to complete the spell. Chen and his army then wage war against Ninjago.Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 9 "The Greatest Fear of All" A battle takes place at the Corridor of Elders, between the ninja alliance and Chen's army. Pythor reveals to Garmadon that the only way to defeat Chen's army is for Garmadon to banish himself to the Cursed Realm to bring back the original Anacondrai generals. Garmadon accepts, resulting in the spirits of the Anacondrai generals banishing Chen and his army to the Cursed Realm. A single spirit flies out of the portal to the Cursed Realm, uttering the name "Morro".Ninjago, Season 4, Episode 10 "The Corridor of Elders"

When Lloyd is possessed by the spirit of Morro, the ninja realise that they have lost their elemental powers. Morro attacks Wu and the ninja to obtain Wu's staff, which has three symbols engraved upon it.Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 1 " Winds of Change" Morro successfully takes the staff, but Wu has made an imprint of the symbols. Wu explains that Morro was his first pupil and the Elemental Master of Wind. Morro believed that he would become the Green Ninja and was enraged to find out that he was not. He had set out to find the Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master but never returned. Morro and his three ghost warriors begin their search for the Realm Crystal, which will allow Morro to release the Preeminent, the physical embodiment of the Cursed Realm, into Ninjago.

The first symbol on Wu's staff is a technique known as Airjitzu, which allows the user to levitate off the ground. To learn this technique, the ninja travel to the city of Stiix to find Ronin, who stole the Scroll of Airjitzu from Domu Library. On the way, they encounter Chain Master Wrayth and learn that ghosts can be defeated with water.Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 2 "Ghost Story" In Stiix, they search for the scroll but are outwitted by Morro, who takes the scroll, learns Airjitzu and escapes.Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 3 "Stiix and Stones" The ninja discover they can learn Airjitzu by visiting the Temple of Airjitzu. Meanwhile, Nya receives intensive training from Wu and begins to control the element of water. The ninja visit the Temple of Airjitzu, which is haunted by the ghost of Master Yang, and they earn the Scroll of Airjitzu. Yang tries to trap them inside the temple, revealing that anyone who remains inside at dawn will become a ghost. The ninja escape with the scroll, except for Cole, who doesn't get out in time and is transformed into a ghost. He remains in this form throughout Season 5 and Season 6.Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 4 "The Temple on Haunted Hill"

After learning Airjitzu, the ninja race to obtain the second symbol, the Sword of Sanctuary. They ascend the Wailing Alps and use Airjitzu to pass through the Blind Man's Eye into a parallel realm called Cloud Kingdom.Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 5 "Peak-a-Boo" Morro again outwits them, takes the sword and returns to Ninjago with the ninja in pursuit. On the mountainside, Kai takes the sword from Morro and the ninja use it to pinpoint the location of the third symbol, the Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master.Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 6 "Kingdom Come" When they arrive, they face three deadly tests before finding the Realm Crystal. There they encounter Morro, who releases Lloyd and escapes with the crystal. Lloyd is weak, but the ninja find their elemental powers are returning. Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 8 "Grave Danger" Morro uses the Realm Crystal to release an army of ghosts and the Preeminent. The ninja are forced to battle the army of ghosts but realise that they are being overwhelmed and retreat on a paddle steamer. Nya unlocks her True Potential and destroys the enemies with a huge wave. Wu tries to pull Morro from the grasp of the Preeminent but he dies as he hits the water. Ninjago, Season 5, Episode 10 "Curseworld, Part II"

The series consists of two-hour documentaries on different WWE superstars, giving an insight into both their personal and on-screen lives.

Kaylee, a Native American woman who was once a boxer, is now an addict living in a shelter and working as a waitress. Some time ago, Kaylee's younger sister Weeta was kidnapped and taken into a sex trafficking ring. She is one of the hundreds of young girls who go missing every year. No one has heard of her since. Kaylee is still searching.

After finding a lead on Weeta's whereabouts, Kaylee meets the procurer of a local trafficking ring. The man takes pictures of her, drugs her, masturbates in front of her, and tells her that she will be sent to a man looking to buy a "Native girl".

Bobby is the son of the ring's kingpin, Willie. Kaylee is chloroformed, tied up, and taken by Bobby to the buyer's home. She wakes up alone in a basement and using a razor blade hidden under her tongue, she cuts herself free. Once Bobby and the buyer arrive, Bobby explains that he knows what she is trying to do and that she will never find her sister. When he leaves the room, and the buyer prepares to rape her, Kaylee pulls out the razor blade, kills the buyer, and runs away. Willie and his crew arrive to get rid of the dead body. Kaylee returns to the house and hides in Bobby's car. She sees Willie hit Bobby and order him to leave.

Bobby goes home to his wife Linda and son Junior. When he leaves the room, Kaylee enters the house and ties his family up, putting tape over their mouths to stop them from screaming. Bobby returns and a fight ensues, with Kaylee using her expertise as a boxer to gain the upper hand. After tying him up, Kaylee demands information about her sister but he refuses to answer. She stabs him in the leg, threatens to cut off Linda's ear, and begins to waterboard him. An uncooperative Bobby drowns to death.

Kaylee interrogates Linda and learns that Willie owns a train yard where he will transport the next "batch" of kidnapped girls. Kaylee arrives at the train yard with only Bobby's gun in her possession. At gunpoint, one of Willie's truck drivers tells her that the girls are in a nearby warehouse. She finds them and tells them to escape when the procurer from before spots her. He runs away and Kaylee shoots him several times. She questions him but he begins to apologize and beg instead. Kaylee walks away, letting the procurer bleed to death. Kaylee reveals that she has hidden Linda and Junior in her car. She orders Linda to take him to Willie, who lives in a mansion.

Inside the house, Linda is greeted by Willie's wife Debra, who says Willie is in the library. She mentions that Linda regularly visited them every time Bobby became aggressive. In the bathroom, Linda messages Kaylee with the correct information about where Willie is but also calls 9-1-1 before leaving. Kaylee holds Willie at gunpoint and asks about Weeta. Debra barges into the room with a gun and accidentally shoots Willie in the face. Kaylee shoots and kills Debra as Debra shoots again, hitting Kaylee in the stomach. In her final moments, Kaylee imagines what her life would have been if she had succeeded, as she envisions herself entering her comeback boxing match.

A writer loses her memory in New York City, attempting to find her way home, she connects with a group of strangers in conversations, real and imagined.

After a physics class in which she takes the same exam multiple times over, obsessively competitive college freshman Alex Dall sets out to join the Wellington College Novice Rowing Program. Shortly after the first training session her thoughts become occupied with the sport - in particular with the consistent form practiced while rowing.

Jamie Brill, another freshman largely taking up rowing as a means to attain an athletic scholarship, is quickly labeled as the "best novice" on the team to the chagrin of Alex - which further fuels her obsessive drive and compulsive behavior. Over time, Alex improves her rowing times (albeit still behind those of Jamie) at the detriment of her academic performance, and they are both soon moved into the varsity team. While Jamie quickly adapts to the new environment, Alex fails to fit in both socially and athletically - being forced to sit at the back of the bus and accidentally knocking herself out (referred to as "catching a crab") during a major race.

Moved back to the novice team, Alex loses her already tenuous friendship with Jamie - and during the first joint novice/varsity practice passes out while exercising and urinates herself, becoming the subject of derision within the team. After Erin, a varsity rower and trainer, outlines the criteria to officially make varsity but expresses doubt in Alex due to her small stature. Alex begins vigorously practicing alone, but is interrupted by Coach Pete who has been taking increasing notice of her potentially self-harmful level of commitment. Pete initially attempts to dissuade Alex from working so hard, but eventually offers to assist her in using a scull to practice alone during winter break.

Alex steadily improves as a rower by practicing over break, and begins a relationship with her former graduate student instructor Dani. Alex and Jamie are eager to try out for the "1V boat" which the best members of the team row on, but are denied the opportunity by Coaches Pete and Edwards. Meanwhile, Alex's health deteriorates, with a wound on her palm frequently bleeding and failing to heal.

In the spring, Alex and Jamie race to determine who will take the spot of a 1V Rower who has left the team due to a broken collarbone. Alex loses, sensing that the team was assisting the more popular Jamie by sandbagging while rowing on Alex's boat. Dejected, Alex begins to self-harm, while an infection from the wound on her palm begins to spread throughout her arm. Dani breaks up with Alex due to her increasingly destructive behavior and refusal to change.

In the last week of the season, a challenge is set up to beat rower Highsmith's 14 minute record. While intended to be a friendly competition Alex, now fully a pariah within the team, publicly declares her intentions to break the record. The girls set off to row in individual boats on a dark hours of a cold early morning as a thunderstorm sets in. Alex collides her boat into Highsmith's and is thrown into the water, but climbs back on and continues rowing. The rest of the team starts to row back owing to the increasing severity of the storm but Alex persists despite their warnings.

Alex finishes the race as a flash of lightning envelops her, and returns to the training building to the silent shock of her team members and coaches, erasing her name from the chalkboard and seemingly quitting the team. It is left ambiguous as to if Alex has beaten Highsmith's record.

In 1985, when a select group of special agents of the FBI's Behavior Science Unit pass on death row inmate Ted Bundy as a case study, newcomer Bill Hagmaier accepts the challenge while knowing Bundy's distrust of the FBI. Through shared letters, Bundy shows interest, and Hagmaier travels to the Florida State Prison for an interview. Bundy and Hagmaier examine pornography and detective magazines as a probable catalyst of serial killers. Bundy coaxes personal information from Hagmaier about his life to establish trust. Bundy equates investigators to fishermen. The deeper their fishing line goes, the harder it is to catch a killer. He says that one day he may take Hagmaier under the water to see how deep it goes.

Bill meets with Ted again in 1986. Ted is shown crime scene photos of the Green River case and gives his assessment on the patterns of the elusive murderer. Through Bill's calculating questioning, Ted discloses information about his own patterns. Ted asks Bill if he could kill someone. Bill explains that, due to his being an FBI agent, it could happen, but this answer is not what Ted was seeking. Back in Quantico, Virginia, Unit Chief Roger Depue cautions Bill not to get too close to someone like Bundy.

While sharing stories about their children during their next meeting in 1987, Ted senses that Bill is getting too deep in his mind and taunts him to speculate on what he would do if he escaped from prison. Bill describes it with a good amount of accuracy and Ted verbally attacks Bill, then settles down and begins to disclose more intimate details of his life and what may have led him to murder but dispels the myths about him. He reveals that he and Bill could easily change places, which deeply afflicts Bill.

As Ted is lobbying for a stay of execution in 1989, Governor Martinez signs the death warrant, and Ted is to die by electrocution in seven days. Hearing of the execution, the media and a crowd begin to mass outside the prison. Ted is now ready to confess his crimes but will only speak with Bill. Though Bill is supervising interviews with investigators from several states, he arrives to find Ted's civil attorney, Carolyn Lieberman, taking charge. Ted believes holding back certain information could overturn the execution, buying him more time for further details. Carolyn doesn't want Bill's influence as an FBI agent at the interviews but Ted insists he attends, calling Bill his best friend. Bill urges Ted not to play games with the governor and asks how many women he killed. Ted confesses to 30 deaths. At the interviews, Ted is evasive with his answers, only divulging information to a few murders. Ignoring Bill's conditions that no media is to be involved, Carolyn schedules Ted to interview with Dr. James Dobson, an influential evangelical Christian author and psychologist, whom she believes will help with a pardon. After the interview, Dobson reveals to Carolyn the governor was never going to grant the pardon.

A day before the execution, the warden informs Bill that a last-minute sanity hearing will take place. While multiple consultations will be conducted, the decision to proceed with the execution will rest entirely on Bill's testimony to a psychiatric board, which ultimately declares Ted sane. Outside the prison, the spirited crowd grows in anticipation, while inside Bill assists Ted in writing a letter to his mother. Bill asks to be taken under the water. With harsh details, Ted exposes how he lured and killed a victim, which leaves Bill overwhelmed and in tears.

That night, Ted thanks Bill for being a friend to him. Ted suddenly threatens suicide, but Bill is hardened by the ultimatum. Ted has an outburst of desperation, asking why it's happening to him, still showing no remorse for his crimes. Infuriated, Bill exclaims his victims didn't prepare for death. Ted takes to his knees in prayer. As Bill prepares to leave, Ted asks him if he understands why he killed. Bill tells him, "Because you wanted to." Just moments before the execution, Bill learns he has been removed as a witness to the execution and others will take his place. Left alone in the warden's office, Bill makes a phone call to his family. While Bill is speaking with his son, the crowd outside erupts in cheers.

A struggling baker in a small town takes her friend's advice to train for the Ladies Arm Wrestling Championship and its prize of $15,000.

Sergei Yesenin, with the help of Isadora Duncan, plans an escape from the Soviet Union and finds himself on incredible adventures.

Caroline Rayward, cook to the Rev Audley Pillenger, vicar of Stillford, is in fact Lady Huntworth. She was married to a drunken and abusive husband and endured eleven years of matrimonial misery before Lord Huntworth divorced her on a spurious charge of adultery so that he could pursue a rich widow. Thrown on her own resources, she has assumed a new identity and made use of her chief talent, which is for cooking. Also in the vicarage are Pillenger's sister, Hannah, and their niece, Lucy. The latter is betrothed, at her family's behest, to Captain Dorvaston, a genial, honest and not overbright officer retired from the Indian Army. He is not in love with Lucy, nor she with him. She loves the Rev Henry Thoresby, her father's mild young curate, and is resolved to marry him despite her family's wishes. The vicar, Gandy (his manservant), and the captain are all much taken with Caroline, and each plans to meet her in her kitchen on an evening when her fellow-servants are absent and the other inmates of the house have gone to a penny reading."Lady Huntworth's Experiment", ''The Era'', 28 April 1900, p. 12

After Caroline has discouraged Gandy's hopes, and before the vicar and Dorvaston arrive, a "Mr Crayll" intrudes. He is in fact Lord Huntworth, in his usual drunken state; he has come to ask his former wife to return to him. The reason for his pretended repentance is that he knows – as she does not, until now – that Caroline has come into a fortune. She scornfully rejects his offer and leaves him to sleep off his drunkenness in the scullery. The vicar enters, proposes marriage and is refused. On hearing someone approaching, he takes refuge in the larder. The new arrival is the captain, whose honest admiration touches Caroline. A third arrival – the vicar's sister – sends Dorvaston into hiding in a broom cupboard, where she discovers him and will hear no explanations. The act ends with the Captain, at Caroline's request, carrying out the sleeping Lord Huntworth to put him in a dry ditch at the bottom of the garden.

In the last act Caroline appears in fashionable walking-dress, declares her true identity to the vicar and his sister, and takes leave of them. Before she goes, she gives Dorvaston the address "Poste restante, Brussels", where a letter will find her. Lucy and Thoresby return, having been made man and wife; Dorvaston, now free from his engagement to Lucy, joyfully prepares to follow Caroline to the continent.

Acronix emerges from the time vortex, after being trapped for 40 years, and Master Wu challenges him in combat. During the fight, the Forward Time Blade arrives through the vortex and Acronix uses it to hit Wu with a time punch that accelerates his aging. Acronix reunites with his brother Krux. Wu relates the history of the Hands of Time, twin brothers, who were once allied with the Elemental Masters, but betrayed them. Ray and Maya had forged four Time Blades, which Wu and Garmadon used to absorb the twins' elemental powers, before banishing them into the vortex. Krux had emerged from the vortex years ago and disguised himself as Dr. Sander Saunders, curator of the Ninjago History Museum.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 1 "The Hands of Time"

The Hands of Time proceed with their master plan. Krux has bred an army of Vermillion warriors formed from snakes. The twins abduct Cyrus Borg and various workers from Ninjago City to build the Iron Doom, a time-traveling mech. The ninja attempt to fight the Vermillion but discover that they can immediately reform upon defeat.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 2 "The Hatching" Kai visits Ninjago History Museum and fights the Time Twins with Nya. Krux tells Kai that his parents were traitors and helped the Hands of Time forge the Vermillion armour.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 3 "A Time of Traitors" The Vermillion recover the Slow-Mo Time Blade from the desert, but the ninja take it from them.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 5 "A Line in the Sand" The Vermillion then launch an attack on the Temple of Airjitzu and during the battle, the Hands of Time escape with both Time Blades and Wu as their captive.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 6 "The Attack" They retrieve the Pause Time Blade from the top of a mountain.

The ninja split up to rescue Cyrus, the workers, and Wu. Kai visits the Blacksmith Shop and confronts his father, calling him a traitor. His parents explain that they were forced to work for Krux and that 40 years prior they hid the Reversal Time Blade in a secret location. The Hands of Time force Kai and Nya to retrieve the Reversal Blade from the Boiling Sea.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 8 "Pause and Effect" They travel to its location by creating a Fusion Dragon, but on their return are attacked by Krux and Acronix, resulting in Ray being hit by the Forward Time Blade, which rapidly advances his age.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 9 "Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea"

The Hands of Time travel back 40 years to the same temporal point when they battled the Elemental Masters. The Vermillion warriors attack the monastery, but Kai, Nya, and Wu, who have followed them into the vortex, join the fight and the Elemental Masters get the upper hand. During the battle, the Time Twins alter history by forcing Wu to yield and this reverts present-day Ninjago to its pre-technology age. Kai and Nya ride the Fusion Dragon to battle the Iron Doom. The Hands of Time open another time vortex to escape, but Kai, Nya, and Wu confront them. During the fight, Wu rips out the Reversal Blade, sabotaging the Iron Doom in the process. Kai and Nya are thrown off the mech with the Reversal Blade and return to the present day. Ninjago is restored to its technological glory and Kai uses the Reversal Time Blade to cure his father's rapid aging. The Time Twins and Wu are lost in time aboard the Iron Doom.Ninjago, Season 7, Episode 10 "Lost in Time"

The film features a couple, Emeka and Jumoke, who have been married for 11 years and they have a daughter who they love dearly. Jumoke have been trying hard to have another child and hope it would be a boy to appease Emeka’s family. A gang attacks them one night and the gang leader decides to rape Jumoke. This puts a huge strain in their relationship and it gets tougher as a series of events begin to unfold.

The novel is narrated by Martin Legatt, a young man at the start of his career with the Forest Corporation, an international logging concern. Travelling by steamer down the Irrawaddy River in Burma he makes the acquaintance of the captain, Michael Crowther, who has been in Burma for many years. Crowther shows Legatt a small bag of trinkets that he has been given for safekeeping by his local Burmese 'wife', and tells him that he will never see her or their daughter again as he has decided to leave Burma and make a name for himself in London. Unexpectedly, the bag contains a valuable sapphire.

Leggat's career takes him back to England where he hears nothing of Crowther, although he does spot him once in a London church. Three years after his first visit, Legatt returns to Burma to find that Crowther has also returned and has in the meantime become a trainee Buddhist monk. He has given his possessions to a monastery, and the sapphire and trinkets now adorn the spire of the monastery's pagoda. One night the sapphire is stolen by two thieves, and Crowther is given permission to try to recover it.

In Ceylon, Legatt bumps into a friend of his from London, Imogen Cloud, who has just purchased that very sapphire, now mounted as a pendant, from a local dealer. Having sold on the stone once, the thieves decide to repeat the exercise, and when Imogen visits the local beauty spot of Adam's Peak she is attacked and avoids being thrown off the mountainside only by Leggat's quick reactions. Imogen travels on to Anuradhapura where a snake charmer hypnotizes her and escapes with the sapphire, Legatt arriving just a little too late. Imogen and Legatt fall in love.

Crowther catches up with the thieves at Colombo, and discovers that they had sold the sapphire on again to another dealer, from whom it has been bought by a Robin Colhoun for his companion Jill Leslie. But once more the trail goes cold.

Back in London, Cowther visits Legatt and asks for an entré to a private gambling salon in Savile Row. Robin Colhoun and Jill Leslie are there, and Colhoun is exposed as a cheat by Inspector Hanaud who has attended incognito at the request of one of the other guests. The party breaks up, and Colhoun keeps a low profile in the following weeks.

One evening, Imogen and Legatt see the up-and-coming young singer Letty Ransome across a restaurant. With her is Jill Leslie, wearing the sapphire pendant. Imogen decides to try to recover the jewel for Crowther, and suggests that Crowther should get to know Jill and her circle. Jill refuses to sell the pendant, and Imogen advises Crowther to rely on her generosity and to ask for it as a gift once she fully understands his religious motivation for wanting it. But it is clear that Letty Ransome is also interested.

Legatt and Imogen marry. On their return from honeymoon they attend a masked ball at the Royal Albert Hall during which Crowther at last asks Jill for the sapphire. Unable to hear his request properly due to the noise, she asks him to visit her in her hotel flat the next afternoon. At lunch beforehand in the hotel's dining room, Legatt, Crowther and Imogen bump into Letty. She explains that she left her handbag in Jill's flat after the ball, and pops upstairs to get it. She returns ten minutes later, breathing heavily and with patchy skin, and beseeches the party never to mention the incident. When Crowther and Legatt go up to the flat about an hour and a half later they find a policeman outside her door, and discover that she has just been found dead. The doctor confirms she died of a cocaine overdose. Realising that the sapphire is missing, Imogen confronts Letty who confesses that she had seen Jill near death when she went in, and had taken her opportunity to pick up the jewel. Imogen persuades her to hand it over. She passes it to Crowther who takes a passage back to Burma to restore it to the pagoda.

The Sons of Garmadon, a criminal biker gang, steals the Oni Mask of Vengeance. The ninja are summoned by the Royal Family, who ask them to protect the Oni Mask of Deception. There they meet Princess Harumi.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 1 "The Mask of Deception" At night, Lloyd follows a figure out of the palace and discovers that it is Harumi. They hand out food to children and Lloyd develops feelings for the princess. The Sons of Garmadon attack the Royal Palace and Lloyd escapes with Harumi on a motorbike. They survive, but lose the Oni mask.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 2 "The Jade Princess" Lloyd, Jay, Zane and Cole visit Mistaké's Tea Shop. She relates the "Tale of the Oni and the Dragon", while Cole and Zane head to the police station. Mistaké tells Lloyd that the Sons of Garmadon want to use the three Oni Masks to resurrect Lord Garmadon in a purely evil form. At the police station, Zane and Cole trick Luke Cunningham into revealing the hangout of the biker gang. They go to Laughy's in disguise, and when Cole's cover is blown he is taken prisoner, but Zane is recruited as "Snake Jaguar".Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 3 "The Oni and the Dragon" They force Zane to take part in a motorbike race, but a phone call from "The Quiet One", the gang's leader, reveals that Zane is a spy. Zane is forced to fight Mr. E, who reveals himself to be a Nindroid, knocks Zane off a cliff, and nearly destroys him. Cole escapes from his cell at the gang's base and finds a baby, who he takes with him.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 4 "Snake Jaguar"

The ninja find Zane and reboot his systems, unaware that Mr. E has planted a mechanical spider on him that sabotages the Bounty and P.I.X.A.L. While caring for the baby, the ninja discover the location of the Mask of Hatred. When the Samurai Mech captures Harumi, Lloyd jumps onto it and they plummet to the ground. Nya uses rain to slow the descent of the Bounty and they crash into the jungle.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 5 "Dead Man's Squall" The ninja notice that the baby is now a toddler and realise that he is Wu. P.I.X.A.L. discovers that the signal from The Quiet One came from the Bounty, proving that the leader is Harumi.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 6 "The Quiet One" The ninja are captured by the Sons of Garmadon, while Lloyd and Harumi locate the Oni Temple. Lloyd realises that Harumi is The Quiet One and they fight over the mask, but Harumi escapes. The Sons of Garmadon leave with the three Oni Masks and Destiny's Bounty.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 7 "Game of Masks"

The Sons of Garmadon take Lloyd and Misako to the Temple of Resurrection and lock them in cells. Harumi performs the ritual that resurrects Lord Garmadon. The ninja manage to stop the ritual and the police arrest the gang. Back at the temple, it is revealed that the ritual did in fact work and Garmadon is resurrected.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 8 "Dread on Arrival" He frees Harumi and they go to Kryptarium Prison to release the prisoners. Lloyd confronts his father alone and they engage in a brutal fight which nearly kills Lloyd.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 9 "True Potential" Garmadon conquers Ninjago by creating a stone Colossus. Lloyd wakes up and discovers that his elemental powers have gone. He takes Wu and flees with Harumi in pursuit. Lloyd throws Wu to the ninja on board Destiny's Bounty, but it is too far for him to jump. The Colossus grabs the Bounty and crushes it, but before it is destroyed, the ninja use Traveller's Tea to escape, and they find themselves in the Realm of Oni and Dragons. Lloyd and Nya mourn their loss and go into hiding, unaware that the others have survived.Ninjago, Season 8, Episode 10 "Big Trouble, Little Ninjago"

On board the Russian battleship Potemkin, the crew complains about the poor quality of the food. Following a brief altercation, a sailor, Grigory Vakulinchuk, is killed by the commanding officer. Mutiny breaks out and officers are thrown overboard but one of the latter manages to impose himself and brings calm to the ship. Later, on the quays of Odessa, the body of the dead sailor is displayed and the inhabitants of the city come to pay their respects. A government ship then guns the city on the orders of an officer who, from the deck of the ship, observes the events. First he sees the city on fire and then, through his monocular, a family fleeing their burning home and a group of people being chased and manhandled by soldiers.

With Emperor Garmadon ruling Ninjago City, Lloyd, Nya and their allies are forced into hiding. Lloyd feels helpless, having lost both his elemental powers and his friends, but finds hope when Mistaké tells him that the ninja have survived.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 1 "Firstbourne" Lloyd, Nya, and several Elemental Masters form a resistance against Lord Garmadon. The resistance infiltrates Borg Tower and Lloyd broadcasts a message of hope to the people of Ninjago.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 3 "Radio Free Ninjago" The Sons of Garmadon ambush their secret base, but Lloyd, Nya, Skylor and Dareth escape.

Meanwhile, the other four ninja and Wu (who has been rapidly aged up to a child and later to a teenager), are surviving in the Realm of Oni and Dragons. Kai, Jay and Zane are captured by Iron Baron and his band of dragon hunters and forced to compete in the Dragon Pit, a gladiator-style arena. Cole and Wu plot the ninja's escape and succeed when Firstbourne, the Mother of all Dragons, attacks the camp. During the chaos, Kai sets free the dragons that are held in captivity.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 4 "How to build a Dragon" In the wilderness, the ninja meet a rogue dragon hunter named Faith. She tells the story of how the First Spinjitzu Master shared a connection with Firstbourne by wearing his Dragon Armour.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 5 "The Guilded Path" Wu, Faith and the ninja set off to find Firstbourne's nest. On the journey, Faith trains the ninja to use chain rifles to take down large dragons.

In Ninjago City, Lloyd discovers that Mistaké can shapeshift because she is an Oni. They plan to take down the Sons of Garmadon and eventually capture Harumi.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 6 "Two Lies, One Truth" Mistaké takes the form of Harumi to get Skylor close to Garmadon so that she can absorb his power. Unfortunately, Harumi arrives at Borg Tower at the same moment that Mistaké is impersonating her.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 7 "The Weakest Link" Mistaké reveals her true Oni form and battles with Garmadon. During the fight, Skylor absorbs Garmadon's power and escapes, but Mistaké is killed. Skylor attempts to control Garmadon's Colossus using his power, but it poisons her. The Colossus falls onto a building, which collapses and kills Harumi, while Lloyd and Nya flee the city.

In the First Realm, the ninja are hunted down once again and captured, so Wu promises to lead Iron Baron to the Dragon Armour.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 8 "Saving Faith" When they arrive at Firstbourne's nest, Iron Baron seizes the armour, but Wu reveals that it was not the armour that caused Firstbourne to trust his father, but the goodness in his heart. Firstbourne encases Iron Baron inside molten rock, allowing Wu to take the armour. With the help of Firstbourne, the Ninja and Wu are able to return to Ninjago on the dragons.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 9 "Lessons for a Master"

Lloyd and the ninja are reunited in Ninjago City and plan a final battle with Garmadon. Wu and Lloyd fly to Borg Tower on Firstbourne to confront Garmadon. Meanwhile, the ninja attempt to bring down the Colossus using their chain rifles and are able to defeat it with the help of Ninjago citizens. Lloyd battles with his father at the top of Borg Tower, but realises that the fight fuels his father's powers and learns to resist him rather than fight back. As a result, Garmadon's powers are diminished and Lloyd's elemental power returns. Ninjago is finally free from Garmadon's reign, but before Garmadon is arrested, he warns Lloyd that a new threat is coming.Ninjago, Season 9, Episode 10 "Green Destiny"

Loki joins a Time Variance Authority (TVA) mission to the site of an attack by the fugitive variant of him in 1985 Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They find that TVA Hunter C-20 has been kidnapped, but Loki derails the mission by stalling and attempting to bargain his way into immediately meeting the Time-Keepers, who supposedly created the TVA and the Sacred Timeline. He also requests assurances that he will not be killed after the Variant is caught. TVA analyst Mobius M. Mobius realizes that Loki is lying about the Variant being nearby, so the TVA resets this branched timeline.

Back at TVA headquarters, TVA judge Ravonna Renslayer objects to Loki's involvement, but Mobius convinces her to give Loki another chance. After researching TVA files and learning of Asgard's Ragnarok, Loki theorizes that the Variant is hiding near-apocalyptic events where they can go undetected by the TVA because nothing they do can change the timeline there. Loki and Mobius prove this possibility by visiting Pompeii in 79 AD, where Loki warns locals about the coming eruption of Mount Vesuvius without changing the timeline. Using a clue previously garnered from 1549 Aix-en-Provence following one of the Variant's attacks, Loki and Mobius deduce that the Variant is hiding during a hurricane in 2050 Alabama. At superstore Roxxcart's hurricane shelter, Loki, Mobius, and TVA agents are ambushed by the Variant, who uses enchantment to possess the bodies of Hunter B-15 and other locals.

While Loki engages the Variant, the other agents find a distressed C-20, who reveals she had disclosed the Time-Keepers' location. The Variant is revealed as a female incarnation of Loki and rejects his offer to overthrow the Time-Keepers together. Instead, she activates and sends several stolen time reset charges to various locations and points along the Sacred Timeline, creating numerous new branched timelines and throwing the TVA into disarray. She teleports away, with Loki following her.

Recent high school graduate, 18-year-old Auden West (Emma Pasarow) goes to stay with her father Robert (Dermot Mulroney) in the small beachside town of Colby, wanting to spend a carefree summer reinventing herself before she leaves for college. A daughter of academics and an exemplary student, her mother (Andie McDowell) objects to her wanting to spend time with her father. An absentee dad for years, locking himself away in his office to work on his studies, he has an infant and is remarried to Heidi (Kate Bosworth).

Upon Heidi’s suggestion, Auden goes to the Tip on her first day. As she’s experimenting, she makes out with a guy, later regretting it. Heidi takes her in to her shop the next day, where she’s to look after the receipts. She comes face to face with three girls she’d seen at the Tip (Maggie is the ex of the guy she made out with). Now they all work together.

A loner and night-person, Auden roams the streets after everyone else is asleep. Ten days after her arrival she meets fellow insomniac Eli (Belmont Cameli). A BMXer, he takes her on nightly adventures and he challenges her to a quest to do all the things she missed out on in her childhood. On their first outing, they go to a secret pie shop, and he introduces her to Connect Four. On the next, they play mini golf and she admits she never got to wear her prom dress.

Auden’s mom turns up on a rainy day, taking her for lunch. She’s obviously envious of her ex and Heidi. Auden gets closer to the girls, being invited both to watch Maggie do cross-country BMXing and to a Conch House party. There she finds out about Eli’s accident where a drunk driver killed his best friend Abe.

An outing to the drive-in to see The Princess Bride and Auden and Eli talk about being night-owls. She admits that it started when she was a child, from trying to prevent her parents from fighting, but as usual, he doesn’t share. That night she finds videos of him and Abe on YouTube.

Another evening, Auden says yes to the quest, so they break into the lighthouse. Later, talking in Eli’s truck, he pushes the idea of learning to ride a bike again, and she tries to bring up his BMXing, but neither want to talk about it. A night when he is wheeling her around in a shopping cart, it falls over and, although she’s OK, he apologises profusely.

When Auden brings up the HDP (hot dog party) annual July 4 party, Eli tells her to have fun, refusing to go. Hours later he actually shows up, surprising everyone. To get everyone to forget about it, she and Eli start a food fight. Soon afterwards, a night swim is invoked by all, and Auden and Eli kiss for the first time under the fireworks.

On a coffee run, Auden gets side-tracked. Seeing her dad with a suitcase in front of the café, he complains that all new moms are nuts. She calls him out on his mistakes, that he quits the moment things get hard. Auden checks in with Heidi, who explains she lost it because he wouldn’t even go out as a family on the 4th, her favorite. Calling her mom for support, as she’s an advocate for women’s rights, she drives to the house to give moral support. Between that talk and Auden calling him out, her dad comes back and starts helping out with the baby.

Auden and Eli have a temporary falling out over biking, she because she won’t admit she never learned and he because he’s mostly abandoned BMXing because of Abe’s death. She asks Maggie to teach her and he gets back to training. Some days later, Auden’s called to the skate park to see Eli compete. After his win she congratulates him, and they make up.

Eli shows up, wearing a tux, so Auden comes out wearing her prom dress. She bikes with him to the beach, their friends join them also dressed for the prom, and they have an impromptu party.

The closing scene is of Auden rereading a postcard from Eli in Barcelona before she and Maggie, college roommates, head to dinner.

Instead of disappearing on her famous 1937 voyage, Amelia Earhart is able to complete it and becomes even more famous and influential in the United States and around the world. The book begins in May 1940, with A.E. (as she is called in the text) making her way to France to join the fight against Nazi Germany during World War II, despite being in violation of U.S. neutrality laws. Eventually, she makes it to the United Kingdom and joins the Eagle Squadrons of the Royal Air Force. The book covers the period from May 1940 through early 1943, including the Battle of Britain, as well as America's entry into the war in December 1941 following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. Earhart encounters and befriends other Americans who volunteered to join the Eagle Squadrons and flew with the RAF, including Vernon Keogh, Andrew Mamedoff, and Eugene Tobin. She also encounters a number of key figures in the British government and BAF, most of whom are unenthusiastic about allowing a woman to join combat missions.

Traveling the frontier in the 1880s, Banjo (Don Meredith), a horse trader receives a letter from his ailing sister. After rushing to his sister's hometown, he finds that his sister has recently died and her nine-year-old son Jubal Winner (Ike Eisenmann) has already been sent to the local orphanage. Banjo helps the boy escape and takes him along to find Dido's Lament, the boy's mare, a gift from Uncle Banjo. The race is on to recover Dido and the foal the horse is carrying before bounty hunter Sam Ivory (Chuck Connors) does.

Taking place after Zigomar contre Nick Carter, Zigomar is taken to a medical examiner for an autopsy after having poisoned himself at the end of the previous film. Before they start, Paul Broquet requests a sample of Zigomar's skin for his files. However, the examiner is attacked by La Rosaria who then gives Zigomar the antidote to his poison and helps him escape through the window. Shortly after, Paul Broquet is lured into a trap and brought before Zigomar, who offers him a generous £50,000 if he leaves him to pursue his criminal activities freely. Paul refuses, and is put inside of a wooden cage as Zigomar and La Rosaria leave to plan their next heist. Luckily, however, his lieutenant finds out where he is being held and frees the police chief. Meanwhile, Zigomar and La Rosaria have launched their plan, stealing a lockbox of money won by a lottery with the help of a circus elephant. They almost escape into the sewers, but the ground gives way beneath the two and they barely escape the collapse. By now, the others at the carnival have become aware of the attempted theft, and have reported it to Paul, who disguises himself as a circus hand and begins working undercover in the circus. He eventually hears an incriminating conversation between Zigomar and his accomplice and attempts to accost the duo. However, they quickly disguise themselves as Romani people and duck into a parade, successfully escaping once again. Next Paul discovers that Zigomar and his Gang of Z have moved to Italy, where they plan to rob an Italian banker. He tries to warn the banker ahead of time, but Zigomar finds out before he arrives, and plans to blow up the mountain railway he would be travelling on. Paul is alerted to the danger by his assistant, however, and goes by boat instead. When Zigomar finds out about this change, he decides enough is enough and drops bombs onto the boat from a plane. Paul is not killed, however, and manages to warn the banker ahead of time despite the setback. The banker, however, already had a plan in case of a situation such as this, and shows Broquet that his safe is trapped, and when Zigomar and his gang try to open it, it triggers. The trap floods the room with water, and everyone is arrested. In court, Zigomar is sentenced to penal servitude, a sentence which puts a mysterious smile on the criminal's face.

The movie starts with Massimo and Laura getting married. Laura has lost her baby due to the accident that took place in the final scenes of the previous movie. They both are happy until Laura starts feeling bored as she has nothing to do while Massimo is busy with his work. Daily arguments force her mind to get devoted to Nacho, Massimo's gardener. One night at a party in Massimo's house, Laura finds Massimo having sex with his ex-girlfriend Anna. She is heartbroken and she leaves the party, where she encounters Nacho. They both flee to an island. Meanwhile, Massimo is confused about what happened and starts searching for Laura. Laura starts enjoying her life on the island and at the same time she fantasizes about having sex with Nacho.

One day, Nacho tells Laura to meet his father and tells her that his father is the rival mafia gang of Massimo. Laura is shocked and feels betrayed, but still accompanies Nacho to his father's place. Laura is left with a few guards and Nacho goes to meet his father. Massimo is having an argument with Nacho's father and it is revealed that they have Laura with them. Suddenly, Nacho realizes that he left Laura with the wrong guards and Massimo and Nacho rush to save Laura. Meanwhile, Laura is kidnapped by Massimo's twin brother Adriano. It's revealed that the night Laura saw Massimo having sex with Anna it was Adriano. Massimo enters the place and tries to save Laura. Massimo and Adriano had always been rivals, and it was all part of Adriano's plan. Laura runs and she is shot by Anna and Massimo shoots Adriano. The movie ends with Laura lying in the arms of Massimo.

A footballer is forced into a life of crime in order to help clear his best friend from a gambling debt owed to gangsters.

Since Lord Garmadon's defeat, Ninjago City has been rebuilt. However, when Lloyd visits his father in Kryptarium Prison, Garmadon warns him that the "Bringers of Doom" are coming, but Lloyd refuses to listen. Meanwhile, the ninja are presented with a newly rebuilt Destiny's Bounty. Garmadon's warnings soon prove to be justified when the Oni demons invade Ninjago by entering through the Realm Crystal. A darkness spreads across Ninjago City and petrifies anyone who touches it. On board Destiny's Bounty, the ninja race to Ninjago City to rescue the citizens from the darkness. However, when the ninja use their elemental powers against the dark cloud, they discover that they have no impact. Lloyd visits his father in Kryptarium Prison for advice. With no other choice, the ninja release Garmadon from prison and form an uneasy alliance with him in an attempt to defeat the Oni and save Ninjago from the darkness.Ninjago, Season 10, Episode 1 "The Darkness Comes"

Back on the Bounty, Garmadon tells the ninja that the only way to save Ninjago is to destroy the Realm Crystal, which is located at Borg Tower. Lloyd and Garmadon agree that they alone can safely venture into the darkness and not be petrified because of their Oni blood. While Lloyd and Garmadon enter the darkness, the ninja receive a distress signal from the NGTV building. They decide to go and help the people trapped there, while P.I.X.A.L. stays behind to help Lloyd and Garmadon. When Lloyd and Garmadon reach the Realm Crystal, Garmadon tries to destroy it, but they are confronted by the Omega, the Oni leader.Ninjago, Season 10, Episode 2 "Into the Breach" While fighting the Omega and the Oni, Lloyd destroys the Realm Crystal with the Sword of Sanctuary, but it fails to stop them. Lloyd and Garmadon then find the Armour of the Golden Master and realise that it causes the Oni to recoil. They escape from Borg Tower, taking the armour with them and are picked up by P.I.X.A.L. As the ninja are helping people escape at the NGTV building, Nya accidentally pushes the thrust lever the wrong way and Cole, who is hanging from a ladder, falls from the Destiny's Bounty into the darkness, seemingly killing him.Ninjago, Season 10, Episode 3 "The Fall"

After Lloyd and Garmadon return, the ninja fly to the Monastery of Spinjitzu so that Kai can reforge the Golden Weapons, believing that this can stop the Oni. When the Oni attack the monastery, a battle takes place outside the walls. During the battle, the ninja are slowly overwhelmed by the growing Oni horde, but Cole arrives in the Earth Driller and the ninja realise that he has survived. Jay then asks Nya to be his "Yang," and Nya happily accepts, without hesitation. When all hope seems lost, the ninja, Wu and Garmadon join forces and use Spinjitzu to make the Tornado of Creation, which results in the Oni's destruction. After the battle, Lloyd experiences a vision where he meets the First Spinjitzu Master, who thanks him for saving Ninjago. Garmadon leaves for parts unknown as the ninja celebrate their victory and shared history by placing their handprints on the wall mural of the Monastery of Spinjitzu.Ninjago, Season 10, Episode 4 "Endings"

The Fire Chapter

After defeating the Oni, the ninja have become lazy and out of shape. They decide to search for a new threat to face, but Ninjago is at peace.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 1 "Wasted True Potential" They find their next quest when Clutch Powers discovers an ancient pyramid.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 2 "Questing for Quests" The tomb is a prison for a snake queen named Aspheera, who is unwittingly released by the ninja. She steals Kai's powers and uses them to revive her army of Pyro Vipers, with the aim of conquering Ninjago and exacting revenge on the "Treacherous Deceiver".Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 5 "Booby Traps and How to Survive Them" The ninja are trapped in the pyramid, but rescued by P.I.X.A.L.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 7 "Ninja vs Lava" They learn about the Scrolls of Forbidden Spinjitzu, which grant the user great powers, but can also corrupt them.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 9 "Powerless" Wu eventually admits that he is the "Treacherous Deceiver", and explains that he befriended Aspheera and taught her Spinjitzu, but she used it for evil by taking over the Serpentine.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 10 "Ancient History" As a result, Wu and Garmadon were forced to defeat Aspheera using Forbidden Spinjitzu and imprisoned her inside the pyramid.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 11 "Never Trust a Human" After Aspheera steals one of the scrolls from the museum, the ninja go after the other at the Explorers Club, while Aspheera attacks the Monastery of Spinjitzu.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 13 "The Explorers Club" The ninja defeat Aspheera, but Zane is hit with the scroll's power and is transported to the Never-Realm.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 14 "Vengeance is Mine!" Wu volunteers to rescue Zane, but the ninja overpower him and go instead, before Wu can warn them that there is no way to return.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 15 "A Cold Goodbye"

The Ice Chapter

The ninja reach the Never-Realm and arrive at a village, where they meet the elder, Sorla and help the locals fend off the Blizzard Samurai, led by the Ice Emperor and his advisor, Vex.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 16 "The Never-Realm" The ninja believe that Zane was captured by the Ice Emperor and decide to stay at the village, where Kai attempts to regain his powers.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 17 "Fire Maker" Cole leaves to find the Traveller's Tree to collect some leaves for the Traveller's Tea so that they can return home. He befriends Krag, the last surviving yeti, and Lloyd leaves to find Zane's mech.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 18 "An Unlikely Ally" Along the way, Lloyd befriends a Formling named Akita, who can transform into a wolf and wishes to exact revenge on the Ice Emperor for freezing her people.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 23 "Secret of the Wolf" Meanwhile, the village is attacked by the Ice Emperor's dragon Boreal, forcing the remaining ninja to flee and continue their journey. Lloyd and Akita are later attacked by Boreal, who kidnaps Lloyd and carries him to the Ice Emperor, who is revealed to be Zane.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 25 My Enemy, My Friend" After being transported to the Never-Realm decades into the past, he lost his memory and was manipulated by Vex, a Formling who wished to exact revenge on his people. Zane was led to believe he was the Ice Emperor and the two then dethroned the ruler of the realm, Grimfax. Zane used the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu to corrupt Grimfax's warriors, turning them into the Blizzard Samurai.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 27 "Corruption" Lloyd is locked in a cell and meets Akita's brother, Kataru. They form an alliance with Grimfax to dethrone Zane and liberate the Never-Realm.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 28 "A Fragile Hope" Kai recovers his powers, destroying Boreal, and Zane recovers his memories after Vex attempts to kill Lloyd. Zane destroys his sceptre, which restores peace to the Never-Realm. Grimfax regains his throne, Vex is banished for his crimes, and the ninja return to Ninjago.Ninjago, Season 11, Episode 30 "Awakenings"

When the old, legendary video game Prime Empire resurfaces, players begin to disappear into the game, including Jay (who loves playing video games).Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 1 "Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire?" The ninja discover that the game's creator, Milton Dyer, has also disappeared and nobody has seen him for years.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 2 "Dyer Island" With the suspicion that Dyer is a villain named Unagami, Lloyd, Cole, Kai and Nya enter the virtual world of Prime Empire to stop Dyer's avatar, while Zane and P.I.X.A.L. remain outside to find Dyer in the real world.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 3 "Level Thirteen" They meet "The League of Jay", a group of Jay fans who lead them to a player named Scott. He explains that players only get four lives in the game and after losing their last life, they are turned into digital cubes and disappear.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 4 "Superstar Rockin' Jay" Inside one of the game zones, a Samurai named Okino faces a crisis of faith when he repeatedly fails to lead a series of Masters to victory, causing him to lose all hope - until some familiar ninja arrive.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 5 "I am Okino" In order to stop Unagami, the ninja must obtain three Key-tanas, the first of which is hidden in the game zone Terra Karana - one of Prime Empire's most dangerous game environments. Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 6 "The Glitch" While being chased by Unagami's dreaded Red Visors the ninja must climb the 'Cliffs of Hysteria', however, they make a startling discovery: Unagami is converting players into energy cubes in order to build a portal into the real world! Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 7 "The Cliffs of Hysteria" Once reunited with Jay, the ninja travel across three game zones to obtain three Key-Tanas, which unlock the final challenge at the Temple of Madness. On the journey, they are hunted by Unagami's digital troops, the Red Visors. In the first game zone, Terra Karana, the ninja meet a non-player character (NPC) called Okino, who helps them through many deadly challenges. In the boss battle, the ninja win the fight against the Red Dragon to obtain the purple Key-Tana.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 8 "The Maze of the Red Dragon" The ninja learn that the only way to acquire the 2nd Key-tana is by winning a race in Terra Technica and have to find racing cars in unexpected ways.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 9 "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" The yellow Key-Tana is obtained by winning the Speedway Five-Billion, a dangerous race in the second game zone, Terra Technica. Lloyd recruits Racer Seven, another NPC, but she is followed by the Red Visors.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 10 "Racer Seven" Scott sacrifices himself to help the ninja escape and is transformed into a digital cube. The ninja manage to win the Speedway Five-Billion, but Kai and Cole are both cubed during the race.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 11 "The Speedway Five-Billion" Lloyd, Jay and Nya continue their journey to obtain the final Key-tana in the third game zone, Terra Domina. There Lloyd is forced to battle an avatar of Harumi. He defeats her and obtains the orange Key-Tana, but is cubed in the process.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 12 "Stop, Drop and Side Scroll"

In the real world, Zane discovers the location of Dyer, only to get captured by the Mechanic.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 13 "Ninjago Confidential" When P.I.X.A.L. finds Dyer, he reveals that Scott was a test player who became trapped inside the game (which was named Unagami), when Dyer requested that Scott receive an intense gaming experience. Dyer shut the game down, but Unagami survived. Zane is forced to give the Prime Empire motherboard to the Mechanic, who uses it to create a portal from the game into the real world.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 14 "The Prodigal Father"

In Prime Empire, Jay and Nya reach a digital sushi restaurant in the Temple of Madness, but Nya is cubed after being defeated by an NPC called Sushimi. After reaching the final level, Jay confronts Unagami, who transforms himself into the Empire Dragon. Jay follows him through the portal into the real world by riding on his Cyber Dragon.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 15 "The Temple of Madness" Back in the real world, Jay lures Unagami to the top of Borg Tower. Dyer apologises to Unagami, who forgives him. He agrees to release all the players and NPCs who are trapped inside the game. Unagami, who is now a child, and Dyer are finally reunited.Ninjago, Season 12, Episode 16 "Game Over"

In the village of Gavaldon, every 4 years, two children at the age of 12 and older are kidnapped into the surrounding Endless Woods. The kidnapped children are spirited away to the "School for Good and Evil," where they train to become fairy tale heroes or villains. While most fear the unknown force, pink-loving, beautiful Sophie dreams of being kidnapped to become a princess. Meanwhile, her best friend, Agatha, sulky and ugly, is deemed the perfect candidate for the School for Evil. When the day of the kidnapping arrives, Sophie and Agatha are both kidnapped.

To Sophie and Agatha's horror, both of them are sent to the "wrong" schools: Sophie is a "Never", a student in the School for Evil, and Agatha an "Ever", a student in the School for Good. Sophie unsuccessfully attempts to switch schools with Agatha, while Agatha wants the two to go home. This proves difficult, as Sophie is determined she is Good and is smitten with Tedros, son of King Arthur, who also notices her.

Being forced to attend classes, Agatha flunks most of her classes, but discovers she can hear and grant wishes. After going to the School Master's tower with a stymph (a skeletal bird), Sophie and Agatha are trapped in a fairy tale. The School Master gives them a riddle to prove they were in the wrong places. After disrupting a school assembly, Agatha is confined to her room, and Sophie is sent to Doom Room, where the Beast chops off her hair. In rage, Sophie drowns the Beast as revenge. The girls eventually find the answer to the riddle is True Love's Kiss. To help Sophie get Tedros' kiss, Agatha, disguised as a cockroach, accompanies and helps with Sophie's classes. With Agatha's help, Sophie starts ranking well in her classes, becoming the best Never student.

Agatha finds she is being used to make Tedros fall for Sophie. That way, Sophie would never have to leave, as she believes Tedros is her true love. Finally, Tedros promises to kiss Sophie after they both win the Trial by Tale, a test where they need to survive teachers' traps and other students. However, Sophie refuses to protect him out of selfishness, while Agatha saves him instead. Hoodwinking Good's greatest prince gives Sophie popularity at the School for Evil and the title of "#1 Villain". Simultaneously, Sophie begins to show deepening resentment and anger towards Agatha, as she believes Agatha ruined her Happily Ever After and stole her place.

Tedros develops feelings for Agatha after she saved him, unlike Sophie. Agatha finds her own inner beauty and belief in Good after consultation with Professor Clarissa Dovey; while Sophie begins to suffer from Nemesis Dreams, dreams which the best villains which expose their nemesis is. Sophie believes the person in her dreams is Tedros, but however, the other Nemesis should grow stronger. Tedros does not show strengthening, but Agatha is progressively becoming a better princess. Sophie learns her Nemesis is not Tedros, but Agatha and transforms into what she has become internally: a jealous, shriveled witch with no remorse nor mercy. At the Circus of Talents, a competition based on talents, Tedros confesses his love for Agatha and asks her out to the Evers' Snow Ball, which she accepts. Upon hearing this, Sophie tries to destroy both schools and eliminate Agatha.

Determined for her happy ending, Sophie finds the School Master's true identity to be Evil as the Storian atoned him for murdering his Good brother. Believing she can find happily ever after as his true love, she kisses him, but remembers Nevers are incapable of love. The School Master tries to kill Agatha so Sophie can be his. When Agatha is about to get hit, Sophie sacrifices herself for Agatha. The ghost of the deceased Good brother returns to save his students, and seer and history teacher, August Sader sacrifices his own body to destroy the Evil School Master and dies in the process. Sophie dies shortly after and Agatha, distraught, kisses her. Sophie revives as Agatha's kiss was true love, and she and Agatha are teleported back to Gavaldon, realizing they don't need a prince and Tedros is left in disappointment.

The ninja and Master Wu are invited to the Kingdom of Shintaro.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 1 "Shintaro" They meet King Vangelis and his daughter Vania, who takes an interest in Cole. That night, a Geckle enters Cole's room, who discovers that the creature has his mother's necklace. Vania takes Cole to a secret entrance that leads into the Dungeons of Shintaro. They discover the Geckles and the Munce, two tribes forced to work in the mines by an evil Skull Sorcerer, but Cole is taken prisoner.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 2 "Into the Dark"

Vania leads the ninja to the dungeons, but they are captured by the Awakened Warriors, who can be revived by the sorcerer's Skull of Hazza D'ur.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 3 "The Worst Rescue Ever" One of the Geckles tells Cole about the Blades of Deliverance, which were wielded by a warrior named "Gilly" who freed the tribes from a dragon called Grief-Bringer. The theft of the blades caused a rift between the two tribes. The ninja escape and free the tribes. They split up, with Kai and Zane taking a tunnel with the Geckles, and Lloyd, Jay and Nya taking another tunnel with the Munce. Cole is forced to take a different tunnel by the Skull Sorcerer.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 4 "The Two Blades"

Nya, Jay, and Lloyd meet the Queen of the Munce, Murtessa, who takes a liking to Jay. Murtessa challenges Nya to a duel, who wins and becomes Queen of the Munce.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 5 "Queen of the Munce" Meanwhile, Kai and Zane are accused by Geckle Chancellor Gulch of working for the Skull Sorcerer and are forced to undergo a "Trial by Mino". After winning the trial, Kai and Zane notice Gleck is wearing Cole's necklace. They realise that "Gilly" was Cole's mother Lilly. Gulch resigns as Chancellor and gives the position to Kai.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 6 "Trial By Mino"

Vania decides to go after Cole and saves him from giant spiders. They return to the surface and inform Wu about the ninjas' predicament. They consult King Vangelis, but he reveals that he is the Skull Sorcerer. Vangelis presses a button that opens a trap door and Cole, Wu and Vania fall into the abyss.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 7 "The Skull Sorcerer" After a safe landing at Rock-Bottom, Wu, Cole, and Vania are met by Fungus, Korgran and Plundar who call themselves "The Lowly".Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 8 "The Real Fall" They reveal that they were sent to retrieve the skull but Vangelis banished them to Rock-Bottom. Cole decides to change the team name to "The Upply".Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 9 "Dungeon Party!" The Upply, Cole, Wu and Vania discover the Heart of the Mountain, a legendary temple of the Masters of Earth. Wu explains to Cole the teaching of the Spinjitzu Burst, who then finds and operates a mech to return the group to the surface.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 10 "Dungeon Crawl!"

Nya and Kai lead the tribes to a peace meeting, but are ambushed by the undead dragon, Grief-Bringer, who forces the tribes to flee into a Strong-Cave.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 11 "Grief-Bringer!" Pursued by a magma monster, Cole, Princess Vania, Wu & the Lowly arrive at a mysterious temple deep in Shintaro Mountain, a temple which was once a training ground for Earth Elementals including Cole's own mother, Lilly! Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 12 "Masters Never Quit" The Skull Sorcerer tricks Lloyd into believing that the Munce and Geckles can go free, but he enslaves them and the ninja are captured.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 13 "The Darkest Hour" Cole, the Lowly, Princess Vania and Wu discover that the stone-mech is fueled by Elemental Power, and attach it to the mine-carts in an effort to blast their way out of the mountain to confront the evil Skull Sorcerer! Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 14 "The Ascent" Cole and the Upply arrive at the Skull Sorcerer's Keep and find the ninja locked into cages. The Geckles and Munce have been put back to work in the chain-gang, mining Vengestone.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 15 "The Upply Strike Back!" Cole and his crew venture underground to fight the Skull Sorcerer. Cole confronts him with the Blades of Deliverance, but discovers that they are powerless. He has a flashback of his mother Lilly, which unlocks the Spinjitzu Burst and destroys the Skull, awakened warriors and Grief-Bringer. Vania arrives with Wu and the Winged Guards of Shintaro, who arrest Vangelis and crown Vania as Queen of Shintaro.Ninjago, Season 13, Episode 16 "The Son of Lilly"

An expedition led by Misako, Master Wu, Clutch Powers and his assistants goes missing while exploring an uncharted island in the storm belt. The ninja must pick up their trail with the help of Timothy "Twitchy Tim" Batterson. Having journeyed to the island years ago, Tim is still scared to go back due to being struck by lightning twelve times at the island. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. After surviving their journey, the ninja venture to the island, where they discover the abandoned expedition camp.Ninjago, The Island Episode 1 "Uncharted"

While exploring the island, they unexpectedly befriend a friendly dragon and name it Zippy. They are later ambushed by living stone statues that can channel the ninjas' elemental powers. While trying to escape the stone guardians, Nya, Zane, Kai and Cole are captured by hostile islanders named the Keepers and encounter Misako, Master Wu and Clutch Powers in captivity. Luckily, Lloyd and Tim manage to escape. When the ninja are taken to meet the Keepers' leader, Chief Mammatus, he accuses them of trying to steal an artefact named the Storm Amulet. He tells them that the amulet was pried from the head of a great sea serpent dragon and storm spirit named Wojira, which placed the beast into a deep sleep. For thousands of years, the Keepers have upheld a vow to the First Spinjitzu Master to protect the amulet from Wojira.Ninjago, The Island, Episode 2 "The Keepers of the Amulet"

The ninja are imprisoned, while Jay is taken to an unknown location by the Keepers, who refer to him as "The Gift of Jay". Lloyd finds the Keepers' Village and frees the ninja with the help of Zippy. Meanwhile, Clutch Powers steals the amulet, but the ninja are recaptured. They have to watch Jay being sacrificed by the Keepers to appease the reawakened storm spirit Wojira.Ninjago, The Island, Episode 3 "The Gift of Jay"

However, when Lloyd finds a wooden tooth, he realises that Wojira is fake. When he informs Chief Mammatus, the leader tells him that since Wojira returned, the Keepers have been giving away their treasure to appease her. When Jay reaches a hidden cave along the coast, he discovers that it is a secret hideout for thugs who have escaped from Kryptarium Prison and that Ronin was behind the scheme in order to trick the Keepers into giving him their treasure. While the ninja are battling Ronin's henchmen, Ronin tries to escape but is stopped by Tim, who conquers his fear and crashes into his fake Wojira boat. During the aftermath of the battle, Clutch Powers tries to steal the Storm Amulet, but Nya stops him and the ninja become allies with the Keepers. In the final scene, the real Wojira is sleeping in a temple at the bottom of the ocean with another amulet called the Wave Amulet on her forehead.Ninjago, The Island, Episode 4 "The Tooth of Wojira"

Minutia was a peaceful land where the Fiends lived in peace. One day, a meteor struck Mount Boom, where the slugs who lived there, turned into aggressive beasts, invading Minutia and kidnapping the Fiends and families. Temper, who was the only one who survived the attack, must go on a journey to rescue the Fiends, and travel throughout Minutia to reach Mount Boom, and stop the Slug invasion.

The film portrays the attempts of a family of Sudeten German refugees struggling to adjust to living in post-war Germany following their forced expulsion from Czechoslovakia. Eventually their daughter marries a soldier of the American occupying forces, himself of German descent, and the whole family emigrate to the United States.

Peter Sturton is a politician and the head of the state political machine. Sturton supports Walter Croydon, a rising young attorney, for the position of Governor of the State. Croyden loves Beatrice Farley, a young society belle, but they have not been formally engaged. Croyden invites Beatrice to accompany him to a social ball. On the evening of the event, Croyden meets Sturton at his club and becomes intoxicated. While still intoxicated, he calls upon Beatrice. She refuses to go with him to the ball. The following day, Croyden returns to see Beatrice and apologizes for his condition of the previous evening. He asks Beatrice to forgive him, professes his love, and asks her to marry him. Beatrice tells Croyden she is making preparations to leave for Europe with Mr. and Mrs. Lake. She promises to give him an answer when she returns. John Nevill is a man about town and a friend of Sturton's. Nevill is part of an unhappy marriage, but he and his wife continue to live together. There is little love between them. Nevill makes plans to travel to trip Europe on his own. He tells his wife she can go wherever she wants for her vacation. As the boat is ready to sail, Nevill sees Beatrice bid Croydon goodbye and then board the ship. Beatrice's beauty overwhelms Nevill, and he quickly makes her acquaintance on the ship. He becomes infatuated with her. Nevill resolves to win her love and begins paying constant attention to her. He never reveals he's married. Beatrice and the Lakes come to Monte Carlo, where Nevill is staying, and Nevill, renewing the acquaintance, begins wooing her again.

While swimming, Beatrice has an accident, but Nevill comes to her rescue and saves her life. Beatrice discovers she loves him in return. Finally, Nevill proposes that they travel to Paris to get married, and Beatrice consents. When they return to the hotel to pack, they encounter friends of Nevill's who have arrived from America. Although Nevill had planned to tell Beatrice he was married, Nevill's friends casually mention his wife is staying in Newport for the Summer and sends her love. Beatrice's world suddenly collapses.

Beatrice is heartbroken and begins packing to return home. She has completely lost her faith in Nevill. Nevill pleads with her to no avail and finally, in a fit of anger, tells her he will not give up on her. He tells her in the future; he will make her love him again. After Beatrice departs, Nevill turns to drink. Word of his drinking reaches Mrs. Nevill, and she comes to him and persuades him to return home. In the meantime, they have elected Walter Croydon as Governor. Upon returning to the states, Beatrice consents to become Croydon's bride, and they marry. Sturton visits the Nevill's and asks them to attend the Governor's Inaugural ball. He tells the Nevill's it will allow them to meet the Governor and his wife. Nevill discovers the Governor's wife is Beatrice, and it awakens his passion. Nevill hatches a deceitful scheme to win Beatrice from Croydon. Beatrice feels the effects of her rejection on Nevill. After listening to Nevill's pleas for forgiveness, Beatrice agrees to be his friend. Nevill becomes a friend of the family. Although they are together often, Croydon suspects no improprieties, and Beatrice feels nothing improper in her friendship with Nevill. Nevill, in the subsequent years, poisons the mind of Croydon with thoughts that his wife is unfaithful.

Time passes, and Croyden is running for reelection. Sturton has had a falling out with the Governor and is opposing him with every weapon in his command. The Croydon's now have a child — a boy a few months old. Mr. Lake goes to Croyden and tells him that the people are talking about of frequency of Nevill being seen with Mrs. Croydon. The Governor dismisses this talk as nothing more than idle gossip.

Nevill, realizing he has planted the seeds of suspicion, now implements the last phase of his plan to convince Croyden to leave his wife. He gives Sturton a paragraph to put in the papers on the day before the election, saying while the Governor has been away securing votes, his wife has been continually in the company of a certain man whom the paper does not mention. After Croyden reads the article in the newspaper, he goes straight to Nevill. Nevill assures him he can trust his wife, and Croyden dismisses the matter.

The day has arrived, and Croydon's baby is about to be christened. The guests are gathering at the church, and Croydon prepares to leave his office. Before he steps out the door, he sees a copy of the newspaper article implying the child's father might not be Croydon but the man Beatrice spends so much of her time with. Overcome with grief, Croydon drinks heavily and then shows up in the middle of the christening. The intoxicated Croydon denounces Beatrice and forbids her to name the boy after him. Croydon then accuses Nevill, mano-a-mano, of being the father of the child. Nevill refuses to deny the charge. Croydon leaves the church, locks himself in his room, and refuses to see Beatrice or even let her explain. After the commotion at the church, Mr. and Mrs. Nevill return home. Mrs. Nevill, convinced of her husband's guilt, tells him she is giving up on this marriage. She declares Beatrice was the woman responsible for his melancholy in Europe. He tells her to go, for he believes Beatrice will come back begging for his forgiveness.

Beatrice is in shock at her husband's reactions. She realizes only Nevill can clear her name and goes to Nevill's home to appeal to him to prove her innocence. Beatrice tells Mrs. Lake where she is going. She arrives at Nevill's house, finding him alone. Nevill believes he has won her back. He insists he'll write a letter clearing her name, but she must pay the price — she must be his, if for no longer than an hour. He writes the letter, then latches the door and confronts her. Beatrice struggles fiercely to preserve her honor and finally, in desperation, grabs a sharp paper-knife and stabs him. She drops the knife to the floor. Croyden has determined where Beatrice has gone and, accompanied by Mrs. Nevill, heads for the Neville House. After arriving at the Nevill estate, Croyden breaks down the door and finds Nevill dying on the floor. Realizing that he is on the verge of death, Nevill reconsiders. He picks up the knife with a trembling hand and tells them for Beatrice's love, and because she has repulsed him, he has attempted suicide. He takes the note clearing Beatrice's name from his pocket and gives it to Croyden. Croyden realizes that this will absolve him in the people's eyes and tip the election in his favor. Nevill begs Beatrice's forgiveness, then collapses, falls weakly back on the floor, and dies. He paid the price of his obsession. It is the "Way of the World."

A man named Frank, who apparently sabotaged a government operation with a computer virus, is held in a futuristic automated detention facility that is overseen by an artificial intelligence (AI) computer named Howard. Frank tries to escape and, due to the manipulation of his memories by the facility, relives recurrent dreams, mainly in a coffee shop, imagining that he has succeeded in escaping the facility, only to later realize that he has not.

Eventually Howard assists with Frank's escape, after realizing that he is breaking down and will eventually not be able to keep Frank alive anyway. Exiting out of the underground prison into a snow-covered wasteland, he's eventually rescued by two hikers. Frank learns that he was trapped in a black site and abandoned by the previous government and he's the only survivor, and various news organizations cover his escape.

While trying to stop a criminal named Miss Demeanor from smuggling vengestone, Nya begins to lose control of her powers. Master Wu tells the ninja that the First Spinjitzu Master once controlled the elements but never wind and water because they belonged to Wojira, a storm spirit. Wojira fell into a deep slumber after a warrior pried both of the amulets off the serpent's forehead. Ray and Maya arrive to help Nya control her powers.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 1 "A Big Splash" While P.I.X.A.L. and Zane are out on a mission, they experience an energy pulse from deep in the ocean and conclude that it affected Nya's powers. The ninja decide to investigate on the Hydro Bounty, a submersible vessel.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 2 "The Call of the Deep"

Nya, Jay, Lloyd, Zane, and P.I.X.A.L. journey to the depths of the ocean with Maya stowed away on board. Unfortunately, the Hydro Bounty crashes causing them to be stranded.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 3 "Unsinkable" Maya and Nya decide to use mechs to reach the energy source and discover an underwater temple. They find Kalmaar, the son of King Trimaar, trying to awaken the serpent Wojira.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 4 "Five Thousand Fathoms Down" He takes them prisoner and overhears Nya revealing the location of the Storm Amulet. Meanwhile, Jay decides to risk charging the battery in the Hydro Bounty using his elemental powers.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 5 "The Wrath of Kalmaar" Nya and Maya are rescued by Jay and Lloyd but they are captured and taken to King Trimaar who accuses them of trespassing. Kalmaar performs a palace coup by striking his father with his weapon and declaring himself king of the Merlopians. His adopted brother Benthomaar learns the truth from Trimaar.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 6 "Long Live the King" Benthomaar helps the ninja to escape Merlopia. They decide to travel to the island to obtain the Storm Amulet before Kalmaar can claim it.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 7 "Escape from Merlopia" The tragic tale of Benthomaar is revealed, a tale filled with treachery and betrayal, but also a glimmer of hope.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 8 "The Tale of Benthomaar"

On the Island of the Keepers, the ninja warn Chief Mammatus to prepare to defend the Storm Amulet. However, Zane realises it is a fake and that the real amulet was taken by Clutch Powers to the Explorers Club.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 9 "The Storm Amulet" Wu, Cole, Misako, Kai and Ray arrive at the Explorers Club and are forced to battle Kalmaar. Meanwhile, Nya uses her powers to call whales to bring the stranded Hydro Bounty back to Ninjago City.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 10 "Riddle of the Sphinx" As Kai is pursuing Kalmaar through the streets of Ninjago City, Antonia and Nelson obtain the amulet and are chased by Kalmaar, but he escapes with the amulet.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 11 "Papergirl" Benthomaar tells the ninja the tale of Nyad, the first Elemental Master of Water, who defeated Wojira by becoming one with the ocean. When Kalmaar tries to leave the city, Nya steals the amulet and Cole takes it to Shintaro for protection without realising it is fake, allowing Kalmaar to reawaken Wojira.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 12 "Master of the Sea"

Rising sea levels mark the invasion of Ninjago City by Kalmaar riding on Wojira, which forces the citizens to evacuate.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 13 "The Calm Before the Storm" While the ninja are trying to save civilians, Nya challenges Kalmaar and Wojira.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 14 "Assault on Ninjago City" Jay becomes trapped in his submersible vehicle and is saved by Benthomaar, but inhales water in his lungs. To save Jay and Ninjago City, Nya becomes one with the ocean, an act that can never be undone, causing the water to be removed from Jay’s lungs.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 15 "Nyad" A battle takes place between the ninja and Kalmaar in which Benthomaar breaks Kalmaar's trident causing him to lose control of Wojira. This results in Kalmaar being swallowed whole by Wojira. Nya transforms into a water dragon and defeats Wojira by destroying the Wave Amulet. Having merged with the endless sea, however, Nya can no longer remain on land and feels the ocean calling to her. After a tearful goodbye, she leaves the Ninja and returns to the ocean. Afterwards, the ninja hold a memorial ceremony to honor her and Nya is seen happily swimming with the whales in a final shot.Ninjago, Season 14, Episode 16 "The Turn of the Tide"

At his house in Portman Square, London, the famous poet Oliver Blayds is celebrating his 90th birthday. The literary critic A. L. Royce has come to present an address on behalf of his fellow writers to Blayds, who is regarded as "a very great poet, a very great philosopher and a very great man … simple as Wordsworth, sensuous as Tennyson, passionate as Swinburne". Royce has lingering feelings for Isobel Blayds, whom he met 18 years earlier when they were both about 20. She declined his offer of marriage then because she felt she must look after her father. The poet's grandchildren are cheerfully indifferent to his literary reputation, and treat him with affectionate irreverence, to Royce's disapproval.

The family gathers, and after his health is toasted Blayds graciously accepts the address from Royce. He reminisces about his earlier days in Victorian times with anecdotes about Browning, Whistler, Queen Victoria and Meredith. After the celebrations, Blayds is left alone with Isobel, who has looked after him all her adult life. He says at ninety there is no going back: "Only forward – into the grave that's waiting for you".

In the second act the family returns from Blayds's funeral at Westminster Abbey. Isobel reveals that on his deathbed Blayds confessed to her that none of the poems for which he is famous were written by him. They were the work of Willoughby Jenkins, a close friend with whom he shared rooms in Islington in the 1850s. Jenkins, a young poetic genius, knew he was dying and wrote a prodigious amount of poetry while he had time. After he died, Blayds yielded to the temptation to publish a small amount of Jenkins's verse under his own name. It was so well received that he continued the deception and published further batches over the years, gaining a tremendous literary reputation and making a large fortune. The one volume he published of his own verse had been badly reviewed and otherwise his entire poetic oeuvre was the work of his dead friend.

Isobel is bitter at having given up any independent life to look after her fraudulent father. William, who hero-worshipped his father-in-law, is incredulous, and agrees with Oliver that Blayds must have been hallucinating on his deathbed. The family agonise about whether the confession is true, and if so whether to reveal the truth publicly, and whether the old man's fortune properly belongs to Jenkins's heirs. Royce, to whom Isobel has turned for help, finds documentary proof that Jenkins left everything he had to Blayds. The family is legally in the clear, but the moral issue remains. William continues to maintain Blayds's innocence, and Isobel eventually gives way and agrees to say nothing publicly about her father's confession. At the end of the play she accepts a proposal of marriage from Royce.

Uthuru Sulanga unfolds an unknown side of life of a person who seeks refuge in a then boarder village in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. The village has just buried all the memories of the staggering Northern war. He (Sunimal) finds shelter in the house of chieftain of the village ‘Ralahami mama’ who does not bother about his past but present. Sunimal whilst trying hard to get over his indelible memories of war, faces his second battle of life as he couldn’t resist the charm of Yasho, Ralahami mama’s daughter. When he loses his battle, the dark shadows of an unforeseen future surrounds him….again. Yet he has to discover himself, his real family and his future.

''O Le Ku'' tells the story of Ajani, an undergraduate of the University of Ibadan who is in his final year. He is under pressure from his mother to find a partner and he unwittingly finds himself in a love quadrangle. He dates three women simultaneously; Asake, a secondary school teacher is his long-term girlfriend. He meets Lola a fresher who is tall, slim and pretty. The situation gets complicated when he meets a childhood acquaintance who eventually takes centre stage of the love drama. Asake's father badgers her to sever her relationship with Ajani but she however falls pregnant and Lola finds out and Ajani has to choose a wife under duress from his mother.

The night before her breast examination at the hospital, Martine Deveraux (Kéllé Bryan) stays up all night reading statistics about the medical mistreatment of Black women. Celeste Faroe (Andrea Ali) notices that her mother is reluctant to go to her appointment, making her promise to attend it. Martine and Grace Black (Tamara Wall) both receive a magazine subscription through the post, and when they both run out of translucent powder, they go to use the free sample given in the magazine. Grace uses it, but Martine is unable to as it does not match her skin tone. Whilst on her way to work, Martine sees Felix Westwood (Richard Blackwood) and asks if he will join her to her appointment as she is nervous. Felix tells her that she does not need his company, since she is a "strong Black queen". Alan (Stephen Thompson), a delivery man, talks to Grace whilst delivering drinks for her nightclub. Martine tries to ask where the delivery for her shop is, but he cuts her off as he assumes that she is not the manager.

Martine attends an interview for the Businesswoman of the Year award with Patsy (Cassie Vallance), who tells her that she is late and to quicken up her answers due to supposed timekeeping issues. Patsy is abrupt with Martine and tells her that she is not unique compared to other "diverse" applicants. However, when interviewing Grace, she offers her a coffee and chats nicely with her. Martine arrives for her appointment early, and when Grace arrives, the two have an argument and Grace says they should take it outside. While they argue outside, nurse Peri Lomax (Ruby O'Donnell) realises they have been double booked. Grace cries, and Peri gives her the appointment out of sympathy. Martine disagrees with her decision but is labelled as aggressive by Peri for speaking out on the injustice. Martine receives an email from Patsy with interview questions and decides to reply with how she has been treated throughout the day as a Black woman. She describes Alan, Patsy, and Peri as problematic and states that people need to do better. She then calls Felix, telling him that she wants him and she will get him.

The story is the life of Mark Sabre, a middle-aged and upstanding man, but one who is much maligned. Sabre is presented as Christlike in terms of the unjustified persecution he faces. Sabre joins up during WWI, is badly injured, and returns to his loveless marriage to his shrew-like wife, Mabel. Sabre gets into trouble when he tries to help Effie, an unwed mother, who is assumed to be his mistress. He is divorced, loses his job, and scandal follows when Effie kills herself.

''If Winter Comes'' presents sensational and controversial subjects of emotional adultery, unwed motherhood and suicide but tempers them with moral, social and religious idealism.

The character the Rev Cyril Boom Bagshaw was a satire of the flamboyant clergyman, the Rev Basil Bourchier.

Antonia's picture perfect life takes an unexpected and tragic turn when her husband Massimo dies in a serious traffic accident. After his death, Antonia finds out that Massimo had an affair during their marriage. But contrary to what was initially assumed, not with a woman, but with a man named Michele. Devastated by the news, Antonia meets with Michele and his group of friends. Michele lives in his house with his friends from different backgrounds. Each of his friends is individual and has his own story and problems. No matter where you come from, no matter how you look, no matter how you are and no matter what sexuality you have, everyone lives in the best possible harmony with one another. An unexpected and moving friendship develops between Antonia and Michele. And all of them go through a time of change in which they grow with their problems and broaden their personal horizons.

Cameron, a neurotic young woman, is sent to an island sanctuary named Safe Haven by accident after she desperately pleas for a counseling job. She discovers that she cannot leave the island, or else it would lose its magic. She spends the duration of the comic trying to lessen her fear of the animals (zoophobia) in Safe Haven, trying to adapt to the unfamiliar environment she was thrown into.

The story follows a group of girls named Mal, Ripley, Molly, April, and Jo who meet one summer at the Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thilstle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. These girls learn that there is more to the camp than getting badges, that their camp director is keeping a secret from them, and they work to overcome challenges involving supernatural beings and rivalries between each other while learning the "true meaning of friendship."

In Victory, Mississippi, Lily Daw is someone with acute special needs and a traumatic past. Lily is cared for by Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Carson, with family friend Aimee Slocum being involved in her life as well. Mrs. Watts, Mrs. Carson and Aimee receive a letter that Lily is eligible to go to Ellisville Institute for the Feeble-Minded of Mississippi. They go to find Lily to tell her the news, but find she is packing to go get married. The three ladies think she is speaking nonsense and try to not think the worst has happened to her as they try to get her to come with them to the institute. The ladies start bribing Lily with various items in order to get her to leave as she has her mind set on marrying a mysterious xylophone player. After some time, the ladies end up being successful in getting her to go to the institute. Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Carson board the train with Lily and are ready to see her off. After Aimee said her farewells and was off the train, she runs into said xylophone player Lily was talking about marrying. After short conversation and realizing it was him, Aimee was able to yell to Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Carson who then drug Lily off the train. When Lily was told she was going to get married, she was upset since she no longer wanted to get married and was looking forward to going to Ellisville. Mrs. Carson's husband is the baptist preacher, and she had arranged for him to officiate the wedding before Lily would be sent off with her xylophone-playing husband.

One night in England, Maya's friends leave her and book into a hotel down the road called the "Sea View Hotel", run by proprietor Jimmy Hall. At first, Jimmy seems like a friendly, if slightly odd man. However, things take a turn for the worst when Hugo Punch, Jimmy's comedy act and alter-ego, takes control of Jimmy, telling him he needs to "show them who's boss". Maya then witnesses Jimmy, under control of Hugo, locking one of her friends away in a room. Maya then traverses the hotel, using a "Ghost and Spirit Voice Receiver" and a master key to uncover Jimmy's secrets and rescue her friends.

There are two endings to ''At Dead of Night'', although both lead to the same cutscene. One is where Maya abandons her friends and leaves, and the other is where Maya explores the hotel one last time, frees her friends, and they all escape. In both endings, it is revealed that Jimmy's supposed alter-ego is actually an evil spirit based on his abusive father.

A young Cristina watches as her mother undergoes an exorcism. When her mother beckons Cristina to her bedside, the demon controlling her lunges at Cristina and leaves scratches on her arm.

In the present, an adult Cristina waking up in a remote hut in Veracruz, Mexico. A man, Javi, asks her why she was in a region called La Boca. Luz, a Nahua bruja, looks into her eyes and proclaims, "She has it." Javi then forces Cristina to drink goat's milk to purify her soul. Cristina's cousin Miranda explains that she found her lying unconscious at La Boca and brought her to Luz and Javi to help her.

It is revealed that Cristina is a Los Angeles journalist who returned to her hometown to investigate the La Boca ruins. She is addicted to heroin and continues to inject the drug with her remaining syringes while chained to her bed, insisting that she does not have a demon inside of her. Luz and Javi perform a ritual to exorcise the demon. Though Cristina remains skeptical, she accepts she is possessed after disturbing events occur: snakes enter her room, she finds a rooster inexplicably mangled in her cell, and sees candles burn out and lead to a dark corner in the room. During another ritual, Luz seems to pull animal teeth out of her abdomen, and unsuccessfully tries to extract a snake, which escapes back into her body.

One night, she chokes Javi unconscious and tries to escape, but the salt line across the threshold of the door prevents her from leaving. She becomes a believer in the demon, Postehki, after she vomits hair and black liquid. Postehki is "the death god of broken things," and has inhabited her because she is chronically depressed from spending her youth in foster care and turned to heroin. The demon has called her back to her hometown so he can finish "consuming" her. She discards what's left of her heroin supply and becomes determined to defeat the demon.

Cristina asks about a mysterious boy she sees occasionally. The group declares they don't know of any boy living nearby. Cristina discovers the "broken man ritual" from a book Miranda gave her. During another ritual, Luz temporarily subdues a convulsing Cristina. Postehki reveals itself to Luz, who seizes its heart, sacrificing her life to expel it and save Cristina. However, Postehki enters Miranda through the scratches Cristina gave her earlier. Cristina paints her face, taking over the bruja role from Luz, and they draw out Postehki. Cristina grabs its heart, throws it to Miranda, who stabs it - burning and apparently killing Postehki.

Cristina's editor Carson is brought to the hut by the locals after he was found near La Boca. He's arrived to rescue her, but he's brought more heroin. Cristina is uninterested in the drugs, and instead determines that he has been possessed once she sees his eyes. She begins the ritual to save Carson, having fully assumed the role as the new bruja.

After setting her serial killer boyfriend, James Lincolnfields, the "Rain Ripper" on fire, a paranoid delusional woman, named Mary, gets a job at a 24-hr gas station. Mary is forced as a condition of her parole to work, and because she cannot find work elsewhere, agrees to work the 10 pm to 6 am night shift at Deer Gas Market. Mary tells her childhood friend, Debbie, that her boyfriend would call her on the phone whenever it rained and play "Raindrops" by Dee Clark, and would thereafter or during, murder someone. Mary was nicknamed "The Watcher" by the press as she watched some of the 35 victims of her boyfriend being murdered. She suffers from repeated hallucinations of James, who is in prison, which she controls with medication.

On her first shift, she meets fellow colleague Bobby who shows her her duties. He leaves along with Debbie who is struck by a hammer in her car by a hooded assailant and dragged away. A sleazy trucker arrives and attempts to hit on Mary, and deliberately leaves his credit card behind as an excuse to return. Mary begins to receive mysterious phone calls from a woman asking her when they close. A young couple then arrive to buy alcohol and the girl uses the outside toilet and tells Mary it's out of order. Going to check, she finds Debbie's drivers license in the bowl and then the toilet fills with blood and arms break through the wall behind her attempting to grab her, but it is just another hallucination. She attempts to call her parole officer Tom, but cannot get through.

Bobby returns to check on her and she tells him her story of how she found the dead girls in her basement, and how James kept her prisoner, forcing her to watch him kill his victims. Bobby then leaves, but his truck breaks down, and whilst trying to fix it, he is struck on the back of the head with a hammer by the hooded assailant.

James arrives and claims to be real, telling her people will die and she will watch it, but Mary disproves it as she was hallucinating again and it was just a woman arriving to buy gas, however Mary recognises her voice as the voice on the phone, and the woman reveals herself to be the mother of James's last victim and attacks her with a knife, trying to escape, she runs to the back room where Bobby and Debbie are both tied to chairs, but Tom arrives and shoots her in the head, saving Mary and informing her of a prison break in which James escaped. James then appears behind Tom and knocks him out.

James ties Mary to a chair and forces her to watch as he brutally caves in Tom's skull with a sledgehammer and then suffocates Debbie with a plastic bag, he douses Bobby with petrol and just as he is about to immolate him, the trucker from earlier returns, but he calls the police when he notices signs of a disturbance. James leaves the room to investigate.

Mary is able to free herself and unties Bobby, who tells her that a fellow employee keeps a shotgun in his locker, she is able to retrieve and load it, and they wait for James to return in order to kill him. The trucker makes his way towards the back room, but is impaled through the neck with a hammer by James, and is then shot by Mary when she mistakes him for James. Bobby and Mary then leave the back room with the shotgun, but James cuts the power and kills Bobby with the hammer.

Meanwhile a lone police officer arrives and Mary rushes outside and into his car, but James appears and murders the officer with the shotgun. Mary escapes through the woods and happens upon an old auto plant. James stalks her, but she bludgeons him with an iron bar and runs away.

Returning to the gas station, she locks herself in the office and notices a deer's head on the wall. James breaks the door down and she impales him with the antlers. She slumps down against the desk and James crawls in and proclaims his love to her before he dies, however when she wakes later, James has gone. She then leaves the gas station.

Mary is next seen at a new job in a hairdressers. As she is sweeping up, she hears a noise outside. As she looks up, the screen cuts to black.

Charlie Deegan is a lawyer who married into his wife Olivia's wealthy family but has become unhappy in their relationship and has become involved in an affair with his assistant Laura. Charlie wishes to get divorce his Olivia but their prenuptial agreement would prevent him from getting any money, meaning that he will not be able to transition to his dream job as a judge because it pays less than being a lawyer.

Charlie sleeps with Olivia's friend Victoria to misdirect her from his real affair. He then convinces Olivia to go with him to a cabin to work out their problems, where he drowns her in the nearby lake. Charlie and Laura place Olivia's body and various red herring clues in a car that they dump in the water. Several days later Laura's body is found and Charlie is a suspect. Victoria tells Charlie that she had him followed and knew about his affair with Laura, which angered her. She agrees to keep quiet if he agrees to marry her once Olivia is declared dead. Charlie is once again stuck in an unhappy relationship and is then visited by Lou, Laura's secret husband.

In the present, Daniel (Ruben Blades) is taking a cognitive test inside a jail cell. In a series of flash-backs, Morgan (Lennie James) invites Sherry (Christine Evangelista) and Strand (Colman Domingo) to Valley Town to discuss a possible new threat. Daniel is tasked with keeping their weapons while they're inside the community, and secures them in a locked shack. Grace (Karen David) begins to feel contractions. Morgan takes Althea's SWAT truck to retrieve medical supplies, and leaves Daniel in charge of the community.

Daniel leads a meeting with Dakota (Zoe Colletti) to obtain information about this new threat, which is the group who attacked Tank Town. Everyone debates among themselves, believing there is an infiltrator in the group. The discussion ends when there is an explosion, which attracts several walkers to the valley.

Daniel goes to the weapons shack and discovers that all the weapons are missing. He tells Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) and Grace to hide and wait for Morgan to arrive with Althea's truck to eliminate the walkers. Daniel intentionally lets several walkers enter the community to discover who has the weapons, and when a walker is about to kill Dwight (Austin Amelio), Strand saves him by using a pistol. Daniel targets Strand as the suspect of hiding the weapons.

Daniel locks up Strand and demands to know where the weapons are, but Strand insists he is innocent. When Daniel is about to kill Strand, Morgan returns and kills the walkers with Althea's truck. The group discovers that Daniel had taken the weapons, and he is locked in the cell. June (Jenna Elfman) is revealed to be the one interrogating Daniel in order to get a medical diagnosis, and believes he has a psychological disorder. As the groups leave the valley, Dakota recalls Virginia saying the enemy is hiding underground. Strand offers Daniel a place to live in Lawton, and he accepts.

A star collegiate quarterback ignites a players' strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.

In 2049, Walt works as a barista on a college campus. His dream to go to space becomes attainable with the introduction of the Kovi Industries Student Mars Program, an organization that sends college students to Mars. The program, however, has rejected his offer 37 times due to his lack of knowledge and expertise to further humanity's exploration of the Red Planet. At a college party, he accidentally breaks the Wifi-orb of Sophie, a no-nonsense student whose boyfriend, Calvin, is on Mars. While at the party, he also falls in love with another student, Ginny, who is sent to Mars the next morning.

A few weeks later, Sophie appears at Walt's cafe in tears due to Calvin accepting a longer stay on Mars, so Walt convinces her to buy a ticket to travel on the next shuttle launch. As she approaches the launch gate, Walt manipulates her into helping him sneak onboard a space shuttle by pretending to be a family member but freaks out when they must claim to be in a relationship on board the shuttle to keep his identity secret.

Over the course of the trip to Mars, the two grow closer; Walt learns more about Calvin as he claims his identity, and Sophie learns the real Calvin may have been putting her second behind his dreams of terraforming Mars to become more hospitable. During an onboard presentation, Walt is forced to give a presentation about terraforming, a topic he knows nothing about, but convinces two passengers to get married as his speech about love moves the audience, Sophie included.

As the shuttle approaches Mars, she tells him that she is staying with Calvin and will not help him get to Mars anymore, causing Walt to call her a coward. On Mars, Sophie and Calvin reunite while security arrests Walt. Awaiting his trial, Ginny tells Walt that she found someone new on Mars due to their one-night romance and his subsequent need to find her too off-putting for her to handle. The next day, Walt meets the leader of the Mars program, Leon Kovi, who tells Walt that his company knew about everything he was doing through security cameras on the shuttle and let it slide as a security test, with the program's board of trustees planning to sue Walt once he returned to Earth. Due to his dislike of the board, Kovi had leaked the security footage back on Earth which went viral online. To avoid backlash, Leon offers Walt a contract to avoid any legal problems and stay on Mars if he promotes the company, to which Walt agrees.

As his life as a barista and online sensation unfold, Walt realizes he is not happy living on Mars. Similarly, realizing she has grown apart from Calvin and his goals, Sophie breaks up with him and boards a ship back to Earth. Seeing his life becoming a pawn for Kovi, Walt also boards the shuttle back to Earth, where he reunites with Sophie and the two share a kiss.

Joe Rantz, who was cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, turns to rowing and participates in rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight.

Benjamin "Benny" Brynn floats on a dark sea, before being picked up by a boat helmed by the Ferryman. Benny is unable to speak or gesture, though the Ferryman is able to perceive his blinking, which becomes his primary mode of communication. The Ferryman explains that he senses something unique in Benny, and is bringing him to the Gatekeeper for judgement. If deemed worthy, Benny will be allowed to enter the Gatekeeper's paradise and the Ferryman will be rewarded; if not, Benny will be turned into one of the seagulls that frequently crowds the boat. To facilitate this, the Ferryman asks him to recount his memories so that he may be able to spin a tale for the Gatekeeper. However, he explains that Benny will be unable to stay within the memories, as they will flash forward as soon as he blinks.

Benny then begins to recount his childhood growing up in a small, seaside town with his parents: Richard, an office worker, and Elle, an accountant and aspiring composer. The family also began caring for a stray cat they name Ernie. As he grows up, Benny develops a fondness for art, and especially music, due to his mother's influence. One day, an unsupervised Benny begins playing Elle's composition on the piano by ear, and believing him to be a prodigy, his parents quickly decide to enroll him in piano lessons. Over the years, Benny continues to improve his piano skills, impressing his parents and their friends; he also meets and befriends Chloe, his outspoken, adventurous neighbor.

Eventually, Elle manages to set up an audition for Benny which would allow him to enter a prestigious music school, and Benny is given a year to practice several pieces for his audition. As Elle intensifies their practice sessions, Richard voices his concerns about Benny, leading to several arguments about his future. On the night before the audition, Chloe invites Benny to camp with her on the beach, and he can either accept or reject her to focus on his audition. The next day, Benny plays the piece he had been practicing, but is rejected by the school regardless of his performance. Soon after, he is taken to a doctor due to an unspecified illness.

Although the illness leaves Benny unable to leave the house, he eventually rediscovers his passion for art and develops his skills, allowing him to get into art school. Benny's unique style eventually garners him widespread attention over the years, and he becomes a successful artist. However, when Elle suddenly dies, Benny falls into a slump and isolates himself from the world, only able to paint variations of his mother's final portrait. When Richard calls Benny and asks him to help clear some of Elle's belongings, Benny finds her old sheet music, which revitalizes his artistic drive and allows him to paint a new portrait of his mother which he displays at his latest exhibition. There, Benny runs into an adult Chloe, and she invites him out for a drink.

As the Ferryman celebrates at the prospect of having such a colorful story to tell, the seagulls, actually the souls of liars, see through Benny's lies and become increasingly rowdy. The Ferryman realizes this as well, and after silencing the birds, threatens Benny with the consequences of lying to the Gatekeeper, and insists on the truth. Benny then revisits his childhood once more, and the Ferryman analyzes his memory during his visit to the doctor and finally uncovers the truth: the adolescent Benny was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and did not have much longer left to live; the memories he shared about being an artist were merely Benny's fantasies. He then asks Benny to continue to revisit his true memories.

While bedridden, Benny takes up writing on his mother's old typewriter, and types out his life story at her insistence. Eventually, the disease takes its toll on Benny, and he is forced to take medication, in addition to other medical devices to mitigate the effects of the disease. As Benny's condition worsens, Richard and Elle attempt to stay positive in spite of the stresses of their current life, while Benny makes amends with Chloe after getting mad at her for brusquely comparing his situation with her late mother's own illness. Ernie also returns after running away following the death of her kittens due to coyotes earlier. Eventually, the medication is no longer able to delay the disease, and Benny finally dies, ending up in the afterlife where the Ferryman found him.

As they reach the Gatekeeper's sanctuary, the Ferryman decides against a grandiose tale like he originally intended, and instead opts for a simple summary of Benny's life by repeating Elle's response to Benny's life story: although he lived only a short and ordinary life, he nonetheless lived a good one by giving hope to his friends and family. Pleased by this display of heart and sincerity, the Gatekeeper allows Benny to pass through, as the Ferryman asks him to close his eyes one last time.

After his successful escape from Afghanistan, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath - also known as OSS 117 - is assigned to a computer operator desk job by the head of French Intelligence, Armand Lesignac, operating as the agency's tax accountant. However, after an operative goes missing in action, Hubert is immediately summoned to travel to Africa and find his colleague, who was scheduled to meet with the country's president, Koudjo Sangawe Bamba, but no contact has been made.

Hubert travels to Africa and meets with President Bamba, who keeps clones and identical stand-ins close by in case an attempt was made on his life. Bamba briefs Hubert on the country's political instability, the attempts to stage a coup on his regime by numerous opposing groups, and his dissatisfaction that the previous agent they sent disrespectfully didn't attend the meeting. With the influence of communism spreading across the continent, the president requests Hubert to track down the source and avert any potential revolutions especially when the interests of the French government aligning with Bamba's reign are endangered. Given their alliance, Hubert starts his investigation by following Léon Nkomo, one of Bamba's top men, witnessing a suspicious change of hands with an unidentified party at the presidential palace. After unsuccessfully interrogating Nkomo, Hubert is lured into a trap by a confidence man which leads to his arrest by the local police.

At the prison, Hubert recognized the missing operative, Serge, and unabashedly blows his cover by carelessly scolding him over neglecting to meet with President Bamba, thus preventing him from infiltrating the opposition. Following a brief riot, both men are formally acquitted of charges on the orders of the president and set free. Serge tries to wonder about the purpose behind Hubert's act whether it was incompetence and sheer stupidity, or deep ingenuity of planning ahead. He informs Hubert that he learned a French arms dealer, Roland Lépervier, is organizing a deal with an underground rebellion. They tail him to the pier where he's been smuggling weapons in containers and Serge plants a tracker on one of the shipments. They come to the conclusion via analysis that Lépervier isn't working alone, barely being a middleman, and the arms are actually supplied by the Soviet Union to back their revolution.

The next morning, using Serge's tracking device, they head out to Lépervier's warehouse, fighting off hostile rebels in the process, they set explosive charges to the containers and escape just in time they blow up, killing Lépervier in the blast. Upon trying to find their way back to the city, Serge berates Hubert for his persistent condescending behavior after the latter warns him not to disturb the swamp where crocodiles lie. While he ignores Hubert's warnings and continues to taunt him, a crocodile pulls Serge to the swamp to his presumed death.

Not a long after, Hubert is captured by the underground rebellion and discovers that they are led by Zéphyrine Bamba, the president's wife. Explaining the situation of her country to Hubert, she informs him of her husband's cruelty and corrupt motivations of power and greed while leaving her countrymen to suffer from poverty and oppression. She unveils her true schemes as to have the Soviets as their allies with the belief that communism will instill equality among the people. Hubert appears to sympathize with her pacifism, and it leads to the both of them spending a romantic night together, only for Hubert's colonial-minded nature to thwart the mutual understanding they seemed to have and raise hostile tensions between the two, ending up in his reimprisonment. Hubert, however, incapacitates a guard, steals his disguise and escapes from the rebel camp.

Accepting the president's invitation to the formal dinner party he's holding at his palace in the wake of his re-election, he comes across Zéphyrine and attempts to gain her trust once more, promising that he will try and influence the president's decisions to be fair and of goodwill towards the people. After assuring the president of the coup's neutralization, Hubert tries to convince him to change his ways. President Bamba analyzes an offer made to him by the Soviet Union and prepares to accept their alliance over the French after favoring the new deal in spite of maintaining the same stance on his social politics. A distraught Hubert accidentally blows Zéphyrine's cover on the scene as the leader of the failed revolution, earning her death sentence on charges of high treason. Zéphyrine assassinates Bamba and most of his clones until Hubert prevents her from killing the last one for the reason that he will maintain his alliance with the French government instead. Bamba's clone orders his men to take Zéphyrine away, for which Hubert is oblivious that they will carry on with her sentence, mocking her for "being overdramatic".

Hubert returns to France and learns from Armand that Zéphyrine escaped custody with the help of the Soviets and resumed her full-time position as the leader of the rebellion. He's ordered to fly to the USSR where she's taken refuge and track her down with the intent of bringing her to justice. Upon his departure, Hubert boasts to Armand that he cannot be replaced no matter how many new agents come around, telling him that "there'll always be one OSS 117."

The mid-credits scene reveals that Serge has somehow survived, crawling in an African jungle due to legs being torn apart by the crocodiles.

After a successful bank heist Candy and Johnny go on the run, abandoning the rest of their crew. Johnny is soon arrested and Candy is forced to hide out in a convent. An alien infested meteor lands in Candy's soup which infects her and her pet poodles. The infection causes dramatic changes in everyone who has consumed it, causing her poodles to transform into drag queens. Soon Candy also starts changing, her hair and skin change colour, spikes protrude from her spine, and her tongue extends and soon becomes murderous. This causes Candy to kill multiple people in various ways using her now bloodthirsty tongue.

The novella focuses on an alternate history of the world where the science and technology are based on the use of golems and, accordingly, the Kabbalistic names embedded in them. Biologists discover that the number of human generations is a constant value and that in about 100 years the human race will die out due to the lack of sperm in the last generation. An unexpected way out of the impasse has yet to be found.

Ever since his childhood, Clovis had to change from families to families due to his biological father as well as stepmother and stepfather keep remarrying. As an adult, Clovis is a con artist while moonlighting as an art forger who paints famous paintings to sell to a corrupt senator who in turns selling them in the black market with ten times the price. Clovis's expert conning technique enable him to get free goods and services but he is abided by his principle of only conning the rich and he willing to pay to buy goods and services from the poor.

A young lawyer, engaged to the daughter of a Congressman, attends a party where he has a fling with another woman. Two weeks later he suspects that he has contracted syphilis from her.

Laura and Ted are enjoying a dysfunctional marriage in Boulder, Colorado; teaching at the university, drinking at the local tiki bar, and barely tolerating Laura's odd family. The couple is recently reunited after a brief estrangement when Laura is killed in a car accident.

Paralyzed with grief, Ted carries her ashes under his arm and begins seeing her everywhere he goes. Aided by Laura's suitor Howl, Laura's family takes matter into their own hands by stealing the ashes from Ted and heading to their family's resting place to say their goodbyes.

Ted chases them down, and at the urging of Laura's ghost, he steals her ashes and Howl's truck and heads out on a cross country road trip to lay her to rest at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Along the way, Ted meets a quirky cast of characters that seduce, annoy, confuse, and sidetrack him while Laura's family and Howl are in hot pursuit.

James Mangan (Liam Cunningham), a middle-aged alcoholic, returns from his local pub when he hears a voice from his past and comes to realise he is doomed.

Set aboard the British naval vessel HMS ''Indomitable'' at sea in 1798, Billy Budd is a handsome, young, pure hearted and impressionable man who is the representation of good in the play. His counter is John Claggart, the Master of Arms, who is sadistic, bitter, and hates life. Claggart becomes envious of Billy's popularity with the crew and falsely accuses him of mutiny. Unable to defend himself due to a stutter condition which renders him unable to speak, Budd lashes out at Claggart in frustration and accidentally kills him. Although the crew comprehend that Claggart's death was not motivated by murderous intent, under the law Budd is guilty of killing a superior officer and is condemned to be hanged.

Derry, 1969. Catholic priest Fr. Eoin McDonnell prevents the arrest of Antaine, a senior Irish Republican Army commandant. Fr. Eoin casts his mind back to rural County Donegal in 1916, when he recruited a teenage Antaine into the Irish independence movement.

A gang of thugs intend to use an invisibility formula created by Professor Nakazato to rob a priceless jewel necklace "The Tears of Amour."

During his presidency, Donald Trump would be reelected in the 2020 presidential election, but would die during a second coronavirus outbreak in 2024. As a result of his death, Vice President Mike Pence would succeed him and would oversee the actions of the United States being transformed into a right-wing, Christian fundamentalist, authoritarian state and would eventually lead to the West coast states of California, Oregon and Washington seceding from the US and forming their own nation called Pacifica.

Pence would be elected to a full term in 2024 and reelected in 2028 with Lindsey Graham as his vice president. During his presidency. Roe v. Wade would be overturned in 2026 with abortions being criminalized and thousands of women dying as a result of illegal procedures, concentration camps were established near the US-Mexican border to imprison migrants, illegal immigrants and political opponents, non-Christians including Jews, Muslims and Sikhs fall victim to fatal religious and racist attacks, and LGBTQ+ peoples are persecuted and eventually classified as sex offenders.

The United States Congress becomes a Republican-dominated rubber stamp, state autonomy in Democratic states become undermined with state governments being removed and replaced for non-compliance, Christian fundamentalism is endorsed by the federal government, and news broadcasters including CNN and MSNBC became right-wing subsidiaries of Fox known as Fox-CNN and Fox-MSNBC, respectively, while The New York Times gets shut down completely as part of restrictions on freedom of the press.

Pence would eventually work around the Twenty-second Amendment by running as Vice President on the bottom of the Republican ticket with Devin Nunes in 2032. The ticket would win and Nunes would resign from the presidency shortly after taking office, allowing Pence to retake the presidency and to appoint Rick Santorum as his new vice president.

This book is an epistolary novel in which an elderly woman writes letters to her granddaughter who has left Italy for America. She writes about the poor choices she has made, which have led to several lives being ruined.

MJ becomes committed to putting the girl gang onto her new found love, improv, which she discovers after attending a comedy show while on a date. MJ begins to form her dream team of girl bosses after recruiting cousin Tiggy. Each episode of the first season is dedicated to a different member of the girl-gang, allowing for a wealth of character development. The show works to break down some of the perceived barriers of entering the comedy world as a woman. By exploring how the feminine interacts within a male dominated space, the web series is a testament to the freedom of trying new things and the reward of being fearless. The women's improv journey culminates with a performance at the Sip and Laugh Rosé Improv Festival, where they are pushed to their professional limits.

The show works as an ironic illumination of the misogyny in the improv community by creating female characters who represent the juxtaposition of their male counterparts. There is a deep history of misogyny within the comedy community, and this show is empowered by its female lead cast to flip the script.

The player plays as Curdin, who is returning to his grandfather's hometown for his funeral. He is told that his grandfather died in a barn fire, and was already buried, but when visiting the building's ruins he finds a burned corpse. Alongside this, he finds that his grandfather's grave is empty. Trying to uncover what happened to his grandfather, Curdin begins traveling to the top of the mountain.

The opening scenes take place in a church. All the characters gather for the wedding of Richard Strong to Elinor Rossitor. Strong is a railroad president, known to be honest and down-to-earth. Elinor is a poor but refined visionary with dreams of wealth and status. Strong's rugged, austere nature is at odds with her warm and romantic personality, and this clash of temperaments will come back to haunt them in the future. The ceremony takes place; they wed the two, and the new couple plans a romantic honeymoon in Paris.

Rivals of Richard Strong are attempting to ruin him financially. When he leaves on his honeymoon, his enemies will carry out their scheme. They plan to issue false reports about dealings with his companies. They also plan to corner the gold market. The plan's details include bribing certain Washington officials, inducing them to send a fake telegram to President Grant. The telegram will implore the President to leave Washington to attend an event. Thus, in his absence, he cannot order the sale of gold.

One of Strong's clerks overhears part of the plan. While Strong and his wife are getting ready to leave on their honeymoon, the clerk gives him a tip about the nefarious undertakings of his rivals. Strong believes the threats are spurious and ignores the warnings. They depart for Paris.

While in Paris, more telegrams arrive, and Strong can no longer ignore the threats. He must return home. This widens the emotional chasm between Strong and his wife. After all, he is heading back to New York in the middle of their honeymoon. The couple embarks on their trip to New York. His clandestine return to New York works, and he arrives before his enemies even suspect his return.

With the help of Charles Dalton, he thwarts their plans. As a reward, Strong hires Dalton to be his assistant. While working with Strong, Dalton becomes acquainted with his wife. She becomes friendly with Dalton, and he gives her the emotional support she so desperately needs. One night, things go too far, and he tries to seduce her. She rebuffs him, and they both go their separate ways. Elinor refuses to see Dalton anymore. Dalton is craving some emotional connection and yields to the charms of his wife, Zoldene. The couple had separated when she found out he had no money.

In the meantime, Strong discovers what he thinks is the affair his wife was having with Dalton. He accuses them both of adultery. He becomes estranged from both.

Elinor decides she must escape all the intrigue at home. Along with her father, Edwin, she returns to Paris. Her father's health is fading. Strong and President Grant schedule a meeting. They met, and afterward, the President directs the Treasury to sell gold. The move shreds the last glimmers of hope for his enemies. The gold-selloff makes millions for Strong.

Edwin Rossitor's health worsens in Paris, and he wants to return to the states. Elinor wants to help him return, but she worries about the danger posed by the riots associated with the Paris Commune. Edwin wires Strong and asks him to travel to Paris to help them. When Strong arrives in France, he can find no trace of either party.

One night, as he watches a mob, he finds out Elinor is the center of the disturbance. He tries to rescue her but ends up unconscious in an alley. Later, in his hotel room, he regains his senses. Elinor is nowhere to be found.

Charles Dalton and Zoldene are also in Paris at the same time. Dalton asks Strong to pay him and his wife a visit. He swears to Strong nothing ever happened between him and his wife, Elinor. This time, Dalton convinces Strong he is telling the truth.

Strong walks away from the talk, relieved, but now believes Elinor no longer cares for him. He sadly returns to New York alone. He pays a visit to the old address and takes one last glimpse of the home to his strained marriage. As chance would have it, Elinor was also passing by the home searching for memories. They see each other, they pause, their eyes meet, and he tells her he will always love her. She looks deeper into his eyes and tells him she never stopped loving him. It rekindled their romance; they walk off hand-in-hand.

The story does not have any characters. The progress in the future has split humanity into two classes: ordinary people and so-called metahumans, who are genetically modified and have a much more powerful intelligence than do ordinary people. The development of the metahumans' science becomes so advanced that it forces the ordinary scientists to switch to interpreting and decoding the metahumans' achievements, because common people are no longer able to create anything fundamentally new. The science then becomes the means of seeking and establishing communication with the super-intelligent metahumans.

The novelette examines the cultural effects of a noninvasive medical procedure that induces a visual agnosia toward physical beauty. The story is told as a series of interviews about a reversible procedure called ''calliagnosia'', which eliminates a person's ability to perceive physical beauty. The story's central character is Tamera Lyons, a first-year student who grew up with calliagnosia but wants to experience life without it.

Midway through a seemingly endless day of summer vacation, third-year middle school student Nagara and his class, along with transfer student Nozomi and the aloof and mysterious Mizuho, are suddenly transported to an alternate dimension. The group calls the new dimension "This World", and finds it has its own set of rules and physics. Over time, while trying to get back home, they realize that they have individual supernatural abilities, but also find it difficult to navigate their own interpersonal relationships.

The class later splits into two groups due to internal conflicts. As both the groups continue journeying to find their way back home, they discover many other students who have spent thousands of years in other "This Worlds".

A small device, the Predictor, looks like a remote control. It consists of a button and a green display. When you press the button, the screen flashes. However, it flashes a second before you click on the button—in fact sending a signal from the future. Millions of these devices have been sold. The Predictors create a dystopic world by providing evidence that free will is actually a myth—the future is predetermined and fixed. As a result, people become lethargic and just stop eating entirely.

University students Natalia (Aleksandra Skraba), Paulina (Maria Sobocińska) and Monika (Sandra Drzymalska) dream of winning the competition for the best start-up. They decide to create an app called Sexify, which aims to discover the world of sexuality and female orgasm.

In a flashback, Carol Young kicks her husband Richard out of their house over his alcoholism, despite Tessa's pleas for him to stay. In the present, Tessa and her boyfriend Hardin Scott bring a now-homeless Richard to their apartment. Tessa wants to let her father stay so she can build a relationship with him, while Hardin distrusts Richard, even offering him money to leave. Richard declines the money, explaining that he only wants to make amends. Tessa and Landon, Hardin's step-brother, discuss Tessa's move to Seattle to be closer to her employer Vance Publishing. Hardin arrives and argues with Tessa over the move; he hoped to move with Tessa to London after graduation. After a phone call with his mother Trish, who asks Hardin to attend her upcoming wedding and talks about her close relationship with Vance's owner Christian Vance, Hardin accompanies Richard to a bar, where they get into a fight with a bystander over lewd comments about Tessa. The next day, Richard decides to leave the apartment, while Hardin and Tessa fight again about her move to Seattle. Kimberley, Vance's fiancée, offers to let Tessa and Hardin stay with the couple in Seattle, after which Hardin apologizes to Tessa.

Tessa and Hardin accompany Hardin's dad, Ken, his step-mom, Karen, and Landon to the family's lake house for a weekend vacation. Hardin sheds some of his previous hostilities towards his family, growing closer to them. While the family is out for dinner, Hardin encounters a old friend, Lillian, who he introduces to Tessa. Tessa grows jealous of the attention Lillian receives from Hardin and begins to flirt with their waiter Robert. After having sex in a hot tub, Hardin asks Tessa if she ever had emotional feelings towards her coworker, Trevor. Tessa admits she briefly did, causing Hardin to storm away. When Hardin tells Tessa that he is with Lillian, Tessa goes to the restaurant from before and flirts with Robert, who gives her his phone number. Hardin and Lillian arrive, and Lillian explains that she's gay and thus has no romantic or sexual interest in Hardin. When Hardin finds Robert's phone number in Tessa's belongings the next day, the two leave the lake house early.

After her move to Seattle, Tessa and Hardin do not speak for several days; Hardin finds Tessa's journal, wherein she describes all the pain caused by her relationship with Hardin. Eventually, the two reconcile, and Hardin takes up boxing as a way of resolving his anger issues. Vance and Kimberly tell Tessa that they are expecting a child. When Hardin has a nightmare of Tessa being unfaithful to him, he surprises Tessa in Seattle, admits to reading her journal, and apologizes for causing her pain. After spending some time together in Seattle, Hardin returns home, where he finds Richard in his apartment, brutally beaten. Richard explains that he had been attacked by men to whom he owed money; Hardin offers Richard a watch to pay off the debt. When Tessa visits her gynecologist to start birth control, she is informed that, because of an issue with her cervix, she may never conceive. Hardin tells Tessa he plans on moving to Seattle in two months.

Hardin eventually agrees to attend his mother's wedding in London, taking Tessa along and showing her his hometown. The night before the wedding, Hardin catches Trish and Vance having sex, causing an altercation between the three. Trish and her fiancé get married the next day. Tessa sits with Kimberley, where Kimberley admits she knows of Vance's infidelity, but that she loves him and can't stay angry with him. Hardin discusses the previous night's events with Vance at a local bar. Kimberly tells Tessa, and Vance tells Hardin, that Vance is Hardin's real father. The news shocks Tessa and infuriates Hardin, who storms out of the bar. Tessa finds Hardin and the two embrace passionately in the street.

Blondino is a naïve young man who wanders the streets dressed in medieval attire and pushing a wheelbarrow. He has series of adventures, all the while being pursued by a cop. These stories are mixed with sequences showing Blondino's dreams. Blondino eventually dies after falling from a tightrope but is revived in the film's conclusion.

Boboy Mortega is a stuntman living with his mother and father at the Take It or Leave It Cemetery. After his father is killed by thugs from a drug syndicate for being a police informer, Boboy takes a job as a security guard (colloquially called a "sikyu") and becomes a vigilante. With the help of his fellow policemen and a group of street children, Boboy tries to track down the syndicate as they have taken his father's body.

The story concentrates on different emotional relationships that humans develop with machines. Reginald Dacey argues that a mechanical nanny is much better able to raise a child than a human one. At first, society accepts the idea and many families buy automatic nannies, but when one malfunctions and kills a child, people lose interest. Dacey attempts to prove the machine is still safe by using the machine to raise his own child, but no one is willing to be the child's mother. When his son Lionel finally adopts an infant and raises it exclusively using the automatic nanny, the result is a child who is only capable of interacting with machines and not humans.

There is the grandiose Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. In 1974, a radio message from the humanity was sent into deep space, a cry into the void among the stars in the hope of contact with extraterrestrial intelligent beings. But what if they already live very close to the telescope?

"...imagines a parrot talking to the humans managing the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, for more than 50 years the largest single dish radio telescope on earth. There we are, creating technological marvels to find life in the stars, while we heedlessly drive wild parrots, among so many others species, toward extinction here at home.

'We’re a nonhuman species capable of communicating with them,” the parrot muses. “Aren’t we exactly what humans are looking for?' "

In a post-apocalyptic realm called Anmaere, an annual drive ships wild horses from a rundown city called Whithren to another, far-off city, Levithen. Many denizens of Whithren hope to board the boat with the horses and travel to Levithen, which they believe holds a more promising future for them.

After being attacked by Green Goblin the previous week, Spider-Man defeats the fifth Goblin Squad. Harry Osborn tells his girlfriend Gwen Stacy that he has stopped taking the Oscorp performance enhancer "Globulin Green", which caused him to black out as the Green Goblin. Stacy and Peter Parker help Harry, who goes to Oscorp with his father Norman Osborn and Spider-Man. There, the Goblin attacks Spider-Man and escapes; Spider-Man tells the Osborns that that was the real Goblin. Parker tells his honest feelings to Stacy and breaks up with Liz Allan to be with Stacy. Spider-Man confronts Donald Menken, who is determined to be a potential candidate of Green Goblin's identity, but ends up being attacked by the Goblin.

Spider-Man and Goblin battle on the latter's glider and into the air, while being followed by the Osborns on a helicopter. Spider-Man defeats armed Goblin Squad members and catches up to the Goblin. Admist the battle, Spider-Man removes Goblin's mask and is revealed to be Norman Osborn all along. The Norman that was with Harry is the Chameleon, and Norman had framed Harry back when the latter was revealed as the Goblin. Norman seemingly dies in a pumpkin bomb-filled explosion at a water tower; with Norman dead and Harry with Stacy, Parker is left on a banner ending, but notes that atleast the Goblin is gone. Dr. Curt Connors, his wife Martha Connors, and son Billy Connors aboard an airplane flight as a disguised Norman boards.

Dr. Kim (Kim Ki-Ju) a mad scientist teams up with a young reporter named Kang Ok-hee (Nam Hye-Gyeong) to prove that dinosaurs still exist. When giant dinosaurs (and a giant bird-like ''Pterodactylus'') suddenly appear, the doctor and journalist must find a way to save the world.

Prior to the events of ''Soul'', 22 unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade a fellow soul from leaving the Great Before and going to Earth. Resenting Earth for taking away every friend she has ever had, 22 decides to abduct five souls and indoctrinate them into a secret resistance movement called the APOCALYPSE (Anonymous Provocateurs and Other Culprits that are Against Leaving Your friends to go to Pathetic Stupid Earth).

To stop others from finding their inspiration, 22 leads the other five souls (whom she nicknames Macaroni, Zimmy, Peanut, D-Pac, and Moonbeam), but her recruits quickly find theirs and leave for Earth. Soon the only remaining recruit is Macaroni, who gives 22 a hug as her only remaining friend, but their devotion completes their inspiration; 22 angrily throws Macaroni to Earth, vowing that Earth will never take her like it has taken her friends.

The two soul counselors observe 22 and wonder when she will go to Earth and discover the meaning of life. One of them asks what that meaning is, but the other's response is cut off by the closing credits.

Mark Grayson was a normal high school senior with a normal part-time job whose father Nolan is the alien (but human-appearing) Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. At age 17, Mark begins to display superpowers, which come from his father being a member of the Viltrumite race, who, according to Nolan, pioneer the galaxy on a mission of benevolence and enlightenment.

As Invincible, Mark begins working as a superhero, with his father acting as his mentor, and meeting other heroes (including Robot, Rex Splode, Dupli-Kate and Atom Eve), discovering that his physics teacher has been turning his students into human bombs, to foiling a plan by the Mauler Twins to make an army of robots. Meanwhile, Omni-Man is kidnapped by aliens, taken to another dimension. He returns after what seems to be only a few days but was actually eight months to him.

In South Dakota, Sunny, a sheltered Indian teenager, is pressured into throwing a party by her rebellious, outgoing friend Lupe. Though she fears disobeying her mother — who is out of town on a business trip — she agrees in the hopes of impressing and seducing Hunter, her crush. After seeing Hunter leave the party with the more popular Emma, however, she winds up having sex with her friend Kyle, a somewhat eccentric devout Christian — both almost immediately realize the encounter was a mistake.

The next morning, Sunny informs Lupe that she has lost her virginity, but does not say whom to, leading Lupe to believe that she had sex with Hunter. In the bathroom, she is horrified to discover that she never removed the condom Kyle used during intercourse, fearing that she could become pregnant. Informing Lupe, the two set out to the local pharmacy to get a Plan B pill, but are denied. Following Lupe's suggestion, they decide their best option is to drive to the nearest Planned Parenthood — located in Rapid City — using Sunny's mom's car.

Sunny and Lupe get lost on the road and are redirected by a helpful convenience store clerk, whom they inform of Sunny's situation. She suggests they visit her cousin, a drug dealer based in a nearby playground. The girls confront the dealer, who offers them fake IDs in exchange for oral sex, and manage to escape with the IDs and an unmarked "birth control pill" after Sunny accidentally damages his penis. After Sunny falls asleep, Lupe drives to a bowling alley where she hopes to meet Logen — a person whom she met online and has been communicating with frequently. Sunny, while initially reluctant, quickly accepts due to the prospect of meeting Logen and pleasantly surprised to find that Hunter and his friends are at the alley as well. The girls split up — Lupe goes off to meet Logen, and Hunter invites Sunny to a nearby diner. Logen, revealed to be a female drummer, has sex with Lupe in Sunny's car. Meanwhile, after learning that Hunter only left her party to get Emma home safely rather than to have sex with her, Sunny confides in Hunter about her situation. Hunter holds no judgement towards Sunny, sympathizing with her and reassuring her that everything will work out. After Hunter drives her back to the bowling alley, the two kiss.

The girls reunite, but quickly discover Sunny's car (which Lupe left with Logen) to be missing. Despairing, Sunny takes the unmarked "birth control" pill they stole from the drug dealer — later revealed to be speed — and argues with Lupe, blaming her for their situation. Lupe realizes they can locate the car with a "Find My" app, which turns out to be parked at a nearby house party. Lupe finds and confronts Logen, who insists that the car wasn't taken by her, but by her band's lead singer, Xander. Lupe and Sunny find Xander to be extremely intoxicated. He attempts to attack the girls — they escape, but Sunny nearly runs Xander over. Xander is fine, but disoriented; Logen stays behind to take care of him, sharing a kiss with Lupe before the two part ways.

Back in the car, a now sober Sunny confronts Lupe on why she never told her about her true sexuality. Lupe admits she was afraid it would affect their friendship, which Sunny instantly dismisses as nonsense. Shortly after, Lupe discovers the true nature of Sunny's sexual encounter through a phone call from Kyle. Sunny says she lied because of how much more sexually experienced Lupe seems, which Lupe says is just an act. They agree to stop lying to each other.

Finally, Sunny and Lupe make it to Rapid City's Planned Parenthood, but are devastated to find it permanently shut down. Sunny breaks down emotionally and admits she needs her mother's help. The two drive home.

When they get back, both face altercations with their parents. Lupe is surprised by her father's concern for her. After asking him if he would ever "kick her out," he reaffirms his unconditional love for her and the two embrace. Sunny's mom is initially angry, but her mood softens after a frustrated Sunny rants about feeling the need to be perfect all the time for her. Like Lupe and her dad, the two reconnect, and Sunny admits that she needs the morning after pill, which her mom quickly buys for her.

The film is about a group of British miners (known as "Claykickers" or “Manchester Moles”) recruited during World War I to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs below the German front at the Battle of Messines in 1917. Based on true events, 10,000 German soldiers were killed instantly after the detonation of explosives beneath their lines.

Linda Ray Guettner, a divorcée and nurse, is raising her sons without any help from their father, Mike Guettner. When she moves in with her lover, Barbara Moreland and her daughter, Linda's oldest son gets suspicious of the nature of their relationship. When he questions his mother about it, she tells him she is a lesbian. After visiting his dad one weekend, he decides to live with him instead, and tells his father about his mother and her lover. Mike goes to court and files for full custody of both boys. His position is that her lifestyle is not in the boys' best interests. Even with all the bad deeds exposed about Linda's ex-husband, the ensuing legal battle boiled down to whether an environment with two homosexual parents is healthy for children.

''Endwalker'' opens as the Warrior of Light and their companions travel to Old Sharlayan to learn what its leaders know of the Final Days. While on the ship, the Warrior encounters the Lady of the Light, an apparition they had previously seen near the end of Shadowbringers, who reveals herself as Hydaelyn. Once in Sharlayan, the Scions split their forces. Alphinaud's group remains there to continue investigating despite being hindered by the Forum, Sharlayan's representative government, and the Warrior receives a rare flower that changes color in response to emotion as a gift from Hydaelyn. Meanwhile, Thancred's group aids the alchemists of Thavnair in using dragon scales to develop a means of protection from tempering, allowing anyone, not just those with the Echo or the Blessing of Light, to fight against dangerous entities like primals. While there in Radz-at-Han, the satrap of the city-state grants them an audience, revealing that Thavnair's true ruler is the ancient dragon Vrtra. The Warrior helps head alchemist Nidhana test the warding scales. Unfortunately, she is captured by Fandaniel, who reveals himself to have been the Allagan scientist Amon. The Warrior and the Scions rescue Nidhana and the others used in summoning the Magus Sister primals. In the process, they destroy the disturbing Tower of Zot, and learn it was gathering aether, somehow sent elsewhere via its core, a severed person's limb.

Armed with new knowledge and the warding scales, the Warrior, the Scions, and a detachment of soldiers from the Grand Company of Eorzea, called the Ilsabard Contingent, set out to infiltrate Garlemald and stop Fandaniel and Zenos. They meet a holdout faction of Garleans, who initially struggle against the Ilsabard Contingent, but are eventually persuaded to cooperate instead. Finally able to assault the grotesque Tower of Babil that now rises over the ruined imperial palace, the allies learn that Fandaniel used the dismembered corpse of Varis zos Galvus as a medium to create the primal Anima, which sustains the towers across the star and draws massive amounts of aether from them. Though Anima is destroyed, in its final moments it amasses the energy needed to weaken Zodiark’s seal on the moon almost completely, and Zenos and Fandaniel use Allagan technology to teleport to its surface to break the final seal in person. The Warrior follows them, with Hydaelyn briefly aiding the party by redirecting Zenos and Fandaniel to a distant part of the moon. However, they arrive too late to stop Zenos from releasing Zodiark. Fandaniel then merges with the incomplete primal to battle with the Warrior of Light, then upon his defeat intentionally commits suicide to destroy Him. With the loss of Zodiark and the protective veil of aether He provided to the star, the Final Days immediately begin anew. Zenos departs after realizing the Warrior is more focused on stopping the Final Days than on fighting him, apparently content to wait until the Warrior is no longer preoccupied.

Some of the Scions then join the Warrior on the moon, and discover that Hydaelyn had a plan prepared in the event that Zodiark was slain. The moon itself is a gigantic space ship, capable of housing vast numbers of evacuees from the world it orbits. Hydaelyn specifically created a race of small rabbit-like people, the Loporrits, to prepare the moon to evacuate the star. Their efforts are somewhat stymied by their ignorance of the actual lives and interests of the people of Etheirys (the name the Ancients used for the world), in part because they believe modern people look and behave just like the Ancients did. Unfortunately, they also reveal that Hydaelyn's plans did not account for the populations of the other shards, who would all eventually die due to the destruction of the Source and its aether. Having become close to the residents of the First, Thancred, Urianger, and Y'shtola refuse to accept this possibility, and eventually the Loporrits are persuaded to investigate alternate solutions.

Regrouping with the other Scions in Sharlayan, the Warrior learns Radz-at-Han is being attacked by monsters like the ones they saw in Emet-Selch's illusory re-creation of the Final Days seen in ''Shadowbringers''. They learn these monsters were once normal people, transformed by extreme despair into aetherically-empty abominations. The satrap is killed by a fresh outbreak in the city, and Vrtra is forced to reveal his true position as ruler. Meanwhile, the Forum invites the Hannish people to join them in their evacuation. At G'raha's suggestion, the Warrior returns to the First and meets with the lingering essence of Elidibus, trapped inside the Crystal Tower. Elidibus realizes that the flower Hydaelyn gave the Warrior, an elpis, is a clue to what must be done, in part due to his recently-regained memories revealing that he has in fact already met the Warrior, but in the distant past. He thus consumes the last of his soul's energy to send the Warrior into the unsundered past to learn more of the Final Days from Fandaniel's original self, Hermes.

The Warrior arrives in the past at a research facility called Elpis, meeting with past versions of Emet-Selch and his friend Hythlodaeus, as well as Hydaelyn in her original form as Venat. The Warrior eventually, and somewhat reluctantly, reveals what they know of the Final Days to her, Emet-Selch, and Hythlodaeus. Armed with that knowledge, they decide to seek out Hermes and his empathic creation Meteion. She and her sisters, the Meteia, are linked together via a collective consciousness; she remains by Hermes' side while the others scour the universe, seeking answers to Hermes's question of what gives life meaning. Receiving her sisters' findings that numerous civilizations across the universe perished for various reasons, frequently due to self-annihilation or despair, Meteion concludes that existence lacks meaning, and that to live is to suffer, so she should work to end all life and thus all suffering. She then departs to join her sisters at the edge of the universe, from where they will flood the star and the universe at large with their despair, thus triggering the Final Days. Wanting to test mankind's fitness to exist, Hermes allows Meteion to escape and attempts to inflict all present (himself included) with a spell that erases their memories of Meteion and their time in Elpis, but the Warrior and Venat escape.

After the Warrior returns to their time and shard, the Scions win over the Forum, with Alphinaud proving the Scions capable of helping the Forum's plan by drawing on their alliances with nearly every political group in the world. This leads to a reconciliation between Fourchenault and his children. He then takes the Scions to the Aitiascope, a device located in the center of Labyrinthos used to access the aetherial sea where Hydaelyn dwells. The group encounter the memory-shade of Fandaniel in his previous form as Amon, restoring his memories as Hermes before being dragged into oblivion by a revenge-driven Asahi. Hydaelyn reveals Her ages-long plan to stop the Final Days, but as a final test, She challenges them to defeat Her, as if they are unable to do so, they will have no hope of defeating Meteion and her sisters. She is dealt a mortal blow, and having expended every ounce of strength she had to give, will dissolve completely, never to reincarnate again. Before she passes, Hydaelyn gives the Scions a crystal revealing Meteion's location, as well as access to the Mothercrystal, the vast repository of aether from all the belief sent to Her over her millennia-long vigil. This will power the newly-christened starship ''Ragnarok'' on its journey to the 'nest' of the Meteia. She also imbues the crystal of Azem with the last of her aether before fading away completely.

Guided by Hydaelyn's crystal, the Scions travel to the edge of the universe, called Ultima Thule. Meteion intercepts the ship, nearly killing the whole crew before Thancred sacrifices himself to save the group. The strength of his hopes and faith, a powerful source of dynamis, allow the party to venture forward, but the Meteia bar their way in various recreations of the dying worlds the sisters visited in the ancient past. Each Scion sacrifices themselves in turn so the others can proceed, until finally only the Warrior remains to bridge the last gap. The Warrior uses Azem's crystal, drawing on its ability to summon allies and Hydaelyn's imbued power over solidity and form to revive Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus. The two of them perform Creation magic to make a field of brilliant white elpis flowers, causing Meteion's original personality to surface, weakening her influence on Ultima Thule. Having secured a new source of dynamis to support the solid ground of Ultima Thule, the Warrior is able to restore the Scions to life with the last of Hydaelyn's power within Azem's crystal. An anguished Meteion begs the Warrior of Light to stop her and her sisters before vanishing. With the path forward open, Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus pass on to the afterlife once more with former assuring the Warrior of Light that they still have so much more to see, even of their own world.

The Scions pursue Meteion and face the Meteia as they converge into the Endsinger, who overpowers the Scions. The Warrior teleports their comrades back to the ''Ragnarok'' via a previously supplied return device and, with the unexpected aid of Zenos, defeats the Endsinger. A repentant Meteion uses her empathic powers to see the Warrior of Light's memories, and realizes that the question Hermes asked her to answer was flawed: there never was a single answer, but rather, everyone finds their own answer. Before rejoining their friends, the Warrior accepts Zenos' offer of a final duel to the death. The Warrior barely emerges victorious, but collapses alongside Zenos, who dies after asking if the Warrior had found purpose in life. One of the escape devices lands next to the Warrior's body, which teleports them back onto the ''Ragnarok''. The Scions are just barely able to heal the Warrior, who regains consciousness as they make their way back to Old Sharlayan. With the Final Days averted and no more world-ending threats on the horizon, the Scions decide to publicly disband to ease Eorzea's reliance on them and go their separate ways. In private, however, they remain connected, waiting until the day that needs them to reunite. The Warrior plans more adventures, free of duty and obligation. In a post credit scene, an unknown figure in Elpis muses a future confrontation with "the dread beast Pandæmonium".

New Adventures

The Warrior of Light, recalling Emet-Selch's final words to them, decides to investigate Thavnair's undersea ruins alongside Estinien, G'raha, Y'shtola, and Urianger, in hopes of obtaining its treasure to alleviate the losses sustained during the Final Days. After overcoming the vault's guardians, they are stopped by Vrtra, who reveals that he created the vault, and that the treasure is his, for use in exactly the situation Thavnair currently faces. The vault also houses a small fissure leading to the Thirteenth, a naturally-occurring tear between the Void and the Source. At Estinien's urging, Vrtra redistributes the accumulated treasure into revitalizing Thavnair's commerce and opening an orphanage, while Y'shtola investigates the fissure in hopes of finding a means of travelling to the other shards, in hope of reuniting Vrtra with his long-lost sister Azdaja. Meanwhile, in the Thirteenth, a mysterious armored figure and Zenos' voidsent avatar plan their moves into traversing the rift to the Source.

The film tells the story about three pilots during their journey to the home. The journey is long and hard due to harsh climate conditions. But when the pilots rest in the night, the fantastical and erotic actions take place.

A large touring car of British manufacture arrives at the front gate of a country estate. The passengers remove their outer travelling garments, hand them to the chauffeur and enter the gate. Shortly afterwards, the maid calls the chauffeur away. Four itinerants come along, take command of the clothing and the car, and drive away. The chauffeur returns, finds the car gone, and chases them on a motorcycle. For the remainder of the film, the automobile is pursued by the chauffeur. The chase ends when the car goes into a small lake, and the occupants are apprehended by the police.Kemp R. Niver, ''Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress'', Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, 1985, p.104.

The events of the film take place in an ordinary Moscow bar. The owner of the bar is a drug addict and alcoholic Alexander Alexandrovich (Sanych), who gets drunk at work until he vomits. Two cleaners live in the back room, the cleaner Mychalkin is possibly mentally retarded, as he does not speak and communicates with inarticulate mooing. Another cleaner, performed by Sergey Pakhomov, is much smarter.

The film begins with Mychalkin stealing 5 bottles of vodka from the bar and bringing them to the first cleaner. Sanych is very worried about the loss and is trying to identify the thief, suspecting both cleaners of stealing. At the same time, the first cleaner, angry at Sanych, breaks bottles on his own head, singing to Mychalkin The Beatles' song "Yesterday". He then kills Mychalkin to relieve him of his suffering.

The next day, a gangster cooperating with Sanych comes and makes a strange order: on the first day he wants to have sex with a virgin girl, on the second day he wants to have sex with a virgin man, and on the third day he wants to die. if Sanych does not fulfill the order, the gangster will kill him.

Sanych brings the gangster a waitress in a wedding dress, he has sex with her, and then strangles her. The cleaner puts her corpse next to Mychalkin's corpse, lights candles near the corpses and sings church songs.

The next day, Sanych dresses the cleaner in a wedding dress and brings him to the gangster as a virgin man. The gangster has sex with him, after which Sanych locks the cleaner in the basement.

The next day, the gangster sings the song "Break my heart for luck" in karaoke, then Sanych strangles him with a microphone cord. Sanych gets drunk with alcohol and starts to puke, and then falls asleep.

A frontiersman leads a group of pioneering settlers to their new homestead.

The story revolves around the life of a newly married young couple Zain and Zoya. Zoya Saleem Qamar has just graduated and wants to pursue her master's degree. She presents her conditions for marriage in written form and Zain signs them without reading them. Zain believes in love after marriage and engaged to Zoya. After their engagement, the story takes a new turn and they realized the responsibilities of their relationship .

Sculpture artist Rudro (Titas Zia) leaves the city to venture where his father once assisted with aid relief for the community after a cyclone hit. He sets up a studio in the local village of Patuakhali, Barisal, creating beautiful, elegant figures, many of which depict the human body. Soon, his modern outlook is met with contempt, creating a divide between the traditional and more progressive ways of urban life.

The locals are led by a chairman and faith leader ( Fazlur Rahman Babu), who feels threatened by Rudro’s creations, interpreting the artwork as a form of idolatry – an affront to the very core Islam. The artist has again targeted as the village experiences a shortage of fish, the popular ilish (hilsa) native to South Asia. When he attempts to explain the effects of climate change, Rudra faces antagonism as superstitions come up against scientific logic. However, he has a few people on his side, like his tenant Bashar’s daughter, Tuni, and her little brother Taher.

A Hollywood stunt man moonlights as a bounty hunter.

Mary Salsbury and Paul Chandos live in the small city. Paul is trying to become a prosperous business owner, and Mary wants to become a professional singer. Mary loves Paul, and the two seem destined to wed. Finally, Paul asks Mary to be his wife. Faced with a significant life decision, Mary tells Paul she cannot marry until she finds if her voice can make her a star. She declines Paul's proposal and moves to the big city to have her voice professionally developed.

Five years past, Paul's businesses have flourished, and he has become highly successful. Along with friends, Paul attends a concert by a famous singer. He discovers the singer is no other than Mary, now an established star named Valeria Salsbury. They reconnect and start seeing each other. Their many dates rekindle Paul's love for Valeria, and he proposes again. She consents this time with one huge caveat. Anytime Valeria wishes to return to the stage, he must support her. Paul agrees to the stipulation, and they married.

One year later, Valeria gives birth to a baby girl. Though delighted, she finds out the birth has caused her to lose her singing voice. She makes a doctor's appointment, but after a close examination, the physician tells her she will never sing again. As the days pass, she becomes sullen, blaming the child for losing her singing voice.

Valeria discovers there is a prominent doctor in Europe treating conditions like hers. With melancholia overwhelming her life, she tells Paul she needs to go to Europe to see this famous doctor. Paul tells her she is wasting time away from the family since there is no treatment for her condition. They have a heated exchange, and she leaves for Europe, leaving behind the baby in Paul's care.

After arriving in Europe, she visits the clinic. The physicians advise her there is no cure for her condition. They suggest she should focus on caring for her husband and baby. Despondent, she heads back to her hotel room. She has a dream after she falls asleep; her baby is sick and needs her care. Then she has an epiphany. It occurs to her; she has given up everything for a medical issue that has no cure. She rushes back to the states to be with her baby.

When she returns, she finds her baby is seriously ill. Since their last roe, Paul is hesitant to let her see the baby. In fact, he blames her for the child's illness since the baby lacked a mother's care. He relents and allows her to see her daughter while a physician is present. She asks the doctor if there is any hope for the baby's recovery. The doctor tells her there is none. She must hold her child close and say her last goodbyes. She becomes hysterical and screams; nobody will take her child. The baby cries, and to soothe the infant, she hums a lullaby.

Suddenly it occurs to her—how is she able to hum a lullaby? Has her voice returned? It's a miracle her voice has returned. She hugs her baby even closer. Paul glances at her sadly, understanding there is nothing they can do for the poor baby. She sings to the baby all night long. The next morning, the doctor arrives, fully expecting the worst but discovering the baby is much better. After an examination, the doctor declares the baby has made a miraculous recovery and should recover fully. He has no explanation for the turnabout, except a mother's devotion can work wonders. Paul reconciles with Mary, and they live happily ever after.

Princess Leia leads the Rebel Alliance's search for potential new bases, even as the evil Galactic Empire consistently pursues them, indicating that a spy might have infiltrated the Rebellion. Agent of the Empire Darth Vader is reprimanded by the Emperor by having to carry out the mundane task of overseeing the construction of the second Death Star. Vader secretly grapples with his knowledge of Luke Skywalker's identity. While still in the Rebellion's service, Han Solo and Chewbacca are stalked by bounty hunters Boba Fett and Bossk, incentivized by bounties from both Vader and Jabba the Hutt; Han and Chewie are stalked by the Empire as well.

Acting on Mon Mothma's orders, Leia leads a team of pilots on a covert mission to scout possible base locations. Luke and Wedge Antilles infiltrate the Star Destroyer ''Devastator'', hoping to learn the identity of a potential Rebel spy by snooping on the commanding Imperial officer. The officer follows the Rebel pilots back to their ship, and is revealed to be a Rebel spy himself—as well as Mon Mothma's nephew.

Leia suddenly reveals that she has long planned to marry a prince in exchange for using his planet as a Rebel base. The wedding is sabotaged by Imperials, with whom some of the planet's royalists have forged an alliance. Mon Mothma orders the Rebellion's ion cannons, which have been recently installed on the planet, to be used to break the Imperial blockade.

Story arcs

• ''In the Shadow of Yavin'' (Issues #1–6)
• ''From the Ruins of Alderaan'' (Issues #7–12)
• ''Five Days of Sith'' (Issues #13–14)
• ''Rebel Girl'' (Issues #15–18)
• ''A Shattered Hope'' (Issues #19–20)

The men's club popularly known as TMC is a Nigerian web series, it is a story about Love, Friendship, and betrayal. The story revolves around four male main characters and how they relate with their partners and the ordeal that they face in their everyday life. The show stars some of Nigerian's finest and star actors and actresses like Ayoola Ayolola, Baaj Adebule, Efa Iwara, and Daniel Etim-Effiong in the titular lead roles and Sola Sobowale, Shaffy Bello, Sharon Ooja, Adebukola Oladipupo, Mimi Chaka, Enado Odigie and many others in supporting roles. After the completion of season 1 - season 3, RED TV announced an addendum special edition to the show which was now called 'The Men's Club, Holiday' which consisted of three different editions aired on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Growing up in a world where Superheros exsit, Luna dreams of being a Superhero but lacks powers. She tries many different ways to gain the powers depicted in movies and comic books, but is unsuccessfull. Upon watching an interview with orpaned hero Bio Hazzard, Luna decides to kill her parents to become a Superhero. Framing her best friend in the process.

Far from the Apple Tree follows the story of Judith, a young artist at the start of her career, who lands a job with a renowned visual artist called Robert Roslyn.  She lands her dream job when she is spotted by Roberta at one of her art gallery exhibitions and hired to help catalogue her work.

Whilst on the job she is shocked to see a girl who closely resembles her repeatedly show up in Roberta's artwork. She learns that this girl is her boss's missing daughter Maddy.

As she delves into the mystery of the missing girl, new persona begins to emerge within her.  Becoming aware of her unwinding nature, Judith must decide between staying on in her job or continue down the rabbit hole and risk losing who she is.  

After housemaid Shino is attacked and tied up and her employer raped and murdered, it turns out that Shino and the intruder, serial killer Eisuke, are from the same rural village. Shino pretends not to be sure about Eisuke's identity and, with the police on her track, travels to Osaka to meet Mrs. Kura, Eisuke's wife. In a series of flashbacks it is revealed that Shino, the sole survivor of a shinjū with her lover Genji, was raped afterwards by Eisuke while being unconscious. Village teacher Kura, Genji's former lover, married Eisuke despite her knowledge of his deed, and kept his identity a secret although she knew of his crimes. Back in the present, Shino convinces Kura to turn Eisuke over to the police. After his death sentence, Kura talks Shino into committing suicide with her, which she regards as the last logical act. Kura dies, and Shino is again the sole survivor of a double suicide attempt.

Robert and his son Paul live in a top-secret resort for retired U.S. intelligence officers. A group of criminals breaches the compound and the pair has to save the day.

Detective Chief Inspector Amy Silva of the Scottish Police Service is sent to HMS ''Vigil'', a nuclear-powered ''Vanguard''-class ballistic missile submarine, to investigate a death on board, which takes place shortly after the mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler. Her investigations, and those of her colleagues ashore, bring the police into conflict with the Royal Navy and MI5, the British Security Service.

The loss of the fictional trawler ''Mhairi Finnea'' in the series bears similarities to the sinking of the FV ''Antares'' by Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine HMS ''Trenchant'' in the Firth of Clyde in 1990. Families of the ''Antares''' crew expressed upset at scenes of the ''Mhairi Finnea'' foundering; however, the BBC denied that the drama was inspired by or based on a specific real-life event.

Mr Bowling is a serial killer, and often buys newspapers after a murder in order to see if the death has been reported. He kills, however, not for mere pleasure, but because he hates living, wishes to be caught, and to be hanged. Nevertheless, after his last killing, he meets Alice, the love of his life whom he has always wanted to meet, who saves him with a false alibi. Alice, who is the daughter of a vicar and is religiously devout herself, rescues Bowling with forgiveness.

A space capsule crashes back to Earth near Roswell, New Mexico; Dr. Linda Murphy, answering to National Security Advisor Ethan Marcos, takes control of the investigation. The craft is found to be from ELBE, a secret U.S.-Soviet space program that aimed to end the Cold War via establishing a joint first contact. Linda's father, Noah, was a lead scientist on the project, but they became estranged when he sent Abraham, a chimpanzee the young Linda befriended, into space as the capsule's pilot. The mission was declared a failure when Earth lost contact with the craft in 2007. Marcos orders Linda to investigate the site before the Russians learn of the capsule's return.

Linda and her friend, Undersecretary Reynolds, lead a team to the crash site. They discover that the capsule's occupant broke out following the landing, and the capsule is covered in a strange green fluid. Abraham, having grown several times larger, appears and kills Reynolds and the soldiers. Linda trips and is knocked unconscious, but sees another team led by her former classmate and Russian agent Eva Kuleshov arrive and tranquilize Abraham. Unnoticed by the humans, a Gila monster consumes some of the liquid at the site. At the Langley Research Center, Abraham is confined while Linda, Eva and a team of scientists attempt to understand his mutation. Back at the crash site, a group of soldiers left to guard the capsule are killed by the now-mutated, gigantic Gila. Marcos sends Linda and her assistant Jones to pursue the creature. Meanwhile, Eva discovers that the alien substance breaks down in Earth's atmosphere, leading her to covertly have the entire remaining supply injected into Abraham to stabilize it. Linda and Jones witness the Gila destroy a bridge and a passenger train before heading underground.

Abraham grows even larger and escapes from Langley. Linda, confused over his sudden further mutation, meets with Marcos and Eva, with Eva mentioning rumors that Abraham destroyed the Extraterrestrial Defense Initiative, a successor to the Strategic Defense Initiative. It is found that Abraham inhaled the substance over time while in the capsule, while the Gila directly consumed it. General Delaney, Reynolds' successor, orders the team to find the monsters as soon as possible. They track Abraham to Huntington, West Virginia, where Linda discovers the substance breaking down in blood he left behind, forcing Eva to admit her deception. Linda removes Eva from the team and joins a group of Special Forces soldiers who engage Abraham, but the men are all killed and Abraham flees. Eva disappears with an Apache helicopter.

Returning to Langley, Linda and Jones discover beams of cosmic energy transmitted from the Andromeda Galaxy are remotely controlling both monsters via the substance in their bodies. The Hubble Space Telescope discovers an alien ship approaching Earth, forcing Marcos to call Noah in to provide assistance. Linda finds that Abraham may be able to resist the aliens' control, and she, Jones and Noah plan to jam the alien signal using a transmitter. The transmitter is attached to the Washington Monument shortly before Abraham appears in the city, guided there to decapitate the U.S. government in preparation for a full-scale invasion. Its jamming signal quickly frees him, but the Gila monster is unaffected and emerges to wreak havoc. Despite Abraham no longer being a threat, Delaney orders a missile strike on him; this accidentally causes the Washington Monument to fall, killing Delaney and destroying the transmitter, thus allowing the aliens to regain control of Abraham.

Noah, having reconciled with Linda, discloses the existence of a prototype transmitter stored in a van in the city, and sends Linda and Jones to retrieve it. They find it, but Jones is killed by the Gila before she can repair it. Upon its activation, Abraham is again freed, and he battles the Gila to protect Linda. The Gila gains the upper hand and bites Abraham's neck, but Eva appears and sacrifices herself by crashing the helicopter into the Gila. Abraham recovers and beats the Gila, striking it several times before killing it by snapping its neck. Marcos sends in gunships to terminate Abraham, but changes his mind and decides to place faith in Linda's trust of Abraham, calling them off at the last minute.

In the aftermath, the alien ship retreats from Earth, while the fallen Gila's energy is fully neutralized. Abraham is sent to a facility outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he can live in peace. Marcos gives Linda exclusive rights to study him, and she accepts Noah's offer to join her.

The story unfolds simultaneously in 1791 and present day.

In early February 1791, Nella waits in the secret room of her mother's apothecary shop. The shop once supplied remedies but now provides poison. Twelve-year-old lady's maid, Eliza Fanning seeks to poison her lord, so Nella instills poison into a pair of eggs, and Eliza cooks them the next morning. The newspaper reports he succumbed to alcohol, and the poison goes undetected.

Eliza returns to the shop excited about the success and witnesses Lady Clarence's arrival. Nella prepares a poison for the death Lady Clarence's note specified, but upon discovering she intends to harm another woman, Nella tosses it into the fire. Lady Clarence orders Nella to have another batch ready the next day, or she will report the shop to the authorities. Eliza recognizes that Nella is sick and offers to help. They travel to a farm to collect beetles, while Nella recalls the origin of the shop. Twenty years earlier, a man came to the store for his sister. They started seeing each other, and she became pregnant. He made her dinner and left, and she lost the baby. Soon after, his wife arrived at the shop. Realizing he drugged her to lose the baby, Nella plotted with his wife to poison him. Since then, Nella has almost exclusively provided poisons.

They return with the beetles and grind them into powder, which Eliza puts in a bottle and gives to Lady Clarence. Nella tells Eliza not to come back, so Eliza wanders around and comes across a book store. The boy who works the counter gives her a Magick book. Eliza promises to return if she tries any spells.

Lady Clarence returns to the store, frustrated because Lord Clarence consumed the poison and died. Nella isn't concerned until Lady Clarence notices her bottle is different from the other ones—it has writing on it. Nella realizes that Eliza used one of her mother's bottles with an address. Lady Clarence leaves to get the bottle, and Nella brings Eliza back to the store. Lady Clarence returns with the bottle, and they're relieved until the next day when Nella notices a newspaper with a drawing of it. She learns Lady Clarence's maid took a wax impression of it and reported the incident to the authorities. Nella hurries back to the shop and catches Eliza in the middle of a spell. Nella tells her they have to go, and Eliza slips a pair of bottles into her dress

As Eliza and Nella leave the shop for good, they notice Constables chasing after them. They run to the bridge, and Nella orders Eliza to hide in the crowd. Eliza realizes Nella plans to jump. Eliza drinks her bottle, insisting it will save her, then jumps. Nella stares in horror as the Constables catch up to her, but they misidentify the jumper as the killer apothecary and let her go. She returns to the shop and writes Eliza's name in the registry. She starts having difficulty breathing and faintly sees Eliza holding out a vial to her.

In present day, Caroline arrives alone in London. The trip was intended to be a tenth anniversary celebration, but she learned her husband was having an affair. She prioritizes her interests and goes mudlarking, uncovering an apothecary bottle with a bear engraving. The guide tells her to go to the British Library and ask his daughter, Gaynor. Gaynor is unable to uncover much, but after doing some research on her own, Caroline finds a deathbed confession mentioning a killer apothecary. She visits the address she deduced from the confession and spots an old door nearly obscured from view. She takes this information back to Gaynor, who requests documents related to killer apothecary.

Caroline reads an email from James letting her know he ended the affair and is on a plane to London. Caroline is frustrated by this but greets him nonetheless. They have breakfast, during which James claims he's willing to do anything to keep their marriage. Caroline doesn't decide anything, especially because she worries she may be pregnant, as she is a few days late. She asks for more space and chastises him for following her. That night, she sneaks out to the alley and sees a sign that warns "no trespassing." She considers going back to the hotel but refuses to let James spook her. She breaks in, but without a flashlight, resorts to using her phone light, which drains her battery quickly. She takes several photographs and leaves just as her phone is about to die.

When she returns to the hotel, James tells her he hasn't been feeling well and asks if she has any DayQuil. She doesn't, but she offers him the eucalyptus oil she brought with her. He heads out, during which time she writes notes about the pictures she took, which contain the registry and lists the ingredients and poisons the apothecary gave out. She questions how typically nonlethal substances can be used as poisons, as that seems to reoccur in the registry. James returns noticeably worse. He asks that she go out so she won't have to see him sick. Gaynor shows her the articles she requested, one of which has an image of the bottle she found in the Thames. James calls suddenly and asks her to come back. When she gets there, she sees he's been throwing up blood and asks the hotel to call the hospital.

As the paramedics arrive, Caroline deduces that James drank the eucalyptus oil. While at the hotel, the paramedics see her notes and tell the police. They ride together in the ambulance, but Caroline is held back at the hospital by officers. The police insist her notes are condemning enough to arrest her, disregarding her research claims. Gaynor calls, and Caroline asks her to come down and confirm their research, which she does. Unconvinced, the officers follow her to James's room. James dismisses them, and they finally accept she didn't poison him and leave. Caroline is relieved James is okay but unsure about staying with him. She discovers she isn't pregnant and returns to tell him she intends to file for separation. James grows upset and reveals he purposefully drank the eucalyptus oil to make her forgive him. This only increases Caroline's resolve. She applies to a Cambridge Graduate Program as she intended before James proposed, and she and Gaynor remain close.

She reads the second article and learns that the apothecary jumped off the bridge as suicide. Her pictures contradict the article from February 11 because the last entry of the registry is February 12. The final entry is under the name "Eliza Fanning." Caroline researches Eliza and discovers Eliza married the bookstore boy and had two children. When her husband died, she inherited the shop, which became solely dedicated to Magick. She claimed Magick saved her life and a friend was still around to advise her because of it.

Caroline returns to the bridge with the bottle. She thinks she sees two women walking towards her, but as she lets go of the bottle, they are gone.

Cassie and Lisa have been best friends since first grade. Now as adults, their interests and social lives have changed. Cassie is a fun-loving party animal, while Lisa lives a secluded life away from most social interaction. One day, Cassie convinces Lisa to go out to a party and before leaving they meet Max, who lives a very similar life to Lisa, moving in next door. Max and Lisa seem to take a liking to one another.

Cassie and Lisa head to a club and get into an argument soon after when some of Cassie's acquaintances want to head to other parties and Lisa chooses to leave. During the argument, Lisa points out that their friendship has changed and that Cassie is always trying to pretend to be someone else and they realize that they no longer have anything in common. They part ways and later that evening Cassie heads home and passes out in her room.

When Cassie wakes up, she goes to the bathroom hungover, trips and hits her head on the toilet resulting in her death. She awakens in a room and meets Val, an angel handler who explains that Cassie has been dead for over a year and before reaching the "Afterlife party in Heaven" has a list of people she needs to help as a guardian angel. The list includes her best friend Lisa, her father and her mother Sofia. However, Cassie has to try to figure out the best way to help each of them before time runs out.

1. Chekist Gleb Bokii received an encrypted message from Tallinn that there is an organization in Russia that is engaged in the theft of jewels from Gokhran and illegally smuggling them through the Baltic states to London and Paris. The investigation of the case is entrusted to a young employee of the Cheka Vsevolod Vladimirov.

The movie is inspired by a true story and deals with a heterosexual ex-convict on parole for bank robbery Jim Flynn, who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion and Bill Thomas, a gay wealthy Harvard-educated professional, also dealing with the disease. They become unlikely roommates at a hospice for people with AIDS. Initially full of mutual disdain, the roommates regard one another with cultural snobbery and stereotypical intolerance. One reads ''Moby Dick'' and wears neckties, while the other smokes, drinks and watches sports on a blaring TV. It's a match made in hell but one that gradually develops into a durable friendship.

A debt collector strikes a deal with a debt-ridden woman struggling to care for her ailing father: he will take care of her bills if she agrees to date him.

Nagisa is a transgender woman. Growing up as a man in Hiroshima, Nagisa faces prejudice and is ostracized by the society. She leaves Hiroshima and lives in Tokyo where she works as a dancer in a nightclub. Her distant niece, Ichika is a middle school student neglected by her mother. After being kicked out of her home, Ichika travels to Tokyo and starts living with Nagisa. Although initially reluctant, Nagisa takes care of Ichika and starts to develop maternal feelings for her for the first time.

Eighteen hundred years ago, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu were rivalling each other for the unification of China. In such a world, Liu Bei, a warlord who wishes for peace for his people, stands up. Liu Bei and other warlords from various countries run through the turbulent times, and eventually the Battle of Red Cliffs occurs where the overwhelming difference in military strength between the Wei army of 800,000 and the combined forces of Shu and Wu of 30,000 clashes.

This is a historical manga centered around William Shakespeare's "lost years" before becoming a playwright and poet.

A gangster performed by Sergey Pakhomov buys a magic Head. The Head fulfills all the wishes of the owner, gives him useful advice and spits money, having previously given him a blowjob. Following the advice of the Head, the gangster makes lucrative deals and exposes conspiracies against himself.

Throughout the film, the gangster tries to find a purpose in his life, constantly consulting with the Head, which secretly hates its owner. At the end of the film, a gangster kills the Head with a stick and becomes a monk.

In rural Pennsylvania, two farming families - the Lomacks (father George, daughters, Heather and Kim and grandson Reece, Kim's infant son), and the Dolans (Kathryn, Tom and daughter Christina) - maintain a long-running feud. Both families have fallen on desperate times financially, exacerbating the situation. George Lomack, a single father operating a failing auto repair business, is approached by representatives of Patriot Exploration, a natural gas fracking company with an interest in acquiring drilling rights on his land. Eager to earn money for his two daughters, George accepts the offer. This is to the horror of Dolan matriarch Kathryn, and the tension between the two families escalates further.

Patriot Exploration brings in their equipment and begins operations on the Lomack property, greatly disrupting the lives of the two families. Strange events begin soon thereafter; the members of both families gradually suffer the effects of a strange illness, initially compelling them to obsessively scratch their skin. As their sanity degenerates from the illness, George's infant grandson senses something wrong with the tap water and refuses to drink it, but the others do. Other strange events occur, such as the conspicuous absence of wildlife sounds outside the families' homes.

The illness is the result of a fungus unearthed by the fracking, poisoning the air and water. Kathryn goes missing after working in the barn and suffering from a coughing fit, she crawls through the woods. Christina and Tom Dolan go looking for her and Tom finds her body attached to a tree after the fungus has sprouted tendrils and attached itself to the tree. While Tom looks at her in horror, a sack on a tendril explodes, covering Tom in a substance. Kim finds Reece (George's grandson) in his crib, his body reduced to a gelatinous mass after his skin is digested by the fungus. Kim is shot by Aubrey Dolan (Tom's wife?) under the influence of the fungus. Heather kills Aubrey as she is attacking George. George drives Kim to a neighbors house for help; Heather stays behind. George attacks and presumably kills the neighbor while hallucinating and seeing his own face.

Heather shows up at the Lomack home, while Christina is in the kitchen. Tom shows up and Christina, hallucinating that he has the same tendrils growing from his body and head as Aubrey did, shoots and kills him. Heather and Christina leave and go to the firewatch stand in the woods and pass out. Christina, still hallucinating, thinks Heather has changed and sees blood running down her legs. She makes her way to a car and finds a rifle; firing it in the general direction of the firewatch. After only firing once, the rifle is empty. She then drives into the corn fields before getting the car stuck and passes out. From this point forward, it is hard to tell if the events are really happening or if they are hallucinations as Christina and Heather are in normal clothes with no signs of the fungus infection and carrying on about their day as normal, having taken over the farms as Katheryn mentioned several times.

George and the few survivors return to farming the land. However, the survivors are seen scratching their skin, suggesting they may still be infected. During the end credits, the harvested corn from the Dolan farm travels by truck to an unknown destination in a bayside city. The drone viewpoint also reveals that the watershed from the farms appears to flow in the direction of the bay, leading to the ocean.

The game's main character is a former Interpol officer named Amira Darma, who is beginning a new career as a private investigator based in Singapore's Chinatown district. Following a referral from her former boss, her first case is for a businessman trying to locate an accountant who has fled the country. Subsequently, she takes on a series of cases from a wealthy heir to return stamps from his philatelist father's collection to their originating countries. As she solves cases across the world, she begins to unravel a web of conspiracies back at home.

Part 1

Attilius Scaurus, a young citizen of Hadrian's Rome, has run up debts and is in danger of bringing his prominent family into disrepute. To avoid a scandal, the family arrange for Attilius to be conscripted into the army and put into the care of a relative, the Legate of the Sixth Legion, stationed at York. Attilius spends several years helping to supervise the construction of the wall, and several more on the road later to be known as Stane Street. One day, at work on the South Downs, Attilius is approached by Prasutacus, a wealthy Briton, who invites him home to dine. Although Attilius is suspicious of Britons who are "more Roman than the Romans" he accepts, and that evening meets the man's daughter Sergia. The couple fall in love, and continue to meet in secret while Attilius's legion works in the area. Then the legion moves on, and the couple do not see each other for four years.

When the legion is finally ordered back to Rome, Attilius and Sergia covertly meet once again at their old trysting place. But Prasutacus has heard rumours that the Romans are about to leave Britain for good, and concludes that he can now deal with his daughter's lover without danger of retribution. He captures Attilius and has him murdered. But before he dies Attilius promises Sergia "another life, in other days".

Part 2

As a boy growing up in the mid 16th century, Anthony Scarr had always known things about the Romans that he had not knowingly learned. Now a fashionable young lawyer at Gray's Inn, he has offered to help with the elaborate preparations that are being made for a visit of Queen Elizabeth to the home of Lord Montague, the father of a friend. As Anthony rehearses his part in the proposed entertainment, he meets Sylvia Buckhust, the daughter of a local landowner. The pair immediately recognise each other. They spend time in a secluded bower on the Downs, the same trysting place that had been used hundreds of years earlier.

The Queen takes a liking to Anthony and favours him, but is jealous when she hears that he loves another. She humiliates Sylvia in public, provoking an insult from Anthony. Now in fear of his life, Anthony prepares to flee, but is prevented by Sir Francis Walsingham who asks him to undertake a private mission spying on the court of King Phillip in Spain.

When the Spanish Armada sails for England in 1588 Anthony is on one of the ships, posing as an Italian soldier. He destroys the vessel by throwing a torch into the magazine, is caught and is hanged. When Walsingham breaks the news to Sylvia she weeps but feels a presence with her in the room.

Part 3

Adrian Shard's father had always hoped that his son would go into politics. After completing his studies at Oxford, Adrian secures a post as private secretary to Spencer Cratton, a Cabinet Minister. Coincidentally his lodgings overlook the rear of Cratton's house in London's Grosvenor Street. Arriving home late one evening, he sees through the French windows Cratton talking to a man he later recognises as the notorious financier George Andros; and he sees a young woman evidently ill at ease. She is Sonia Challice, Cratton's stepdaughter and Adrian's ancient soul mate.

Some months later, newspapers report the illegal manipulation of a stock price, and demand that the culprit be found. Looking out after dark from his lodgings Adrian can see into the room in Cratton's house that serves as his own office, and with Sonia and two other witnesses he sees Andros planting incriminating documents in his desk.

Adrian tells Cratton that he and Sonia wish to marry. Cratton and Sonia's mother had intended to force Sonia to marry Andros, but they give way when they understand that Adrian has evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Adrian and Sonia marry and travel to Rome on honeymoon. As Adrian looks out across the city he is puzzled by what he thinks is a new building - the dome of St Peter's: it was the first time he had seen Rome for eighteen hundred years.

The year is 1939, and Charlie Chaplin is mistaken for a Jew while attending the Berlin premiere of the Leni Riefenstahl film Olympia. While attempting to flee the Nazi police, Chaplin disrupts the screening and embarrasses Adolf Hitler.

After returning to Hollywood, Chaplin is encouraged to complete his political satire comedy-drama film, ''The Great Dictator'', by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Roosevelt assigns two of his Undercover agents, Errol Flynn and Hedy Lamarr to help Chaplin finish his movie, and to help protect him from Nazi saboteurs.

In order to hide from the saboteurs, Chaplin, Lamarr and Flynn sail to London on Flynn's yacht, the Zaca. Upon reaching their destination, they begin shooting at Pinewood Studios, aided by Alfred Hitchcock. The filming is interrupted by the Bombing of London, and the kidnapping of Charlie's brother, Sydney Chaplin.

The trio plan to rescue Sydney from Hitler's secret base, and employ the covert British team, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The team consists of Ian Fleming, Christopher Lee, Josephine Baker and Jon Pertwee. After rescuing Sydney, and uncovering Hitler's plans for the Holocaust, the group escape via a blimp captained by Hitchcock.

The book ends with a prelude showing all of the major characters attending the premiere of ''The Great Dictator.''

Valentina Saar (Maria Klenskaja) has led a troubled life. She knows little about her parents and grew up in an orphanage. After becoming pregnant, she abandons the baby and later ends up in prison. After she is released from prison and returns to Estonia, she begins searching for her young son Jüri (Andreas Kangur). Jüri has also spent his early years in an orphanage and is now living with foster parents Tiina and Ilmar Kuusberg (Kaie Mihkelson and Lembit Peterson), a well-to-do couple living in Tartu. Valentina now believes her life will change for the better once she regains custody of Jüri. When she finally finds her son in Tartu, Valentina has to evaluate both her and Jüri's lives and decide what is in the best interest for Jüri.

An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the man's wedding day.

Set in 1916 during World War I, Marcel Proust lives a nocturnal, closeted life in Paris, obsessed by his writing and looked after by his devoted housekeeper Céleste Albaret. Proust has sequestered himself to a bed in his sound proofed bedroom, where he is writing his latest work. On a rare visit to a concert, he becomes fascinated by the music of a string quartet, which includes a young viola player, Amable Massis, a war veteran who he befriends. He invites the musicians to play a private performance for him in his apartment, where they perform César Franck's Quartet in D. Proust invites the young Massis back to his apartment on numerous occasions to play for him, but Massis is unaware of the true nature of Proust's feelings towards him.

A law student volunteers to receive anonymous video calls from blind people through an app to help them "see" and do simple tasks. One night, she is pulled into a race against time when she gets a terrifying call from a blind woman in the midst of an abduction.

Maggie Simpson goes on a quest for her stolen pacifier, but her adventure brings her face-to-face with young Padawans, Sith Lords, familiar droids, Rebel scum, and an ultimate battle against the Dark Side.

After the 1917 February Revolution, the Russian Provisional Government established a state commission to investigate the circumstances of Grigory Rasputin's death aiming at the vilification of his political activities, way of life and public presentation of his influence on the imperial family and its entourage, as that of an evil criminal. At the center of the plot is (fictional) detective Heinrich Switten, to whom Chairman Kerensky asks to collect every possible information about the life of the starets, or "spiritual holy man", from his youth in the village of Pokrovskoye, through his rise to fame and power -excessive, in the eyes of many courtiers- by means of his natural gift in faith healing and foretelling, until that December 1916 night, in which Rasputin was assassinated.

It is 1944, and a fresh wave of bombings fall on Britain during the Second World War. Siblings Lily, Pattie and Ted Watts are evacuated from Manchester to the village of Oakworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where they are greeted by Bobbie Waterbury, her schoolmistress daughter Annie and grandson Thomas. All the children are selected to be given homes by the locals but due to a request from officials not to split siblings up, the Watts trio are left. When nobody else takes them, Bobbie welcomes them into their home. The siblings quickly bond with Thomas. The US Army has a base in the area, and there is a disturbance on their first evening. As they explore their new surroundings, the children are set upon by a group of local children not happy with their presence and Thomas welcomes them to his hideout in an old brake van by the railway station.

One day, Annie receives bad news about her husband who is away fighting in the war, reminding her of the deaths of Bobby's father and brother in the First World War. The children give her some space and play hide and seek at the station. Whilst there, they find an African-American soldier named Abe McCarthy in their hideout with an injured leg. He claims to be on a secret mission and that he has to remain hidden. That evening a lone enemy aircraft drops a bomb on the town cemetery, causing Lily to fall as she brings a first aid kit and other supplies to Abe. He rescues her and reveals he joined the Army to avenge his brother who was killed in combat, but details about his story leaves her suspicious. The next day, white American Military Police arrive at the school looking for Abe and Lily learns that he is a deserter. When she confronts him about it, Abe reveals that he is actually just 14 years old and that he is trying to return home after seeing how the US Army treat his fellow black soldiers who are often beaten by the Military Police, despite the town's inhabitants refusing the US authorities' request to impose a colour bar in the local pub. She agrees to help him escape.

When Lily tells the others and plans to hide Abe at the house, Thomas initially insists they tell the truth to the grown-ups. Lily shoots him down at once and calls him out on his ignorance of the realities of the world, revealing that their father was also killed in combat. Thomas agrees to let Abe stay in the large storeroom next door to his bedroom. That evening, the family are visited by Walter, the widowed husband to Bobby's sister Phyllis. The next day, Lily escorts Abe down to the station to catch a train to Liverpool and Thomas joins them to create a distraction so they can get on the train unnoticed. In doing so he is caught by the local police, who inform the US Military Police, who in turn stop and search the train further up the line. Abe and Lily are handcuffed, taken to the base and then put aboard a US Army supply train, also carrying senior officers.

When confronted on the matter by Thomas, Annie reveals that his father's plane was shot down but that he is still alive in a prisoner-of-war camp. After he reveals everything to Walter, his uncle informs him about the American supply train, which he has found out about by telephoning his employer, the War Office. Thomas rallies Pattie, Ted and the rest of the local and evacuee children to create banners warning the train to stop, just as Bobby and her siblings had done thirty years earlier. The children successfully stop the train and call out the Americans on their actions. Abe explains the truth to the most senior general, also an African-American, who reveals that he too had enlisted underage and orders Abe to be released. After staying with the family for a few days, Abe leaves for home, promising to write to Lily before he goes. The siblings return to their mother three months later, whilst Thomas's father returns home after VE Day.

Shin Ha-ri (Kim Se-jeong) goes on a blind date after she accepts to replace her friend, Jin Young-seo (Seol In-ah), whose father had arranged it. The plan is to have Ha-ri 'getting rejected' by her prospective partner. However, it goes awry when her date turns out to be Kang Tae-moo (Ahn Hyo-seop), CEO of Go Food, the company where Ha-ri works. Tae-moo, who is being pressured by his grandfather Kang Da-goo (Lee Deok-hwa), the chairman of Go Food's parent company, to go on blind dates with suitable marriage partners, decides to marry his blind date partner to avoid going on the rest of the dates, without knowing she is the fake Jin Young-seo or that she is his employee, which she assiduously tries to hide. However, Ha-ri's fake identity, but thankfully not her employment status, is soon exposed after the real Jin Young-seo gets into a parking accident with Cha Sung-hoon (Kim Min-kyu), Tae-moo's secretary, who was acting as Tae-moo's driver at that moment.

After Ha-ri's identity is exposed, Young-seo tricks Ha-ri into meeting with Tae-moo at his request. When he asks for her real name, Ha-ri lies and says that her name is Shin Geum-hui (the same name as the female lead of a popular fictional television series) to hide that she is his employee. Tae-moo bullies and bribes Ha-ri into pretending to be his fiancée in exchange for a payment of 800,000 won per date after his grandfather threatens to send him on countless blind dates. The cash-strapped Ha-ri desperately needs the money to bail out her consistently impecunious parents, so she accepts. During the course of fake dating, Ha-ri uses her new identity alongside a fake background, created for her by Tae-moo and Sunghoon, to make a good first impression on Tae-moo's grandfather. While the relationship starts out frosty and uncomfortable, the couple soon grows closer until Tae-moo finds out Ha-ri's real identity. Despite feeling betrayed, Tae-moo still loves Ha-ri and they later became a couple as he told Ha-ri he knew the truth of her identity.

Meantime, Young-seo moves out of her father's house to escape his demands to attend blind dates and finds out, in a comic moment involving a marauding cockroach, that she is now Sung-hoon's neighbor, the man with whom she had become infatuated at first sight after meeting him at a convenience store. While Young-seo is attracted to him, Sung-hoon is upset with her for deceiving his boss, so he constantly tries to avoid her. Still, he cannot further deny his growing affections for Young-seo when he realizes it eventually, and they got together.

Working as a cleaner, Fatma's life takes a completely different turn with the sudden disappearance of her husband Zafer, who was released from prison recently. In her attempt to find her husband, Fatma finds herself unexpectedly committing a murder. Her husband's connections to criminals and outlaws poses a great danger to Fatma's life. In order to survive, Fatma has no choice but to continue to eliminate her enemies. As she continues to kill in disguise using her appearance as a cleaning lady, Fatma turns this situation into a ritual of taking revenge for what she has experienced in her life.

The film is set in a medieval realm ruled by a King and his Queen, who have two daughters, the titular Princess and her younger sister Violet. With the Queen's quiet approval, the Princess was trained in the fighting arts by Linh, the niece of Khai, one of the King's advisors. Since the Queen did not bear any sons, the King had intended to wed the Princess to Julius, the ruthless son of a royal diplomat, who despises the King's peaceful reign because of his belief that a "strong" king should rule with an iron fist. The Princess left him at the altar, and as a result, Julius, his whip-wielding henchwoman Moira, and a band of brutal mercenaries have taken the castle by force, seizing the royal family and their retainers.

The Princess is locked in the top of her castle's highest tower to await her forced wedding with Julius. When two mercenaries enter and prepare to rape her, she kills them and sets out to rescue her family. After she slays several mercenaries on her way, Julius and Moira are finally alerted and send their men after her. She evades her pursuers and meets up with Linh, who has escaped the castle's sacking and joins in her fight. While trying to reach the sewers, en route to the dungeons, they are forced to fight Moira, and Linh stays behind to stall her. The Princess frees her family, but they and Linh are quickly captured and brought before Julius. When she continues to resist him, Julius decides to cement his claim to the throne by marrying Violet instead. When the Princess fights back, she is thrown into the castle's nearby lake to drown, while Linh and Violet escape through a secret door.

The Princess escapes the fall with her life and sneaks back into the castle, where she reunites with Linh and Violet. The three equip themselves with weapons in a secret storeroom, and the Princess and Linh fight the mercenaries, while Violet frees Linh's uncle; however, Violet is soon discovered and captured. Linh is wounded while fighting Julius, but the Princess kills Moira and engages him in single combat. Weakened and on her knees, she bides her time while Julius gloats before preparing to kill her. At the right moment, she wrests Julius' sword away and decapitates him. Finally convinced of his daughter's strength and dedication, the King makes her the heir to the throne and decrees that women of the kingdom are allowed to choose their own way in life.

The film tells about Edik, a self-confident, rich and cruel owner of a pharmacy business and an unlucky painter who falls on Edik's car, trying to commit suicide. But a miracle happened, the painter survived and now he must somehow compensate for the damage.

The film takes place at the beginning of World War II. The film tells about the pilot Nikolai Komlev, who defeated a German tank column, but his plane was shot down. Nikolai was able to land his plane in a forest clearing and suddenly realized that his problems were just beginning.

The film tells about the famous World Chess Championship in 1978, against the background of which the chess player Anatoly Karpov loses his family, faces the betrayal and intrigues of the CIA, as well as pressure from the party.

Alberta Johnson visits a laundromat at night and finds the attendant asleep. She posts an ad for unused gardening tools on the bulletin board. Later DeeDee Johnson enters and attempts to converse with Alberta, who remains guarded. DeeDee requires assistance doing the laundry correctly and explains that she is waiting for her husband to return to their apartment that can be seen across the street. DeeDee attempts to wash a shirt in Alberta's bag stained by cabbage soup but Alberta refuses to let her wash it, claiming that she intends to pre-soak it first.

A deejay named Shooter Stevens enters and DeeDee converses with him with interest. He invites DeeDee to come play pool with him at the bar next door and DeeDee, fearing that her husband is cheating on her, considers leaving with him but ultimately remains in the laundromat with Alberta. When Alberta suggests that DeeDee should leave her husband, the two get into an argument about their relationships until Alberta explains that her husband died a year earlier when he was taking out the trash, causing his shirt to be stained with her cabbage soup.

DeeDee sees that her husband has returned just as her laundry is done. Alberta places her husband's shirt in the washer and dumps the rest of the box of detergent in with it, causing suds to overflow from the machine as the two women laugh.

The story begins in 1945, as Daphne is being sued by an author with the claim that she has plagiarised parts of her novel ''Rebecca''. So she boards a ship and while traveling to New York for an appearance at the trial, she meets Ellen Doubleday, who is incredibly glamorous and elegant, and Daphne is instantly smitten. A close friendship develops between the two women, and once Ellen realises that Daphne has feelings for her, she informs Daphne, that while she believes everyone has the right to love without censure, she cannot return those feelings as she is heterosexual.

Frustrated by the rejection, Daphne writes a play called ''September Tide'', about a forbidden love between a young man and his mother-in-law. She sees the mother-in-law character as being based on Ellen. But when Gertrude Lawrence, a confident bisexual actress, who is friends with Noël Coward, is cast in the role of the mother-in-law, her feelings become confused. Daphne initially thinks Gertrude is brash and slutty, but as she is increasingly drawn to her charisma, they eventually have an affair. The rest of the film is taken up with Daphne's competing feelings for the two women. She pines over the unavailable Ellen, while being cruelly dismissive to Gertrude.

The main theme of the book ''"Makhzan ol-Asrar"'' is to invite people to self-knowledge, theology and choosing good habits and behavior. Nizami Ganjavi has started the first verse of this work with the name and remembrance of God, and in the continuation, he has pointed to one of the main principles of mysticism and Sufism, namely the unity of God's existence and his obligatory existence. ''"Makhzan ol-Asrar"'' is full of mystical points and advice that are presented to the audience in the form of lyrical stories and literature; These concepts are sometimes difficult for the reader, and the verses often have complexity.

The concept of the ''"Makhzan ol-Asrar"'' can be categorized as follows, first about human neglect in the world, then about the discredit and instability of the world, then about man's relationship with God, fourth about social issues, and finally about politics and government.

Nizami says that when I wanted to sing ''"Makhzan ol-Asrar"'', archangel told me ''"you want to write poetry for people, so you should know what you want to sing. Therefore, refine yourself with your heart and follow your heart so that you can build yourself"''. Then Nizami says that I followed archangel's words and followed ''"the heart preceptor"''. From then on, he talks about the nights when he meditated with his heart. Those verses are very complex and beautiful at the same time. They may be considered the first surrealist texts in world literature. Because it speaks to issues that are similar to surrealist texts. He even goes so far as to say that ''"I went into my heart and saw his houses"''.

Chapter 1 starts off with Mandisa Ntloko addressing the (unnamed) mother of a murdered (unnamed) young woman. Mandisa's son Mxolisi has been involved in the killing, over which she expresses her condolences. By telling the story of Mandisa's own upbringing and the childhood and youth of Mxolisi, she would like to cast light on their troubled circumstances, deeply interrelated with apartheid, racial segregation, police violence and brutality, injustice, institutionalised poverty and marginalisation. She says about the young killers' that their world and "environment failed to nurture them in the higher ideals of humanity and [that these young men] instead, became ''lost creatures of malice and destruction.''" Even "parents teach their children to hate all whites." ''Mandisa'' depicts her living situation in Guguletu. She is living with her three children (her sons ''Mxolisi'', 20 and ''Lunga'', 14, and her daughter ''Siziwe'') in a hut. Mandisa works as a maid in a white household for Mrs. Nelson. The differences between the two women's wealthy fortune are quite apart from each other. When Mandisa returns home, she hears about violence in her township, which is common, ''only'' one person has died apparently. When she finds her oldest son not at home, Mandisa is worried in fear of him being one of the killers. Later, the police brutally raid her home, beating up her children. In between the chapters, flashbacks take the reader back to Mandisa's childhood. Living quite happily with her father (''Tata'') and her mother (''Mama'') and her grandparents around (''Tata's father'' and ''Makhulu'', ''Tata's mother''). In 1968 she is forced out of her hometown, following chaotic and troubled circumstances. Mandisa's brother Khaya eventually marries Mandisa's school friend ''Nono'' and they have a child. In fear of Mandisa becoming pregnant as well, she is being sent to live with her grandmother ''Makhulu'' away. Her boyfriend ''China'', though, is getting her pregnant by accident in her teenage years, despite not sleeping together. Being a virgin is quite important to her mother, embarrasingly examining her hymen. After Mxolisi's birth, China is trying to provide for the family and they marry on ''Father Mark Savage's'' urging, but China leaves her eventually after she has been living with his family, her in-laws, though merely working as a housemaid for them. She leaves as well and, with her next partner ''Lungile'', has her son Lunga, and, later, her daughter Siziwe with ''Dwadwa'', her second husband. Mxolisi's life is not less troubled. His teenage friends ''Mzamo'' and ''Zazi'' are shot by police in front of his eyes, leaving him deeply disturbed, wetting his bed and not being able to talk for some time, until his stepfather Lungile forces him to eat a mouse. Mxolisi follows Lungile's example, who leaves to become a freedom fighter, and engages with street gangs, for which he quits school (''Liberation now, education later'' and ''One Settler, One Bullet'' are some of their slogans). Deep down, Mxolisi knows that despite him being good at school, he doesn't have any job prospects. In the streets, Mxolisi seems to be popular and brave, saving a girl from being raped. Later, he is with rioters in the streets, who throw stones at a young white woman's car and stab her when she tries to get away. Mandisa and even her other children are outcasts in her community due to Mxolisi being a murderer. Samuelson, M., 2000. [https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/55549329/Samuelson-Reading_the_Maternal_Voice_Magona.pdf?1516085765=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DReading_the_Maternal_Voice_in_Sindiwe_Ma.pdf&Expires=1620143330&Signature=ezWN9H4UWT9wGSOf9hB2FB~XkyV9M5NrbVB84qciy4Acqp-azWvsRHGH7Dq86XoZlvGwZCQxJQGzYLfm8uSk5PmThIJf9vk2pz-aAoeTHtMR3Xw45IzuPe6XymUm4INwYIIpCJYfrrD5IgMrJxSHI7hpJi46TBPG48OeF7b-d3McZamFSVdahuRciDncBMJH9aRjAdWmbdRPlhSSwVoZbjNHtbl4LzVssggSZ8XGX4ipW5z9UGW-oY8wW0Ox3-ewr0X~cJ96p~ylpuDiHFR5KjlTbRGCN9IyFphkxgkKJmtDspYEGsHYCJHebDLSgSg3m9u0vjtk6nNs0fLU7nC0fQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA |Reading the Maternal Voice in Sindiwe Magona's To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother] . MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 46(1), pp.227-245.

In a war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood where daily activities such as smoking tobacco, modern dressing, and music have been banned, Karim, a musician, struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by Jihadists.

Two best friends, Stan and Dommer, have dealt with bullies their whole lives. When Stan discovers a murderous vampire taking shelter in his shed, he knows he has to find a way to destroy it. But Dommer has a more sinister plan for the monster.

A woman wins an all-expenses trip to a company's gorgeous "institute" outside of Florence, Italy, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain's wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined.

Five magician families sworn to protect our world must battle an enemy who’s picking them off one by one. By day they live among everyday people as neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness, unless the darkness gets them first.

After surviving the events of the first film and becoming an author, Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home in Atlanta, where he hopes to continue working on his new book. There, the Blacks encounter their mysterious new next-door neighbor, Dr. Mamuwalde (Katt Williams), a pimp whom Carl suspects is a vampire trying to take his family.

Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi begins with introductions of the two primary characters - Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi. Felatun is described as coming from a wealthy and privileged family, receiving little education and hardly working a day in his life as a result of this status. He squanders his wealth and has an elevated sense of self-importance. In contrast, Rakim Efendi grew up a poor orphan raised by his nanny and working hard to provide for her. Rakim hardly turned down a job, and worked his way up to be making a respectable salary, enough so to purchase a slave to assist Nanny in her work around the house. Rakim meets Janan, a Circassian slave girl, and instantly starts crying at the sight of her. Though he originally intended to purchase a black slave girl to assist Nanny, something about Janan captivates Rakim, and he purchases her for one hundred gold coins. Rakim also begins working as a tutor for an English family, tutoring their two daughters, Jan and Margaret, in Turkish. They are quick learners and they latch on to Rakim, who becomes a close friend to the family. Felatun is also a close friend of the Ziklas family, but Jan and Margaret express not enjoying his company nearly as much as Rakim’s. Rakim also quickly earns the love and respect of Janan through his care for her desires, as demonstrated by his hiring of a piano teacher for Janan when she expresses interest in learning. He hires Josephine, who quickly becomes fond of both Janan and Rakim. The novel explores traditional Ottoman and Muslim relationships between men and women through both Josephine’s relationship with Rakim and Janan’s, both of whom clearly share a deep love for him. However, everyone seems to expect a relationship between Janan and Rakim, although Rakim insists he loves Janan like a sister until the near the end of the novel, while Rakim and Josephine’s relationship must be kept secret. Another relationship of interest is that between Rakim and Jan, who falls in love with him throughout his time as her tutor. This relationship culminates with Jan falling severely ill as a result of her unrequited love, and Mr. Ziklas proposing Rakim marries Jan to save her life. The novel also explores stereotypical “western” relationships through Felatun’s relationship with various women; the first being the Ziklas family’s cook, the second being Pauline, a European woman who seems mostly interested in Felatun’s wealth and status. The novel follows Felatun and Rakim’s different relationships with those close to them and their approaches to life to serve as a commentary on the shifting culture in the Ottoman Empire in this time of great transition and Westernization.

John Hill is a successful wall-street stock trader and runs his own brokerage house. Hill has achieved his success through prudent investments and hard work. He hoped to instill these qualities in his children. He has a son, Charles, and a daughter, Flavia. Both of his children work at the Hill brokerage house. Charles Hill, along with being a stockbroker, also loves to gamble. While spending a considerable amount of time at the gaming tables, he has racked up debts. His father has helped him repay a few of these debts. John Hill believes his son's gambling habit sends the wrong message to potential investment clients. His gambling habits also jeopardized his ascent to the president of the brokerage house.

Since John Hill despises anyone identified with gambling, his resentment of his son's gambling grows until his emotions boil. He demands his son to move out of the house and then disowns him. Flavia must choose between supporting her brother or her father. She supports her brother, and they both move away while resigning their positions at their father's company.

Time passes, both siblings find employment at a rival brokerage company. They become confidential clerks for the brokerage house owner, Frank Garner. Both become successful at their new positions. Flavia moves up the ranks and becomes the company's office supervisor. Flavia's beauty and acumen with stocks catch Frank's eye. Frank and Flavia grow closer and develop feelings for each other. They set a date, and the couple marries. They share ownership of the Brokerage house.

A financial war breaks out between the two brokerage houses. Amid this rivalry, Frank Garner becomes very ill. Flavia takes charge of the brokerage house. It is up to Flavia to sustain the competition against her father. Flavia brings the Garner house to new financial heights while pushing her father to the brink of total collapse.

Her father calls Flavia and pleads with her to help him. The rivalry has reached a point where she must decide between an obligation to her father and her husband's love. At first, she refuses to help her father since she has a point to prove. Also, if she helps her father, it will ruin her husband's business.

Flavia reconsiders and decides Blood is thicker than water. She scrambles to her father's office and finds him about to commit suicide. Flavia develops a quick financial recovery plan for her father. She engineers a financial bailout of her father's company reaps a windfall profit and saves her father's brokerage house. Her father regains his financial footing and repays the debt to his daughter. They settled all financial obligations between the two rival companies. The Hill family reconciles while saving her father's company, and they all live happy lives.

The Legacy Run, a cargo and passenger ship, speeds through hyperspace and, while attempting to avoid a collision with an unexpected obstacle, shatters into many pieces. The debris from the large vessel begins to emerge from hyperspace at different locations and points in time across the galaxy, causing chaos in shipping routes and disastrous loss of life where the pieces impact occupied planets. The Jedi, led by Avar Kriss, attempt to aid the citizens of the Hetzal System to escape disaster; they use the Force to reroute a piece of the Legacy Run containing dangerous gas away from impacting a sun, which would have caused a supernova explosion.

Republic Chancellor Lina Soh closes the hyperspace lanes. With the opening ceremonies of the newly completed Starlight Beacon only a few weeks away, she tasks the Jedi with discovering the cause of the "emergences" and finding a way to predict the next events. As they search the galaxy for answers, the pirate group known as the Nihil seek to take advantage of the closed hyperspace lanes. Marchion Ro, who holds the title of the Eye of the Nihil, has devised a way to predict the path of the next "emergence," and manipulates the Nihil leaders, the Tempest Runners, into a scheme to blackmail the planets who will soon be destroyed by the debris. The Tempest Runners soon begin to fight with each other and greed overtakes them. One of them reveals his presence to the Republic during a failed blackmail attempt, and the Nihil are confronted in space by Republic and Jedi fighters. Marchion Ro uses the infighting to seize control of the Nihil organization.

Marchion Ro sends Nihil forces to the planet Elphrona to kidnap a wealthy family. Jedi Master Loden Greatstorm and his Padawan Bell Zettifar foil the attempt, but Loden Greatstorm is captured by the Nihil. Marchion Ro confesses to Greatstorm that he orchestrated the Legacy Run's hyperspace accident, the "emergences," and the Jedi's rescue of the family on Elphrona, in order to create the chaos which led to his new control of the Nihil, as well as to capture a Jedi. He has more plans for the Jedi and the Nihil that have yet to be revealed. When the "emergences" cease, Lina Soh re-opens the hyperspace lanes and launches the opening of the Starlight Beacon in an attempt to restore hope to the galaxy.

Rasmus is living in an orphanage. He wants to be adopted and find a family. However, he realizes that only girls seem to get adopted. So he tries to take matter in his own hands. He decides to leave the orphanage and find a family himself. On his way he meets the homeless man Oscar. Oscar and Rasmus travel together to the country and collect money by playing music. One day a robbery takes place at a house Oscar and Rasmus are playing music. The police later believes Oscar is responsible for the robbery. However, with the help of Oscar and Rasmus the police finally manages to catch the real robbers. Then Oscar reveals that he has a home. He takes Rasmus to his home, where Oscars wife is already waiting for Oscar. The couple decides to adopt Rasmus as their child.

A seemingly perfect family is shattered by broken trust and infidelity.

Dr. Jill Illustre's (Jodi Sta. Maria) life unravels when she discovers her husband, David (Zanjoe Marudo), is having an affair. His mistress, Lexy Lucero (Sue Ramirez), is the daughter of one of her patients, and whose father is a major backer of her architect husband's housing development project in Baguio, a beautiful mountain city in the Philippines’ northern island of Luzon.

Baguio is a small resort city where everyone knows everyone, and secrets are hard to hide. Jill is incensed when she learns that all of their mutual friends and colleagues are aware of David’s indiscretions and are keeping them from her. Jill sees photos of David and Lexy as a couple socializing with their friends. Her anger reaches a tipping point when she discovers that Lexy is pregnant.

A chain of events follows resulting in catastrophic effects in the lives of the couple, their son Gio (Zaijian Jaranilla), and everyone else involved.

When we first meet Sidney, a reclusive illustrator, his mother has recently died, and his live-in lover Martin has left him. Then on a rainy evening, Sidney befriends Laurie Morgan, who spends the night in his apartment due to the rain. Laurie very quickly identifies Sidney's sexuality from his longing gaze towards a man's photo on the mantle. Since Sidney can no longer afford his apartment alone, he invites her to move in. She eventually finds work in commercials, and later on a soap opera. Sidney is a jealous roommate though, and Laurie resents his constant complaints about her being too promiscuous. When Laurie learns she is pregnant and her boyfriend is married, Sidney comforts her. She then decides to have an abortion, but Sidney begs her not to. Laurie agrees to keep her baby, and Sidney helps out with parenting responsibilities and financial support. Flash forward five years, and they are seen as a happy family. But when her new boyfriend Jimmy proposes marriage, Laurie accepts and announces they are moving to Los Angeles. Sidney objects and files for joint custody of the child. When Sidney and Laurie meet with Judge Wilcox, Sidney makes an impassioned plea to keep the child, but ultimately, one of them must say goodbye to Patti.

In their fourth years, the students of the School for Good and Evil are sent on Quests for Glory, which they must complete to graduate. Tedros and Agatha quests are to bring Camelot back to its former glory as king and queen while Sophie becomes Dean of the School for Evil, seeking to mould evil in her own image. Tedros is unable to become king as he cannot pull Excalibur from a stone. Suddenly, Sophie and the coven, Hester, Anadil, and Dot, seem to be failing though they are seemingly not shortly after Chaddick's, Tedros' first knight, death. Dean of the School for Good Professor Dovey gives them a new quest to stop the attacks on the Endless Woods. The group decide to set off with Hort and Agatha who arrives shortly after. Suddenly, the Storian begins writing a new story, highlighting the importance of somebody named Nicola.

During their journey, Agatha tells the story of the Lion and the Snake where a lion and a snake fought for the throne of Camelot. Eventually, they brought an eagle to decide who chooses the snake since he promised the eagle freedom. However, the eagle is attacked by the snake and is saves by the lion though the snake warns the lion he will return. The group is captured at Jaunt Jolie where Sophie and Agatha are taken to a "snake" covered in knife-like "eels". He reveals his own pen which tells stories from villains' perspectives. The girls later find their friends and leaders at Four Point. They are saved by a mysterious "lion" who kisses Sophie.

Back at the castle, Tedros chooses his mother over his steward, Lady Gremlaine, prompting her to leave. Later, at a meeting, Tedros receives a letter from the "lion" to meet him at Sherwood Forest. During their journey, they find Lady Gremlaine to be killed as well as Lancelot. At Nottingham, they capture the snake who escapes using Kei, a former Camelot guard, who tricked Dot into giving him the keys.

Later, the snake threatens an attack. While Rhian has growing popularity, Tedros is unpopular among Camelot and asks Rhian to let him kill the snake himself. The snake attacks and Tedros fights him until he is weak but is weakened as well. Instead, Agatha prevents him from fighting and commands Rhian to kill the snake instead. After killing the snake, Rhian proposes to Sophie, who accepts, and asks Tedros for the key to the case which is being used to protect Excalibur. Agatha finds out the snake and Rhian have actually been working together and attempts to warn Tedros who realises it after it's too late. Rhian pulls Excalibur from the stone, claiming to be Arthur's eldest son. Tedros and his friends, with the exception of Sophie, who is marrying Rhian, and Agatha, who is on the run, are thrown into the dungeons.

As Blade wanders East Los Angeles, California, he notices changes in his reality after seeing Robbie Reyes rushing to school on a bicycle. He soon finds that the Avengers were never formed in this reality after its founding members were indisposed or became preoccupied, such as Bruce Banner being banished to the Negative Zone after he first became the Hulk, Carol Danvers becoming an insubordinate Air Force pilot who never became a captain, and Tony Stark remaining an arms dealer. In Norway, Blade finds an alcoholic human Thor, who claims not to have heard of Mjolnir and that Odin is dead after the All-Gog destroyed Asgard before driving Blade off. Days later, Doctor Juggernaut leads the Masters of Doom in an attack on Washington, D.C., only to be repelled by the Squadron Supreme of America. Upon learning of this, Blade suspects the Squadron is responsible for the changes and confronts Squadron member Nighthawk to learn more, but to no avail. Following this, Blade travels to the Arctic and finds a frozen Captain America while Thor suddenly finds his mug has transformed into Mjolnir.

Squadron member Hyperion is called to S.H.I.E.L.D. Labs by head scientist Reed Richards after several supervillains escape from the Negative Zone. Hyperion defeats and recaptures several of them quickly, but while fighting Mister Beyonder and the Hulk however, they claim that this world is wrong. In particular, the latter retains his memories of the Avengers. After defeating Beyonder and killing the Hulk, a shaken Hyperion flies to the sun to ruminate on everything his enemies said. He considers the world might be a lie, but ultimately accepts it. Later, a revived and disguised Captain America visits Hyperion to learn what happened to the United States since he disappeared before returning to Blade to help him restore the world to the way it was.

Amidst the Masters of Doom's attack on Washington D.C., the Silver Witch steals the soul of Squadron member the Blur. In his attempt to get it back, he phases through time and encounters the Ghost Runner. After recalling his training with the Ancient One, the Blur gets his soul back, defeats the Silver Witch, and races Eternity. Meanwhile, Blade and Captain America recruit a Phoenix Force-empowered Maya Lopez from Ravencroft Asylum.

Years prior, bounty hunter Rocket Raccoon and his sentient rifle Groot find a baby girl bearing the Star Brand floating in space and adopt her. In the present, Uatu the Watcher and several alien species hire Rocket and Groot to help them get revenge on Squadron member and intergalactic lawman Doctor Spectrum. Rocket and Groot attack Spectrum after he defeats Thanos, but Spectrum overpowers Rocket and destroys Groot. In retaliation, Rocket uses his own Star Brand, but Spectrum defeats the latter and drowns him in a supernova to make him reveal his employers. As Rocket dies, a pre-recorded message on his ship advises the girl to stay safe. On Earth, Spectrum meets with President Phil Coulson in a church dedicated to Mephisto regarding Rocket's attack and the Blur's concerns about reality being tampered with. Meanwhile, the girl wants to avenge Rocket, but another Groot stops her before they are met by Captain Okoye of the Wakandan Space Fleet.

After several patients try to break out of Ravencroft, police commissioner Luke Cage calls in Nighthawk to stop them. Nighthawk defeats most of them easily, but experiences trouble with the Black Skull, whose symbiote wants to return to Nighthawk, and Deadpool, who intends to kill him despite being ordered not to by the breakout's mastermind the Goblin. After defeating the Black Skull and Deadpool, Nighthawk confronts the Goblin, who exposes the former's partner Dr. Gwen Stacy/Nightbird to Goblin Gas in order to make her kill Nighthawk. While Nighthawk cures Stacy and spares the Goblin, the villain commits suicide while revealing to Nighthawk how the world has changed. Following this, Nighthawk returns to his headquarters to review Ravencroft's surveillance footage and discovers Blade and Captain America helped Lopez escape. Later, Black Panther assumes the Ronin alias and breaks into the Squadron's headquarters to steal their files. After fighting Nighthawk, he escapes and joins Blade's group.

Amidst Squadron member Power Princess's fight with Masters of Doom member All-Gog, she allows him to swallow one of her gauntlets before recalling it from within his stomach, severely injuring him before she turns him into a statue to add to her garden outside the Statue of Liberty amongst her other defeated foes. Retiring to her headquarters, she considers having a dalliance with Hyperion or Nighthawk to alleviate her boredom. However, a mysterious thunderstorm brings most of her statues back to life. Acting quickly, she subdues Hercules and interrogates him for the storm's cause, but he refuses to talk before being turned back into a statue. Seeking answers, Power Princess travels to Asgard's ruins where she encounters and fights a confused Thor to reclaim her title as the world's last god. However, she is unable to kill him because of Mjolnir's unseen protection. Picking up Mjolnir and reclaiming his godhood, Thor tells Power Princess he remembers everything about the Avengers before escaping. While Power Princess tells her fellow Squadron members what happened, Lopez meets with Thor to recruit him.

The Squadron discuss their encounters with various heroes and concerns about their world being wrong. Putting aside their differences and without telling President Coulson, they gather clues and rule out suspects before eventually arriving in Wakanda, where they confront the Avengers. Meanwhile, Coulson assassinates White House Press Secretary J. Jonah Jameson and Vice President Thunderbolt Ross and confers with Mephisto, who is concerned about this reality's stability as more people see or learn of the Avengers and slowly regain their memories of the original reality. Seeing no other choice, Coulson plans to use the Pandemonium Cube in an attempt to defeat the Avengers and change reality once more.

As the Avengers battle and eventually defeat the Squadron, Coulson flies to Wakanda to enact his plans. Spotting him however, Captain America confronts Coulson and takes the Pandemonium Cube from him so Star Brand and Lopez can use it to restore the original reality. Following this, the Avengers come to terms with the baby Star Brand they were raising having suddenly grown up to a child while the Squadron find their memories transferred to their counterparts in the Avengers' reality and struggle to find their place in an unfamiliar world. Meanwhile, Mephisto traps Coulson's soul in the Pandemonium Cube before meeting with 615 of his warring multiversal doppelgängers to demonstrate how he changed reality to them and propose they form the Council of Red.

Private detective Takayuki Yagami and his partner Masaharu Kaito are invited by their friends Fumiya Sugiura and Makoto Tsukumo to assist their fledgling detective business located in the Ijincho district of Yokohama to solve a bullying case. Chairman Yuzo Okuda of the prestigious Seiryo High School, explains he wants to hire the detectives to covertly investigate the school to determine if any bullying has been taking place among the students, especially since the school had gotten involved in a bullying scandal in 2017 when a student, Toshiro Ehara, committed suicide and a student teacher, Hiro Mikoshiba, had gone missing two months prior. Yagami covertly discourages Koda's bullies from targeting her by convincing the rest of her class to stand up to them. Yagami receives a call from his friend Saori Shirosaki at the Genda Law Office. Shirosaki explains that one of her clients, Akihiro Ehara, Toshiro's father, was arrested and convicted for sexual battery, but during his court testimony he revealed he knew about the death of Mikoshiba, who he holds responsible for Toshiro's suicide. However, the discovery of Mikoshiba's body and identification of his corpse only occurred after Ehara's statement, leading Shirosaki to believe Ehara was involved in Mikoshiba's death and deliberately got himself caught for sexual battery to provide himself an alibi for his murder.

As Yagami investigates, he discovers that Ehara's case is connected to an attempted suicide in 2008 which led to the victim, Mitsuru Kusumoto, being trapped in a coma. Yagami learns from Seiryo teacher Yoko Sawa that Mikoshiba was in fact bullying Toshiro, but she was coerced by the school to stay silent. It is later revealed that Sawa's former homeroom teacher, who is now known by the alias Jin Kuwana, obtained a secret recording of his students bullying Mitsuru. Feeling guilty over enabling Mitsuru's bullying, Kuwana used the tape as leverage to blackmail his students into assisting him on his crusade to rid Japan of bullies by murdering those responsible for causing suicides. Yagami gains enough evidence to force Ehara's admission to his entire scheme, as he not only wanted to get revenge for Toshiro, but also to expose the flaws in Japan's legal system. However, despite these successes, Yagami is unable to save Sawa from being murdered by the RK, a Hangure gang led by Kazuki Soma, who are hunting Kuwana.

Yagami discovers that the police have pinned Sawa's death on Kuwana, and RK have invaded Ijincho in full force to find Kuwana. Further investigation leads to Yagami discovering that the National Police Agency's Public Security Division, led by Hidemi Bando, has secretly hired RK to capture Kuwana, as they have learned that Mitsuru's mother, Vice Health Minister Reiko Kusumoto, murdered one of Mitsuru's bullies, Shinya Kawai, with Kuwana's assistance. With evidence of Kusumoto's crime, Public Security can blackmail her into giving them access to Japan's national pension fund of ￥160 trillion which they hope to use to jumpstart Japan's stagnant economy despite it being effectively a gamble. To avoid being used as a puppet by Public Security, Kusumoto considers turning herself in to the police, but Mitsuru finally awakens from his coma, giving Public Security all the leverage they need to force her to betray Kuwana.

Intending to force a confrontation, Kuwana calls Yagami, Kusumoto, and Bando, offering to give up the location of Kawai's body. Yagami and his friends follow Soma and RK to an abandoned warehouse in Ijincho, where they battle for possession of Kawai's body. Working together with Kuwana, Yagami and his friends defeat Soma and his men. Kuwana decides to destroy Kawai's corpse to erase any possible link to Kusumoto, as he just wants her and Mitsuru to be happy. Yagami challenges Kuwana, stating if Kusumoto doesn't reveal the truth, then Sawa's death would never see justice. Both men battle with Yagami being the victor, but Yagami lets Kuwana escape. Kusumoto turns herself in to the authorities. Soma is taken into custody and Bando is formally charged for sanctioning Soma's illegal activities.

''The Kaito Files''

A month after the incident with Ehara, while Yagami is out of town on a job, Kaito is contacted by tech CEO Kyoya Sadamoto. Sadamoto asks Kaito to find his wife Mikiko, who allegedly committed suicide two years prior but was recently spotted in Kamurochō. As Mikiko was his ex-girlfriend, Kaito feels emotionally compromised and declines the case. Later, Kaito encounters Sadamoto's son Jun, who believes the circumstances around Mikiko's death were falsified and that she is alive. When Jun claims that Kaito is his biological father, he finally agrees to take the case. While searching, Jun is kidnapped by the corrupt Bato Detective Agency, but is ultimately rescued by Kaito.

During their investigation, Kaito and Jun learn that a man was asking around Kamurochō about Mikiko a few months after her death. Traveling to his home in Chiba, they meet Yasutaka Shirakaba, a doctor who admits to faking Mikiko's death to protect her from a gang that was looking for her. Shirakaba explains that he found Mikiko suffering from dissociative amnesia after falling from a waterfall, and has been caring for her in secret for the last two years. However, Mikiko recently disappeared after her memories finally resurfaced. The three are then confronted by Crimson Lotus, a gang from Shinjuku led by Shusuke Kenmochi whom Shirakaba identifies as the ones who were looking for Mikiko. The gang demands they hand Mikiko over, claiming she is responsible for killing several of their members, but Kaito and the others manage to escape.

In Kamurochō, Kaito finds Mikiko confronting another Crimson Lotus member, learning that Crimson Lotus killed her family and had attempted to murder her and frame it as a suicide, but is unable to catch her. He tails Kenmochi, expecting Mikiko to do the same, but this proves to be a trap for both of them by Crimson Lotus. Kaito rescues Mikiko, who reveals that she has not yet killed anyone, as someone has consistently reached and murdered each of her intended victims first. She also reveals that she hired the Bato Detective Agency to help her, including protecting Jun, who she confirms is not Kaito's son. Mikiko then escapes, intending to finish off Crimson Lotus, and Kaito and the Bato detectives pursue her to Ijincho, where the remaining Crimson Lotus members are having a reunion.

Kaito reaches the roof of the party and finds Mikiko confronting Sadamoto, the mastermind behind everything. Sadamoto reveals that he married Mikiko and killed her family to gain their fortune, that he ordered Mikiko's death two years ago when she found out the truth, and that he was the leader of the group that became Crimson Lotus. He has been killing the other members to cover up his ties to the organization, including poisoning everyone at the reunion, and intends to frame Mikiko for their deaths. Sadamoto tries to hold Jun hostage, but Jun escapes after being inspired by Kaito, who subdues Sadamoto. Mikiko attempts to kill Sadamoto, but Kaito stops her, reminding her that Jun still needs her. Kenmochi, still guilt-ridden over killing Mikiko's family, kills Sadamoto before succumbing to the poison. In the aftermath, Shirakaba demands Kaito duel him for Mikiko's affection; Kaito wins, and he and Mikiko decide to rekindle their relationship.

A couple is terrorized by their eight-year old son’s imaginary friend.

Three couples from Chicago vacation together for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan: Isabelle and Richard have been together for five years and are deeply unhappy; Jack and Golda have been happily married for 10 years; and Peggy and Wyatt just started dating and don't yet know each other well. Over the course of three days in this relationship drama, hidden tensions and secrets slowly come to the surface.

''Rendezvous in Chicago'' is composed of three vignettes corresponding to the beginning, middle and end stages of a relationship: Paul, a charming young man, attempts to pick up Delaney, a bookish grad student, in an otherwise empty wine bar. Rob and Andy are enjoying the bliss of newly formed couplehood. Julie comes home from work early to find her boyfriend, Wyatt, in bed with another woman.

The link between five employees of a Mar del Plata store who try to climb positions on their sad situation.

16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and an abusive stepmother who kicks him out of the house. He decides not to even try and reconcile with his parents, and heads to Los Angeles. On his way there, he meets some drifters, and is attracted to one of them, Roxanne. They decide to continue together to LA on their own. After arriving in Los Angeles, Roxanne is quickly arrested by the police, so Bret is on his own again. He is living in an abandoned building with other homeless youth, until their lair is raided by the police. Forced out onto the streets, he meets and eventually befriends Beau, Alberto and Tony, all living on the street and earning a living as male hustlers. Unable to find a job, Brett also turns to male prostitution, but he is strictly gay-for-pay. All Brett really wants though is a normal stable life, and in order to obtain that, he feels like he must turn himself over to child services and become a ward of the state.

Two Japanese tourists gets lost in the forest of Australia and fall into a remote cave, where they are ambushed and killed by an unknown creature.

Five enthusiast explorers; Cash (Anthony Sharpe), Eric (Luke Mitchell) Jen (Jessica McNamee), Victor (Benjamin Hoetjes) and Yolanda (Amali Golden) go to check out the cave that Cash previously discovered. Cash brushes off a storm warning from the weather app and they continue on into the cave. They follow a tunnel down to an open lake. Unbeknownst to the group it begins to rain and the cave begins to flood, soon the path they came in is now submerged underwater. They begin to look for a way out but are unaware of the presence of the creature that killed the two Japanese tourists. Victor sees something in the water and leaves the group to retrieve it. He is attacked by the creature that is revealed to be a massive Saltwater crocodile, but survives with critical injures. Cash and Eric leave to look for an exit while the others stay behind. Swimming back underwater to the tunnel that they came through, they reach the exit and find it is blocked with rocks. They then decide to go back and look for another way.

Back in the cave, Victor starts having a severe asthma attack, forcing Yolanda to get in the water to give him his inhaler where she has a close encounter with the beast. Eric's foot gets trapped between some rocks and nearly drowns while Cash makes it back to the first tunnel, but is soon attacked by the beast and killed. Eric reaches the tunnel only to see Cash's headlight in the water. He returns to the group and informs them of Cash's death. Jen notices a breeze and goes to investigate, finding a previously unseen passage in the cave. Yolanda tells Victor that she is pregnant. The water continues to rise bringing the beast closer to the group. Yolanda volunteers to go through the new tunnel to find a way out with Eric assisting her. On the way, she tells Eric that she is pregnant and reveals that the baby is in fact his, and not Victor's.

The water back in the cave starts rising fast, forcing Jen and Victor to try and get to higher ground even though it means going in the water. They make it to a ledge but the beast attacks forcing them to go higher. Yolanda and Eric fail to find an exit through the new tunnel which is blocked by rocks and return to the group. Jen looks through Yolanda's camera and finds pictures of Eric and Yolanda on a night out. She sees a picture of the two looking lovingly at each other and gets upset. She leaves Victor on the high ledge to get something in the water but she cannot reach it. She decides to get into the water to get it. The beast starts swimming towards her. She panics and in her rush to get out of the water, she slips and knocks herself unconscious. Victor leaves his ledge to help her. The beast leaps out of the water and drags Victor in, killing him. Jen races back up to the high ledge and cries. She spots a light under the water just as Eric and Yolanda return to the cave. Jen has to tell Yolanda that Victor has been killed.

Jen confronts Eric and Yolanda about their affair. Eric and Yolanda tell her that it wasn't an affair, rather a mistake. They also confirm that the baby is Eric's and not Victor's. Once again, Jen notices the light and Eric realizes that water is getting sucked out through a tunnel and he believes it leads outside. Yolanda doesn't want to go, but Jen says she would rather take her chances than sit there and wait to die. This convinces Yolanda to go. They all get in the water and swim for the tunnel. The beast starts swimming towards them. Eric splashes the water to distract the beast while the girls escape. The beast grabs Eric and kills him. Swimming through the cave, Jen almost runs out of air but Yolanda grabs her arm and pulls her to safety. They follow the tunnel and find that they are outside by the shore. They climb up a hill and come to the road and find the car they came in. Yolanda tries to apologise to Jen but she doesn't want to hear it.

The girls drive down the road but a fallen tree forces Jen to swerve straight into the river and begins to sink. When they realize they are in the same water they came out of, the beast reappears and starts attacking the side of the car. Both girls make it out of the car and swim to shore but Yolanda can't swim quickly due to an ankle injury. Jen makes it to shore and turns to see Yolanda being stalked by the beast. She starts shooting at it, but the beast leaps out of the water and grabs her, dragging her under. Jen manages to escape and it is revealed that she killed the beast. They embrace and get out of the water to go home.

The book ''Step by Step Up to Union With God: Life, Thought and Spiritual Journey of Jalal-al-din Rumi'' tells the story of the ''"Rumi 's"'' life from his birth to the end of his life.

It starts from ''"Rumi 's"'' childhood, and gradually reviews his whole life, mystical conduct and spiritual ascension. The book is mostly written as a story; But it is a documentary story whose subject matter is not one of the conventional categories of the story. The book covers the poet's childhood and his travels with his father from Khorasan and Baghdad to Anatolia, where he remained in Konya for the rest of his life. Everywhere in the book, there is talk of ''"Rumi 's"'' love for God and his efforts to reach the god and the beloved, and only a few parts of the book deal with his daily activities, mostly including mystical aspects of ''"Rumi 's"'' life. The author has tried to present a simple book to readers without cumbersome contents.

The text of the book depicts the revelations of ''"Rumi 's"'' childhood years, his asceticism and austerity, the illusions of his school years and then the interruption of them in the sequence of years, the levels of a spiritual conduct that is the result of his life and the basis of his book ''"Masnavi"''.

The book appraises ''"Rumi 's"'' spiritual excitement, his love for the perfect man, his ecstasy and his obsession with poetry, dance and music, which separates him step by step from his belongings and prepares him to ascend to meet the Lord. The author pursues events separately and in the sequence of normal life, without going into the details of the secrets of ''"Rumi 's"'' teaching, draws a picture of his condition and thoughts to the extent that shows traces of ''"Rumi 's"'' long secrets throughout the ''"Masnavi"'', and sequels the sixty-eight-year life of Rumi and its unique attributes such as the spiritual, uninterrupted and indefatigable journey step by step from cutting off the heart's desire from the world to disappearing self-existence and unity with the whole wisdom.

Thus, the book shows the path of ''"Rumi 's"'' conduct which starts from the discard dependencies with one's own belongings and continues until the severance of ties with one's ego, and this path is the base of the elegance theme of ''"Masnavi"'' and a summary of the ''"Rumi 's"'' life too.

In a small countryside town, the schoolyear has ended. While Tomiko, daughter of a single mother and of lower middle-class descent, has been ranked the best pupil in her class, her classmate and friend Nobuko, daughter of a seemingly intact upper-class family, has only been ranked tenth. During a discussion between Mrs. Asada and her husband Keikichi about Nobuko's low grades and her new teacher, whom Mrs. Asada holds responsible, it is revealed that Keikichi, who had been adopted into his wife's family, and Tomiko's mother Tsuta had once been in love. In tears, Mrs. Asada blames him for still feeling attracted to her, overheard by Nobuko. The next day, Nobuko tells Tomiko of her parents' conversation, and both start crying when they get into an argument over their different families. Later, when Nobuko is hurt during a bathing trip, Tomiko calls her mother for help, which leads to a short, polite but distanced encounter between Tsuta and Keikichi. Keikichi sends Tomiko an exclusive French doll as a means of thanking her, but Tomiko senses her mother's unease with the gift and returns it to the Asadas. Mrs. Asada confronts her husband with his gift to Tomiko, and is in return scolded by him for her continuous complaints. When he reveals that he has just received his draft notice, she apologises for her selfishness, to which he replies, "now I can go to war without worries". In the last scene, the two girls and their mothers are seen side by side among a cheering crowd, waving goodbye to Keikichi and the new recruits on their way to the front.

In the sticks of Pinsk district in the second half of the 19th century, life is always the same for local gentry men. They run their simple households, publicly display their pride, and fight with anyone who dares to think or say they are “peasants”. But everything changes when Kručkoŭ, a Russian imperial official comes to resolve a conflict between two noblemen, Cichan Pratasavicki and Ivan Ciuchaj-Lipski.

After Kručkoŭ's arrival, the action becomes a whirlwind sucking in all other characters. While the dumbfounded gentry is watching the imperial official settling their dispute and at the same time fleecing them of all their money, packages of loot are carried away in a squeaky cart.

The story involves the voyage of the ''Flashaway'' on its journey to start a colony on the planet Robinello, which is estimated to require hundreds of years to complete. In order to ensure that the crew remains on-mission, historian Professor Grimstone is placed in hibernation and periodically revived to provide them with important historical information. During his periodic revivals, Grimstone is dismayed to watch the aging crew and eventually, their descendants, slowly forget not only the mission, but everything about America, Earth, and even Robinello. Grimstone's periodic interventions, which sometimes force him to resort to violence to keep the crew in line, manages to keep the ship on-course for nearly 600 years. The ''Flashaway'' arrives at Robinello to find it has already been settled by other colonists who arrived in faster ships.

63-year old homemaker Britt-Marie lives a mundane life. Meticulously organized, she follows the same routine everyday- making lists, cleaning windows, doing the laundry, preparing dinner for her husband of 40 years, Kent, who barely notices her. When her husband travels for work, she stays back at home where she feels safe. When her husband suffers from heart-attack, Britt-Marie finds a mistress by his side at the hospital and discovers that he had been unfaithful. Disappointed, Britt-Marie returns home, packs her bags, and heads out to make her own life. She travels to the remote Swedish town of Borg, where she accepts the only temporary job she's offered. She reluctantly starts working at a recreation center, coaching a local football team of 10-year-olds. Despite having no knowledge about soccer, Britt-Marie tries her best to train the group and make a better life for herself.

The film begins with the scrolling title: “Two brothers go through life together. The older one finds a new way to represent reality in film. The younger one expresses this film reality in music. At a mature age both brothers become aware of the shortcomings that limited their arts. From this they draw a conclusion each one in his own way.” The main title “A Ray of Sun” is followed by the static title: “Renzo and Roberto Rossellini - Two Brothers on their Journey towards the Unknown“. The film in the English version is narrated by Edmund Purdom. Very soon, however, we realize that the narration is an inner monologue of Renzo Rossellini himself, who is recalling memories of his life:

Renzo grows up in the shadow of his older brother Roberto: "Roberto had me as his friend and toy: I had him as my companion and despot."Renzo Rossellini: ''Addio del passato'', Rizzoli Editore, Milano 1968, EAN: 2560643408253 The two are inseparable: Roberto the tyrant and Renzo the victim. While Roberto, restless, aggressive and strong-willed, becomes a young man full of charm, Renzo, more quiet and submissive, cultivates a humble and accommodating nature.

In the Rome of the 1910’s, the two brothers, inspired by their grandfather, soon come into contact with music and cinema. Maestro Sallustio, specialist in piano accompaniment for silent action films, becomes Renzo's first music teacher. The young man, not yet eighteen, starts to compose and with one of those rare strokes of luck succeeds in publishing his first work by the famous publishing house Casa Ricordi: "La fontana ammalata" (The Sick Fountain). The teaching of some composer friends of his father, such as Ottorino Respighi and Pietro Mascagni, also influence his musical style.

After the death of their father, Renzo dedicates himself to the composition of chamber music and symphonies and begins to teach in various conservatories. Roberto, on the other hand, becomes a filmmaker "out of spite and self-love".Renzo Rossellini: ''Vita di Roberto'', capitolo III, pagina 10 e capitolo IV, pagina 16 He falls in love, in fact, with a well-known young actress and decides to marry her at any cost. She, however, after a successful film, ends up marrying the director of the film. For Roberto it is a very painful separation. Renzo follows his brother and abandons his profession as a teacher for the more lucrative profession of a film music composer.

In the early 1940’s, the Rossellinis work on a trilogy of documentaries for the film department of the Italian Navy. Their intent is not to oppose reality, but to represent it in such a way that it itself becomes spectacular. Both, in America as in Europe, film music still reflects the passionate romanticism of the 19th century, awakening tearful feelings in the audience and leaving room for illusions. This, in Renzo's opinion, did not help portray reality. "For us, directly involved in war actions, there was not much room for illusions."

In 1943, with the film "Rome, Open City", they achieve their first great success. Italian cinema had miraculously risen from the ruins of war. Roberto is baptized the inventor of Italian neo-realism. The two brothers, however, have doubts: "Theories of any kind are a limitation and do not nourish freedom of expression. And we really had no need of these." They know that in order to rediscover man, you have to be humble, you have to see him as he really is, not as you would like him to be according to ideologies.

Roberto and Renzo continue their collaboration on many other Italian films. They try to link image with music in an increasingly effective way. Harmonious collaboration, in which there is no longer a despot with a victim.

At this time Hollywood stagnates in a crisis without precedent: production crises, actors’ crises, crises of ideas. The greatest actress of that period, Ingrid Bergman, falls in love with Rossellini's films. She comes to Italy to join the brothers and makes seven films with them. These become films of worldwide success which produced by Roberto, without a studio, without an industrial plant. This only aggravates the crisis in Hollywood … and also increases interest in demolishing Roberto’s reputation.

After years of fruitful collaboration, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto separate. Renzo continues to compose music for other films but, since he refuses compromise, a fracture is soon created between him and the world of cinema. During this time, Roberto wants to see him and talk to him, as he had always done in the grave moments of their lives. Roberto is going through a creative crisis that is destroying him inside. Certain work conditions are mortifying for him. He confesses that he wanted to give up directing films. If he got back behind the camera, it wouldn't be to produce commercial films but to learn something new and to free men from their ignorance. "The important thing is to inform, the important thing is to instruct, but to educate is not important." He believes that cinema has failed its mission to be the art of the 20th century.

From then on, Roberto shoots documentaries and television films. Renzo dedicates himself to the composition of operas. At a late age they learn that “all of the suffering that we are called to endure disappear into nothing. Because, in fact, the balance of our life ends with nothing of consequence. But the most surprising reality is the following: that the world is actually something other than what we, Roberto and me, thought it was and for which we were, both of us called upon to give our contribution. It is a great tragedy that this world is completely unknown to us, because it is made outside of us, while we unawares were busy constructing that which we thought was our world.”

Claudio has a comfortable life in the apartment that he bought after years of working in a publishing house and in which he does not allow any other human being to enter. His life is based on well-defined routines that allow him to make the most of his time to work, go to the gym and engage in intellectual activities that help him feel superior to the people around him. Before living in New York City he lived in Cuba, where he had had a childhood full of hardship, although he always leaned towards letters. Some time ago he had started a relationship with Ruth, an older millionaire woman who disliked him for considering her quiet and uncomplicated. Cecilia, meanwhile, is on a scholarship pursuing postgraduate studies for a Master's degree in Paris. Since she was little she had been a lonely girl with unusual hobbies, like walking through cemeteries. She currently lives in an apartment opposite the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

One day, Cecilia's neighbor, Tom, complains about the noise of her radio, which gives way to the beginning of a friendship that eventually leads them to fall in love, although they do not become lovers. Cecilia soon learns that Tom has an incurable disease and that he could only have a few years to live. One morning Tom announces that he would make a short trip to Sicily, but months go by without Cecilia hearing from him, leaving her devastated. Claudio travels with Ruth to Paris for a few days and meets Cecilia, whom he becomes obsessed with when he convinces himself that she was the woman destined to make him happy. When he returns to New York he constantly writes passionate letters, although he maintains his relationship with Ruth due to the inconvenience that revealing the truth would cause.

Claudio visits Cecilia in Paris and they start an affair. She is not as enthusiastic as Claudio, but she gets carried away. Later, she visits him in New York, where little by little she discovers Claudio's true personality. One day when Claudio does not return from work, Cecilia finds dozens of calls from Ruth in a threatening tone, as Ruth had been spying on them and knew that Cecilia was staying with him. Cecilia leaves Claudio's house, returns to Paris and decides never to answer his messages again. Claudio becomes desperate and unstable, a phase from which he only manages to resurface from by becoming addicted to athletics. He participates in several marathons, but is injured in the Boston Marathon bombing, losing a leg.

Tom returns from his trip and Cecilia realizes that she still loves him. They begin a relationship and live together for several months before Tom gets worse and ends up in the hospital. Although there were chances of being saved through a transplant, Tom's condition worsens faster than expected and he dies. Cecilia spends months in a depression, cutting off all contact with the world and leaving her studies. Claudio is forced to acclimate his new life without a leg. He gradually resigns himself to staying with Ruth, who helps him as best she can, and accepts that he will never find his idealized perfect woman. In Paris, some friends of Cecilia visit her and, seeing her condition, take her to live with them. Cecilia gradually recovers, decides to stay in Paris and finally overcomes Tom's death.

A sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small town.

Instead of attending the Muppets' annual Halloween party, Gonzo and Pepe are on their way to a fear challenge event in the same haunted mansion where Gonzo's favorite magician, The Great MacGuffin, disappeared one-hundred years ago. Upon being dropped off by their hearse driver (Yvette Nicole Brown), Gonzo and Pepe meet the Caretaker (Darren Criss), along with several ghosts and singing busts.

Their "Ghost Host" (Will Arnett) tells Gonzo that he has been summoned to the mansion to see if he can survive one night. If he cannot, he and Pepe will be trapped there forever. While Gonzo claims that he fears nothing, Pepe is easily scared by everything he sees in the mansion. After meeting Madam Pigota (Miss Piggy), Gonzo and Pepe come across a room full of several ghosts resembling their Muppet friends. The Host soon appears and informs Gonzo that in order to survive the mansion he must face his fears in Room 999.

As Gonzo is led to the room, Pepe meets and becomes entranced by the ghost of Constance Hatchaway (Taraji P. Henson), who plans to marry and then kill him as he meets the ghosts of her past husbands. Gonzo is trapped in Room 999 (with the room's number sign turning upside down to read "666") and faces his biggest fear: that no one will like him if he does not do dangerous stunts. Gonzo starts to turn old as his reflection taunts him. Recalling a conversation with Kermit he had earlier, Gonzo realizes that he can be great by just being Gonzo and the room de-ages and releases him.

The Host congratulates Gonzo for facing his fears and tells him that he is free to go so long as he makes it out by sunrise. After realizing that Pepe is in trouble, Gonzo refuses to leave without him. With the help of the Host's candelabra, Gonzo is able to find Pepe and stop the wedding. The pair jump out the window and make it out of the mansion just as the sun rises.

The Host meets them at the gate, revealing himself to be the Great MacGuffin, who is impressed that Gonzo was willing to do what he could not; face his fears. The hearse driver picks them up and Kermit calls asking to meet the pair for breakfast. Kermit comments that Gonzo and Pepe should bring their friends along, Gonzo and Pepe turn to see the Hitchhiking Ghosts behind them, prompting them to scream.

Kate Mayer is quickly approaching forty, and a suburban wife and mother of two. She realizes her marriage has come to an end after one too many arguments with her husband. She asks her husband for a separation and moves out with her two kids. Jobless and without any work experience, she accepts a low-level position as a receptionist for a real estate office. Eventually, she is promoted to real estate agent, but she still has to deal with her husband, her disapproving mother and her children, who are trying to adjust to their new environment. At work, Kate finds herself strongly attracted to her boss, McNally "Mac" Hays, who is a lesbian. When the two finally start dating and fall in love, she is confronted with an angry and confused family.

The plot follows 11 middle-class people in various phases of life, who are isolated from one another. They are compelled to practice social distancing and communicate with each other through video calls.

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870. After pope Pius IX had refused King Victor Emmanuel II demand to cede to the new Kingdom of Italy the last remnants of the Papal States, the latter sent his army to place Rome under a state of siege. Despite a last effort by Italian general Carchidio, the head of the papal force General Hermann Kanzler(it) refused to surrender. On 20 September, after a cannonade of three hours had breached the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia, the Bersaglieri entered Rome and Pius IX ordered General Kanzler to hoist the white flag on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. The film ends with an apotheosis showing the heroes of Italian independence.

The plot follows a mother and daughter who are on their way to Stockholm to celebrate the daughter's 14th birthday. While on train, the mother starts behaving strangely and the daughter fears that her mother might be experiencing another psychosis attack. Despite the signs, they try to enjoy their holiday as planned. When the mother's condition escalates, the daughter is left alone and has to explore Stockholm on her own.

The telenovela follows the story of a village in 2021, that is preparing the biggest and best summer party they ever had following the previous year's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That year's celebration is also special because Dona Corcovada, the main patron of the party and the richest lady of the village, is turning one hundred years old that same summer.

The novel is set in the world of aviation that was blossoming at the time; it describes the development of passions that bind and divide five bourgeois characters, which are fatally destined to leave a "trail" of pain and death.

The story revolves around the birth of a violent love affair between Paolo Tarsis and Isabella Inghirami. In the background, the stories of Vanina and Lunella, sisters of Isabella, and of Aldo, brother of the three, intertwine.

The painful discovery of the love story between Paolo and Isabella by Aldo and Vanina causes a precipitous fall towards suicidal tendencies: Aldo and Vanina together attempt suicide by leaning out of a crumbling wall. Vanina is in fact in love with Paolo, but Isabella, although aware of this love, continues her affair with Paolo. At first, Aldo's motivations are not understood, it then emerges towards the end of the novel that he has sexual relations with his sister Isabella.

Vanina goes to Paolo to reveal the relationship between her brother and her older sister. Paolo, furious, awaits Isabella's arrival on occasion of which he takes out his anger, beating and insulting her while his sister Vanina returns home and commits suicide.

From this moment the progressive crisis of Isabella begins, a character so far very sure and determined, which leads to an unstoppable madness, to the point that Isabella's father and stepmother are forced to hospitalize her in an institution without Paolo being able to find an alternative solution.

The love affairs are intertwined with two aerial races, in the first of which Giulio, a friend of Paolo, loses his life while the protagonist comes out victorious. The novel ends with Paolo's landing in Sardinia.

The plot follows Nelly, a 10-year old who has no friends. Nelly and her dog London, decide to spend the autumn holidays with her eccentric uncle Hannibal. Hannibal lives in a spooky mansion in the country, with housekeeper Lena-Sleva. However, Nelly does not know that Hannibal does not live a normal life and that he is a monster agent. She is soon surrounded by vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and Frankenstein, and embarks on an adventure where everything she previously believed in is put to test.

The working class Ishimura family, living on the brink of poverty, depends on the salaries of the father and his three eldest sons, Kiichi, Genji and Noboru, who became factory workers immediately after elementary school. Kiichi sees no prospect of a promotion or salary raise at his job, meaning he could never support a family of his own, and expresses his wish to go to a higher school. While his mother objects against his plan, which would result in a decrease of the family's income, his father is torn between financial necessity and his son's happiness. Mr. Ishimura consults teacher Ogawa, explaining that if he allows Kiichi to follow his ambitions, he would have to allow his other sons the same. During a family meeting, moderated by Ogawa, Mr. Ishimura announces that he will accept his sons' decisions. While Kiichi assures Ogawa that he will work hard, and his younger brothers rejoice, the parents appear worried.

Ivanhoe "Puto" de la Cruz is a young puto vendor who dreams of being with Gina, his classmate at the Andres Bonifacio High School. After accidentally rescuing three little elves (Elvis, Boy George, and Travolta), he is granted a week-long chance to wish for anything he wants.

The book is constituted of only one huge sentence telling the story of a young man killed by watchmen in a supermarket because he drank one can of beer without paying for it. It is based on a real story which happened in Lyon in December 2009.

It is told as a monologue by a narrator whose identity is not explained but who tell the reader that he knew the dead man and his brother.

Hijikata Toshizō fulfilled his dream of becoming a samurai. As the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi, he works to maintain security in Kyoto. However, finally Japan entered into a Civil War.

Every fall in a small Midwestern town, a supernatural specter named "Sawtooth Jack" arises from the cornfields and approaches the town's church, where violent gangs of young boys hungrily await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare in an annual harvest rite of life and death. Richie Shepard lives in the shadow of his big brother who won last year's "October Prize" to get his ticket out of town. To prove himself and join his brother, Richie pairs up with restless dreamer Kelly Haines, who will do whatever it takes to escape this dead-end town. Against the rules and the odds, Richie and Kelly decide to hunt down the legendary nightmare to win the Run and their freedom, together.

Eleanor Oliphant goes from living a lonely life to realizing the only way to survive is to open your heart.

1. Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, very attentive to the political dynamics in Bologna garrisoned by the Bourbon troops and to the sufferings of the Bolognese, did not hesitate to intervene between the Spaniards and an awkward Bolognese nobility, piloted by Countess Gabriella di Roccasibalda, a casual adventurer, and the people, towards which a massacre disguised as an attempted revolt had been planned, which should have been the casus belli of a repression and the establishment of the gonfalonierato for life of a puppet of the Bourbons.

The cardinal also takes to heart the story of two young lovers who are prevented from getting married, Carlo Barozzi, the son of his lackey, and the stepdaughter of Gabriella di Roccasibalda herself, Countess Maria (daughter of her husband's deceased first wife, Count Goffredo) betrothed by her stepmother to the perfidious Duke of Montimar, also with profound political implications.

Ava and her mother Faye both have a pernicious disease that will one day take their lives. They are also mutually joined together by an unconditional love for one another, a passion for the arts, and a belief that magic does exist. Ava moved back into her mother's house three years ago to care for her, and ever since then, she has witnessed the deterioration of her mother's health and all she can really do is try to keep her mother from becoming depressed and devitalized. But one day, Faye makes a shocking announcement that propels Ava into a tailspin. When rare guests start to arrive and unexpected events start to happen, Ava is unable to deal with reality. She cries herself to sleep in her mother's arms and escapes to a dream world filled with old friends and long forgotten desires.

The plot is a fictionalised account of the First Circumvalation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.