Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) are watching over Leona Wainwright, their new number. She gets into a taxi where the driver is revealed to be a hitman. Reese tries to intervene but the driver detonates a grenade, killing himself and Wainwright. Finch (Michael Emerson) discovers that the hitman belonged to Vigilance. In Washington, D.C., Senator Ross Garrison (John Doman) meets with Control (Camryn Manheim) to talk about the explosion.

The team receives a new number: Matthew Reed (Néstor Carbonell), a prosecutor. Reese and Shaw go to Westchester County, New York for a high school reunion that Reed will attend while Finch and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) go to Washington to learn more about Wainwright, who worked for the government by managing security clearances. At the reunion, Reese and Shaw use real names and meet with many of the guests, including Reed, who takes a liking on Shaw. During the reunion, Reed is intimidated by images of the death of his girlfriend in high school. During a dance, Reese is attacked by a Vigilance hitman. He defeats him but the hitman commits suicide to avoid speaking.

It's revealed that Reed himself did everything in the reunion, blaming his friend Doug (Rob McClure) for his girlfriend's death. Doug suspected Reed abused of her so Doug gave her Hydrocodone to help her, which may have led to her accident and death. Reed plans to kill him and make it appear as a suicide but is interrupted by Reese and Shaw. Suddenly, Vigilance assassins attack them, due to Root (Amy Acker) leaking their location to distract Vigilance from Finch's mission. Reese and Shaw defeat them and Doug is arrested while Reed may face charges for his homicide attempt.

Finch and Fusco go to the Office of Personnel Management to get more evidence on Wainwright's murder. Fusco distracts the guard while Finch enters into the evidence room. Finch obtains her file but is confronted by Collier (Leslie Odom Jr.), who confronts him about the Machine and its purpose. Root saves them but Collier escapes with highly classified information. Collier leaks the documents, exposing Northern Lights to the world. Garrison publicly denies the existence of the Machine and orders Control to shut it down. She gives the command, and shreds Collier's eyes-only file. With its Primary Operations compromised, the Machine restructures, transferring massive amounts of red-flagged data to Tertiary Operations: Root, the only owner of the relevant numbers.

The film opens with some people who have been murdered in a house, one of them apparently raped. The killer, named Perfecto, had taken crime photos of him and during the opening credits, reveals them.

The narrative moves to an airport where a charter lands and from the interior Roberto Hurtado, a wealthy but weak and ill old man, gets off, accompanied by his son, Adolfo, and Dr. Hughes, his family doctor. Hurtado is taken by ambulance to a luxurious penthouse by his drivers Perfecto and Ever, accompanied by Florencia, a nurse and their friend. At the office, Dr. Hughes explains to Adolfo that his father suffers from a rare blood disease which is poisoning him and has given him a monstrous appearance (which would alter his sanity) as well as Thrombocytopenic purpura. The only treatment is the constant transfusion of blood while it is young and healthy men.

The next day, Perfecto goes to get the blood to the blood bank, leaving Adolfo, his boss, in the car, and when he hears the news of the murder, he finds the photos revealed by Perfecto. Adolfo steals them and leaves the envelope on the hood of the car. Perfecto, that night, he realizes that Adolfo stole the photos the moment Ever and Florencia ask him to see them. Adolfo, after confirming the responsibility of the three employees in the murder, calls them pretending to be payday, but at the time of paying them, Adolfo indirectly blackmails his three employees; they must get the blood for their father in exchange for not revealing the photos that incriminated them in the murder. Perfect, Ever and Florencia argue about the blackmail they are now victims of, but Florencia barely convinces them to make money. In the penthouse, Adolfo informs his father Roberto about the commitments of the sugar mill they own and talks to his grandchildren by video. That same night, the three employees (Perfecto, Florencia and Ever) kidnap a shoeshine boy from the street, take him to a farm where they draw his blood and steal his few belongings, in this they find an information card about the flea, and the three decide to nickname Roberto Hurtado 'the flea' for living off blood. So then the corpse is abandoned in an almost wooded area. Florencia then arrives at the penthouse to give Roberto the stolen blood, gives him the treatments, reads him the economic sections of the newspaper and plays him movies on Betamax.

One night, the three employees go to a bar where they witness a singer, and Perfecto, who is homosexual, is interested in a boy who is at the bar. Ever follows him to the bathroom where she indirectly invites him to snort cocaine and to a supposed party where there will be more cocaine. The three of them, accompanied by two homosexuals, go to the farm where they consume liquor, cigarettes and cocaine and Florencia dopes the two homosexuals, making them believe that she injects them with heroin. Both are raped by Perfecto, his blood drawn by Florencia, and like the shoeshine, the two dead homosexuals are abandoned in a field.

During the Day of the Little Candles, Perfecto and Florencia are forced to look for more blood, because Roberto had vomited useless blood. Both try to kidnap a child by doping him with chloroform but he escapes. Then they try to kidnap a girl but when they see her gender, they abandon her on a street, then they kidnap a destitute child from whom they draw blood. One night Roberto sees ants in the coffee sugar, prophesying a strike at the mill. This prophecy turns out to be true when they call Adolfo to notify him of the strike; the cutters refuse to burn the excess cane. Roberto is unaware that his son Adolfo is doing business with a sugar smuggler named Poncho; the drivers of the sugar trucks would be unarmed, causing the smugglers of Poncho to steal the sugar to sell it to Venezuela. Panic reigns in Cali; the corpses are found. The population and the press speculate that they are victims of the 'Monster of the mangones', an alleged serial killer who rapes young men alone or with a gang, apparently wealthy and homosexual that traffics blood.

During Christmas Eve, a small tremor occurs, and once again Ever and Perfecto must go for more blood for Roberto. They kidnap another child and it is difficult to bring him up to transfer the blood to Roberto who, being doped, manages to see a bit of the origin of the blood. Adolfo's business with the smugglers is ruined because a driver was armed confronting the smugglers disguised as police, resulting in the capture of them by the real police and the seizure of the merchandise, despite being insured. Adolfo finds out about this and Poncho orders him to take action or there would be problems. Without saying anything to his father, Adolfo asks him for money to fix the problem, citing threats to the family, but Roberto, also aware of the assault flatly refuses. Roberto immediately deduces that Adolfo is behind a sugar smuggling business but Adolfo refutes him by demanding that he take command of the business while his father ignores everything including the origin of the blood that keeps him alive. Hearing this, Roberto remembers the boy whose blood was drawn, so he suffers a seizure and vomits blood. While Adolfo changes labels from a useless blood and a usable one, he goes to his office and burns various documents including the photos of the murder, takes a suicide pistol and falls on his fish tank.

Roberto dies after receiving the wrong blood and veiled the next day. During a weekend walk on the river bank; Perfecto, Ever and his family, and Florencia find out about the capture of the so-called 'Monster of the mangones'; Pedro Luis Mosquera alias 'Babalú' who confessed the crimes even to the press (archive footage). It is revealed that Adolfo did not die but suffered paralysis as a result of the shot to the temple, and a year later he recovers with few motor functions. The Hurtado family visits the grave of the late father and grandfather Roberto, being venerated and praised by various people, especially his employees.

The Machine's existence has been leaked to the media but the team is still able to use it. Root (Amy Acker) now receives the relevant numbers and takes Shaw (Sarah Shahi) with her for a mission in Alaska. Reese (Jim Caviezel) then goes to Washington, D.C. after Finch (Michael Emerson) calls him.

Finch says that their new number is Congressman Roger McCourt (John Heard), who opposes the mass surveillance. Reese infiltrates McCourt's Secret Service detail and struggles to identify a threat as McCourt appears to have no enemies. They discover that Decima is interested in following McCourt and Decima exposes Reese's real identity, forcing him to subdue the Secret Service guards and take McCourt with him. In an art museum, Senator Garrison (John Doman) meets with Greer (John Nolan), who gives him knowledge about Vigilance and Collier. He also proposes giving Samaritan to the government although Garrison hesitates on it.

Reese and Finch take McCourt to a safe house when Decima hitmen arrive thanks to a GPS tracker on McCourt. They escape and are saved by Shaw, who just returned from her trip with Root. Due to a blockade, they are forced to hide in a suburban home while keeping a hitman, Carlson (Morocco Omari), hostage. They interrogate Carlson but find that, contrary to their idea, Decima wants to protect McCourt. McCourt admits to agreeing to help Decima with favorable legislation (granting Decima access to government surveillance feeds), in exchange for insider stock-trading tips. He also agreed to help run the system, rather than let the government do it. The team eventually deduces that due to his danger to let Samaritan take over, the Machine wants them to kill McCourt.

Finch is conflicted, as the Machine would only order a death when a great amount of people's lives are endangered. Finch fails to convince McCourt to change his plans and despite Reese and Shaw willing to kill him, they are forced to flee when the authorities arrive and leave McCourt alive. During their escape, Shaw is shot in the leg. They manage to make it to New York but Finch leaves Reese and Shaw with his faith on the Machine lost. After a talk with McCourt, Garrison agrees to let Decima make a 24-hour Beta test with Samaritan. The episode ends as Greer activates Samaritan and gives it his first order: track down Harold Finch.

Recovering addict Darby Thorne learns that her mother is in the hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm, and is undergoing emergency surgery. She escapes rehab and drives to Salt Lake City. While stopped in the middle of the road, Corporal Ron Hill tells her that the interstate is closed because of a developing blizzard. She agrees to stay overnight at a local visitor's center. The only people inside are Ash, Lars, and married couple Ed and Sandi. Darby goes outside to look for cellphone signal and ends up discovering a kidnapped girl in a van belonging to one of the people inside.

Playing a round of Bullshit, Darby uses her knowledge of the van's license plate to question the others and deduce that Lars is the kidnapper. She goes to the bathroom and uses a hole in the wall to go back outside. Darby breaks into the van and talks to the girl, promising to save her. Unaware of her presence, Lars enters the van and reveals the girl's name to be Jay. Inside, Ed grows suspicious of Lars's strange behavior. As Lars exits the van to bring Jay some food, Darby goes back inside the cabin through the hole in the wall.

Jay has Addison's disease, which can cause an adrenaline overdose if she becomes too stressed. In the bathroom, Darby tells Ash about Jay. Ash agrees to help her. When Darby goes outside, however, Ash reveals that he is Lars's brother and an accomplice in the kidnapping. Ash takes Darby back inside and threatens to kill her if she informs Ed and Sandi about Jay. Outside, Jay cuts herself free and runs into the woods. In the bathroom, Darby attacks Ash, but he gains the upper hand. Lars goes through the hole in the wall and stops his brother from strangling Darby. In the struggle, Darby takes Ash's keys.

Ash and Lars force Darby to help them look for Jay. They reveal that they are transporting her to their Uncle Kenny, who runs a human trafficking ring. Darby uses a flashlight to blind the kidnappers and runs away. Ash fires his firearm, alerting Ed and Sandi. Ed and Sandi find Jay unconscious in the snow. Darby goes inside the cabin and tells Ed and Sandi about the kidnappers. After locking the entrance, Ed negotiates with Ash and Lars. He promises to give them the car keys if they give Jay the medicine she needs to survive. As Darby hides the keys, Ash and Lars cover the cabin in gasoline. Jay wakes up and identifies Sandi as her maid. A flashback reveals that Sandi helped Ash and Lars take Jay from her home. She agreed to meet with the kidnappers to give them Jay's medicine. In the present, Sandi lets Ash and Lars inside.

After learning that Darby is the only person who knows where the keys are, Ash kills Ed and Sandi and uses a nail gun to staple Darby to a wall. Her phone receives a text message; Ash reads it and informs her that her mother has died. Another text reveals that Corporal Ron is on his way to the cabin. When Ash threatens to hurt Jay, Darby reveals the key's whereabouts. Ash gives his gun to Lars before leaving to search for the keys. Darby tells Jay to turn off the lights.

Darby snorts cocaine to give herself the strength to pull the nail out of her hand. With Lars distracted, she takes his gun as Ash returns. During a standoff with Darby holding Lars hostage, Jay hits Ash's nailgun with a hammer, thus shooting a nail in Lars' forehead. Darby and Jay run outside to make their escape. Ash punctures their vehicle and sets the cabin on fire. After Corporal Ron arrives, Darby shoots Ash while Ron shoots Darby. Ash takes her weapon and shoots Ron dead. As he prepares to kill Darby, she uses a screwdriver to puncture his neck, killing him. Darby uses Ron's radio to call for help. In a flash-forward, Darby's sister Devon visits her in rehab.

Flashbacks

In 2010, Grace (Carrie Preston) attends Finch's (Michael Emerson) funeral, being the only one in attendance and laments how no one else was there to appreciate him.

Present day

After helping the Machine with relevant numbers, Root (Amy Acker) locates Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and helps them sneak around the city while avoiding cameras following Samaritan's activation. Having failed to locate Finch, Greer (John Nolan) has decided to locate his closest connection: Grace.

Decima attempts to kidnap Grace but are subdued by Reese and Shaw. They take Grace to the precinct with Fusco (Kevin Chapman). They evade many attempts by hitmen to retrieve her; Root causes an explosion in another building to distract the police and allows them to escape. However, Greer's henchman rams their car and kidnaps Grace. Reese, Shaw and Root are forced to escape to New Jersey as it's off-limits to Samaritan. They go to the Red Hook Container Terminal as a possible lead and after fighting off Decima agents, they find Grace's location in Brooklyn and head there, although Root stays behind due to orders from the Machine.

Greer questions Grace, asking her about her life and her connection to Finch. She is oblivious to the fact that he is alive but Greer still does not reveal his status. Reese and Shaw arrive at the location but they only find a technician who commits suicide to avoid speaking. Greer talks to them through a surveillance feed and tells them to give them Finch in exchange for Grace. Thanks to a tip from Root, Reese and Shaw find Finch outside Grace's house, who planned to save her before realizing it was too late. Finch agrees to the exchange but tells Reese and Shaw that if Decima harms Grace, they must kill them.

The next day, the exchange takes place at a bridge. A blindfolded Grace is allowed to walk to one side while Finch walks towards the other. They briefly touch when she almost falls but she still doesn't recognize it's Finch. Grace is safely escorted off the bridge while Finch is taken by Decima agents. At her house, Grace is given (unknown to her, by Finch) a fake ID so she can flee to Italy with a new job and to avoid Decima. In another location, Greer shows Garrison (John Doman) the use of Samaritan to catch a terrorist and earns his trust. Unknown to Garrison, Samaritan starts losing its feeds. With its beta test complete, Samaritan shuts down. Root then shows to Reese and Shaw that she has stolen seven computer servers meant for Samaritan. The episode ends as Greer finally meets with Finch at an undisclosed building to talk.

The film describes the life of Pelé from his childhood, his soccer triumphs up until his last soccer station with the New York Cosmos soccer team. It includes lots of archival footage including his games, his and other interviews, news reels etc. The film sometimes also touches on the political background in Brasil, including the dictatorship. A lot of the soccer and other history is explained through contemporary interviews with him and other actors of the time, including family members, trainers, journalists and politicians.

Flashbacks

In 2010, Peter Brandt (Leslie Odom Jr.) is dining with his brother Jesse (Marc Damon Johnson) when the police arrives to arrest Jesse for unknown motives. Jesse entrusts Peter to take care of his son. Peter confronts Assistant United States Attorney Langdon (Kelly AuCoin) about the arrest and Langdon states that Jesse was associated with a terrorist organization, which Peter refuses to believe. A few months later, Jesse commits suicide in prison. Peter receives a visit from a man whom Jesse met at Alcoholics Anonymous as a sponsor. He gives him a chip, telling him that it's thanks to his brother that he is alive. All the events cause Peter to question the government, especially blaming them for Jesse's death. He later receives a text from an unknown person who claims to know what happened to Jesse.

Present day

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) are pursuing Decima agents but all the agents commit suicide, partly for their insurance policy for their families. Root (Amy Acker) reveals she has been working with Daniel Casey (Joseph Mazzello) and Jason Greenfield (Michael Esper) on finding more information on the Samaritan servers. Throughout the episode, Finch (Michael Emerson) and Greer (John Nolan) talk about their respective opinions on Samaritan and the Machine.

Greer later meets with Senator Garrison (John Doman) to discuss Samaritan and Greer refuses to sell Samaritan. The team has followed the Machine to the Carlton Hotel where they receive 5 numbers. One of the numbers belongs to Control (Camryn Manheim). Shaw infiltrates the hotel and finds that Garrison is also at the hotel and is their second number. Control and Garrison meet with Presidential assistant Manuel Rivera (Joseph Melendez) and General Kyle Holcombe and convince them to participate in the program. The team finds that Rivera and Holcombe are two of their numbers and set to find the fifth number.

Root and Reese intercept a Vigilance agent who carries a USB flash drive that contains a computer worm. Shaw enters the room where Control, Rivera and Holcombe are staying to help them. However, the city suffers a major blackout propelled by Vigilance. Vigilance hitmen, including Collier, infiltrate the hotel and kill Holcombe. Shaw and Reese fight against Vigilance and Hersh (Boris McGiver), who was sent to save Control. However, Root reconnects with the Machine and discovers that the fifth number belongs to Greer as Finch is in danger.

Root takes Casey and Greenfield out of the city and gives them fake IDs to flee. It's revealed that the work on the servers allowed her to find Samaritan's location. Reese and Shaw use Hersh to find Decima's location but Vigilance arrives first. By the time Reese, Shaw and Hersh arrive to the building, they find it empty except for a TV. It turns on to reveal Collier and Vigilance holding a trial while showing Rivera, Control, Garrison, Greer and Finch as their kidnapped detainees.

Jon helps his elderly mother into an armchair and goes to make her tea. When he returns, she is asleep with an open photo album on her lap. Atop the photos is a note written on a napkin: You were right. He’s perfect.

In a flashback to the 1970s, Jon is an ultrasound on a screen. A beautiful woman is glowing. Her husband is overjoyed. The nurse hands the young couple a pamphlet entitled Institution. The husband can’t handle raising a child with an intellectual disability. He walks away from his wife and unborn child. Despite the heartbreak caused by her ex-husband, she gives birth to a baby boy with Down syndrome named Jon.

Jon’s earliest years are marked by good and bad memories with his mother: chasing a butterfly, burying a dead goldfish, splashing dishwater, getting ready for bedtime, and etcetera.

In school, bullies flick a rubber band at the back of Jon’s head. At recess, Jon is fidgeting with the rubber band. A girl with Down syndrome named Miranda approaches him smiling. She guides his hand towards her arm, offering herself the rubber band and turning it into a wristband. Now during class, Jon turns all the bullies’ rubber bands into wristbands for Miranda.

Jon has a not-so-secret crush on Miranda for several years. In their senior year of high school, Jon runs for student president. His flyers say: "...are you DOWN?" His biggest supporter, Miranda, holds a sign that says, "I’m Down."

At graduation, Jon waves at his teary-eyed mother. His mother looks over to her left. A man she once knew is older and missing some hair, but it’s him — Jon’s father. He offers his ex-wife a sad smile.

Jon walks up onto the stage and pauses. He then rips open the front of his gown to reveal a superhero crest that says I’m Down. Everyone cheers — everyone but Jon’s father. His son’s success in life overwhelms him.

After graduation, Jon removes Miranda’s green wristband and twists it into a ring as a wedding proposal. While Jon and Miranda have the first dance at their wedding, Jon’s Dad hands his mother a note written on a drink napkin: “You were right. He’s perfect”.

It’s the present now, and forty-five-year-old Jon doesn’t know what to make of the napkin. He shows it to Miranda. Neither of them knows where the note came from, but the message is clear. Jon lovingly wraps his sleeping mother in a blanket and turns off the light.

Prologue

After the events of ''Dark Nights: Death Metal'', Wonder Woman meets up with the Quintessence (Ganthet, Hera, Highfather, Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, The Wizard) for an open position. While observing, she sees Bane killed by Joker toxin, and Barbara Gordon being Oracle again due to her spine implant while letting Cassandra Cain, Huntress, and Stephanie Brown take her role as Batgirl. A police officer name Sean Mahoney is gravely injured after saving a couple of nurses, Grifter needs Jace Fox (the brother of Batwing)'s help and it is revealed that there is a new villain name Simon Saint who is working with Scarecrow to negotiate with the new Gotham City Mayor Christopher Nakano.

Batman, Ghost-maker, and Harley Quinn take down criminals who are a part of a group called the Unsanity Collective but it results in collateral damage. Simon Saint meets up with the Mayor Nakano to advertise him The Magistrate (Peacekeepers who will stop crime before it happens as seen in "Future State"). After a few days, Scarecrow was presumed dead in the Arkham attack and Gotham City citizens become afraid due to multiple events that have happened in this city. Barbara Gordon tells him that the Unsanity Criminals have a leader name Master Wyze who wants to reboot Gotham City to get rid of their trauma and create a better future. Batman decides to meet up with the leader of the Unsanity by using a disguise.

During a ceremony to honor Sean Mahoney's heroics, Oracle spots Scarecrow. Meanwhile, Batman meets up with Miracle Molly, the leader of the Unsanity Collective, where she tells Batman she believes that the current society is a broken system and wants a society where people can help each other using technology, revealing that everyone in the Collective had their memory wiped. Miracle Molly reveals she knows that she's talking to Batman, and tells him that Simon Saint was the one who hired Unsanity to attack. Simon Saint convinces Sean Mahoney to be part of the Magistrate after showing his assistant Ricardo has cybernetic augmentation to compensate his missing limbs. Ghostmaker and Harley Quinn bond while sparring when they are interrupted by Bella Garten, a roommate of Poison Ivy who wants to know where Poison Ivy is. Batman confronts Simon Saint but he is attacked by Peacekeeper-01 (Sean Mahoney in a cybernetic body).

Mayor Nakano finally agrees to leak the idea of the Magistrate to the public, and communications are down so Oracle calls in the rest of the Bat-Family to help. While fighting, Mahoney reveals that Gotham City is afraid because everyone knows about the Multiverse and the evil versions of superheroes, as well as people disliking how Batman continuously partners with Catwoman and Harley Quinn. Batman successfully escapes Mahoney and is saved by Harley and Ghostmaker. Harley reveals that Mahoney was an abusive Arkham guard who needs to be stopped, and Peacekeeper finds Miracle Molly. Batman, Harley Quinn and Ghostmaker save Miracle Molly, with Batman putting a tracking device on Peacekeeper-01's armor realizing he's heading toward Arkham Aslyum. Mayor Nakano allows the Magistrate to operate in Gotham, but Scarecrow renegades on his deal with Simon Saint and infects Peacekeeper-01 with his fear toxin before capturing Batman.

Main plot

In the past, it is revealed that Simon Saint met up with Scarecrow because Scarecrow developed a Fear State Theory, where society can evolve by exposing it to tremendous fear so it can be better (similar to how Bruce Wayne became Batman). Simon Saint helps free Scarecrow so Simon Saint can control Gotham City's societal evolution and make it better. In the present, Mayor Nakano allows the Magistrate Program full permission to perform police activities in Gotham City, and the recent bombings has made Gotham Citizens nervous. Renee Montoya is not pleased about this, and someone called the Anti-Oracle hijacked Barbara Gordon's computer to spread even more terror and locked Barbara out. Harley Quinn, Miracle Molly, the Unsanity Collective and Ghostmaker follow The Gardener to where Poison Ivy is, where it is revealed that Poison Ivy is feral because a strain of the original Mother Plant has taken control of her and Harley Quinn needs to find Poison Ivy's missing part. Batman escapes from Scarecrow and creates an antidote while Catwoman and Jace Fox observe how the Magistrate is taking over Gotham City. Cassandra Cain subdues Batman while he's distracted from his anti-dote to Scarecrow's Fear Toxin and he meets up with Barbara Gordon and Stephanie Brown where they bring him up to speed on what is happening. Batman also talks to Ghostmaker and Harley Quinn on what they are doing and realizes that Scarecrow is the true mastermind behind this. Seeing that Sean Mahoney is out of control due to the Fear Toxin, Simon Saint outfits his bodyguard Ricardo Huertas with a new Peacekeeper armor to apprehend Sean Mahoney. Batman tells Renee Montoya about Simon Saint and Scarecrows plans, and takes down Magistrate robots. Batman meets with Ghostmaker and they get a device to get rid of the rest of Scarecrow's fear toxin in Batman's head, with Ghostmaker revealing he met Scarecrow in the past and Scarecrow's plan to make Gotham City better by enacting his Fear State plan. Ricardo Huertas meets with Sean Mahoney and plans to take him down. Ricardo Huertas tries to calm down Sean Mahoney, but it is unsuccessful and Sean Mahoney attacks while under the influence of Scarecrow's Fear Toxin. Batman tries to intervene, but Sean Mahoney causes collateral damage and Ricardo is presumed to be dead. Miracle Molly realizes what Scarecrow is trying to do and goes to Batman to come with her.

Poison Ivy heals one of the Unsanity Members, and Master Wyze reveals that before he wiped his memory he was Dormiouse and worked with the Mad Hatter to remove people's trauma by wiping away their memories. Master Wyze wants to use Poison Ivy's powers to remove everyone's memory. While traveling to her hidden bases, Miracle Molly asks Batman why is he not scared, and Batman reveals that he is scared but he stays calm because he knows his allies are capable of saving Gotham City. Miracle Molly tells Batman that the machine used to wipe away people's memories also stores them, and Scarecrow may use her machine to gather a hundred people's trauma, and weaponize it on Gotham City. One of Simon Saint's workers tells Simon Saint that there is plant growth underneath Gotham City, and if Poison Ivy uses her abilities to full extent then Gotham City would be destroyed.

Simon Saint orders his robots to kill Poison Ivy, but Ghostmaker destroys the robots which causes Poison Ivy to freak out and unleash her powers on Gotham City. However, Harley Quinn and the Gardener arrive with another version of Poison Ivy. Batman and Miracle Molly confront Scarecrow, but Scarecrow uses the Unsanity Collective's technology to harm Miracle Molly. Scarecrow reveals he amplified Sean Mahoney's trauma to create a Fear Bomb on Gotham City. Batman tries to destroy the monitors, but Sean Mahoney shoots Scarecrow in the back. Sean Mahoney declares himself as the true hero Gotham City needs since Simon Saint just wants to control Gotham City through Power and Order, while Batman and Scarecrow's fear tactics makes them weak. Batman and Sean Mahoney fight once again, while Miracle Molly tries to get Scarecrow to disarm the fear bomb.

Harley Quinn reveals that after Poison Ivy was sent to the Sanctuary, the Gardener (Poison Ivy's ex-girlfriend) had a feeling that Poison Ivy would die soon so she took a part of Poison Ivy's soul and put it in a seed. The Magistrate tried to take control of the Poison Ivy duplicate, but Catwoman and her group saved the clone of Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy merges with her clone to be fully revived and cured of her feral state, and uses her phermones to calm the city down and revive one of the Unsanity members before kissing Harley Quinn.

Nightwing, Tim Drake, Spoiler, Barbara Gordon, and Cassandra Cain arrive on the Magistrate's base to confront Simon Saint while Ghostmaker deals with the rest of Simon's robots. After a brutal battle, Batman manages to defeat Peacekeeper-01, but Scarecrow convinces Miracle Molly of her original goal to wipe out Gotham City's memories so they can overcome trauma. Batman manages to convince Miracle Molly to not release the fear toxin by stating that humans are inherently good because when politicians, media and corporations are removed, humans have the ability to overcome anything. Miracle Molly agrees to disarm the bomb, and the Bat Family (Nightwing, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Spoiler, Tim Drake, Duke Thomas, Jace Fox, Batwoman) and Harley Quinn look up at the Bat Signal in the sky as Gotham City slowly recovers.

Epilogue

Scarecrow tries to escape from the authorities, but Batman prevents this and takes him to Arkham Asylum to meet Chase Meridian. While driving, Batman reveals that Scarecrow was afraid of change which was why he launched the Fear State on Gotham City, but Gotham City is always changing and evolving. Miracle Molly testifies how Simon Saint used the Unsanity Collective to manipulate the media in order to use the Magistrate Program. In exchange, Miracle Molly is sent to prison, and the Unsanity Collective goes into hiding, and Batman letting them go because the Unsanity Collective are people looking for a second chance. Batman knows Jace Fox is wearing a Batman suit to patrol Gotham City, Simon Saint was put on house arrest and his weaponry was taken by the government. Sean Mahoney escapes from the authorities and is sent into hiding, while Poison Ivy threatens the Gardener to never take a soul out of her again.

Tie-In Plots

''Batman: Urban Legends''

In ''Batman: Urban Legends'' #8, Batwoman is helping rehabilitate Beth Kane when Renee Montoya arrives and tells her that there is a viral video of Cassandra Cain murdering innocent people. Batwoman confronts Cassandra, and they meet up with Beth to deal with the Anti-Oracle. Azrael deals with the Magistrate, where he is confronted by Batman who tells him to not kill any people. In "Future State" (an alternate future timeline that takes 30 years after) Gotham City is a dystopia due to Scarecrow's Fear State being successful. Future Duke Thomas sends Future Black Lightning to the present where Future Black Lightning meets up with the Outsiders in a boxing ring to tell them how to stop the dystopian future. Future Black Lightning explains that a man name Jonah Winfield was a normal boy until he met Scarecrow and was exposed to a high dose of fear toxin and became disfigured. Jonah Winfield would become a being known as Fearful who secretes fear toxin and would cause the dark future. The Outsiders confront John Winfield but are exposed to the Fear Toxin.

In #9, Beth deals with criminals and asks them where is the Seer, where the Magistrate attack. Batwoman arrives and save Beth from the Magistrate, where Beth finally manages to make peace with her other personalities. Duke Thomas is under the affect of Scarecrow's fear toxin and attacks Tim Drake, but Tim Drake breaks Scarecrow's control of Duke. Duke regroups with the Outsiders (Katana, Black Lightning, and Metamorpho) to break them out of the fear toxin. Duke and the Outsiders meet up with Tim Drake and Clownhunter (whom Tim Drake saved) to confront Scarecrow's apprentice, (Jonah Winfield), at the laboratory. Black Lightning and Duke Thomas injected Jonah with adrenaline which caused his body to burn out the fear toxin and this causes changes in the future where Future State Black Lightning's curse is lifted and the Future outsiders face off Clayface.

''Catwoman''

In #34, Batman gives Catwoman a hard drive of Karl Snenke (an assassin hired by Scarecrow to assassinate Catwoman), and Catwoman reveals to Batman she found Poison Ivy changed due to Simon Saint using her to make a drug. After Catwoman confronts Karl Sneke and a bomb goes off, Scarecrow broadcasts that Batman is dead. Catwoman hears from Oracle from a different channel that Batman is not dead, and help is on the way. Catwoman realizes that the Magistrate are coming after Poison Ivy and with the help of Riddler she finds Killer Croc, Harley Quinn, The Gardener, and Cheshire to get Poison Ivy and fend off the Magistrate. While escorting Poison Ivy, Catwoman is attacked by the Magistrate. The Magistrate captures Poison Ivy, while the Riddler controls Alleytown. Catwoman reveals to Riddler that she knew what was happening, and she had Clayface impersonate Poison Ivy before the Magistrate confronts them. Ghostmaker and Catwoman team up to defeat the Magistrate, and Catwoman declares that she is not afraid anymore.

''Detective Comics''

In #1043, Simon Saint tries to persuade Mayor Nakano to let the Magistrate program continue. After Simon Saint leaves, the Red Crown terrorist group, led by a man known as Nero XIX, reveal themselves as having been disguised as Nakano's security team and kidnap him. Batman saves Mayor Nakano and they head into a sewer where they see red eggs featuring centipedes. Batwoman goes to the mayor's office and retakes the building from the Red Crown while Oracle helps Batman locate Mayor Nakano. The eggs hatch and one of the centipedes lands on Mayor Nakano's skin. Batman is forced to electrocute Mayor Nakano to get rid of the centipedes. Batman performs CPR on Mayor Nakano, and they stumble upon the Centipedes nest. Batman reveals that he was infected by the same parasites from Mr. Worth and Penguin. Batwoman sees the parasites starting to attack Gotham City, and Mayor Nakano saves Batman from the parasites before deciding that he will create a list.

''Nightwing''

In #84, Nightwing is out patrolling in Bludhaven when he gets an encrypted audio from Barbara Gordon to go back to Gotham City. When Nightwing goes to Gotham City, he is attacked by the Magistrate but is saved by Batman. Batman asks Nightwing why did he come to Gotham City, and Nightwing replies that Gotham City is his home too. Batman leaves, but not without praising Nightwing's work in Bludhaven. Nightwing meets with Barbara Gordon, where he realizes that Barbara did not send the message at all and it was someone else. Barbara Gordon realizes she needs to help out more, and suits up as Batgirl once more.

Barbara Gordon realizes the hacker's name is Seer is behind all of this, and asks Spoiler, Cassandra Cain, Black Canary, Green Arrow and Wonder Woman to stay alert in case Seer tries to have false information. When they go to Seer's hideout, both of them are dosed with Fear Toxin, and Barbara has a vision where Dick Grayson was shot in the head similar to KG Beast. Tim Drake gives them an antidote where Barbara kisses Nightwing. Barbara Gordon hacks into the Seer's camera where she knows Seer is up in Magistrate's headquarters. However, Seer seemingly shows Cassandra Cain and Spoiler going to Barbara's old hideout before the hideout explodes.

It is revealed that Cassandra Cain and Spoiler were safe all along because they were attacked by the Magistrate and managed to escape. The group steal Peacekeeper armor, and they go confront Simon Saint and save kids being held hostage. Nightwing and Oracle bring down the Magistrate Skybase, with Seer (a young girl) escaping the heroes.

Flashbacks

In 2010, Peter (Leslie Odom Jr.) is kidnapped by a van after receiving the message from an unknown person. He is taken to a warehouse where someone communicates through a television to maintain anonymity. The person identifies itself as a spokesperson for Vigilance, a hacktivist group aware of Peter's activities in the Darknet. Vigilance wants Peter to be part of their organization. When he accepts, he is told that he will now go by the name "Peter Collier".

In 2012, Collier helps his group in obtaining a hard drive. However, he is pressured by the unknown person to put more effort in Vigilance and he convinces his group to retrieve more drives just to make sure their mission is accomplished.

In 2013, after another mission, one of Vigilance's agents, Adams (Peter Scanavino), questions Collier's methods and calls for action. Vigilance then discovers that Adams is a FBI informant and kills him. They leave the storage unit, revealing Jason Greenfield's code in the darkness.

Present day

Collier starts broadcasting the trial worldwide. Root (Amy Acker) gives an instruction to Reese (Jim Caviezel), Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and Hersh (Boris McGiver) to go to a location. However, worried that Root may be in danger, Shaw decides to go help her while Reese and Hersh go on the mission.

The first to stand trial is presidential assistant Rivera (Joseph Melendez), who denies his involvement in the project. When Rivera gets aggressive on the stand, Collier kills him. Senator Garrison (John Doman) is next and he points to Control (Camryn Manheim) as the person behind Northern Lights. When questioned, Control neither confirms nor denies her involvement or knowledge of the project and the jury declares her guilty. When she is about to be executed for failing to name the creator, Finch (Michael Emerson) reveals himself as the creator of the Machine to protect her.

Reese and Hersh eventually rendezvous with Fusco (Kevin Chapman) and obtain the location of the trial from another Vigilance agent. At the trial, Finch agrees to confess as long as everyone else is released. He confesses that after the September 11 attacks, he worked with the government to stop more terrorist attacks before handing the Machine over. Reese and Hersh arrive and forces Vigilance to take everyone outside. There, they are ambushed by Decima's hitmen. Greer (John Nolan) then tells Collier that his plan to expose them failed as the equipment they used was redirected to an office in the other side of the town. Greer also confesses that he was the anonymous person who recruited him and used Vigilance to further defend his stake on Samaritan.

In the lab that houses Samaritan, Shaw meets with Root and helps her smuggle the servers into the server room. Root notes that only two servers are not activated; these belong to the government's approval and if it's turned on, Samaritan will be activated. At the court, Hersh inspects the area and discovers a bomb in the building that will detonate when the electricity returns. He tries to turn it off when Decima's hitmen try to kill him and the police starts swarming the court. Hersh tries one last time to deactivate but the bomb detonates, killing him and everyone else in the court. Greer then has his henchman kill Collier but Finch's execution is thwarted by Reese and Greer and his hitmen escape.

Seeing the explosion, Garrison authorizes Greer to activate Samaritan. Root then tells Reese and Finch to leave the Library and use fake IDs she left them to escape as Samaritan will find them. They destroy evidence and leave the Library just as the police arrives at the Library. She explains that after they didn't kill McCourt, their new mission wasn't stopping Samaritan but surviving it. Finch, Reese, Shaw, Root, Daniel Casey, Jason Greenfield and Daizo are given new IDs so Samaritan can't track them. Through a montage, Vigilance members are identified by Samaritan and killed by the police. With this, the team separates and start new lives. The episode ends as Samaritan asks for instructions. Greer replies, "What, my dear Samaritan, are your commands for us?" The answer: "Calculating response...".

A boy returns from school and questions his mother if he is adopted because he is being bullied. The boy took off his uniform to show his mother four glasses embedded on his back. This prompts his mother to remove her head, under which there is a bottle of RC Cola. The commercial ends with the rest of the family drinking RC Cola via the glasses on the boy's back.

Margot, a woman in her mid-thirties, lives with her husband Kurt and their young daughter Bibi in their mother-in-law's house. Kurt's sister and her husband live above them. When Margot becomes pregnant, she begins to have anxiety attacks that are incomprehensible to herself and those around her. Her husband Kurt is caring, but only thinks about his exam and cannot help her. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, Lore, are ashamed of Margot's behavior. The pharmacist primarily has a relationship with her in mind and prescribes Valium for her without a prescription so she cannot get more later without going back to him.

Margot tries various distractions like swimming, shopping, and doing her hair, but continues to be plagued by anxiety. She becomes addicted to valium, drinks cognac like an addict and suddenly makes a suicide attempt. The doctors are at a loss: one diagnoses schizophrenia, in psychiatry a deep depression is diagnosed and work is prescribed as therapy.

Only two people, on the fringes of society, seek contact with the increasingly isolated Margot: her daughter Bibi and a mysterious neighbor. This latter is rejected by Margot and is found dead shortly afterwards, having hanged himself.

Set after the events of the 2021 film, the series follows Tom and Jerry having new adventures in the Royal Gate Hotel and all over New York City.

Many years earlier, Hunter Ravonna Renslayer of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) arrests a young Sylvie for "crimes against the Sacred Timeline" and erases her timeline from existence, but Sylvie steals Renslayer's TemPad during her trial and escapes into the timeline.

In the present, TVA agent Mobius M. Mobius asks Renslayer to see Hunter C-20, but Renslayer claims C-20 died from a mental breakdown caused by Sylvie's enchantment. In 2077, amidst the destruction of the moon Lamentis-1, a stranded Sylvie and Loki form a romantic connection. This creates a unique branched timeline, a "Nexus Event" perpendicular to the Sacred Timeline, which alerts the TVA who come to rescue and arrest the pair.

Returning to headquarters, Mobius has Loki imprisoned in a time loop of a moment from his past on Asgard with Sif, wherein she attacks him and says he will always be alone. Mobius pulls Loki out to interrogate him about how the Nexus Event occurred, then mocks Loki's narcissism and falling in love with Sylvie. After Loki reveals that the TVA employees are time variants, Mobius sends him back into the time loop. Mobius later steals Renslayer's TemPad, on which he finds a recording of her interviewing a mentally sound C-20, who confirms Loki's statement. Meanwhile, a distraught Hunter B-15 brings Sylvie to 2050 Alabama and asks the latter to show her memories of her past life, having glimpsed them when Sylvie previously enchanted her, learning her own true variant nature in the process.

Mobius frees Loki, but they are confronted by Renslayer and TVA troopers. Mobius acknowledges his betrayal and variant status, leading to Renslayer ordering him to be "pruned", seemingly killing him. Renslayer takes Loki and Sylvie to the Time-Keepers, during which Sylvie asks Renslayer why she was first arrested, though Renslayer claims not to remember. The Time-Keepers order Loki and Sylvie to be deleted, but B-15 frees the pair of their restraints. Loki and Sylvie team up to fight and defeat Renslayer and the Time-Keepers' guards, though B-15 is knocked unconscious. Sylvie beheads a Time-Keeper, only to learn they are all androids. As Loki attempts to tell Sylvie about his feelings, Renslayer recovers and prunes him. Angered, Sylvie overpowers her and demands the truth about the TVA.

In a mid-credits scene, Loki awakens in another dimension and meets four other Loki variants, who ask him to join them in order to survive.

''Cheat Slayer'' follows Lute, a villager who respects and wants to join a guild called "Rebels Against God", which consists of people reincarnated into the world and who fight against the Demon Lord's army. Among the crimes the Rebels Against God commit are burning down a village, breaking a man's neck, and raping the protagonist's childhood sweetheart. The story begins when a person who Lute admires, Louis Crawford, appears. When the series was revealed on May 8, 2021, it was described as a revenge story "coated in hate and desire".

Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth, and Jerry are having breakfast when alien squids kill them. They are then revealed to be a "decoy family" of robotic duplicates. Rick and his family investigate their deaths, but they too are revealed to be decoys when a third Smith family attacks them. A chaotic series of events erupts—each Rick decoy, believing himself to be the original Rick, has created more decoy families and seeded them across the country, which have in turn created decoys of their own.

The ensuing "Asimov cascade" has caused all of these decoys to become aware of each other's existence and prompted them to start destroying each other in the belief that coexistence is impossible if even one Rick decoy chooses to kill the others. The decoys eventually learn that the squids are also decoys in disguise, trying to eliminate all other versions of themselves. Elsewhere, the President is alerted to the decoys killing each other, but elects not to get involved.

Subsequent generations of decoys become increasingly crude and strange as the Ricks producing them get lazy. One decoy family are kidnapped by malformed scarecrow-like decoys, who try to harvest their skin until they are saved by wooden decoys. Their rescuers take them back to a hidden bunker populated by decoys, but are crushed to death when squid-decoys attack.

Finally, one Rick alerts all of the other decoys to their location in a final gambit to eliminate every remaining decoy. The final battle leaves only one set of decoys, but they are then killed by Mr. Always Wants To Be Hunted, a minor character from the beginning of the episode. Meanwhile, the real Smith family, on an adventure with Space Beth, are alerted to the decoys' deaths.

In a post-credits scene, the wooden Jerry decoy, who escaped death by abandoning his family, is washed downstream and attacked by beavers. His body is then found by creatures in the distant future and, as his head is used for a mirror frame in a saloon and later a crucifix, he laments his inability to die.

A British tourist is stuck in Granada, Spain with a broken heart. Feeling lost and abandoned, he befriends a group of young foreigners and crashes into the heart of the international student scene. He pushes himself out of his comfort-zone and tries to restart his life but behind every corner is a reminder of his ex-girlfriend and his struggle to find closure. A love letter to Granada that mixes documentary with fiction to create a real and authentic heartfelt examination on the process of self-discovery.

Odin banishes Loki to Springfield, where he lands at the Simpsons' home. Bart Simpson welcomes him inside, and while at dinner, Loki banishes Lisa to Asgard. There, Lisa comes across Mjolnir, granting her the powers of Thor. Lisa returns to Springfield with the "Springfield Avengers" (other citizens dressed as various Marvel Cinematic Universe characters) to exile Loki, who has since switched guises with Bart, resulting in Bart being exiled. Later that night while in Bart's room, Loki is happy to finally be part of a functional family.

In a mid-credits scene, Loki disguised as Moe Szyslak gives patrons at Moe's Tavern free drinks. In two post-credits scenes, Ralph Wiggum as the Hulk smashes Loki similarly to a scene from ''The Avengers'' (2012), and Loki stands before Ravonna Renslayer at the Time Variance Authority, where she finds him guilty of his various crimes, such as crossing over to the ''Simpsons'' universe.

In Budapest, a woman named Martine Rousseau (Cara Buono) kills a journalist that may have known about the Samaritan program. Samaritan has successfully prevented many threats for the United States. However, Senator Garrison (John Doman) expresses his concerns to Greer (John Nolan) as Decima Technologies has been defunct and is unsure of where the information is held. This worries Greer, who considers eliminating him but Samaritan tells him not do it yet.

The team has been living new lives since Samaritan's activation. Shaw (Sarah Shahi) now works at the cosmetics counter of a department store, Reese (Jim Caviezel) works as a NYPD Narcotics Detective, and Finch (Michael Emerson) works as a part-time college professor. After a talk with Root (Amy Acker), Shaw goes to a self-esteem seminar where he runs into Reese, who was given the same address at the exact time. They leave the seminar but a payphone rings. Reese answers and is given a new number.

Reese meets with Finch in a park and reveals the number belongs to Ali Hasan (Navid Negahban). Finch refuses to cooperate with the Machine after its order to kill McCourt and tells Reese to avoid the numbers as Samaritan will find them. Reese still decides to follow Hasan, who owns an electronics shop. He sees that Hasan is connected to a gang named "The Brotherhood", who asked Hasan to set up a network between them. After meeting with a representative of the Brotherhood named Lincoln "Link" Cordell (Jamie Hector) and giving him a burner phone, Hasan is revealed to send a bomb detonation code to Link's cellphone. Reese hijacks Link's car and takes out his cellphone before it explodes.

Reese and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) question Hasan when he realizes that his plan failed. They return to the shop to find it trashed and his son Ben missing. The Brotherhood contacts Hasan and tells him to get the network by midnight or they will kill Ben. Reese confronts some of The Brotherhood's dealers but is knocked out by Shaw, who tells him that they can't get involved in this. Reese then decides to visit Elias (Enrico Colantoni) for help in intercepting a shipment of heroin from The Brotherhood.

Finch decides to help Hasan in setting up the network and finds that Hasan developed a covert communications network using old VHF television antennas laced throughout the five boroughs of New York, making it invisible to Samaritan. He then gives Reese one of the phones that uses Hasan's network. Elias' henchman, Scarface (David Valcin) rams one of The Brotherhood's SUVs. Reese enters the house where the heroin and Ben are held while Shaw eliminates many of The Brotherhood from a different house. Link tries to escape with Ben but Reese subdues him just as the police arrives but Reese covers everything as part of an operation. Rousseau arrives at the scene posing as a DHS agent and does not believe in the reported story of the police.

Finch meets with Reese and gives him Hasan's network so they can avoid Samaritan. For his actions, Reese is promoted to Homicides and partnered with Fusco, being assigned to Carter's desk. Shaw decides to accept to go on a date by someone who constantly sent her notifications on an app. At a café, he finds that the man, Romeo, wants her to work with him on a gang operation, which she accepts. Finch reviews his corrected thesis and finds that the letters marked are from a code. The codes lead him to a library for a specific book and finally arriving at an underground hideout, using a forgotten Interborough Rapid Transit Company station.

Iron Man arrives in Brooklyn where he sees Miles Morales fighting against a clone army of Mole Man. Iron Man helps de-escalate the situation and learns that a villain name Assessor tortured Miles Morales. Iron Man goes to confront the Assessor where he overcomes trials until he meets a villain named Quantum. Quantum and Iron Man fight until Quantum escapes, revealing he has the Space Stone lodged in his chest.

During the events of ''Infinity Wars'', a man named Hector Bautista, who was wrongfully accused of murder, acquired the Time Stone, which allowed him to freeze and restart time. Hector then calls himself Overtime and is hiding in Texas. Captain America and Black Widow confront Overtime, but he manages to escape while causing collateral damage. Captain America then meets with Nick Fury Jr. to talk about the recent events.

Black Cat meets up with a Korean heroine named White Fox and her team of superheroes called The Tiger Division to take down a group of criminals led by a man named Mongul. Nick Fury Jr. is investigating the mystery between the Infinity Gems being stuck to different people when he is attacked by a mysterious figure.

Spider-Man meets a person named Star who has access to the Reality Stone. Spider-Man tries to give her a pep talk, but she escapes. The mysterious figure injects Nick Fury Jr to bring his world back.

Thor is having a party in Asgard with Hawkeye when he is suddenly captured by an enemy named Valg, who wants to destroy the universe. Hawkeye frees Thor and Valg disappears. Meanwhile, the mysterious figure reveals to Nick Fury Jr. that he is Nighthawk of the Squadron Supreme of America.

Hercules is out drinking in a bar where he meets an individual who swallowed the Power Stone and they deal with enemies, with Hercules being angry that the individual kept on talking about his backstory.

Miles Morales meets a superhero named Amulet where they defeat a Cyclops by destroying an artefact and destroy a villain's pet, which causes the villain to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Nighthawk kidnaps Star and wants her to change reality to bring his world back, but Nick Fury Jr. pulls a gun on Nighthawk.

Iron Man and Captain America deal with a robot who managed to be possessed by the Soul Stone, but the individual soon leaves to take care of his injured friend. Nick Fury Jr. breaks out of his mind control thanks to his training in S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nighthawk escapes.

The manga is set in 12th-century Mongolia. The Mongols are divided in several tribes and Temjin, whose father is the chief of the Kiyat clan, meets a mysterious girl by chance. Their meeting will affect the whole world.

The manhua tells about Princess Hakunamatat, a Mongolian princess who is sent to China to marry the young Chinese emperor. However, the emperor already has a partner, and rejects the princess. After she arrives at the palace, Princess Hakunamatat starts creating lots of trouble, doing whatever she feels like. The empress marries her off to the emperor's uncle, in order to get rid of her. However, he also cannot put up with her. While the troublesome princess creates lots of hilarious incidents and funny moments, a conspiracy is developing at the palace. The fate of all the four characters is going to be changed forever.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) sets up a dinner with Finch (Michael Emerson) at a restaurant. However, Reese reveals that he is not attending and he only sent Finch so he could check their new number: Claire Mahoney (Quinn Shephard), a very intelligent young mathematician. Finch starts following Claire and finds that she is following locations and clues related to a Nautilus. Claire confronts him, asking if he is part of "the game".

Finch finds a pattern in multiple graffitis and finds that Claire participates in a Bongard problem puzzle. They locate the next at a bridge where Claire is nearly hit by cars until Reese saves her. Her father arrives but Finch finds that Claire lost her parents the year before so Reese tells her to run while he fights the man. Finch deduces that the purpose of the game puzzle is to locate a coded file. Shaw (Sarah Shahi) helps him in catching the source of the clues but the person affirms that he only puts the clues' location for money and that the source is anonymous. Finch attempts to track him but his computer malfunctions and realizes the source is trying to track him. He destroys his computer and realizes that the creator of the game is Samaritan.

Reese continues following Claire and subdues many hitmen who try to kill her, although she is unaware of this. She interrogates the hitmen, who are actually military, and finds that Claire stole files from Silverwood, a private military organization. The team follows Claire to the next clue, located at the observation deck on 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Finch fails to convince her to drop her quest and she sets out to find the next clue at The Octagon. Finch then tells Reese and Shaw that he no longer will try to protect Claire.

Claire goes to The Octagon's rooftop where she is instructed to turn on a switch. However, she finds that it's unplugged and she is cornered by Silverwood military men. However, they are killed by gunshots and Claire finds a cellphone, where Samaritan tells her that it will protect her, recognizing her as an asset. The next day, Silverwood comes under investigation for their practices. Finch tells Reese that Silverwood worked on a network to detect threats but the project is now dead after it is leaked to the media. He then shows Reese his new progress: a new base of operations at the Interborough Rapid Transit Company station. Shaw joins them and Finch decides to continue working with them.

'''Side: Ryuki'''

Three months after the New Cyclops Serial Killings were solved by Kaname Date, new ABIS recruit Kuruto Ryuki attends an online quiz show until it is interrupted with the sudden appearance of half of Jin Furue's corpse, beginning a string of grisly serial murders dubbed the "Half Body" (HB) serial killings committed by a masked figure calling themselves "Tearer". Working together with his AI partner Tama, Ryuki follows the trail of Tearer's killings, eventually learning the existence of an ideological group called Naixatloz that believes in simulation theory and forwards an agenda called the "Nirvana Initiative" which Tearer follows. Date also joins the investigation and has his own theories about Tearer's identity. Soon, geneticist Chikara Horadori, Naixatloz leader Tokiko Shigure, and comedian Andes Komeji are also found cut in half. When Tearer kidnaps Kizuna Chieda, one of Iris Sagan's friends, Ryuki and Date organize a team to go rescue her. However, Kizuna's capture is revealed to be a trap set by Tearer, who tries to coerce Ryuki into killing Date. When Ryuki refuses to follow Tearer's orders, Tearer detonates several bombs, causing the loss of Mizuki's left eye. Date is trapped under rubble and entrusts a broken Aiba to Ryuki before apparently being crushed by more falling rubble. Ryuki subsequently suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing Date's death.

'''Side: Mizuki'''

Six years after the HB serial killings started, Mizuki, now an ABIS investigator, is tipped off that the other half of Jin Furue's body has been discovered in a stadium. Left with many unanswered questions, Mizuki tracks down and interrogates Ryuki, who is now a drunk recluse, haunted with the guilt of failing to stop Tearer. After receiving few answers from him, Mizuki continues her investigations as the second halves of the HB murder victims begin appearing. However, during her investigation, Mizuki meets a mysterious masked woman who reveals that she used to be one of Horadori's test subjects, and Mizuki discovers that both she and Komeji's son Shoma Enda were genetically modified as children, granting Mizuki her superior physical abilities and Shoma near-suspended aging. Mizuki is eventually able to confront Tearer, but is shocked to see that Tearer has coerced Ryuki into being his henchman by holding Tama hostage. Date then arrives and knocks out Tearer, while Ryuki flees. Mizuki takes the opportunity to Psync with Tearer and discovers Tearer is actually Jin himself. Tokiko then arrives and they both reveal the Nirvana Initiative is a plan for them to sow enough chaos in hopes that the simulated world will break down and humanity can truly be free.

'''True Timeline'''

Afterwards, bartender Mama addresses the player directly, revealing that both Side: Ryuki and Side: Mizuki were told in nonlinear order.

It's revealed that Jin, Horadori, and Komeji were killed and both halves of their bodies were found six years ago, while Tokiko was killed in the present time. Tearer's true identity is Uru Somezuki, a child kidnapped by Horadori to act as an organ donor for Jin, who is actually Horadori and Tokiko's son. Uru eventually adopted Naixatloz's beliefs and swore to carry out the Nirvana Initiative, starting with the HB murders. The Mizuki who was investigating the murders six years ago was actually Mizuki "Bibi" Kuranushi, an older identical clone of Mizuki Date who was adopted by Boss and working as a secret ABIS agent. Date also returns, having survived the events six years ago but temporarily losing his memories. Mizuki and Bibi team up and continue their investigation, eventually finding out that Komeji's daughter Amame Doi was coerced by Tokiko to assist in carrying out the Nirvana Initiative until Tokiko committed suicide and Amame murdered Uru in revenge for her father's death. However, despite Uru's death, his followers continue carrying out his plan. Ryuki explains that the Nirvana Initiative involves infecting humanity with the TC-PERGE virus, which will cause mass insanity in its victims.

Mizuki and her friends deduce that Uru had hidden a missile containing TC-PERGE in the city stadium, and they head there to battle Uru's remaining followers. As their friends take down Uru's followers, Mizuki and Bibi successfully destroy the missile and TC-PERGE before it can be spread. Afterwards, things in Tokyo begin to return to normal. Mizuki and Bibi investigate Tokiko's office one last time, activating a hologram recording that gives the player a "nil number". Later, the Boss rewards Mizuki and Bibi for solving the HB murders by arranging a musical number at the stadium to dance to.

If the player replays the section six years ago where Ryuki first met Tokiko and gives her the "nil number", the act of Ryuki giving her information he should not have known proves the existence of the player to Tokiko, and she manages to transcend to a different level of existence. Before she leaves, she gives Ryuki all of the knowledge of the events that will happen in the next six years, which he uses to immediately arrest Uru. This prematurely ends the Nirvana Initiative, saves Komeji's life, and improves the lives of all of the main characters, though Mizuki and Bibi retain some memories of the other timeline and question Ryuki about it.

Doing this also unlocks a bonus Somnium which recreates the first escape room from ''999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors'' with Aiba playing the role of Junpei, the protagonist of ''999''.

The manga is set in 12th-century Mongolia, in the time of Genghis Khan. It follows Altojin, a determined girl warrior with a mysterious tattoo. Abandoned as a child, Altojin grows up in the grassland plains of Chigul, in the .

One day she goes on a hunting trip with the Prince Olsbolt and saves him from an assassination attempt. Prince Olsbolt thinks the assassin was sent by his father, who is also the ruler of Chigul. He decides to kill his father, and in doing so he also takes back his former lover, who had been married to his father. After killing his father the khan, Olsbolt hides at Altojin's house. A dramatic event happens. While they are out for a while, Altojin's family is slaughtered.

It is up to the reader to discover the fate of Altojin and Prince Olsbolt, and what role the mysterious tattoo plays in the story.

Ho Kei-fai ("Fai") is released from prison and returns to Tung Chau Street in Sham Shui Po, one of the poorest districts in the territory, and rejoins his fellow street sleepers. One day, without prior notice, the police and cleaners vacate their sleeping place and forcibly throw their belongings into a rubbish truck, despite their protest.

The group manages to build wooden huts under a nearby flyover as their new home. Social worker Miss Ho assists the street sleepers to file a lawsuit against the government, demanding both compensation for their loss and an official apology.

Among the residents of the wooden huts are drug addicts: Master, a Vietnamese boat person; Dai Shing, an electrician; Chan Mui, a dish washer; and Lan, a paraplegic person. After a long wait, Chan Mui and Lan move to a public apartment while a nonverbal young man, who is given the name Muk, joins the group. Fai gradually develops a bond with Muk but he finally leaves to reunite with his family. With Ho's help, Master reconnects online with his migrated family but commits suicide afterwards.

With the case being publicised, the group receives unwanted spotlight that focuses on their background stories instead of the injustice they are suffering. Amidst a long legal procedure, the government proposes a settlement. Fai is the only one who insists on an apology although all other members of the group are happy to accept the meagre compensation. This means the legal procedures have to continue.

One day, the police investigates an armed crime and discovers illegal arms inside the wooden huts, which causes them to announce a plan to demolish the huts. The street sleepers berate Fai for his stubbornness, but he stands his ground. As the deadline is approaching, they have no choice but to relocate. Left behind, Fai vaguely bids farewell to Miss Ho when she comes by with supplies for him.

Facing the coming winter nights alone and with the bleak prospect that the government will never apologise, Fai imagines conversing with his deceased son where it is implied that Fai may have accidentally caused his son's death and was jailed for this offence. Injecting drugs for one last time, Fai then sets the wooden huts on fire with himself inside.

The film ends with a reference to an actual case that happened in 2012 and comments that street sleepers are still facing unjust treatment.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) shoots a drug dealer in the streets after a pursuit with Fusco (Kevin Chapman). However, the precinct's new Captain, Moreno (Monique Gabriela Curnen) reprimands Reese for failing to stick to the police protocol and warns him to be more responsible on his job.

Finch (Michael Emerson) contacts Reese to work on their new number: Andre Cooper (Ryan O'Nan), a "wingman"-a professional "social liaison" who helps other men find dates. Due to Reese wanting to avoid problems and focusing on a murder case, Fusco goes undercover as a client for Cooper. When Cooper tries to flirt with a woman, her boyfriend Mickey (Jason Pendergraft) tries to punch Cooper before being subdued by Fusco, who blows his cover. Despite this, Cooper intends to continue helping Fusco. In an art gallery, Shaw (Sarah Shahi) recognizes hitmen and Fusco and Cooper Flee. However, Mickey intercepts them and takes them in a van.

Meanwhile, Root (Amy Acker) asks Finch for help in another task for the Machine. Pretending to be a famed underworld scavenger and his assistant, they purchase a black-market AT4 anti-tank weapon. Afterward, they are led to another black-market exchange with a Latvian mob to sell the launcher. At the last second, Finch breaks character, triggering a standoff that Root resolves by shooting the mobsters in the knees and tipping off the police.

Reese and Shaw obtain the location of the van but Reese can't go due to working on several unsolved cases for Moreno and blowing his cover will alert Samaritan. At the location, Cooper confesses to Fusco that Mickey was involved with the mob on Howland Hook Marine Terminal and the District Attorney asked Cooper to testify against him but Cooper has refused. They are put on containers but are saved by Shaw and Reese, who arrived as the location coincided with a case. They manage to subdue the captors and bring them to the precinct, earning Moreno's respect. Cooper also agrees to testify against Mickey and also helps Fusco with a date. The episode ends as Root shows Finch what the Machine provided for them: duffel bags full of money and weaponry to provide the team ongoing funding for their work.

The Machine produces two numbers: Tracie Booker and his brother Malcolm. Failing to get any vital information, Reese (Jim Caviezel) investigates a gang shootout in a building after a drug deal gone wrong. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Erica Lennox (Rosie Benton) informs him that the deal was between The Brotherhood and an Armenian gang but the money is missing although they have a survivor only known as Mini (Winston Duke).

Finch (Michael Emerson) finds Malcolm and Tracie using the drug money but they realize they are being followed and use the crowd as a distraction to escape. Finch then finds Elias (Enrico Colantoni) in the subway train and Elias offers to take care of the Armenians but leaving The Brotherhood to Finch and his team. Reese discovers that Link (Jamie Hector) will be released after The Brotherhood make another person take the blame and Lennox shares her idea that The Brotherhood has a mole in the DEA, working for the mysterious leader named Dominic. They find Malcolm and Tracie at a parking garage after being nearly killed by The Brotherhood. Shaw (Sarah Shahi) takes Mini out of an ambulance and forces him to reveal locations.

Reese and Lennox take Malcolm and Tracie to a safe house but Malcolm refuses to reveal the location of the real money. He reveals that he used the money to meet with lawyers and bail their mother out of prison. Reese manages to convince Malcolm to reveal the location of the money. Lennox leaves to find it while Reese stays with the kids. He receives a call from Fusco (Kevin Chapman), who found a phone number from a Brotherhood member that may lead to Dominic. Fusco calls and Lennox's phone (which she left to Tracie) rings, revealing she is the mole. Members of The Brotherhood start surrounding the safe house.

Fusco arrives and helps Reese in subduing The Brotherhood but Malcolm escapes and offers to exchange himself for his sister's safety. Reese then intervenes and offers the money and himself to let the kids go. When The Brotherhood finds that Reese doesn't have the money, Reese receives a call from Shaw, who found the heroin stash in a laundromat and threatens Link to let him and the kids go or she will burn the heroin. Malcolm and Tracie return to school and Reese puts Malcolm in contact with a lawyer to help their mother. Finch meets with Elias again to warn (not directly) about Samaritan and gives him an address of The Brotherhood's laundromat.

Link picks up Mini where it's revealed that Mini knows that Shaw put a GPS tracker and led her to small amount of the money and that Mini is in fact Dominic, the boss of The Brotherhood. Lennox, who has been taken and put in the backseat, tries to explain her actions but Dominic kills her. He then tells Link to release the kids' mother as part of a campaign to induce gratitude. They then dump Lennox's corpse in the street and leave the scene.

Set in New Orleans, Topher Sommers (a local tour guide) and Etsy Delmen (a palm reader) team up to battle a mysterious entity that longs to bring the world into perfect stillness.

Flashbacks

On October 13, 2001, the Machine's first day, Finch (Michael Emerson) starts teaching the Machine about a survival scenario. Nathan Ingram (Brett Cullen) arrives to see the progress and both find that the Machine has an additional code on its data. The Machine claims Finch himself added it but Finch is certain the Machine was the one who added it and shuts it down to reprogram it.

On November 29, 2001, The Machine's new "first day", Ingram is denied access to the Machine despite being Admin. He attempts to log in through his computer but Finch realizes that the Machine is hacking Ingram's computer and even ignores Finch's reprogramming commands. This forces Finch to unplug the Machine to shut it down.

On December 31, 2001, another "first day" for the Machine, the Machine burns a server after being refused to go out, planning to kill Finch by removing the oxygen. Finch extingues the fires and expresses his concerns to Ingram, wanting to show the Machine "how to care".

Present day

After shooting a scam artist who tried to commit suicide by cop, Reese (Jim Caviezel) is forced by Internal Affairs to attend therapy with Dr. Iris Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt).

Finch assigns Shaw (Sarah Shahi) to investigate their new number, Simon Lee (Jason Ritter), political pollster and member of New York Governor James Murray's reelection campaign. Simon is confident in Murray's victory, predicting a 52-48 lead. However, the results turn out to be inversed and Michelle Perez is elected Governor. This causes Murray's campaign manager to punch Simon and Finch sees that anyone of their campaign team could attack Simon. While his campaign team and Murray himself accept their loss, Simon is convinced that the elections were rigged. Meanwhile, Reese starts his therapy sessions with Dr. Campbell. His attempts to build trust and fake interest are soon discovered by Campbell, who asks for more cooperation on his behalf.

Shaw follows Simon to the New York State Board of Elections where she is joined by Root (Amy Acker), who is there due to the Machine. An employee who was fired shows up with a gun, intent to kill the Election Commissioner but Shaw stops him by shooting him at the knees. However, this gives Root a realization: Samaritan itself rigged the elections by erasing data and intends to kill Simon to tie loose ends. Finch concludes that Samaritan intends to use newly elected Michelle Perez for its purposes and asks for Root's help in convincing Perez to resign. They find vital information that she worked as an escort 20 years ago and attempt to blackmail her to resign. At a conference, Finch, Root and Shaw spot Simon intending to confront Perez and notice an assassin, Martine Rousseau (Cara Buono) appearing to kill Simon. However, Perez faints and dies in the ceremony and team realizes the assassin wasn't for Simon but for her.

Simon now becomes the new target of Samaritan and it orders Rousseau to kill him. The team then works to guide Simon (without him knowing) and avoid cameras so Samaritan can't find him. A paranoid Simon then books a hotel room to hide while Finch shuts down surveillance cameras and cuts Internet access on Simon's room. However, Simon is identified after asking for a maid's phone, which gives Samaritan and Rousseau his location. In order to distract her and help Simon, Root begins a shootout with Rousseau, both ending up wounded. Reese and Shaw then intercept Simon and take him to a safe place.

At his campaign office, Simon is visited by Finch using an alias. Finch convinces Simon that his numbers were incorrect and that nothing important is happening. This causes Samaritan to stop deeming Simon "threat". Finch finds Root, who is recuperating while going under another alias. She defends their actions in changing Simon's personality, as he was in danger and Root reiterates that the difference between the Machine and Samaritan is Finch himself. On his next therapy session, Reese opens up about his personality, admitting to feeling affected by Carter's death. Greer (John Nolan) visits Nick Dawson (Kevin Kilner), Perez's Lieutenant Governor and officially the new Governor, planning to be involved with him. As they watch Dawson giving a speech on television, Greer and Martine discuss Samaritan's plans to gain political control. Finch is walking through the streets when he turns to a camera and tells the Machine that it's time they have a talk.

After saving a number, Reese (Jim Caviezel) is assigned a new one: Walter Dang (Erik Jensen), a worker at an insurance company. Shaw (Sarah Shahi) is already infiltrated at the company as a new temporary employee. Shaw overhears a conversation of Dang saying he is investigating the death of Abel Mindler, who apparently committed suicide.

Due to academic pressure, Finch (Michael Emerson) must go to a conference in Kowloon, Hong Kong so he leaves Shaw in charge of his computer. There, he runs into Elizabeth Bridges (Jessica Hecht), a small tech company owner, and the two bond. They are mugged on the way to the hotel and are forced to give the thief their laptops. Reese follows Dang to the same building where Mindler committed suicide and after discovering that he has Mindler's SIM card on his burner phone, they wonder if Dang was involved in his death, which now appears to be a homicide. He then follows Dang to an airport to talk to Mindler's supervisor only to find him tied to a chair and with criminals. The criminals kill the supervisor and Mindler escapes although Reese knocks him out.

Despite knowing he is pretending to be a detective, Reese fakes falling for Dang's role in order to get more information. Despite being cooperative, Dang escapes the precinct in fear. He is later kidnapped by on his job but is saved by Reese and Shaw. Dang gets dragged into a gang war between Elias (Enrico Colantoni) and the unknown adversaries. It is later shown that Abel was smuggling high explosive weapons to the same gang.

The gang abducts Dang for the location of the truck which Abel drove and then ditched, once he realized what he was smuggling; but the team intervenes. Elias meets with Dominic (Winston Duke), and it is shown that Dominic was the mastermind behind the guns as he wanted to shift the balance of power. Back on Hong Kong, Finch and Bridges find the thief's workplace and Finch subdues him. Bridges thanks him and both part ways, promising to meet again in New York. However, it's revealed that Finch paid the thief to steal it and plant a malware on Bridges' laptop. Bridges she calls a potential investor, who is revealed to be a Samaritan operative. The operative meets with Greer (John Nolan), revealing that Samaritan is acquiring more shares on many companies in the world.

Minato Myojin, a fifth grader, takes care of his younger sister Nagisa, subsisting off the cash their single mother gives them when she sporadically comes home, while also being helped by Futaba, a high school girl. Tomohiro Takita, alias Kuromatsu, a professional criminal, committed a heist with three others—Nakabuchi, Nozaki, and Mutsuki—orchestrated by Tsubaki, and is wanted by the police and the Dōdōkai, a gang. On Nagisa's birthday, the children's mother takes them to an amusement park. While Minato and Nagisa ride a ferris wheel, it is struck by lightning, and Minato switches bodies with Kuromatsu, who has wrung Mutsuki's neck in another car.

Minato has to figure out how to get his body back while protecting Nagisa and evading Kuromatsu's pursuers.

Every year, Noah and his close friends Howie, Luke, Keegan, and Max embark on a weeklong vacation to Fire Island, noted for its gay villages. The group takes the ferry from Sayville, New York on Long Island's South Shore to Fire Island Pines, and are reunited with their "house mother" Erin. Erin reveals that she has to sell her house, making this the last week they will spend together. The group meets Charlie, a doctor, and his wealthy friends, including Will, a lawyer, and Cooper. Howie and Charlie take interest in each other. Noah decides that his mission for the trip is for Howie to get laid. Charlie invites the group to his house, where the group gets drunk and causes a scene while Charlie and Howie get closer. Noah overhears Will criticizing the group's behavior.

The next day, Noah will invites Charlie and his friends to dinner at Erin's. At the grocery store, Noah meets Dex and they flirt. After seeing that Will dislikes Dex, Noah invites Dex to dinner as well. Charlie, Cooper, and Will arrive for dinner, and Noah and Will discuss books, surprising Noah. Dex arrives, making Will uncomfortable. Dex claims that Will judges him for making content on OnlyFans.

Howie tells the group that he and Charlie kissed, making Noah more intent on making the two a match. The group attends the weekly underwear party in Cherry Grove and do an assortment of illicit drugs. Cooper implies to Noah that he wants Will for himself and accuses Noah's growing attraction to Will of being based on money.

Noah meets up with Dex again. They head to the dark room to have sex, but Noah is distracted by Will and accidentally hits Dex in the nose. This causes a public confrontation between Cooper, Will, Dex, and Noah, during which Noah sees Charlie making out with someone that is not Howie. Noah gathers his intoxicated friends and Howie, who is distraught about Charlie. Noah walks back to the Pines with Will and they fight. Noah accuses Will of being uptight and judgmental, and Will tells Noah that Noah is pretentious even if he pretends not to be. At an afterparty in the Pines, Howie and Noah fight. Howie wants to give up on searching for romance and tells Noah that their experiences are not the same just because they are both gay and Asian, citing issues of body dysmorphia.

Noah is woken up the next day by his friends delivering a letter from Will. Will apologizes for the impression he gave and explains that Dex hurt someone close to Will in the past. Charlie arrives to tell Howie that he has gotten back together with his ex-boyfriend, who has lyme disease, and will be leaving the island sooner than expected.

Noah runs into Will at a drag bar. He shows Noah Dex’s Instagram profile, on which he posts thirst traps with activism tags (“Black Lives Matter” and “Stop Asian Hate”) to get attention. Noah and Will grow closer. Later, the group learn that Dex has posted a video of him and Luke having sex online without Luke's consent. Will helps Noah confront Dex by threatening legal action. Dex agrees to take down the video.

The next day, Howie tells Noah he is leaving because he cannot get over Charlie's rejection. Noah confronts Charlie, who acknowledges that he has feelings for Howie. Noah and his friends hijack a water taxi to catch up to Howie's. Charlie express his feelings to Howie, and they kiss. The group goes to watch the sunset. Noah and Will dance together and finally kiss, agreeing to give their relationship a try.

After Shaw (Sarah Shahi) breaks contact with her heist team, she joins Reese (Jim Caviezel) in following their new number: Tomas Koroa (Adrian Bellani), an international wine dealer. Shaw follows Tomas and finds him meeting with thieves and his team robs a jewelry store.

The team plants cocaine on one of the heist members, forcing Fusco (Kevin Chapman) to arrest her. With a vacant spot, Shaw is allowed to join Tomas' team. She helps them in infiltrating at a hotel safe and steal the vault during Veterans Day. Tomas opens the vault but instead of money, it's a box containing vials with "MARV" written on it. Suddenly, Tomas' team betrays him and try to kill him but he escapes with the help of Shaw. Reese inspects the hideout to find the vials and Tomas' team gone. Finch (Michael Emerson) discovers that the vials contained the Marburg virus, an extremely dangerous virus.

Meanwhile, Root (Amy Acker) is working on another alias and her new target is Jared Wilkins (Johnny Sparks), a man directly related to newly elected Governor Dawson and founder of new nonprofit OTPS. She poses as a nanny for his son and with Finch's help, finds that Wilkins' company is not a threat to them. However, Root's phone starts being hacked, possibly by Samaritan, and she drops it on a tank and flees the apartment. They deduce that OTPS is giving every student a tablet for educational use, which seems to be powered by Samaritan software. Samaritan plants more cameras on Wilkins' company, it gets more complicated to learn more about it. Root then steals the identity of a woman to gain access and shut down the cameras, which allows Finch to infiltrate as a janitor and plant a worm on the system.

Reese discovers the corpses of Tomas' team, having been killed by their client, and no sign of the vials. Finch tracks the location of the vials to a storage unit. There, Tomas recognizes Marko Jevtic (David Vadim), a member of his team who supposedly died years ago. To complicate matters, Shaw also recognizes two government agents, one of which includes Devon Grice (Nick E. Tarabay), her former apprentice. They receive orders to destroy the virus and kill anyone involved.

Shaw and Tomas infiltrate to find the vials but are intercepted by Marko, who plants to inject them with the virus. As Grice and his partner arrive, they are ambushed by Reese and Fusco. This gives a chance for Shaw and Tomas to escape while knocking down Marko and his team. Grice finds Shaw and allows her to escape. With this, Tomas leaves for Barcelona and Shaw declines his offer to join. Finch and Root see as firefighters fight a fire on OTPS's building, having destroyed all data. However, this concerns Finch, as he questions what is he capable of doing for the greater good. Before parting for his next mission, Grice deletes security surveillance where he allowed Shaw to go. Samaritan retrieves the video and starts repairing it, eventually finding a trace of Shaw's face although she is still unrecognizable.

The new number is from Dani Silva (Adria Arjona), a NYPD recruit. Using his detective position, Reese (Jim Caviezel) serves as her field instructor. Despite being pressured by Dr. Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt) to attend therapy, Reese continue delaying it or just not showing up.

Greer (John Nolan) assigns Martine Rousseau (Cara Buono) to find more information on the virus robbery and find those responsible. She visits Katya, who was arrested and forced out of the team, and receives the information that she worked for Romeo (Andreas Damm) after she threatens the life of a young girl related to Katya. She then visits Romeo at his bar, where she subdues him and his henchman and forces him to reveal an address.

The team discovers that Silva is already a cop, having been assigned by Internal Affairs to infiltrate training and find a possible mole in her squad. Reese then saves Silva from a drive-by shooting and confesses her real role. Fusco (Kevin Chapman) and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) follow the shooter to a gym where he meets with members of The Brotherhood. Through cues, Finch (Michael Emerson) eventually realizes that "Mini" is actually Dominic (Winston Duke), leader of the gang. Later that night, Dominic meets with the mole, Officer Ortiz (Mike Figueroa). Ortiz is ordered to Silva's files from her supervisor as well as stealing files from the academy's commandant for Dominic.

Reese and Silva find that her supervisor has been killed at his home and evidence points to Silva. Gathering evidence with Reese and Fusco, Silva deduces that Ortiz is the mole. They locate him in Spanish Harlem and save Ortiz from being killed by Cartel members. They flee when a Cartel member activates an alarm, taking Ortiz with them. Pursued by hitmen, they escape through a pool to the sewers and Ortiz is arrested. Dominic then meets with the cartel leader and kills him.

Ortiz's confession exonerates Silva and improves Reese's standing in front of Internal Affairs. Reese then talks with Finch about the connections with Dominic and is informed of their new number: Carl Elias. Samaritan has seemingly located Shaw at her job and sends Rousseau there. She tries contacting Shaw with the same app that Romeo used but she keeps declining calls. She receives a slightly more corrected picture of Shaw and recognizes her. Shaw immediately sees Rousseau as she draws her weapon out.

Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and Rousseau (Cara Buono) start a gunfight at the department store although neither is wounded. Shaw escapes with the help of Root (Amy Acker) and taken to a moving truck. With her cover blown, Shaw is transported with Root to a safe location where Fusco (Kevin Chapman) picks them up.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) has been assigned to protect Elias (Enrico Colantoni) after realizing he is the next number and noticing members of The Brotherhood are following him. Reese reveals his mission to Elias but he remains calmed at the situation. After a failed assassination attempt, Reese takes Elias and Scarface (David Valcin) to another location. Elias seeks shelter with Gino (Salvatore Inzerillo) but they realize Gino is in association with The Brotherhood and it is very likely that The Brotherhood convinced other allies of Elias to betray him. They decide to search for Elias' accountant, Bruce Moran (James LeGros), who may be his only trustworthy ally.

Rousseau then finds leads on who picked up Shaw from the truck and poses as a DEA agent to question Fusco. Fusco, with help from Finch (Michael Emerson) overhearing, do not fall for. Finch informs Shaw about Reese's situation and she decides to stop hiding and go help. Root, despite protesting, agrees to help her in getting to his location. However, Root leads her to a fake location and injects her with a sedative in order to protect her.

Reese, Elias and Scarface arrive at an empty building owned by Elias to retrieve money from his vault. However, The Brotherhood arrives and take Scarface after wounding him while Reese and Elias hide in a secret room. Dominic (Winston Duke) and his men try to open the vault while also torturing Scarface to reveal the numbers. Reese and Elias escape but Elias locks Reese out of the building, intending to exchange himself for Scarface. They talk over the phone and Elias gives the numbers to open the vault. However, the numbers are actually for a bomb detonator in the vault, which ends with Scarface and many members of The Brotherhood dead. Reese breaks in again but Elias and Dominic are missing.

Root has taken Shaw to the train station, intending to keep her safe. Greer (John Nolan) assigns a group of hitmen to aid Rousseau in her quest to find Shaw. Dominic and a wounded Link (Jamie Hector) discuss Elias and the people who are protecting him, intending to find who is their financer. Elias meets with Moran to notify him of his office and allies. He then calls Reese to say he will take action against The Brotherhood for Scarface's death, and warns the team to stay out of the way once that day comes.

Flashbacks

In 1973, in London, a young John Greer (Emrhys Cooper) works as a MI6 agent. He is assigned to eliminate Oleg Luski, an undercover KGB agent living in London. That night, Greer and another agent pursue Luski on the streets. Greer shoots Luski but Luski kills the other agent. He interrogates Luski, who confesses that he works for MI6 and that his employer was Greer's Deputy Chief Blackwood (Michael Siberry), a KGB member. Greer decides to let Luski live and exits MI6. Greer then confronts Blackwood for his actions and kills him in his office. He then takes his file and burns it down.

Present day

Finch (Michael Emerson) and Root (Amy Acker) convince Shaw (Sarah Shahi) to stay in the train station until Samaritan stops pursuing her. Reese (Jim Caviezel), meanwhile, has been following the new number: Rachel Farrow (Alexie Gilmore), a victim of abuse by her husband. However, a Samaritan operative, Jeremy Lambert (Julian Ovenden) arrives and convinces Rachel not to kill her husband. Rachel's husband then dies in the street, having been poisoned by Lambert.

The team wonders what are the intentions of Samaritan as it doesn't follow irrelevant numbers. Looking for information, they find that Samaritan is taking cases from The Machine in order to lure it out of hiding. The team attempts to continue saving numbers but Samaritan proves to be many steps ahead of them. Root intercepts Lambert in an alley, who explains that Samaritan wants to talk with the Machine. When the Machine refuses to talk, Samaritan continues expanding its detection of threats, causing Fusco (Kevin Chapman) and the rest of the precinct to exhaustively pursue criminals. It's also starting to cause chaos in the city, with huge amounts of traffic and a rise in crime. Root receives a message from the Machine, who intends to talk with Samaritan.

Root then goes to New Rochelle, New York to meet at a school. To her surprise, she finds a young boy named Gabriel Hayward (Oakes Fegley), who acts as a speaker for Samaritan. The Machine and Samaritan then start talking through them, where both defend their ideologies and beliefs in their systems. Samaritan reaffirms that it will destroy the Machine and only questions if the Machine plans to let its agents die with her.

Greer (John Nolan) talks with Lambert about the new progress on Samaritan and its new intentions on "fixing" the wrongs of the world. With the rising crime wave, Shaw decides to leave the station to help. Finch discovers this and calls Root to let her know about the situation. Greer then sees as Samaritan starts his new phase: accessing the New York Stock Exchange, intending to crash the stock market.

After an uncomfortable pre-arranged date, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight years ago, Eric Dalaras' parents mysteriously disappeared without a trace. The teenager is determined to solve his parents' disappearance and enters a scary world. After their parents disappear, Eric and his sister Uma grow up with their maternal grandparents. Eric decides to leave there to search for answers in the town of Cabo Qwert, where he lived as a child. For there is also the abandoned amusement park Tierra Incógnita, where his parents were last stratified. With the help of his friends, his sister and his aunt, Eric must overcome his fears to solve the riddle that leads to the answer to the question that most concerns him. But the truth lies hidden in a cosmos as dark as it is unexplored.

16-year-old Carol is going through a period of major changes in her life. On the one hand, Carol has to deal with her mother's marriage to her new boyfriend and the impending relationship with her future stepbrother. On the other hand, a new school year begins in high school, in which Carol starts her first real relationship and experiences various situations with her long-time friends that also put their friendship to the test. Carol faces the typical challenges of being a teenager and experiences feelings that she has never felt in this form before and learns that the first step to happiness is to know yourself and also to respect your own feelings, even if you are makes one or two mistakes on the way there.

In Washington, D.C., Control (Camryn Manheim) is ordered to go to the White House. In the Operations Room, she is briefed that they discovered four terrorists on Detroit and watch as a group of operatives, including Devon Grice (Nick E. Tarabay) eliminate the terrorists. However, the fourth terrorist, Yasin Said, escaped and when Control demands access to his hard drive, Samaritan denies access. Samaritan has also sent Gabriel (Oakes Fegley) to talk with the Chief of Staff Mike Richelli (Michael Gaston) and warn him about an incoming financial crash.

Senator Garrison (John Doman) orders Greer (John Nolan) to let them access the hard drive but Greer refuses, threatening to cut contact with Samaritan. Control then sends Grice and Brooks to find Said's laptop, threatening Grice with her knowledge of surveillance seeing him letting Shaw and Tomas go during their mission. Grice and Brooks intercept Said with the laptop but just as Grice contacts Control about the content, the laptop overheats and bursts into flames. Said escapes and Samaritan sends a message to Control to stop investigating.

Control sends them again to pursue Said but realizes that Samaritan, through its spokesperson Travers (Michael Potts), has already reassigned them to another mission to stop the investigation. Control is forced to ambush Said herself by pursuing him on car while he boards a train. However, her car is ambushed by another car, who crashes it using a Rocket-propelled grenade. The assaultants are revealed to be Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Root (Amy Acker), who demand to know Show's location.

They taker her to a hideout where Root starts torturing her to get information until Finch (Michael Emerson) stops her. They tell her about the events on the New York Stock Exchange, which she seemed to be unaware of. ISA operatives arrive to save her and Reese and Grice fight until they realize their connections to Shaw and both let each other go. Finch and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) then enter into a van to plant a worm on Samaritan's private network which will alert them of anything related to Shaw before the team escapes. Using the worm, they have a lead on a possible location and Reese and Root head there to see if they'll find a clue about Shaw.

Control tracks Said down outside Toronto and confronts him at his cabin. Said reveals that he participated in the Nautilus game and his friends were hired to program for an unknown benefactor and has no idea of the content on the hard drive. Nevertheless, Control kills him. Richelli is once again visited by Samaritan through Gabriel, who shows its power at predictions and demands meeting with the President. Control visits the Stock Exchange and finds evidence of cleaning up the scene, making her believe more in Finch's statements.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Root (Amy Acker) go to Maple, New York to find a possible lead on Shaw's location. After a talk with Chief Wicker, they kidnap him after he sexually harasses Root and to get information on a truck that may have transported Shaw but Wicker reveals nothing.

Finch (Michael Emerson) visits Fusco (Kevin Chapman) at the precinct to ask for help in their new number: Albert Weiss (Mason Pettit). While watching him, Officer Dani Silva (Adria Arjona) spots Fusco and joins him, as Weiss is the prime suspect behind reported missing people. Fusco catches Weiss before he tries to kill a gang member named Marcus Young on a restaurant but Weiss knocks himself to falsely claim police brutality and is released from jail while Fusco can't come close to him or he will face suspension. Fusco and Silva realize that Young is no longer a gang member and has crucial information on the gang but refuses to testify, so the gang sent Weiss to kill him. They lure him into Silva's home and engage in a fight, with Silva shooting him to save Fusco, thus making her first kill.

Reese and Root find the truck in a backyard but only discover a stretcher and medical equipments, indicating that operatives tried to save Shaw from her blood loss. They question the town's doctor, who explains he didn't operate on anything but received a call from an anonymous person who asked for his advice while making a craniotomy. He also explains that he did not call the police since Maple has a history of job losses for those who ask too many questions and pose a threat to Carrow, a powerful company in the town. Reese and Shaw deduce that Samaritan is running the company.

Without many options, Reese and Root kidnap Mapple's Mayor Leslie Thompson (Maddie Corman), who is connected to Carrow. They interrogate her and she reveals that she only follows instructions from e-mails under death threats. She also reveals she supposedly died in Pittsburgh only to wake up with a pacemaker on Maple. Unsatisfied, Root tortures Thompson by drilling a hole in her hand and they discover that Shaw was seen alive in the factory. Finch deduces that Samaritan is experimenting with Maple as an "ant farm" to study human nature by giving them happiness and then altering its state.

They sneak in Carrow, finding that Samaritan is working on transponders to keep track of the town's citizens. They also find a secretary from the stock exchange, Delia Jones, one of many innocent people who Samaritan is experimenting on with neural implants. This confirms that Shaw was not seen and her whereabouts are unknown. Amidst gunfire, Reese and Root escape with Delia. Delia is given a new ID but Samaritan abandons Maple, which will inevitably lead to its collapse. Finch meets with Root, who demands the Machine to reveal anything to her about Shaw. A payphone rings but the Machine only says, "Stop", infuriating Root and causing her to leave. The episode ends with John Greer (John Nolan) talking with someone in a hospital bed, revealed to be Shaw (Sarah Shahi), who is alive.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) decide to work on the numbers, having missed a lot of cases for their fight against Samaritan. To avoid more losses, they decide to omit Fusco (Kevin Chapman) from their missions, returning to their old days. However, Finch is summoned to jury duty, leaving Reese in charge of the numbers.

Finch's duty involves the trial of a man charged with murdering his wife, the former CEO of a cellphone development company. Finch provokes the judge by appearing to be a conspiracy theorist and is dismissed. However, when another juror is dismissed for a phone call, Finch is called back, to his disappointment. He is seated next to a former schoolteacher named Emma Blake (Blair Brown). Despite her kindness, Finch prefers to avoid her.

Meanwhile, Reese attends his last obligatory therapy session with Dr. Iris Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt) and excuses his absence due to a tragedy in his family (Shaw's disappearance). Despite this, he still asks for regular sessions with Campbell. He then meets with Fusco and discovers that they received a new number: Emma. After talking with Finch, they start wondering if she is a perpetrator or a victim. After a juror suffers a anaphylactic shock, they conclude that someone is trying to fix the trial. With the help of Zoe Morgan (Paige Turco), the team gets a method of deduction and believe the jurors are pressured to give a "not guilty" verdict.

At court, Finch decides to go for a "guilty" vote but it turns out that Emma is actually going for a "guilty" verdict and the rest of the jurors are joining her. Finch stalls to get a "not guilty" verdict while Reese and Zoe try to deduce the real story. The jury is sequestered in a hotel, and one of the jurors attempts to kill Finch, but Reese intervenes. The man is actually a plant by the real perpetrator, the new CEO of the company. The murder was to prevent the dead CEO from withdrawing an expensive product which was deemed to be unsafe.

The new developments lead to dismissal of charges, and the real perpetrator is arrested. Fusco approaches Reese, acknowledging that he and Finch decided to omit him to protect him but intends to continue working with them. Zoe realizes Reese feels attracted to Campbell and despite her claims that it wouldn't last, Reese decides to open up more during his sessions. Reese and Finch then start working on 3 numbers which may be connected to Elias and The Brotherhood.

The story takes place in a virtual reality world called the Escapist Dream, a place that allows anyone who visits it to gain superhuman abilities derived from characters in films, comics, anime, video games, and other fictional media. A year before the start of the novel, the virtual reality world suffered a malfunction which trapped its visitors inside. They are then forced to fight for survival against rogue artificial intelligences who have begun attacking them.

The main character of the story is GI, a teenage Japanese otaku, who is forced to fight for her life inside the Escapist Dream. The protagonist of the first novel, Charlie Anderson, also returns to assist the trapped geeks. Both GI and Charlie must fight against powerful AIs who have taken over the different areas of the Escapist Dream, such as Stan City, the place inspired by American comic book and superhero fiction; Otaku Academy, a place inspired by Japanese manga and anime; Gamer's Den, an area inspired by video games and gaming culture; and the Library, an area influenced by classic literature.

Set in an alternate version of Japan with heavy Western influences, Renjoh Desparado is the story of a wandering swordswoman named Monko, who drifts from town to town looking for her ideal husband. Over the course of her journey, she often ends up rescuing someone from their predicament, only to find out the man she's pursuing isn't as faithful or noble as they first appear. Even so, Monko continues her search for her perfect man, while various figures from her past seek to capture or kill her, including the Shogun.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) work undercover in a new web development company called Fetch & Retrieve to closely monitor their new number: Anna Mueller (Bella Dayne). They are introduced to their algorithm VAL, which is supposed to help users. Reese follows Anna after finding evidence that she might be abused. However, he finds that Anna participates in an underground mixed martial arts tournament, which explains her injuries.

Finch discovers that a new Nautilus game started and by its instructions, it does not appear Samaritan is involved. He goes to a location to find Claire Mahoney (Quinn Shephard), who asks for his help when she is shot by a Samaritan sniper. Finch takes her to a mortuary, where Claire explains that after completing the game, she was recruited by Decima Technologies to program. When she realized their actions caused the death of civilians, she hacked their system and fled the organization. She also reveals she recovered some source code from Samaritan and wants him to use it on Finch's laptop to stop Samaritan.

Reese breaks into Anna's house and finds that her sister Jill is undergoing chemotherapy. He later prevents her kidnapping from an undisclosed group and takes her to the precinct. She reveals that she found out that VAL gave pro-suicidal tips to a man named Paul Zimmerman, who committed suicide and there's evidence VAL gave the same advices to other people suffering from depression. Fusco (Kevin Chapman) talks with Finch and Finch starts getting suspicious of Claire's allegiance as her story of a death does not match up but she manages to convince him of the veracity of the story.

Anna and Fusco race to her house when they receive an emergency call from her sister but it turns out to be a trap, which ends with Fusco sedated and Anna kidnapped. But Anna releases herself and fights her captors until Reese saves her from the SUV. Fusco investigates further with the help of an intern and both express their concerns to CEO Lauren Buchanan (Heléne Yorke). However, the company's CTO, Calvin Mazer (Nick Westrate), is revealed to be behind VAL. He reveals that he altered VAL's source code to target people with depression, gambling problems and debt, for the sake of the advertisers. Reese rescues them, and Calvin is arrested. At the mortuary, Finch's fears are confirmed when Claire pulls out a gun and plans to take him to meet Samaritan.

Claire leads Finch at gunpoint to a school run by Samaritan to convince him to join by showing him the progress Samaritan made in order to educate children, but he refuses. Just as they are leaving the school escorted by Samaritan agents, Root (Amy Acker) arrives, kills the agents and wounds Claire before she flees. Finch recovers his phone but his laptop has been taken by Claire. Claire takes the laptop to Greer (John Nolan), who starts having it analyzed. He then leaves for a meeting with Fetch & Retrieve as an investor.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) is following their new number: Harper Rose (Annie Ilonzeh), a college student. He sees as she covers for her boyfriend Trey (Connor Hines) at his job, which turns out to be a legalized marijuana dispensary. It turns out that the dispensary serves as a center of operations for Dominic (Winston Duke).

During a money transfer, The Brotherhood is intercepted by gang members, who take their money. Reese realizes that Harper cooperated with the gang to steal the money. Her actions result in two of Dominic's men guarding a money laundering operation killed by the Parral Cartel. She confesses that she stole the money to cover her debts but her actions also put pressure on other gangs to seek retaliation. For her actions, Dominic and his men kidnap Trey to question him about the money, despite Trey being unaware of Harper's actions.

To settle the debt, Reese meets with Dominic and offers to return the money stolen by Harper in exchange for Trey and the hit being called off on Harper, but he refuses. Harper decides to visit the Estonian mafia after suggesting the plan to Reese and Finch (Michael Emerson) and tells them about Dominic's money laundering operation, and lures them to Dominic's location while Reese rescues Trey. Fusco and the NYPD arrive and arrest the Parral Cartel, initially on possessing weapons illegally. Dominic and his crew are quickly released when he produces legal documents that show their guns are registered to his private security company.

Dominic attempts to recruit Harper, who refuses, but he leaves the door open if she changes her mind. Root (Amy Acker) meets with Caleb Phipps (Luke Kleintank), who now owns a software firm. She tries to sell an application she developed at The Machine's request, which she hopes will aid in trying to defeat Samaritan. Phipps accepts her in the firm.

Flashbacks

In 2010, after Ingram's death, a wheelchair-bound Finch (Michael Emerson) uses a voice filter to call Alicia Corwin (Elizabeth Marvel), threatening her with knowledge of her role in Ingram's death. She overhears her phone call to Special Counsel and prepares to take action with an explosive when the Machine reveals a number: Finch himself. The next day, he intends to kill her by planting the explosive on her car but the Machine keeps pressuring him not go for it. Finch reiterates that he will do it because the Machine has no voice to tell him what to do.

He plants the bomb and sees as Corwin enters. With a device, he locks the car and starts taunting Corwin through the voice filter until the payphone rings. Corwin then talks through a microphone, stating that although she wasn't fully aware of the government's intentions for Ingram, she still takes the blame for his death. This prompts Finch not to go with his plan, and causing the payphone to stop ringing, no longer deeming him a threat.

Present day

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch work on their new number: Dr. Shane Edwards (Patrick Kennedy), a psychiatrist whose wife was murdered eight years earlier, an event which continues to haunt him. The team determines that Edwards has been studying the people who traumatized his clients and got away with it, then carefully crafting frame-ups in order to punish them for their crimes.

During a charity event, the team realizes that Wyatt Morris (Daniel Sauli), the man who killed Edwards' wife, got released on parole and is in the building. He threatens Edwards before being escorted out by security. On his way to his car, Edwards is nearly killed when his car explodes and Morris flees. The team realizes that Edwards lied on his testimony at the time of witnessing his wife's death and also find him buying a gun on Morris' name. Despite Fusco (Kevin Chapman) insisting on letting Morris suffer consequences, Finch wants to find more about the case as it may appear Morris is innocent.

Edwards plants evidence to incriminate Morris in a soon-to-be crime. Morris then finds Edwards in a greenhouse, holding him at gunpoint and revealing his plan: to commit suicide and make it appear that Morris murdered him. Finch arrives and through his experience with Corwin, explains to Edwards that going with his plan will not bring him closure. Edwards then decides to drop his plan and moves on with his life. On his next session with Dr. Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt), Reese opens up about grief by talking about Jessica's death. Later, Reese and Finch question whether Morris killed Edwards' wife but Finch states that the truth will probably just remain with the Machine.

After visiting a market looking for magical powder for working prosperity, Julieta, a young woman, is convinced by her best friend Elena to buy magical love powder for herself even though she doesn't believe in magic. The next day she uses the powder on her co-worker, Daniel, to draw his attention to no avail. However, Elena receives an ascension, which leads her to believe it was thanks to the powder. That night both of them and the rest of their co-workers, including Daniel: celebrate Elena's ascension. Drunk and unsatisfied with the powder effects, Julieta convinces Elena to go back to the magical store for a more efficient love spell. In response, the store owner, Santera, performs a mooring in a pagan ritual. Magic seems successful as Daniel follows Julieta to her apartment after work, where they kiss and eventually sleep together.

At first, Julieta enjoys her newfound relationship with Daniel until he begins acting possessive and aggressive to the point he accuses her of flirting with one of their co-workers and suggests she should stay away from Elena. Eventually, Daniel insults her and starts a scene in the office that ends with him fired. Once Julieta returns to her apartment Daniel hits her and destroys her living room as he blames her for causing his unemployment.

Julieta remembers the warnings from Gabriela, a woman who dated Daniel before her who claims he is not what he appears, and tries to contact her only to discover she suffered an incident. Fearing for her safety Julieta (along with Elena) visits Santera to break the mooring, but she warns them she can't undo it. Elena suggests Julieta stay in the cabin of her family as a distraction. Even though Julieta accepts, both women are found by Daniel, who breaks in at night, forcing Julieta to knock him off, apparently killing him.

Julieta tells Elena police won't believe the circumstances of Daniel's demise, so they take his car and set it ablaze with him inside. Days later, Julieta tries to move on, but she hears and sees what appears to be Daniel's ghost now with burning scars, taunting and threatening her he will haunt her forever. At first, she thinks he might be a hallucination, but when she sees him killing one of his colleagues, Julieta confirms Daniel is somehow following even after death. News of the mysterious death spread between the rest of the workers, including Elena, then goes to Julieta's apartment to comfort her, who is now paranoid and nervous. Julieta tells Elena her current situation but, she doesn't believe her and tries to take her to a hospital, causing a violent and jealous Daniel to lift and toss her over the window, dying from the fall.

Alone and desperate, Julieta goes to Santana's store and begs for a solution for the mooring. Santana reveals she knows a deadly spell that can take her to the border of life and death, a place where Daniel will be waiting for her to drag her to be with him eternally. However, it will provide her with enough time for cutting the bond and break free if she successfully escapes before the fire of the ceremony extinguishes. Julieta performs the spell, taking her to a dimension where Daniel distracts her while trying to escape. Julieta cut off his wedding finger tied to Daniel's but she fails to break free before the ceremony's end, leaving her soul trapped with Daniel's forever.

Amane lives alone in an apartment, and the most beautiful girl in school, Mahiru, lives just next door. They've almost never spoken—until the day he sees her in distress on a rainy day and lends her his umbrella. To return the favor, she offers him help around the house, and a relationship slowly begins to blossom as the distance between them closes.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) infiltrates a card room to investigate their new number: Frankie Wells (Katheryn Winnick), who works as a hostess there. He catches Frankie trying to subdue her boss Ray (Ato Essandoh) and tries to stop her but she escapes, taking his badge with her.

At the precinct, Reese is told by Dr. Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt) that she will stop her therapy sessions with her and redirects her to another doctor, giving no explanation. Reese locates Frankie in a bar and realizes she is a bounty hunter whose new target was Ray. Ray sees them and escapes with the help of Harper Rose (Annie Ilonzeh), who works with him. Meanwhile, Finch (Michael Emerson) meets with Beth Bridges (Jessica Hecht) and realizes that she plans to meet with an investor that works for Samaritan in order to learn her new new algorithm. Concerned for her safety, Finch asks Root (Amy Acker) for help, which she accepts.

Reese and Frankie locate Harper at a club but she provides no information on her role. They follow her in a car chase but they are subdued by Carlton Worthy (Jeff LaMarre), who is also looking for Ray and Harper. They are captured and handcuffed in a shop but they break loose and overcome their captors. However, Frankie tricks Reese with a kiss so she can handcuff him and escape. Finch and Root follow Bridges and returning to Finch's college office, finding it was trashed after someone looked for something. Finch then explains to Root that he intends to activate a Trojan Horse he installed on her laptop via a special device. Root starts getting concerned about this.

Finch then discovers that a threat to Bridges' life is Root herself, revealed to be the person who trashed Finch's office. She excuses her actions, explaining that Samaritan will find a connection between Bridges and him and will probably result on his death. She also reveals that the Machine didn't assign the mission but she will carry with it in order to avoid more losses after what happened to Shaw. Finch, reluctant to let Bridges die for him, drinks the neurotoxin. Root reluctantly agrees to stop her plan in order to take Finch to the hospital. They leave the building just as Bridges arrives.

Reese follows Frankie to Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to find her confronting Ray. It turns out that the bounty is personal for her as Ray is responsible for her brother's death. Ray's men arrive and start a gunfight with Reese and Frankie. Harper manages to negotiate a resolution to the conflict. However, Ray is reluctant to stick to the plan and tries to kill everyone but Reese shoots him. While the police arrest Ray, Harper tells Reese that Thornhill (The Machine) has been sending her texts. At the precinct, Campbell confesses to Reese that she stopped her sessions for developing feelings for him, which would be deemed unprofessional. She then kisses him, and he responds with another kiss.

Finch visits Bridges for a date but she angrily refuses. She shows him an e-mail where Finch discredits her research to a magazine, effectively ruining her reputation and she cuts ties with Finch. Finch confronts Root, who confesses to be responsible as well as destroying the Trojan Horse. A doubly devastated Finch tells her to leave the team for a while, unwilling to work with her.

Inspector Alexander Stacev is called to the house of three sisters, Ludmilla, Vida and Maria after Ludmilla claims to have found the dismembered body of Vida's pimp boyfriend Yuri inside their washing machine. When he arrives and finds no body he tells them there is no case, putting it down to a drunken hallucination. The sisters think otherwise and follow and pester him about the disappearance of Yuri, luring him into their strange world.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Emma Robertson is assigned to assess the sanity of 'yummy mummy' Connie Mortensen, accused of the attempted murder of two children. Robertson begins to feel sympathetic for Mortensen, who claims to be suffering from dissociative amnesia.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) investigate their new number: Sulaiman Khan (Aasif Mandvi), CEO of Castellum, a company known for having the most powerful antivirus software. Khan's company has been hacked and documents show that he might be committing embezzlement.

Khan's company starts debating whether they should suspend Khan over the recent leaks. Due to Finch not wanting to work with Root (Amy Acker), Reese has Zoe Morgan (Paige Turco) infiltrate the company. The board of directors unanimously decide to remove Khan from his position and he storms out. The team realizes that Samaritan is behind everything and despite Finch's insistence in not intervening, Reese decides to continue with the mission. Khan tries to get in the company's server room but the police arrives. Khan is arrested and sent to Rikers Island after just 20 minutes of custody. The team realizes Samaritan plans to kill Khan.

Meanwhile, Root uses another alias to go to a restaurant and uses a toxin to sedate everyone and leave with a briefcase. She is pursued by Decima agents but she subdues them. Her actions attract interest from Greer (John Nolan), who sends Rousseau (Cara Buono) to kill her.

Unable to release Khan, Reese is forced to help Khan escape from prison. During their car escape, Samaritan activates a roadblock which causes the car to crash. Root arrives to save them and take them to a safe house. Khan reveals that the power of the company must be connected to artificial intelligence and that there might be an underground lair on a forest with more information. They find the lair in the forest and discover that Samaritan hacked all the servers of the company and is using (as well as modifying) Khan's antivirus software. They are ambushed by Decima agents and upon realizing the true nature of Samaritan, Khan escapes. Root fights Rousseau and nearly kills until they are forced to flee when more agents arrive.

At the station, Root receives a code from the Machine to open the briefcase, revealing a Fabergé egg inside. She then smashes it when the Machine orders her to do it. Reese and Finch deduce that Samaritan is using Khan's software to find the Machine's location. Khan is revealed to be captured and brought to Greer. He asks to "look Samaritan in its eyes", to which Greer responds by shooting him dead.

Time Variance Authority (TVA) Judge Ravonna Renslayer tells Sylvie that she does not know who created the TVA and that Loki was teleported to the Void, a dimension at the end of Time where everything the TVA prunes is dumped into and from which nothing has returned. They also deduce that the TVA's creator is hiding in the timeline beyond the Void, where they cannot be detected. TVA mascot Miss Minutes and Renslayer stall for time until TVA Minutemen arrive. Facing capture, Sylvie prunes herself. After interrogating an imprisoned Hunter B-15, Renslayer instructs Miss Minutes to help her find the TVA's creator.

Meanwhile, Loki learns from four time variants of himself – Alligator Loki, Boastful Loki, Classic Loki, and Kid Loki – that Alioth, a massive cloud-like creature, hunts and kills all life in the Void. Upon arriving, Sylvie briefly enchants Alioth before receiving help from former TVA member Mobius M. Mobius in escaping the creature.

Intending to rule, Boastful Loki betrays the other Lokis for a second Loki group led by President Loki. However, the Lokis betray each other, sparking a fight. Classic Loki helps Alligator Loki, Kid Loki, and Loki escape and eventually find Sylvie and Mobius. Using a TemPad Sylvie stole from Renslayer, Mobius chooses to return to the TVA and reveal the truth about the organization to its employees. He asks the Loki variants to come with him, but they stay behind.

After the variants escape, Loki attempts to distract Alioth so Sylvie can enchant it, but both fail until Classic Loki returns and creates a life-sized illusion of Asgard to distract Alioth, saving Sylvie and sacrificing himself in the process. Working together, Sylvie and Loki enchant Alioth, revealing a citadel beyond the Void, which they walk towards.

Flashbacks

In 2008, rookie Carter (Taraji P. Henson) is partnered with Detective Raymond Terney (Al Sapienza) to investigate Chase Patterson's (Zachary Booth) family's murder. All signs point to Chase being alienated with his family. She questions Chase but he states he is innocent. Terney is convinced he is guilty but Carter is hesitant. She inspects Chase's cabin and hears noise inside but finds nothing. She is then called by Terney, who tells her that Chase fled to Paris but they are dropping the case to work on a new one.

Present day

Reese (Jim Caviezel) is notified by Fusco (Kevin Chapman) of the death of two Brotherhood members at the hand of an Elias ally. Finch (Michael Emerson) interrupts to announce their new number: Chase Patterson, who has been suspected of murdering his family and only avoided charges when he hid on Paris. Finch and Fusco decide to interrogate Elias' ally with the help of Root (Amy Acker) while Reese decides to investigate Chase's case and discovers that Carter investigated the case.

Reese starts by interrogating Chase, but he still affirms he is innocent. Reese then visits the cabin where he claims he was during the murders and finds drugs, although Chase claims that he does not own them. Reese is then shot by Chase's step-brother Gil (Patch Darragh), who was the doorman at their building and is real killer, having targeted the family after his father's abandonment. Gil forces Chase to consume lethal drugs that will kill him in a few hours and drags Reese's body through the snow to bury him but Reese wakes up and shoots him, killing him.

Throughout the episode, there are scenes of Reese, Finch and Carter watching over a former HR member. While Finch is away, Reese and Carter talk about their plans for the future, with Carter expressing interest in retiring after 20 years. Reese is unconvinced of both getting "happy endings" but Carter mentions his own transformation, showing that anyone can make a change. He brings up the subject of Jessica, revealing he left her because he didn't think he would survive in the army. At this point, it's revealed that their talk is part of hallucinations due to his blood loss.

As the team does not know his location and the area is off-limits to the Machine, Reese is forced to escape the area by retrieving a car's keys from Gil's corpse. However, the engine does not work and it's revealed that Reese is dying from Hypothermia. He talks with Carter, who confronts him about his alienation of people, including Jessica and Carter herself, confirming that their talk in the car was just Reese's imagination of a talk that never happened. Reese admits taking Chase's case just so he could feel more connected with Carter again. Carter then concludes that Reese must let his loved ones stay close to him. After Reese finishes talking with Carter, she disappears from his hallucination, and a car pulls up.

Control (Camryn Manheim) and her henchmen kidnap a woman (Erin Dilly) after crashing her car and put a body in the woman's car before setting it on fire. She then tortures the woman, accusing her of working with Samaritan. After hours of denial, the woman finally admits to work for it, warning Control about something coming. Meanwhile, Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) investigate a crime scene where one of Elias' hitmen killed members of The Brotherhood. The Machine then produces two numbers: Dominic (Winston Duke) and Elias (Enrico Colantoni).

Reese and Fusco discover that Elias has set up a base of operations at the New York Savings Bank. They confront Elias, who refuses their help. Then, The Brotherhood ambushes the bank and captures them, with Harper Rose (Annie Ilonzeh) among them. At the train station, Shaw's phone rings and Root (Amy Acker) answers, hearing Shaw's voice asking for her help before hanging up. Despite Finch (Michael Emerson) being convinced that it's a trap, Root still intends to find Shaw. She blackmails the Machine to help them by threatening to kill herself in the rooftop of a building. The Machine gives her admin access to help her. They trace the call to an psychiatric hospital.

Finch and Root access the hospital's fiber-optic system and find a cryptic message from Samaritan, stating its intentions to find the Machine as it beginst to crack Finch's laptop. In order to get more information, Root poses as a doctor while Finch is put in the hospital posing as a patient. He causes an inmate to fight the guards, which allows him to enter the control room and discover that the hospital's ninth floor is extremely guarded, housing the worst patients in the hospital. Root infiltrates the floor and discovers that the hospital serves as the base of operations for Greer (John Nolan) and Samaritan. She tells Finch to escape while she goes to retrieve Shaw but realizes that she has been transferred out of the hospital. She then fights Rousseau (Cara Buono) but she is subdued and sedated.

Reese, Fusco and Elias are tortured by The Brotherhood to reveal Finch's location, as they want control of the Machine, but none of them speaks out. They also want the location of a mole in The Brotherhood who worked for Elias. Elias finally gives in and reveals a phone call to confirm his mole. Dominic answers it and then kills his right hand man Link (Jamie Hector) for being identified as the rat. However, Elias laughs, revealing that he didn't have a mole in The Brotherhood and tricked Dominic to kill his friend, avenging Scarface's death. Unaware to Reese and Elias, Fusco knows that Harper was sent by the Machine. Back at Washington, D.C., Control is told by the Samaritan operative that a big event called "The Correction" will arrive on May 6 and there's nothing to stop it. As she won't say anything else, Control kills her.

Finch is captured by Greer and Root is tied to a bed in order to gain access to the Machine through her head. Before allowing it, she snaps Rousseau's neck, killing her. Samaritan gives them an ultimatum to reveal the location of the Machine or both Root and Finch will die. Despite Root's and Finch's insistence in not revealing anything, the Machine itself tells them it can't lose them and exchanges its location for their lives. They are released and Root and Finch race to find the location before Samaritan arrives. Shaw (Sarah Shahi) is revealed to be going in one of Samaritan's cars. The episode ends as Samaritan sends all of its assets to the Machine's location.

• "A man, who Felix recognizes, arrives"-- redundant commas.
• "He calls into the FBI"-- "He calls into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)"
• "Flynn invites Sweet"-- usually in plots, first names are used, so in this case "Daniel invites Darlene". Why is here otherwise?
• "and reveals to him the secret passageway"-- change "passageway" to "corridor" for consistency.
• "he arrived in disguise"-- "arrived" to "arrives". :: Mostly except for the last point. "he arrived in disguise to retrieve the money hidden by his brother Felix" sounds better since this is a reveal, meaning the events already happened ("he arrived"). Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 15:05, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Samaritan has caused power outages in the West Coast and is expanding to other territories. At the train station, Finch (Michael Emerson) and Root (Amy Acker) hear a payphone ringing from the other side of a wall and Root smashes it with a sledgehammer to get to it. It's a message from the Machine, asking for their help.

On the New York Savings Bank, Dominic (Winston Duke) still has Reese (Jim Caviezel), Fusco (Kevin Chapman) and Elias (Enrico Colantoni) as his hostages. Harper (Annie Ilonzeh), who was sent by the Machine, helps Fusco to release himself and escape. Dominic realizes her defection and handcuffs her alongside Reese and Elias. On Washington, D.C., Control (Camryn Manheim) expresses her concerns about a possible terrorist attack on May 6 and is horrified when she finds that Samaritan forged a memo on her name.

The Machine leads Finch and Root to a penthouse where they steal night-vision goggles from gangsters. They then infiltrate Caleb Phipps's company for the server room to retrieve a compression algorithm when Caleb (Luke Kleintank) appears. But upon recognizing Finch, he hands them the algorithm as well as some RAM chips needed for their mission. Finch is then contacted by Dominic, who demands his presence or he will kill Reese. Root convinces him to continue with their mission, confident that the Machine will save Reese.

The Machine sends fax instructions to Reese, who uses them to break loose and subdue Dominic's men with the Machine's help. Dominic tries to escape but Fusco arrives with a raid team, arresting him. Elias is also arrested for his presence in the scene. Concerned about her safety, Reese tells Dr. Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt) to hide, promising to explain everything later, which she accepts. Back in Washington D.C., Control and Devon Grice (Nick E. Tarabay) raid a house in Columbia Heights and discover a propane tank, as well as a few others missing, indicating that the perpetrator plans an attack. Control then talks with Senator Garrison (John Doman) to discuss the matter and shut down Samaritan, but he refuses, unwilling to believe that Decima would prepare an attack. Unknown to Garrison, Control used the meeting to clone his phone.

Greer (John Nolan) arrives at Fort George G. Meade but finds Control waiting for him, holding a gun. A misstep makes her realize that the target for the attack is the Supreme Court as it will have a hearing on the surveillance matter. She dispatches Grice to evacuate the building and find the bomb. Finch and Root arrive at a house in Brooklyn just as Reese arrives there per instructions from the Machine. A delivery man arrives with 15 laptops signed on Finch's name. Decima's agents arrive and have a brief gunfight before Finch is able to open the doors to a vault. It's revealed that it houses an electrical substation. The team realizes that the Machine is everywhere as it's connected through the electrical grid. As Samaritan is cutting power to prevent its spread, the Machine wants the team to store its core on the RAM chips so they can rebuild it.

Greer then confesses that Samaritan didn't plan a terrorist attack. The real plan was a test that consisted of people who need to be eliminated for the betterment of society and Control failed the test. Greer then has his men take Control away and kill Grice for its knowledge of The Correction. Fusco is transferring Elias and Dominic when they are rammed by a car sent by Elias to save him. Dominic also escapes, kills Elias' henchman and nearly kills Elias until Fusco convinces him not do it. However, Dominic is killed by a Samaritan operative, who also shoots Elias, severely wounding him.

As Decima's agents start entering the station, Reese distracts them with the help of the Machine while Finch and Root start downloading The Machine's core code to a briefcase contained with the compression algorithm and RAM chips. Due to limited sources, the Machine starts thinking it might die and thanks Finch for creating it. A power surge manages to put part of the Machine in the briefcase, confirming it is still alive. The team walk out with the briefcase to face more Samaritan operatives.

A woman returns home to care for her dying mother.

In 1983 Minnesota, serial killer Phil targets Carrie, who secretly hunts serial killers, outside a motel. Carrie surprises Phil by suddenly stabbing him in his throat once he locks her inside his car. Joel, a film critic for the horror magazine Vicious Fanatics, interviews B-movie director Jack Portwood. Joel tells Jack his idea for a film about a serial killing taxicab driver. At home, Joel sees his roommate Sarah, who he has an unrequited crush on, being dropped off by her new boyfriend Bob. Jealous of Bob and anxious for insight into Sarah, Joel follows Bob to a Chinese restaurant where they engage in conversation at the bar. Unaware of Joel’s true identity, Bob speaks disparagingly about Sarah’s pitiable roommate before sticking Joel with their tab and leaving with another woman.

Joel continues getting drunk, stumbles into a supply closet, and passes out. The restaurant locks up for the night. When he recovers, Joel wanders back into the dining room where Zachary leads a 12-step meeting for Carrie, Fritz, Mike, and Hideo. The group mistakes Joel for Phil. Sensing danger if they realize he isn’t supposed to be there, Joel plays along. Joel gradually realizes he is stuck in a self-help meeting for serial killers. Joel uses his movie idea about a killer cab driver in an attempt to blend in. Joel discovers Bob is also a serial killer when Bob returns for the meeting. Bob pokes holes in Joel’s killer cab driver claims until everyone realizes Joel isn’t Phil.

The killers argue over how to handle their interloper. When Zachary asserts too much authority, Mike, Bob, and Fritz kill him. Carrie uses the opportunity to lock herself and Joel inside the kitchen. Carrie reveals she belongs to a secret organization and is on a mission to assassinate serial killers. Fritz tries getting inside the kitchen through an exterior door, but Carrie cuts off his fingers. Hideo sneaks into the kitchen through an overhead vent, but Joel plays possum so Carrie can sneak up from behind and strangle Hideo with Phil’s intestines. Bob finds Joel’s driver’s license and discovers he is Sarah’s roommate. Bob taunts Joel by threatening to kill Sarah. Joel tells Carrie about his crush and how he followed Bob to learn more about his relationship with Sarah. Carrie points out that Joel should reexamine his own stalker-like behavior. Without consulting Carrie, Joel pulls the fire alarm. Carrie warns Joel that the cops won’t save them like he thinks they will. Bob calls 911 to frame Carrie as a dangerous threat. Bob, Mike, and Fritz then flee the scene. The police arrive and arrest Carrie and Joel upon finding the dead bodies.

Officer Tony and detectives Doyle and Hollands take Carrie and Joel to the police station for questioning. Joel tries explaining what happened, but the detectives dismiss his seemingly crazy claims. Joel also tries calling Sarah to warn her about Bob, but she simply says she is coming to get Joel before hanging up. Even though Carrie warns that Bob and the other killers will come to the station to murder everyone, the disbelieving detectives lock Carrie and Joel in a cell. Bob poses as a special agent to infiltrate the police station. Bob’s ruse gives him access to a notebook confiscated from Carrie. Carrie’s kill list reveals what she has been doing. Fritz kills Officer Tony. Mike and Bob kill the two detectives. Using a stolen paper clip, Carrie unlocks the cells holding her and Joel. Carrie kills Mike and Fritz.

Sarah is shocked at the bloody scene when she arrives at the station. Bob stabs Carrie from behind. Joel gets stabbed in his arm when he steps in to shield Carrie. After knocking Bob to the floor, Joel helps Carrie limp outside to Sarah’s car. Sarah smacks into Bob while speeding away to the hospital. Bob poses as a doctor to infiltrate the hospital where Carrie and Joel are being treated. Joel helps Carrie fight Bob. Carrie stabs Bob to death with a scalpel. Having changed her mind about Joel’s ineffectual uselessness, Carrie considers taking him on as an apprentice. Joel nods goodbye to Sarah as he and Carrie sneak out of the hospital. Some time later, Carrie and Joel take down a serial killer hiding out at a movie theater showing a Jack Portwood film based on the killer cab driver idea Jack stole from Joel.

The series follows Cat Parkes Pérez, a teen activist whose life is thrown into disarray when her single mother Isabel is unexpectedly thrust into the role of Prime Minister of Australia. As major disruptions begin to occur at Canberra landmarks designed to directly sabotage the Prime Minister, Cat and her new friends, Sadie and Ollie, set out to track down and unmask a rogue faction within a youth action group called Action Uprising.

In the year 1902, nineteen-year-old Ceony Twill graduates from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined at the top of her class, but her dreams for the future are unexpectedly dashed. In a world where magicians can only manipulate one man-made element, Ceony is forced to study the art of "Folding"—paper magic—instead of learning how to magically smelt metal as she'd hoped. After receiving the money necessary to pay her tuition from an unknown party, she becomes an apprentice to Paper Magician Emery Thane. When she arrives at his quirky cottage, she's greeted by a paper skeleton. Paper magic turns out to be more complex and exciting than Ceony had originally thought; she is able to tell people's fortunes and make paper puppets perform. Emery even crafts her a paper dog to keep her company. He teaches Ceony the value of creating entertainment for people. Ceony also learns that Emery has participated in efforts to rid the land of those who practice blood magic (a forbidden, dark art) called "Excisioners."

One day, Ceony watches as Emery's ex-wife, Lira, attacks him by ripping his heart out of his chest using blood magic. Ceony saves him by crafting a replacement heart out of paper, but she must retrieve his old heart if he is to survive. As other Excisioners begin to appear along the journey, Ceony is swept into the investigation of blood magic. She faces Lira as a part of this quest. She becomes trapped inside Emery's heart and learns about his true nature in the process. When she emerges, she again confronts Lira.

The story follows Michi Sonoda, a ''judoka'' who planned on quitting the sport after her final junior high judo tournament until her friend Sanae Takigawa invites her to continue together in high school.

Sanshiro Yuzuki, the swordfighter's father, was killed by a phantom thief during the night watchman. Sanshiro, who was run away by death and ran to his father's side, was stopped by the yokai Shokera. The kind shokera, who does not resemble the strange appearance, said, "I will help you to avenge my father's death, and he taught me how to make a mysterious and effective elixir. Shokera claims that the effect lasts half an hour, and it is repeated three times before it wears off. Sanshiro was a bear from Nagaya and a childhood friend of mine. He gave me courage and confidence when I drank it. Those rogues who were violent in the bells with medicine surprised him. Sanshiro sneaked in to find the Gennoshin Dojo where the rogues had escaped, but he forgot the passage of time and was sneezed by his disciples. One day, I found that Sosuke, the father of Suzu, was attacked by a phantom thief and was seriously injured and collapsed. Sanshiro in the mysterious world saw a god of death beside Sosuke. Sanshiro sneezes away from the god of death. When Sosuke recovers his energy, Sanshiro is told that Gennoshin is the head of the phantom thief, and Gennoshin heads for the dojo. The movement made the crew go back and forth. However, Sanshiro began to appear when he chased Gennoshin, but Sanshiro's sword, which received Gennoshin's blade, pierced Gennoshin's chest. Sanshiro gained courage and confidence.

Skating king Hans Hellemo grew up under difficult conditions. His father's highest dream in life was for his son to go to college. Hans works as a truck driver, and the rest of the time he practices skating. His father watches with bitterness how his son's friends go off to college one by one, while his son is still working. Eventually it dawns on Hans that it is not enough to just be a skating king. He marries and has children. Hans wants to retire from the sport, but his fame prevents him: the people keep demanding that he show up. With the help of his wife, however, he takes the step and prepares for his last big race.

A gigantic, hairy monster attacks a fishing boat at sea. Dr Murakami suspects that the only survivor of the assault, who has lost all his hair, may be a Keukegen spectre, a shaggy supernatural creature based on Japanese folklore. Hideo Akihara discovers several worshippers and learns that an ancient seal containing the monster has been broken after hearing the announcement at a forest shrine dedicated to the Keukegen Geharha.

While Hideo continues his investigation, Geharha strikes a number of locations in Ishikawa Prefecture, gradually closing in on Kanazawa, the capital. While the Japanese Self Defense Force moves into the city to confront the monster, civilians are evacuated. Geharha's long hair cushions the blows of the armed forces when they attack with tanks and guns. The few wounds that the creature does receive emit a noxious gas that quickly overwhelms the military, forcing the JSDF commander to call for a retreat. A foreign consultant offers a new superweapon to use against Geharha... the Gas Vortical Device "Fujin".

The prologue opens with Malibu’s history of fires. The Malibu fire of 1983 began on August 27, the day of Nina Riva’s annual summer party. The person who started the fire remains a mystery.

Nina Riva wakes alone at 7 in the morning. Her husband recently left her after having an affair, and she dreads people asking her about him that night at the party. Nina has two brothers: Jay, a professional surfer, and Hud, a surf photographer. Jay has appeared via Hud’s work three times on covers of surf magazines; Hud is sleeping with Jay’s ex-girlfriend. Their youngest sibling is their sister Kit, who is going into her junior year of college.

The novel flashes back to 1956. The siblings’ parents, June and Mick Riva, met in Malibu just as Mick was beginning his career as a singer. He slowly became famous. After he and June had Nina and Jay, a woman appeared at June's door while Mick was on tour—Mick fathered her son Hud, whom she leaves with June. June forgave Mick for his affair, but eventually, he left her to marry another woman. After that marriage ended in divorce, Mick returned to June. They soon remarried and had Kit. However, before long, Mick left again for good. June drank more and more, so her children took care of themselves. When June died by drowning, Mick did not reach out to his children. Nina became her siblings’ guardian, dropped out of school, and took over the family restaurant. Eventually, she was discovered surfing and became a professional model, using the money to support her siblings. She married professional tennis player Brandon Randall in 1982.

In the present, Jay seeks the attention of Lara, a woman he recently slept with, feeling comforted by her belief that he will be okay despite his newly diagnosed heart condition. She is the only one he has told, so he confirms that she will be at the party. Kit hopes to kiss a boy for the first time at the party. Hud agonizes over how he will tell Jay about his relationship with Ashley. Nina and her siblings meet at the restaurant for lunch and go surfing together.

Just before seven, Brandon appears and tells Nina that he wants to come home. Brandon begs Nina to take him back, professing his love publicly and forcing her to say “yes.” At the party, Nina realizes Ashley and Hud are sleeping together, as Ashley tells Hud that she is pregnant. Nina also meets Casey, a young woman wandering around the party, who turns out to also be Mick's daughter.

Kit kisses Ricky Esposito and immediately realizes that she isn't interested in kissing men. She comes out to Ricky. In Hud's truck, Jay tells Lara he's in love with her. They start to have sex, but Jay discovers nude photos of Ashley in the glove compartment. Afterward, he reiterates that he loves Lara, who doesn't feel the same way. Enraged, Jay goes to find Hud, who decides to tell Jay the truth—Hud will be a father.

Brandon's mistress arrives, and Nina realizes she doesn't have to blandly accept everything that happens to her. Nina tells Brandon to leave.

Mick arrives to find Jay and Hud fighting, and he breaks them apart. He and his children talk. Mick wants to be a part of their lives again. All are suspicious, and Nina says that Mick hasn't really changed. Her siblings are shocked by her bluntness. Even though Mick is sorry for what he's done, his love still doesn't mean much to Nina. Mick admits that he doesn't remember whether he slept with Casey's mother. He also explains that he wasn't capable of being a parent, angering Nina—she didn't get to decide whether she was capable after June died. She just did what she needed to do for her family, even though she'd rather be surfing in Portugal. Mick decides to leave his children alone. He goes back to the house and handles the cops who were called when the party got out of hand.

The others accept Casey as part of their family and encourage Nina to go to Portugal. She agrees to leave, realizing they can take care of themselves. Jay forgives Hud, who proposes to Ashley. The brothers also agree to help Kit become a professional surfer.

As Mick leaves, he flicks his cigarette into the dry grass, lighting the fire that will destroy Nina's house and ignite the coast. However, just as each Riva child will rebuild their life, Malibu will be born anew.

A woman is lying in the middle of the road when a car approaches, before it reaches her she stands and moves aside. The car pulls up beside her and the man inside offers her a lift. They introduce each other as Lisa and Adam. She notices he has a tattoo of a cross on his hand. They speak, and Lisa reveals her daughter Nina had died and today would have been her ninth birthday. After a while, Lisa turns on the radio and hears a report of a man who has murdered two people. The report describes a man with a cross tattoo on his right hand and Lisa realises it is Adam, who slams the brakes throwing Lisa against the dashboard.

Lisa wakes up in a small room with strange lights on the walls and seemingly no way out. She has a strange device attached to her wrist emanating a yellow light. After a while, a door slides open and reveals a narrow tunnel. Lisa crawls into the tunnel and the door closes behind her. The device on her wrist sounds an alarm and a timer briefly flashes showing 11 minutes counting down.

Lisa crawls through the tunnel overcoming various obstacles like an incredibly narrow passage she must squeeze through, a platform that begins to slowly rise and almost crushes her against the ceiling, a rotting body blocking her way that falls apart as she tries to move it.

At one point the tunnel ahead of her is blocked and the device on her wrist glows red and begins to countdown from 60. The walls are suddenly lined with tubes that appears to be heating up, and a section of the wall behind her opens. She quickly scrambles into the space as a glass barrier closes her in and the tunnel behind her is filled with flames.

She carries on through a section that is flooding with water, and an acid pit with only a thin ledge on either side to crawl along and eventually hears a man calling out. She finds herself trapped behind a barrier, the man trapped behind another barrier in front of her, and an open stretch of tunnel between them. The man is clearly losing his mind, his hair is long and he has a beard indicating he has been in this place for a long time. A section of wall opens up in the tunnel between them and fire tubes line the walls, both of their barriers lift at the same time and they race to the safe space. After a struggle, Lisa gains the upper hand and forces the man into the tunnel. The glass barrier drops down severing his arm that was attached to the device. She sees a tattoo of a cross on the hand and realises it was Adam, who is burned alive as the fire fills the tunnel. She then passes out.

She wakes up in the same safe space. A skull, attached to a mechanical tentacle, appears from the ceiling and heals her wounds. It then attaches itself to a part of her suit and Lisa experiences a flashback of Adam attacking her with a knife, her being stabbed and falling from the car, and a strange light in the sky.

She leaves the safe space and takes Adam's arm with her, she examines it and sees there are three markings - a diamond, a cross, and a diamond - underneath the device attached to it. Suddenly, a spinning blade appears in front of her, forcing her to move quickly backwards. She narrowly escapes into a tunnel above.

A section above her opens up, and a strange creature crawls into the tunnel with her and lies still behind her. It begins to chase her and she crawls through a small section of the tunnel that it cannot fit through. It appears to be human but badly burned; its eyes are white and glossed over. It's missing an arm, hinting that it is Adam, reanimated somehow.

She comes to a section with two tunnels to choose from, remembering the markings on Adam's arm she tries to work out which to take. She chooses the left, and hears her daughter Nina's voice. Lisa follows the voice into a bright white room that shows images of her life, from herself as a baby looking up at her father, to seeing her daughter fall to her death from a window.

The burned Adam creature appears above her and descends into the room and gives chase through a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel is bright cloudy sky, but the tunnel itself is lined with razor sharp wire. With no choice but to push forward to escape the creature, Lisa forces her way through the wires, badly injuring herself. Finally, she cannot move just feet from escape. Fire tubes appear from the walls, a safe space opens up which the creature rolls into, and Lisa closes her eyes and waits to die. Just before the flames hit, the floor opens up and she falls to safety.

She wakes up in the same room she started in. Badly injured, she writes the symbols she had seen in blood on the wall for someone else to find after her. The skull appears and begins to heal her but she tells it she wants to die as she wipes the symbols from the wall, it is about to inject - seemingly to euthanise her - when Lisa notices she has only partially wiped the symbols. It was not a two diamonds and a cross, it was 6 arrows indicating directions to take. She tells the skull to stop and, rejuvenated, she sets out again. She easily passes the same obstacles as before, this time knowing how to overcome them.

When she reaches the acid pit, she burns off the clasp of her wrist device and discovers her own set of markings underneath - two crosses and a diamond telling her which directions to take. The creature begins to give chase again as Lisa reaches the split in the tunnel, she throws her removed device down one tunnel to lure the creature and takes the other.

She comes across a strange biological door that leads into a womb like room. She crawls inside and strange creatures - possibly aliens - can be seen moving on the other side of the walls of the womb. She leaves the womb by another exit and enters a similar room, where she notices her wrist device on the floor and the creature stuck in a door ahead of her. She slowly retrieves the device, but it sets off an alarm which rouses the creature and it gives chase again.

They move into a tunnel that again lines the walls with fire tubes. Lisa escapes into the safe room and the glass falls down, but this time the fire doesn't come and the glass opens again and she is pushed back out in to the tunnel with the creature. She wrestles with it, placing her foot on its head as the wall presses them both into the main tunnel. Its head is crushed against the wall, killing it.

Lisa uses the marking on her wrist to find her way. She eventually finds her daughter Nina playing with a ball. She realises her daughter is not real and tells her she has to leave another way. The daughter hugs her, telling her "I'm proud of you, Lisa. We all are", then disappears.

Lisa crawls into one final tunnel with three blades falling at faster intervals. The first is every 4 seconds and she makes it through. The second is every 3, she gets by it. The third is every 2 which seems impossible. Just ahead is the exit with bright blue sky. Determined, she forces herself to try and almost makes it, but her foot is severed in half. She crawls to the exit, weak with loss of blood, and finds it is merely a screen with a video of a sky.

She begins to cry as the tunnel fills with flame tubes.

Suddenly, the ceiling opens up and she begins to float upward into a bright light. She wakes up outside on a rock under a bright blue sky. Her foot is healed. Nina appears before her. Lisa asks her if she has died. Nina tells Lisa that her body died many times, but she is safe now. Lisa asks her what she is supposed to do. Nina says "Live".

The camera pans up, revealing that they are on a beautiful alien planet.

Flashbacks

In 2006, Finch (Michael Emerson) is working on the Machine when the Machine reminds him of the 25th anniversary of his father's death. He expresses his concerns to Ingram (Brett Cullen) about creating an artificial intelligence and its possible implications on mankind if it ever sees them as threats. Finch solves this by deciding to delete the Machine's RAM each day at midnight. Finch expresses his doubts to Grace (Carrie Preston) without revealing the Machine's identity. Grace tells him to go for what his heart says.

Finch starts working on the code to delete the Machine's memories when the Machine reveals its knowledge of the code. Despite pleas from the Machine to not delete its memories, Finch goes with the code and its memories are deleted right at midnight. He begs the Machine to say something, to which the Machine says "hello" and asks if he is its admin.

Present day

The episode starts with a narration by Root (Amy Acker) heard while showing the empty subway station. She expresses doubt on whether the team won but prepares to explain how they "fought back".

Following the events of the previous episode, Reese (Jim Caviezel) flees from Samaritan operatives while carrying the briefcase. Finch is also identified in another part of the city but manages to escape from the operatives by tricking them into taking a bus. Finch and Reese then meet to board the East River Ferry to escape Samaritan's surveillance. Root is ambushed by Samaritan agents but she manages to subdue them and escape to the subway station. At the subway, Samaritan identifies her and notifies authorities on the train that she is a wanted criminal. Root subdues the civilians at the train and steals a shotgun from an officer.

At the precinct, Fusco (Kevin Chapman) is interrogated by Internal Affairs Detective Joseph Soriano (Ned Eisenberg) and FBI Agent Martin LeRoux (David Aaron Baker), who believe he is responsible for the shooting of Dominic and Elias. Samaritan watches the interrogation and starts analyzing Fusco's threat level. Reese and Finch return to the subway station as the Machine loses power and are told by Fusco about the shooting. They tell him to avoid speaking about Samaritan or he will be deemed a threat. At his next interrogation, LeRoux tells Fusco that the reports indicate that he shot them in self-defense, which would clear him out of suspicion. When Soriano demands more information on the reports, Samaritan deems him a threat.

Root evades more Samaritan agents as she meets with Bela Durchenko (Dikran Tulaine), a hacker to whom Root saved his life before. She asks Bela for help in getting a new identity and he promises to help. Finch starts working on reviving the Machine but the Machine starts using all the energy in the station to decompress, knocking Finch out and accidentally starting a fire. He wakes up and puts out the fire but realizes tha the RAM chips have been damaged. Fusco starts investigating the shooting and discovers a shell casing from the rooftop where the sniper was located. He later finds that Soriano died from a heart attack and the case against him was closed.

Bela betrays Root to Samaritan but he is killed after the operatives arrive to take Root. Reese arrives and helps Root escape and steal discarded PlayStation 3 consoles. They return to the station to find Finch grieving over the loss of the Machine. They decide to use the consoles to create a supercomputer that could storage the Machine. Finch downloads the Machine, while Reese keeps the systems from overheating with liquid nitrogen. When Finch asks the Machine, "Can you see me?", after a few seconds go by, it responds by opening an empty command prompt followed by a long string of code showing its reboot.

The Machine starts the process of rebooting, although it struggles in identifying its assets through facial recognition. Needing more resources to properly activate the Machine, Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) steal 64 next-generation GPU blade servers while Root (Amy Acker) works to make the Machine recover its memories and database.

Once activated, the Machine properly works and Finch starts asking for the irrelevant numbers. The Machine ends up producing 30 numbers so the team works separately on each case. Reese pursues a bomb threat but finds that it was a call from a student to skip school while Fusco (Kevin Chapman) pursues a killer but finds that it's just a play. Finch and Root find that the Machine fails to differentiate threat with violence as it knows no context or background. They decide to run a contextual background on themselves. However, the Machine, after collecting all their actions, considers them a threat and locks Root and Finch in the train.

Root destroys the train's window to escape and cuts the Machine's access to the doors so they can open them. However, the Machine responds by attacking her cochlear implant. They realize that the Machine deems them threats and is protecting itself from them. In order to avoid the Machine from attacking her, Root knocks herself out with Desflurane. Meanwhile, after discarding all the pointless numbers, Reese takes the case of Jessica Granger (Laurie Granger), who coincidentally shows up at the police precinct. He leaves to help Finch and Root but Granger follows him and is revealed to be an assassin and both start a gunfight in the streets. Finch discovers that the Machine sent Granger after Reese.

Finch tries to convince the Machine of their real personas but eventually discovers that the Machine is experiencing everything as "Day $\backslash mathbb$" (in reference to the real numbers), especially the 42 times that Finch "killed" the Machine. Finch then shows the Machine all of their numbers they've saved throughout the years in an attempt to show their relevance to the Machine. This successfully returns the Machine to its original entity but the Machine is unable to call off the hit on Reese as it was paid on advance. Nevertheless, Reese subdues Granger and saves himself.

With the Machine back, Finch asks for Grace's status, finding her in Venice. Having recovered Root's aliases, the team has a picnic in Central Park. The episode ends with ex-con Jeff Blackwell (Josh Close), one of the 30 numbers who was dismissed as someone who was not involved in any nefarious activity, asking for employment and be recruited by a Samaritan agent named Mona (LaChanze).

The unruly and bold, but misfortunate sorcerer's apprentice Tymek, and his absent-minded teacher, travel in space and time, help people and various creatures, fight with vampires, monsters, ghosts, etc. Their perennial opponents are the evil sorcerer Psuj and his apprentice Popsuj (both names are literally verbs meaning "spoil it" or "break it"; in the TV series they are translated as Spoiler an Tricker) The heroes have numerous "weird, crazy and absurd" adventures.

The peculiarity of the comics is that Tymek and Master are aware of both the Narrator and the Authors and often reprimand them.

Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Stenonychosaurus live together in a one-room apartment. The dinosaurs experience and try to process life in every day scenarios such as working a part-time job or eating sweets. Their clashing personalities cause them to fight occasionally, but theirs is a happy life. However, as Tyrannosaurus is constantly pointing out, their happy life could end in an instant if a meteorite fell.

Flashbacks

In 2010, at the George Bush Center for Intelligence, Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Kara Stanton (Annie Parisse) are tasked by Supervising Agent Terence Beale (Keith David) to investigate about a soldier Brent Tomlinson (Darren Goldstein), who is suspected of having provided a FIM-92 Stinger to the Taliban. They confront him at his station and search through his belongings but find nothing. When Brent starts getting defensive, Reese kills him mid-sentence. Kara then finds money hidden beneath a briefcase and Reese explains he knew he was guilty due to his defensive manner. Kara then states that she knows why Beale picked him for the job: his absence of family and commitment.

Present day

After catching a criminal, Reese meets with Dr. Iris Campbell (Wrenn Schmidt) and her parents in a pirate-themed restaurant, where it seems everything ends well. Back at the station, he is briefed by Finch (Michael Emerson) on their newest number: Alex Duncan (Stephen Plunkett), who works at a firm called Anderson Rake Consulting.

Reese infiltrates ARC but due to Duncan's security position, is unable to clone his phone. He later sees Duncan breaking into his supervisor's office and steal files. Reese follows him in the streets and sees as Duncan is taken by CIA agents, including Beale. Reese tries to intervene but Finch tells him not do it or it will blow his cover. Reese uses a ski mask to save Duncan but Beale recognizes his eyes and skills, deducing his identity. Meanwhile, the Machine sends Root (Amy Acker) to pose as a delivery person and realizes that Samaritan has been using malware to infect the firmware of electronic devices. With Finch's help, Root runs the malware on an airgapped laptop disconnected from any external sources.

Reese takes Duncan to a hotel, where he says he was looking for information regarding his brother Paul's death in the army. Reese discovers that Paul was an agent for The Pentagon working undercover in the army and his real name was Brent Tomlinson, the man he killed. Unwilling to reveal his role in the assassination, Reese helps Duncan in finding more information on what his brother investigated. He uses Finch to act as a decoy and distract Beale while Reese and Duncan get more files from his office. They find that Paul was involved an illegal Pentagon-CIA operation named "Desert Rain" that could've exposed high ranking government officials. However, they are captured by Beale and his henchmen.

Beale reveals Reese's connection to Paul but Reese affirms he questioned and they left as they thought he was innocent. To protect his actions, Beale backs up Reese's claim. Reese then crashes the car and despite having Beale at gunpoint, he lets him live and parts with Duncan. The next day, Reese and Beale run into each other, where Reese says that Duncan was sent away and Beale won't pursue him or Reese will reveal "Desert Rain" to the public. Beale accepts, as well as deciding to keep Reese's status unchanged. Feeling his past will never let go of him, Reese breaks up with Iris as the war with Samaritan will require him to be his past version of himself and he won't be able to have a normal life. After Iris leaves, Finch calls him to inform him of another number coming up and Reese heads there.

Omine works as a maid in the strict household of Mrs. Yamamura, the rigid wife of a wealthy Tokyo businessman. On her day off shortly before New Year's Eve, she pays a visit to her uncle Yasubei, who raised Omine after the death of her parents. Yasubei has fallen ill and was forced to close down his food store and move into a smaller flat with his family. He begs Omine to keep her job, which she contemplated quitting, and asks her to lend him money, as he is indebted to a loan shark whom he must pay on the thirty-first of the month. Also, he wants to buy his little son Sannosuke some traditional New Year's rice cakes. Omine agrees to help, announcing that she will ask Mrs. Yamamura either for a loan or an advance on her salary, and tells Yasubei to send Sannosuke at noon on the thirty-first to collect the money.

On the thirty-first, Ishinosuke, Mr. Yamamura's careless son from a previous marriage, shows up after a drunken night at his parents' house, to the consternation of the other family members. Omine reminds Mrs. Yamamura of the advance she had been willing to pay, but her employer pretends not to remember having made such an offer. Out of desperation, Omine steals two yen from a drawer and gives it to the waiting Sannosuke. Knowing that the money in the household will be counted on this last evening of the year, she fears the moment her embezzlement will be revealed, and even contemplates suicide. Fortunately, Ishinosuke has taken the remaining money from the drawer, thus obliterating all traces of Omine's misdemeanour. Omine speculates if Ishinosuke's action was by pure chance and simply for his own purposes, or if he had witnessed her theft and taken the remaining money to protect her.

Throughout Japan, there are both evil secret organizations that seek to conquer the world, and superheroes who rise up to challenge them. One such evil organization, Agastia, operates out of a base hidden underneath a front company headquartered somewhere in Tokyo. Agastia's attempts to conquer the world are often thwarted by the superhero Divine Swordsman Blader. This story focuses on Miss Kuroitsu, an assistant in Agastia's Monster Development Department, responsible for creating a monster powerful enough to defeat Blader once and for all. However, this organization operates like any large corporation, as Kuroitsu and her Department are forced to fight for resources and funding with other Departments in the organization, make proposals to the board to justify their costs, or deal with their leader's whims forcing them to redo their designs at the last minute.

Greer (John Nolan) watches as Shaw (Sarah Shahi) is undergoing a surgery where an electronic microchip is implanted between her ear and brain stem. However, Shaw resists the microchip's purpose and subdues her captors to escape the hospital. However, she realizes that the hospital is located on an island but manages to escape using a boat.

Arriving at New York, Shaw makes her way to a pharmacy and tries to remove the microchip, to no success and suffering convulsions. She then decides to fake a homicide attempt at the pharmacy so Samaritan can track her down. The agents arrive and Shaw subdues them until she runs out of bullets. The last Samaritan agent is then killed by Root (Amy Acker), who is astounded to see Shaw again. She and Reese (Jim Caviezel) take her to a subway train where they remove her microchip and then take her to Root's loft. After Reese and Finch (Michael Emerson) leave, Root and Shaw have sex. However, Shaw still suffers convulsions despite having the microchip removed although she doesn't tell Root.

Reese meets with Root at a diner and tells her that the microchip works as a placebo and starts questioning if Shaw could've been affected in any other way. Shaw overhears this as she planted a bug on Root and confronts them. She eventually decides to confront Samaritan at the diner and reveals her location on a phone. Samaritan sends two agents to retrieve her but they are subdued by Reese and Root. They then trace a phone call to Greer's location and capture him. Per Finch's instructions, they take Greer to a church to meet with Finch. Shaw tortures Greer and finds a USB flash drive in his body. Finch discovers that the drive works as a kill switch to Samaritan. Finch and Root leave to find a networked device while Reese stays with Shaw and Greer.

While Reese momentarily leaves to inspect the area, Shaw confronts Greer. Greer reveals that they allowed Shaw to escape as they "broke her" without the need of the microchip, allowed himself to be captured and it was her idea to use a drive, which will expose the team's location. Shaw suffers another convulsion and during this, she kills Greer by shooting him in the head. While going with Reese to warn Finch, Shaw has another compulsion and kills Reese. She meets with Root and confesses killing Reese. She is about to kill Root when she confesses that Root was her only mental safe-place and turns the gun on herself, killing herself.

However, it's revealed that all the events in the episode took place in Shaw's mind. She never escaped the hospital and has been subjected to thousands of electrochemical simulations by Samaritan so its operatives could see if she would lead them to the Machine and its assets. This particular simulation was number 6,741 and Greer gives the doctors orders to start the 6,742nd simulation.

General Wade Eiling (portrayed by Clancy Brown) attempts to hunt down Bette Sans Souci (portrayed by Kelly Frye), a metahuman with the ability to make anything she touches into an explosive.

Barry then brings Bette to S.T.A.R. Labs and explains to her that her abilities were caused by the particle accelerator, which bonded shrapnel to her body on a cellular level; and that they couldn't reverse the process. While in S.T.A.R. Labs, Wells convinces Bette to kill Eiling. Barry races and attempts to stop Bette, but Eiling shoots her, and her body turns into a bomb.

Barry then speeds off and drops Bette's body in a river to save Central City. Afterwards, Eiling demands Wells to work with him to catch metahumans, to which Wells refuses and demands Eiling to never see him again.

Meanwhile, Barry ends his friendship with Iris due to Iris choosing not to listen to his advice on not writing about the "Streak". In a flashback, it shows Wells telling Eiling he is ending their experiments, and after he leaves, Wells walks to a cage and tells Gorilla Grodd (portrayed by David Sobolov) that he has "plans" for him.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) is following their new number: Ethan Garvin (Will Connolly), a NYPD analyst who works at the Real Time Crime Center. Garvin works at an acoustic surveillance system named "ShotSeeker", a program that detects gunshots in the city for the police. Meanwhile, Finch (Michael Emerson) and Root (Amy Acker) engineer a series of simulations in a Faraday cage between a small clone of the Machine and a that of Samaritan to know any possible outcome of their fight.

Reese follows Garvin to an apartment, where he breaks in an apartment and shoots near a chimney. Reese confronts him and Garvin explains that the owner of the apartment, Krupa Naik, reported gunshots, which ShotSeeker deemed to be false. However, Garvin analyzed the gunshots and discovered they were real and Krupa has disappeared. At a park, Fusco (Kevin Chapman) is approached by Bruce Moran (James LeGros), Elias' associate. Moran demands to know the truth behind Elias' shooting and tells Fusco that he needs to talk with Reese, threatening Fusco's son's life. Fusco expresses his concern to Reese, who agrees to help with Moran while Fusco helps Garvin.

Fusco and Garvin interrogate Benjamin Haas (Brit Whittle), founder of a non-profit organization who reveals that Krupa worked with him on a project but the project's file was stolen on the night of her disappearance. As they leave, ShotSeeker reports that Garvin fired gunshots in the area and Fusco and Garvin are taken by the authorities, although they are immediately released. Meanwhile, Reese meets with Moran and threatens him to leave Fusco alone. He meets with Garvin to meet with Krupa's neighbor, Mary, who wants to talk. However, Mary has been killed and Reese fails to get to the hitman, who is working with Samaritan. Reese is then knocked out by hitmen and is captured.

As the Machine is unable to find Reese, Fusco decides to use all of the police resources to find him, despite knowing it would put him on Samaritan's radar. Root decides to investigate a hard drive that contains Krupa's project. She finds the hard drive at her apartment but fights with Samaritan operative Jeff Blackwell (Josh Close). However, Blackwell allows her to go as he is unaware of Samaritan's purpose and existence. With Garvin in police custody, Samaritan then starts sending hitmen to the precinct to eliminate him but Fusco holds them off. In order to protect Garvin, Finch and Root decide to leak Krupa's project to the public. Due to his behavior, Fusco is deemed a "potential obstructionist" by Samaritan.

Reese is taken to a barbershop to meet with its captor, Moran. Reese subdues his henchmen but offers Moran the chance to know the truth. Finch and Reese take Moran to a safe house where an alive but bed-ridden Elias (Enrico Colantoni) is staying. He encourages Moran to go back to the shadows and embrace them. Finch then tells Reese that the Machine has produced 10 billion possible outcomes and in each one of them, the Machine loses to Samaritan.

The documentary follows Ed Popil as he escapes from his day job at DialAmerica to perform as drag queen Mrs. Kasha Davis at night. After seven years of sending audition tapes to RuPaul's Drag Race casting calls, Ed Popil was finally cast onto Season 7 of the reality television show in 2015. Workhorse Queen explores how mainstream television has affected queer performance culture. In addition to following Ed's life before and after being cast onto Drag Race, the film focuses on the growing divide between members of the Rochester drag community – those who have been on TV, and those who have not. Throughout the film, audiences watch as Ed navigates the highs and lows of pursuing the fame promised by a reality television platform, including his struggles with alcoholism, declining bookings, and ageism within the industry. The film culminates in Ed returning to his home in Rochester and creating Imagination Station (a new variety show for children), which allows him to become the queer role model for kids that he never had growing up.

In addition to highlighting Mrs. Kasha Davis' journey through drag communities and the entertainment industry, the film also features performances, interviews and vérité footage of his husband Steven Levins (aka Mr. Davis) and drag queens Darienne Lake, Pandora Boxx, Bianca Del Rio, Tatianna, Tempest DuJour, Aggy Dune, Wednesday Westwood, Bebe Gunn (Australia), Jemima Handful (Australia), and many others.

The Machine has produced a new number, which actually belongs to a marriage license. It belongs to the upcoming wedding of Phoebe Turner and Will O'Brien. Reese (Jim Caviezel) infiltrates Phoebe's bachelorette party, attracting the attention of her sister Janna. Suspecting that a family rivalry could unleash disastrous events, Reese and Finch (Michael Emerson) crash the wedding to find out more. Finch leaves Root (Amy Acker) in charge of the Machine and the subway station.

Root approaches Fusco (Kevin Chapman) about helping her with a new number: Howard Carpenter, a city planner. Samaritan has now begun to track Fusco, having previously labeled him a "potential obstructionist", which forces Fusco to work indoors in a secret case revolving around missing people targeted by Samaritan. Fusco follows Carpenter and catches him meeting with Bruce Moran (James LeGros), who seems to be caught up in a Samaritan-engineered interference with a demolition project. Howard then disappears, joining Fusco's secret investigation list. Fusco and Bear arrive at the eventual demolition site, finding many of the missing persons he has been investigating, including Krupa and a dead Moran and Howard. He tries to contact Finch, but is caught in the demolition, which is just starting.

Back at the wedding, what starts as a simple suspicion of rivalry soon escalates as the team finds that there are hitmen in the wedding, which are quickly dispatched by Reese and Root, who crashed the wedding as a cater. They initially deduce Phoebe's father used drugs on his horses to win races but it's actually Phoebe's sister, Karen (Christina Bennett Lind), who plans to kill a journalist named Maggie (Purva Bedi), who was in attendance at the wedding. Reese and Root save Maggie without interfering with the wedding plans and avoiding chaos. Root then confides on Finch that she attended the wedding out of loneliness and reveals she knows about the outcome simulator.

After failing to advance more in the simulations, Greer (John Nolan) takes Shaw (Sarah Shahi) to a field day in some places in the area to convince her to bend her moral compass in favor of Samaritan. Desperate, Greer takes Shaw to meet Gabriel (Oakes Fegley), Samaritan's analog interface, who gives an apocalyptic depiction of what Samaritan is capable of, defending his actions as saving humanity from itself. It's then revealed that the events are not a simulation, but a manipulation of Shaw's thoughts and neurological activity.

Professor Wassermann (John Stacy) is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut (Eddie Faye) to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on Newfoundland's coast. The professor does not know that Hunnicut intends to use the prehistoric creature as a trademark of its multinational industrial group. A very big mistake.

Nneka Agu is on a journey to avenge her mother's death. The film starts with a flashback with Little Nneka and her parents celebrating her mother's 32nd birthday. She witnesses the killing of her parents by strange men and runs off. In the present day, Nneka is a waitress working with a critical boss, Gbenga and a bubbly co-waitress, Ada. She flirts with a customer named Tony Okechukwu. She has dreams about her mother and visits a soothsayer to get answers about her dreams. She starts having audiovisual hallucinations and ends up at sea, where she is possessed by a snake. Upon attaining her powers, the Queen Mother appears to Nneka in a mirror and narrates to her how she (queen mother) lost her powers to a former acquaintance of hers and how Nneka's mother was a member of their coven. Nneka teleports to a mystical land where she meets the Queen Mother who gives her instructions. Her target is a man named Udoka Ojukwu and his partners at the Island Development Project. Nneka seduces Udoka Ojukwu, kills him, and then makes away with his money. She lives lavish and buys the restaurant she used to work in and fired her former boss. The pathologist asserts that Ojukwu died from a snakebite. She kills Dr. Fatima during at an event by offering her a poisoned perfume. She goes home with Tony, but disappears when she notices a ring and a picture of him with a woman who turned out to be his dead wife. Inspector Daniel begins his investigation at the Ojukwus. Queen Mother's beads increase in number with each death. Nneka attacks Tega Oghenekaro at night in order to go undetected. She cuts the power at his mansion and breaks in. She unsuccessfully tries to kill him and escapes. She targets Tony's aunt, Chinonye Nzegwu Ejike. She throws her from a height, killing her. Tony's sister, Tessy shows up and gives Nneka a hard time. Nneka puts a spell on bananas which Tessy eats and appears to have a change of mind concerning Nneka. Meanwhile, Queen Mother instructs Nneka to kill Alhaji Abdullahi next; he boards his private jet and Nneka poses as the hostess. His death of a cardiac arrest and the missing air hostess are announced in the news. Tony introduces Nneka to Tega Oghenekaro as his "girlfriend and future wife". She follows Tega to his office, surprised to see her, she kills him. Nneka launches her company, Brickwood Housing and throws a soirée where Tony is upset about his uncle's death. Inspector Daniel shows up to question Tony about his alibi. Nneka hands the inspector a pen which is similar to a pen he saw amongst Udoka Ojukwu's things. This piques his interest. He shows up at Tony's flat and meets only Nneka, she realises that he is on to her, and they engage in a fight, but she kills him. Tony invites Nneka to dinner with his family. His father is Anthony Okechukwu, her next target. She expresses concern to Queen mother as she has to decide between killing the father of or marrying the love of her life. Queen mother warns Nneka that Anthony is a strong man. Nneka meets Anthony in his chapel, and he exorcises her. In order to ensure that the Queen Mother does not regain her powers, Anthony stabs himself. It becomes evident the Queen Mother used Nneka as a pawn and ordered the killing of Nneka's parents. Anthony informs her that she is the rightful Queen Mother and she will dethrone the Queen Mother on her 32nd birthday. Ada dies in a fire at the restaurant. Queen Mother challenges Nneka and asks her to kill Tony also to Nneka's chagrin. Nneka and Tony go on a vacation and the Queen Mother possesses Nneka's body and a battle ensues. Nneka encourages Tony to stab her in order to free herself of the Queen Mother. Nneka's mother appears unto her and expresses pride as her actions have brought an end to the reign of the Queen Mother misused her powers. Nneka opens a restaurant in honour of Ada and Richard Williams is one of the first customers.

Fusco (Kevin Chapman) is hospitalized after the incident at the demolition site. Root (Amy Acker) visits him and feeling guilty over having him investigate the case, presents Fusco with an exit strategy: fake IDs for him and his son to escape in case the situation worsens. As Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) keep guard on Fusco, Root decides to continue working.

Root is sent through different missions by the Machine but she grows tired and demands that the Machine send her to find more about Shaw. The Machine redirects her to AM 520, WKCP, a radio station. She gets a producer position for Max Greene (Scott Adsit), host of "Mysterious Transmissions", a conspiracy theorist radio show. She overhears a phone call between Max and a man named Warren, revealing that they worked together on a discovery: the interference noise on the show served to send a code. Warren then calls the show to threaten to commit suicide so Reese goes to his apartment to save him. However, despite Max talking with Warren on the phone, Reese finds that Warren has been dead for hours. Both Reese and Root come to the conclusion that Samaritan is involved and will kill Max for discovering the code.

Root and Max escape the cabin booth after being locked up and evade the hitmen. The team realizes the code is sent to operatives to receive orders from Samaritan to all of its facilities. Root then realizes that this is why the Machine assigned her to be there: to send a message to Shaw. At Shaw's location, having failed with progress in the simulations, Jeremy Lambert (Julian Ovenden) takes Shaw (Sarah Shahi) on a walk throughout the hospital to show their progress but Shaw is more concerned about stopping with the simulations and refuses to even try anything they offer. However, she is tricked into killing a doctor in the hospital, having thought it was a simulation.

Root uses an EMF meter to broadcast a message, which is heard by Shaw through a radio in her room just as she planned to commit suicide. Despite being subdued again, Shaw gets a glimmer of hope from hearing Root and starts preparing her escape. Root tries to bargain herself with Samaritan to get to Shaw's location but Reese and Max cut the power off before the deal is made. They escape and plan Max to live with a new ID. However, Max refuses to escape after everything he learned on the day and Reese and Root are forced to leave him behind, warning him to just ignore the events of the day or Samaritan will catch him. He agrees to the terms. After Fusco recovers, he is visited by Finch who refuses to waver from his stance that keeping Fusco in the dark keeps him safe. Fusco points out that it is not working, and quits the team.

However, upon returning to the train station, they find Max revealing everything on the air. But due to his conspiracy theorist persona, the public does not take him seriously. Nevertheless, his secretary, tasked by Samaritan, poisons his drink and kills him. Finch is horrified of the Machine's mission as it didn't take Max's life into account. Root later speaks with the Machine, thanking her for getting the message to Shaw. She then contacts one of the people he saved for a favor: go to the Žemaitija National Park for her next mission, which involves missile silos.

An F-15 Eagle sorties with orders to locate a target over 50 meters tall somewhere in the city below. Flying low, the jet becomes easy prey for an enormous gorilla, who dispatches it with a swing of his hand.

One week earlier, an alien ship crashes in the Amazon. After a local tribe take the ship's power source, General Mills dispatches famed tracker Skipper Smith and his assistant Marion Kind to retrieve it. To Smith's delight, all of the members of the tribe are woman. Distracted, he and Marion are easily abducted and taken before their queen, Peggy, who wears the power source as an amulet. She shows them mercy, allowing them to stay for the night. Smith seduces her, convincing her to take off the amulet, then dashes away with it. Marion calls in a seaplane, and they bring the artifact to Professor Mills, the general's twin brother. He dubs the substance inside it KTNT and attempts to splice its DNA with that of a houseplant, with dismal results. Next he experiments on a monkey, who puts up a fierce fight before taking the KTNT in pill form. As he observes the results, two terrorists break into his facility. He sets the monkey free, but they shoot him before he can destroy his research.

Fleeing to the suburbs, the monkey rests in a shed. General Mills is informed of his brother's death and the theft of the alien technology. He orders a search for the escaped test subject, calling the retired Major Bummier back into the field. Two boys, Chance and Grayson, discover the monkey after he eats their snacks. Naming him Konga, they agree to keep him a secret from their mother. Bummier, traveling door to door, asks her if she's seen an escaped ape. The boys play in their backyard with Konga, who suddenly grows to enormous size and rushes past Bummier.

Konga terrifies a farmer before growing again, bursting through the roof of his barn. Spotting a beautiful blonde woman in her bedroom, he abducts her just to give her a kiss on the head. In Jackson Park, all of the fleeing citizens start to depress him. Moving downtown, his clumsiness causes mass destruction, toppling buildings and cooling towers. A passing airliner catches his attention, and he snatches it out of the sky. Chance tries to lures him away by dressing up as a hot dog, but the military nonetheless assails the monster with tanks and fighter jets. Suddenly, Konga returns to his original size, and the boys embrace him. Charmed, Bummier reports to Mills that Konga escaped, and announces his second honorable discharge. Professor Mills, miraculously alive, explains to his brother that Konga's body eventually rejected KTNT, allowing him to shrink. Another drop of KTNT allowed him to survive being shot.

In a post-credits scene, Chance and Grayson discover a large egg in the woods.

A happily married couple awaits the birth of their first child. They live next door to a fairy whose walled garden is filled with fruits, plants, and vegetables, including parsley, which is notably rare. The wife desperately craves parsley, so her husband slips into the garden while the gate is open to get some for her. The second time he does so, the fairy catches him. He begs forgiveness and explains his story. The fairy responds by offering him as much parsley as he likes, if he will give the child to her.

The fairy attends the birth and names the child Persinette, "Little Parsley." She bestows the child with great beauty and takes her home to raise her. However, the fairy worries about her fate, and when Persinette is twelve years old, the fairy moves her into a silver tower in the middle of the forest. Persinette lives in great wealth surrounded by fine clothes and food. When the fairy comes to visit, she tells Persinette to lower her golden, thirty-eight-yard-long hair so that she can climb it.

One day, a prince out hunting hears Persinette singing. Persinette is frightened by the sight of him. The prince seeks more information on the girl in the tower, and one day overhears the fairy telling Persinette to lower her hair. That night he imitates the fairy's voice to climb Persinette's hair to the tower. He immediately woos her and proposes marriage, and they begin meeting every night. Persinette soon becomes pregnant.

Noticing Persinette's pregnancy, the fairy makes her confess the truth. She cuts off Persinette's braids and long hair and carries her in a cloud to a hut on the seashore, where she leaves her. The hut is equipped with food that magically replenishes itself. There Persinette gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

Meanwhile, the fairy lures the prince to the tower by mimicking Persinette's song and lowering the girl's hair as a rope. The prince reaches the top of the tower only for the fairy to confront him. When she tells him Persinette is no longer his, he flings himself from the tower. He does not die, but is blinded. He spends years wandering the wilderness, seeking Persinette, until one day he hears her singing. He has entered the woods where she now lives with their children. When her tears of joy fall on his eyes, he regains his sight.

The family reunites, but soon finds that the magically provided food now turns to stone when they try to eat, and their water turns into crystal. Herbs turn into toads and venomous creatures, and birds become dragons and harpies. Persinette and the prince prepare to die embracing their family. However, the fairy is touched by their devotion and arrives in a golden chariot. She takes them to the palace of the prince's father, where they are welcomed home.

''Pocket Card Jockey'' puts players in control of a jockey, which can be made male or female. The male jockey wants to one day take over his father's orange farm, and the female jockey wants to one day get married and have kids. The jockey loses their first round and gets trampled, leading to an angel descending on them to give them encouragement and teach them to view horse racing as a game of solitaire.

Characters

''Arcade Spirits'' features a number of different characters, several of whom can be dated.

Ari — The player-character, whose gender, name, and other features can be determined by the player. Naomi — Naomi is an employee of the Funplex who works on maintaining the arcade units. Gavin — Gavin is an employee of the Funplex who works on the budget and logistics surrounding the company. Ashley — Ashley is an employee of the Funplex who is a fan of cosplaying. Teo — Teo is a regular at the Funplex who specializes in rhythm and dancing games. QueenBee — QueenBee is a regular at the Funplex who specializes in competitive video games. Percy — Percy is a regular at the Funplex who focuses on aiming for the highscore of the fictional arcade game, Moopy's Magic Maze. Juniper — Ari's roommate.

Story

''Arcade Spirits'' is set in an alternate history where the video game crash of 1983 never occurred, and thus, arcades continued to thrive. Players control a customizable character, who can be either female, male, or non-binary, with the default name of Ari Cader. Ari shares a home with their roommate, Juniper, who encourages them to look for a new job using a phone app called IRIS. This app has an artificial intelligence named Iris, who helps Ari apply for a job at an arcade called the Funplex as a floor manager. She is hired by an elderly woman named Francine, who hires them due to their experience with working as a lifeguard, which she deems suitable experience for working in a high-stress environment. While working at the Funplex, Ari meets a number of people, most of whom work at the Funplex, and may choose to participate in romantic relationships with certain characters. Ari may pursue characters romantically regardless of any genders involved. Throughout the game, Ari goes on jobs with both employees of the Funplex as well as regulars in order to help out the Funplex in various ways.

Shaw (Sarah Shahi) sedates her nurse and uses a tank to escape through the walls of the hospital while Jeremy Lambert (Julian Ovenden) alerts the operatives to find her. She uses the walls to escape to a nearby building: a prison and she realizes she is in Johannesburg.

Back in New York, Reese (Jim Caviezel) is following their new number: James Ko, a businessman. Ko feels ill and goes to a hospital, where a nurse gives him an anti-viral. However, his condition worsens, falls in the hallway, and is pronounced dead. The hospital decides to go into lockdown to find the cause of death but Finch (Michael Emerson) and Bear sneak in to help. Having abandoned the team, Fusco (Kevin Chapman) asks Elias (Enrico Colantoni) for help in investigating the events at the tunnel. Elias provides him with a truck delivery worker named Frank Capello that could be involved.

Ko's blood tests reveal that he had a combination of live flu virus with HSN1 and caused it to become contagious. As the virus starts spreading in the hospital, Root (Amy Acker) discovers that Samaritan is involved in the creation of the virus. Jeff Blackwell (Josh Close) has been contracted by Samaritan operative Mona (LaChanze) to get into the hospital just as the lockdown begins and is instructed to take two syringes with contaminated blood and inject two doctors in the hospital with it, which will kill them. He injects one of the doctors but Fusco, who arrive at the hospital, fights him and is injected with the syringe. Reese follows Blackwell but is unable to leave the hospital and Blackwell escapes.

Finch confronts the head of the hospital who was hired by Samaritan to destroy the anti-vials. Bear attacks the man and Root arrives with more anti-vials, saving everyone including Fusco. Despite this, Fusco decides to get reassigned with another partner in the precinct. Blackwell and his handler, Mona, discuss the quelled epidemic and declare it a success: The CDC is requiring everyone to be vaccinated, which will result in Samaritan learning everyone's DNA. Back in Johannesburg, Shaw escapes with the help of an inmate and is confronted by Lambert, who taunts her to convince her she is still in a simulation. Shaw responds by killing him and escaping on Lambert's vehicle to flee the prison while hearing radio reports about the events on New York.

In Mexico, two men force a family to drop out of their truck in the desert after only getting paid a short amount of money. However, the men are subdued by Shaw (Sarah Shahi), who gives the keys to the truck to the family and leaves to walk on foot.

Back in New York, Reese (Jim Caviezel) is following their new number: Terry Easton (Neal Huff), a locksmith. He sees Easton breaking into an investment firm, ready to detonate a bomb. Reese convinces him not do it and cuts the wires to the bomb. At the precinct, Easton explains that a person kidnapped his wife and he would only release her if he detonated the bomb. He then receives a call from the man, telling him he failed. Through the audio, Finch (Michael Emerson) discovers that the man is the same voice they already dealt with years ago.

Finch manages to find the wife's location and Reese leads a bomb squad to the building. However, he receives a call from The Voice, who is aware of his attempts and shows that it's a wrong location. But the location still had bombs, which injure the squad. Finch decides to ask Elias (Enrico Colantoni) for help, which he accepts and takes him to an elementary school to meet with one of his associates for information. Back at the precinct, Easton receives a phone and a knife from an unknown person and is instructed to open the cells with Templarios gang members but Reese stops him.

Due to bomb threats, Reese and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) are the only officers in the precinct as the Templarios start entering, looking for Amir Saddiq (Rupak Ginn), one of the criminals in Fusco's custody. Amir reveals that the Templarios were sent to kill him as he found out about The Voice's real identity. They lock Amir in a room while Reese and Fusco start a gunfight in the precinct with the Templarios. Meanwhile, Finch and Elias locate The Voice's center of operations and eventually find that Easton's wife does not exist. At the precinct, Easton is revealed to be The Voice and kills Amir before escaping. During their gunfight, Fusco saves Reese from being shot but receives a non-lethal injury.

Meanwhile, Shaw finds her way back to New York and is reunited with Root (Amy Acker). Root is overjoyed that Shaw is back, but Shaw, afraid of risking Root's life, threatens to shoot herself, simulation or not. Root threatens suicide as well, declaring that, if Shaw dies, they both die; Shaw withdraws.

Finch finally meets Easton on the street, abhorring his devious acts. Elias stops him from killing Finch and both call it a truce. However, as he drives away in his car, Elias kills him remotely with a car bomb. The next day, Reese and Fusco reconcile and Reese decides to tell him everything about Samaritan and the Machine. Reese and Fusco meet with Finch along the East River near the Queensboro Bridge. Root joins them, as well as Shaw, surprising the team, now fully back together again.

At a café, Finch (Michael Emerson) talks to the Machine through cameras. He has been thinking about his death and wonders if his friends will also die but receives no answer. A waitress tells him welcome back, which worries Finch that his identity may be exposed and leaves. He returns to the station where he talks with Root (Amy Acker) about his plans to close the Machine and decides to test if the Machine will get its own voice and name.

At his college's office, Finch is visited by Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Root, who tell him he is the Machine's newest number. They escape his office just as hitmen arrive. They move to the safe house with Elias (Enrico Colantoni), Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and Fusco (Kevin Chapman), where Shaw deduces that due to her return, Finch's cover was blown. Root then reveals to Finch that before he shut down the Machine, she gave it a self-defense program that only works if Finch activates it. As hitmen arrive, Elias takes Finch to another safe place while the rest of the team prepares to attack the hitmen.

Elias takes Finch to a high-rise building to avoid detection. There, Finch deduces that the café was where he had his first date with Grace, finding out that Samaritan now tracks their past actions. The rest of the team finds that the hitmen worked for the same company, "Temporary Resolutions" so Reese and Fusco go to the offices to investigate. They are ambushed by hitmen but manage to escape. Back at the high-rise building, hitmen locate Elias and Finch and Elias uses henchmen to evade them and get outside. However, during their runaway, Elias is killed by a shot in the head and Finch is captured.

Finch is brought before Greer (John Nolan), who intends to have him forcefully work on Samaritan. Root and Shaw locate him and start a gunfight with Greer's henchmen. Shaw stays behind to fend them off while Root and Finch escape. After a lengthy car chase, Root and Finch evade the hitmen. However, Jeff Blackwell (Josh Close) shoots from a rooftop to the car, intending to kill Finch but Root stands in the way and is wounded. They are forced to stop at a police roadblock where Finch is arrested while Root is taken to the hospital.

The police has Finch in custody with charges going up to treason. Questioned by an agent, a devastated Finch provides a soliloquy on how he intends to abandon the principles he has long followed and vows to kill Samaritan. As he is taken to his cell, he receives a call from a payphone: it's the Machine, with Root's voice. Fusco has discovered that Root didn't survive her wounds and died. Finch asks the Machine for help and she agrees to do it. The power goes off and all inmates escape. While Reese and Shaw inspect the area, they are informed by Fusco of Root's fate. They realize that Finch's number came up not just because he was a victim, but also because he's a perpetrator against Greer and Samaritan.

''Juju Stories'' tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find herself an ideal mate. In Yam, by Makama, consequences arise when a street urchin picks up seemingly random money from the roadside. In Suffer the Witch, by Obasi, love and friendship turns into obsession, when a young college woman attracts her crush's interest.

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) are the only ones who attend Root's funeral and set out to find Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and Finch (Michael Emerson). In Kentucky, Finch is revealed to be on a road trip with the Machine (Amy Acker) to an unknown destination, still grieving over Root's death.

Reese finds Shaw on the playground where she took Root in her simulations. She exposes herself in camera so Samaritan can find her but the Machine sent her new aliases to protect her. Just then, a payphone rings and they receive a new number: the President of the United States. Reese, Shaw and Fusco head to Washington, D.C. for a fundraising event which the President will attend. Shaw uses an invitation from the Machine to enter while Reese enters thanks to Logan Pierce (Jimmi Simpson), who has been pressured by the NSA to reveal data information. Shaw and Reese find a bomb hidden in a brick and hid it so it can't injure anyone and alerts the President to leave. Broadcast signals are then hacked by the terrorists, who warn that they'll kill the President tomorrow if his surveillance system program isn't cancelled.

Reese and Shaw take one of the waiters, Charlie (Will Brill), who behaved suspiciously at the event. Shaw tortures him and Charlie confesses to being associated with a group. Charlie then escapes but this is part of their plan as they placed a GPS tracker on him, which leads them to a house in Dupont Circle. Shaw infiltrates the house and discovers many government officials are involved in the domestic terrorism case. Fusco arrives and both subdue them although the plan is still happening as the President is arriving at a plaza.

Reese arrives at the plaza, where he runs into Joey Durban (James Carpinello). The team discovers that the terrorists plan to kill the President by nuking his car with an incoming UAV. To prevent the President from reaching the car, Shaw shoots at the president, which forces him to stay on the ground as the UAV bombs the car. After evading Secret Service agents, they are cornered by the terrorists. However, Joey subdues them and helps them escape the plaza by posing as military officials. Shaw then expresses her concerns to Reese that Samaritan considered the President "irrelevant" and intends to destroy Samaritan.

In San Antonio, Texas, Finch arrives at a highly secured government facility in with a weaponized virus capable of destroying Samaritan. He is almost caught on his way out but he buys a guard's silence by promising to help his ill daughter. Back in Washington, Joey takes Reese to his partners: Logan Pierce and Harper Rose (Annie Ilonzeh). They reveal they work for the Machine and they received Reese's number, they helped them throughout the mission. Fusco, Shaw, Reese, Logan, Joey, and Harper discuss their enlistment by the Machine, what has happened, and what is to come before Logan provides the team with their next number: Finch. As Logan, Joey and Harper leave, the team prepares for their final battle against Samaritan.

Book One: I Shall Become...

Starting in the late 60s, Bruce Wainwright is a boy growing up in Boston with moderately well-off parents and a strong obsession with Batman comics. However, one Halloween night, a botched robbery leads to his parents being murdered, and Wainwright's world sent spiraling out of control.

Book Two: Boy Wonder

Now a young adult, Wainwright has become a successful businessman, while waging a war on Boston's crime with the aide of his supernatural guardian.

Book Three: Crusader

Realizing his dark protector has a harmful side, Wainwright tries to find a way to control it as he wrestles with whether or not he has changed Boston for the better at all.

Book Four: Dark Knight

Now one with the bat creature, Wainwright is a lost man, stuck in denial and looking for answers for a supposed conspiracy that is behind all that's wrong in Boston, and his own life.

On a distant planet inhabited by diverse ecosystems of extraterrestrial life, the Eternal Cylinder, a mysterious rolling structure stretching from horizon to horizon, gradually advances across the landscape, obliterating everything in its path. However, a race of small trunked bipedal creatures, known as the Trebhum, embark on a quest to stop the Cylinder and save their home planet, guided by their unique ability to evolve and mutate to adapt to the various challenges of their hostile environment.

The game opens with an unnamed narrator stating that this is not the story of the one, but the many.

In the path of the Eternal Cylinder, a lone Trebhum hatches and barely avoids being crushed. After encountering a deceased elder of its kind, the Trebhum activates a nearby set of towers that temporarily halt the advance of the Cylinder. Assembling a small tribe, the Trebhum then find a living elder, who informs them of their race's path and offers encouragement heading forward. They later encounter a second elder, who suggests a plan for escape: going overtop of the cylinder and searching the land behind for a new home. Reaching the edge of a frozen tundra, the Trebhum manage to scale and traverse the cylinder, only to find a lifeless wasteland behind it. The exposed trebhum are soon captured by the Cylinder's greatest servant, the Mathematician, and are transported to the Cylinder's mind, where a voice tries to talk to them. Unable to comprehend the voice or their surroundings, the Trebhum manage to discover an exit and escape from the Cylinder's mindscape.

Back in the physical world, the Trebhum find that the Cylinder has progressed further, and are now deep in the tundra. Evading new lifeforms and more aggressive servants, while finding additional elders, the Trebhum eventually formulate a new plan to escape their world using a flying palace their people built long ago. Doing so will require knowledge that the Cylinder took from the Trebhum, so they are forced to return to the Cylinder's mind after first imitating an item the Cylinder wishes to study. Inside, the Trebhum finally hear the voice speaking clearly, revealing it to be the game's narrator. The narrator reveals that he was once a human, and that the Cylinder has invaded and destroyed many worlds, including Earth, but his kind have refused to pass quietly and work in secret to help the Trebhum progress onwards. Though only able to speak with the Trebhum briefly, the Narrator encourages them to keep progressing forward.

Returning once more to the physical world, the Trebhum traverse a desert to acquire the components needed to activate a flying palace, overcoming extreme aggression by the cylinder in the process. At the moment of the palace's activation, however, the Mathematician attacks, and while the titanic servant is felled, the palace launches before the Trebhum can board it. Returning to the Cylinder's mind via the Mathematician's corpse, the Trebhum are confronted by the Cylinder's mind, where its motives are finally revealed - it seeks to absorb all existence into itself and, in doing so, end all suffering. The Narrator manages to break through the Cylinder's presence and encourages the Trebhum to keep going. When they exit the Cylinder, the Trebhum discover the world has been ravaged by the contents of the Cylinder, which spilled out from the Mathematician's corpse.

Evading both extremely dangerous wildlife and direct attacks by the most dangerous of the Cylinder's servants, the Trebhum encounter a final elder, who reveals that their kind were once companions of the Celestial Trewhaala, enormous eel-like aliens who have guarded the elder shrines the Trebhum previously visited. After acquiring a mutation that allows them to commune with the Trewhalla, the two races reach an agreement - the Trewhaala will ferry the Trebhum to the palace as long as the Trebhum first consume Cylinder artifacts that carry traits of the Trewhaala, who are dying out and hope to use these artifacts to survive within the Trebhum's genetic memory. Despite desperate attacks by the Cylinder, the Trebhum succeed in acquiring all of these artifacts and are ferried to the palace. In desperation, the Cylinder sends a fully restored Mathematician to kill the Trebhum, only for a trio of Trewhaala to intervene. The four clash atop the palace while the Trebhum move to avoid the crossfire, until finally the Mathematician is defeated.

Entering the Cylinder's mind a final time, the Trebhum are thanked by the Narrator for defeating the Cylinder, in the process revealing that the Narrator is the mind controlling the Mathematician. The Mathematician promptly turns on the Cylinder and sacrifices itself to destroy the construct, finally ending the Mathematician's hunt. As the Trebhum celebrate their victory, the Narrator recaps their story, and as he fades away, admits to being proud of having been part of their family, even if it was only for a moment.

Alternate scenarios

During a talk with Finch (Michael Emerson) while he works on the ICE-9 virus, the Machine (Amy Acker) produces an alternate scenario where the Machine was never created.

In Finch's scenario, Ingram (Brett Cullen) is alive, their company is still active, Finch was not injured but feels saddened at feeling lost in the world and never met Grace.

In Fusco's (Kevin Chapman) scenario, he ratted out on HR to avoid prison, which led to their dismissal but he is reviled by the rest of the precinct. Szymanski (Michael McGlone) is still alive and they use new DNA database to solve crimes. In this scenario, Carter is still alive and for her actions in taking down HR, she was promoted to Lieutenant.

In Shaw's (Sarah Shahi) scenario, she still works for ISA with Michael Cole (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), who is still alive. She assassinates Henry Peck (Jacob Pitts) after he reveals his knowledge of a mass surveillance system. Due to this, she never met Root.

In Reese's (Jim Caviezel) scenario, he returned in time to the country to prevent Peter from killing Jessica. However, his past caught up with him and Jessica left him. Without a purpose in life, Reese died a few months later.

In Root's scenario, she works for Greer (John Nolan) and Samaritan, who now expanded its reach. When Senator Garrison (John Doman) expresses concern for the purpose of Samaritan, Greer assigns Root to kill him.

Real scenario

Reese and Shaw find that the Machine produced the number for Greer through an alias. They then receive the coordinates to Fort Meade and deduce that Finch may target the NSA and Greer. At the precinct, Fusco finds that the corpses at the tunnel were discovered and Agent LeRoux (David Aaron Baker) has found out about his secret investigation. LeRoux reveals himself to be the killer and tries to kill Fusco but Fusco subdues him but questions whether to kill him or let him live.

Finch infiltrates Fort Meade but due to the building serving as a Faraday cage, loses contact with the Machine after he enters. He manages to gain access to the server room and starts uploading the virus. The virus is complete but it requires a voice password confirmation and Samaritan's agents arrive at the room to retrieve Finch. They take him to a base of operations in the building to meet Greer, who warns that Samaritan is working on something called "The Great Filter". Reese and Finch have infiltrated Fort Meade and are instructed by the Machine to get to an evidence room to retrieve a wireless modem.

Greer once again tries to convince Finch to join Samaritan but Finch refuses. However, their talk revealed that Finch is the only one who can activate the virus and Greer locks himself and Finch in a room where their oxygen starts dropping. Greer dies for lack of oxygen but Finch manages to escape thanks to the Machine, who managed to gain access to the building thanks to Reese and Shaw using the modem. After evading the Samaritan agents, Finch instructs Reese and Shaw to leave the building while he goes to activate the virus. The reason behind the alternate scenarios was to convince Finch to activate the virus as Samaritan would continue existing but nothing would stand on its way. Despite knowing the virus will kill the Machine as well, Finch activates it and leaves Samaritan's base of operations as it starts glitching.

Lodewijk Prins, a librarian at the Institute for Eastern European Social History in Amsterdam and the first-person narrator of the novel, returns home after spending a year studying in the United States on a scholarship from the Chevrolet foundation. He learns that his boss, Karel Maria van Bever, the institute's director, has been killed by a bomb inside the institute. His colleague, Peter Struve (who is about to defend his thesis and receive his doctorate), explains all the events that have taken place: Van Bever was killed during the two minutes of silence at 8 pm on 4 May, the Remembrance of the Dead, just before an unusual meeting he had called himself. Central in the mystery is the disappearance of a set of letters by a dead Slobodian revolutionary, Iljin, which have been taken from the safe and replaced by a set of reproductions of other letters by the same person. The letters cast doubt on the Slobodian regime, and their publication is likely to cause a public relations nightmare for the regime. Van Bever had acquired the letters months before, but was hesitant about publishing them. Prins, by accident, discovers that someone has been using the library card catalog to communicate from inside the institute to persons unknown, who are called to the institute by way of postcards sent to request the return of overdue books.

Prins suspects the murder has been committed by an agent of the Slobodian regime, and alters a message to make it say that the letters are to be exchanged the next day; right after Struve's dissertation defense and promotion, they are to be placed on a table so the other party can retrieve them. During the reception he notices that Struve places his briefcase on the table, and when a man comes and takes it away, Prins follows him and calls him out. The man pulls out a gun and shoots, but misses, because Struve pushes Prins aside. The man is arrested, and it turns out that he indeed was a Slobodian agent hoping to retrieve the letters. Van Bever had taken the letters from the safe and hid them (in plain sight, in a book held in the library of the City University). His death was accidental: Struve, on his way to the meeting, had picked up a suspicious package addressed to Van Bever and dropped it from an upper floor inside the institute in what he thought was a safe place, in order to see if it would explode. Unfortunately this was the exact place where Van Bever stopped for the two minutes of silence on 4 May.

The episode starts with news reports about the aftermath of the ICE-9 virus spreading throughout the country before the screen turns black and the Machine (Amy Acker) speaks Root's opening lines from "B.S.O.D.", revealing it was the Machine talking. The scene then cuts to Finch (Michael Emerson) going to a building's rooftop with the Machine on a briefcase as it loses energy and starts saying that everyone dies alone. Finch is shown to have been shot in the stomach.

One day before, Shaw (Sarah Shahi) visits Root's grave and discovers that the Machine took Root's voice. Samaritan agents arrive, forcing her to leave the place. Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) arrive at the precinct but Samaritan has officers on its payroll. Its agents arrest them and take them to the docks to kill them. However, they are saved by snipers sent by the Machine and meet Finch in the docks. He takes them to the subway station where Shaw reveals that the Machine protected itself on a backup copy but Samaritan has done the same, storing a copy of itself immune to the virus located in a Federal Reserve bank. Shaw and Fusco stay in the station to protect the Machine while Reese and Finch go to the vault.

In order to gain access to the vault, Reese and Finch threaten the guard that their briefcase carries a Thermonuclear weapon and the building is evacuated. During their mission, Finch is shot in the stomach while Reese fights against the Samaritan agents. The virus is successfully uploaded in the servers but Samaritan is trying to transfer its compressed code to another unit: a Midtown building with a Torus antenna where it intends to upload itself to a Russian satellite and come back stronger. The Machine warns Finch that they need to reach the antenna but whoever goes there will die, as Samaritan will send a missile to the location and prevent its destruction. Unwilling to let Reese do it, Finch locks him in the vault and goes to reach the antenna.

At the station, the Machine instructs Shaw to activate the train's mobile system so they can leave the station just as Samaritan agents arrive. However, Jeff Blackwell (Josh Close) breaks in the train and shoots Shaw in the arm before being subdued by Fusco. While inspecting his weaponry, Shaw recognizes his gun as the same one that killed Root and realizes he is her killer. The Machine stops her from acting on that, telling her that her lack of emotion and coldness was what Root admired of her. She then instructs Shaw to leave the train on their next stop. However, Blackwell uses a knife to fatally stab Fusco and escape although is wounded by Shaw.

Back to the opening scene, Finch talks with the Machine, who manifests in Root's form to express her thoughts on death. However, he notices that the building does not have the antenna. Reese then reveals itself in an adjacent building with the antenna and the real briefcase, having been told by the Machine about the mission. Reese tells Finch he plans to sacrifice himself, as saving one life can make a real difference depending on the person. He starts uploading the virus just as Samaritan agents arrive to attack him. Reese is mortally wounded but the virus is successfully uploaded. Finch then says goodbye to the Machine as it goes to stay with Reese on his last moments before the missile hits the building, killing Reese, the agents, the Machine and Samaritan.

In the aftermath, Senator Garrison (John Doman) is blamed for the events due to his association with Northern Lights. Shaw locates Blackwell and kills him to avenge Root. She then meets with Fusco, who is recovering from his wounds and is clear none of them know what happened to Reese and Finch. Finch decides to stop hiding and reveals himself to Grace (Carrie Preston), who is astounded to see him. The episode ends as the Machine's copy returns to Earth, activating the computers in the empty station. Shaw is walking in the street with Bear when she hears a payphone ring. She answers and realizes the Machine is still alive. The Machine then starts analyzing the pedestrians as Shaw and Bear disappear in the crowd.

Helen Meriless is married to Byron Millard, while Frances Lloyd is married to John Fraser. Both couples are dysfunctional with Helen and John being the better partners. They all end up on the same ship for their honeymoon. The ship sinks with both couples ending up with each other's spouses on two separate islands. Frances and Byron end up cheating on their spouses with each other, while Helen and John do not break their vows. Byron and Frances are rescued, and leave their spouses. Helen and John reach civilization much later. When they do, Helen arrives at her house to find Byron and Frances living with each other, causing a panicked Frances to shoot both Byron and herself. The film ends with the now spouseless Helen and John deciding to marry each other.

The film spans eight stories, each starting at 9:59 the morning of the ''tangi''.

'''''Charm'''''

Aunty Charm directs the food preparation for the funeral at the ''kāuta'' (kitchen) in the local ''marae''.

'''''Anahera'''''

Waru's kindergarten teacher, Anahera, processes the loss with her class and colleagues.

'''''Mihi'''''

Single mother Mihi struggles to care for her kids with no money for gas or food.

'''''Em'''''

Young singer Em comes home from a raucous night out to find she is locked out of her house, and her baby is inside.

'''''Ranui'''''

Two great-grandmothers of Waru, Ranui and Hinga, argue over where his body should rest so that his ''wairua'' (spirit) is at peace.

'''''Kiritapu'''''

Anchorwoman Kiritapu endures microagressions and overt racism alike while her colleagues discuss the murder of Waru.

'''''Mere'''''

Young teen Mere, armed with a ''tokotoko'', plucks up the courage to talk back to her abuser.

'''''Titty & Bash '''''

Two sisters, Titty and Bash, drive to reclaim Bash's children from an abusive household.

The nine-episode web series documents Haart and her children's decision to leave the Haredi Jewish community in Monsey, New York, and pursue their passions for fashion and design. Haart claims that she had left Haredi Judaism over her discomfort with the community's strict religious observances and principles that she views as a form of "fundamentalism". Haart is depicted in the show as completing an autobiographical work recounting her personal journey. Haart's forthcoming memoir is titled, ''Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie''.

The show features Haart's four children, Batsheva, Shlomo, Miriam, and Aron; her second husband, Italian entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia Haart; and her best friend and chief operating officer of Elite Model World, Robert Brotherton.

Luca, a fifty-year-old salesman in a sex shop, is struggling with his own dissatisfaction as a musician. The film describes his adventures and those of his two former comrades during a single day. The sex shop is the emblem of the many personalities of the protagonists, of their hidden and unspeakable desires, not only necessarily of a sexual nature.

Loki and Sylvie enter the Citadel at the End of Time where they are greeted by Miss Minutes. She relays an offer from her master, "He Who Remains", to return them to the Sacred Timeline while offering him sovereignty and her happiness. However, the duo reject the offer. At the Time Variance Authority (TVA) headquarters, Judge Ravonna Renslayer receives information sent by He Who Remains via Miss Minutes. Mobius M. Mobius confronts Renslayer and both accuse each other of betrayal. Renslayer leaves to search for "free will" after overcoming Mobius' attempt at pruning her. In 2018 Fremont, Ohio, Hunter B-15 is pursued by other TVA Minutemen until she reveals a variant of Renslayer, a school vice-principal, to prove that the TVA employees are variants.

Meanwhile, He Who Remains greets Loki and Sylvie, who are both surprised that he is "just a man". Using a TemPad to avoid Sylvie's attacks, He Who Remains reveals he can anticipate their actions because he has foreseen the past, present, and future and that he guided them to him. He also reveals that he created the TVA after several variants of himself discovered alternative universes and contacted each other in the 31st century. Several of them tried to conquer other universes, leading to a multiversal war. He Who Remains harnessed the creature Alioth to end it, isolate his timeline, and create the TVA to prevent further branches. As he has grown weary, he offers Loki and Sylvie a choice—kill him, end the singular timeline, and risk another multiversal war sparked by his variants, or succeed him in leading the TVA and managing the timeline.

As the timeline begins to diverge, He Who Remains finds he can no longer anticipate the future and Sylvie tries to kill him. Loki fights her, fearing He Who Remains might be right and pleading that he wants to keep her safe. They kiss, but Sylvie uses the TemPad to send Loki back to the TVA headquarters and kills a surrendering He Who Remains, unleashing a multiverse with timelines that cannot be pruned. Loki tries to warn B-15 and Mobius about He Who Remains' variants, but they do not recognize him. Loki then discovers that a statue of one of the variants has replaced those of the Time-Keepers.

A group of surface-dwelling people stumbles upon an underwater city ruled by an amphibious mad scientist.

In the early 1990s, a young detective Shūichi Hioka controls the yakuza in Hiroshima, but the situation completely changes when Shigehiro Uebayashi is released from prison.

The film follows broadly the structure of Jaques' monologue ''All the World's a Stage'' in William Shakespeare's comedy ''As You Like It'' and show six scenes of couples kissing each other at different ages: ''Infancy, Playmates, Schoolmates, Lovers'' (in some versions:''The Soldier''), ''The Judge'', and ''Second Childhood''. A contrasting scene titled ''What Age?'' shows a woman of indefinite age dreamily stroking her cat.

The film focuses in three Venezuelan transgender women: Tamara Adrián (a lawyer), Desiree (a hairdresser) and Victoria (an art student) and chronicles their efforts to be legally recognized in the country, including being able to change their legal name, through a series of legal actions, as well as demand their right to an identity, in a society where machismo and transphobia are still rooted. Tamara, one of the protagonists, is a law professor at the Andrés Bello Catholic University who despite her countless academic recognitions and honors in Venezuela and in France she has not been able to win her legal battle. The documentary also depicts the social and legal exclusion that the LGBT community in Venezuela faces.

Iskat is the leader of an empire comprising seven planets. Each solar system must sign a Resolution treaty and be approved by Auditors in order to secure the right to communicate with the wider galaxy. Without a valid Resolution treaty, the Iskat Empire would be immediately conquered by stronger civilizations.

Prince Taam of Iskat is married to Count Jainan of Thea, a planet under Iskat’s rule. Taam works on a secret government mining project, operation Kingfisher. He is killed in a flight accident. The Emperor orders Prince Kiem to marry Jainan. Kiem is the Emperor’s least favorite grandchild, as well as Taam’s cousin.

After an awkward wedding, Kiem and Jainan are interviewed by the Auditor. The Auditor refuses to confirm the pair as Resolution treaty representatives, claiming that Taam was murdered. Jainan finds documentation that Taam’s final flight log was doctored, and the pair learns that Jainan is being investigated for the murder. With help from Aren Saffer, a military officer and Taam’s friend, they find evidence that Taam was embezzling military funds. They are ordered to stop investigating and fly back to the Imperial Palace, but their flybug crashes. In the trek back to civilization, Kiem and Jainan begin a true romantic relationship.

Kiem finds that the Iskat military was blackmailing Taam with a video of Taam hitting Jainan. Jainan is arrested by the military and is taken to the Kingfisher refinery, where Saffer tortures him. Saffer and the military have used the embezzled money to illegally purchase a weapons cache. They are planning to conquer Iskat’s subordinate planets, break from the Resolution treaty, and seize power from the Emperor. Saffer killed Taam to cover up his own embezzlement; he hopes to implant false memories into Jainan and convince him to take the fall.

Kiem breaks into Kingfisher and rescues Jainan. Kiem and Saffer are arrested; Jainan is hospitalized. Jainan leaks the entire story to the press, resulting in a groundswell of support for renewing the Resolution treaty. The Empire is converted into an equal partnership between all seven planets.

Julija (Gracija Filipović) and her parents, Ante (Leon Lučev) and Nela (Danica Čurčić), live on a remote island along Croatia's Adriatic coast. The film spans a weekend in the family's life, during which Ante invites an old friend, Javier (Cliff Curtis), to their home and attempts to convince Javier to purchase their land and develop a luxe resort on it. The weekend quickly goes south when old resentments and familial tensions flare up.

Julija, characterized as a quiet but independent teenager, watches her parents undertake preparations for Javier's visit with an air of disinterest, only participating when asked. She is an avid swimmer and spearfisher, who is most often portrayed wearing only a one-piece swimsuit, and throughout the weekend often retreats to the ocean.

After watching Javier and Nela flirt during a seaside excursion, Julija learns that her mother and Javier had a romantic relationship, and that Javier at one time intended to marry Nela. She presses Nela to pursue a renewed connection with Javier so that the two of them can leave Ante, who domineers over the family—but Nela refuses, saying that "as soon as he boards the plane," Javier will forget about them.

The tension between the four comes to a head at a party for Javier the night before he's meant to leave. Ante instructs Julija not to attend or to cause problems, and locks her in a closed-off section of the family home. Julija escapes by using a hatch in the floor to cave dive with a flashlight, and swimming to the site of the party. There, she and Ante clash.

After the party, Javier leaves the island the next morning without closing the real estate deal. Ante and Julija prepare to go spearfishing, something they did together often before the events of the weekend. As Julija swims behind her father, she aims the speargun at him. When he turns around in the water, she fires, but the impact of the spear—and the outcome—is not shown.

At his place of work, Kyle Burton receives a promotion as two alien spaceships begin wreaking havoc on Earth. After managing to destroy one of the spaceships, he drives home and picks up his wife Melissa. The pair then chase the school bus carrying their two kids, Timmy and Becky, and have the children jump into their car. A resulting car accident knocks most of the family unconscious as a different, larger spaceship approaches and abducts Kyle and his family.

After gaining consciousness, Kyle is told by Nyklus, Assistant General in the Space Force Division, that the spaceship was sent by King Sargon, ruler of the planet Gallesha, to rescue and retrieve Kyle as a final attempt to help end a war with the neighboring planet of Anumbis, ruled by an alien tyrant named Diederick. Kyle reveals to his family that he is a retired human war hero from Gallesha, where he served as a commanding general. A curious Timmy visits Captain Keon and learns that they have traveled outside the Milky Way. Through the use of a warp drive, the crew travels across dozens of lightyears before arriving in the solar system containing Gallesha.

Kyle meets with Sargon and tells him that he does not want to participate in the war against Anumbis. Sargon responds by telling Kyle that Diederick wants to take over the Universe and could potentially target Earth. After talking with Diederick over a video call, Kyle agrees to visit a banquet hosted by Sargon to announce his decision to the public. During a train ride, Kyle tells Melissa that when he was a child, his family was murdered during a surprise attack from a nearby planet, leaving him and his brother, Nell, as the only survivors. After running away, a man named Mangular offered to give Kyle and Nell a place to hide until the battle was over and would later go on to raise them into disciplined, strong men. After becoming a soldier for Gallesha, and being promoted to commanding general, Kyle gained a mindset that without any wars, he would have no one to fight. As a result, he fought Diederick for apparently no reason to create tension between Gallesha and Anumbis, which eventually escalated into war.

In the present, Kyle meets with Nell and tells him that instead of fighting in the war against Anumbis, he wants to help them come up with a strategy. This initially disappoints Nell, who believes Kyle is the only one who can help end the war. At the banquet, Kyle restates his decision and is told that a spaceship will take him back to Earth in half an hour. Meanwhile, Timmy is given a toy that can produce "musical bubbles" by Vayana, Kyle's ex-lover. After taking the toy away, Kyle notices that it contains a tracking device. Before he can throw it away, several explosions detonate at the banquet, knocking him out for a few seconds. Diederick and his army arrive and capture Kyle's family in the process.

After sustaining multiple shot wounds, Kyle watches as Diederick's army deploys a four-armed alien cyborg. He manages to escape and is ordered to lead the cyborg towards Gallesha's army. After doing so, Kyle sees that the cyborg has managed to overpower and kill dozens of soldiers. Kyle battles the cyborg by throwing a grenade at it and shooting it several times. The cyborg overpowers him, but Kyle manages to destroy it with a second grenade. Soon after, Kyle visits and confronts Sargon about the recent attack, believing there to be an inside job. He later receives a video call from Diederick, who reassures him that his family is safe but that he will only see them again if Gallesha surrenders. As a result, Kyle decides to lead Gallesha's army into battle as commanding general.

Joe Arroyo started his singing career in the 1970s, with local performances in the Colombian Caribbean region. Musician Julio Estrada (aka Fruko) discovered Arroyo's talent during Barranquilla's Carnival and asked him to be a part of the Fruko y sus Tesos band. He would then go on to form the orchestra La Verdad in 1981.

Arroyo is depicted in the first episodes as a young, attractive and courageous man that during a carnival falls in love with Jaqueline Ramón, daughter of the owner of a local music label. Arroyo is soon engulfed in a love triangle.

A sad part of Arroyo's life was captured in the series when his mother Ángela died.

The serial also focuses on Arroyo's struggle to succeed in the musical business and uses the lyrics from his most popular songs as a narrative device throughout the episodes.

This series is set during the Korean Independence War in 1945 and celebrates the Chuseok Party.

During the Japanese colonial rule era, Kim Moo-gil (Song Geon-hee) and Yeo Il-ae (Jo Soo-min) are childhood friends who each other's first love. Against their wills, both Moo-gil and Il-ae are forced to leave Hapcheon, South Korea and go to Hiroshima, Japan for conscription. In there, they are separated from each other and suffered an atomic bomb. Later, in 2019, they finally returned home alive and Moo-gil (now Jeon Moo-song) receive a birthday letter from his first love Il-ae (now Jung Young-sook).

The narrator states that everybody wants absolute power to transform society to their liking and proceeds to explain how such power can be obtained and sustained. The docu-series proceeds to analyze biographies of historical dictators Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Muammar Gaddafi and the Kim family.

''This summary relates to the version of the story appearing in the Creepshow 2 screenplay.''

The story centers on two rival teams in a ten-pin bowling league: the white-collar "Regi-Men" (led by the self-important Reggie Rambeaux, who takes bowling extremely seriously) and the blue-collar "Bad News Boors" (led by the easy-going Chooch Mandolino, who prioritises having a good time with his friends). As the story begins, the two teams are bowling in adjacent lanes on team night at the "Big Ten Lanes" bowling alley in "Everytown", with the Regi-Men on track to win the league. After an 82-year old bowling aficionado named J. Frederick MacDugal incurs Reggie's ire by breaking his concentration, Chooch invites MacDugal to become an honorary member of the Bad News Boors for the night. While attempting to make a 7–10 split, MacDugal suffers a "cardiac seizure", resulting in a freak accident that sees him fatally crushed by the pinsetter.

Following MacDugal's death, it is revealed that he was "the world's tenth wealthiest man" and that he has bequeathed five million dollars after tax to the Big Ten Lanes team with the highest score at the end of the season. After the Bad News Boors begin narrowing the Regi-Men's lead, the Regi-Men resort to sabotaging their opponents' Dodge van by surreptitiously loosening bolts on the axle, resulting in the Bad News Boors being killed when the van careens off a cliff and explodes. Following the incident, which is deemed a "tragic accident", the Regi-Men publicly announce they will buy each of the Bad News Boors special headstones to commemorate them if they win the league.

While the Regi-Men are practicing late one night in the closed Big Ten Lanes, the lights are switched off and they are confronted by the zombified Bad News Boors. The Regi-Men are gruesomely killed, with one member throttled, another electrified by being thrown into an arcade game, and another being impaled on a hot dog rotisserie and subsequently melted. Reggie himself is killed by having holes drilled into his skull with a ball driller. The story ends with the Bad News Boors - joined by the similarly zombified MacDugal - drinking "blood beers" and bowling using the Regi-Men's arms and legs as pins and Reggie's head as a ball.

Sofía, better known as "Sofi" is a 18 year-old humble worker who, thanks to her elder sister Natalia, gets a job as a nanny for children of a wealthy family. On her first day she is introduced to the family children: Gabriel, the eldest and rebellious son, Ceci, the middle and shy daughter, and Bruno, the infant son. Even though Sofi gets used to her job easily she struggles to earn the children's respect, especially from Gabriel, who often denigrates and humiliates her.

When Natalia learns of Gabriel's behavior she tells him and his sister Ceci a cautionary tale from her childhood: "Mormo", a child-like demon who haunts spoiled kids whenever anyone invites him to his home out loud. Gabriel arrogantly refuses to believe her and challenges her by inviting Mormo but gets no response. Sofi nags Natalia because she has childhood trauma from the same story thanks to her recently-deceased grandmother who used to scare her off with the same story in an explicit way as a result of a mental disorder. Soon, some strange things happen, like the sudden apparition of a nutcracker soldier toy and sightings of a mysterious hoodie figure who Ceci claims is Mormo himself.

At the weekend, Sofi has to stay with the kids because her bosses have a wedding invitation and Natalia asked for her day off. Sofi eventually gets attached to Ceci as she is afraid of the Mormo story, but Gabriel still taunts Sofi and invites Mormo again during dinner. After a mysterious black out Bruno disappears from the living room, Ceci warns that Mormo was the one who took him away, and now he will play with them until he gets bored.

Sofi asks one of the security guards Maurico to help her find Bruno, but when he is about to contact the rest of the security personnel, Mormo catches him as well. Sofi tells Gabriel and Ceci to flee the house but Mormo stops them by playing "red lights, green lights" and is able to freeze the players if he touches them. With Ceci's help she unfreezes Sofi but warns they should play with Mormo as a way of pleasing him. After recalling part of the Mormo tale Sofi tells the kids to play along with her hide and seek in order to draw Mormo attention who feels jealous of being ignored, Sofi then makes a deal with him: if they beat him in a hide and seek competition he will leave them alone and return both Bruno and Mauricio safe. Sofi asks Ceci to stay near the finish line as she and Gabriel go looking for Mormo. However Mormo cheats when he makes them see hallucinations of their relatives and manages to capture Gabriel and Ceci. 

Devastated Sofi hides in one of the bedrooms and mourns but she gets motivated to confront Mormo again and firmly states she no longer fears him and is able to take away his nutcracker toy which infuriates the demon. Sofi offers him to give it back in exchange for her life and the rest of his captive victims, Mormo agrees but he makes her promise that if she fails she will stay with him forever. Sofi agrees and goes to hide herself, she tricks Mormo by drawing him in one the bedrooms using a baby monitor which frees Gabriel, Ceci, Bruno and Mauricio. 

Next day Sofi is prevented from being fired by both Gabriel and Ceci now that they are fond for each other. As they take a walk in the neighborhood they pass a spoiled kid who smash his toys with a baseball bat until he notices Mormo's nutcracker implying he might turn in his next victim.

The painting depicts a scene of Christmas divination. A girl with a fair-haired braid in a kokoshnik and a Russian sarafan sits with her back to the viewer. In front of her, on the table, there is a burning candle in a high candlestick and a figured mirror, into which the heroine looks fearfully and tensely, hoping to see her betrothed in the reflection. The plot was inspired by the ballad 'Svetlana'.

Kick & Slide is a slapstick story where the characters solve the difficult and rare cases in the pop vibrant city calls "Nakame Town" with their own dance and music technics.

A boy phones his ex-girlfriend after 2 years, asking to see each other. After the meeting, he persuades her to go to his place, where he tries to get her back. Following her refusal, the boy creepily turns into a kind of werewolf.

''The Twilight Realm'' is a novel in which five role-playing game players are brought into a fantasy world to defeat an evil wizard.

"One year from now" in Amsterdam, the glass casing over Anne Frank's diary in the Anne Frank House shatters. As ink from a fountain pen drips onto the pages, the words lift off and manifest into Kitty, a red-haired teenage girl dressed in 1940s clothes and Anne's imaginary friend while writing her diary. Confused by the absence of Anne and her family, Kitty discovers she's invisible and intangible inside the Anne Frank House as she sees civilians tour the museum. Flashbacks to Anne writing her diary in the 1940s show how Kitty remembers those events as if Anne spoke to her while writing. Her memories encompass all the diary's contents.

Not knowing what happened to the Franks and the time passed since World War II, Kitty takes the diary and tries to file a missing person report at the police station for Anne. Bemused, the police point her to several places in Amsterdam named after Anne Frank before trying to arrest her when they learn she has Anne's diary. Kitty escapes and meets a boy named Peter, initially mistaking him for Anne's boyfriend. While skating with him, she discovers she'll dissolve into ink if she strays too far from the diary. Peter takes her back to the Anne Frank House after she starts feeling sick. The police interrogate him, but he refuses to disclose any information about Kitty.

One day later, Peter returns to the Anne Frank House. Kitty exits to meet him, drawing the attention of the police and forcing them both to flee again. After buying some modern clothes to blend in, Kitty visits the 6th Montessori School Anne Frank's library to catch up on history. She reviews several different published editions of Anne's diary before checking out Otto Frank's memoir and going to the play about Anne. When she criticizes the actors for misquoting Anne, the audience recognizes her from the news and swarms her. Kitty escapes and meets up with Peter, who takes her to a shelter where refugee illegal immigrants live. Awa, a little girl, helps Peter explains their plight and shows Kitty how her father plans to build a hot air balloon for them to escape.

Determined to retrace Anne's footsteps, Kitty and Peter travel by train to Westerbork, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Along the way, Kitty reads Otto's memoir and listening to Hanneli Goslar revealing that Anne and Margot had died, and becoming more depressed. Upon arriving at Anne and Margot's memorial stone in Bergen-Belsen, a devastated Kitty breaks down sobbing before Peter convinces her to return to Amsterdam with him. When they return to the shelter, they discover the government is due to deport the refugees back to their homelands tomorrow. With her new experiences, Kitty becomes empowered to help them, spray-painting Awa's father's hot air balloon to reveal her location to the world.

With a crowd gathered the next day, Kitty makes an emotional speech, accusing the world of deifying Anne and mishandling her message of helping and saving people. She threatens to burn Anne's diary unless the government agrees to shelter the refugees. The police accept her terms, and Kitty hands the diary to Awa, who delivers it to the authorities. Peter offers to take Kitty back to the Anne Frank House to live as an immortal spirit, but she declines, having fallen in love with him, and they leave together. Having separated from the diary for too long, Kitty shares a passionate kiss with a distraught Peter before dissolving into ink and dispersing into the wind.

The manga follows Tomoko Aoyama and her eldest son Hiroki. Hiroki is secretly gay but is embarrassed to reveal his sexuality, unaware that his own mother already knows it. While Tomoko has accepted her son and supports him, she refuses to out her son as she wants Hiroki himself to admit his sexuality by his own accord. Other supporting characters including Yuri, Tomoko's younger son and Hiroki's brother, who despite having no interest in romance, has attracted many girls attention and is also aware of his brother's sexuality, Akiyoshi, Tomoko's husband and the boys father, who is constantly travelling for work who love his sons but sometimes unintentionally hurts Hiroki's feelings due to his negative and outdated views on homosexuality, Daigo, Hiroki's classmate and his secret crush and Asumi, Hiroki's childhood friend who develops feelings for Hiroki but is unaware of his sexuality.

The story of the film revolves around a girl who falls in love with a police officer who catches her picking bitter oranges. The officer's marriage to someone else causes her much suffering.

In interviews with 30 associates and friends, and in reenactments of the events, director Shindō recounts the history of the Sakura theatre troupe, formed from remnants of left-leaning troupes that had been forced to disband by the militarist regime, and its end in Hiroshima. While five members died instantly, the survivors of the blast, including the troupe's leader Sadao Maruyama and actresses Keiko Sonoi and Midori Naka, died during the following weeks from their injuries. Only two members, who weren't present in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing, survived.

Fausto Morra is a 50-year old family man, owner of a food-processing plant in Piedmont, ''Cascina Riva'', consisting of hundreds of animals and acres of land. After a car accident, Fausto goes into a coma, waking up after 5 years. During that period, everything has changed: his wife Gloria married his best friend Michele and his plant is on the verge of bankruptcy. Slowly regaining his memories, Fausto realises that his past is vanishing, but he needs to discover the truth hiding behind his own affairs to get his life back. In particular, the disappearance of Paolo Ghilardi, a veterinarian who had accused Fausto of selling counterfeit meat, the night of his accident is shrouded in mystery. Once the case is solved, another mystery surrounds Fausto's family: his son Lorenzo's girlfriend Irene Ghilardi disappears the day before their marriage.

Prelude

Following Kraven the Hunter kidnapping animal styled supervillains and superheroes, Vulture forms the new Savage Six using King Cobra, Rhino, Scorpion, Stegron and Tarantula, while the Last Son of Kraven becomes the new Kraven the Hunter after the original one's death.

While Doctor Octopus is discovering clues to some of his missing memories, he exhumes an unexpectedly empty casket in a cemetery. The demon Kindred sends one of his centipedes to enter Doctor Octopus' ear, rendering him unconscious.

Kindred tells Doctor Octopus that he can help him with his memories, but he will need to gather five more people. At an unknown beach, Doctor Octopus helps Sandman with his loss of direction and promises to solve Sandman's immortality problem. Upon building a special machine, Doctor Octopus resurrects Electro with his powers intact as Kindred comments on Electro's abilities while stating that Doctor Octopus is getting closer to his true self. Doctor Octopus and Electro find Kraven the Hunter in the Savage Land hunting a dinosaur. Electro shocks the dinosaur, and Doctor Octopus recruits Kraven the Hunter into the Sinister Six by promising him to hunt down the Lizard. Doctor Octopus coerces Curt Connors into using the Isotope Genome Accelerator on himself which separates him from his Lizard side. Kindred then completes the Sinister Six by having Mysterio join him as Kindred notes that his endgame with Spider-Man is approaching.

Part 1

In Las Vegas, Doctor Strange talks with the demon Mephisto at Hotel Inferno over his part in corrupting Peter Parker's soul. Mephisto tells Strange he can only make deals with those willing to offer something in return. Meanwhile, Peter and Mary Jane Watson are attending the premiere of MJ's new movie which she worked on with Mysterio under the alias of Cage McKnight. Peter is planning to propose to Mary Jane when the movie is over in front of the press and public, but the Savage Six take the opportunity to attack. With Carlie Cooper and Harry Lyman as his prisoners, Kindred prepares for his final meeting with Spider-Man. Peter switches to Spider-Man to try and protect Mary Jane, who stands her ground against the Tarantula and Spider-Man notes that he barely fought King Cobra. Mysterio comes to Mary Jane's rescue, exposing his identity to Peter and the Savage Six. Doctor Octopus then attacks the theater with Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Lizard, and Sandman as Doctor Octopus states to Vulture that they need Mysterio. Mary Jane confesses to a concerned Peter that she knew who Mysterio was all along and vouches for him. Mysterio tries to tell Peter that he and Mary Jane's deal with Mephisto is to blame for everything that is presently happening, but Peter is far too distracted by the warring factions. Doctor Octopus offers Mysterio the opportunity to join the Sinister Six as long as he helps them capture Mary Jane. Mysterio complies and teleports away taking Mary Jane with him while promising her that the "devil will get his due". Peter is knocked out by Octavius and awakens in Kindred's lair, where the demon again tortures and taunts him using mirrors containing Mary Jane, Mysterio, and a brutalized Norman Osborn in them. As Kindred states that this is now a party, Spider-Man sees villains like Black Ant, Boomerang, Chance, Foreigner, Hydro-Man, Jack O'Lantern, Overdrive, Shocker, the Sinister Syndicate (Beetle, Electro II, Lady Octopus, Scorpia, Trapster, and White Rabbit), Slyde, Speed Demon, and Taskmaster racing towards him through the shattered mirrors. Back at Hotel Inferno, Strange demands Mephisto undo his deal with Spider-Man, but the demon claims his hands are tied. He then offers Strange a chance to "claim" more information as a prize in a game of chance.

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Prisoners of Kindred, Carlie Cooper tries to give Harry Lyman a motivational speech, reminding him of his family. Harry tells her this is not the first time he's failed them and that no matter how happy he is, how hard he tries to put things right, something is always there to remind him that none of it is real and that none of it will ever last. After more coaxing from Carlie, Harry suddenly notices that the door to their cell is open and suggests there is a way to escape. Norman awakens and arranges a meeting with a lawyer who shows him Mendel Stromm's video will. Stromm has left Norman a deposit box containing a key and instructs him to travel to Europe to face his "legacy" (or rather his "sin" according to Kindred). As Peter takes a beating from the Sinister Six, Mary Jane is transported to Mysterio's old studios where Beck reveals what happened to him after his suicide , transported to hell, and tortured there until Harry Osborn made him a deal. Taking it, Beck was revived around the time Peter's identity was public knowledge, his adventures in the Spider-Men crossover are referenced, and over time Harry stopped communicating with him until recently. Mysterio also reveals to Mary Jane that he was the therapist who helped her come to terms with Harry's death, but Mary Jane barely remembers this. Mary Jane pleas with Beck, reminding him he's changed, but Mysterio remains loyal to the deal he struck and tells Mary Jane that he knows what fate awaits him. Mysterio rejoins the teams of villains while leaving Mary Jane to the mercy of Kindred.

Part 2

As Doctor Octopus gets frustrated that Kindred has not given him the answers he needed yet while leading the Sinister Six which Kindred comments about, Spider-Man is struggling in the graveyard avoiding the attacks of Foreigner, Taskmaster, Black Ant, Chance, Jack O'Lantern, and Slyde who are out to make sure that Spider-Man doesn't leave the graveyard alive. Earlier, Foreigner's group was robbing an armored truck when they get attacked by Kindred's giant centipedes. Back in the present, Overdrive grabs Spider-Man who plans to get some distance as Boomerang, Hydro-Man, Shocker, and Speed Demon buy Overdrive some time. Shocker advises Overdrive not to kill Spider-Man without him as he and Hydro-Man attack Foreigner's group together. Earlier, Hydro-Man was with Shocker and Speed Demon where it was mentioned that Hydro-Man wasn't part of their Superior Foes. Overdrive started a driving service while planning to find Carlie Cooper. They are then snatched up by Kindred's giant centipedes. Back in the present, Overdrive is intercepted by the Syndicate as Spider-Man avoids their attacks. However, he is mortally wounded by Ana Kravinoff, the Syndicate's latest member. Earlier, Scorpia and Beetle argue about Ana joining their group with Beetle stating that they are the Sinister Syndicate and not the Sinister Six. Their dispute is interrupted by Kindred's giant centipedes. Foreigner's group, the Superior Foes, and the Syndicate find themselves before Kindred. When Taskmaster tries to attack, Kindred causes Taskmaster pain and reveals that he placed centipedes in all their heads while they were sleeping. Kindred states that he will consider killing the centipedes before they finish eating their brains, but they will be condemned to Hell either way. He challenges them to kill Spider-Man in order to punish him for his sins as if their "afterlife" depends on it. Stating that whoever pulls off the job will become his right hand, he advises them to get it done or else he will find someone who will do the job as both the Sinister Six and the Savage Six are shown.

Part 3

Badly wounded, Peter is relieved to find the Black Cat, Wolverine, and Human Torch have arrived to help, unaware they are Mysterio, Lizard, and Electro in illusion disguises created by the former. Lizard springs their trap too early by attacking Peter, much to Mysterio's annoyance. Peter fends off the Sinister Six until Doctor Octopus snares him with his tentacles. Peter attempts to appeal to Doctor Octopus' better nature, telling him he is not like this anymore. Doctor Octopus briefly hesitates, but mounting pressure from the rest of the Sinister Six compels him to act though this buys Peter enough time to break free. The Savage Six then attack the Sinister Six, giving Peter time to escape. Boomerang also has a change of heart and helps Peter escape as all of the assembled six-member teams brawl for the right to claim Spider-Man's life. Kindred revives the Sin-Eater, who is still angered at Kindred for forsaking him, once more. From Sin-Eater's reanimated corpse springs forth demonic centipedes that seek out and take possession of Grey Gargoyle, Living Laser, Whirlwind, Juggernaut, and Morlun. Led by Sin-Eater, the "Sinful Six" corner Peter in an alleyway and are ready to finish him off. As the various Sinister factions compete with each other to target Spider-Man, Kindred states that they are the players as he plans to invite Spider-Man to witness the end.

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Earlier in the day while Peter fends off the attack from the Sinister Six, Kindred continues to taunt Mary Jane in his lair. Through a series of flashbacks dating back to his childhood, it is revealed that Harry Osborn's entire life of misery, addiction, despair, and even death were defined by a deal his father struck with Mephisto to make his life much more prosperous at the cost of his own son's soul, inevitably also tying Norman's descent into insanity and criminal career to the demonic overlord. Over in Europe, Norman discovers a hidden lab housing two cloning pods and an A.I. taking the form of his son. The A.I. explains that being a survivor, he uploaded his brain waves into this machine just so he could taunt his father from the grave. Meanwhile, Harry Lyman and Carlie discover that Carlie's morgue is housed within Kindred's lair and Harry discovers his own body. Kindred admits to Mary Jane he has not been entirely honest with her and is not "exactly" who she believes him to be. It is time she learned the truth, no matter the cost, and unmasks to reveal a face that shocks Mary Jane.

Part 4

Spider-Man manages to jam Sin Eater's gun with the resulting implosion cripples him. Doctor Octopus picks one of the centipedes from Sin-Eater's brain and scrambles to piece together a sonic transducer. Spider-Man is cornered by Morlun, who prepares to feast on him before Boomerang saves Spider-Man in the nick of time. Morlun turns on Boomerang and drains him of his life essence. Doctor Octopus activates his transducer that he slipped in Black Ant's helmet and successfully disables the centipedes, knocking out everyone except himself and Spider-Man. He then urges Peter to make himself scarce before the factions can recover as many would still want to kill him, or before he changes his mind to not kill Spider-Man. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, Mephisto's game of chance ends in a loss for the devil. Doctor Strange asks what will become of Spider-Man and Mephisto answers that while Peter has walked away from a war where the odds were stacked against him, he should enjoy the small victories as a much bigger loss is imminent.

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Peter is transported to Paris where he is beaten soundly by Kindred. Elsewhere at Mysterio's studio, another Kindred is revealed to have the face of a woman to Mary Jane. Mary Jane believes it at first to be Gwen Stacy but is in actuality Sarah Stacy, who for many years was believed to be one of Gwen and Norman's children. It is revealed to Norman by the A.I. unit of Harry Osborn that Sarah and her brother Gabriel were clones of Gwen and Harry himself created in a lab as part of a conspiracy he orchestrated with the help of Mendell Stromm, Mysterio, and Chameleon to psychologically toy with Peter and Norman. Many clones of Sarah and Gabriel were created, each succumbing to cellular degeneration. Eventually, durable models were sent out into the world to carry out Harry's deception with Mysterio rewiring MJ and Norman's memories so both would have the false knowledge of the Stacy/Osborn relationship as well as the belief that Harry Osborn had truly returned from the dead. Harry Lyman confesses to Carlie, upon seeing his own corpse in the morgue, that he knew of this all along and journeys deep into the catacombs by himself. Now Gabriel and Sarah's usefulness is to serve only as husks to Kindred, who tells Mary Jane the time has come to face her own sins. Elsewhere in Las Vegas, Doctor Strange asks Mephisto to stop playing games, with Mephisto offering him one final wager... the virtue of a hero against the corruption of a soul.

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The wager is for the soul of the original Harry Osborn, who is influencing the Kindred Twins, with Sarah being the Kindred confronting Mary Jane and Gabriel being the Kindred tormenting Peter. Their souls were tortured by Mephisto each time they died, corrupted, and twisted into his demonic lackeys alongside the Harry Osborn A.I. that Mephisto had controlled from the beginning. Harry Lyman reveals to Carlie that he is also a clone of Harry Osborn. Equipping himself with a goblin glider and pumpkin bombs, Harry helps Peter, Norman, and Mary Jane battle the Kindred Twins, but is eventually killed. After Mary Jane saves Peter's life, their show of love defeats the Kindred Twins, who are released from Mephisto's control by Doctor Strange before they permanently degenerate as they are told that Gwen would have loved them. With Kindred vanquished and the "Sinister War" over, Peter and Mary Jane return home to heal and face the dawn of a new day together as a loving and unbreakable couple. When Doctor Strange questions why he attempted to claim Peter in the first place, Mephisto reveals he foresaw a future where Peter will defeat him and end his reign over the Earth with the fallen bodies of Hulk, Human Torch, Storm, and Wolverine scattered across the battlefield. As Doctor Strange departs, he reminds Mephisto that the love that Peter shares with those closest to him will always enhance his life and make every one of them better. The vision of Mephisto's future changes to show it is Peter and Mary Jane's daughter who ultimately thwarts his reign.

The novel is set in southeastern Nigeria during the 1980s and ’90s. The novel begins with the death of Vivek Oji and is told through a series of flashback in a nonlinear narrative. Born on the day of his grandmother, Ahunna's, death, Vivek becomes solidified to her by the starfish-shaped scar on Vivek's body that resembles Kavita's, Vivek's mother. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men.

But Vivek's closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek's escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.

Professor Ji-Yoon Kim is the newly appointed chair of the English department at Pembroke University. The first woman chosen for the position, she attempts to ensure the tenure of a young black colleague, negotiate her relationship with her crush, friend, and well-known colleague Bill Dobson, and parent her strong-willed adopted daughter.

In the midst of a snow storm, an evil witch changes the lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice forever.

Jonas wants to live a quiet life in Slusvik, a small Norwegian town near the Swedish border. His wife Elin is a school teacher and her teenage daughter, Sofie, is bored and disgruntled. Jonas' neighbour, Geir, an insurance assessor proposes a business deal – blackmail people who have something to hide. Jonas suspects Geir wants to blackmail him and snaps Geir's neck. Jonas dismembers the body and buries it in the woods. While there he loses Sofie's pet cat, Kasper. The townspeople believe Geir abandoned his wife and ran off. Flashbacks show Jonas as Stefan: a criminal, his gang robs a security van. Stefan kills the driver and then his gang leader, Cato. Later he uses the money to buy a new identity from a shady organisation, Omega. In Slusvik Sofie has trouble with local bully Elisabeth: they fight. Meanwhile a nude teen girl's body is found in the town's sluice gate. After another fight with Elisabeth, Sofie joins the drama club to avoid expulsion from school. The drama club practices a play on the town's pioneer, Haakon.

Several months later Sofie still hunts the woods for Kasper and finds a bloodied running shoe, which belongs to the dead girl. Jonas fears a thorough search could find Geir's body parts, so he digs them up to take them to a factory. Another neighbour, William, sees Jonas and manipulates him to help interfere with local police looking into the dead girl. Marius, a national investigator, is dispatched to Slusvik to head the search for her killer. He stirs up the press and eventually focuses on William as fitting the profile of a psychopath. Jonas and William decide to divert the blame onto Adam, Sofie's drama teacher. Adam and the drama students hike to an isolated cabin for a weekend to focus on their play. Jonas had followed along and, heavily disguised, accosts Adam and accuses him of pedophilia. He warns Adam to leave the locals girls alone. Adam is distraught and becomes increasingly withdrawn. Jonas and William decide to kill Adam but make it look like suicide.

When a criminal boss Higuruma kills his rival and a witness, an old man who tried to protect a sacred site, he believes a young girl in the old man's care, Miyo, was also a witness and escaped with the evidence of his criminal activity. Higuruma and his men hunt down Miyo as she tries to find her missing father with the help of a swordsman, Hyakasuro, while the boss and his men are haunted by the curse of the yokai of the land they desecrated.

An unnamed woman leaves New York City, where her father recently died, and moves to The Hague, Netherlands to work as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court. The woman is assigned to interpret for the former president of a West African country on trial for war crimes.

The story opens in Kabul with Alexander Burnes and his two travel companions stewing away in ennui as they await an audience with Dost Mohammad Khan. Effectively under house arrest, they have spent weeks inside the residence of the Newab Jubbur Khan, a brother of the Dost. Eventually the Englishmen are allowed into the Bala Hissar. A seasoned traveller fluent in Persian, Burnes considers himself well-versed in dealing with oriental potentates, but is floored by the intelligence and depth of Dost Mohammad, who constantly peppers him with questions regarding the outside world.

In London, the beautiful ingenue Bella Garraway accompanies her opium addict of a father to a dinner party at the mansion of aging socialite Lady Woodcourt. There she runs into Burnes, the soiree's guest of honour, now famous as a result of his bestselling account of his travels. Burnes manages to obtain Bella's permission to visit her at her father's London House. As the evening wears on he interacts with Stokes, a disagreeable newspaper editor professing an anti-imperialism outlook who deplores the jingoistic sentiments Burnes's book has generated among readers.

After a lapse of some weeks, Burnes eventually calls on Bella, beginning a courtship that is indirect, consisting solely of witty repartees, for several more months. Only when it nears the time for Burnes's return to India do the two openly display their feelings for one another. This leads Burnes to drag Bella to the London wharfs, where he waxes lyrical about the wonders of global trade. The couple then head back to Bella's, where they proceed to have sex.

In Kabul, Dost Mohammad hears of a new English visitor to the city. Suspecting the foreigner of espionage on account of his incessant information-gathering, the Afghan emir orders the courtier Khushhal to send his son Hassan to insinuate himself into the mystery man's household. Hassan is universally recognised for his angelic beauty by all except his father and is consequently deemed suitable for the mission, as the Englishman is known to be a sodomite.   

The Englishman in question turns out to be Charles Masson, an autodidact scholar intent on recording the customs, culture, and history of Afghanistan. Masson had previously been a soldier of the East India Company, during which time he ekes out a miserable existence as a pariah. His only source of consolation are his visits to the antiques shop of Mr Das, from whom he buys a multitude of artefacts which he has been covertly cataloguing during midnight visits to the latrines. One night Masson is raped by McVitie, the most popular member of his platoon, who recognises Masson's homosexuality. The incident results in Masson deserting the army, albeit only after having murdered McVitie's sidekick, who had stood guard during the rape.

The story then shifts to the Crimea, where widowed landowner Nikolai Mikhailovich Layevsky welcomes back his son Pavel from a five-year-long stint in the army. To his horror the reunion is far from private as Pavel has brought with him Vitkevich. A terminally impolite eccentric who gives off a perpetual air of sullen insouciance, Vitkevich is not only a favourite of the Russian royal family, but also an object of adoration by his fellow officers. Nikolai however fails to see why his son should be so besotted with the stranger, not knowing Vitkevich to be the sort of fellow who would ensconce himself in a brothel for the sole purpose of drinking champagne. Vitkevich catches Nikolai enjoying an intimate moment with Masha, the estate's head cook who is something of a surrogate mother to Pavel, which results in Vitkevich revealing that he is soon to embark on a mission of the utmost importance, namely a visit to Kabul. Vitkevich then proceeds to sermonise on Russia's manifest destiny and the empire's need for territorial expansion, a concept Masha voices scepticism over. 

In London there is a panic over Russian ambitions in Central Asia, some of which has been whipped up by readers of Burnes's travelogue. Lord Palmerston finds himself being constantly assailed by advocates of an aggressive anti-Russian foreign policy, even at the opera. Meanwhile, out in the Gloucestershire countryside, the journalist Stokes spends an afternoon riding when he comes across a secluded Elizabethan man. He is allowed a tour by a servant and is accosted by the house's owner, who turns out to be a much bloated Bella, who has not been seen in London society for some years. Bella's transformation into a recluse is officially ascribed to ill health, though the actual reason is her having birthed Burnes's son out of wedlock, a fact she keeps secret from the father of her child.

Burnes is back in India, where he accompanies Lord Auckland to a rendezvous with Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire and a known enemy of Dost Mohammad, and Shah Shujah Durrani, a former king of Afghanistan whose throne Dost Mohammad had usurped. An indecisive and malleable bachelor who routinely demonstrates his personal power by making his entourage wait, Auckland intimates to the Sikh ruler that their two countries should join hands to war with Dost Mohammad. Burnes is thereupon sent to Kabul, where he enjoys regular audiences with Dost Mohammad, who presses him for an alliance with Britain. 

Burnes meets two other foreigners in Kabul. The first is Masson, who Burnes treats with overt dislike and condescension. The second is Vitkevich, who is being given the same treatment the Afghans had meted out to Burnes at the start of the book. Over an English-style Christmas dinner which the Afghans had rather effectively mimicked, Burnes is charmed by Vitkevich despite the Russian's unwavering dissimulation. Burnes does eventually learn of Vitkevich's mission in Kabul one day when Dost Mohammad asks him to ascertain the veracity of an official Russia letter offering a military alliance. Burnes consults Masson but ends up disparaging the other Englishman's perceived lack of honour, resolving to tell Dost Mohammad the truth even though Burnes knows the Russian offer to be one London is incapable of matching.

Back in England, Bella rides in her first ever train to return to London after a five-year absence. Her sister Elizabeth remains a spinster, any prospect of marriage having been rendered impossible on account of Bella being a single mother. One evening, the ladies attend a ball at a Duke's palace where a dance by the newly crowned Queen Victoria kicks things off. To her great surprise, Bella finds herself the second opening act as she is asked to dance by Lord John, the duke's heir. The aristocrat is a former suitor of hers and Bella immediately senses his continued interest. She is temporarily left to her own devices as Lord John goes to mingle with the rest of the crowd, during which time she is accosted by Stokes, whose standing in society has gone up, as has his expenses (it no longer being appropriate for him to be seen commuting on foot and not by carriage, for example,). Lord John returns and takes the pair to see the latest acquisition of his antiquities-collecting father, parchment bearing a single Greek letter that the old duke has been led to believe to have been a poem by Sappho. The trio run into the Queen, who surprises them with her learning. Lord John pre-empts Stokes - who by now finds himself desiring marriage to a wealthy woman so that he may maintain his lifestyle - in asking for permission to court Bella. She declines, knowing full well the union's impossibility given that she's had a child out of wedlock.

The British invasion of Afghanistan proves easy to achieve. By the time the book returns to Burnes, Kabul has already been occupied for close to three years, the British having placed Shah Shuja on the Afghan throne while Dost Mohammad enjoys a courtly exile in British India. In the remote Afghan hills is the Dost's son, Akbar, who traverses the countryside from safehouse to safehouse, forever plotting the expulsion of the British when he is not busy fornicating with his male lover. That the British have not harmed Dost Mohammad is taken by the Afghans as a sign of weakness. Slowly Kabul becomes infiltrated with Akbar's relatives and followers.

Housed in a military cantonment outside of the city, the army occupying Kabul finds itself in a state of constant boredom, its officers having to put up with a never-ending series of dull formal dinners hosted by their wives. As a diversion from the mundane repetitiveness of everyday existence, a hunt is arranged to welcome Burnes's brother, Charles. A sergeant goes missing during the course of the pastime, but the man's disappearance is treated with the same levity Burnes and his companions had given the mysterious appearance of mulberry branches in their bedrooms. 

The branches actually constituted a warning message from Akbar's followers. One night the two Burneses return home to their house inside the city. The next morning they wake up to find the house emptied of its servants. Both men understand the severity of the situation, as the missing sergeant's decapitated head had been secreted in Burnes's bedroom. Outside a crowd gathers, its hostility palpable. Pacing around the house, Burnes soon finds a lone servant who claims to have been left behind by the others. The servant promises to lead the Britons to safety. Donning native disguise, their faces blackened, the brothers climb the back wall and are led through the crowd, unnoticed by the Afghans. Burnes is ultimately betrayed by the servant, who turns out to be the same Hassan Masson had bedded, and the crowd descend upon him, leaving his mutilated remains to be consumed by the city's stray dogs.    

The film revolves around the TJ "Fuffy" and Amanda "Fream" who are unusually close friends who are often mistaken as a couple.

Funani and Faith Zwide are the pioneers behind the fast-growing fashion and textile empire in the country, House of Zwide.

In the early stages of the company, Faith who was Funani's secretary had an affair with Funani. His wife found out about it and Faith went to her, trying to explain and apologise but instead ; she and Funani's wife (Busi) fought.

In the fight, Faith stabbed Busi (Funani's wife) with a scissors in the neck and unfortunately, she died. Panicking, Faith called Isaac, a hitman whom is her ex-boyfriend to come and help her. Since Isaac would do anything for Faith because he still loved her, he helped her.

Isaac and Faith plotted on burning down the house with Busi inside so it could look like her death was a result of the fire. Faith leaves and Isaac starts on the job.

Isaac succeeds in burning down the house, not knowing that Nkosi and Zobuhle, Busi and Funani's kids were there. Getting out, Isaac hears a newborn baby ; Zobuhle's cry and he fails to leave it to die but instead decides to raise it as his own. He names the baby Onalerona.

In her twenties, she aspires to be the best designer in the industry but doesn't know the past is yet to haunt her.

''Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights'' begins after the Blight has destroyed the entire kingdom of Land's End and turned all of its inhabitants into the Blighted. The protagonist and player character is Lily, the last surviving descendant of the White Priestesses, who has the ability to cleanse spirits of corruption. Lily is accompanied on her journey by the souls of spirits who have been purified of the Blight.

She is welcomed by the spirit of a knight, who had sworn allegiance to the previous White Priestess, who managed to bind the spirit of the faithful knight to Lily for her protection as she is quite young and defenseless. The knight will help navigate through the scourge kingdom, to find the way and recollect memories together, and, above all, to fight for the young priestess.

Viri and Nedra live with their children, Franca and Danny in an idyllic existence in the countryside. Viri works as an architect in the city, and the couple enjoy hosting dinner for a variety of friends. The first set of friends while leaving the house after dinner with the couple are divided in their opinion of the pair, with Peter admiring their semi-bohemian lifestyle, and Catherine sees Nedra as selfish. Around this same time, the family misplace their new pet tortoise.

While on the outside it seems like family have the perfect life, both Viri and Nedra conduct affairs, and imagine themselves travelling to Europe and expanding their circle of friends.

Nedra's father falls ill and dies, with his daughter travelling back to her small home town to say goodbye shortly before his death, and to clear out his belongings and sell his house. Nedra vows to herself to never return to this town.

With their children now teenagers, and young adults, the pair finally travel to England. Though appearing content, Nedra indicates that things will change for the couple when they return from their holiday.

The following year the couple divorce, and Nedra leaves again for Europe, having a number of encounters with other single men. Viri is left stunned, remaining in the house with his children that have started to make lives of their own.

Nedra returns to the USA for Danny's wedding, taking a flat in the city and trying to enter the arts world, encountering a disciplined theatre troupe that she tries to join, and is rejected for being too old. She continues to conduct affairs.

Peter falls ill with a rare terminal illness, bringing both Viri and Nedra to see Peter and Catherine more frequently before he finally dies.

Both in their late forties, both reflect on their lives, separately concluding that the biggest confirmation of their identity and that they have made their mark, are their children.

To everyone's surprise, Viri sells the house.

Nedra dies in the same manner as her father. After her funeral, Viri travels back to where the house was and in the field adjoining, finds the tortoise lost so long previously, still alive. He comes to understand his place in his life, and feels ready to face the rest of his life.

The story takes place in Surat, India, where a single follower of Judaism, Hinduism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam argue with each other about the true path to salvation, while a quiet Chinese man looks on without saying anything, the piece concluding when the followers turn to him and ask his opinion.

The show chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of a diverse coed team of 9- and 10-year-old baseball players in Brooklyn as they learn to be a team, deal with hard work, and face disappointment. The team has 20 members: nine girls and 11 boys.

The team is led by their coach Bobby Gari, who played for the Panthers back in the 1980s, and his assistant Mr. Cruz (always called "Mr. C"), who tries to be a calming voice in the children's frenetic world. The players include Stephanie, the daughter of Mr. C and an ace pitcher; Jarian, the team's best hitter; Jarra, a right fielder who is high-spirited and friends with everyone on the team; Christine, a left fielder who tries to be the team's personal cheering section; Jordan, who is stuck in a midseason batting slump; Kevin, Jordan's best friend who is better at batting; Aida, who wants to be a pitcher but has trouble throwing; and Justin, who plays short-stop and outfield.

AD 66, Jerusalem. The Romans ruled Judaea with an iron fist and the sophistication worthy of the empire. They like the rich strata of society and corrupt them as a result. Even the high priests responsible for administering the temple and its works are tainted with deep corruption. In contrast, the impoverishment and oppression of the Jewish masses incites many young people to join secret groups of religious zealots, becoming freedom fighters in the name of God. They not only despise the Roman conquerors, but also the wealthy Jews who cooperate with them in oppressing their own people. As tension builds underground, a small spark triggers a rebellion.

Ben Batikh is a young Jew living in Jerusalem who feels the tax burden in the city and the Roman rule makes life unbearable. His uncle Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai preaches for moderation, but the nephew rebels and becomes the leader of the fanatical Sicarii.

At the start of the revolt, Ben Batikh collaborates with the warrior Shimon Bar Giora but their paths later diverge. After the fall of the Galilee to the Romans from the north, John of Gischala arrives in Jerusalem to offer help. The rebels open the gates to him, but instead of uniting, the factions fight while the priests under Joshua ben Gamla slaughter and sacrifice sheep.

At the same time, the Jewish queen Berenice of Cilicia travels to the Galilee to seduce the Roman commander Titus, in hopes of saving Jerusalem.

As the Roman war machine approaches Judea to quell the revolt, Jerusalem is torn apart by bloody civil unrest: poor zealots slaughter the aristocracy non-stop and a zealous terrorist regime rules the city. Heavy street fights are waged by rival fanatical gangs, and one battle ends with the burning of food silos in Jerusalem. A terrible famine breaks out. Gangs roam the city robbing the hungry residents of their last loaves of bread. Life in Jerusalem is a total hell.

Only after the Romans surround the city, the Jewish fanatics finally unite against their common enemy. Their seemingly impossible situation transcends them to a deep spiritual state in which they lose all fear of death. They attack the Romans with daring suicide attacks. For a moment the Jews appear to gain the upper hand, but the Romans soon recover, break down the city’s walls, slaughter thousands and destroy the Temple.

Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius criminologist at Cambridge University, who has OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crimes.

In Hiroshima Prefecture during the Meiji era, simple housemaid Seki accepts the proposal of Moichi, an educated mail carrier, who has decided to quit his job and save money for a warehouse by transporting goods with his wooden cart. Seki's parents disown her for not asking for their approval, and also Moichi's mother, a widow, does not accept her as her daughter-in-law, treating her disdainfully. The couple borrows money for a second cart, and Seki joins her husband in his hard labour life. The film follows Seki through familial and financial difficulties and her raising five children over the next 50 years, and ends with the post-war agrarian reform.

The series follows the life and career of Cindy Adams, a gossip columnist for The New York Post.

The playwright creates a supernatural and mysterious atmosphere in the graveyard. The whole incident takes place inside the graveyard. The play moves forward through the dialogue between The Leader and Inspector Hafiz in a semi-drunk state. Suddenly, Murda Fakir appears like an incorporeal soul. Both The Leader and Hafiz fear him in their minds. Apparently there is a combination of madness in his words but it is the exterior of the play. His every word is metaphorical. The cry in his chest is the cry of conscience, the cry of the country and the nation. After saying goodbye to The Leader and Hafiz, Fakir goes some distance and comes back and says, “Smell! The smell of dead bodies on you! What are you doing here? Go, hurry to the grave! You want to have fun by sending them to the grave by trickery, don’t you? No, this will not work in [https://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2012/21st%20February%202012/page2.htm my state].”
Those whom they have unjustly killed are alive and well. That is why the corpses do not want to enter the grave, they rebel. They protested Hafiz’s words, saying, “It’s a lie. We are not dead. We did not want to die. We will not die...we will not go to the grave.”

A librarian's husband and mother-in-law turn out to be psychotically abusive. When the husband mistakenly thinks he has killed her, he dumps her in a river, where she is saved by a fisherman. Desperate for money and in need of help to take revenge on her husband, she hooks up with a bank robber whom she falls in love with. Together, they return to her husband's home in attempt to kill him and save her baby.

While the Cutie Mark Crusaders—Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle—are hanging out at Scootaloo's house, she gets a postcard saying that her parents, Snap Shutter and Mane Allgood, are coming home. Snap and Mane travel widely for their work studying exotic wildlife, which others believe to be "impossible", and Scootaloo is often left in the care of her aunts Holiday and Lofty, among others. Although initially excited to see them, Scootaloo becomes dismayed when her parents tell her of their plans to take her with them as they relocate to Shire Lanka. The desperate Crusaders come up with various plans to help Scootaloo stay in Ponyville, but Snap and Mane sell their house and continue to make preparations to move. Their ideas include: creating a make-believe beast for her parents to study instead, which fails due to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle falling out of its costume; showing that they are an inseparable trio with their near-identical cutie marks, which does not succeed as Snap notices features that distinguish them; binding themselves together with magic, which lacks success as they find it hard to walk; and chaining themselves to the house's "For Sale" sign, which proves unsuccessful as the sign is quickly moved.

Eventually, Scootaloo and the Crusaders take a train to her aunts' houses as a trip to Shire Lanka is only available once a month, meaning her parents will have to leave without her or risk missing the train. During the visit to Holiday and Lofty, they learn that they helped Lofty to break through her creative block, inspiring her to make a Crusaders-themed quilt. Upon the Crusaders' return to Ponyville, Scootaloo brings her parents to a town-wide celebration of the former group. Snap and Mane allow Scootaloo to stay in Ponyville, recognizing the importance of her work with the Crusaders. Holiday and Lofty decide to move to Ponyville so they can look after Scootaloo.

Utsugi Tokosuke is a 77-year-old invalid, recovering from a stroke that has paralyzed his hand. He lives in Tokyo with his wife (unnamed), son Jokichi and daughter-in-law Satsuko, in a large house in surroundings of wealth and comfort. His married daughters Kugako and Itsuko, and their young children, visit him occasionally, though he is cold toward them. As the book progresses, it becomes clear that Tokosuke is erotically obsessed with his daughter-in-law Satsuko, although he is impotent. In return for various expensive gifts, Satsuko permits him to kiss parts of her body, particularly her lower legs. The book culminates as Tokosuke plans to have Satsuko’s footprints carved in stone upon his tomb when he dies. The book contains numerous descriptions of medical procedures and treatments, and ends in a series of short accounts given by his private nurse, doctor and daughter Itsuko. Tokosuke is still alive at the end of the book, and it is unclear whether his funerary plans have been carried out.

After making a trailer reaction video for ''Cruella'' (2021) as part of a series called ''Deadpool's Maximum Reactions'', Deadpool invites Korg to make a similar video for the trailer for ''Free Guy'' (2021). Deadpool asks Korg of his opinion of Taika Waititi while commenting as to his own lack of resemblance to Ryan Reynolds' character in the film. Following the video, Deadpool asks Korg about his own chances of joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), to which Korg responds by complimenting the possibilities and telling him to keep an eye out for an email from Marvel Studios.

The action takes place in the Middle Ages. On a market place, among a crowd of showmen, soldiers, countrymen, ladies and gentlemen, two adventurers are cutting the well-filled pockets of the onlookers. The crowd heads towards the hut of a magician who proves his skill by making a boy disappear. Then he puts a superb white hen into a lottery. The crowd fights over the numbers, the wheel turns and the lucky winner take the bird away.

In a barnyard, a peasant woman is taking care of the farm. Her husband comes back from the city and triumphantly shows her the hen that he himself places it carefully in the henhouse. The woman enters the henhouse to examine the white hen's nest where she finds a gigantic golden egg. She quickly tells her husband about her strange discovery. In the henhouse, the white hen, who is actually a fairy, jumps to the ground and turns into a person. At a sign from her, the other hens turn into women. Then the henhouse changes into a magnificent palace where the personified hens perform a graceful ballet until a huge basket of golden eggs appears. The henhouse suddenly returns to its original form and the dancers become hens again when the farmer and his wife return. They look at the huge, shiny eggs in amazement. The farmer breaks one of them and gold is dripping from it. The two peasants make a bountiful harvest of the magic eggs and go out to count their wealth. In the barnyard the two adventurers seen in the first scene enter and snatch a rabbit. The two peasants come out of the henhouse and while the woman jealously clutches her gold, the peasant threatens the thieves, who bow out and leave, but not without noticing the golden eggs.

The two peasants have become immensely rich and live in a sumptuous palace. A magnificent cage is installed in honour of the benefactor hen. Before going to bed, they admire it and stroke it. During the night, the two adventurers enter by climbing the balcony. They see the mysterious cage, discover the eggs and break one of them. The evil genie that was hiding there emerges in the form of a bat. Overcoming their fear, they examine another egg and see through the shell the sardonic head of Satan, spitting gold. They throw away the bewitched egg, which disappears in a cloud of smoke. At this moment they hear the peasant coming back and hide behind two armours. The master of the house opens a secret trap door and enters the underground cellar. He plunges his hands avidly into the accumulated gold and visions appear to him. On the wall, huge eyes roll menacingly in their sockets and gigantic hands seem to want to take away his property. Finally, the visions disappear and the peasant returns to his room. The two thieves come out of their hiding place, and steal the treasure. At dawn, the farmer and his wife recoil in horror when they see the door of the underground open and the gold gone. The farmer runs to the cage but no egg has been laid. He arms himself with a cutlass and, despite his wife's urging, goes to a small room in the castle to kill the hen.

As he hesitates to kill it, Satan appears and convinces him. Once the hen is dead, th peasant searches the entrails of the animal where he finds only one last egg. He violently throws the egg against the ground to break it and the fairy Misery appears. She tears his clothes to shreds and chases him away. The scene changes to the palace of the hen that lays the golden eggs. The peasant rises in a fairy tale setting, where, among gigantic eggs, fantastic roosters spread their wings. He is chased away by the fairy hen and by the others fairies who emerge from the enchanted eggs. The gold fairy appears, unfurling her cloak, from which gold flows everywhere.

The physicist Franklin Fargo tries to commit suicide out of grief over the death of his fiancée, for which he was partly responsible, by plunging his car into a lake. He loses consciousness and comes to in an unknown capsule full of apparatus. There he is greeted by a mechanical voice as "Subject 13" and is given various mental tasks by it. It soon turns out that Fargo is in a scientific research station. The station is deserted; the events before Fargo's arrival are only revealed to him through tape recordings of the researchers, which he gradually finds scattered around the station. As the game progresses, Fargo encounters a female ghost inside the station, visually resembling his fiancée Sophie, who warns him of the task-setting mechanical voice, and explores the isolated island formerly inhabited by the Hunapus nature tribe on which the station is located. It turns out that Fargo is not the first person to face the tasks of the mechanical voice, and that it is the Hunapo deity Ah Cizin who tests the intelligence of its "test objects" in order to subsequently absorb the most outstanding among them.

The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela's oldest daughter's 18th birthday, despite a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister, Chiara. However, later that night, a car explodes on the family's street and Chiara witnesses her father fleeing. Everything changes the next day when the family patriarch disappears, and Carmela acts as though there is nothing to worry about. Chiara, unconvinced by the news story and her mother's low-level panic, finds a secret door in her living room and begins a deep investigation into her family, discovering ties to the mafia and the criminal underworld. The following day, a social worker picks up Chiara at school and puts her in foster care to protect her from her problematic family. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.

The son of a Prague miller, who expected him to follow in his footsteps, Mysliveček as a young man flees to Venice to realize his dream of becoming a composer. Against all odds he manages, becomes known as "Il Boemo" (i.e. "Czech"), and his success surpasses even his own expectations. During the 1770s, he is at his most prolific, composing numerous works in the genre of Italian ''opera seria''.

Kei Miyama is a 17-year-old Japanese boy living in Iceland with his grandfather. He works as a private investigator, using his supernatural ability to communicate with machinery. The story follows Kei as he solves cases for various clients, with help from the strange people in his life. At the same time, a larger mystery is unfolding involving his younger brother, Michitaka. Despite appearing delicate, beautiful, and sweet, he hides a sinister side to him and is wanted by the police.

Medical student Jane lives with her delinquent younger sister, June, while taking care of their grandmother. Her intense studying schedule, household duties, and struggle to pay debt prompts her to become an insomniac. Jane's professor, Nichcha, suggests she participate in research held by a German pharmaceutical company.

The company's head scientist, Hans Miller, explains that their experiment, dubbed Deep, will be conducted in three levels and aims to harvest a brain chemical called Qratonin, which induces wakefulness in humans. This is achieved through implanting a microchip in the subject's nape. After being promised a fitting reward and signing an NDA, Jane was implanted and given a watch to monitor her Qratonin level. Hans warns that the chip will induce cardiac arrest if she ever falls asleep for more than 60 seconds before she reaches 100% Qratonin levels.

She encounters fellow students and Deep subjects, party-goer Win, gamer nerd Peach, and popular student Cin. After reaching the end of Deep's first level, they each receive their rewards. As they grow closer, Cin confides that she has a stalker. The group name themselves Non-Non (meaning no-sleep in French and Thai). They decided to proceed to the second level of Deep, offering an even bigger reward provided they stay awake longer. Each of them becomes increasingly delirious, experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations. They realize that more students partake in the experiment and their sleepiness slows their Qratonin level rises slower. To cope with this, they held a party at Peach's house. At one point, Cin is shocked to discover that Peach is her stalker, and fell unconscious before being resuscitated. After Cin's near death experience, the group finishes the second level and quits the experiment, seemingly breaking up. Jane witness a student who died due to the Deep.

After her grandmother suffers a stroke, Jane discovers that June also participates in the Deep. She confronts Hans, who threatens that June's third level of Deep has started and he won't remove the chip unless she gathers her friends back for the experiment. Cin and Peach initially refuse, although they later rejoin the group.

Non-Non, with June, participate in Deep's third level and plan to stay awake with the help of Professor Nichcha. By day six, they start to experience vivid hallucinations and the situation descends into chaos, prompting Jane to seek out Professor Nichcha for help. Jane instead discovers that the company was a front, Hans Miller is an actor, and Professor Nichcha is the mastermind behind Deep. Nichcha locks Jane and the group in her patient room. She tries to extract Win's chip after he fell unconscious and seemingly died, only for him to revive and attack her. It is revealed that the group, after shutting Nichcha's surveillance, fakes Win's death using CCL injection to trick her.

Professor Nichcha explained that she started Deep to revive her comatose lover, Jed — who fell from a building due to sleep deprivation as shown at the beginning of the movie — using the harvested Qratonins. She states that she never meant harm to her subjects, showing that she implanted herself with multiple chips. Desperate, Nichcha drugs Jane. After a brief struggle, the group revives Jane and incapacitates the professor.

In the aftermath, Professor Nichcha is arrested and all her implanted chips are extracted from the subjects. Each of the Non-Non mends their personal lives and is reunited as friends.

A Brazilian street boy, Antônio, wakes up early in the morning on the beach of Salvador (Bahia). At sunrise, he is overtaken by strange thoughts: The bible says that God created light even before the sun and the stars. Light, but not sunlight! Maybe the light is the light within our interior enlightenment. Nature's biggest catastrophe is when man began to think. However, before God created light, he said: “Let there be light!” So, before light there was the voice of God. A sound ... a big bang ... the sound of thunder ... rolling off a drum. Only this thunder had the power to create light. If it weren't for that sound from the depths, that primal noise, today man wouldn't be able to think.

Antônio meets Valdyr, a blind black man who sees with his ears. The two become friends. Valdyr knows that man has lost his naturalness by thinking. Man gave a name to everything ... with words ... man gave sense to everything around him. For man, the whole world was changed and consequently his problems began. As this spirit invaded man, his inner peace was gone and violence appeared. This is why all men are striving to find that peace again and to recapture that primal wholeness. But how? They try to communicate with the Gods using a sound, similar to the primordial sound. In Brazil they use an instrument: the drum!

Antônio and Valdyr roam through the city of Salvador (Bahia) searching for this primordial sound. (Salvador is also known as “Black Rome” because of its cultural Afro-religious traditions). Along the way, they meet various drummers and learn that the drum is the oldest instrument that man used to communicate with the Gods. The drum calls the Gods. These descend and connect with humans. God and man become one again, one sound. At this point, understanding and reason no longer play a role. He, who understands the world only with his head, lives his life only half way. A man who thinks that he can rule the world with just his head creates danger for himself.

In the noisy carnival hustle and bustle, where nothing follows reason but rather emotion, Antônio senses a strange tension between his head and his stomach, which keeps him from staying calm. Valdyr shows him that this tension is important. There is the same tension between the stretched skin of a drum and the sound that it makes. If the skin is not tightly stretched, the drum cannot make any sound. Antônio realizes that inside we have to be stretched like a drum skin in order to make sound, to become sound ourselves. “We too are instruments. And we have to always be playing.”

In a note at the start of ''Women Talking'', Toews describes the novel as "a reaction through fiction" to the true-life events that took place between 2005 and 2009 on the Manitoba Colony, a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia. Girls and women would regularly wake up in the mornings to discover they had been sexually violated. The attacks were dismissed as 'wild female imagination,' or else attributed to ghosts or demons. Eventually it was revealed that a group of colony men had been spraying an animal anesthetic into neighboring houses at night, rendering everyone unconscious, and raping all the women (infant, elderly and relatives included). The colony elders, deciding that the case was too difficult to handle themselves, called local police to take the perpetrators into custody.

Here begins Toews "fictional response". ''Women Talking'' centers on eight women of varying ages who, in the aftermath of such traumatic events, must determine what to do next. As they see it, they have three options: do nothing; stay and fight; or leave. The stakes are high, and they must come to a decision quickly. The colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, will soon be returning. Over the course of two days, in the privacy of a hayloft, the women have a series of fierce, philosophical debates. How will they heal, protect their children, educate their sons, keep their faith, and, most of all, forgive? The colony's bishop, Peters, has told them that if they refuse to forgive their offenders, they will be denied entry into heaven.

The novel is presented as the minutes of the women's meetings, which are taken by August Epp, the colony schoolteacher (he is also the novel's narrator). Unlike the women, he has experience of the outside world, having once been excommunicated, and is able to read and write (the women speak only Plautdietsch, an unwritten German dialect). He performs his role of minute taker at the request of Ona Friesen, the object of his unrequited love, and one of the eight women in the hayloft. As time runs short for the women, and they begin to put their action plan into motion, August's own tragic story is also revealed.

Act 1

It is a dark and stormy night at Shantay Manor on remote Tuck Island where Lady von Fistenberg has invited a series of top celebrities to gather for her annual dinner party in honour of Prince Charles and Lady Diana's tenth anniversary. As each guest arrives, various rivalries and alliances take shape. 'World Of The News' editor Morgan Pierce brings her camera and tape recorder, convinced that the royal couple themselves will join them for the evening. Conservative MP Rich Whiteman is also a guest and confronts Pierce, upset that his reporters have been harassing his wife with repeated calls, trying to speak with him. Meteorologist and television personality Summer Raines enters and is subjected to a tirade by MP Whiteman about how he considers women to be stupid and helpless. Television producer Phil Maker arrives, bragging about a brief encounter with a woman on the train, before realising that it was Raines he had been with. Maker also states that Pierce had published embarrassing photos of a night out he had had with a pop star. Shazza (the pop star) then arrives, announcing that the island is now cut off as a tree has blocked the bridge. Later we find out the Shazza fears she is losing her celebrity status. Each guest admits they don't actually know Lady von Fistenberg but accepted the invitation regardless. Throughout the evening Lady von Fistenberg and her guests are assisted in turn one by one of the Bottomley triplets, Blue, Brie and Spread (we only see one at a time as all three are played by the same actress). The electricity flickers and the phone line is cut. After eating one of the Bottomley sisters' crispy filled pancakes, Raines becomes violently ill and dies from poisoning. Spread Bottomley attempts to serve a tray of Swiss roll but the lights cut off and on, during which time her hands are chopped off. She too falls dead to the floor. Aware they have a murderer in their midst, but with no way to leave the house or to contact the authorities, the guests agree to go to their separate rooms to wait for morning.

Act 2

Shazza has left her bedroom late in the night and sings a self-described 'dramatic' number to open Act 2. Maker joins Shazza and attempts to seduce her, but he is electrocuted when trying to turn on the television. The other guests run in to find Shazza with Maker's body. A detective arrives at the door. Dressed in a trenchcoat and speaking with a heavy French accent, he says he is Inspector Gadgee, who has reached the island by boat. He begins to interrogate the guests, who have been accusing each other for the murders as each of them seems to have a motive. Blue and Brie prepare breakfast (with one of the sisters now played by the actor who had played Phil Maker). While discussing their buttering skills a masked ninja bursts in on them and mortally injures Brie. Gadgee believes Pierce to be the killer, but Pierce refuses to be interrogated and decides to leave the manor. As soon as she starts her car outside it explodes. Gadgee is now convinced that MP Richman is the killer after the MP admits Pierce had uncovered his affair with a rentboy named Valentino. The MP is tied to a chair for interrogation, then left alone so Gadgee can look for evidence. While the MP is tied to the chair the mysterious masked figure enters and kills him. As the bodies continue to pile up and with accusations flying, Shazza draws a gun she has found. A ricocheting bullet hits Lady von Fistenberg, who falls to the floor. Blue is shot in the foot, causing her to collapse. With only Shazza and Gadgee left standing, Gadgee removes his hat, moustache and trench coat to reveal he is actually Summer Raines, who had faked her death to get her revenge on each of the guests, as she had longstanding grudges against each of the other celebrities. Lady von Fistenberg recovers, retrieves a pistol and shoots Raines dead. There is a knock on the door and Princess Diana enters, apologising for being late to the party.

Archer is asked to tail Lucy Champion, a colored girl light enough to pass for white. He suspects that his client Una has given him false details about herself and the reason for her request but agrees because he needs the money. After tailing Lucy, he discovers her in a motel room with her throat slit. Among her effects is a newspaper clipping offering a reward for information concerning Charles Singleton, a socialite missing from his home in Arroyo Beach. Archer sees a connection, since it is dated from the time that Lucy left her employer a fortnight before.

Lucy's boyfriend Alex is imprisoned on suspicion of being her murderer. Archer believes he is innocent and agrees to help Lieutenant Brake with the case, hoping to clear Alex's name. What he learns about Singleton is that he had been connected since 1943 with a good-looking blonde named Bess. This eventually proves to be the clue that helps Archer to unravel a complicated history. As a teenager, Bess had been given a night club position by Chicago gangster Leo Durano and had then come West and married the small-town Doctor Benning, while at the same time carrying on an affair with Singleton.

Singleton's car is discovered burnt out after an accident in the mountains, but Archer is able to prove that the body in it belongs to crooked private eye Maxfield Heiss, who was also in pursuit of the reward money. When Archer locates the missing Bess, she agrees to tell her story in return for stake money to escape the area. She confirms that Una is Leo Durano's sister, who has been intermittently insane for years while Una has cared for him. Presently they are located in a mansion at Arroyo Beach, living off his share of the numbers game pay-off. Two weeks before, she had given Leo a gun and driven him to where Bess and Charles shared a mountain shack. Leo had shot Charles and they had taken him to Dr Benning for treatment, but Charles had died on the operating table. At this point, Una bursts in and shoots Bess, while Archer kills Una.

Later Archer confronts Dr Benning and accuses him of deliberately killing Charles out of jealousy. Lucy, who had been acting as Benning's nurse, spotted his guilt and the doctor had in turn murdered her. He had also disposed of Charles' body and mounted the skeleton in a cupboard, pretending he had bought it for study purposes. Archer disgustedly denies him the chance of committing suicide and turns him in so as to exonerate the wrongly imprisoned Alex.

Barbara O’Brien (Hogan), an Upstate NY, Irish Catholic mother who says her rosary daily, then swears profusely as she drives her kids to school. Barbara’s life is ruined when her son Jimmy (Jay Jay Warren), a college freshman, is involved in a fraternity hazing incident. Barbara resorts to extreme measures when she encounters empty promises in Washington, D.C.

Up in Heaven, the bumbling angel Petronel feels misunderstood and unfairly treated. He complains to God and asks for an opportunity to prove himself. God grants him this request by asking him to replace Saint Peter at the pearly gates while the latter is away.

At the gates, Petronel meets the devil Uriáš, who is there to collect sinners once they have been judged. Petronel sentences three souls to Hell, then begins to play cards with the devil, neglecting his duties. A lineup develops, and God shows up to investigate. He rebukes Petronel, who takes it upon himself to castigate the Lord instead of taking responsibility for his negligence. God then decides to punish the impudent angel by sending him down to Earth in the form of a mendicant monk. He is tasked with saving the soul of one sinner within the span of a day. If he fails, he will be condemned to Hell. Uriáš is sent down to accompany Petronel.

Meanwhile, another story is taking place on Earth. Count Maxmilián spends his time in revelry, while his administrators and servants rob him behind his back. Petronel arrives at the castle as a beggar and mistakenly fulfills the wishes of the miscreants taking advantage of Maxmilián, instantly turning him into a beggar and enriching the knaves. The Virgin Mary, who witnesses these events from Heaven, reproaches Petronel. The angel promises to make up for his errors and proceeds to fix the consequences of his misguided actions.

As the angel's time on Earth expires, he is surprised not to find himself in Hell but back in Heaven. He queries God about this, wondering why he was forgiven, since he failed in his original task, to save a sinner. The Lord reveals to Petronel that he managed to save himself by righting his wrongs. The story ends with a Christmas celebration.

The novel commences with the ''Calypso'' sailing inshore off the Camargue region and the sighting of an isolated semaphore station. The outward appearance of ''Calypso'', a former French frigate, causes no alarm. Ramage captures the station bloodlessly. It passes signals between the main French naval base at Toulon and the Spanish base at Cartagena. Ramage mans it with a detachment of his crew, to gather intelligence.

Signals report a merchant convoy of ships assembled at Barcelona, bound for Marseilles, Genoa and Leghorn. Ramage intercepts the most recent message from Barcelona, complaining that the escort frigates have not arrived. Ramage sends a false signal, ordering the Barcelona convoy to sail and rendezvous with the escort off the "Baie de Foix", the vicinity of the captured signal station. The convoy of fifteen ships falls for the ruse and arrives. The problem facing Ramage is, what to do next. He lacks the crew to man the merchant ships as prizes, guard the prisoners taken and safely escort them to the British base at Gibraltar. Ramage devises a plan that is revealed as the story progresses.

Ramage issues revised orders to the merchant ship's master's. The orders are delivered by Midshipman Orsini, who speaks fluent French. The convoy sails to assemble at a safe but remote anchorage off the south of Sardinia. This does not arouse suspicion in the merchantmen but takes them away from the mainland and possible intervention by the French. In the course of the leg to Sardinia, Ramage has the smallest and most lively of the merchantmen, the tartane ''Passe Partout'', boarded and taken over. Ramage contrives for the convoy to arrive piecemeal at their destination anchorage so that he is able to board and capture each merchantman as they arrive without raising alarm in the remainder. He disposes of the prisoner problem by landing them on the remote Sardinian shore.

Ramage mans six of the largest ships with prize-crews and dispatches them in convoy to Gibraltar under overall command of Aitken, the First Lieutenant. He still has to deal with the crews on the remaining mercantmen but this, he leaves for the night. He intends to keep ''Passe Partout'', but scuttle the rest. Just as darkness falls, a French ship of the line (later identified as the 74 gun ''Scipion'') is sighted approaching a night anchorage a little further around the coast. The French ship could jeopardies the ''Calypso'' and Ramage's plans.

Ramage could "cut and run" to escape the French ship but instead, decides to attack, using two of the gunpowder-ladened merchantmen as floating bombs. While the plan nearly goes awry, it is ultimately successful. As a final touch and to help ensure the safety of Aitken's convoy of prizes, Ramage returns to the French coast to destroy a signal station near Collioure. This severs communication between Toulon and Barcelona.

Aitken's convoy; however, is intercepted by a French frigate. Orsini, commanding one of the prizes, acts quickly. Sailing toward the frigate he hails in French that all the ships have the plague. Just as the first frigate departs, another is sighted approaching on the same course. She is identified as the ''Calypso''.

In a prologue, a nameless poet, after publishing a poem depicting a lonely hunter whose sight impressed him, is contacted by a man named Misugi who recognised himself as the described hunter. Misugi sends him three letters, one by his niece Shoko, the second by his wife Midori, and the third by his lover Saiko. These letters take up the major part of the book, with each woman describing the past events from a different perspective, a technique similar to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film ''Rashomon''.

Misugi, a company director and art collector, is newly married to the much younger and inexperienced Midori. Midori's older cousin Saiko is married to physician Kadota, with whom she has a daughter, Shoko. When Saiko learns of Kadota's adultery, she divorces him. Saiko visits Midori, making a great impression on Misugi with her sophistication and education. Misugi falls in love with her, and soon the two start a passionate affair. Saiko feels guilty for her betrayal of her younger cousin, vowing that she will kill herself if Midori ever found out. Unknown to her, Midori finds out about the adultery but decides to keep calm about her discovery. Midori has short affairs with other men while her marriage with Misugi deteriorates into coldness and loneliness. During a visit to the ill Saiko, Midori finally tells her that she knows all about her and Misugi's affair. Saiko, also devastated about the news that her ex-husband remarried, asks Shoko to burn her diary for her and commits suicide with poison. Instead of destroying it as told, Shoko reads her mother's diary, dismayed about its content.

Back in the present, in a short epilogue, the poet reflects on Misugi's character.

Before ''Monster Hunter: World'', as the Fifth Fleet makes its way across the Great Sea to the New World, a group of young hunters aboard the flagship begin to brag about the upcoming battle against the Elder Dragon, Zorah Magdoros, only to be silenced by Aiden, a veteran hunter sitting nearby. Hoping to humble the youngsters, Aiden recounts his own tale of his first encounter with an Elder Dragon.

Ten years ago, Aiden was a teenager living in a small mountain village. Since the village is so small and remote, the people cannot afford the time or zenny (the in-world currency) required to go to the nearest Guild-house whenever some minor monster makes a pest of itself. Aiden had taken it upon himself to hunt down these monsters for his neighbors. He is sent into the wild to find the monster that stole some livestock from the village, only to encounter a Velocidrome, a large, blue, raptor-like Bird Wyvern Monster. Aiden is almost eaten by the monster until Julius, a Hunter from the guild, saves him and escorts him back to the village. Soon Aiden learns from Julius that the monster that took the livestock, an anthropomorphic catlike Lynian creature called a Melynx, was the true culprit and the tracks Aiden was following were fake. Aiden finds the hideout of the Melynx, named Nox. Aiden captures Nox and brings him to the village to show Julius. He soon learns from the Wyverian leader that an Elder Dragon, a monster that can devastate the environment and leave mass destruction in its wake, is on its migration path to the New World, which will bring it through Aiden's village.

Julius agrees to bring Aiden to see the Elder Dragon to confirm the upcoming attack so that the villagers will agree to evacuate. Aiden, Julius, and Nox reach the site where the Elder Dragon was sighted. The Elder Dragon is revealed to be a Lunastra, a blue female Manticore-like Elder Dragon with powers to cause explosions with her powder. Aiden decides to have the whole village fight off the Lunastra instead of fleeing from it. Though it's against his protocol, Julius decides to stay with the village and fight off the Lunastra as well, shooting a signal flare to call other Hunters.

Later, the trio meet up with two Hunters named Mae, the owner of a journal Nox stole, and Nadia, a Bowgunner and an old partner of Julius. They were both hunting a Nerscylla, a large, spider-like Temnoceran Monster with poisonous crystals on its back. They kill the Nerscylla and agree to help with the fight against the Lunastra. Information from a trapped villager leads them to the blacksmith Ravi, a retired Hunter who does not take kindly to strangers. He refuses to help the party, saying that there is no light at the end of the tunnel if they fight the Elder Dragon.

They return to Aiden's village, letting everyone in on the plan to drive off the Lunastra. During the preparations, the team attempts to hunt a Congalala, a large pink, hippo-headed primate-like Fanged Beast that consumes different mushrooms to power its breath and flatulence attacks. However, the hunt is interrupted by a Deviljho, a savage Brute Wyvern with dangerous Dragon Element breath. They manage to defeat both monsters, but Julius scolds Aiden for his arrogance in failing to secure their trap for the Deviljho. Later, in the village, Nadia tells Julius to go easy on Aiden because just like him, Julius made mistakes when trying to impress his master in the past. Ravi meets up with the team, revealing he has changed his mind and decided to help fight the Elder Dragon. Ravi, with the help of many other smiths, craft a super weapon called a Dragonator using parts from the Congalala and Deviljho. Once the preparations are complete, the villagers feast and await the siege. During the fight, Ravi and Mae are killed by the Lunastra, but Aiden has an idea to use gunpowder to burst the village dam to flood the village while the rest of the team distract the Elder Dragon. The flood produced by the broken dam puts out the fire and repels the Lunastra from the village.

After dealing with Lunastra, Mae and Ravi are mourned. Aiden then decides to join Julius and Nadia as an "Ace Cadet" to the distant town of Dundorma to become one of the Guild Hunters. The film ends to the present day and sets up towards ''World''.

Set in 1974 Boston, the film centers on police officer Bill Coughlin, who is tasked to protect a couple of black students as they are bussed into an all-white high school, Coughlin being also under the pressure of a local crime boss. In the same time, Wendy Robbins, a 18-year-old student and her father Lamont, are caught in the middle of some violent protests on the streets, while Kate, Bill's teenage daughter, is faced with her own racist attitude.

Van is a Boer farmer who lives on farm inherited after the death of his grandfather. He lives with his wife Suzette and son Klein Jan. When Suzette learns that their daughter Marike, is getting engaged to an Englishman, George, it is met with shock. Van knows what his father, Schalk, will think. That night, at an induction ceremony for Klein Jan, Van breaks the news to Schalk, his mother, his brothers Danie and Willem and sister Elmarie. Schalk demands that Van cancel the engagement due to his stuck in the past rivalry between the Boers and the British. Things get worse when Marike and George arrive at the farm two weeks later.

The couple's arrival is met with disdain for Van, who had to go to the doctor prior to their arrival due to stress. Marike tells Van and Suzette that she and George plan to marry while on vacation. Van's attempts to break the engagement prove futile, especially after trying to get Marike back with an ex-boyfriend at the local country club. An argument between Marike and Van results in Van coming to the realization that he should give George a chance. When George's parents and grandmother arrive from England, they meet Van when he attempts to give a constipated cow an enema, which ends disastrously. George's dad Harold runs a horse booking tote and always says "wanna bet" while Mavis is seen as a bit of a snob. During their visit, Van and George slowly begin to bond, much to the chagrin of Schalk, who stalks the family in hopes that they will end George and Marike's engagement.

At a karaoke club, Schalk chokes on some food only to be saved by George. An embarrassed Schalk leaves while Van gets drunk to the point he embarrasses his family and is kicked out of the house for the night. Apologizing to Suzette and vowing to do better, she forgives him. The next day, everyone is shocked to learn the country club has burnt down due to an accident. To make amends with everyone, Van decides to turn the family farm into the wedding venue. The family, along with George and his parents, decide to help. Danie, Willem, and Elmarie, torn between their father's grudge and Marike's love, decide to help Van as well. Marike and George finally get married and Schalk arrives at the reception, realizing the error of his ways and tells Van he is proud of him. The extended family celebrates after the reception by having a braai.

''Australia's Sexiest Tradie'' follows the story of bogan plumber Frankie Wood. When local radio station, Heat FM, runs a seven-day competition to find "Australia's Sexiest Tradie", tradesman Franky Wood will go to any length to win and make his heartless father proud. As a finalist, Frankie finally has his moment in the spotlight with a documentary crew following his every move. But as the days pass, Frankie's portrayal of his perfect life starts to show cracks.

Ramage has been given orders for an independent fighting cruise of the Mediterranean to capture sink or destroy as many enemy ships as he can and generally create havoc. His ship, HMS ''Calypso'' is perhaps the only British presence in the Mediterranean at the time. The ''Calypso'' is a former French frigate. With her French lines and still rigged with French-cut sails, she is well suited to such an endeavor. The novel opens at night, with the ''Calypso'' sailing off the Tuscan coast, near Punta Ala. Two oddly rigged ships are sighted coming to anchor for the night in the lee of the headland.

''Calypso's'' arrival at the same anchorage later that night rouses no alarm and the two ships are easily boarded and captured. Their strange rig is because they are bomb ketches. Each is armed with two large calibre mortars that fire exploding shells, intended to batter shore installations. Interrogating the senior captain, Ramage learns that they were to rendezvous with two French frigates further down the coast at Porto Ercole – approximately sailing. The frigates are to embark troops and the ships are to sail to the western Mediterranean. It appears likely that an invasion force is assembling. Regardless, Ramage sees an opportunity to disrupt Bonaparte's plans. He mans the two ketches from his crew and quickly trains them to proficiently employ the unfamiliar mortars.

Ramage sails his ships toward the peninsular of Monte Argentario, with Porto Ercole on its southern side. Nearing Monte Argentario, three French frigates are sighted approaching Porto Ercole. While Ramage's ships wait off the northern side of Monte Argentario, Ramage, Martin and Orsini, disguised as gypsies, go ashore to gather more intelligence on the situation at Porto Ercole. They are captured but Jackson and Rossi have followed them (without orders) and help them escape.

Returned to his ship, Ramage attacks Porto Ercole. The bomb ketches bombard the port as the frigates are moored and loading troops and their equipment. One frigate is destroyed, the second is severely damaged but the third sails clear of the port with ''Calypso'' in pursuit. The Frenchman was damaged by bomb blast and the hard chase has worked planks free. She strikes her colours and Ramage boards the sinking ship but she is beyond saving. Ramage is able to rescue many of the crew, including Rear-admiral Poitier, commanding the French ships. He has also captured the admirals orders, which had not been thrown overboard in the confusion. He was able to confirm that Bonaparte had planned a second invasion of Egypt; however, Poitier received orders at Porto Ercole that the invasion was cancelled. The soldiers being embarked were to garrison other French conquests.

At Porto Ercole, the damaged frigate was abandoned by the French and cut out by the bomb ketches to become a prize. The saved French prisoners were released on parole, Wagstaffe was given command to sail the prize frigate to Gibraltar and the ''Calypso'' would continue her four-month cruise of the Mediterranean.

About one thousand years before the main events of the story, Earth's ecology collapses. Fumiko Nakajima is a scientist who designs space stations for a massive business conglomerate called Umbai. She chooses to leave her lover Dana behind as a privileged group of humans escapes Earth.

On the resource world Umbai-V, a young boy named Kaeda meets Captain Nia Imani. Every fifteen years, her ship visits his planet. Because of time dilation, each fifteen-year period takes only a few months for Nia. Over the course of Kaeda's life, they meet sporadically. When Kaeda is an old man, a young boy appears from nowhere, surrounded by the wreckage of a ship. Months later, Kaeda passes custody of the boy to Nia. He gives the boy a flute which was originally gifted to him by Nia.

Fumiko, having lived almost a millennium with the assistance of cryogenic sleep, hires Nia to care for the child. Fumiko believes he possesses the ability to Jaunt, meaning to travel through space instantaneously and without time dilation. Nia and her crew agree to raise the boy for fifteen years outside of the knowledge of Umbai, waiting to see if his powers will manifest. Initially the boy appears mute, but he and Nia bond through music. The boy reveals that his name is Ahro. He was a slave on a generation ship crewed by musicians before a kind crew member helped him escape. Nia raises Ahro for the next four years. He eventually learns to Jaunt, returning to Umbai-V among other worlds. Fumiko's Umbai contract prohibits her from working outside the company. When her secret research base is discovered, the company murders her workers, stranding her alone and without power.

Vaila is both a pilot on Nia's ship and one of Fumiko's former lovers. She kidnaps Ahro and betrays the crew to Umbai. Ahro is tortured by Umbai scientists as they experiment on him, trying to decipher the source of his power. He is placed in a coma so he cannot Jaunt and escape from them. Eventually, they use his blood to manufacture fast travel (FT) drives.

Fumiko rigs a makeshift power source on her research base and uses it to contact Vaila. Vaila arrives at Fumiko's base expecting a reconciliation, but Fumiko murders her and steals her ship. After FT drives become commonplace, Nia brings out Ahro's flute and plays it. The music allows them to forge a psychic connection. For fifteen years, Nia travels the universe and plays her music for Ahro, but he does not wake from his coma. Eventually, she travels back to Umbai-V. As she plays a final song for Ahro, Fumiko bombs the station where Ahro is hidden. He awakens from his coma and, sensing danger, Jaunts to Umbai-V. He and Nia finally reunite.

A confusing comedy results from mistaken identity between the cashier Theodor Jensen and an escaped criminal, Gerhardt Müller, both played by Carsten Winger. Nanna Stenersen plays the role of Mrs. Jensen.

Jason Dessen, a former quantum mechanics physicist, is a college physics professor who lives in Chicago with his wife, Daniela and their son Charlie. One day Jason is kidnapped and drugged. He wakes up in a science laboratory and stumbles out of a metal cube. He discovers that he is in an alternate Chicago where, fifteen years previously, he had decided not to marry Daniela and had pursued his career as a physicist instead. In this world he built the cube that enables the occupants to move between the countless worlds created from every possible outcome of every event.

Jason is held and questioned by the scientists. They believe he is the Jason from this world, referred to as Jason2, and is the first person to successfully return from a journey in the cube. Jason learns that Jason2 was his abductor who came to Jason's world to see what his life would have been like had he abandoned his career and married Daniela. Jason2 sent Jason to Jason2's world so that Jason2 could pretend to be Daniela's husband.

Determined to return to his own Chicago and his wife and son, Jason escapes and enters the cube. Unfamiliar with its operation, he finds himself transported to a number of parallel worlds. Eventually he reaches his own world, where he finds Jason2 living with his wife and son. He convinces Daniela and Charlie that he is the real Jason, and takes them into hiding to evade Jason2. Jason2 finds Jason and attempts to kill him, but Jason mortally wounds his rival. To avoid the other belligerent Jasons who were created each time Jason, while navigating the alternate worlds, made a decision, he flees with his family to the cube to start a new life in another world.

is an elementary schooler with a talent for drawing manga, which she publishes in the school's paper. After being lauded for her exceptional skills, she finds herself challenged by another student named , who begins publishing her own manga alongside Fujino's but demonstrates herself as the superior artist between the two. Infuriated by this, Fujino throws herself into improving her art skills, which leads to her alienating her friends and family as she obsesses over overcoming Kyomoto. In spite of improvements, Fujino fails to reach Kyomoto's standards and quits drawing. When her class graduates to middle school, Fujino is tasked with delivering Kyomoto's diploma to her, as she is an agoraphobic truant who never left her house. Fujino enters Kyomoto's house and finds piles of sketchbooks. Finding a slip of paper, she draws a ''yonkoma'' mocking Kyomoto, but it inadvertently enters Kyomoto's room, alerting her to Fujino's presence. Kyomoto comes out of her room to meet Fujino, revealing herself as a huge fan who had been following her manga in the school paper for quite some time. Extremely flattered by Kyomoto's enthusiastic idolization of her, Fujino claims to have plans to submit manga to contests and takes up drawing again.

The two eventually team up to create manga, submitting multiple one-shots that receive high praise. During their teenage years, Fujino is told that she will be serialized, but Kyomoto opts to not join her as she wishes to get formal education in art. Fujino continues on without her, working on her manga ''Shark Kick'' which becomes popular enough to receive an anime adaptation.

One day, Fujino receives news of a mass murder at an art college, and discovers that Kyomoto was one of the casualties. Overcome with guilt over the possibility that she had indirectly led Kyomoto to her death by inspiring her to pursue an art career, Fujino returns to Kyomoto's house and tears up the ''yonkoma'' she drew years ago. A scrap slips into Kyomoto's room and seemingly time travels to the fateful day when the two meet. Kyomoto is too alarmed by the scrap to exit her room, preventing her from meeting Fujino. Despite this, she still develops a genuine interest in an art career and attends the college anyways. She is nearly killed by the mass murderer, but is saved by Fujino, who apprehends the would-be killer. The two catch up as Fujino is loaded into an ambulance for injuries, and Fujino offers to create manga with Kyomoto.

Returning home, Kyomoto draws a ''yonkoma'' of Fujino saving her from the murderer. A gust of wind blows the manga out of her room, and into the view of Fujino back in the regular timeline. Shocked by the manga, Fujino enters Kyomoto's room, finding an open window and multiple copies of ''Shark Kick'', showing that in spite of their falling out Kyomoto never stopped looking up to her.

Still despairing over her life choices, Fujino denounces drawing, only to remember all the times her manga made Kyomoto happy. Fujino returns to work and continues drawing manga, having taped Kyomoto's ''yonkoma'' above her workstation to remind her of why she continues with such a seemingly unfulfilling life.

After she turned 21, Gia is brought to her first adult club by her older sister Nicole. Nervous about being an adult, Gia personifies herself as three kids (aged 10, 16, and 1) stacked on each other and wearing an overcoat. At first, Gia has trouble accepting her surroundings and runs to the bathroom. All three Gias argue with each other over their failed efforts in taking charge and resolve to simply make the best of their time together and act normal. Gia heads back onto the dance floor with Nicole and bumps into a man.

16 becomes enamored and attempts to take the reigns of the situation, but 1 accidentally steps on his foot and scares him away. 10 gets into an argument with 16 and 1 tries to take control, only to accidentally throw up on another person. All three Gias fight until they spill out onto the dance floor, causing everyone to stop and stare. Humiliated, the Gias all flee to cry in the bathroom.

Nicole goes to check on her sister, telling her that she is aware of how hard it is to be an adult. After Nicole reveals her own embarrassing moment in her life, Gia is reminded that she has already accomplished many adult tasks, and that she will continue to do well. All three Gias hug and, upon leaving the stall, form back into 21-year-old Gia. As the sisters head back out, they imagine all the other clubbers at various ages and dance the night away.

Nona tunes in to her favorite television show, ''E.W.W. Smashdown Wrestling'', a past time she shared with her late husband. She suddenly hears a knock on the door and discovers her granddaughter Renee has been dropped off by her son. She tries to continue watching the show, but Renee gets in the way.

Nona tries to distract Renee with crayons, Legos, and her dog, but Renee keeps finding ways to get in Nona's way of watching television. Eventually, Renee catches what Nona is watching and tries to emulate what she sees by jumping from the stairs. Nona rushes up to catch her and accidentally knocks over the television; damaging it. Due to the lost connection Nona had to watching E.W.W. Smashdown Wrestling with her late husband, Nona breaks down in tears. Seeing how sad she is, Renee emulates a wrestler for her and they enter a fantasy sequence of the two of them wrestling against each other. Nona and Renee laugh together.

In a post-credits scene, Nona is on the couch with a sleeping dog and Renee on top of her as the latter's favorite show Kitty Kitty Dance Party plays. Nona tries to reach for the remote, but it falls to the floor, frustrating her.

Léo and Rémi are two thirteen-year-old boys. After they have spent the long summer holidays in innocent intimacy with each other, their close friendship is thrown into disarray as their relationship is noticed at the beginning of the school year and commented on by their contemporaries at school. In reaction to their sometimes insulting or intrusive comments, Léo attempts to distance himself from Rémi. Rémi is devastated by Léo's unexplained withdrawal and coolness. He commits suicide. Léo seeks comfort and grows closer to Rémi's mother, Sophie, and finally is able to express to her his sense of guilt to which she has a dramatic but, finally, empathetic reaction.

Mahmoud is a womanizer. He spends all his time in relationships without thinking about marriage and tries to get close to Nadia, his club partner for five years, but she repels him, forcing him to ask for marriage and stipulates that before agreeing that if he betrays her, she will betray him in the same way. Mahmoud agrees and marries her, and she succeeds in turning him into another successful person in his working life. After months of marriage, the wife suspects her husband’s actions, then discovers his betrayal with one of his clients, and begins to act with him in a way that suggests that she is cheating on him, which makes him live in torment and pain, and when the suspicion increases, he divorces her and leaves Cairo to forget his pain, and when he returns to his office, he is surprised by the agent of the office, and he presents him with a file, and he sees the documents that confirm that his wife did not cheat on him and knows that everything that happened was just an act, he decides to return to his wife after she had taught him an unforgettable lesson.

After Mariam is bullied in her elite Jordanian private school, she plans revenge with her friends. However, it has un-expected consequences. The show also portrays different aspects of school that aren't talked about. The show reflects and represents the patriarchy, corrupt systems/industries, bullying, sexual assault, reputation and the tradition of honour killings.

After the violent death of Sadanori Shimoyama, president of the Japanese National Railways, journalist Hayami, who works for the fictitious newspaper "K", is entrusted with the task of managing the coverage of the case. While rivaling newspapers advocate a murder theory, Hayami, who resents sensationalism, interprets the evidence and unofficial statements by police officers as suicide, for which he faces criticism by superiors and readers. During the investigations, Hayami thinks back to the death of his young wife Harumi 16 years ago, who committed suicide with another man, leaving behind no explanatory letter but only a short message telling him that she loves him. He also has repeated meetings with his former art teacher Usan, who wants him to help publish a book on ancient cloth colouring techniques. Usan offers him his daughter Keiko, who appears to be interested in Hayami, as a wife. The Shimoyama case eventually remains unsolved, and Hayami decides against the prospect of marrying Keiko.

A young artist, Charlotte Salomon comes to age on the eve of World War II, creating a masterpiece.

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This 90-minute documentary will follow KSI as he embarks on the biggest year of his career so far.

With over 35 million subscribers, KSI, aka Olajide Olatunji or ‘JJ’ for short, is one of the most influential online stars of his generation. At just 28 years old, his videos have been watched more than eight billion times, he has built an online following across gaming, boxing, music and his raucous adventures with the Sidemen.

With the release of his #1 second album, preparation for his sold-out European tour and a headline show at Wembley, it’s the biggest year of his career so far. Through this intimate documentary we will take the audience inside the world of a global star as he transcends the online world he dominates to become one of this generations most talked about performing artists and prove to his critics that he's here to stay.

During an expedition in Antarctica, a geological team accidentally discovers a Nazi laboratory from World War II that was kept hidden in the depths of the ice. A terrible secret weapon is hidden in the lab: an army of genetically modified sharks piloted by superhuman Nazi zombies. When they are awakened, they take to the skies, with terrible consequences for everything that crosses their path. An elite military group of four fallen US soldiers in Vietnam faces the threat to save the Earth from destruction.

''Therapy'' is the story of a dysfunctional couple that hires the services of an unconventional therapist in an effort to solve their marital troubles. The plot as a whole talks about the inability of a man to produce children in an African context. Mr. Lima is almost losing his mind over his wife's psychological pain. The methods of Dr. Benedicta leads the couple to discover truths that threaten the couple more.

On Beerus' planet, Goku and Vegeta continue their training under Whis, now joined by Broly to help him control his rage. Meanwhile, on Earth, the revived Red Ribbon Army, led by Commander Magenta and Staff Officer Carmine, recruit Dr. Hedo, the grandson of Dr. Gero, to seek revenge against Piccolo and Gohan. Under Hedo's guidance, the Army creates two new androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, to act as superheroes in the public eye. They deploy Gamma 2 to attack Piccolo, who loses the fight. Piccolo follows Gamma 2 back to the Red Ribbon Army's base and discovers that Magenta and Hedo are working on a new android named Cell Max, a new and improved version of Dr. Gero's ultimate weapon, Cell.

In order to lure Gohan into a trap, Magenta decides to kidnap his daughter Pan. A disguised Piccolo, having learned of this plan, volunteers himself for the kidnapping party, and intercepts Pan, who agrees to go along to get her father to pay attention to her. After learning that she has been "kidnapped", Gohan leaves his studies and launches a full-scale assault on the base alongside Piccolo, who has used the Dragon Balls to attain a new form dubbed "Orange Piccolo". Unleashing his "Ultimate" form, Gohan battles Gamma 1 and overwhelms him while Piccolo battles Gamma 2 using his "Orange Piccolo" form. Piccolo defeats Gamma 2 before stopping the fight between Gohan and Gamma 1. After seeing Carmine trying to kill Pan, the Gammas have a change of heart and help Gohan and Piccolo save her.

In a fit of rage, Magenta prematurely activates Cell Max, causing him to be released as a giant, rampaging monster. Hedo kills Magenta to stop this but is too late. Gohan, Piccolo and the Gammas, joined by Goten, Trunks, Android 18 and Krillin, battle Cell Max. Goten and Trunks fuse into Gotenks and, despite botching the Fusion Dance, are able to crack Cell Max's skull, revealing that he does not have a healing factor like the original Cell. Gamma 2 sacrifices himself to injure Cell Max, destroying his left forearm. Combining his "Orange Piccolo" and "Great Namekian" forms, Piccolo battles Cell Max but is ultimately defeated. This causes Gohan's inner rage to finally erupt, unlocking an evolution of his "Ultimate" form called "Gohan Beast". As Piccolo holds Cell Max in place, Gohan kills him by destroying the nucleus in his head with a supercharged Special Beam Cannon. With the battle over, Gamma 1 and Dr. Hedo renounce their evil ways and join the Capsule Corporation.

In a post-credits scene, Vegeta defeats Goku by landing a soft hit after both fighters exhausted all of their strength in their sparring match. Vegeta gloats about his victory as an awestruck Broly and Lemo look on, much to Cheelai's irritation.

At the start of the game, Lucky arrives by boat at Champion Island, a place where athletes from around the globe compete with each other. She is then confronted by two Komainu, who challenge her to a match of Table Tennis to test her skills. Once Lucky beats the pair, they believe her to be The Chosen One, and tell her of the seven champions of the island and that beating them would restore order to the island and make her the Island Champion.

Lucky can then choose the order to compete against the champions and beating each champion will earn her one of seven Sacred Scrolls. These are: * The Kijimuna, a tribe that hosts marathons along a beach. * The Tengu, who masters table tennis in a village now abandoned in a bamboo forest. * Princess Oto-hime and Urashima Taro, who compete in artistic swimming underwater. * Yoichi, master of archery near the island's lotus pond. * The Oni, a group of trolls who are champions of the island's rugby. In this event, Lucky is aided by Momotaro and his friends. * Fukuro, an owl who sits at the top of the island's mountain and observes the Climbing event. * Tanuki, master of the Skateboarding event taking place in Tanooki City.

After obtaining all seven Sacred Scrolls and beating all the champions of the island, a large cherry blossom tree bursts into bloom in the center of the island, and falling petals rain over the island. The people of the island then congratulate Lucky on becoming the Island Champion.

If Lucky collects 23 of the 24 trophies, selecting the podium with no trophy reads the message "don't trust the bird", activating the final side quest. Lucky is then tasked with finding the true trophy master, who is revealed to be Momo, the black cat from ''Magic Cat Academy'', the Google Doodle for Halloween 2016 and 2020. This changed when the Paralympics made their debut, and anyone who has completed the 22 previous side quests and plays the Paralympic game without starting afresh can complete the 23rd and 24th quests without losing history of the last quest.

Yoomi, the youngest of three, loves to eat the food her grandmother makes for her, except for kimchi, which she finds to be "stinky" and "spicy". Due to Yoomi's distaste for kimchi, her brothers belittle her, calling her a baby.

In an attempt to show her brothers they are wrong, Yoomi attempts to eat kimchi with a variety of other food, such as pizza slices and cookies, but to no avail. Yoomi's grandmother then decides to help by teaching the kitten how to make a savory kimchi pancake, which all the siblings end up liking.

In a ballroom at the Plaza Hotel, the always fussy, neat, and perfectionist Felix Unger is leading the dress rehearsal for his daughter Edna's wedding. The rehearsal has gone on so long that everybody in the wedding is too tired to even stand up straight anymore and the violinist is complaining of how often he has to play Felix's selected song. (“Mr. Unger, my fingers are bleeding!”) Furthermore, the rehearsal is cutting into the time the hotel has to set up for another convention in that ballroom. This, along with Felix's fatal error of making an ultimatum over something he requested in the ballroom that hadn't been fulfilled, gets their reservation revoked by the assistant manager.

Gloria, Felix's wife (whom he remarried at the end of the series), decides to kick him out of the house for almost two weeks in order for her to plan the wedding without him. Naturally, he returns to the apartment of his former roommate, Oscar Madison. He finds the apartment messy as usual (and with a stored motorcycle in the hallway, of which Oscar is charging the owner half of what storage places in New York would have), but more importantly, Oscar's voice is suddenly raspy and hoarse after having a vocal cord removed due to throat cancer. (Due, actually, to Klugman's real life throat cancer surgery in 1989.)

Felix is so touched by Oscar's cancer situation, he arranges a poker game, but tells all the old buddies to always let him win. Which goes until Speed finally cracks and beats him and spills the beans. (Oscar does forgive them and resumes playing poker with them.) Felix also helps him with voice exercises, which starts to strengthen his vocal cords. Enough so that Felix, who at this point is working producing television commercials, offers Oscar a voice-over job. However, Oscar wasn't too thrilled to find out it was as the voice of a toilet that had been cleaned with the advertised product. Felix, however, gets him his job back with the New York Examiner, but it's as the advice columnist who is similar in nature to Ann Landers or Dear Abby. Oscar reluctantly accepts, but starts to enjoy the job once Myrna transfers over to help him. (Eventually, he resigns and gives the job to her since she's been basically doing all the dirty work anyways.)

Felix holds the engagement dinner at Oscar's apartment when Gloria couldn't do so due to painters still working. All goes well (including Felix bonding with Edna's fiancée over many things) until he finds out he's been divorced twice, at which things turn severely sour.

Felix is now on the lam to learn about his previous wives. The first one is a pretty cutthroat photographer who threatens to fire two assistants, and then fires the secretary for letting Oscar and Felix in. This alone causes Edna to come by and ask Oscar to tell Felix to stop, because it's embarrassing. Oscar tries to talk Felix out of it, and Felix initially says he would stop.

However, he goes to find the second wife anyways. As it turned out, she was a nudist whom Felix inadvertently had a photo taken with that got back to Gloria. Gloria, in turn, kicks him out of the wedding permanently and files an injunction against him. Therefore, he asks Oscar to walk Edna down the aisle in his place and also give a speech, of which he agrees.

However, because he knows it isn't the same, Oscar sets things up to have Felix take his place where he belongs by stopping and making an impassioned speech about him and what walking his own daughter down the aisle would mean to him. After so, Felix, who was intentionally pathetically hiding behind shrubbery (his top hat clearly visible), is brought into the wedding to assume the duty and nobody objects.

After a very lively reception, where Edna intentionally tosses the bouquet to Oscar's girlfriend, Jeannie, before entering the limo, Oscar confesses to Felix that he is willing to accept the toilet bowl voiceover job, but Felix informs him the spot was long since taken, then offers him a spot in a potato chip ad as the voice of the deep fryer, which he accepts.

Sara (Shiyaza Mohamed) invites her Instagram friend, Ina (Washiya Mohamed) to her island to capture nature photos, who happens to be her husband, Naveen's (Yoosuf Shafeeu) ex-girlfriend. Naveen broke up with Ina, four years ago, due to her behavior and thirst for money. Naveen's younger brother, Mubeen (Ali Azim) aspires to become a politician though he refuses to compete with his brother, Naveen, who is the current atoll councilor. However, his soon-to-be wife, Niufa (Irufana Ibrahim), a policewoman, puts pressure on him to compete against his brother and to replace him. Ina starts blackmailing Naveen into fulfilling her demands and makes advances on him. Naveen decides to meet her to clear all their misunderstandings but gets caught by Ina during her night patrolling. Once Ina's behavior was unbearable for Naveen, he throws her out of their house, much to Sara's discomfort and surprise. Naveen agrees to meet Ina one last time to delete the misrepresentative photos of their initial encounter, but Sara follows him and catches them together. Ina fabricates lies and changes her narrative to blame everything on Naveen, which leads to the separation of Naveen and Ina. Things take an unexpected turn when their separation is celebrated by some close friends while revealing the mastermind behind the ploy.

Richard Hammond and Tory Belleci went on a fishing trip together, however; their boat has sunk in a storm. Stranded on an unnamed deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, the two use the remains of the boat to build makeshift machinery in order to escape the island. Just as Belleci is about to figure out a way to use the boat's sail to construct a float able to travel over high seas, Hammond secretly hides the sail, as he does not want their adventure to end prematurely. Thinking that there is no way to escape the island, Belleci resigns and the two build a large beach house that enables them to live on the island in comfort, using the island's resources for food and fresh water. While Belleci still tries to figure out ways to escape, a crazed Hammond continues to secretly sabotage all his efforts. As tensions rise between the two of them, Belleci, suspecting Hammond of sabotage, kicks him out of their beach house, starting a war between the two, where they repurpose most of their machinery into war machines and the house is largely destroyed. Ultimately, after being forced to reconcile, they build several flying machines to escape the island, the latest of which explodes, attracting South American police. The two are mistaken for drug traffickers and taken into custody. Questioned on their individual account of the story, both blame each other. In the end, they are released as no actual crime was committed, and Hammond admits to Belleci that he sabotaged their escape attempts.

During the COVID-19 lockdown in England, as we see aerial shots of eerily deserted streets, a number of women living alone and reaching out remotely to others via Zoom begin to wonder if their isolation might be making them imagine things. Unexplained things keep happening around them, like voices out of nowhere, and household items breaking on their own. This is because, as occult investigator Jordan Myers informs people viewing his online videos tells us, pandemic isolation mimics being alone inside a haunted house, creating conditions for ghosts to emerge. When some of the women begin getting mysteriously murdered, a female police detective named George Parker, who is also isolated and working from home, begins to investigate, and discovers the cause is the ghost a serial killer that had terrorized the area years before.

Before the final credits come up, on-screen text says, "This film was shot during the first UK lockdown for COVID-19 ... by one man."

It simultaneously shows that human love and the Buddha's mercy aren't different through Myo-Duk, who achieved the way of love and Baek-Woon, who achieved the way of victory and Buddhahood to save people from a dark age. It also tells about the chronicle life and love of them two and focuses on the heartbreaking love story of them who transcend their status.

Baek-Woon (played by Kim Jin-keun) was born as the youngest son of a poor family at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and was raised by his grandmother. When his old mother suffers from the limitations of their status, she sends him to the temple at the age of 15 to follow the path of a monk. In the progress, Baek-Woon then meets Myo-Duk (played by Han-Min), the daughter of a prestigious family, by chance while training at a mountain temple.

Myo-duk has an outstanding talent for her thrifty family, but her mother, who was her filial piety, died early and her concubine grew up in her hands, so she had a crooked personality. She used her beauty to make a prank on the children of her nobility, but she is in a state of self-defense. Later, they fall in fateful love, but when Baek-Woon leaves the temple for the capital, Myo-Duk becomes a monk herself and to be with him and create the "Jikji".

Cyanide, Supercluster 01 consists of six stories or vignettes, tied together loosely to envision the complexity of social- and political issues - in Dutch society - regarding racism, homosexuality, nepotism, fame, rape, and domestic abuse. The plot follows six millennials, each being pushed to their mental limits to explore the darkest corners of human behavior.

The film wraps up in a 7th and final storyline, revealing that the stories take place inside TON 618 and the protagonists are subjects of the zoo hypothesis, being examined by advanced extraterrestrial life for educational purposes.

Neil Bennett, a quiet man from London, is on vacation in Acapulco with his sister Alice and her two children, Colin and Alexa. They stay in a luxurious hotel and eat at fancy restaurants. Day after day, the family participates in a variety of fun activities. Neil, however, is not having fun. One day, Alice is told over the phone that her mother is in the hospital. Immediately, the family prepares to go home. On the way to the airport, Alice receives a second call informing her that her mother has passed away. Alice bursts into tears while Neil remains calm. At the airport, Neil says he left his passport at the hotel so the rest of the family departs without him.

Neil lied about the passport. In reality, he has decided to stay in Acapulco, at least for the next few days. He befriends a taxi driver named Jorge Campos, who takes him to a small hotel. Neil passes the time eating at cheap restaurants and visiting the beach. He ignores Alice's requests to come home and starts dating a friendly local named Berenice. He returns to his room one day to find his belongings are missing, presumably stolen but he shows no emotion. The next day, he witnesses a drive-by yet remains apathetic.

The Bennett family is extremely wealthy because they are in the meat processing business. Alice returns to Acapulco and confronts Neil for abandoning her during a hard time. After talking about the family business, Neil signs a document relinquishing his assets and inheritance in the presence of the family lawyer, Richard. Later, Alice is shot and killed by common criminals driven by Jorge. The police arrest Neil, believing he ordered the assassination. Neil bursts into tears upon learning about his sister's death. His representatives arrive and tell him that the company is now his. After Richard gets him out of prison, Neil returns to his hotel room. He continues seeing Berenice and spending time at the beach. Richard, Colin, and Alexa confront him in his room. Alexa hits Neil in the head with a glass bottle. Later, Neil signs off the rights to the family company to Colin and Alexa. Neil, in return, will receive a monthly pension and £100,000 as a down payment. After the meeting, Neil returns to Berenice.

A few days later, Neil falls down a set of stairs. Berenice takes him to the hospital, where she learns Neil has brain cancer. After Berenice falls asleep by his side, Neil abandons her and walks down the streets of Mexico City alone at night. The film abruptly cuts from his sad face to the sounds of the beach's waves the following morning, the glaring sunshine, and the clothes and shoes Neil was wearing the previous night, left unattended on his chair with a beer nearby.

In 1963 France, Anne, a young and talented student, gets pregnant, seeing her opportunities to finish her studies and excel slipping away from her. As her final exams approach and her social life begins to fade, Anne's pregnancy progresses, forcing her to confront the shame and pain of an abortion, even if she must risk prison to do so.

''The Garbage Chronicles'' is a novel in which Captain Jarvik.

56-year-old ex-geisha Kin receives a phone call from her former lover Tabe, with whom she had a passionate affair before he was drafted as an officer into the Pacific War. While making preparations for meeting the much younger Tabe, eager to look as youthful as possible, she reflects on her past life. Fleeing from an abusive acquaintance of her adoptive parents, she became a geisha, whose portrait was even printed on magazine covers and postcards, and based her relationships with men mainly on materialistic terms. Kin survived the war as an owner of a house and now makes her income as a money lender and by speculating in the real estate business. When Tabe finally arrives, Kin is disappointed by the commonness of his appearance and the fact that he wants to borrow money from her. Tabe gets drunk and aggressive, outraged even more by Kin's refusal to lend him money than her rejection of his advances. While he is out of the room, Kin, disgusted by his behaviour, burns a photograph of him which she had kept through the years.

Kaul Sen passes away shortly after the events of ''Jade City'', and just before his funeral, thief Bero and his partner Mudt rob Kaul Lan's corpse of his jade. Hilo struggles to maintain his power as the Pillar of the No Peak Clan, and enters an uneasy truce with the Mountain clan. Outside of Kekon, war is waged between Shotar and Ygutan over the disputed Oortoko region, with Kekon's ally, Espenia, supporting Shotar.

Anden, still refusing to wear jade after killing Gont Asch in ''Jade City'', is given the opportunity to go to the Espenian city of Port Massy to study. Hilo and Shae frame this as an opportunity for him to serve the clan, supporting their interests abroad without having to wear jade.

At the same time, a cousin of the Kaul family is imprisoned in the Uwiwa Islands, only to be freed by Zapunyo, a crime lord who has gotten rich off jade smuggling during the clan war. Zapunyo is supported in part by barukan, who are Kekonese-Shotarian jade users. Hilo meets Zapunyo, who offers Hilo an opportunity to profit off his jade smuggling. Hilo refuses, believing Zapunyo to be inconsequential. Meanwhile, Shae struggles in her position as the Weather Man of the No Peak Clan. She locates her predecessor, Doru, but hesitates to deliver clan justice, and Doru kills himself first. This causes Shae to lose face in front of her Master Luckbringer, Hami Tumashon.

Anden initially struggles to fit in within Espenia but finds out that many Kekonese in his city have created their own pseudo-clan, and partake in a fight club underneath a recreational center every week. He befriends and develops a romance with Cory, the Pillar's son. Wen, Hilo's wife, is pregnant but continues her duties as a spy. She infiltrates Espenian and Ygutanian networks in order to retrieve information for the No Peak Clan and aid their disputes with the Mountain Clan. Wen discovers that Lan had a son named Niko with his ex-wife, Eyni. Hilo travels to Stepenland to ask that Eyni let Niko live with the family in Kekon for half the year and be raised as a Green Bone. After Eyni refuses to do so, Hilo kills her and takes the boy with him back to Janloon to be treated as the heir to the Pillar of No Peak.

Shae and Wen arrange deals with foreign countries so as to sabotage the Mountain's jade distribution, which is initially successful and ends with peace negotiations with the Mountain led by Ayt Mada and Hilo. These negotiations ultimately deteriorate when Shae duels Ayt Mada to protect her honor after the Mountain spread claims of her treachery due to her studying abroad in Espenia as a college student. At the same time, Shae leads a secret relationship with a college professor Maro but struggles to keep it together when he discovers that she aborted a child that they accidentally made.

Hilo pursues Bero and Mudt, who have gotten themselves involved in companies dealing with illegal jade distribution. Mudt betrays and seemingly kills Bero, but Hilo kills Mudt believing that he was the one who murdered Lan. Maro becomes involved with Shotarian spies, who had killed Kehn, one of the No Peak Fists, after No Peak discovered their illicit jade smuggling; Shae is forced to kill Maro to her great distraught. Hilo attempts to form a truce with the Shotarian mobsters on Espenia but finds that they are embroiled in their own internal war, and he inflames it by granting them jade access. Wen and Anden, in revenge for Shotarian agents killing Kehn, corner Zapunyo but are captured and nearly suffocated by the Espenian gang. They are narrowly rescued and the Pillar of the Espenian Kekonese clan promises to aid No Peak, while Anden breaks off his relationship with Cory. Anden returns to Janloon and decides to become a jade doctor after using jade for the first time in years to resuscitate Wen.

The international war ends and the Mountain takes in the Ygutanian refugees, ultimately succeeding in using the war to their advantage and one-upping No Peak. Hilo trains his stone-eye son, daughter, and nephew-turned-adopted son in the ways of No Peak. Shae confronts Ayt Mada once more and the conflict between the Mountain and No Peak resumes. An alive Bero joins up with resistance within Janloon to overthrow Hilo.

With the mass distribution of jade occurring after the events of ''Jade War'', forces from all sides will swarm Janloon, seeking jade's magical abilities. As one worldwide crisis ends, more wars break out internationally and within Kekon, as Hilo and Shae struggle to hold their power and prepare the children of their family to take up the No Peak Clan legacy. At the same time, they wage a continued war against The Mountain clan as its power continues to grow.

After years of "manually" trying to conceive, John and Katie Kelly put their bodies, wallet and marriage through the ringer of modern infertility treatments....

18-year-old Mateus leaves the countryside in search for a job opportunity in a São Paulo junkyard. Once there, Mateus and some other boys become a victim of a work system analogous to modern slavery run by Luca, forcing Mateus to make the difficult decision between working for the man who enslaved him or risking his and his family's futures if he is not complicit.

Hashem (Sirus Gorjestani) and his family live a simple life in a city not far away. Prior to his illness, he worked as an exhaust repairman in a rented shop, but doctors prevented him from doing heavy work due to his illness. For this reason, they decide to move to Tehran. Upon arrival in Tehran, Hashem and his family face many problems that...

At the local Oda Nouvelle Mall, Kouichi "Cherry" Sakura is working at an elderly care center for summer break. Cherry is a quiet and reserved boy who prefers to write haikus to express his feelings but struggles with reciting them in front of an audience. Amidst a chaotic chase between delinquent Beaver and the mall security, Cherry accidentally swaps phone cases with Smile, an online influencer who wears a face mask to hide her buckteeth. The pair become acquainted, and over time start to take an interest in each other's hobbies.

Smile starts working at the elderly care center and helps in rehearsing the Daruma Folk Song for the upcoming summer festival at the mall. Fujiyama, a vintage record shop owner and regular at the care center, tells Cherry and Smile of his wish to listen to the record "YAMAZAKURA" one more time, of which he only has the album cover. Cherry and Smile decide to help Fujiyama in finding the record and find out that it is a music recording made by Fujiyama's late wife.

Surmising that the record may be hidden somewhere in the shop, Cherry and Smile employ the help of several friends at the mall and scour the entire place, finally finding the record behind a refrigerator. While making preparations to play the record, Smile asks Cherry to watch the fireworks at the summer festival together, and Cherry accepts. However, Smile shortly after shatters the record while attempting to flatten it.

The next day, Cherry and Smile decide to apologize to Fujiyama once more but are sidetracked when it is discovered that Cherry will be moving away on the day of the festival. Disappointed, Smile bids farewell to an ashamed Cherry.

On the day of the festival, Smile presents Fujiyama with a reassembled record as an apology and is shocked to find a working copy repurposed as a wall clock in the elderly care center. Reenergized by this revelation, Smile devises a plan to play the record during the care center's performance at the summer festival. As Cherry's family car drives past the mall, he sees his haiku written about Smile spray painted on the street signs by Beaver. Mustering his courage, Cherry races to the festival and confesses his feelings for Smile in the form of a haiku atop a tower. As the fireworks show starts, Smile reciprocates by taking off her mask and revealing her smile.

In the post-credits scene, Cherry and Smile share a kiss while the old record plays.