Amelia (Carmen Ejogo) has written an article in the newspaper, criticizing the investigation in the Purcell case and suggesting that her "sources" may indicate that the case can't be closed due to ignored evidence. Police Chief Warren (Gareth Williams) and Kindt (Brett Cullen) are furious for the statement and confront Hays (Mahershala Ali) and West (Stephen Dorff). They want Hays to retract from the statement and discredit her, per West's suggestion. When Hays refuses, he is given the option to be demoted to an administrative position or quit the police force. He chooses the former.
Hays meets with Amelia, and both express frustration with their paths in life. That night, Hays and Amelia have a fight where he accuses her of using him for her own purposes in the books. At a bar, Hays is visited by Amelia, while he considers breaking up with her. As Amelia questions him on what he wants to do, Hays confides that he wants to marry her. They decide that, despite their problems, they want to be with each other and accept the proposal.
In the car, Hays meets Hoyt (Michael Rooker), who is aware of Hays' investigation. They take him to the woods to talk. Hays claims to know about James' activities, but Hoyt points out that James' car had a GPS tracking unit, so he knows his last possible location. He warns Hays to stop investigating, saying he also owns footage of Hays' car following James' car.
Amelia and Hays argue and he resigns from the police force. He becomes head of campus security at a university, and Amelia becomes a lecturer at the same university.
Hays and West question James' widow, who works at a nursery home, about the black man with the milky eye. She says she was approached by the man, who wanted to know if James found Julie, identifying him as "Junius". They then decide to visit Hoyt's abandoned mansion. In the mansion, they discover the pink room at the basement, which contains a painting in the wall with three figures: "Princess Mary", "Sir Junius", and "Queen Isabel".
After discovering Junius Watts' address, they visit his house. Watts (Steven Williams) anticipated them, revealing himself as the man who was parked outside Hays' house. He then explains the "truth" to them: a grief-stricken Isabel Hoyt (Lauren Sweetser) saw Julie at a Hoyt Foods company picnic, and, perceiving Julie to have a strong resemblance to her late daughter, wanted to see her again. Watts paid Lucy (Mamie Gummer) to allow Julie to play with Isabel regularly in the woods, under the supervision of Watts and Will. However, Isabel stopped taking her lithium medication and tried to take Julie. Will tried to stop her and hit his head on a rock. James (Scott Shepherd) paid Lucy to allow Isabel to keep Julie. Isabel gave Julie lithium to keep her happy. As Julie grew up, she started asking questions and Watts helped her escape, but she went missing. After many years, he appeared to have found her at a convent for some years.
Watts explains that he was parked outside Hays' house, as he lacked the courage to speak the truth. He wants them to arrest him but their retired status prevents them from doing so. West also suggests that if he can't live with it, he should just kill himself. Visiting the convent, a woman tells them that Julie was there, after she caught HIV. She then shows them her gravestone, marked under the name "Mary July". While leaving the convent, they run into a groundskeeper (Nathan Wetherington) with a daughter named Lucy (Ivy Dubreuil).
Despite the confession, both Hays and West feel like the case isn't closed. They then make arrangements so that West can visit more often. The next day, Hays reads an excerpt from Amelia's book, where she talks in detail about Mike Ardoin, one of Julie's neighbors. Amelia's hallucination prompts Hays to finally realize something: Mike was the groundskeeper at the convent, which suggests that his daughter may be Julie's daughter.
After obtaining Mike's address in Greenland, Hays visits him. However, before he steps out of his car, his memory loss hits again and forgets why he was there. As he talks to Henry (Ray Fisher) on the phone, he is told to ask the woman (Bea Santos) in the house for help. While Henry goes to pick him up, Hays talks with the woman but their conversation does not confirm any of his suspicions. Henry arrives to help him back, with Rebecca (Deborah Ayorinde) also showing up to drive him home.
While Hays goes to play with his family, Henry finds his note with the woman's address and decides to keep it. West joins the family outside the porch. As Hays stares at his grandchildren riding their bicycles, he remembers once again his marriage proposal to Amelia in 1980. The episode ends with a brief flashback of a young Hays venturing in the woods during the Vietnam War.
West (Stephen Dorff) visits Tom (Scoot McNairy), who has decided to move out of his house. Before he leaves, he hands him his phone number for any contact.
Hays (Mahershala Ali) and West are called to a crime scene, where they discover Tom's corpse, along with a note suggesting suicide. With his death, the case is considered closed. Hays is not convinced, but West reprimands him, thinking their actions drove him to his "suicide".
Amelia (Carmen Ejogo) interviews a friend of Lucy's, who has a photograph of Will and Julie trick-or-treating on Halloween, with the chaff doll. In the background are two adults dressed as ghosts; one black and one white. Hays and West visit the motel where O'Brien was staying, discovering evidence of his fight with Tom. At night, Amelia talks to a man, who states that O'Brien met a black man with one eye in a bar that Lucy used to work at. Hays impersonates West on the phone to ask for flight and phone records that involve Lucy.
The phone records indicate that Lucy talked with Harris James (Scott Shepherd), while the flight records show that James flew to Las Vegas the day before Lucy died and then left on the day after her death. Hays suggests that he may have placed Will's backpack on Woodard's porch, which could also implicate Hoyt Foods. West does not want to participate any further, as the investigation could negatively impact their careers, but Hays convinces him to do it.
They stop James on his car to question him. James resists, forcing Hays and West to aggresively take him to a barn. James claims not to be involved with the Purcells' disappearance. James releases himself from their custody and tries to kill Hays, forcing them to shoot him dead. After burying his body, West angrily confronts Hays for dragging him into this, severely straining their partnership. Hays returns home, where he burns his clothes. Amelia questions him about it, but he refuses to talk.
The next day, Hays is called by Edward Hoyt (Michael Rooker). Hoyt is aware of the events that happened last night and wants to talk with him immediately, revealing that his car is parked outside. When Hoyt threatens to talk with the authorities and even recognizes Hays' family, he complies to his demands. He exits the house, gets into the car and the car drives off.
During their interview, Elisa (Sarah Gadon) wonders if the government wanted to cover the investigation by refusing to investigate further, as it could implicate a possible pedophile ring. She shows him evidence by finding a similar spiral symbol, which was the product of an investigation of two Louisiana State Police detectives, whose investigation was halted despite implicating other powerful people. She also tells Hays about the black man with a milky eye who interrupted Amelia's public reading, identifying him as "Watts" and suggesting he could be a "procurer" for the ring. Hays decides to exit the interview, as he feels his knowledge is limited.
Hays and West interview a former housekeeper of the Hoyt family, who reveals that Mr. Hoyt had a daughter, "Miss Isabel", who lost her husband and daughter in a car wreck in 1977, and was then involved in one herself. She lived in the basement, and only a black man with one eye, "Mr. June", was allowed to attend to her. During the encounter, he sees an hallucination of Becca (Deborah Ayorinde), product of his dementia.
Back home, Hays is once again disturbed by the car parked outside his house, which is finally seen by West. This time, he takes a baseball bat and goes outside to confront it. The car leaves, with Hays hitting it with the bat and West taking pictures of the license plate.
After having sex, Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Amelia (Carmen Ejogo) talk in bed, where they bond over their professions and respective ideologies.
At the station, Hays is informed about recovering Will's backpack at Woodard's house, with further evidence suggesting that Julie was burned by Woodard. The officers also intend to blame Woodard for the disappearances and killings of other children in the area, disillusioning Hays. Kindt (Brett Cullen) publicly discloses the information to the public, condemning Woodard. Lucy (Mamie Gummer) is in attendance and leaves early. Amelia tries to talk to her but she rebuffs her.
Kindt (Brett Cullen) tells Hays and West (Stephen Dorff) to investigate Tom (Scoot McNairy), suggesting that he could be involved with the girl. They question Tom about the night of the kids' disappearance, as he forgot to disclose many details. His behavior makes Kindt convinced that Tom was involved in the disappearance along with Brett Woodard. Tracing the call to a gas station in Russellville, and they recover some possible fingerprints. As they visit the Purcell house, they also find evidence indicating that Tom is a closet homosexual.
Hays and West decide to question Harris James (Scott Shepherd), who investigated the backpack incident and now works for Hoyd Foods as head of security. James acknowledges to being involved, although he wasn't the person who discovered the backpacks or reported it until two days later. He also claims to not have known that Lucy worked at Hoyt Foods. They later meet with Dan O'Brien (Michael Graziadei), who wants $7,000 for speaking about new information. Despite being threatened, he maintains his position, giving them one day to get the money.
Tom lures through the police station looking for West, and overhears the FBI agents talking about West and Hays meeting with O'Brien. They also reveal that they are asking for phone records from a Nevada motel for a conversation that happened two months ago involving Lucy. Tom confronts O'Brien at his motel room, brutally attacking him. He forces him to reveal anything he knows; O'Brien explains that he knows a man who has been paying money to Lucy just to keep her quiet from disclosing the events. On his own, Hays returns to the abandoned Purcell house and makes a conclusion on the peep hole.
Amelia publishes her book, which is warmly received. However, during a Q&A, she is questioned by a black man with a milky eye (Steven Williams) about the fate of Julie and her possible location. He accuses her of profiting of the tragedy and leaves the session. At night, Tom sneaks into Hoyt Foods' owner Edward Hoyt's mansion. He wanders through the mansion, even though he is being watched over the cameras. Descending to the basement, he discovers a pink room and stares in horror at something off-screen, uttering "Julie?" Behind him, Harris James appears.
In another interview, Hays is questioned by Elisa (Sarah Gadon) over Tom's possible role in placing the backpacks on Woodard's house and they both wonder about James' possible disappearance since 1990. After he leaves, he also talks with Henry (Ray Fisher), as he knows he is having an affair with Elisa despite being married.
Hays reveals to West that he concluded that the peep hole at the Purcell house was meant to serve as passing notes between Will and Julie. Hays leaves for a moment, and West starts checking on some books. When Hays returns, he has forgotten West. He asks him to check outside to see if there is a parked car, which West claims it is not there.
Hays (Mahershala Ali) and West (Stephen Dorff) visit a Catholic church to question the priest (Seth Barrish) about Will. The priest took the pictures of the first communicants but Will was the only one with his eyes closed, something that he attributes as just a mistake. He also states that Will and Julie talked about meeting their aunt, which makes no sense as they didn't have an aunt. Before they leave, he reports that the chaff dolls are made by a female parishioner.
They visit the parishioner, who says that a black man with a milky eye bought dolls at a recent fair, saying they were for his nieces and nephews. Identifying the man as Sam Whitehead (John Earl Jelks), they visit his house. Whitehead claims not to know anything about the dolls and does not help them at all. As the neighbors turn hostile and approach them, they force him into his house to interrogate him. Whitehead confesses to attending a Presbyterian church, not the Catholic one. They are forced to leave, with the neighbors shattering the glass on their car. That night, Hays goes on a date with Amelia (Carmen Ejogo) while West picks up Tom (Scoot McNairy) from a bar incident.
The task force managed to find a fingerprint in Will's bicycle, belonging to Freddy Burns (Rhys Wakefield). Meanwhile, Amelia visits Lucy (Mamie Gummer) to hand her the kids' school projects. Hays and West pressure Freddy to confess anything, threatening that he could face prison rape, prompting him to cry. During their conversation, she claims to have done bad things and becomes mad when Amelia suggests she should talk to Hays.
In the outskirts, Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes) talks to some children near the road, an encounter that is seen in the distance by an angry civilian. As more people approach him in their cars, he runs back to his house. He takes out some rifles, which he spreads throughout the house and also installs tripwires and Claymore mines as the men arrive at his house, all armed with guns. Hays and West are called to the house, just as a man slams the door open, with a mine behind it.
Tensions remain between Hays and Amelia amidst the investigation on Julie's re-appearance, which extends into confronting their own personal problems.
West and Hays meet with Kindt (Brett Cullen), who is now the Arkansas Attorney General. He wants to play by his rules and not compromise their investigation. Their investigation includes the revelation that Lucy died of a drug overdose in Las Vegas two years ago. West and Hays then visit a technician to see the footage of the robbery. Hays watches the footage and is astounded to confirm that Julie (Bea Santos) is in fact the girl in the cameras.
Hays visits the police department, where Henry (Ray Fisher) works. He asks for his help in finding more about the new evidence, including finding West. He then visits Elisa (Sarah Gadon) at her motel room, to ask for more information on her discovery. She shows him a photograph of the skeleton of Dan O'Brien, who went missing around 1987.
Back at his house, Hays tries to remember the full details of the events. During this, hallucinations of Viet Cong and American soldiers appear behind him. He is further disturbed when he sees a car parked outside his house, seemingly watching him.
Will's autopsy indicates that he had a broken neck before being taken to the cave. Hays (Mahershala Ali) and West (Stephen Dorff) question some of Tom's (Scoot McNairy) co-workers and also interrogate Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes), who claims to have seen the kids on the day of the disappearance, but he is not certain where they were going.
At a community center, District Attorney Gerald Kindt (Brett Cullen) announces a curfew throughout the city, despite some objecting. Hays and West visit the meeting, noticing Amelia (Carmen Ejogo) among the crowd. He questions her about the chaff dolls he found at the cave, which she can't fully identify. The next day, Hays and West are informed by Kindt that they will work with FBI Agents Burt Diller (Tim Griffin) and John Bowen (Matthew Broderick) in the case, with Hays and West exclusively focusing on Will's murder.
At Will's funeral, they question Dan O'Brien (Michael Graziadei), who confirms to having provided Will with the ''Playboy'' magazines. He also confirms that Tom and Lucy (Mamie Gummer) constantly fought, forcing Will and Lucy to play outside. They also talk with Tom's parents, who both express doubt over Julie's real father, suggesting that Lucy had an affair. Despite Will's death, Tom immediately returns back to work at his factory. His co-workers try to give him a break, as they feel his feelings could impact their productivity, so Tom angrily quits the factory. He is later picked up by Hays and West when he is seen walking home.
Amelia is informed by a student about the dolls and brings Hays and West with the kid. He reveals that he went with Julie on Halloween to trick-or-treat, where Julie was given a similar doll from an unknown person. They try to convince Kindt in allowing them to search the area's households and find similar dolls but Kindt refuses as he fears it will cause a privacy issue. Later, Hays talks with Amelia at a bar, when they see Kindt on television disclosing the case's progress, insinuating that Julie met the kidnapper on Halloween, angering Hays.
With a tip from a fellow officer, Hays and West go to Fort Smith to question Ted LaGrange (Shawn-Caulin Young), a man convicted of raping a child who just got released on parole. They take him to a barn to beat him and reveal any possible role in the case, as he was absent from his house when the kids went missing. They interview his co-worker at a day care and realize that he worked past the time the kids left the house, but warn her to not hire him back for his past. They then decide to report LaGrange's violation of his parole, which will send him to prison and is warned to not speak about them. At night, they are called back to the Purcell home, where Tom and Lucy have received a note. The note claims that Julie is safe and that they need to let her go.
After his interrogation, Hays leaves with Jones (Jon Tenney) to a bar. Jones claims that the investigation focuses on Julie, and they are still waiting to see if she committed the robbery or if she was a customer at the Walgreens. Later, Hays goes home with his family, that includes his kids and wife, Amelia. Amelia is writing a book about the Purcells, and is surprised when Hays reveals that Julie is alive.
Driven by Henry (Ray Fisher), Hays visits some of the old establishments he investigated. During a conversation, he expresses to miss Amelia and also shares frustration with the interview. He is forced to return. Before the interview, Elisa (Sarah Gadon) shares some theories that circulated in Internet, such as suggesting that the dolls were sign of a pedophile ring.
After the interview, Hays dines with Henry and family. Hays mentions wanting to see his daughter Rebecca, who is living in Los Angeles. He exhibits some confusion and memory problems, prompting Henry to leave the table in frustration. Suddenly, Hays finds himself in the street and in pajamas, with no idea of how he got there in the middle of the night. He is horrified to find himself in front of a demolished house.
The letter that was delivered to the Purcells is revealed to have been sent from Farmington, where an organization offers money for help in solving the case. Hays (Mahershala Ali) and West (Stephen Dorff) then question why Will and Julie often lied about their location, as they never visited Ronnie at his house.
Inspecting the kids' bedrooms, they discover notes and Hoyt Foods bags, a chicken processing plant. They then help in a search throughout the woods, where Hays talks once again with Amelia (Carmen Ejogo). There, Hays finds Will's backpack and bloody marks in the rocks. Using this, they interrogate a farmer (Mike Hickman), who claims he has already spoken to the police. He reports seeing Will and Julie constantly in the woods. He also mentions to having seen a brown car with a black man and a white woman. He refuses to cooperate further into the investigation unless they get a warrant.
Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes) is intercepted by some civilians, who accuse him of being involved in the disappearance and is brutally attacked, warned to leave town. This prompts him to remove a duffel bag from his shed. Hays and West visit Tom (Scoot McNairy) and Lucy (Mamie Gummer) at their house to show pictures of the many toys they discovered at the woods. Hays then leafs over a family album and is startled to find a photograph of Will taken at his first communion, with his fingers interlaced and his eyes closed, in a similar position to the way he found him at the cave.
West is questioned by Dobkins (Josh Hopkins) and Jones (Jon Tenney) about the Purcell case. He later talks with Tom about the case, who seems delighted at the news of his daughter being alive. Their conversation reveals that West lost contact with Hays, helped Tom with his alcoholism and that Lucy died.
Hays discloses some information regarding the case to Amelia. She decides to get more information by herself, claiming that she is using it as research for her book. Later, Hays goes shopping with Henry (Isaiah C. Morgan) and Becca (Kennedi Lynn Butler) at Walmart. At some point, he gets distracted and loses sight of Rebecca. He desperately urges employees to close the store until Becca appears again. Back home, he has an argument with Amelia over the case. Hays then goes to a bar where he meets with West, who wants him to help with the case as West is leading it. Although hesitant, Hays agrees to join him.
After using a CT scan, Hays' doctor does not find anything wrong with his new condition. Hays is certain that he drove outside for a reason even if he can't remember and rejects the doctor's diagnosis, and even warns Henry (Ray Fisher) to not even consider putting him on an asylum or he will commit suicide.
During an interview with Elisa (Sarah Gadon), Elisa questions how the police ignored the brown car despite witnesses reporting that it could be relevant to the case. He feels alarmed at the statement and ends the interview early. At his house, he tries to recall the brown car and is told by an hallucination of Amelia to focus on the case.
Peter Griffin and his family move to Washington, D.C. after he was hired to work for the Trump administration, at the end of the previous episode, "Hefty Shades of Gray". Meg Griffin is less than pleased about the move, but after meeting Ivanka Trump and getting a makeover, she suddenly becomes more attractive, at least by "Washington, D.C. standards". But when Ivanka leaves her with Donald Trump, he grabs Meg inappropriately by her privates, leaving her shocked and her family refusing to believe her when she tells them. But when Trump tries to molest her a second time, the rest of the Griffins catch him in the act. This leads Peter to resign his job and to try to be a kinder man. But when he is unsurprisingly unable to keep this vow, Trump rubs it in his face and insults him as a failed role model.
Peter and Trump engage in a protracted fight, after the former questions Trump's actual net worth. After brawling in the White House for several minutes and interrupting a press conference, the two steal separate airplanes from the Smithsonian Institution. The planes hit each other head on and crash, miraculously perched atop the Washington Monument. With Peter's life at stake, Trump becomes sympathetic and attempts to save Peter. Peter tries to grab on, but is unable to due to the slope of the wall. Trump lowers himself to try and grab Peter, but his hand slips from the ledge and the two begin a freefall towards the concrete below. However, they land on a cushion, having been saved by Justin Trudeau with an industrial air mattress. The Canadian Prime Minister checks that the duo are okay and then departs. Trump and Peter reconcile their grudges in the sunset and move on. In the ending scene, the Griffins break the fourth wall to encourage Americans to read the Steele dossier.
The series follows preteens Dan Kouzo, Shun Kazami, Wynton Styles, Lia Venegas, Ajit, and their dog Lightning. They are known as the "Awesome Ones" (later the “Awesome Brawlers”) and make videos on the website ViewTube. Eventually, they stumble across a race of battling biomechanical creatures called Bakugan. They soon befriend the Bakugan and begin to battle each other with them, all while defending their neighborhood from thugs who use the Bakugan for malicious purposes. They encounter many foes such as Philomena Dusk and the mysterious Magnus, bent on beating Dan in a Bakugan Battle to be the best brawler.
As the Awesome Ones continue to learn more about the Bakugan, they befriend the enigmatic billionaire Benton Dusk, Philomena's brother. Benton uncovers a mysterious underground world he dubs "The Maze", where the Bakugan are enhanced. When a Bakugan hunter named Strata kidnaps several Bakugan, a Bakugan named Phaedrus escapes and warns the Awesome Ones. They go to the Maze and rescue the others, but fall even deeper into it. As they try to make their way home, the Awesome Ones encounter a strange evil Bakugan named Tiko. Drago and the others find a powerful artifact called the Core Cell within the Maze and protect it from Tiko. However, when Drago is injured by the corrupting V Virus, he and Dan retreat into the Core Cell, and Tiko makes it inside. Drago is healed and experiences a power upgrade called a Bakugan Evolution. Drago evolves into Hyper Drago and defeats Tiko. The Awesome Ones then escape the Maze. Soon after, they learn that Magnus is working with Philomina, along with several other of their old rivals, as AAAnimus' publicity team, The Exit. In order to combat them, the Awesome Ones learn, one by one, to evolve their Bakugan without going inside the Core Cell. Eventually, they defeat the Exit and they are fired. Despite their efforts, AAAnimus learns that there are more Core Cells within the Maze, and they successfully extract one. They use it to take control of the Awesome Ones' primary Bakugan. Benton creates a plan to stop them. They break into AAAnimus' headquarters, and while Benton dismantles their network, the Awesome Ones act as decoys. The plan works, and they defeat Philomina. Benton informs the Awesome Ones of his plan to make all the Core Cells open-sourced, which sets them on an adventure around the world. However, even greater threats lurk in the shadows. Tiko survived his battle in the Core Cell, and hatches a plan of his own.
Derrick Tyler is a former college basketball star who has gone on to build a successful sports management agency in Los Angeles with his best friend Rafe Grimes, representing African-American athletes. His marriage to Tracie, a real estate agent, is failing, and he suspects she is having an affair. Rafe is also pressuring him to sell the company to a larger corporation, which Derrick, valuing his independence, refuses to do.
During a business trip to Las Vegas, Rafe encourages Derrick to vent his frustrations by having a fling of his own. Removing his wedding ring and introducing himself as Darren from Seattle, he catches the attention of a woman at a bar. She admits she is also looking for casual sex, and after flirting on the dance floor, they end up in her hotel room. While trying to sneak out the next morning, he discovers that she has locked his phone in the room safe and is coerced into having sex with her again.
Returning to LA, a guilty Derrick reconciles with Tracie. That night, Derrick hears what sounds like a break-in; investigating, he is attacked by a masked burglar and barely manages to fight him off. The police arrive and the detective assigned to the case, Valerie Quinlan, is revealed to be the woman from Las Vegas. She asks Tracie questions that have no relevance to the break-in and implies to Derrick that she could be compelled to reveal his affair or, for a price, keep silent. In her spare time, Valerie stalks her ex-husband, local politician Carter Heywood, who filed a restraining order against her after she left her service weapon unattended while drunk and their daughter Haley accidentally shot herself, leaving her using a wheelchair. Valerie has also been stripped of her custody rights and is desperate to get her daughter back, hoping a corruption scandal Carter is embroiled in will work in her favor.
During her investigation, Valerie discovers that Tracie is cheating on Derrick with Rafe. She informs Derrick of this by encouraging him to peer into the window at the beach house where they rendezvous with binoculars to see for himself. She also suggests that Tracie hired the burglar to kill Derrick. The shock and anguish is enough to briefly drive him back into Valerie's arms, before he confronts Tracie and Rafe directly and throws his wedding ring down as Tracie coldly mocks him. The next day, Derrick is arrested and Valerie tells him Tracie and Rafe were murdered soon after he left them. The suspicion this throws on Derrick ruins his reputation and the district attorney intends to file charges. Realizing Valerie committed the murders herself, Derrick confides in his cousin Tyrin who then, along with a friend, breaks into Valerie's apartment intending to force a confession, but she uses cheap tricks to distract them and gains the upper hand in the ensuing scuffle, shooting them both dead. Valerie then offers to frame Tyrin instead of Derrick for Tracie and Rafe's murders if Derrick agrees to kill Carter, who has made it clear to Valerie that he can manipulate the courts in his favor and she will never see her daughter again. Derrick approaches Carter while he is jogging and attempts to warn him, but a struggle ensues and Carter is accidentally shot dead.
Derrick goes to Valerie's apartment and she admits to killing Tracie, Rafe, Tyrin and Tyrin's friend. She says she will kill anyone who prevents her getting her daughter back. He realizes this includes him and they shoot each other. As a wounded Derrick leaves, Valerie blindsides and stabs him repeatedly before he shoots her again, this time fatally. As she dies, he reveals that he recorded her confession. He goes to meet the arriving police.
The film centers upon a family who have gathered for Christmas. The family is made up of Nick, his girlfriend Annji, Nick's pregnant sister Kate, Kate's husband Scott, Grandad, and Nick's parents Tony and Beth. The gathering is initially fine, but grows tense after Kate makes racist remarks to Annji. They quickly find that they are surrounded by a strange black substance and that they cannot flee the home. They receive messages warning them that their food is contaminated and instructing them to cleanse themselves with bleach, as well as take a vaccine dropped down their chimney. Tony forces the family to take the vaccines despite Annji's reservations, as the syringes look used. Grandad dies while vomiting black liquid.
The television later informs the family that one of their number is infected. Tony, Beth, Kate, and Scott believe it to be Annji, so they lock her in an upstairs bedroom with the dead body of Grandad. Nick unplugs the television, but is warned against this once it's plugged back in by Tony. Kate urges Scott to attack Nick, only for her to become injured in the process. A desperate Nick tries to secretly find a way to flee the home, only for the television to reveal this to the others. Tony and Scott rush in, knock Nick unconscious, and drag him downstairs. The television then tells them that Nick is a sleeper agent and that they must get information from him. Tony and Scott torture Nick until Beth interrupts them to let them know that Kate has died.
The surviving family members are told to return to the first floor as the television is activating quarantine. Nick is able to get Annji downstairs, but is unable to save his mother, who dies after exposure to black smoke. Nick and Annji rush downstairs and find the TV displaying a bright light, and Nick unplugs the TV. The light stays on the TV, however, and the house begins shaking. The television proclaims that it is being resurrected just before Nick passes out. Nick awakens to find that he and Annji have been restrained and that the television wants Scott and Tony to sacrifice them. Tony attempts to sacrifice Annji, but Nick and Scott attack him, and Tony murders Scott with an axe. A fight between Tony and Nick ends when Nick throws the TV onto Tony, killing him. The TV rights itself and wire-like tendrils snake out of the TV and enter Tony via the back of his head and take control of his body. They soon realize that the black substance is composed entirely of the living wires. Nick confronts the wires, and throws the axe into the "heart" inside the TV. The tendrils seemingly die, but soon begin moving and engulf them. Tony, being controlled by the wires, murders them with the axe. The tendrils digest Kate's body, leaving only the skeleton and the baby. Tony brings in another TV, which shows bright colors and reads "HELLO RUBY. WORSHIP ME."
Rossa (Sheila Marcia) is being scolded by her mother, Diah (Rina Hasyim), because her sister, Emily (Stefanie Hariadi) is unknowingly missing. Rossa tells everything to her best friend, Tari (Nadila Ernesta) about what happened, who then suspects, that Emily was taken away by a ghost train. Although she doesn’t believe it, Rossa followed Tari's suggestion to meet Bobby (Melvin Giovanie), who runs the 'Unseen World', a paranormal investigation website along with Doddy (Fendi Trihartanto) and Peggy (Gianina Emanuela).
Arrived at Bobby's house, Rossa feels that she had done something silly by following Tari and then hurries back home. In the cab, Rossa is having a flashback when she and Emily had a big fight. Rossa kicked her out of the house. Rossa's relationship with her sister has always did not go well because she felt her mother was more attentive to her sister. When she gets home, Rossa began to find strange apparitions of a female ghost.
Bobby invites Doddy and Peggy to ride the ghost train assisted by Ki Anom (Abio Abie), a psychic. Doddy and Peggy hesitate, but Bobby persuades them by saying that this experience would be useful for their website. Elsewhere, Rossa again experience dreams of being terrorized by a female ghost, when she wakes up, she realizes she is in a cafe meeting Tari. Tari then confronts Rossa and says that she will go to the ghost train with Bobby's team, he also invites Rossa, but the Rossa is skeptical and rejects Tari's invitation.
Bobby, Doddy, Peggy, and Tari arrived at Manggarai Train Station. They perform a ritual to summon the ghost train with Ki Anom. After the train appears, they boarded the ghost train. Terrible events occur when they are on the train. Finally, they survived thanks to the help of Ki Anom. After they returned, many strange events happened. Doddy, while developing films and Tari while taking a bath, they were disturbed by a female ghost. Doddy is really panicking and he runs to meet Bobby to tell him about the strange events. Bobby says that he is too stressed out and need to calm down. The next day, when Doddy takes Peggy on the road using his motorbike, Doddy is tricked by the female ghost who pretends to be Peggy. Doddy, surprised by the ghost, frantically rides his motorbike until he is finally hit by a car and dies.
Tari and Rossa return to Bobby's house, they find Peggy who is at Bobby's house blaming Bobby for Doddy's death. Peggy gets out of Bobby's house, and Tari chases after her. Bobby tells Rossa that he is obsessed with the ghost train because he feels that his missing girlfriend was taken by the train. Rossa asks Bobby to bring her to Ki Anom, to ask him questions about her sister. When meeting Ki Anom, he, informs that Emily is in a coma and located in a remote village. When they travel back home, Bobby tells Rossa that the female ghost who terrorizes them continuously is a woman who was a satanic cult follower and died when the train crashed into a cliff. Bobby's car suddenly stopped above train tracks. A train appeared as if it would run over their vehicle. Rossa and Bobby panic and shout, and the train disappears.
Someone calls Rossa saying that Emily is found, and gives her the address. Rossa then told Bobby and rushed to the address. When they arrived, Emily is found unconscious. The residents explain that Emily was found on the train tracks. Bobby recommends bringing Emily to the hospital. Suddenly Bobby's cellphone rang, he discovered that Peggy had died. Emily wakes up, Rossa and Bobby immediately take Emily home. Before leaving, a person mentions that an evil spirit still possesses Emily and give a talisman to Rossa. Along the way home, in the car, Emily suddenly screamed because in her eyes she sees Rossa as a ghost. Panicking, Bobby stops the car and Emily immediately goes out from the vehicle and down, she ran towards a train station.
Ki Anom calls Bobby, telling him that the female ghost is chasing the survivors of the ghost train. They try to find Emily, and Rossa finds her. When Bobby tries to approach Rossa and Emily, he is confronted by the female ghost and killed by a ceiling fan blade that tore at his neck. Rossa and Emily continue to run until they reach the railroad tracks, suddenly a train appeared out of nowhere tries to run over them. Rossa remembers the talisman and gives it to Emily. The ghost train runs over them, Emily survives, but Rossa is taken.
Emily returns home, but she is shocked to find herself still being terrorized by the female ghost. At the College, Tari reads the newspaper about Rossa's Disappearance, then she opens up her locker and recalls the memories with Rossa as she sees her and Rossa's photos. When Tari closes the locker, immediately there is the sighting of Rossa as if the spirit of Rossa is asking Tari for help.
While struggling to get past a break-up with his girlfriend, Kuro Sakuragawa was approached by Kotoko Iwanaga, a girl who declared that she was in love with Kuro since she met him two years ago. She then tells him that she is a sort of ''Goddess of Wisdom'' where she serves as the intermediary between the real world and the supernatural world. Kuro, of course, doubts her at first but after fighting a ''yōkai'' in a library and revealing to each other their true identities (Kuro is actually a monster that has eaten two different ''yōkai'' meats giving him the powers of immortality and near-absolute precognition), Kuro agrees to help Kotoko on her various adventures as the peace-keeping Goddess of Wisdom.
''Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty'' follows the mythical adventures of Felicity, a magical cat that is part rainbow, part butterfly, and part unicorn. She has transformative powers that allow her to choose between Rainbow Power, Butterfly Power, Unicorn Power, and following the events of Purrfect Party, Kitty Power. Her friends; Miguel, a down-to-earth Anubis chihuahua, Athena, a book-smart owl, and Yana the ditzy yeti, accompany Felicity on their various adventures in the city of Mythlandia, a place full of fairy tale creatures, wizards, giants, dragons, and much more, while also occasionally hanging out together at Mythic Malts, a restaurant owned by Moona that sells delicious malts, to cool down.
Each episode has been stated to "explore female empowerment and non-conformity" as Felicity transforms into different forms using her magical abilities. The series is also a celebration of individuality and self-confidence.
A world-weary man arrives in a small Ozark town to atone for the wrongdoing of his son, who had a child with one of the town's residents and split town years earlier.
During the Sengoku period, a feudal lord has his newborn son's organs and limbs sacrificed to the twelve demons gods in exchange of prosperity for his people. The baby is abandoned but found by the doctor Jukai who specializes in giving people prosthetic limbs. Jukai adopts the baby and gives him limbs. When the child grows up, he is attacked by demons and develops the ability of seeing their silhouette to fight back. After defeating his first enemy, the now teenager regains his ability of feeling pain. Jukai names the teenager Hyakkimaru and sends him off on journey to regain his body. Along the way, Hyakkimaru meets a child named Dororo who decides to follow him, teaching him how to live and fight demons in exchange for food when visiting villages.
As the duo fight demons, Hyakkimaru recovers his hearing which causes him to fall in love with the young singer Mio who had been selling her body to soldiers. Believing she is a spy, enemy soldiers kill her which causes Hyakkimaru to develop rage and kills every last one of them. Dororo calms him and gives him a bag of rice from the late girl that he keeps in his clothing. Hyakkimaru also meets his family, his father Daigo Kagemitsu, his mother Nui no Kata and his younger brother Tahomaru. As Daigo fears the land will be destroyed once Hyakkimaru recovers his body, he and his son try to kill him but they fail to capture him. As Hyakkimaru and Dororo continue their journey, the former becomes obsessed with recovering his body which scares the latter when a village is destroyed. Jukai makes his son realize that he needs a person to rely on a person to live to avoid being lost in wrath and Hyakkimaru chooses Dororo who had left him. Hyakkimaru follows Dororo who had been captured by bandits to use her father's hidden treasure and in the meantime fight his brother again for a brief time again.
Although now feeling more affection towards Dororo, Hyakkimaru succumbs to his wrath when he is unable to save Dororo, who nearly drowns, because he does not have real arms. Hyakkkimaru returns to Daigo's village to recover his last body parts and once again battles Tahomaru and his assistants Mutsu and Hyogo who also made a pact with the demons to kill him. As Mutsu and Hyogo die, Hyakkimaru recovers his arms and fights Tahomaru in his castle on fire. Through his brother's despair, Hyakkimaru sees parallels between their lives and spares him. Tahomaru rips off his own eyes to make Hyakkimaru recover his vision and Nui no Kata and Jukai lead him to Dororo as they die in the castle with Tahomaru. With Daigo's land destroyed, the feudal lord attempts to offer his son once again when Hyakkimaru spares him as he claims both can redeem themselves from killing people. Dororo then uses her father's treasure to rebuild the village while Hyakkimaru goes on a journey and accomplish Mio's dream of a field. The series ends with the grown Dororo running to happily welcome the returning Hyakkimaru.
Hyakkimaru. Voiced by Hiroki Suzuki, and Adam Gibbs. As a result of his character not having too many lines, Suzuki was given multiple advices by MAPPA during recording of the episodes. Among many lines he enjoyed how Hyakkimaru starts calling Dororo by his name, something that he does by different range of emotions. He compared the duo's relationship similar to that of a buddy film and felt that the series' message involves humanity as Hyakkimaru becomes weaker every time he restores a part of his body. Suzuki said Hyakkimaru sounded too ''ikemen'' and was asked to tone it down. The actor said that Hyakkimaru never attempts to sound cool and instead is more charming when talking with Dororo, citing their meeting in the second half of the series after the two split. Dororo. Voiced by Rio Suzuki, and Chaney Moore. Suzuki felt pressure about her being the youngest actor in the series but looked forward to her character's relationship with Hyakkimaru and their journey. Biwamaru. Voiced by Mutsumi Sasaki, and James Belcher. Daigo Kagemitsu. Voiced by Naoya Uchida, and David Wald. Tahōmaru Voiced by Shōya Chiba, and Blake Jackson. Jukai. Voiced by Akio Ōtsuka, and Ty Mahany. Otsuka had previously voiced Daigo Kagemitsu in the 2004 video game adaption. *Nuinokata. Voiced by Chie Nakamura, and Patricia Duran.
Jang Pan-soo is a well-known elite gangster and married to his boss' daughter. One day, a high school student, Dong-Hyun, falls off the roof by trying to retrieve a shoe and falls on Pang-Soo. Pang-Soo wakes up in a hospital and felt something was wrong since everyone called him 'student', and Dong-Hyun's father ran up to him calling him Dong-Hyun and embracing him. Confused he ran to the nearest mirror and realized that he is now inside Dong-Hyun's body. After failing several times to go back to his own body, which is still unconscious in the hospital, he accepts his fate and goes home with Dong-Hyun's father.
As time passes by, he realizes that Dong-Hyun is targeted by bullies at school, is overweight, and has really bad eyesight. One by one, he starts fighting back against the bullies until they stop harassing him and Dong-Hyun's friend. During this time, one of his loyal subordinate, Man Chul, is guarding his unconscious body at the hospital and Pan-Soo convinces him that he switched bodies with a high school student and helps Pan-Soo gather intel and daily activities in the gang.
One day, Pan-Soo encounters Oh Hyun-Jung, a girl in his class who is also being targeted by bullies at school. He follows her home only to find out that her mom, Oh Mi-Sun, was his old ex-girlfriend. He has Man-Chul get a paternity test for him and finds out that Hyun-Jung is his daughter. Seeing how she is an easy target for bullies at school, he gets her to train with him under Man-Chul's supervision. After a few weeks, Pan-Soo loses all of his body fat, gaining back his fit body and Hyun-Jung learns how to defend herself from her bullies. Hyun-Jung starts to have feelings for Dong-Hyun, not knowing that it's actually her father inside his body.
During this time, Pan-Soo's rival, Boss Yang, conspires to frame Pan-Soo of embezzling money by using his wife to convince their boss, which is her own father. Pan-Soo find this out from Man-Chul and writes a letter explaining the scandal to his boss. He later reveals to Mi-Sun that he is actually Pan-Soo, not Dong-Hyun, and she gets upset as she still has ill-feelings towards him for leaving her. Hyun-Jung stumbles upon them during this time and Pan-Soo expresses that he still loves her mother. This upsets Hyun-Jung, not knowing that it's actually her father saying this.
Dong-Hyun later wakes up in Pan-Soo's body and ends up at his home, shocked to see Pan-Soo there in his body. Later, Boss Yang visits Mi-Sun's restaurant and fights with Pan-Soo until Mi-Sun threatens everyone if they don't stop. Pan-Soo's wife visits her father and he reveals to her he knows that she is working with Boss Yang and has turned her back against her own family. He calls for Pan-Soo to clear things up with him. Pan-Soo sends Dong-Hyun to meet his boss, telling him what to say through an ear piece. His boss unexpectedly announces that Pan-Soo will take over the business, much to his wife's dismay, and accuses Pan-Soo of infidelity and having a daughter from it. Dong-Hyun convinces Pan-Soo's boss that family is important and he is willing to leave the business and inheritance for them.
The boss blesses Pan-Soo to leave the business and Pan-Soo embraces Dong-Hyun for being a better man than he is but is suddenly ran over by his estranged wife. At the hospital, Pan-Soo faints at the hospital as well as Dong-Hyun. Six months later, Dong-Hyun goes back to school back in his own body and is surprised to see his classmates cheering him for kicking out the bullies, and seems that Hyun-Jung is going out with Dong-Hyun. They later go to Mi-Sun's new restaurant where Pan-Soo is working there as well as Man-Chul and people are rushing in to their new restaurant.
Arnold Ramsey and his two grown children Dorothy and Ernest, are hateful toward Ramsey's second wife Eleanor who has money of her own but refuses to spend it on supporting their frivolous lifestyles. Eleanor meets with private detective Mike Shayne to hire him to investigate threatening letters she has been receiving. In flashback the viewer sees the details of her bad home situation. As Shayne is leaving this meeting, Arnold Ramsey wants a word with him. Insultingly implying that Shayne is on the shady side, Ramsey asks if Shayne will find some character to stage a phony jewelry burglary. He has hatched an insurance fraud scheme in which the actor would break in and find $1000 in an empty jewelry case in his wife's bedroom. Shayne cautiously tells Ramsey he will think it over. At the office Shayne vents his frustration to his secretary Phyllis, but does not see that his old friend, reformed ex-convict, and down on his luck, Joe Darnell and his wife are present in the office and overhear. Darnell's wife Dora is pregnant, Joe needs $1000, and he anxiously volunteers to play the burglar. Shayne instead offers good advice to stay on the up-and-up, handing him a $50 gift check. However, later that night, Darnell takes it upon himself to go to the Ramsey home, claiming Shayne hired him, and he is accepted by Ramsey. Having set the stage, Ramsey proceeds to strangle his wife as she sleeps. When Darnell breaks in and arrives in the bedroom, he discovers this and tries to revive her, which provides Ramsey the excuse to shoot and kill him, claiming he caught Darnell in the act of murder. The police believe this lie and close the case. But Carl Meldrum, an ex-con gigolo dating Dorothy, just happened to be present and witness the actual murder; being a con man, he begins blackmailing Ramsey. Now Ramsey has to kill Meldrum, for which he tries to frame Eleanor's brother Buell Renslow, who was also at odds with her over money. From the beginning Shayne has suspected Ramsey—his work was assembling the proof—and at the end he is able to conclusively show the police who the actual innocent and guilty parties are.
Yai Weroj, a young accomplished policeman is moved from the frontier to be the new chief inspector at Phra Lan Provincial Police Station, Phra Kamphaeng Province. Phra Lan is a remote area and full of illegal business and corruption in civil service circles. He tries to solve crimes and be a good role model for other policemen. He has Kampaeng, a beautiful wife who always supports him, as well as Pittayatorn, a greenhorn young policeman to assist him.
A Muslim girl wishes to become a muezzin like her father and to call out the azaan. She steals the fried fish her mother cooks for the men in the house and says that doing so is not morally wrong because Padachon (creator-god) would understand that girls are not given enough food. Her father then censures her, telling her that women should get only half of everything that men have. To this, the girl impishly asks why then women shouldn't wear only half of what men do.
Amidst these struggles, she expresses her wish to call out the azaan. Her father answers all her queries by referring to a big book (Kithab), and he locks her away so she would not perform in a play (a play within the play) again. He tells her she will not reach heaven if she continues to do such things.
"If I'd lose entry to heaven because I sing and dance, then I don't want that heaven," she says. The father is even ready to kill the girl when she performs at the school play despite his wishes. When her mother reminds him that he is not just the muezzin, but also a father, he allows her to call out the azaan, and the drama ends with the girl calling out the azaan and the rest praying.
This story starts out with Bella as a puppy living under an old shack with her family in Denver, Colorado. She finds her way into the arms of Lucas, a young man who adopts her. When Bella becomes separated from Lucas after she was impounded by the animal control due to Denver's pitbull ban, she soon finds herself on a 400-mile journey to reunite with her owner. Along the way, the dog meets an orphaned mountain lion, a veteran and some friendly strangers who happen to cross her path. She will soon find that Lucas was waiting for her. When she finds Lucas the animal control officer tries to take her but ends up failing.
The series explores the origins of the hero Daredevil, whose real name is Matthew Murdock. The first issue explores his childhood, the accident that caused his blindness and powers, as well as his father's death. Throughout the series, readers are exposed to many important characters in Murdock's life, from his mentor, Stick, to his college flame, Elektra, his best friend, Foggy Nelson, and even one of his most primary nemesis, Kingpin, also known as Wilson Fisk. Throughout the comic, Matt Murdock develops his abilities, struggles with anger, and becomes Daredevil.
It's about a man called Mac who wakes up in an unknown town and is pursued across the desert for the Southwest by strange people and beasts.
Astronauts John Thomas, Paul LaFever and Dodge are in deep hibernation when their spaceship automatically lands on an unknown habitable planet after a light-speed voyage. They discover their fourth crew mate, a man named Stewart, dead due to a malfunction of his pod. The three survivors set off to explore the planet on an all-terrain vehicle, traveling through a desolate wasteland, until they discover a jungle, where they find eerie scarecrow-like figures and they're forced to abandon the vehicle when it sinks into quicksand. At a beach, they come across a tribe of primitive humans, following them back into the jungle where they're attacked by a group of apes that use helicopters and jeeps.
The simian hunters shoot Dodge dead and Thomas is also injured and separated from Paul. Thomas awakens in a cell where other humans are kept and studied by chimpanzee scientists, Dr. Zira among these. Unable to speak, Thomas opens his wound and writes "I Can Speak" on the wall with his own blood, but is washed away when a gorilla guard uses a fire hose to punish an escaping human. Zira shares her fascination towards Thomas with her superior, the orangutan Dr. Zaius, who dismisses his unusual behavior as arrogant and plans to lobotomize him. Thomas makes an escape attempt by hiding in a supply truck and sees a modern Ape City, much like a city on Earth, but tailored to the simian society. He is believed to be an escaped trained human and is quickly recaptured and taken back to the lab.
Thomas manages to steal a notebook and writes messages to prove Zira his intelligence. Learning that there were others in his party, Zira phones Mr. Digby, the orang hunt leader, and takes Thomas to visit Paul, who has become incoherent and primitive after suffering a severe hit to the head. Zira presents her findings to a scientific assembly, but is met with skepticism from the apes and Zaius, who believes Thomas to be a well-trained human and orders a lobotomy. Rushing to the operating theater, Zira and Zaius witness Thomas' first words to an ape, as he is strapped to the operating table: "No! Leave. Me. ALONE." Thomas becomes a celebrity as a talking human and explains that he is from another planet called Earth and wishes to return to his planet. During his stay in the civilized Ape society, Thomas is appalled to see Dodge being turned into a stuffed museum exhibit, learns about a radioactive region and how Apes consider themselves evolved from humans. Thomas cracks this belief by befriending a primitive woman, Nova, who he teaches to stay upright, dress and even speak a few words within five weeks.
At an archaeological excavation site near the radioactive zone, Zaius joins Zira's fiancée Cornelius, the head of the expedition. Thomas arrives shortly afterwards on another helicopter having been invited by Cornelius, unbeknownst to Zaius. Cornelius shows that they have found human skeletons, before digging out a human doll that talks and discovering a shaft that leads to a room with more human skeletons laying in beds, revealing the whole thing to be a bomb shelter. Back in the Ape City, Paul (who was moved into the lab) has started to recover his senses and speaks, but is savagely beaten by two gorillas.
At the dig site, Thomas wakes to the sound of explosions and finds the site leveled. Cornelius and Thomas plan to go back to the landing site of the spaceship. As they are about to board a helicopter, the pilot attempts to shoot Thomas but gets shot instead before Thomas escapes alone on the helicopter. Some time later, Zira and Cornelius reach Thomas when he's back to his ship, where he has learnt that he has traveled in space for two thousand years and the spaceship can't take off. Zira tells him she has arranged for Nova to return to her own people. Thanking them for their concern, but refusing to heed their warnings that more apes will come for him, Thomas sets off on foot towards the jungle to join the wild humans.
Suddenly Zaius and a gorilla army catches up to Thomas, who runs briefly before stopping after seeing something. Zira and Cornelius plead to Thomas to run, but he stands still and tearfully responds: "I'm afraid there's no place to run to. There's no place to go.", before Zaius' gorillas open fire and seemingly kill him. Zira queries why Thomas refused to flee, and as the apes leave the scene, the thing that Thomas saw and shattered him is revealed to be a destroyed Statue of Liberty, proof that the planet was a post-nuclear war Earth all along.
A story about a woman who drives a tempo (3-wheeled micro-bus service). The film touches on topics of couples separated because one person leaves to work abroad, and life for the person who stays behind, among many other themes.
The crew of MTS-42, a two-year mission to Mars, consists of Mission Commander Marina Barnett, biologist David Kim, and medical researcher Zoe Levenson. After taking off from Earth, the upper stage of their launch vehicle is connected by 450 meter long tethers to the ship's main hull, acting as a counterweight for inertia-based artificial gravity.
Shortly after takeoff, Barnett discovers launch support engineer Michael Adams, an accidental stowaway, unconscious between two modules, entangled with a device that scrubs carbon dioxide from the air on the ship. As he falls, the device is inadvertently destroyed.
The crew is forced to use emergency lithium hydroxide canisters to scrub from the air. Unfortunately, the canisters cannot sustain the extra load. Barnett orders David to immediately cultivate his algae experiment on the ship, rather than at the Martian colony, as planned. Only half of the algae survive, providing just enough oxygen for a third crew member. Without another oxygen supply, the crew of four will asphyxiate weeks before reaching Mars.
Barnett asks mission control for a solution that will save all four passengers, but the only option—an untested EVA (spacewalk) to climb the tethers and recover liquid oxygen from the spent upper stage rocket—is deemed too risky. Barnett and David begin to come to terms with sacrificing Michael, but Zoe convinces them to wait ten days for mission control to think of another solution.
After three days, David breaks rank to explain the situation to Michael, offering him a painless lethal injection. Michael nearly takes his own life, but Zoe stops him and convinces him to hold out for a while longer. She insists on climbing the tethers to retrieve the liquid oxygen. David reveals that the rest of the algae has died, leaving only enough oxygen for two. Now facing the death of two passengers, he agrees to join her on the climb.
Zoe and David perform the EVA and jury rig a solution to fill two cylinders, which is enough to sustain two more passengers. Deadly radiation from a high-energy solar flare—coronal mass ejection—forces them to leave one of the cylinders behind. They make it back to the ship, but due to a critical equipment failure, the single oxygen cylinder is lost.
After regrouping, they realize the large tank continues to leak oxygen due to the improvised connection, and that if one person exposes themselves to the lethal radiation to retrieve the cylinder left behind on the first attempt, the other three can survive. Marina must survive to pilot the ship, but the other three all volunteer to make the sacrifice.
As Michael is untrained and both he and David have families back home, Zoe ultimately insists on doing it herself. She manages to fill and return the cylinder to the ship before succumbing to radiation poisoning. She spends her final moments outside the ship, gazing at a faint Mars amongst the stars.
Laura and Dean are a married couple living in Manhattan with two young daughters, Maya and Theo. Laura is a novelist who appears to be stuck in a rut as she struggles to finish her latest book. Meanwhile, Dean is a successful entrepreneur at a burgeoning tech start-up, surrounded by young and attractive co-workers, often leaving Laura in charge of their daughters. One night, after arriving home from one of his frequent business trips, Dean climbs into bed and begins to kiss Laura passionately. However, once he recognizes her voice, he abruptly stops and goes to sleep, much to Laura's confusion. The next day, Laura finds a woman's toiletry bag in Dean's luggage; he later explains that it belongs to his business associate, Fiona, and he offered to carry it in his suitcase because she could not fit it in her carry-on.
Laura decides to confide her misgivings about Dean to her father, Felix, a wealthy, semi-retired art dealer. A longtime playboy, Felix flirts with most women he encounters and believes that men are biologically wired to cheat. Convinced that Dean is having an affair, Felix proposes an investigation into him and encourages Laura to check his phone for incriminating text messages. Laura reluctantly does so, but finds nothing out of the ordinary.
While away on a business trip, Dean FaceTimes Laura on her birthday and surprises her with a gift, a Thermomix, which she does not seem particularly excited about. Despite previously insisting that she did not want to celebrate her birthday, Laura agrees to go out to a restaurant with Felix. He reveals that he had Dean followed and he was spotted shopping for jewelry at Cartier. As Laura grows suspicious, Felix picks her up in his vintage sports car and convinces her to stake out Dean as he attends a work dinner. After Dean leaves in a cab with Fiona, Felix speeds through the streets after them, but he and Laura end up pulled over by two police officers due to reckless driving. Felix knows the father of one of the officers, using this to charm his way out of a ticket.
Felix later discovers that Dean is planning a trip to a Mexican resort, which Laura does not believe. The next day, Dean casually tells her about the trip. Upon learning that Fiona is going on the trip as well, an increasingly suspicious Laura calls Felix, who convinces her to follow Dean to Mexico in order to spy on him. At the resort, Laura and Felix eventually spot a woman in Dean's room one evening. When Laura rushes in to confront Dean, she is surprised to find Fiona in the room with another woman. Meanwhile, Dean calls Laura to inform her that he left early and is on his way back home. Realizing her mistake, Laura lashes out at Felix, accusing him of being selfish and berating him for his poor treatment of her mother, on whom he cheated many years earlier.
Back in New York, Laura and Dean have a heart-to-heart conversation, in which they share their respective fears and insecurities: she had been feeling alienated from him due to his constant business trips, while he said he had been busy working because he wanted to be a better provider for his family. They reconcile, and Laura overcomes her writer's block. Sometime later, Felix visits Laura and the two make amends. While at a restaurant, Dean surprises Laura with a second birthday gift—an engraved Cartier watch. Laura takes off the vintage watch Felix had previously given her and puts on Dean's.
In a story called "A Song of Pain and Sorrow!", Superman, Batman, and Lex Luthor try to curtail the Ethiopian famine. While there, they interact with Peace Corps member Lee Ann Layton. Their antagonist is a green-skinned, four-armed giant with a keyboard embedded on his chest called the Master. The Master feeds on entropy, so he is strengthened by the Ethiopian famine.
Joel Bentham is given 50,000 dollars for being the last surviving civil war veteran in his part of the country, he decides to give a house to homeless woman Meg and takes in the grandson of a war comrade Ray Riggins. Ray, along with some criminal friends, is planning to rob Joel, but has a change of heart.
In 1898, a German outlaw named Erik Klaus allegedly buried treasure somewhere in the Arizona desert before disappearing, leaving behind an ominous warning to anyone who went looking for his stash. Years later, a group of cowboys discovers the loot, which turns out to be a coal-like "summoning stone" that releases Krampus when exposed to open flames. According to myth, Saint Nicholas left pieces of the stone in the shoes and stockings of his enemies, so that Krampus would kill them when the clothing was placed by a fire to dry. Krampus is accidentally summoned when the stone is dropped on a lantern, and it proceeds to massacre all of the cowboys save one, Cooper. While Cooper flees, the summoning stone falls into a stream, and is lost.
Decades later, a family consisting of Will and Amber, and their children Tommy and Fiona, travels to Arizona to spend Christmas with Amber's parents, Dale and Alice Henderson. Also present are Amber's environmentalist brother, David, his wife, Vivian, and their delinquent son, Troy. While gold panning in a creek, Tommy finds the summoning stone, which brings forth Krampus when Troy accidentally burns it with a lit cigarette. Krampus runs amok through the area, murdering a pair of Bigfoot hunters, as well as the boyfriend of a woman named Bonnie. Bonnie seeks aid from the Hendersons, and uses their telephone to call 911.
As they wait for the police to arrive, Will, Dale, Alice and Amber are all slaughtered by Krampus. David, Vivian, Fiona, Troy, Tommy and Bonnie try to flee in a car, but it crashes, killing Vivian. David attacks Krampus to buy the others time to run away, and is ripped to pieces. Bonnie, Fiona, Troy and Tommy make it to the home of Cooper, who has spent his life studying Krampus ever since he survived it all those years ago. Cooper reveals that Krampus is summoned by fire, but can be banished back to Hell by earth.
Cooper, Bonnie, Fiona, Troy and Tommy lure Krampus into an abandoned mine shaft with the summoning stone, and Cooper sacrifices himself to collapse the cavern on Krampus with TNT while the others escape. In the morning, Bonnie, Tommy and Fiona and are found by Bonnie's ex-boyfriend, a state trooper named Dan. Troy, who had become separated from the others, is mauled by a baby Krampus that had hatched from the summoning stone.
This fourth novel in the NYPD Red series centers on two of the NYPD Red detectives, Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald. NYPD Red, an entity invented by Patterson for his series, is an elite and well trained unit that has the job of protecting the rich, the famous and the well connected. This novel has three distinct plots. The main plot involves the robbery of an $8 million necklace that involved a murder of a starlet that was witnessed by a large crowd of people. A second plot involves the theft of expensive diagnostic equipment from a number of the city's hospitals. The subplot is the search for Kylie's husband, who has relapsed after going through several drug abuse rehab programs.
Milt Kimberlin marries a cabaret dancer who dies after he loses his money. Years later, he regains his fortune and remarries, but he's distant and misses his first wife. His new wife leaves him after a blackmailer's letter arrives suggesting infidelity in his first marriage, but eventually the truth is revealed and their relationship grows stronger.
A ranch cook and a cowboy save a poor old Civil War widow from a land grabber in the Old West.
In Moose Ridge, Oregon, Andrew Garsette, his two friends, Nick and Eliza, and his uncle Pete, a local firefighter, prepare to meet Andrew's father and Pete's brother, U.S. President Sam Garsette, who is coming home for the Fourth of July celebrations. Sam approaches on Marine One, but it is unexpectedly rerouted to nearby Dixon Airbase. Meanwhile, SETI scientist Celia Layman is informed of a mysterious signal heading somewhere and being sent back.
Suddenly, alien machines begin drilling through the surface from underground, and more alien machines shoot from the sky; both types of machine appear in various locations around the world. Pete convinces Secret Service agents to take the kids away while he attempts to help the townspeople. He finds Celia broken down on the side of the road and reluctantly agrees to take her into the town, but finds it destroyed and proposes heading to Dixon. Sam orders Vice President Dennis Brubaker and General Moore not to engage the ships without intel. However, Marine One is hit and crashes, leading Brubaker to presume Sam dead as he and Moore escape Washington, D.C. before it is destroyed.
Brubaker and Moore arrive at Dixon Airbase, where Brubaker is forced to take over the presidency. With the reluctant approval of base officer Spears, Brubaker authorizes an Air Force counterattack. Meanwhile, the Secret Service convoy is hit; the agents are killed and Nick is injured. Andrew, Eliza and Nick reunite with Pete and Celia; they witness a dogfight between aliens and fighter jets. The jets are easily decimated, whereas Pete manages to down one drone with Celia's phonon-emitting device. They reach Dixon and attempt to get help, but when a large ship emerges, Nick is abducted and presumably killed. Pete and Celia discover that the device disables the aliens by disabling their connection with the alien mothership. They collect an alien battery, and witness more drones bringing wreckages back to the mothership. When another wave of aliens attacks them, the device, given more power by the battery, downs all of them with one pulse.
Having survived his crash, Sam encounters Todd, a computer genius, who manages to contact Dixon with the help of his friend Leni, confirming Sam's survival to Brubaker, who reveals that the base's scientists have discovered the alien mothership near the moon. Sam again refuses to order an attack on it; the connection is disabled, and Brubaker authorizes a nuclear missile strike on the ship. However, the drones surrounding the ship intercept all the missiles. Moore realises that the drilling machines are emitting a gas that is fundamentally changing Earth's atmosphere; Earth will become uninhabitable to human life in days.
Sam is found by Pete's group, and they devise a plan to defeat the aliens by letting a drone take the device up to the mothership and activate it with a satellite signal, disabling all the drones' connections. Sam then contacts Spears, as Dixon is attacked, ordering another missile strike, but Spears tells Sam that missiles can now only be launched from the silos directly, before she, Moore and Brubaker are killed. En route to a nearby satellite base, they are attacked again. Celia sacrifices herself, allowing the drone to take the device to the ship. Sam contacts a team of Army Rangers and orders them to launch the missiles. As the missiles are launched, Andrew, Eliza, Todd and Leni attempt to send the signal, but it is cut by another alien ambush. Pete manages to destroy it by igniting his truck's fuel with a Roman candle and repair the lines, allowing the kids to resend the signal. When the missiles approach the ship, most of them are again intercepted by drones, but the remaining ones are disabled when the signal successfully activates the device, allowing one missile to reach and destroy the ship. The ship's destruction resembles a giant firework explosion.
The film ends with a larger alien fleet approaching Earth.
The plot concerns a fairy princess, Cherestani, whose marriage to a mortal Farruscad was opposed and given a curse-like condition by her father the fairy king Demogorgon. Farruscad is made to swear never to curse his wife Cherestani, no matter what she does. If he does, she will be transformed into a snake for 200 years.
Hibiki Sakura is a second-year high school girl who has a voracious appetite; this habit leads to her gaining weight. Once this is brought to her attention, she reluctantly thinks about joining the Silverman Gym. At the gym, Hibiki finds out that Akemi Soryuin, a schoolmate of hers, is also thinking about joining. Upon meeting Naruzo Machio, one of the trainers, she falls heads over heels in love with him and joins the gym. Motivated, Hibiki vows to lose weight.
Ved (Vinay Shrestha), and Muna (Shristi Shrestha) are from different parts of the society one from the rich and one from the poor. Both of them meet in Dharan after meeting her both of their lives will change forever.
In 1968, a young boy named Charlie Hansen goes to live with his grandmother, Agatha in Demopolis, Alabama after a car accident kills his parents in Chicago. Gradually, Charlie is cheered up by Agatha who buys him a pet mouse whom he names Daisy. One day, Charlie goes to a store to buy a box of nails to train Daisy and to build a house for her as well. The boy is approached by a witch trying to lure him with a snake and a caramel, but Agatha calls him, and the witch disappears.
After telling Agatha about the encounter, Charlie learns that the witches are in fact real. She says a witch cursed her childhood friend Alice into spending the rest of her life as a chicken. Agatha says that witches never leave once they find a child. Frantically, they decide to stay in a nearby hotel where her cousin Eston is the executive chef. While there, Agatha teaches Charlie how to tell a witch from an ordinary woman: real witches have claws instead of fingernails, which they hide by wearing gloves; are bald, which they hide by wearing wigs that give them rashes; have square feet with no toes, which they hide by wearing sensible shoes; have a purple tinge in their pupils; and have a powerful sense of smell, which they use to sniff out children.
The next day, Charlie takes Daisy and a rope to do some training at a grand hall. During his walk there, he meets a gluttonous but friendly boy named Bruno, who is pulled away by his mother. Charlie then goes into the grand hall, thinking he will be alone. As he is getting ready to train Daisy, a group of witches led by their all-powerful leader, The Grand High Witch, enters the grand hall. Charlie hides under the stage, and so overhears the Grand High Witch planning to give the world's children a potion, mixed into confectionery products, that will transform them all into mice. The Grand High Witch waits for Bruno to arrive, to whom she earlier gave a Swiss chocolate bar laced with the potion. After Bruno arrives, he turns into a mouse and enters the vent where Charlie and Daisy are hiding. The Grand High Witch discovers Charlie and forcibly transforms him into a mouse with the potion, before they escape.
Fleeing to the hotel room where Charlie and his grandmother are staying, they tell Agatha about the witches' plan and discover that the Grand High Witch is staying in the hotel room below them and that Daisy was once an orphaned young human girl named Mary turned into a mouse by a witch. Charlie, Bruno, and Mary devise a plan to get a bottle of the potion so that Agatha can devise a cure to turn them back into children. The plan to get the potion is successful, but since she is unable to create a cure, they instead decide to put the potion into a broth of pea soup which will be given to the witches during their dinner. All the witches drink the soup except the Grand High Witch, who realizes that she met Agatha before; she was the witch who turned Alice into a chicken. While the mice steal the Grand High Witch's room key, the witches all begin turning into rats, and chaos ensues.
After she and the mice flee to the Grand High Witch's room, Agatha starts to collect all the potions to destroy them. The Grand High Witch finds Agatha, and prepares to kill her, but the mice intervene and trick the Grand High Witch into swallowing her own potion, transforming her into a rat. They trap her in an ice bucket and prevent her from escaping. Before they leave the room, Agatha takes the Grand High Witch's trunk full of money and also releases her cat Hades from its cage. As they close the door, Hades attacks and kills The Grand High Witch.
Since his parents can no longer accept him, Bruno joins Mary, Charlie, and Agatha to go home with The Grand High Witch's trunk and become a family. Years later, Charlie (now a grown mouse) and Agatha advise young children against the now-leaderless witches.
The setting is the siege of Granada in the last years of the reconquest of Spain by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. Issachar, the titular Hebrew, is the magician of muslim King Boabdil, whom he betrays hoping to obtain freedom under the Spanish for his people. His daughter, Leila is in love with his enemy, the general Adèl-Muza. Issachar joins the Spanish but the Inquisition sentence him to the stake. He escapes by setting fire to the Spanish camp. Leila is taken to Ferdinand and Isabelle, who seek to convert her. At her baptism of the girl her father appears and stabs her, as she dies Adèl-Muza then reveals himself. Both the magician and the Moorish general are sentenced to the stake.
XVII century: the action takes place in Bohemia, in a castle on the banks of the Elbe river and in its vicinity.
Edmea is saddened by Oberto's imminent departure on a long journey. Oberto and Edmea meet again one last time and swear by the picture of his deceased mother to love each other forever. Ulmo too is in love with Edmea even though he knows of her feelings for Oberto. He hopes that Oberto's absence will make it possible to win Edmea's heart.
The Count knows and disapproves of the love between his son, Oberto, and Edmea. He decides, by virtue of his authority, that Edmea will marry Ulmo. Ulmo asks Edmea to marry him and live as brother and sister if she cannot love him, but Edmea does not agree. Obliged to sign the wedding deed, and in despair, Edmea throws herself into the River Elbe in which, following her, Ulmo also disappears.
Edmea and Ulmo have escaped the river, but Edmea, having lost her reason, believes she is the Elbe fairy in search of a king who once loved her. The two arrive at a tavern, where Ulmo introduces himself as Edmea's brother. As the host refuses to house them, they are invited by Fritz and other jesters to set out with them. They are on their way to the home of Baron Waldeck who is celebrating the birth of his first child.
Waldeck's guests also include the Count and Oberto, who is still desperate for the loss of Edmea. Oberto wanders gloomily around the palace without participating in the general joy. When the jesters arrive at the palace, Oberto immediately recognizes among them the voice of Edmea, who, upon seeing him, to the amazement of all, finds reason again. Oberto, casting a defiant glance at his father, escapes with Edmea. Ulmo is left in despair for having saved the young woman just to return her to his rival.
Oberto has brought Edmea back to his home, but he is unaware of the marriage to Ulmo. Edmea reveals to him that she is married to Ulmo, near the tomb of Oberto's mother. The two plan to flee when Ulmo, very pale, arrives.
Oberto threatens him with a dagger, but Ulmo reveals that he has decided to kill himself to eliminate any obstacle to the union between Oberto and Edmea. Reassuring Oberto that Edmea is still a virgin, Ulmo asks, as his only reward, to receive a kiss on the forehead from Edmea when he is dead. He is certain that he will feel it in his heart. Oberto calms down and agrees. Ulmo dies.
The Count arrives, bringing to Oberto the news that he has obtained the dissolution of the marriage. Oberto shows his father the corpse of Ulmo, and while Edmea fulfills the last wish of the deceased, he asks everyone to prostrate themselves, as if at the altar of a saint.
The film takes place eight months after ''Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'', and focuses around one of the main villains of the ''Star Wars'' saga, Darth Vader. Fighting between the loss of Padmé, and the new cursed life he now leads, Vader must do what must be done when a surviving Jedi Master from Order 66 has lured him to the home planet of his late wife's tomb.
On an unknown planet, Darth Maul trains his own abilities and studies his opponents to complete his Sith training under Darth Sidious. During his training, a drone stationed in orbit around the planet reports an approaching spaceship. To remain hidden and complete his training in secret, Maul sets out to kill the intruders before they discover his hiding place and report it. It is revealed that the group consists of six Jedi. Maul swiftly kills a Jedi scout, which gains the other five Jedi's attention, and they fight him. Despite being outnumbered, Maul successfully kills the other Jedi, except for a Jedi Master and his Padawan. They manage to get the upper hand however, and Maul appears to retreat. The Jedi follow him through a canyon, but run into a trap set up by Maul. He overpowers the Padawan and kills the Jedi Master. Right when Maul is about to kill the Padawan, one of the presumed dead Jedi intervenes, and this gives enough time for the Padawan to run. Maul catches up with the Padawan in the middle of a clearing however, and they continue to duel. Maul fights her to the ground, and is hesitant on killing her, but he notices his master's camera drone around him, and kills the Padawan. Sidious appears as a hologram to Maul to express how he is pleased with Maul's achievement and declares his training complete. This is when Sidious also explains that he led the Jedi to the planet where Maul was training so he could kill them, and that it would mark "the beginning of the end for all Jedi."
Michelangelo receives a request from Bajazet II to journey to Constantinople to design a bridge in the city. Frustrated by perceived mistreatment at the hands of Pope Julius II and motivated by a sense of rivalry with the older Leonardo da Vinci, who produced a design that was not used, Michelangelo accepts. Michelangelo is at first overwhelmed by the task and ignores the draftsmen and engineers at his disposal, provided by Ali Pasha and the sultan. The artist spends his days on walks around the city, accompanied by Mesihi of Prishtina, a poet patronized by Ali Pasha.
Gradually, the artist develops a deep friendship with Mesihi. Mesihi has a strong romantic attraction to Michelangelo, who senses but does not reciprocate the feelings. Michelangelo in turn has developed an affection for an Andalusian dancer, with whom he spends two nights. Motivated by pressure from the sultan's court, financial concerns, and a desire to return to Italy, Michelangelo finally produces a sketch for the bridge which the sultan accepts. However, he learns that he will not receive payment until a considerable amount of work on the bridge has been completed, enraging him. The sultan does provide the artist the incomes associated with a village as a gift beyond his promised wages, but Michelangelo gives the deed to Mesihi.
After a celebration of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Michelangelo departs for his lodgings, accompanied by the Andalusian dancer. Mesihi trades the deed to the village for knowledge of a plot against Michelangelo's life—members of the Ottoman court have decided to kill him to prevent the construction of a bridge designed by an infidel. The conspirators have compelled the Andalusian to murder him as he sleeps. Before she can, Mesihi kills her; Michelangelo assumes he acted out of jealousy, and the two wound each other while fighting. Michelangelo eventually leaves Constantinople without seeing Mesihi again.
The 1509 Constantinople earthquake later destroys the unfinished bridge. Mesihi takes his own life after losing his patronage. Michelangelo completes a number of works in Italy, including the Sistine Chapel ceiling and St. Peter's Basilica and dies in Rome some sixty years after leaving Constantinople.
Living in Warsaw, Poland around 1940, Izolda and her family witness the city transform into a ghetto created to contain Jewish citizens. After she marries a Jewish man named Shayek, they escape the Warsaw Ghetto and obtain fake Polish identities as the Pawlicki’s. While Izolda stays in the Hotel Polski while visiting her friend Jurek, Germans surround the hotel and arrest everyone, Poles and Jews alike. She is sent to Pawiak as a Pole, where she witnesses many Jews murdered, including Shayek’s mother. Eventually, she is released from Pawiak as a non-Jew, and is reunited with her husband. However, Shayek is found to be a Jew while working in Krakow and is sent to Auschwitz. When Izolda finds out where her husband is, she begins working as a smuggler to send Shayek packages of food and supplies until he is transferred to Ebensee, a subcamp of Mauthausen. She travels to Vienna in attempts to gain information about how to rescue her husband from Mauthausen, but she ends up being arrested by the Viennese Gestapo and tortured until she reveals that she is a Jew. She is then sent to Auschwitz but is transferred to Guben by persuading Dr. Mengele that she has nursing experience. She escapes Guben and returns to Vienna where she begins working at a military hospital for the German army. When the Soviet army captures the city, they realize that Izolda is a Jew, so they help her to get across the American front to rescue her husband from Mauthausen. She finally reaches her King of Hearts, but a few years later, after having a few children together, Shayek ends up leaving Izolda, consumed by guilt that his entire family died except for him. The story ends in the 21st century in Israel with Izolda telling her family stories of her struggles in the Holocaust.
''Write When You Get Work'' is a love story set in a Manhattan private school for girls, and in the world outside its walls. Ruth Duffy (Rachel Keller) is working to establish a life on the lower rungs of the Upper East Side where she works in the admissions office at an exclusive private school. Her high school boyfriend Jonny Collins (Finn Wittrock) is the person she least wants to see, but his efforts to infiltrate her life are unimpeded by locks or windows. And Nan Noble (Emily Mortimer) is a member of the entitled class whose pronouncements reveal the fears and cluelessness of life on the inside.
Sangele (Dulani) is a girl who lives alone in a village of people . People in the city are trying to get close to her some even making sexual advances. Punchi Malli (Sanath) is very attracted to Sangile, even though he is married. Meanwhile, a hard working young Sunimal (Saranga) falls in love with Sangile. Punchi Malli was falsely accused in due to a rumor and sent to jail. During this time, Punchi Malli raped Sangile and Punchi Malli's wife (Veena) get to know about the hidden truth. She tried to blame Sangile for dirty works, however Punchi Malli punished her. Sangile gets pregnant and story continues.
The film follows Kan'du Ibilees when he was sent on a mission by his boss to a faraway village with exclusive instructions to corrupt the mind of children where he befriends with students and distract them from their studies. He successfully keeps accomplishing his mission before two smart kids suspect his dubious character and spy on him under the guidance of the village Sheikh. Eventually, them along with the villagers, outsmart Kan'du Ibilees and burned him to flames. He then ventures off to find a new mission.
Based on the true story, In 1959 in Central Burma, two evil brother Nga Htoo Zaw and Nga Htoo Maw reincarnated into twins from hatred and revenge. The Abbot tell them they must separate and release hatred and learn how to love or otherwise they will suffer in Samsara (circle of life and death) for eternity.
Best friends Laura, a struggling writer working as a barista, and her best friend and flatmate Tyler, an American woman who is estranged from her family, are both heavy partiers living in Dublin. The early part of the film shows their close friendship in their late twenties as they consume large quantities of wine and drugs through the night, sometimes engaging in casual sex with a man but mostly just enjoying each other's company.
Tyler is included in Laura's family gatherings, with a pregnant sister (who becomes mother to a baby daughter) playing a part in the plot and character development.
Circumstances change when Laura meets and then gets engaged to concert pianist Jim, who shortly afterwards gives up alcohol. Laura continues her partying lifestyle with Tyler, but starts spending nights with Jim.
Inevitably the dynamics of the various relationships change, and more so after they become friends with a poet, Marty, to whom Laura is attracted, and his circle of literary friends. Laura struggles to make progress with her novel throughout the film.
Various events in each of their lives unfold, with questions about life, and especially women's roles, raised and explored both implicitly and explicitly. With the development of the women's friendship front and centre of the film, it does not take the route of a typical neat and happily resolved "Hollywood ending", but ends optimistically with Laura finding her creativity beginning to flow as she finds a way forward.
In 1987, Javed Khan and his family – Pakistani migrant parents Malik and Noor and sisters Yasmeen and Shazia – live in Luton, England, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. Javed likes contemporary rock music, which Malik disapproves of. Javed writes poetry and lyrics for his best friend Matt's band, but Matt criticises Javed's work for being depressing.
Javed feels out of place at his new sixth-form college, where he is one of two South Asian students; the other, Roops, is a fan of "The Boss". In Ms. Clay's writing class, Javed develops a crush on a student activist named Eliza and becomes interested in writing as a career. Javed talks to Ms. Clay after class about his poetry and diaries. During lunch, Roops approaches him and gives him two Bruce Springsteen s, calling Springsteen "the direct line to all that is true in this shitty world." Javed faces constant racism from his peers and neighbours, and Malik forbids him to socialise, insisting he "follow the Jews" in his college because of their success as a people.
Javed is denied any opportunity to write for the school paper. Meanwhile, Vauxhall Motors lays off much of their workforce, including Malik who had worked there for sixteen years. His mother takes on extra sewing work to pay the bills. Frustrated by racism and Malik's inability to understand him, Javed discards his poems on the night of the great storm of 1987. After listening to the Springsteen tapes, the lyrics speak to him, and he recovers his poems. At college, Javed excitedly tells Roops that Springsteen knows exactly how he feels. Inspired to continue writing, he shares his poetry with Ms. Clay. A neighbour, Mr Evans, recovers one of Javed's poems that decries the National Front as 'scum'. As a World War II veteran, Mr Evans sympathizes with Javed's feelings and calls the poem brilliant, but Javed's parents are less appreciative.
Javed submits a piece about Springsteen to the newspaper, which is accepted. Meanwhile, Malik is worried about finding the money for Yasmeen's upcoming wedding. Javed takes a Saturday job with Matt's father, also a Springsteen fan, on his market stall. Matt's father helps Javed impress Eliza by serenading her with a Springsteen song. In the process, however, Javed upsets Matt by seeming to side with his father as he taunts Matt about his poor musical taste and his band.
Javed asks out Eliza, and, steeling his nerves with Springsteen songs, the two enjoy a night out and kiss. Javed is inspired to write his own poems about Eliza, which she loves. Ms. Clay enjoys his poems and article and arranges an unpaid internship for Javed at the ''Herald''. Malik and his wife have to sell her dowry jewellery presumably to cover his lost wages. Yet Malik does not help his wife with the sewing even though he insists Javed and his sisters help. Javed points this out when his dad objects to him taking the unpaid work experience and his dad responds by saying his biggest mistake was moving to the UK.
Javed learns of growing tensions between the Muslim community and the National Front, who have organized a march and hung a pig's head at the local Mosque. Eliza invites Javed to dinner with her conservative and racist parents who imply that she is only with him out of rebellion. Javed later mentions this and says he doesn't care if she is with him for that reason.
At the ''Herald'', Javed gets paid after an article he wrote about racism is chosen for the front page and decides to use the money to buy tickets for a Springsteen concert. On the morning of his sister's wedding, while Javed runs to the shops to buy tickets, his family arrives separately at the venue and National Front members assault Malik. Upset that Javed withheld money from the family and had dishonoured Malik and the wedding, Malik tells Javed to surrender the tickets, but Javed says the tickets are his and they fight. Malik says Javed will go to a university in Luton and Javed states that Luton does not have a university and that he will go to the University of Manchester instead. At this, Malik rips up the tickets. Having had enough of his father, Javed pushes and stuns Malik by telling him he does not want to be his son as he wants to be more than that.
At school, Eliza chastises Javed for abandoning his family on his sister's wedding day, and then for using his family as an excuse for no longer seeing her. In class, Ms. Clay tells Javed that his Springsteen essay won him attendance to a lecture at Monmouth College in New Jersey, near where Springsteen grew up. Javed initially declines, knowing his father will not allow him to go, but later changes his mind when he sees racist graffiti on their home. Malik says America is a bad place and tells Javed that if he leaves, he will not be allowed to return.
Javed and Roops enjoy an inspiring trip to the States. Back home, with Javed staying with Roops, Noor tells Malik to reconcile with Javed and reminds him that he left his own family and country at a young age and that she and Malik will ultimately lose Javed should Malik refuse. When Javed is asked to read his essay at a school event, Eliza recruits Javed's family to show up in support. Instead of reading his original essay, Javed talks about being "Blinded by the Light" of Springsteen and his own dreams, and being willing to abandon his friends and family along the way. He recognizes his father's struggles and the way his community has shaped him, saying he must "build a bridge to my dreams, but not a wall between my family and me.” Everyone is moved. Javed reconciles with Eliza and thanks her for inviting his family. Malik reconciles with Javed and tells him that he has read Springsteen's lyrics and admires the themes of working hard and respecting one's family. Before going to Manchester, Javed sells his Springsteen memorabilia to reclaim his mother's jewellery. As Javed leaves for university, he and Malik listen to Springsteen together.
Born in Kasungu, Malawi, William Kamkwamba is a young schoolboy who comes from a family of farmers who live in the nearby village of Wimbe. William has a talent for fixing radios for his friends and neighbours and spends his free time looking through the local junkyard for salvageable electronic components. Although he is soon banned from attending school due to his parents' inability to pay his tuition fees, William blackmails his science teacher (who is in a secret relationship with William's sister) into letting him continue attending his class and have access to the school's library where he learns about electrical engineering and energy production.
By the mid-2000s, the family's crops fail due to drought and the resulting famine devastates William's village, leading to riots over government rationing. William's family is also robbed of their already meager grain stores. People soon begin abandoning the village, and William's sister elopes with his former teacher in order to leave her family "one less mouth to feed".
Seeking to save his village from the drought, William devises a plan to build a windmill to power the town's broken water pump. His small prototype which works successfully, but to build a larger windmill, William requires his father, Trywell, to give permission to dismantle the family bicycle for parts, which is the only bicycle in the village and the family's last major asset. His father believes the exercise futile and destroys the prototype and forces William to toil in the fields. After William's dog dies of starvation and hope seems lost, William's mother, Agnes, intervenes and urges his father to reconsider. William and his father reconcile after William buries his dog. With the help of his friends and the few remaining members of the village, they build a full-size windmill which leads to a successful crop being sown.
Word of William's windmill spreads and he is awarded a scholarship to attend school, ultimately receiving a degree from Dartmouth College.
Bella (Nadia Saphira) is a student who successfully running for the Head of the Student Council on her campus. Together with her success team, Putri (Siti Anizah), Icha (Gracia Indri), Sasha (Jessica Iskandar), and Heidy (Alessia Cestaro), Bella competes with Aldi (Tommy Kurniawan) who is handsome, smart, and good at winning the hearts of campus students . Aldi us supported by his success team , Ferry (Marrio Merdhitia) and Dimas (Tarra Budiman). Bella continues to run her campaign even though she’s not supported by her boyfriend, Rhino (Boy Hamzah).
The strategy for selling brownies for Bella's campaign funds was unsuccessful because the price was too expensive, and Aldi easily defeated it by using girl’s car wash as a strategy. Bella, who had not had time to prepare a counterattack, was even more aggravated by Aldi who opened a free massage booth for the campus student. After the pre-poll announcement that Aldi will win by a landslide victory, Bella is determined to defeat Aldi. Thanks to Sasha's advice, they began asking for money from office executives while wearing sexy clothes. Obviously, many executives are willing to give them large checks.
After Bella began competing with Aldi with a photo calendar and body painting strategy, she is unconsciously approached by Aldi, especially when Aldi drove Bella home after Bella broke up with Rhino. Outside Bella’s place, Aldi almost kissed Bella and it was photographed by a campus tabloid reporter who likes to create a sensation named Anto (Melvin Giovanie). The next day, the news and photos were published. This caused a chaos in Bella's group, Icha who secretly likes Aldi blames Bella and leaves, while the candidate debate will take place in two days.
After the debate, Bella actually gave up when the election day announcement, successfully persuaded Heidy, they both gathered on campus with Sasha and Putri, then Icha also came there and they reconcile. Announcement was reported with the results of Bella winning as the Head of the Student Council. When Anto triggered riots, Aldi calmed the situation while supporting Bella's victory. The film ends with Aldi and Bella together and Anto is locked overnight in the campus bathroom.
After drying of the Zayandehrud River, the wells and aqueducts of neighboring villages have also destroyed. The agricultural lands have lost their fertility and the villages have gradually been vacant. Most of its inhabitants migrate to the surrounding cities, leaving only the elderly in the countryside. Disappointed in finding water, few people remained in the countryside looking for another job. Few people who are more hopeful are still looking for water in the heart of the Qanats.
In 1970, alcoholic night watchman Fritz Honka (Jonas Dassler) murders Gertraud Bräuer, a prostitute, in his squalid Hamburg apartment. He carves up the body, getting rid of some parts by throwing them away in a suitcase, while the rest are kept in an improvised locker in his wall. The police find the suitcase but cannot identify the culprit.
In 1974, Fritz observes schoolgirl Petra Schulz (Greta Sophie Schmidt) hanging out with her classmate, Willi (Tristan Göbel). Fritz is mesmerized and begins to fantasize about Petra often. He spends nearly all his free time at The Golden Glove pub, often soliciting prostitutes that reject him in disgust. One night Fritz brings home Gerda Voss (Margarethe Tiesel), a vagrant, who is allowed to pass the night conditional on having sex with him. The next day however, he allows her to stay in exchange for sex and housework, as well as a signed contract of being introduced to her attractive daughter, Rosi.
After having lunch with Fritz's recently divorced brother Siggi (Marc Hosemann), Fritz and Gerda go to the pub to meet Rosi. Gerda finally confesses that Rosi and her are completely estranged and she will not be coming. Outraged, Fritz shatters his glass and begins bleeding. While he is washing himself in the bathroom, an evangelist offers Gerda rehabilitation, and she gladly accepts. With Gerda gone, Fritz approaches three alcoholic women: Inge, Herta, and Anna. As a fight breaks out at the pub, they tag along with him, although Herta passes out on the street and is left lying there. Upon arrival, Fritz asks the women to perform oral sex on each other. While Anna is too drunk to care, Inge refuses and Fritz beats her up, but she manages to escape. To vent out his frustration, Fritz kills Anna by smashing her head against a table. Her body is also quartered and put in the locker.
The following morning, Fritz is run over by a van. He survives and visits the pub for the last time before giving up on drinking altogether. Now consistently sober, he takes up a night shift as a watchman at an office complex. There he meets a cleaner, Helga Denningsen (Katja Studt), who he finds attractive. Fritz is introduced to Erich, Helga's husband, at her birthday party. Helga reveals that Erich has been unemployed for months and now resorts to leech off her. After sharing a few drinks, Fritz relapses and attempts to rape Helga at their next encounter, but she flees.
Fritz is back at the pub and brings another prostitute, Frida (Martina Eitner-Acheampong), to his home. He beats her up for laughing at his erectile dysfunction. Once Fritz falls asleep, Frida begins robbing the apartment. In retaliation, she rubs Fritz's genitals with spicy mustard. When he wakes up in pain, she kicks him in the groin and insults him. A violent fight breaks out, with Frida being strangled, battered, and cut up by Fritz. In the following days he lures Ruth (Jessica Kosmalla) to his apartment, who suffers the same fate.
One night, Willi convinces Petra to go to The Golden Glove in order to win her over. After unintentionally provoking an older man, Willi is humiliated by being urinated on and locks himself at a stall. When Petra comes in, he refuses to get out and tells her to leave without him. Fritz notices Petra and follows her through the streets, only to discover that his apartment has caught fire. Firefighters find the corpses and Fritz is immediately arrested.
In 1933, Gareth Jones is an ambitious young journalist who has gained some renown for his interview with Adolf Hitler. Thanks to his connections to Lloyd George, the former British prime minister, he is able to get official permission to travel to the Soviet Union. Jones intends to try to interview Stalin and to find out more about the Soviet Union's economic expansion and its apparently-successful five-year development plan.
Jones is restricted to Moscow but jumps his train and travels unofficially to Ukraine to discover evidence of the Holodomor, including empty villages, starving people, cannibalism and the enforced collection of grain. On his return to Britain, he struggles to get his story taken seriously. The film ends by recording that Jones died while reporting in Inner Mongolia with a guide who was secretly connected to the Soviet secret service.
U.S. Army veteran Alicia West returns to her hometown of New Orleans where she joins the city's police department and is partnered with the easygoing Kevin Jennings. Their beat includes the deprived slum neighbourhood where West grew up, and during one patrol she meets an old friend, Milo "Mouse" Jackson, who now works at a convenience store clerk. However, he acts as if he doesn't know her, as the community is deeply distrustful of the police.
In order for Jennings to get home to date-night with his wife, West takes his place in a double shift with another patrolman, Deacon "Deek" Brown. During their shift he gets a call on his personal phone and drives to a derelict power station, ostensibly to meet an informant; when they arrive, he orders West to wait in the car while he heads in alone. Soon afterward, West hears gunfire coming from the building and rushes in to help, wearing a bulletproof vest fitted with a body camera, only to stumble upon Brown and two drug squad detectives, Terry Malone and Smitty, executing three unarmed drug dealers in cold blood. Malone attempts to explain away the incriminating situation, but Smitty panics upon seeing West's bodycam and shoots her. She is protected by her vest, but stumbles backward onto a weak section of flooring and falls several stories.
Despite being badly injured in the fall, West manages to escape the power station, with Malone, Smitty and Brown in pursuit. She flags down a passing squad car and asks for help from the two patrolmen inside, but quickly realises that they are also part of Malone's network of corrupt cops, forcing her to flee again. She eventually finds sanctuary in the store where Mouse works, though he is at first reluctant to help her and considers turning her over to her pursuers. Unsure who in the police department she can trust, West calls the off-duty Jennings and asks him to give her a lift to a police station so that she can upload her bodycam footage to the police mainframe and thereby get incontrovertible evidence against Malone and his cohorts on the record. However, during the drive Jennings inadvertently lets slip that he already knew Malone was crooked, and West, fearing that he is about to lead her into a trap, forces him to stop the car and makes off on foot.
Meanwhile, Malone frames West for the shootings at the power station. One of the three dead drug dealers was Darius's nephew, Zero, and Darius therefore sends his gang out to kill West in revenge. Hunted by both the police and the gang, West is again forced to seek shelter from Mouse, this time at his apartment. He takes her in, but she is seen by one of his neighbours and soon Darius's gang arrives to kill her. She manages to escape, but Mouse is captured.
Unwilling to leave Mouse to his fate, West surrenders to Darius, explaining that she has proof of her innocence in the form of her bodycam footage. One of Darius's henchmen manages to hack the bodycam and confirms her story. Before Darius can act on this revelation, however, the police raid the apartment block. In the confusion of the raid Smitty kills Brown (in revenge for an earlier spat over who was to blame for the fiasco at the power station) and is then killed himself by West, while Malone kills Darius and begins searching the block for West. Knowing that she cannot escape, West instead gives her police jacket and bodycam to Mouse, who with this disguise is able to slip through the police cordon and then steal Malone's car and race to the police station, where he uploads the bodycam footage to the mainframe.
Back at the apartment block, Malone manages to corner West, leading to a hand-to-hand struggle which eventually takes them out onto the courtyard in front of a crowd of local residents. West manages to get hold of Malone's gun, but police snipers on the balconies above force her to put down the weapon. However, at that moment the precinct captain, having seen the vital bodycam footage, radios the SWAT team and orders them to stand down. In desperation, Malone grabs the gun and tries to shoot West, but he is shot and incapacitated by Jennings, West's repentant partner.
The wounded Malone is arrested and charged for the murders of the three drug dealers, while West's name is cleared, earning her the respect both of her fellow police officers and of her old neighbourhood. Sometime later, she visits her mother's grave with Milo. Milo tells her he owes her his life and kisses her on the forehead in thanks, and the two leave together.
''The Hunting'' tells the story of two high school teachers who discover that students are sharing sexually explicit photos of their under-age friends and peers online. The revelation has consequences for four teenagers, their teachers and families in modern, multicultural Australia.
Four high school students and their teacher are summoned into a different dimension by a living meteorite named Spudio the 22nd, where they are forced to solve riddles from the Sphinxes. The Sphinxes consume the souls of losing opponents, which allows them to ascend dimensions and end the world.
A French woman recounts her many complicated romances to a casino croupier.
At the Hilltop, Lydia describes her backstory to Henry while both are in the community prison, unaware Daryl is listening in. As Lydia explains, Henry starts to become more compassionate towards Lydia, his own family having gone through similar hardships. Soon after, Daryl drags Henry away, fearing he may be becoming too close. Daryl continues to talk to her as well, trying to scope out the size of her group as Lydia claims that they may be coming to save her. He finds her arm covered in marks, which she says came from her mom. Daryl, who had been similarly beaten as a child, displays sympathy for Lydia's abuse, but she proves to still be uncooperative. He eventually walks off, claiming Lydia is Tara's problem, but Henry tries to convince him that Lydia is coming to face her past now. Henry mentions his surrogate mother, Carol, who had cut her hair short due to abuse from her first husband, Ed, has finally grown to feel safe enough to let it grow again now. Daryl agrees to work with Henry to try to help Lydia.
Throughout the episode, Lydia's stories are told in flashbacks to the months after the walker outbreak. She and her parents have taken refuge in a Baltimore shelter with others. Lydia's father's sanity starts to unravel and believes the shelter is no longer safe; however, her mother takes more command, willing to kill a survivor sheltering with them who is having a panic attack as she considers him too weak to survive. That night, the survivor turns while Lydia is watching and her father runs to save her, but ends up getting bit. This only serves to harden Lydia's mother, eventually leading them to don the masks made from walkers to survive.
In the present, Henry decides to let Lydia out of her cell for a while and discreetly shows her the safety and facilities the Hilltop has to offer. While Lydia has an opportunity to take a hammer and strike Henry with it to escape, the cries of a baby cause her to panic and flashback to her past, and she begs to be returned to her cell. She asks Henry to stay with her through the night. When morning comes, Daryl returns and Lydia states that she doesn't think her mother will be coming, and she was only trying to scope out information for her. Lydia then tells them that her story was a lie, her mother having told her that story to blame her father's death on Lydia. In reality, when the survivor had turned, it wasn't Lydia's father that was bitten, but instead another survivor; her mother took the opportunity to try to make their escape from the shelter, killing Lydia's father when he refused to leave with them. Lydia mentions where her mother and her people may be camped, but notes that they frequently move about.
Meanwhile, Tara leads Magna, Yumiko, Connie, and Kelly to search for Alden and Luke, aware that they may encounter more people like Lydia that wear walker disguises. While they find the pair's horses, Tara declares it is too risky to stay out and orders the group back to the Hilltop. There, Magna's group debates going against orders to go back out and search for Luke, knowing that this will harm their chance to be accepted by the Hilltop. While they try to find the tracks again in the middle of the night, more walkers appear. Magna then suggests that they need to return, but Kelly states that they should find Luke; Connie opts to stay with Kelly. Unbeknownst to them, a Whisperer secretly watches them. Eventually, Magna and Yumiko return to the Hilltop by daylight.
On a guard post, Yumiko apologizes to Tara for leaving. Tara accepts and tells Yumiko to talk to her next time, and informs her that the guards had seen them leave and that she had sent out a party to find and recover them, not wanting to see anyone else hurt. As they watch the guards bring Kelly and Connie back just outside the Hilltop gate, they spot a small group of Whisperers approaching the Hilltop. The guards then grab Kelly to get her safely inside, but are separated from Connie, who hides and takes shelter in the nearby cornfield. At the front of the gate, the Whisperers' leader, Lydia's mother now known as Alpha, appears unmasked and introduces herself. Alpha announces to the Hilltop residents that she wants only one thing from them: her daughter.
In a flashback, Carol, Ezekiel, and Jerry wait for representatives from the Hilltop and Alexandria to arrive to trade goods in a clearing in the woods. Jerry reveals that he and his wife Nabila are expecting a child. Eventually, Jesus and Tara arrive with the trade goods, and Jesus hands Ezekiel the charter of rights that Michonne had been developing for the Kingdom to hold onto; Ezekiel becomes enamored by the document and promises Carol that someday the community leaders will all sign it together. In the present, Ezekiel looks longingly at the charter in the Kingdom.
At the Hilltop, Alpha demands that the community residents turn over her daughter Lydia. She explains that she has removed her walker mask to show them that she comes in peace and willing to overlook their trespass of her lands. Daryl decides to walk outside to talk to Alpha face to face; the two meet. He is initially dismissive of Alpha's demands as she and her human allies are few compared to the Hilltop forces. However, there are several more of Alpha's allies in wait beyond the tree lines, as well as a horde of walkers. Daryl tells Alpha that she can't have Lydia and informs her that he's ready to fight her people to ensure she doesn't get Lydia back, until he spots one of the Whisperers with a baby. Suddenly, a couple of Whisperers bring up a tied up Alden and Luke. Alpha then offers to trade both of them for her daughter; Daryl accepts. Inside the Hilltop, Daryl discovers that Henry and Lydia escaped. Addy tells him that she knows where they went; she and Enid head out to find them while Daryl stalls.
As the standoff continues, the baby belonging to one of disguised women starts to cry, drawing the walkers. Alpha shrugs at the mother, indicating that she should leave the baby to die. Fearing for her life, the baby's mother decides to abandon him as he continues to cry. Alden and Luke beg for Alpha to have the baby be spared, but Alpha refuses. The Hilltop guards bang the fence to attract the walkers away from the baby, but it doesn't work. Luke then frantically signs Connie, still hiding in the cornfield, to grab the baby. Connie then runs out of the cornfield and rushes to save the child. The Whisperers around her unsheathe blades as Connie escapes back into the cornfield and is helped back into the Hilltop by Daryl, Kelly, Tammy, and Earl.
Soon after, Enid and Addy are able to track down Henry and Lydia to an abandoned house near the Hilltop, where Henry has provided Lydia a new set of clothes. Enid tries to convince Henry not to let the bad things change him, and she urges him to allow them to turn over Lydia, recalling how much death she herself has seen and the advice Carl had given her before he died. Lydia opts to leave on her own accord and is traded for Alden and Luke. Reunited, Lydia apologizes to her mother, but is smacked by Alpha across the face, ordering her to address her as "Alpha" like everyone else. She then smiles at Daryl as they leave.
At the Kingdom, with the fair approaching, Ezekiel leads a scouting party to a nearby town. His goal is to obtain a projection bulb from a movie theater to replace the one that is broken, but the theater is packed with walkers. Carol is initially against the plan, but is convinced by Ezekiel, who explains how this will be a positive improvement for the Kingdom. With minimal incident, they recover the bulb as well as one of the poster display cases, which Ezekiel wants to use so that he can frame the charter of rights once it is signed. Ezekiel's group then departs the theater and travels back to the Kingdom.
The child recovered by Connie is turned over to Earl and Tammy to raise. That evening, Henry leaves a note and sneaks out of the Hilltop to find Lydia. His departure is soon learned by Daryl, who finds out that Henry couldn't live with letting Lydia go. Daryl then decides to chase him down, but is stopped by Connie, who insists to let her join him as she feels the same way as Henry; they both depart together.
As Alpha leads her group back to camp, she questions Lydia about her time at the Hilltop and to reveal any intel she learned while held captive, but her daughter claims that there was little of interest. Henry eventually catches up with Lydia and the Whisperers, and watches them from a close distance as they rest, but is found and grabbed by Beta, Alpha's second-in-command. Beta tosses Henry in front of Alpha, who questions the boy. Henry reveals that he came alone to get Lydia; Alpha decides that Henry is coming with them. On their way back to camp, Alpha asks Lydia why she didn't mention Henry. Lydia explains that he wasn't worth mentioning, but Alpha reminds her that he just risked his life to save her, so she must be lying. The Whisperers soon arrive back at their camp. Elsewhere, Daryl and Connie search for Henry in the woods, realizing that the Whisperers caught up with him.
At the Whisperer's camp, Alpha taunts a secured Henry and explains to him why they disguise themselves as walkers, as the strong adapt while the weak die. Seconds later, two of her own, Sean and Helen, approach her and question why they gave up two people for her daughter. Alpha reminds them that she did it to get information, but Sean issues a challenge for her leadership role. In response, Alpha confirms that he has the right to challenge her position, but that she also has the right to defend it. Knowing that it was Helen that has been sowing seeds of discontent within the group, Alpha grabs Helen and decapitates her with a piece of wire. She then hands the head over to a sobbing Sean before fatally stabbing him in the stomach, as Henry looks on in horror. Privately, Alpha tells Beta a story about Lydia when she was three years old. They both then agree that Henry can be useful and that they need to find out if Lydia truly has feelings for him. On a field, two Whisperers draw a herd to devour the couple's corpses as Daryl and Connie watch nearby.
At night, Beta takes Henry to Alpha. Unmasked, Alpha drops her knife and makes Lydia pick it up, commanding her to kill Henry with it so that she can prove what side she's on; Lydia picks up the knife and begins to cry. Her mother warns her not to be weak and that Beta will kill them both if she doesn't kill Henry. Suddenly, a small horde of walkers show up and begin eating the unmasked Whisperers, creating mass confusion. Alpha and the others quickly put on their masks so that they can try to lure the herd away. Moments later, Daryl and Connie arrive disguised as Whisperers to free and rescue Henry; they prepare to retreat. Daryl grabs Henry, who grabs Lydia, and together the four escape.
In Alexandria, Michonne finds herself at odds with other members of the communities' council, particularly with Siddiq and Gabriel; she was concerned about not learning of Rosita and Eugene's mission to establish a radio tower. Gabriel points out to Michonne that she frequently overrides their decisions, specifically disallowing Alexandria to participate in the Kingdom's upcoming fair over concerns for their safety. Michonne later goes to check in on Negan, who has returned to his cell. Negan reveals he knows much of the situation due to gossip he hears outside his window as he tries to get Michonne to trust him. She returns to her home to chastise Judith, as she has been talking with Negan, but Judith insists that Negan has changed. Michonne refuses to believe that people can change until Judith points out that Michonne changed. While upset at Judith, Michonne takes this advice to heart and goes to tell Aaron that she will not overrule a vote to allow Alexandria to participate in the fair, even though she thinks it is still a bad idea.
Meanwhile, Rosita's pregnancy with Siddiq's child continues. Both Gabriel and Eugene struggle with their own past romantic interests in Rosita. Eugene, evaluating his position logically, realizes that he likely has no chance, but encourages Gabriel to make efforts to continue to see Rosita, as it is clear the two love each other very much.
The story of an eventful steamer ride, which shows a canvasser Mofizul (Mosharraf Karim), and a garments factory owner Atik (Tauquir Ahmed), who is trying to disappear after burning down his factory to claim the money from insurance company. Where another passenger Monsur, boards the steamer with the body of his wife, who died in that fire. The first class passengers don't mix with the other classes until the launch is stuck in shallow water for two nights, and shortage of food supply brings Atik down to Monsur's cabin.
In June 2021, Egon Spengler captures an entity in occultist Ivo Shandor's mine in Summerville, Oklahoma, and lures another creature to his farm. Egon activates an elaborate setup on his property, but the power fails, and he conceals the ghost trap in his home before being attacked by the creature and suffering a fatal heart attack. His estranged, financially struggling daughter Callie inherits the farm, and moves there with her children Trevor and Phoebe after being evicted from their Chicago apartment. Trevor becomes infatuated with carhop Lucky Domingo, and the scientifically-minded Phoebe enrolls in a summer science class taught by seismologist Gary Grooberson.
Phoebe discovers the farmhouse is haunted and the poltergeist residing in it leads her to the ghost trap, which she shows to Gary and her new friend Podcast. Gary, a fan of the Ghostbusters, helps Phoebe learn more about them and her grandfather. He, Phoebe, and Podcast tamper with the trap, releasing one of Gozer the Gozerian's Sentinels that escapes to the mine. The farm ghost leads Phoebe to Egon's underground laboratory and, after revealing himself as her grandfather, guides her in restoring the Ghostbusters' equipment. While testing the proton pack with Podcast, she finds a ghost they call "Muncher" that haunts Shandor's foundry and flees to the town. Having repaired the Ghostbusters' Cadillac Ecto-1's engine with Egon's help, Trevor uses the car to chase Muncher with the pair; they capture it, but are arrested for the damage incurred, and their equipment is seized.
Using the Ghostbusters' telephone number that she had written down, Phoebe contacts Ray Stantz for help and tells him Egon has died. Ray in turn informs Phoebe of what became of the Ghostbusters after they defeated Vigo the Carpathian : he reveals that after the Ghostbusters had disbanded, Egon stole their equipment and moved to Summerville to pursue an unspecified threat. Egon's ghost leads Callie to a wall of detailed notes and pictures he kept of his daughter's life, showing he cared about her more than she thought.
Phoebe, Podcast, Lucky, and Trevor find a Gozerian temple within the mine. Exploring further, they discover Shandor is alive in his casket, and automated proton cannons, installed by Egon, hinder Gozer's attempts to cross over. Zuul and Vinz Clortho possess Callie and Gary, respectively, and destroy Egon's equipment, allowing Gozer to escape. Shandor awakens and pledges his fealty to Gozer, but is killed nevertheless.
The children discover Egon's setup is an array of ghost traps buried around the dirt field. With supernatural chaos distracting the town, they recover the seized equipment and travel to the mine. Phoebe distracts Gozer so Podcast can capture Zuul, freeing Callie and weakening Gozer's physical form. They lure Gozer to the trap field, but it malfunctions and Gozer frees Zuul, who possesses Lucky and fully restores Gozer's power. Ray and the other surviving original Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman and Winston Zeddemore, arrive to help, and Gozer, after having already killed Egon, seeks to complete its revenge against the quartet for vanquishing it. Supported by Egon's now-visible ghost, Phoebe battles Gozer with her proton pack. The Ghostbusters help Phoebe restrain Gozer by crossing their proton streams while Trevor uses his to charge the traps' power source, allowing Callie to activate the ghost traps and capture Gozer and its minions. Egon reconciles with his family and friends before departing for the hereafter.
Later, Peter is revealed to be married to Dana Barrett. Winston, having become a wealthy entrepreneur and family man since leaving the Ghostbusters, returns Ecto-1 to the Ghostbusters' firehouse. In the basement, a light on the ecto-containment unit flashes red.
Having spent the last 21 years in a Californian prison for possession of marijuana, a middle-aged man named Russell Millings must find his way in a world that has changed completely since he was incarcerated in the 1990s.
Upon his release, Russell finds employment in a burger restaurant. He visits an internet café and searches for his father, who died in 2001. One night whilst locking up the restaurant, he finds an abandoned baby in the dumpster, a note kept in the bag with the baby reveals the baby's name is Ella. Russell attempts to care for Ella himself and bonds with her, telling her of his father's hobby of stamp collecting.
The baby falls from the bed and is injured, and Russell takes her to a clinic, where Ella is taken away and he is interviewed by the police. After losing Ella, Russell travels to Casper, Wyoming, by bus, meeting a woman on the bus who invites him to join her if he ever visits Denver. In Casper, he visits his father's grave.
He visits a bank to open his father's safety deposit box, for which he has been left the key. In the box are a letter professing his father's love and valuable stamps, including a Tyrian plum. He opens a storage unit also left to him by his late father, which contains the rest of his father's stamp collection and clothes.
Russell visits Family & Child Services in Los Angeles to check up on Ella and give them an envelope containing details of a trust he has set up in her name, to be given to her on her 18th birthday. Russell leaves LA buying a ticket for a bus trip. When asked where he would like to go, he smiles at the possibilities ahead of him.
As described in a review in a film magazine, Linda Lou (Griffith), reared in a small Louisiana town by her strict aunts, loves David (Herbert) who refuses to consider her as grown up and still regards her as a child. David goes to the penal colony La Diable to do work for the French government and only occasionally wires to Linda Lou. In the meantime, Paul (Keith), a wanderer, returns home, flatters Linda Lou, and finally marries her, taking her to a bleak farm in Canada. Feeling the call of adventure, he sends word he is dead and goes on an expedition with Captain Moreau (Milar), which ends with their being sent to Diable under life imprisonment. David returns and marries Linda Lou and they go back to La Diable. During an escape of prisoners during a rainstorm, Paul finds Linda Lou, who is lost. David finds them together and believes she still loves Paul, but gets clemency for him on account of his aiding Linda Lou. Just as she has decided to leave, David brings word that Moreau has killed Paul, and David takes Linda Lou in his arms when she explains it was love for the baby that died and not for Paul that caused her to want to help him.
As described in a review in a film magazine, when Roland Keene's wife dies, he goes West with a theatrical troupe, leaving his young son Benny (Alexander) in New York. In Placer Valley he meets Sal Flood (Busch), owner of a saloon she inherited from her father. Benny arrives in Placer Valley just in time to witness his father marrying Sal. Roland takes over running the saloon and is being milched by Osner (Lewis), a professional gambler, when Steve McGregor (Santschi), a friend of Sal, intervenes. After a bloody fight, Steve whips the gambler. Sal then takes over the saloon. To meet his gambling debts, Roland is compelled by Osner to open the saloon's safe, which has Steve's gold. When the safe is opened, Benny through a window sees Osner taking the metal. The building is blasted by Osner, and Benny is injured by debris from the building. Benny shields his father when the Sheriff investigates, and Roland sets out to get Osner and return the gold. Osner flees to a tram car, and Roland jumps on it as it begins to travel down from one mountain and then up the next slope. In mid-air he succeeds in spilling Osner to freefall from the tram car to some tree tops far below, but then Roland loses his own grip to luckily land safely on a sandy bank.
A 67-year-old recalls the summer of 1948, the year he turned fifteen.
In 2001, Frank Carver, a young gangster for a mob enforcer named Max, witnesses his boss execute a former ally. Frank is asked to take the fall for the crime in return for $450,000 and the promise that his son, Joey, be looked after and cared for after the death of Frank's wife, Lorraine. However, his originally promised six-year stay in prison turns into a life sentence.
Nineteen years later, Frank is released from prison after he is diagnosed with a case of insomnia that could kill him if he doesn't sleep. While walking, he is met by Joey, now an adult, who reveals that he is a recovering addict and has sold his car to pay off his drug debts. After the two hail a cab, they stop by the old Carver household where Frank unearths the $450,000 bounty promised to him years ago. He takes the money and promises Joey that he'll make up for lost time. Joey, reluctant to spend what is essentially "blood money", later agrees in order to spend time with his father. That night, after checking in to a lavish hotel, Frank, against his doctor's orders, tracks down his friend Q, who was also involved in Max's crime syndicate. Q, having left that life behind him and is now a successful bar owner, makes peace with Frank.
The following day, Frank and Joey spend time together buying suits, a sports car, and a new smartphone. They are approached by a pimp named Trip, who tries to show them a good time, but Frank declines. Inside the hotel, Joey encourages Frank to flirt with a woman named Simone. Simone turns out to be a prostitute and has sex with Frank in his suite, but ends up developing romantic feelings for him after he explains to her the deal he made with Sleepy and how it affected him.
That night, Frank tracks down Max's second in command, Jimmy, to a nearby massage parlor, with Jimmy managing to escape before Frank can kill him. The next morning, Frank confesses to Joey that he is still "in the game," prompting Joey to turn his back on Frank. Frank collapses in his suite due to exhaustion, and is nearly killed by Trip, who reveals that Simone was one of his prostitutes and demands Frank pay him what he feels is owed to him. Frank threatens Trip with his life, scaring him into running away.
Later, after killing one of Max's subordinates (Tank) at a nearby butcher, Frank gets a call from Joey, who has been kidnapped and taken to Max's old hideout. Frank rescues Joey and they reconcile. They decide to stop by the cemetery where Lorraine is buried, and, while there, Frank also walks by Joey's headstone as well, revealing that "Joey" was a figment of Frank's imagination. Frank comes to terms that Max and his men killed Joey to keep him quiet, while Joey's spirit tries convincing his dad to "come home".
Despite his son's last wishes, Frank locates Max at a nearby assisted living center, where he is now in a medically induced coma. Frank ultimately decides to spare Max's life, not before leaving the bloodied baseball bat that Max had used the night of the execution on his body. One of the orderlies tells Frank that the only other person to have visited Max before him was Q, which shocks him. Jimmy shows up to kill Frank, though Frank gets the upper hand and shoots Jimmy dead in the parking lot.
Frank then heads to a nearby church, where Q's daughter is getting married. Frank holds Q and his daughter hostage, with Q revealing that he was the man who had Joey killed. He explains that Joey had become an unstable drug addict and was going to snitch on Max's gang to the police, forcing Q to cover his tracks. Frank spares Q, not before his daughter shoots Frank in the back. Outside, police tell Frank to surrender, but Frank refuses, deciding to go out in a "blaze of glory". As Frank lies dying on the steps to the church, Joey's spirit comforts his dad, as he helps lead him into the next life.
Superintendent Jake Carson is the commanding officer of a group of smokejumpers in the remote California woodlands. Carson is capable in a crisis and takes tremendous pride in his work, diving into dangerous situations to rescue civilians alongside his team – overtly loyal Mark Rogers, nervy and neurotic Rodrigo Torres, and "Axe", a huge mute who carries his fireman's pulaski everywhere.
After rescuing three children from a burning cabin, Carson is contacted by Division Commander Richards. Richards praises his work and shortlists him to be his replacement, Carson's dream job.
Rogers warns Carson they are responsible for the children's welfare (15-year-old Brynn, 10-year-old Will, and 3-year-old Zoey) under the "Safe Haven Laws", requiring law enforcement and first responders to care for children until they are released to a parent or guardian. He leaves a voicemail for the children's mother who texts back saying that they are on their way. Carson's attempts to complete his application for division commander are undermined by the children running haywire around the station, and the arrival of his ex, environmental Doctor Amy Hicks, a local who protests the smokejumpers taking water from endangered toad habitats to fight fires. She refuses Carson's attempt to offload the children onto her.
Despite the mayhem, the rest of the smokejumpers begin to bond with the children: toddler Zoey warms up to the brutish Axe and Torres teaches Will how to navigate dangerous situations. Brynn pays lip service to Rogers' admiration of Carson, then stages an escape on the station's ATV, spilling oil and slashing tires to prevent chase. Carson catches them by off-roading on a little girl's bike, cornering the children on a dirt road.
Will prompts Brynn to admit they are orphans on the run from foster care, avoiding their separation. The text messages were from Brynn herself. The group camp out overnight and Carson promises to hold off calling Child Services until after Zoey's birthday in two days.
The group go all out preparing Zoey's birthday, and the four smokejumpers buy presents for Brynn and Will as well. Carson then tells Will a bedtime story about a yeti who was married to his job, had a son and then died on the job because he was distracted by having a family. Brynn and Hicks are both touched by the thinly veiled story of Carson's life. The overboard birthday party is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of both Richards and Child Services. The children flee in Richards' car, running it off the road right on a cliff. Brynn gets trapped in her seat belt. Carson parachutes down to rescue them and with Will's help, he frees Brynn before the car rolls off the cliff.
Back at the station, Hicks and the other smokejumpers bid an emotional farewell to the children. Richards tells Carson that family can be a source of support and that there is more to life than working. Inspired, Carson refuses to release the children to Child Services under the Safe Haven laws and proposes a plan to adopt all three of them. Sometime later, Carson and Hicks get married with the smokejumpers and their adopted children in attendance.
US Marshal Lash and Deputy Marshal Fuzzy are sent to the stop a gang led by a bullwhip wielding masked bandit called El Azote who are terrorising the area through murder and armed robbery. Ambushed by a group of seven riders, Lash and Fuzzy evade them and make their way to Tioga City. Upon arrival in town Lash notices the local newspaper informed the town of the arrival of a marshal and deputy. This leads Lash to believe that someone at the newspaper let the news out as opposed to their usual clandestine arrival in order to kill them.
After a fight in a saloon where Lash uses his whip on a thug, he meets Benson, the owner of the saloon. Lash informs Benson that they were waylaid by a gang of men. Lash decides to allay suspicion of their true identities by telling Benson they saw the bodies of a Marshal and his deputy that they buried. Benson notices Lash's prowess with a bullwhip in the fight and schemes to dress Lash as El Azote to reap profits and give El Azote the blame. Lash agrees as he feel this will get him closer to the identity of El Azote.
Eventually Lash and Fuzzy's true identities as lawmen are discovered; they are captured, disarmed and tied up. Escaping their bonds by using their spurs, Lash and Fuzzy bring El Azote and his outlaw gang to justice; Lash using his whip, Fuzzy using his slingshot. The film features two climaxes. Lash and El Azote have a bullwhip fight to the finish whilst Fuzzy, who constantly regales all and sundry of his imaginary friendship and adventures with Buffalo Bill comes to face with the real Bill Cody...
In-ae works as a female bodyguard. One day she witnesses her disabled sister Eun-hye being raped by a politician. She attacks him and stabs one eye out. For this, however, she has to go to prison for a year and a half.
When In-ae comes out of prison, she is happy to see her Eun-hye again. But Eun-hye is regularly bullied at school and exploited and raped by various people. She doesn't tell her sister, however. Three classmates force Eun-hye to hook up with older men, take them to a hotel room, leave the door open and then call from the bathroom. This is the signal for three guys to enter come the room and attack and rob the seduced man.
On one occasion, Eun-hye and the boys run into a gangster who wants to sell her after raping her. The gangster scares off the boys and abducts Eun-hye. In-ae worries when her sister fails to come home. But when she goes to the police, they decline to take action, saying it’s too early.
In-ae decides to take action on her own. She learns about the gangster, initially by threatening Eun-hye’s classmates. From there, she starts on a ruthless pursuit of Eun-hye’s abductors and traffickers.
The White Rose (Kalle, Anders, Eva-Lotta) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka, Jonte) are fighting for a magical stone, called the Stormumriken.
One day Kalle and Sixten test their strengths and fight against each other, while Anders, Eva-Lotta, Benka and Jonte are watching and cheering. Policeman Rudolf Rask comes by and interrupts the fight. He tells the teenagers to stop fighting and the friends disappear.
Later, Rask talks to Kalle's rich aunts Hilda and Hulda Krikonblad. He promises to make sure the sisters are safe.
When the sisters are looking at a shop window, Kalle pranks them by knotting their ropes together. Hulda laughs when she realizes what the teenagers have done. Hilda, however reacts differently, she calls for the police officer Rask. After unsuccessfully trying to catch Kalle, Rask brings Hilda back home.
A short time later, the musicians Vicke and Nisse sing in front of the house of the sisters. Nisse plays the guitar while Vicke plays the accordion. Hulda wants to give some money to the musicians, but Hilda is annoyed by the sound of the music. She yells at Vicke and Nisse and tells them to stop immediately. The White Rose and the Red Rose observe the whole thing and laugh with the musicians about Hilda's behavior. Then the teenagers say goodbye.
The musicians, however are out of money, and they do not know where to get any new money. Suddenly Nisse has an idea. He wants to kidnap Hulda and extort a lot of money for her release. It should happen that night.
The two musicians sneak into the apartment of the sisters and break in. But instead of kidnapping the kind Hulda they kidnap the tough Hilda. They wrap her into a blanket and carry her out. However, they are observed by Kalle. The next day not only Hilda is gone, but Kalle is missing as well.
Hulda receives a blackmailer letter. She is asked to pay a lot for the release of her sister. She reads the letter to the White and Red Rose. The teenagers try to help Hulda with their own pocket money.
Meanwhile, Hilda and Kalle are locked up in a small house by the criminals. While Kalle writes into his notebook, Hilda is angry. She throws the dishes onto the floor and complains. The criminals are annoyed.
The criminals are discovered by Hulda, when they try to get the ransom. Hulda tries to alarm the White and Red Rose. But instead the policeman Rudolf Rask comes and talks to the criminals. To distract the policeman, the criminals make music with him. Then they say goodbye and go back to the house where they keep Kalle and Hilda prisoner. But Kalle and Hilda have already planned how they can overpower the two criminals. These can later put into prison by Rudolf Rask.
In Seoul in 1994, Eun-hee is a quiet 14-year-old from a working-class background preparing to enter high school. She loves drawing and hanging out with her best friend, Ji-suk, with whom she attends cram school. She is in love with her boyfriend, Ji-wan, who she is secretly dating. Her parents, especially her father, tend to ignore her needs and life in favor of helping her older brother, who abuses her physically and verbally. Her older sister is similarly ignored and abused. At her cram school, Eun-hee meets her new, free-spirited Chinese teacher, Ms. Kim, who she quickly forms a bond with. While dancing at a club with Ji-suk, she also meets Yu-ri, another schoolgirl who clearly has a crush on her, and the two become friends.
Eun-hee's life quickly unravels. She discovers a lump behind her ear, which doctors later determine requires surgery to remove. When caught shoplifting with Ji-suk, her father is called after Ji-suk reveals her identity in fear, leading to severe punishment for Eun-hee; when she confronts Ji-suk later, she refuses to apologize for the betrayal. Ji-wan is forced to break up with her after his wealthy mother discovers her identity and lower social class. Despite all the tribulations, Ms. Kim encourages Eun-hee to keep her spirit and continue to move forward. Eun-hee is deeply moved by her advice and grows attached to her teacher.
Eun-hee prepares to undergo surgery, and her father unexpectedly breaks down in sobs over his fear for her, revealing that he does truly care for her. The surgery is successful; Eun-hee makes up with Ji-suk, who apologizes and admits she betrayed her because she was frightened. Ms. Kim and Yu-ri also visit her in the hospital. Ms. Kim reveals that she is quitting the cram school, but promises to keep in contact. Yu-ri reveals that she has a crush on Eun-hee, who seems to reciprocate and kisses her cheek.
Eun-hee attempts to visit Ms. Kim to say goodbye before she leaves the school, but an error on the part of another teacher causes her to be too late to see her, leaving her devastated. Distraught, she argues with her parents that night about her behavior and insults her brother for his poor grades despite his special attention. Enraged, he strikes her so hard he tears her eardrum, but when the doctor she visits suggests she presses charges, she declines. When the new semester begins, Eun-hee spots Yu-ri and attempts to speak with her, but Yu-ri rebuffs her. She later reveals to a confused Eun-hee that she no longer has a crush on her and has moved on. When she attempts to tell Ji-suk, Ji-suk reveals that she is dealing with her parents' divorce and that Eun-hee only thinks of herself sometimes.
While at school one day, the Seongsu Bridge collapses. Since Eun-hee's sister takes the route to school and her bus was involved in the accident, she becomes frightened, but learns that her sister survived due to being late. Eun-hee's brother breaks down in tears with relief, revealing (much like his father had with Eun-hee) that he cares for his siblings despite his abuse, though his sisters seem unimpressed. The next day, Ji-wan attempts to talk with Eun-hee, but she rebuffs him, telling him that she never liked him. She receives a package from Ms. Kim containing a letter and sketchbook, and tries to hand-deliver a thank-you note to Ms. Kim's return address. However, she discovers during her journey that Ms. Kim was killed in the bridge collapse the day before Eun-hee received the package. Heartbroken, Eun-hee returns home and speaks with her mother about her uncle, who died at the start of the film. Her mother tells her frankly that she misses her brother, and that it is difficult to comprehend that he is no longer around.
Early one morning, Eun-hee and her siblings drive to view the collapsed bridge, where she is overcome by tears as she accepts her grief and comes to terms with her loss. The next morning, the family eats breakfast together in harmony—with all the siblings treated equally and paid attention to—before Eun-hee departs for school. She re-reads the final letter Ms. Kim sent her, in which she apologizes for quitting and promises that there are always good experiences to follow bad ones. Despite standing alone in the schoolyard, Eun-hee appears mature and at peace.
On his wedding-eve night Adam Tripp becomes the victim of several pratical jokes and almost loses his future bride.
Ichirō Inuyashiki finds himself unable to protect his family, and facing various problems in his home and work life. He has no friends, and is treated poorly by his wife and family. He meets a small dog on the street, which unexpectedly leads him to a park where he is accidentally killed by a crash-landing alien force. To apologize for accidentally killing him, the alien force reconstructs him, changing his body into a highly sophisticated machine that gives him superhero-like powers, with offensive powers and the ability to fly. He also discovers he has the power to heal illnesses which he uses to heal some people, including some who are terminally ill.
However, at the same time, a teenage school boy named Hiro Shishigami also inherited the powers due to being in the impact zone, and was reconstructed as well with similar powers to Ichirō. He initially kills an innocent family, and attempts to kill Ichirō as well, but only manages to temporarily incapacitate him. Ichirō meets a young friend, Andō Naoyuki who is aware of Hiro's powers and has seen them work. He helps Ichirō understand his powers, and helps him to hone them. Even so, Ichirō is still very amateurish with his abilities.
While initially still working out how to use his powers, Hiro is attacked by police officers and kills a number of them. Following the murder of Shion Watanabe, his girlfriend and the only person left close to him, Hiro goes mad with rage randomly attacking people in Japan, until Ichirō fights and defeats him. Hiro escapes the battle seriously wounded and believed to be destroyed. He reappears at Andō's house, waiting in his room. Andō admits that he is afraid of Hiro, but also that he is still his friend and is happy he is still alive. Embarrassed by his emotional display, Andō turns away to show Hiro a game on his computer, and Hiro silently flies off from the room's balcony while his friend's back is turned.
As described in a film magazine review, Jean Lawrence, a dancer, jobless and hungry, faints in a restaurant just off Broadway. Rescued by Nan Norton, she becomes involved in a counterfeiting plot. A prowler is searching in Nan's apartment, who then turns off his flashlight steps out onto the balcony when Nan and Jean arrive. Ten seconds later, two detectives arrive, tell Nan that they "have the goods on her," and arrest Nan. "Smooth" Moran, Nan's sweetheart and leader of the gang, dies in London. He has made a friend and supposed acquaintance of Stephen Moore in Paris, and had asked him to look after Nan. In a series of hectic events, the crooks all seem to be detectives and the detectives crooks. The outcome is a perfectly legitimate romance between Jean and Stephen, who is not a crook but is a millionaire amateur detective.
The narrator, Florent-Claude Labrouste, is a depressed agricultural scientist who lives in a Parisian apartment block, the Tour Totem. He commutes to Normandy to help promote French cheese. Sympathetic to the plight of local farmers, he is powerless to help them retain their traditional methods:
After watching a television documentary about people who choose to disappear from their life without telling anyone, Labrouste abruptly leaves his girlfriend, a young Japanese woman who is highly sexual but devoid of affection, quits his job under a false pretence and flees to a chain hotel in another part of Paris.
A doctor prescribes him an antidepressant to remedy his low levels of serotonin, hence the title of the novel. Although the drug dulls his sex drive, Labrouste returns to Normandy in search of former lovers. While there, he visits an old college friend, Aymeric, a divorced and suicidal aristocratic landowner. At the climax of the novel, farmers equipped with assault rifles blockade a motorway. Aymeric is among them and shoots himself, sparking a clash with riot police in which 10 more people die.
Later on, Labrouste begins secretly observing the love of his life, Camille, who has a son from another man. At first intending to shoot the child with one of Aymeric's sniper rifles in order to win back her love, he finds himself unable to go through with it. Finally, Labrouste moves back to Paris, contemplating committing suicide by jumping out of a window.
Genzō Shibata is a famous pro wrestler, known in the world of wrestling as Animal Mask. The night of the match for the title of World Champion, he's suddenly teleported into a fantasy world by a princess, who asks him to act as a beast killer and free the kingdom from the evil beasts infesting its forests. However, Genzō is also a true animal lover, and he immediately refuses the order, knocking out the princess with a German suplex and leaving the castle.
Alone in a new world, Genzō sides very soon with the wolf-girl Shigure, joining alongside her to the local guild and starting a new career as a beast hunter. However, instead of killing them, his goal is to befriend and capture as many monsters as possible, in order to realize his greatest dream: become the owner of a pet shop.
Batista (Marco Ricca) is a valet at the parking lot of a rich hotel who suffers from alcoholism and lives in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with his wife, housewife (Adriana Esteves); and his three children: the oldest one Pedro (Pedro Nercessian), for whom he arranges a job at the hotel's parking garage; Emília (Bianca Bin), a receptionist and secretary for a rich, young doctor; and Rita (Cacá Ottoni), an autistic teenage girl. The film follows the problems faced by the family at home, such as the constant conflicts between Batista and Pedro and Batista's attempts to abuse his daughters when drunk, besides the individual conflicts of all members.
Pedro is ashamed of his father due to his drinking issues and even secretly tags offenses to him with graffiti in their front wall. The father arranges him a job at the parking lot where he words, but one day, one client notices his cellphone is missing and soon the valet team (consisting of Batista, Pedro and a third man) is accused of stealing it. When Pedro refuses to allow his boss to search his bag, even with his father's insistence, he becomes the main suspect and leaves the job, creating a grudge between him and his father. Furthermore, CCTV footage shows Batista parking the client's car and taking way too long to get out of it. The parking lot's manager immediately deduces he is the thief and fires him, causing Batista to worsen his alcoholism. Later, the client reveals he's found his cellphone at home.
After these events, Pedro asks his sister's boyfriend Tutu (David Junior) for a job so he can move out of his parents' house. Tutu invites him to join a team of young males who are paid to practice active anal sex with rich men. Tutu takes him to his boss's Celso (Milhem Cortaz) mansion, and the pimp introduces him to his clients. Pedro soon catches the attention of Donato (Remo Rocha), one of Celso's most regular clients, who invites him to Armação dos Búzios. Still too insecure and shy, Pedro turns the invitation down, but goes to a room in the mansion with Donato. Too nervous to have sex, Pedro asks Donato to end their date, but he reacts aggressively. The two fight, and Pedro injures Donato. An infuriated Celso reprehends and threatens Pedro and Tutu, but one of his clients recognizes Pedro from the hotel and rescues him, allowing him to go back to his parents' house.
Meanwhile, Maria has an affair with Tutu, who visits her regularly at home to sell her steroids and have sex. Maria once even ties Rita to her bed so she can have undisturbed sex.
Emília, on the other hand, also maintains a second relationship. Her lover is her own boss, a rich doctor. One day, as she takes a shower with Rita, she checks a pregnancy test that turns positive and cries. Maria finds the test among the thrash and pressures Emília to tell her whether the father is Tutu ou her boss, but she dodges her questions.
Near the end of the film, Batista returns home after another night of drinking and finds his family discussing the pregnancy. Emília reveals the test was not hers, but Rita's, and the family immediately kicks Batista out. Later, Emília finds out Batista is not the father. Sometime later, the family is seen reunited and celebrating. Emília holds a black newborn child in her arms, suggesting the one who raped Rita was Tutu.
Two assassins, Hornet (Jay Shih) and Mark (Na-dow) decide to end their careers with a final mission. Along the journey in Taichung, they meet several interesting characters: former classmate, Sha Bao (Gadrick Chin), a Filipino drug lord's god-daughter Talia (Amber An), and her friend Ira (Apple Chan). Action ramps up as they begin their hilarious adventure in Taiwan while completing the mission and running away from their killer's hunt.
A boy watches his neighbor baking a strawberry cake. He steals the strawberry cake and eats it. However, he is discovered by the neighbour. She brings him to his mother and tells her to punish her son. The mother tells her son to go outside and get a stick. When it gets dark, the boy is still not back. The mother runs into the forest and calls for him. But her son does not answer. Then she runs to the phone. Just when she wants to make a call, her son comes back. He says that he is sorry. The mother explains that the most important thing is that he is back. The boy tells his mother he could not find a stick. Instead, he gives her a big stone. He adds that she could hurt him with that too. The mother looks at him in horror, puts the stone aside and hugs her boy. The stone is placed on the windowsill and the words "Never Violence" appear.
Dé (Thiago Martins) was born and raised at the Cantagalo slum, in Rio de Janeiro. As a child, he witnessed his brother being murdered by a local drug dealer due to a football-related fight. His other brother, Carlão (Rocco Pitanga), is banished from the slum and ends up arrested because of him. Willing to live an honest life, Dé gets a job at a kiosk at Ipanema beach. There, he meets Nina (Vitória Frate), a rich girl living in an apartment right in front of the kiosk. The two fall in love and begin to date. Initially, they keep their relationship as a secret because of her overprotective father Evandro (Paulo César Grande), but after he finds out, he ends up accepting it after much insistence by Nina.
Carlão manages to get out thanks to a deal he settled with the police and returns to Cantagalo to take it over and kill his brother's murderer. The dispute between crime gangs turns Cantagalo into a very dangerous place and Evandro forbids Nina from visiting Dé at the slum. Furthermore, he buys two tickets to Europe, willing to move out of Brazil with Nina. She pretends she accepted his offer, but secretly she plans to escape to Northeast Brazil with Dé.
Carlão throws a farewell party to the couple at Cantagalo. However, at that same night, cops and criminals come collect the money he owes them. Desperate, Carlão has Nina kidnapped in hopes of demanding a high ransom from Evandro. Evandro, however, has his contacts in the media publish pictures of Dé all over the news, believing him to be the kidnapper.
Dé goes seek help from Carlão, still unaware that he is behind the kidnapping. When the truth comes out, the two fight and Dé shoots Carlão in the chest. The drug lord regrets his actions and tells the couple to flee from Cantagalo. Fearing most won't believe Dé is innocent, they go straight to the kiosk to collect some money and buy tickets to Northeast. However, when they arrive at Ipanema, dozens of cops and reporters are waiting in front of her building and they rush to the kiosk for shelter. Nina suggests that Dé pretends to be peacefully releasing her and surrendering. The plan goes wrong when the police execute him in spite of him posing no threat. An infuriated Nina reacts by grabbing his gun and shooting randomly at the crowd, causing the cops to execute her, as well.
The entertainers, "Ole & Chic", have received better offers elsewhere, and are eager to break their contract at Wagonhorn's nightclub. Wagonhorn is just as eager to keep them on at the low salary he signed them for. However, when the team takes drastic measures one night, destroying the club and subjecting the patrons to slapstick abuse, Wagonhorn is so frightened by this display he sells the club to the two of them just to get away from them. Although an insulted patron (Ed Brophy) files a damage suit against "Ole & Chic", they not only win the suit, but the beginning law firm they hire to defend them ends up prospering from the publicity.
There are four main characters in the novel: Meera, Vivaaan, Kabir and Nisha and everyone has their own story.“Everyone Has a Story” is about a young girl Meera who is in search of a story and but has no idea where she might find it. In search of her story, she comes across Vivaan, a young and successful banker who has a secret desire; that to escape the world in which he lives and travel to his heart’s content. Then there is a coffee shop manager Kabir, who is a friend of Meera’s and is always encouraging her to write. Lastly, Nisha is a girl whom Kabir falls in love with and soon proposes.
Yoshika Etō (Mayu Matsuoka) is a 24-year-old accountant who has never had a boyfriend before. She still dreams of being with her middle school crush, whom she calls Ichi (meaning "number one"), although they have not talked in years. At work, a man she calls Ni (meaning "number two") starts showing a romantic interest in her. She begins spending time with him outside of work, even as she still daydreams of being with Ichi. When she is alone at her apartment, she spends her free time researching extinct animals on Wikipedia, especially ammonite fossils, going so far as to order a fossil through the mail.
Before committing to Ni, she decides that she needs to try to reunite with Ichi. She devises a way to meet him by pretending to be another classmate on social media and inviting their middle school class to a class reunion. Ichi shows up to the reunion and Yoshika learns that he has relocated to Tokyo. The group of classmates who live in Tokyo agree to meet again at one of their apartments for another get together. Yoshika attends the second reunion, where she fantasizes of Ichi remembering her and the drawings of him as a prince that she used to make when she was younger, but realizes that he does not seem to recognize her.
She continues spending time with Ni and eventually develops true feelings for him. They have a date at a zoo and agree to go steady. However, Yoshika soon becomes embarrassed when she finds out that her co-worker and friend Kurumi (Anna Ishibashi) told Ni that she is a virgin who has never been kissed before. She tells him that she wants to pursue Ichi so that they can break up and gets maternity leave from work so that she can avoid her coworker and Ni. She eventually receives a voicemail from Kurumi apologizing for upsetting her and congratulating her on her pregnancy. Yoshika reconsiders her situation and calls Ni. They meet at her apartment where they reconcile their differences and kiss.
Michael and Veronica, a couple in love and engaged to marry are faced with challenges as Veronica gets hit by a mysterious illness a few days before their wedding.
Rasmus' sister Britta and her classmate Joachim are in love. Britta finds an album in which Joachim lists his ex-girlfriends (Magareta, Yvonne, Ulla & Brit) along with a photo. She explains that she would find it terrible if her photo was put into Joachim's album.
At the afternoon, Britta, Joachim, Rasmus and Pontus want to attend the show of the sword swallower Alfredo. Rasmus and Pontus don't have enough money to pay for the show. Therefore, they ask Alfredo to let them in for half of the price. Alfredo rejects rudely. Rasmus and Pontus secretly sneak into the show, are discovered by Alfredo and thrown out.
A while later, Ernst visits Alfredo. Ernst has just been released from prison. The antique dealer Paul has told Ernst where he can find the country's largest silver collection: It is at the house of Joachim's family. Ernst wants to steal it along with Alfredo.
When Britta and Joachim go to rehearsal for their band, one of Joachim's friends tries to kiss Britta. Britta immediately pushes him away, but Joachim believes that Britta is the one to blame. Britta and Joachim argue and end their relationship. Britta is afraid that Joachim puts her photo into the album of his ex-girlfriends. Britta tells her brother Rasmus about it. Rasmus promises to get the photo.
Rasmus and his friend Pontus want to break into Joachim's house and steal the photo. The same night that Alfredo and Ernst want to steal the silver collection. Rasmus and Pontus find the photo in Joachim's wallet and take it with them. When they leave the house, they see Ernst and Alfredo who are trying to escape with the stolen property. Rasmus and Pontus follow the criminals. A short time later they are discovered and locked up along with Rasmus' dog. Ernst quickly realizes how important the dog is to Rasmus. He threatens to kill the dog if Rasmus and Pontus tell the police about what they have seen. The criminals lock the dog up and want to return it to the boys on Thursday morning. Then the boys are allowed to leave.
Soon, Rasmus and Pontus find the stolen goods and exchange them with worthless objects.
On Thursday morning Rasmus and Pontus ask about their dog. The criminals tell the boys about an abandoned house where the dog is supposed to be. There the criminals lock Rasmus and Pontus in. The two boys can escape. Finally, they find the dog. They tell Rasmus' father, who is a police officer, about the thieves. The criminals want to offer their stolen goods to the antique dealer Paul, but discover that the stolen goods were exchanged by Rasmus and Pontus.
The thieves go back to Rasmus and Pontus. Rasmus and Pontus are back in the room, where there were locked up in. They tell the criminals they will show them the stolen goods. They lead the criminals into a dark house where the stolen goods are. The house turns out to be the police station and the criminals are received by the police.
Rasmus, Pontus and Britta go to the summer party. But Britta is sad. She misses Joachim. At the party, Rasmus secretly puts the photo that Joachim had into Britta's hand. Britta thinks Joachim had given it to her. On the back of the photo she reads: „She is the only one“. Britta is deeply moved and asks if that is true. Joachim wonders why Britta did not know that. Britta and Joachim kiss each other. Rasmus and Pontus watch the couple. They say that hopefully they will never be like that.
Rasmus lives in an orphanage. He wants to be adopted by loving parents. But soon he realizes that only girls are adopted. So one day he decides to escape from the orphanage to find the parents on his own.
Shortly after his escape, he meets the tramp Oskar. He joins Oskar on his trip around the country. Oskar earns money by playing the accordion and singing for other people.
One day Oskar and Rasmus are singing in front of a house where a robbery is taking place. The old woman who lives alone in the house is forced to pretend that everything is normal. Oscar and Rasmus realize that something strange is going on. Rasmus sees someone hiding behind the curtain. He also believes the old woman is terribly scared and asks Oscar to find out why. The two observe how some criminals are stealing a valuable necklace.
After the robbery, the old woman is seriously ill and can not testify. The doctor suspects that she may die. Only the maid Anna-Stina testifies. She pretends to be a victim of the robbery. However, she and two of her accomplices are responsible for the robbery. She also explains that a tramp robbed the old lady along with a little boy. Therefore, Oscar and Rasmus are suspected of having something to do with the robbery.
Rasmus and Oskar don't know about the allegations and sing in front of the two accomplices of the maid. Rasmus immediately recognizes the shoes of one of the accomplices. He had seen it flashing up behind the curtain. Rasmus also recognizes the other criminal. He suggests that he and Oskar could go to the police, but Oskar says that nobody would believe a tramp and a homeless child. Besides, they would need proof.
Soon, the robbers hide their stolen goods in the house where Rasmus and Oskar spend the night. Rasmus and Oskar are discovered by the robbers, but Oskar can hide the stolen goods from the robbers. Then Oskar and Rasmus go to another village to sing there.
A while later Oskar and Rasmus are arrested, because the police suspects, they are the criminals who robbed the old lady. Rasmus and Oskar tell who the real criminals are. However, the police does not believe them. Rasmus escapes. He is captured by the criminals who want him to tell them where the stolen goods are. However, only Oskar knows where the stolen goods are. The robbers want to free Oskar from prison so that he can not tell the police too much about them and tell them the hiding place. Oskar pretends to join the plan but wants to outsmart the criminals. He shows the criminals the hiding place while he is secretly followed by a few policemen. The police finally recognizes who is responsible for the robbery. Oskar and Rasmus give them the stolen goods. While the criminals are arrested, Rasmus and Oskar leave. They go to a house. As it turns out, it is the house of Oskar. He lives there with his wife, but has left his home to live as a tramp. Oskar and his wife want to adopt Rasmus. Rasmus finally has a home.
Barbro feels a bit lonely in her family. Her father loves her mother the most and her mother loves Barbro's brother Jonas the most. Barbro's dearest birthday wish is to get a dog, but it's too expensive for the family.
However, Barbro has a secret: she has a twin sister called Ylva-Li. Ylva-Li lives in a secret land called Salikon, under the rose bushes in the garden, where she is queen. Ylva-Li and Barbro experiences many adventures. In addition, Barbro has everything she could wish for: two dogs, a cat, horses, food that she likes, unforgettable experiences, etc. Furthermore, Ylva-Li loves Barbro more than anything else and calls her her most beloved sister.
The day before her birthday, Barbro visits Ylva-Li. The girls make a trip to the most beautiful valley in the world. The sisters have to pass the dark forest of fear, where the evil ones live. When they arrive at the most beautiful valley in the world, Ylva-Li and Barbro enjoy a wonderful day there. However, Ylva-Li has to deliver some bad news to her twin sister. If the roses in front of the entrance to Salikon have withered, it means that Ylva-Li is dead. Desperately, Barbro runs home. Even her mother can not comfort Barbro.
When Barbro gets up on her birthday, she gets a puppy. Her parents had just pretended that they could not afford the dog to surprise Barbro. When Barbro goes out into the garden, she discovers that the roses have withered in front of the entrance of Salikon. The entrance to Salikon no longer exists. Barbro is sad, but is happily greeted by her puppy dog Ruff, who cheers her up. Barbro and Ruff go for a walk together.
''Tarsus'' is the first in a series of boxed modules to be companion to ''Traveller Starter Edition'', and the adventures take place on the planet Tarsus.
As a baby, Brenda is placed in front of a door. On a note says: „Please take care of this child, because nobody else will do it“. Since then, Brenda calls the woman, who took care of her, „grandmother“.
Brenda and her grandma are happy to have each other. Together, they go to the market to sell the candies that Brenda's grandma makes. Furthermore, Brenda befriends with the boy Adrian, who also has a table in the market. On the way home, Brenda admires a doll in the shop window. However, her grandmother tells her that she can not buy the doll now because it is too expensive. At the evening, Brenda's grandmother tells a story of an angel, carrying two candles and a book. Brenda wonders how that is possible, if the angel has only two hands.
One day, Brenda's grandmother breaks her leg. She can no longer take care of Brenda. Now Brenda starts to take care of her grandma. She keeps the flat clean and sells the candies on the market.
As a Christmas present, Brenda receives the doll she had admired in the shop window. Her grandmother is grateful that Brenda is such a sweet and good child. Meanwhile, Brenda remembers the angel with the two candles and the book. She tells her grandma that she would like to see the angel. At Christmas night, Brenda gets up and looks out the window. The garden is full of angels.
''Murder on Arcturus Station'' is a murder mystery in which any of the nine suspects or player characters could have committed the murder.
Gunnar is in his classroom and has to read a text to whole class. This is something that Gunnar does not like at all. He does not read very well and the other kids laugh at him.
Suddenly it knocks on the door and two tiny children are in front of the door. They introduce themselves as troll children and tell the teacher that they would like to attend classes. The teacher is surprised by the appearance of the children, but immediately agrees to teach the two.
The troll children, called Petra and Peter are very popular among their classmates. The outsider Gunnar becomes great friends with them and spends a lot of time with them. He visits them at their house and watches them skating. Furthermore, Gunnar improves his reading.
After the Christmas holidays Peter and Petra are suddenly gone. Even their house is empty. The children and the teacher are worried. Then Gunnar receives a letter from Peter and Petra. They say they moved because they have got a great new house. They also explain that Gunnar is a great guy. Gunnar is happy about the letter. The teacher suggests visiting the troll children during the next school trip.
An English refugee, Freddie Hewlett, saves Jimmie Fletcher's life during an altercation with gang leader Bushy Thomas. He then proceeds to try and make a reformed man out of him.
A young Aboriginal, Boucane, whose home life is mostly broken, leaves his reserve one summer night: freedom and a better life await him in Montréal. With only a bag containing clothes and a few possessions he heads south. He hooks up for a lift with Normand, a quirky old gangster whose truck contains suspicious cargo.
Lorenzo is an old Italian immigrant on his last dime, walking the streets in search of scrap metal that he then tries to sell in order to survive. His wife Rosa Maria suffers from Alzheimer's and Lorenzo's goal is to fulfill the promise he made to Rosa Maria—to return her body for burial in Italy. His efforts at raising money for the trip are not enough.
Vincent, a doctor stripped of his medical license, works for the Chinese mafia, treating a clientele of thugs he secretly despises, while managing the organization's pharmaceutical needs. He is married and a few months away from becoming a father; the double life eats away at him. He is desperately seeking a way out.
Originally from France, Shaw Mue-Fan, known as "Muffin", is the common strand bringing these three men together. Well placed within the criminal organization, he is an enforcer with a knack for building alliances which has made him the youngest right arm in the history of the Montréal Triads.
Their fates collide on the night of a lunar eclipse beginning with a new kind of Russian roulette.
After the man she hoped to marry is lured away by a sultry vamp, a dejected stenographer gives in to her boss's advances and moves into his New York City apartment. Of course, soon the sultry vamp is after her boss. Complications abound.
Rick, a mischievous fox, plays a trick on a bird. As consequence, the bird escorts Rick to the old Season Tree. There, the tree tasks Rick with the mission of recovering stolen bark to restore balance to the forest.
The film involves a long abandoned slaughterhouse that was transformed into a loft apartment in a re-gentrified urban neighborhood. Shortly after the tenants move in, they are tormented by a dark secret that has been trapped inside the building for more than 30 years.
Chase, a muscular hitman, must prove his loyalty to his mentor and best friend, while his girlfriend wants to leave the business behind them.
College student Sarah Foster is found sleepwalking on the streets by the police. Ever since her husband and famous author, Jonathan Grey, committed suicide, she has been suffering from a sleep disorder. She seeks help from her former professor, Dr. Elaine Cooper, who remembers her name. Sarah tells Cooper about her sleepwalking and her recurring nightmare of an unknown man who chases her. Cooper seems sympathetic and suggests a sleep clinic.
That evening in the sleep laboratory, Sarah meets Dr. Koslov and Dr. Scott White. She has seen Dr. White in a cemetery earlier while she was with her roommate Dawn. Koslov explains that her neural activity will be observed the entire night. Sarah has a dreamless night and she wakes up the next morning in a different room. Koslov says they moved her but she didn’t wake up. Koslov and White report irregularities in her theta waves and suggest that she spends more nights in the lab for more observation.
Later that day, a professor addresses Sarah as Miss Wells instead of Foster. Several people, including her roommate, confirm that her last name is Wells. Sarah looks up her driver’s license, her diary, a dedication in her husband’s book – all written as Sarah Wells. Then at the sleep lab, Dr. Koslov shows a form in which she filled out detailing a dream chased by a woman. Sarah reiterates she didn’t have a dream last night and denies filling out any form. She tries to prove that it’s not her handwriting but as she writes, the handwritings match. On her second night at the sleep lab, Sarah has another dreamless sleep.
The next morning, Sarah visits the library to inquire about selective memory loss, and a library worker mentions partial retrograde amnesia, which usually resolves on its own. But if hallucinations develop, it might be psychosis. Back in her apartment, Sarah sees a girl she never met named Nicole who claims to live there and is her roommate. Dawn is nowhere to be seen. Sarah gets a phone call from a mysterious man who says he knows her and has been watching her. She seeks help from Dr. Cooper, but Cooper doesn’t remember her. She goes back to her apartment, locks herself in her room, and that night she has a nightmare in which someone suffocates her with a plastic bag.
Sarah wakes up in the middle of the night in a strange house. In her nightgown, she walks back to her apartment but sees Nicole and another girl living inside and she is locked out. She decides to spend the rest of the night in the apartment pool closet. When the two women leave in the morning, Sarah breaks into the apartment by smashing the window with a brick. Inside her room, she finds another person’s belongings, including clothes that are too big on her. The mysterious man calls and taunts her again. She fearfully spends the night in the apartment laundry room closet and sees water seeping from under the door.
The next morning, Sarah goes back to her apartment. She sees that the window is no longer broken and Dawn is back. Sarah finds her belongings back in her room. She decides to visit Dr. White in his private address. He listens sympathetically as she recounts to him her changing realities. He calls Dr. Cooper who remembers Sarah this time. White tells Sarah that she has unusual sleep patterns that might affect her perception, which frightens her and prompts her to flee.
Near her apartment, Sarah sees a dark haired man on a motorcycle who starts to chase her on foot. A light flashes, someone calls out “Sarah,” and suddenly Dr. White and his truck are parked next to her. Sarah frantically tells him a man is chasing her and he suggests calling the police. He calms her down and takes her to his home. White promises to help her and explains that when we dream, chemical triggers in the brain release emotions and the rational part of our brain uses stories to make sense of the emotions. Sarah insists the unknown house she woke up in was real, but she associates the house with fear – she is running away from an unknown woman who lives inside the house.
Later that night, Sarah has a nightmare in which she is completely covered up in plastic. She wakes up and finds herself in the same strange house from a few nights ago. She sees a woman sleeping in a bed. The woman sees Sarah, gets frightened and tells Sarah to “go away.” Sarah wakes up in the same house, this time exiting outside. She walks barefoot in her nightgown to White’s house. No one is home. She finds clothes inside, which are too big again. She walks back to her apartment, and sees that the window is now bc covered with a cardboard.
In the sleep lab, she sees Dr. Koslov but he doesn’t seem to recognize her. Sarah asks for Dr. White. A completely different man introduces himself as Dr. White. She says she’s Sarah Wells / Foster. He knows Sarah Wells, but she isn’t her. Sarah leaves in a panic and visits her campus. In the lecture hall, a professor has a screen up with a quote: “It is not necessary to know exactly who we are. Our purpose in life is to become something other than what we were when we began.” Sarah sees the unknown woman from her dreams sitting among the group of students. The woman seems to recognize Sarah as well and Sarah flees the classroom. Sarah walks back to her apartment and sees cops out front. She hides inside the laundry room closet and water seeps from under the door again.
Sarah wakes up in the sleep laboratory and sees the original Dr. White. He tells her that she sleepwalked last night, and that the police found her and brought her to his house after she told them where he lived. He then brought her to the sleep laboratory to monitor her. She cannot remember anything, but data shows she dreamed the entire night. She tells him about her experiences in the other world. White thinks that the stalker might be an anchor connecting the two worlds. Dr. White then asks Sarah why her husband committed suicide. Her husband left a note and she wrote it in her diary but she cannot remember.
Back in her apartment, Sarah reads her diary. She goes to the library, searches the library computer and finds a news article that reports the author Jonathan Gray was murdered. He was “slain by fan.” She calls Dr. White who meets her at the library. She shows him the article. She is certain her husband died by suicide; even Dr. Cooper confirmed it days ago. White only knows the story from Sarah.
Sarah returns to her apartment with the window intact. Suddenly the dark haired man from the other night springs out from inside her apartment and attacks her from behind. They struggle and he tries to suffocate her. Sarah manages to free herself and locks herself in a room. The attacker goes into a frenzy and trashes the apartment before leaving. Sarah calls White who immediately runs over but he finds her apartment untouched.
Dr. Cooper is called over and she recommends that Sarah receive professional help and be kept in a safe place until her episodes resolve. Dr. White convinces her to go into a clinic for a few days, promising to stay with her. Once arriving in the clinic, Sarah panics and tries to flee. The hospital staff restrains and binds her to a bed. White leaves but promises to come back in the morning.
Later that evening, White meets Cooper, who assures him that he’s doing the right thing. But she doesn’t know his patient and denies having met them earlier that afternoon. White immediately drives back to the hospital and convinces the hospital director to allow him to take Sarah home.
Sarah wakes up the next morning at White’s house, relieved that White is still there and she is seen still wearing her hospital clothes. She is glad White understands what she’s going through. Yeah Later that day Sarah remembers a few more details about her past. Her stalker’s name is Warren Lambert and he is obsessed with Jonathan’s books. She knows the attack in her apartment was not real; White explains it as a memory breaking through. Jonathan, she continues, had a sexual affair with a female fan and Sarah saw them in his office. He apologized, ended the affair, but Sarah still left him. The other woman then shot Jonathan.
Later that night in White’s house, Sarah hears glass breaking. Her stalker suddenly jumps from behind her, wrapping and suffocating her face with a plastic bag. White comes and knocks the aggressor down. The cops are called and one of them describes the attacker as a repeat offender. He then hands over Sarah’s ID which has Sarah’s name as Sarah Foster. Sarah and White make love that night.
In the middle of the night, Sarah in her white nightgown, gets up from White’s bed and sleepwalks barefoot onto the streets. She visits the sleep laboratory where she sees the unknown woman sleeping. The scene changes and she now sees the woman in her bed in the unknown house. Sarah asks the woman, “Who are you?” The woman wakes up, panics, and tells her to “go away, go away, get out of here.” Sarah leaves the house and walks through the rain. She walks back to the lab, where she sees the same woman in a sleep study. The woman wakes up, sees her, and tells her to “go away” again. The alternate Dr. White rushes in, tries to calm her, and calls the unknown woman “Sarah.” The alternate Sarah asks him if he can see the woman in the nightgown by the window but he doesn’t see anyone. The original Dr. White joins the original Sarah in her nightgown and asks what’s going on. Sarah says the unknown woman / the other Sarah dreams about her.
The original Dr. White finds a video statement of the unknown woman, who talks about being stalked by Sarah - who visits her at nights and watches her from across the street. Sarah realizes that she’s the other woman’s nightmare. In another flashback, Sarah is revealed to be the crazed fan who had an affair with Jonathan. Her real name is Anna and she shot him when he ended the affair. She then shot herself. The other woman is the real Sarah, Jonathan’s wife. The original Dr. White is a figment of Anna’s imagination - she creates him in her memory and image of Jonathan.
A series of flashbacks goes to the very beginning of the movie with Anna in a coma in a ward gasping and struggling for breath while on an oxygen ventilator. She is bound to the bed. A male nurse who looks like the attacker in her dreams cares for her. He caresses her face, and gently tells her, “Don’t worry Anna.” Water from the above ventilation drips on Anna’s foot. Anna dreams she is sleepwalking and calls herself Sarah Foster.
The main character in the movie is an amateur writer whose marriage was aimed get money for making his dream to come true. Naci who worked for one of the wealthy lawyer got an offer that if he married the daughter of the lawyer Mine, he would be given adequate money and printing press to publish his writings. But according to the deal, the couple must divorce at the end of the year. As he accepted the offer, Naci was able to publish his writings. However, the marriage of Naci and Mine will have unexpected results.
A year after Anna and Greg meet at a party, Greg decides to move to Barcelona to take up a job as an air traffic controller. He wants Anna to come with him but she initially refuses. Greg is unhappy with her lack of ambition, while she is satisfied with her job as a waitress in Paris. Anna finally decides to join Greg in Barcelona but she misses her plane and later learns that it has crashed. Having so nearly avoided death, Anna goes into a tailspin and loses track of reality and the present. As her relationship falls apart, Paris becomes a mirror of her distress.
Kal is ill, as a small child he had polio. Since then, he is paralysed and spends most of his time in bed. His mother is poor and has to work a lot. Therefore, she does not have much time for Kal, who often is alone. Kal's dearest Christmas wish is to get an animal. But every Christmas, he doesn't get any animal and is disappointed. His friends Annastina and Lillstumpan want this Christmas to be different. The cat Snurran is going to have babies soon and one of them should be a present for Kal. The two girls hope that Snurran's babies will be there before Christmas so Kal can get his present in time. Pretty soon, Snurran gets her babies. The girls have no idea where they are. Just in time Annastina and Lillstumpan find the kittens. These are just so big on Christmas Eve that the girls can give away one of them to Kal. When the girls with the cat child in Kal's room, he is overjoyed. He does not feel alone any more.
The series features the "offbeat friendship" between main characters ''Molang'' and ''Piu Piu'' as they humorously confront everyday problems.
Mr. Sunshine, a pink creature who owns a company operating flying industrial robots and acts as the game's antagonist, seeks to automate towns over the land by offering a universal basic income to all citizens of the towns who sign his contract – allowing him to take their "trash" (actually primary goods like corn, which the game world inhabitants grow full time) in exchange of what he calls "free money".
After an unnamed village's automation, Piku is awakened by a ghost in a nearby cave. As he comes out, he discovers he's actually been erroneously painted by the village's artist as a dark beast, and after accidentally breaking the bridge, he is put in a cage by the frightened inhabitants. However, he is let free after it is discovered that he is virtually harmless.
Once Piku has earned the townsfolk's trust by fixing the bridge, he proceeds to explore the world, soon to be greeted by Mr. Sunshine himself on a flying robot. Along with three other people, he passively participates in a random extraction for a free tour of Mr. Sunshine's workplace. The raffle is won by one of the commoners in the crowd, a boy named Eli, who is taken to visit the magnate's secret volcano base.
Piku then travels through a swamp and reaches a forest, where he is tasked with defeating a dancing robot at a club. After witnessing an explosive attack against one of Mr. Sunshine's robots, Piku joins the Resistance, an environmental guerrilla trio of forest villagers based in an abandoned underground metro station who intend to stop Mr. Sunshine's evil doings by destroying his robots with exploding pine cones. Piku and the Resistance march onto a lake separating the forest from the volcano base, but they discover that it has been dried out by Mr. Sunshine. They decide to reach the base by passing through a series of mines located below the surface.
A family of black worms welcomes Piku and the Resistance in the abandoned mining site. The mother, a giant worm, recounts how they have been suffering due to the lack of the lake's water, which once spilled from the pipes. Before helping Piku in any way, she asks him to rescue her child Ernie, who has become significantly overweight after drinking radioactive water from a pipe further underground. After finding Ernie and transporting him through the cave, Piku discovers the fate of an unknown civilization, who perished in a Pompeii-like eruption disaster; the creatures' shape resembles Mr. Sunshine's, but it is unknown whether he is a survivor of a natural catastrophe or if he killed his own kind with the volcano. Once Ernie is brought back to his mother, the worms assist him in destroying Mr. Sunshine's last robot in exchange for his support.
The final portion of the game takes place inside Mr. Sunshine's underground base, where he is plotting to destroy the surrounding land by covering it with lava in order to establish a new city with perfect inhabitants – although such beings are actually genetically degenerate creations with low intelligence, made by splicing the genes of the townsfolk with the forest villagers; a half of a creature of said species met by Piku in the base's laboratory may or may not have once been Eli.
After leaving the laboratory, Piku reaches a pit over live magma where Mr. Sunshine tries to have him killed. Piku avoids Mr. Sunshine's robot's lasers until his robotic henchmen piloting it go on a strike after discovering they aren't equally paid. Suddenly, Ernie comes to the rescue by rolling into the pit and letting Piku use his body as a platform to jump out of it. Piku proceeds to chase Mr. Sunshine over the magma, avoiding pop corn launched from the latter's motorboat. Upon arriving at a dead end, Mr. Sunshine decides to press the button which will make the volcano erupt, but the lava is so unexpectedly powerful – Mr. Sunshine in fact states that he meant for the lava to cover the land, not erupt like a geyser – that they are both ejected into the atmosphere on a platform.
As Piku kicks him, Mr. Sunshine is sent into space. A supposedly all-knowing being (actually the ghost from the start of the game, now manifesting itself as a room with eyes) then rescues Piku through a magic hole, informing him of his mission's outcome before sending him safely back to the base. Piku leaves along with the other Resistance members, going back to sleep in his cave off-screen.
After the story's events, the player can still explore the slightly altered post-game world to achieve all trophies, completing whatever had been left behind during the main playthrough.
The plot closely follows the account found in Abby Johnson's memoir, ''Unplanned''. The film opens with a depiction of Johnson's home life with her husband, Doug, and daughter, Grace. In voice-over, Abby Johnson says she was tricked into participating with Planned Parenthood and the scene shifts to a time in 2009 when she claims she was asked to assist in an ultrasound-guided suction aspiration abortion at thirteen weeks gestation. The scene ends with Abby leaving in tears. Johnson then describes, in voice over, that her story started her junior year at Texas A&M. The scene is depicted in flashback of a Planned Parenthood booth at a career fair. Johnson agrees to volunteer after the representative in the booth says to her that their ultimate goal was to reduce the number of abortions. As a clinic escort, she meets director Cheryl and witnesses anti-abortion protesters being verbally confrontational towards the women going in. One protester, Marilisa, is depicted as being kinder to women than the other protestors and says that those from her organization, "Coalition for Life", are "not here to hurt them or condemn them".
A flashback within a flashback then happens to when Abby had her two abortions, the first as a college student and the second after she marries then divorces. During the second abortion, for $400.00, she is given mifepristone at the clinic and is told there will be "a little bleeding", but the experience is depicted as being excruciatingly painful, over twelve hours and then followed up with "eight weeks of blood clots and excruciating cramps" causing her to fear for her life.
The film then cuts back to Abby's continuing work at the clinic, and she recounts in voice-over that it became "my career, despite the disapproval of virtually everyone in my life". The film flashes forward to her second marriage to Doug, a man who proclaims love while, like her parents, disapproving of her career on religious and moral grounds. Abby describes starting her life with Doug and attending a church with him that is decidedly opposed to abortion even while she continues to work at Planned Parenthood.
Abby becomes pregnant by Doug and decides to keep it. In the meantime, a scene is depicted of a botched abortion taking place at the clinic where Abby is told not to call an ambulance because of the way it would "look". Abby gives birth to Grace and is promoted to director when Cheryl is transferred to Houston. Before Hurricane Ike strikes, Abby coordinates all of the abortions to happen beforehand, anticipating that it will not be possible to perform the procedures for a while after the hurricane. Abby wins Employee of the Year while also being told by Cheryl that she should double the number of abortions. Cheryl explains that "Non-profit is a tax status, not a business model!", and says the organization makes its money off of abortions the way that fast food restaurants make money off fries and soda. Abby is scolded for objecting to this, and then eventually reprimanded by Cheryl for insubordination after which the first few moments of the film are repeated just prior to Abby's participation in the procedure.
Abby is then depicted going to the office of 40 Days for Life, run by Marilisa and her husband, Shawn, and tearfully telling them that she cannot stay in her job after what she has seen. They offer to help her find employment. Abby formally resigns from Planned Parenthood and begins to help with the 40 Days for Life campaign, to the point of being on the other side of the clinic fence encouraging women not to go through with their abortions. Planned Parenthood sues Abby for leaking confidential information about their operations, and Shawn convinces his laid-back lawyer friend Jeff to defend her.
In 2013, when the clinic Abby worked at has closed, she organizes a celebration at the abandoned building in which she expresses regret for performing abortions as well as having two. The closing captions say that Abby continues to work with the ministry "And Then There Were None", helping other abortion clinic workers leave and find employment elsewhere.
Press agent Nap Sisler joins up with Snookie Saunders and Satchel Lips Peters to make a new dance "The Baltimore Bubble" a national hit.
After failing their latest mission, a group of young narcotics detectives led by Captain Ko (Ryu Seung-Yong) are offered one last chance to save their career. They should carry out undercover surveillance of an international drug gang. Their stakeout location is a chicken restaurant. Things seem to work, but Ko is informed that the restaurant will soon go out of business.
Ko and his colleagues decide to purchase the restaurant, still planning to use it for their undercover operation. However, a rib marinade they have to improvise for a sticky chicken becomes an instant hit, and their chicken restaurant becomes famous for its food.
The story is mainly based on the unconditional love of a father (Yoosuf Shafeeu) towards his only daughter (Mariyam Enash Sinan).
Shahid (Yoosuf Shafeeu) a dedicated tailor working at a company owned by a rich businessman engages in a romantic relationship with the owner's daughter, Zuleykha (Mariyam Nisha) despite her father's detestation. Shahid was fired from his workplace and ultimately quits his relationship with Zuleykha considering the barriers between their social classes. On a visit to a nearby island, Shahid meets Ashiya (Sheela Najeeb) who instantly falls in love with Shahid. Contemplating that Ashiya can distract him from his memories with Zuleykha, Shahid marries Ashiya but his life takes a toll due to her insolent behavior. At the time of pregnancy, she tried to abort their child only be stopped when Shahid promised her they will relocate to Male' sooner.
Shahid fails to convince his father to allow them stay at his house in Male'. He return to the island, only to discover Ashiya having an extramarital affair with her ex-lover where Shahid exposed her truth to the whole island and divorced her. He moved to Male' with his daughter, Zuleykha (Mariyam Enash Sinan) and starts working at a hotel where the owner of the place allowed him to stay at his place being impressed with his dignity and honesty. Meanwhile, Shahid consults Dr. Suheil, (Ali Seezan) who is Zuleykha's husband for having frequent headaches and coughing up bloody phlegm where he was diagnosed with final stage of cancer.
Shahid decided to hide the fact for Zuleykha and try to spend most of his time with her. However on Zuleykha's birthday Shahid died after giving his daughter's custody to Zuleykha and Suheli and left a note for Zuleykha, in which he advice her to be kind to everyone and alway do good deeds.
Phillip Reynolds is a widowed, successful plastic surgeon and a charismatic sociopath. After he sees his daughter, Heather, making love to her boyfriend, he kills the boyfriend and stages the scene to appear like an accident. Heather witnesses this from afar and runs away from home in terror.
A year later, after the death of his millionaire father-in-law, Phillip discovers that both he and his brother-in-law, Bradley, are not in the will. The deceased patriarch correctly blames Phillip for his daughter's drowning death years ago and bequeaths the entirety of his $5 million estate to his granddaughter (Phillip's daughter), Heather. However, no one in the family has heard from her since she fled from home.
While driving late one night, Phillip and Bradley come across a stripper who has been severely beaten by a nightclub bouncer, leaving her face unrecognizable. Phillip brings her to the hospital and devises a plan to alter her face to the likeness of Heather; he suggests to the Jane Doe that she pose as Heather to collect the $5 million inheritance and then split it with him. The woman, whom Phillip refers to as "Jane," has little choice and agrees to the plan. Phillip brings Jane to his home to recover. For several weeks he coaches her to act like his daughter, playing recordings of Heather's voice and teaching her Heather's mannerisms.
Phillip holds a family party to celebrate Heather's "return," and to see if Jane can successfully convince the family members that she is Heather. At the party, Bradley is suspicious when Jane refuses to play piano, as Heather was a musical prodigy, but the rest of the family believes Heather has returned. Jane/Heather collects the $5 million and splits it with Phillip, and they begin a romantic relationship.
Returning home one day, Phillip and Jane discover Bradley waiting for them. Bradley accuses Jane of being an imposter, but in the argument he suffers a heart attack. To Jane's dismay, Phillip takes away Bradley's medication and callously plays chopsticks on the piano as he dies. At Bradley's funeral, the real Heather watches from afar.
Phillip and Jane return home to find Heather, who acts as if nothing is unusual. Phillip lies to her, saying that her grandfather left all his money to a college. The trio live together uneasily for several days until Heather, who realizes that her father changed Jane's face, tells them that she plans to visit the family lawyer in Atlanta to inquire about her grandfather's will. Phillip tells Jane that he will hire a hitman to kill Heather, but in fact he hires the hitman to kill Jane.
Phillip returns to the house and tells Heather that he killed Jane for her. He then attempts to rape Heather, but is stopped by Jane, who has escaped the killer and knocks Phillip out with a cast-iron skillet.
Heather and Jane embrace, and Heather explains that for the past year, she had been staying in a sanitarium owned by Dr. Dean, a family friend. She entered the sanitarium after witnessing Phillip murder her boyfriend; while Dean wanted to have her father arrested, Heather wanted to understand her father's actions and thus returned home. Dean arrives at the house, and when Phillip awakens, Dean and Heather together tell him that there was never a "Jane." Phillip has a psychotic break where he is tormented by the people he has killed. Several other doctors place Phillip in a straitjacket and take him to the sanitarium.
Jane departs the house with the medical staff, leaving Heather and Dean together in an embrace. As Phillip is incarcerated in the sanitarium, Jane, still impersonating Heather, is met by the family's lawyers at the airport. She receives $2.5 million before departing on a private jet.
After losing her job and her fiancee, Bea (an architect) faces the prospect of returning to her hometown.
The movie starts with a shifty man named Robert Lewis (Luke Evans) watching flower shop owner Cathy Newland (Kelly Reilly) take a seat in a restaurant to eat lunch. He gets up and casually walks by her to wait outside at the car parking lot for her. She exits soon after and goes to her yoga lessons. He parks his car next to her car and kidnaps her when she comes out. He drives to a remote house and locks her in a small (10 by 10) room, which appears to be a cellar. He emphasizes to her that the house is isolated and the cellar is soundproof; there is no way to escape. He tells her that if he wanted to kill her, he already could have.
Cathy gets her bound hands in front of her and attacks him when he comes to get her for lunch. She tries to call the police on the land line but he shoots the phone and so she desperately tries to get free. Unsuccessful, she sits down to eat with him. He asks her name, but attacks her when she answers; they fight and he overpowers her, returning her to the cellar. As he exits the cellar his maid, Alondra, enters the house to be astonished at a disheveled and bleeding Lewis; he had forgotten to tell her to take a day off, but sends her away now.
Cathy lies in the cellar, bleeding and in pain. He returns and questions her. She tells him she already answered him, but he keeps asking for details of her past life, insisting that she is lying. He continues to press her, and she changes her story. She said she studied English and owns a flower shop, but now admits having studied medicine and formerly worked as a nurse.
Flashback to a public trial where several people have died. It transpires that "Cathy" is actually Nathalie Ann Steven, the twin sister to Cathy, who killed herself after their father cheated on their mother with a cheerleader for the football team he worked for as a doctor.
Lewis watches a movie where he cradles a baby (presumedly his own child). In the meantime Nathalie tries to call the police on a mobile phone she had hidden. He rushes in to ask her about the Charleston Three, three patients admitted to the All Angels Hospital in Charleston who died under the nurses’ care, one of whom was his wife, Alana Matthews Lewis. He accuses her of murder since his wife's blood was full of alcohol and the rape drug GHB. She apologizes for Alana's death, and he simply states that he knows that she killed his wife.
He continues to watch films of his little happy family, with his wife Alana and his daughter Summer.
He returns to the cellar to threaten her with his gun. She talks about her childhood in a religious household; how, after their father had left, they were treated like outcasts over the twins’ father had sinned against the family and that her sister committed suicide by hanging in the family’s barn as a result.
Nathalie tells him that she killed these three patients out of vengeance for being sinners (John Lamptey, had two wives, Jane Spencer lied to the police about her husband abusing her for alimony, and Alana cheated on Lewis), but he refuses to believe his wife had cheated on him. He looks for evidence for his wife's infidelity on videos and sees one part in particular where her phone rings, she looks at it impassively and ends the call.
Emotionally overwhelmed, Lewis drives away. He has a brief encounter with police while stopped at a lake, but he is able to quell any suspicions. In the meantime Nathalie tries to remove a broken shard of floor tile to cut open her restraints.
He returns to his house, tells her she had no right to kill his wife before he could talk to her, and demands she go to the police and confess to the Charleston Three Murders case. She says she is now Cathy Newland and won't let him ruin her fresh start of a now-happy life, then attacks him with the floor shard.
He bleeds heavily and tries to lock her into the cellar again but she flees upstairs. Alondra, the maid, comes home with Lewis' daughter Summer, who can home from a sleepover. Nathalie shoots Alondra and takes Summer as hostage. She tells him this can only end with his and his Summer's death, and says Summer is not his biological daughter, since his wife cheated on him.
Summer bites Nathalie and escapes to the cellar, where Lewis finds her.
Summer says Nathalie is gone, and they prepare to leave the house. He takes the recordings from the computer of Nathalie's confessions, and runs to the garage where she corners him. She tries to stab him with a pitchfork, but he drives it upwards to take her off balance and knocks her unconscious. Soon after the police arrive and the nightmare is over.
Lewis hugs Summer and tells her that she ''is'' his baby girl, his daughter.
A young woman joins the police, and tries to track down the killers of her father who ran a narcotics ring.
A re-enactment partially altered for dramatic purposes of what happened to James Bulger shows 10-year-old boys Jon Venables and Robert Thompson each asked questions in different Liverpool police stations about what happened to James. They constantly blame each other, and flashbacks are shown of their time together with James. Eventually, they are found guilty of murdering James, and both boys are arrested offscreen.
In the year 1673, in a small Shtetl in Lithuania, Horrovits, the shtetl's rabbi, advises his son Benjamin to divorce his wife Hanna due to it being seven years since the death of their son, and she has not conceived since then. Dismissing his father's advice, Benjamin smuggles a Torah for Hanna and warns her that it is a Kaballah; many men have gone mad after reading its texts. The couple makes love, with Hanna applying a contraception potion.
During Hanna's pregnant sister Rebecca's wedding, a group of peasants in plague masks arrive. Their leader, Vladimir, accuses them of cursing their people with the Black Death, claiming that none of the Jews has contracted it. Intending to massacre the village, Vladimir is stopped when Perla says she will try to heal his sick daughter. Horrovits suggests the village repent in order to save themselves. Hanna argues that they should fight back and make a Golem to protect the village, but is rebuffed.
Hanna discovers her sister had a miscarriage after being assaulted by one of the invaders. Enraged, she sneaks into the synagogue and finds the 72 secret names of God hidden in the Torah in order to reveal the code of merkabah, which could summon a Golem. She forms a mud sculpture of the Golem, and places a ''Shem HaMephorash'' inside its mouth, completing the ceremony by setting ablaze a Star of David. The next day, she is ambushed by a group of invaders, who beat and hang her. She is saved by the Golem, who bears an uncanny resemblance to her dead son. Hanna wipes the mud off its forehead, revealing human skin with the word "EMET" (Hebrew:Truth) carved into it. Perla confronts Hanna, revealing that when another Golem was summoned to protect them in the past, the creature had gone on a rampage against the very people it was supposed to protect. She warns that the Golem is not a living thing and that Hanna should destroy it before it becomes too dangerous. Hanna then tries to drown the Golem, but discovers that it cannot be killed by normal means.
Hanna spies Benjamin flirting with another woman; the woman is slaughtered by the Golem. The village discovers the woman's corpse and presume she was murdered by outsiders. Rebecca's husband is killed in the ensuing fight with the invaders, and Benjamin is saved by the Golem, who is acting upon Hanna's emotions. A terrified Vladimir and his followers flee. At dinner, the Golem stabs himself, showing Hanna that they are connected through pain stimulus. While Hanna and Benjamin have sex, Perla sneaks in and tries to kill the Golem, only to be killed by it instead. Benjamin discovers Perla's corpse, and pleads with Hanna to destroy the Golem; she refuses, claiming it is just a boy.
Fearing that the Golem has become a danger to the village, Benjamin assembles a minyan. He lures the Golem to the synagogue, and Horrovits tries to kill it by using the Pulsa diNura death curse. The plan almost succeeds until Vladimir, who has returned after his daughter has died, begins to set fires around the village, distracting them. The Golem slaughters Horrovits and goes on a rampage. Vladimir is about to kill Hanna when the Golem tears his heart out, then attempts to kill everyone in sight until Benjamin pleads again with Hanna. Hanna kisses the Golem goodbye, removing the scroll of God's name from its mouth, killing it and finally ending its rampage.
An elderly woman confronts her own long-repressed romantic feelings for another woman after learning that her home care nurse is a lesbian.
Chou lives in Phnom Penh with her husband, Khuon, their youngest son Sovanh, and their family, including Khuon's brother Meng, Chou's mother and grandmother, and their other children, Hout, Tuch, and Lili. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge topple the government and the family is forcefully evacuated from the city by the revolutionaries. Along the grueling trip, Sovanh and his grandmother become separated from the family, and the Khmer Rouge guards forbid Chou from trying to find them.
When they reach the neighboring town, they realize that their Cousin Sok has become one of the revolutionaries and the entire town converted into a commune. The family is stripped of what possessions they cannot hide and worked to the bone with barely any food. Chou asks after her son and is assured he's in a different labor camp but is forbidden to see him. Meng wants to leave, but Khuon insists they have no choice but to be subservient. At Chou's insistence, Khuon tries to cross the river to find Sovanh, but is captured and beaten. Tuch falls ill, and the family gives their last valuables to a woman from the camp, known for sleeping with the Khmer Rouge, to try and find medicine. But Tuch dies before she can return. The woman returns having been unable to find medicine and is beaten by the other women of the camp. Before dying, she leaves her own son in Chou's care. Sok takes pity on Khuon and allows him to try to find Sovanh, but by the time he arrives, the child has been moved again.
Throughout, Sovanh lives on with his grandma, and a girl he befriends at his work camp. Horrific deaths unfold around him, and the girl eventually sacrifices herself to allow Sovanh to avoid capture while they steal food.
Unable to stand it any longer, Meng makes a break for the border - Khuon runs after to wish him luck but is caught by a Khmer Rouge guard. Sok kills him, saving Khuon's life. Khuon and Chou make it back, but another vengeful Khmer Rouge kills Sok in retribution. The group is moved again on trains, and Chou is separated from the child she was trusted to look after. The train stops when one of the Khmer Rouge's daughters is drowning in a well, and Khuon helps save her, angering Chou. Soon after, the men and woman are driven to separate camps leaving only Chou, her mother, and Lili. Months pass. The Khmer Rouge woman who would have drowned, Peuv, attempts to give thanks by sneaking food to Chou and her family, but Chou rejects it despite their starvation, as a means of keeping her dignity. Chou's mother notices that one of the guards fancies Lili, and encourages her to use this to attain food. But when the guard rapes her, Lili hangs herself. At long last, Hout makes it back from the men's camp, saying he got separated from Khuon. But when he hears about what happened to Lili, he finds the guard who did it and burns him alive in a thatched hut. He is killed, alongside an innocent old woman accused of being a sympathizer. Chou's mother dies of starvation.
Years pass and an emaciated Khuon finds Chou in an infirmary. He says he's found Sovanh, and she musters the last of her strength to move on. The Cambodian-Vietnamese War begins, and as Vietnamese forces advance on their camp, the two make one final break to find Sovanh. They're seen by Peuv, who covers for them, allowing their escape. After journeying far and wide, they finally find the group of children, seemingly abandoned, and among them is Sovanh.
Reunited, the family makes one final break for the Thailand border. Along the way, they encounter a mob of vigilantes killing Khmer Rouge members, as they are about to kill Peuv. Chou confronts the group, tearing open her shirt to show that she has suffered just as they have and successfully saves Peuv. They encourage her to follow them to Thailand, but she refuses, as she still has family in Cambodia. The family reaches the border. Khuon scouts up ahead. As Chou and Sovanh watch, Khuon is spotted by Khmer Rouge guards. He purposefully runs away, allowing his family to sneak past the border, and is shot. Sovanh and Chou, as the last of their family, finally walk through a field to Thailand, hand in hand.
One night Sven, Anna and Stina have to stay home alone as their parents go to a funeral. Before the parents leave, they warn their children not to open the door to anybody and certainly not to a tramp. The children promise that. When Sven goes outside to check on the cat, he forgets to close the front door when entering. When it knocks outside the door, Sven automatically says "Come in". A few seconds later he regrets that, remembering the promise he made to his parents. But then it is already too late and a tramp enters the house. Stina starts to cry, because she is afraid of the man. But the tramp, whose name is Manfred, manages to calm Stina down. He tries to entertain the children, sings, plays theatre, etc. The children are thrilled and laugh about the show Manfred offers them. Thus, the tramp manages to convince the children to give him something to eat. The children want to see more and more. But when he has finished eating, Manfred decides to leave. He goes outside into the cold and the snow. The children hope he will come back soon.
Peter plays outside in the woods with his sword. When he runs to his grandmother's house he sings: "There are no robbers in the forest". He goes to the old doll house, that his mother used to play with. Suddenly Peter sees that the doll moves. The doll tells Peter that he is lying and there are a lot of robbers in the forest. Peter suddenly becomes very small and goes into the doll house. There, the doll introduces itself as Mimmi and shows Peter the robbers out in the woods. It is Fiolito with his 40 robbers. Mimmi explains that the robbers want her pearl necklace because it is made of real pearls and is very valuable. Fiolito manages to steal the pearl necklace. But Mimmi says that Fiolito just stole the wrong necklace. Then she puts on the real pearl necklace. Suddenly Peter's grandmother is calling him. Peter finds himself in front of the doll house again. He asks his grandmother if the doll Mimmi has two pearl necklaces and if they are real pearls. Peter's grandmother says that Mimmi actually has two pearl necklaces, but the pearls are not real and Peter's mother has bought them in a toy store.
Pelle is angry. His father does not find his pen and suspects that Pelle has taken it. Pelle actually took it, but he put it back in his father's coat pocket. He feels wronged and decides to move out. Later he packs his things and wants to move into the little house in the garden. He also wants to spend Christmas there. When he talks to his mother, she convinces him to move into the house again. There Pelle is lighting the candles. When his father comes home from work, he hugs Pelle. Furthermore, Pelle's father apologises to Pelle, as he has found his pen.
Six years after Nasir Ali met Padma and returned to India. Bijoya, the film, has a simple story line that takes forward Bishorjon's ending. The movie opens up with Lau very concerned about Ganesh Mandal, and asking questions to the doctor regarding his heart condition. The doctor suggests Padma and Ganesh to go to Kolkata AMRI Hospital for better treatment. After consulting with a doctor at the hospital, she surprisingly meets Nasir who is working there as a pharmacist. The story unfolds as Nasir learns about his son and Ganesh's heart condition.
As described in a film magazine, Anne Wilmot (Stewart) and her aunt Katherine (Farrington) leave Fifth Avenue to go to Arizona and spend a month at her fiance Leon Morse's (Hull) lodge in the mountains near an immense hydroelectric engineering project. Leon is determined to obtain a right-of-way across the site occupied by the dam for his railroad, but Bill Shannon (Hearn), the builder, has other views about it. Anne meets Bill when he rescues her from a perilous position on a rock endangered by the rising waters of a stream. Sheb (Whitman), his right hand man, warns Bill against all women, but he gives Anne some food when she pleads hunger and then makes her wash the dishes. Charles Burkthaler (Sprotte), hired by Leon to destroy the dam, places his men at crucial points. Anne notifies Bill of their scheme and cuts the wire to prevent them from blowing up the dam. A tunnel, however, is destroyed, and Anne is caught under the debris. Sheb finds her and takes her to Bill's cabin. Bill then learns that she has broken her engagement with Leon and says that he is satisfied to spend his life with her.
Bob and Don Ramsay are twin brothers in opposite sides of the law since Bob is the Sheriff and Don is an outlaw that goes by the name Black Bandit, one time the Black Bandit strikes and is seen, but the blame goes to his identical brother Bob.
Eleven year old Willa Drake struggles to keep things together in the face of her mother's dramatic and disruptive behavior. As a young woman, she seeks stability in an early marriage, leaving college to build a steady and predictable environment for herself and her family. She must rebuild that life two decades later, after her husband's death. After another 20 years, at 61, Willa leads a comfortable, stylish life in Arizona with her semi-retired second husband, Peter. While she gets along fine in this environment, she finds it all confining and empty. Then one day, a stranger phones from Baltimore, seeking help for a young mother who has been seriously injured; the connection turns out to be that the woman is a former girlfriend of one of Willa's sons, the caller mistakenly assuming Willa is family. With few other commitments, Willa is drawn to fly east, husband in tow; they find Denise, her nine-year-old daughter Cheryl and a dog, Airplane, living in a small house in a rundown but lively Baltimore neighborhood. While she brings stability and support to Denise and Cheryl, Willa also reclaims her younger, freer and less deferential self.
Cowboy Buck Benson (Buck Jones) trades his trusty six-shooter for bare knuckles and batters his way from the wide-open plains to crack down on mob-related crime in Manhattan.
The lives of a reclusive young man obsessed with a conspiracy in the city's trash, and a washed-up Catholic priest arriving in a small town full of dark secrets, become intertwined around the mysterious legend of The Black Barn, an otherworldly building that is alleged to have appeared in both the city and the small town, throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake.
The President of the United States appoints Judge Tom Emery, who was under the President's command in the American Civil War to be the new Territorial Governor in order to clean up the outlaw problem. Marshal Lash and Deputy Fuzzy escort the Judge and his daughter to Capitol City but a large gang of outlaws with unsuspected informers attempt to stop them.
It is winter and the landscape is covered in snow. All animals are hungry, especially the fox. He wants to kill and eat the chicken in the stable. Meanwhile, Emma wants to put food outside for the dwarf Tomte Tummetott. Her older brothers laugh at her, because they think Tomte Tummetott doesn't exist. Her mother however says that, just because you can't see it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Meanwhile, the mice see that the fox is on his way to the chicken stable. They inform Tomte Tummetott, who tells them to let the dog know about this. Then Tomte feeds the other animals. He tells them that he saw many winters come and go and that they have to be patient as this winter will also give way to spring.
With the help from the dog, the cow and the mice Tomte can stop the fox from killing and eating the chicken.
Tomte gives the food that Emma has put outside for him to the fox. Emma watches the scene. She is so happy that she finally saw Tomte. However, when she calls her mother and brothers Tomte is gone. Only the fox is outside eating the food from Emma.
Mia Caceres (Pilar Pascual) is a talented singer/dancer, who wants to pursue her dreams of being a musician. She is the lead singer of her band, Sold Out, she started alongside her lifelong best friend Gaspar Fontan (Axel Muñiz). However, she wants to pursue her dreams by auditioning for a scholarship at the prestigious boarding school known for its elite dancing and singing workshop - Saint Mary. After much discussion with her aunt Isabel (Melania Lenoir), she finally agrees. Mia auditions, but doesn't get a Scholarship, and goes home devastated. Her aunt says they'll find the perfect school for her in Spain, where her son lives. But what Mia doesn't know is that Isabel went to talk to Ramiro Achával (Gaston Ricaud), who happens to be the owner of the school and used to be in a relationship with Marianna Caceres (Mia's mother). Ramiro decides to tell Gloria, the secretary to make a call and accept Mia into the school, behind Mercedes' (Laura Azcurra) (the principal and Ramiro's wife) back. Isabel let's Mia enter the school, but Mia has no idea what's about to happen to her life. She and her best friends, Zoe (Carmela Barsamien) and Simon (Paulo Sanchez Lima) enter the Go workshop, however, Mia must face the daughter of the school owner, Lupe (Renata Toscano Bruzón). Lupe is the most talented and the most popular in the school, but since Mia came, all the attention went to Mia, so she gets jealous. Lupe tries everything to get Mia kicked out of the workshop, but Mia does not give up. Both Lupe and Mia face many fights with each other, but Mia doesn't want to hurt Lupe, so she tries to make peace with her, however that does not work out at all. Lupe gets even more jealous of Mia, which creates a strong rivalry between Mia, Lupe and Lupe's mother, Mercedes (the principal). And with all that happening, she also has to face Alvaro and Juanma, who both like Mia. Alvaro is the captain of the basketball team and Lupe's brother, therefore Zoe tells her not to get involved with his life, but Alvaro tries to convince Mia to be with him. Alvaro's main rival is Juanma who is Lupe's stuck-up boyfriend, who secretly likes Mia. The show follows Mia's and other characters' lives at the school, their conflicts and their love lives.
Every year Bob and his friends compete in the "Buddy Games," a series of fun and crazy obstacles meant to bring them closer together as friends. Shelly has won the competition six times, most recently defeating Bender in the final round via a paintball competition. During their drunk celebrations, Shelly teabags one of his friends who has passed out. Bender and Nikki (Shelly's wife) joke about shooting Shelly in the scrotum in retaliation for Shelly's drunk and egotistical behavior. It is later revealed that Bender aimed the gun at Shelly, but did not actually pull the trigger. Instead, Nikki pulled the trigger, shooting Shelly in the scrotum. Shelly eventually loses both of his testicles (which he keeps secret from his friends) as a result of the accident, but Bender takes the blame to save Shelly's failing marriage and as revenge for Shelly's mistreatment.
Five years later, Shelly is suicidal and has been admitted to the hospital. His marriage to Nikki has failed and he is now living with his mother. Shelly's mother calls Bob, now a successful and rich businessman, and orders him to start the Buddy Games again so that Shelly will have something to live for. When Bob suggests to Shelly they compete in the Buddy Games with their friends again, Shelly agrees to participate so long as Bob does not reveal to anyone that he lost both his testicles and that Bender not be invited. Bob agrees to these terms.
Bob calls all his friends (except for Bender) who all enthusiastically agree to participate. Bob's girlfriend is less than enthusiastic about Bob participating in the buddy games again, and after a fight she leaves via helicopter. Meanwhile, Bender finds out about the return of the Buddy Games from the other friends and surprises Bob at his mansion. To spare Bender's feelings for not being invited, Bob lies to Bender by telling him that to play in the Buddy Games this year, he will have to pay a ten thousand dollar entry fee. Bob also reveals to Bender that Shelly lost both of his testicles in the accident, which shocks Bender.
Bob, Shelly and their friends then travel to a secluded cabin in the woods to participate in the Buddy Games but Bender arrives unexpectedly. He announces that he was able to acquire the entry fee for the games by selling all of his late mother's possessions and giving hand-jobs to the homeless. He also reveals to the group that Shelly lost both of his testicles when he offers Shelly vials of his own sperm so that Shelly could have children if he wanted. Bob then reveals to Bender that he was not actually invited and that he had made up the entry fee so that Bender's feelings would not be hurt. Frustrated, Bender goads Bob into offering a cash prize of a hundred thousand dollars to the winner of the competition by relating how each of the friends, except for Bob, need the money. Shelly then begrudgingly accepts Bender in the competition.
The first day of the games includes an eating competition, a race on mini motorcycles, a water slide, a mud crawl competition, and a watermelon smash. Bob wins the first leg of the competition because Shelly misses the finishing line flag which is placed in the air after the water slide. In the next challenge each of the friends drink an entire bottle of laxatives before being tasked with picking up a woman at a bar. Bender wins the competition by tricking and teasing his friends. In the following competition, the friends smoke a joint and then strap a raw piece of steak to their heads. A komodo dragon is then released into the room and the friends compete to see who can stay the longest in the room. Shelly wins, seemingly losing his mind, and biting the dragon's tongue as it flicks at him.
Bob, Shelly, and Bender all advance to the final stage of the games. The night before the final competition, the friends celebrate by drinking pina coladas but unbeknownst to the rest of the group, Shelly has spiked these drinks with Bender's semen. The friends then watch a commercial which Durfy has appeared in, but mock it. Frustrated, Durfy wanders in the woods and is attacked by a rabid animal. Bob, Doc and Zane search for Durfy and upon finding him, convince him that he should continue acting by encouraging him to perform an impromptu scene.
Meanwhile, back at the cabin, Bender has fallen asleep and Shelly kidnaps him and duct tapes him to a tree. In the morning, Shelly destroys Bender's van (a gift from his late mother which he has been living in) by crashing it into a tree as revenge for shooting him. Bender then reveals that it was Nikki who shot Shelly.
The following day, the three finalists, Bender, Bob, and Shelly don protective gear and hunt each other in a field using bows. Bob's girlfriend, Tiffany arrives to support him but Bob is immediately eliminated by being shot in the hand. Bender and Shelly then face off and while Shelly is able to get the drop on Bender, Bender catches the arrow mid flight. Bender and Shelly then fight hand to hand, resulting in Bender winning the competition and the cash prize.
Bob's girlfriend then proposes to him stating that he must now be ready to move on from his friends and the Buddy Games, which Bob rejects. Enraged, Tiffany beats Bob, Doc, Zane, and Durfy while berating Bob for choosing his friends instead of her and leading her on for five years.
In the credits, Zane reveals that he is gay to Doc and Durfy secures a role on a CW show. Shelly, after avoiding all contact with Bender, is kidnapped by Bender who reveals that he has purchased various scrotum for Shelly with the winnings.
A knight (later named as Escanor) takes a woman from King Arthur's court and defies any knight to take her back. Kay initially pursues him but is defeated. Gawain is distracted when he goes after him when he sees three women crying. They are lamenting the death of 'Gawain', their story is confirmed by a valet who has had his eyes gouged out.
Gawain leaves and, unable to find shelter, takes shelter in a chapel in the middle of a cemetery. It is revealed this is the 'perilous' cemetery. There he meets a woman who has unwittingly done a deal with a devil and, in order to have her released, Gawain battles and kills it.
Gawain takes the woman with him in his pursuit of Escanor, who he finds and kills, and takes both women back to the court of King Arthur. He leaves again. In a forest, he meets Raguidel, Espinogre, Cadrès and Cadrovain. Cadrès is crying because of his love for a woman, but in order to win her, he must defeat twenty knights in battle. They defeat the twenty knights between them.
Tristan invites them all to his castle, where Gawain finally learns the truth of his apparent death. Two knights loved two sisters. They, however, professed to love Gawain, despite having never met him. Gomeret and l'Orgueilleux Fée went in search of Gawain and, finding a knight wearing almost identical armor, killed him. Gawain tracks them down and defeats them both in battle. They return to Arthur's court where several marriages take place.
A plot summary in French, written by Gaston Paris, is available in ''Histoire littéraire de la France'', tome 30, 1888 (see below).
Lola is due to travel to Germany for work when she finds her sister Conny has tried to commit suicide. Lola is in a relationship with her boss Elise. Lola tries to continue working for an important client but one of her colleagues is trying to undermine her. She hides that she has returned to Austria with her sister in crisis. She begins to doubt her own sanity, thinking she is hallucinating. Eventually, Conny is discharged and goes to live at Lola's flat. Lola is stunned that her colleague has been promoted and given another project in Australia. Lola returns home to find that Conny has committed suicide. Lola has a breakdown.
The film follows the existential conflict between a mother and teachers over a 13-year-old student returning home after being missing for a week.
A nightclub hatcheck girl seeks a singing career that she's always dreamed of. A busboy at that nightclub attempts to help her achieve her dreams.
The film begins with Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) delivering part of his presidential inaugural speech in Washington, D.C, on March 4, 1861. The next scene, six weeks later, is in the White House, where the president is talking with his wife Mary (Nana Bryant). Suddenly their young son Tad (Dickie Moore) and Lincoln's assistant John Hay (John Harron) rush in to report that Confederate forces had bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The president, saddened by the news, kneels with Tad to pray for the nation.
The story moves to December 1862, with Lincoln discussing the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation prior to its release. That scene transitions to July 1863, to Lincoln's cabinet members bickering about the president's war strategy, when news arrives of the Union army's victory at Gettysburg. As the men celebrate, Lincoln comes in to defend again his policies. Later in the White House, the president plays with Tad on the floor before meeting with a Mrs. Scott (Sibyl Harris). She is there to plead for the life of her son, a young soldier who is to be executed for falling asleep while on sentry duty with the Wisconsin infantry at Gettysburg. Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton (Raymond Brown), now enters and threatens to resign if the soldier is pardoned. Lincoln calms Stanton and then assures Mrs. Scott he will pardon her son.
The film now advances to November 1863. Tad is seriously ill, and his father, mother, and the attending doctor (Edward LeSaint) worry at his bedside. The president fears for his son’s life, but he must depart for Gettysburg to take part in the dedication of the battlefield cemetery there. Once at the town, Lincoln stays in the home of attorney David Wills (Earl Dwire). That evening, while editing his speech for the dedication, the president instructs the army band outside to play "Dixie", a song deeply associated with the American South. A crowd in the street initially objects to the choice but begins cheering when the band performs what Lincoln calls a "mighty fine tune".Dialogue and document content transcribed from film. The next day at the ceremony, as celebrated orator Edward Everett (Gordon Hart) concludes his two-hour speech, Lincoln receives a telegram from Mary informing him that Tad is "much improved", news that noticeably relieves the president. He now stands and delivers his own speech, which lasts less than three minutes. At the end of his brief but historic address, the image of Lincoln's face fades out, gradually replaced by an American flag fluttering in the wind and accompanied musically by a rousing excerpt from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
The musical takes place in 1941, in the debris after the London Blitz of World War II. The life of teen Alice Spencer is disrupted, as she and her best friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in a London underground tube station. However, Alfred, suffering from Tuberculosis, is quarantined ("West of Words"). Alice urges him to escape with her into their cherished book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and travel down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. Nurse Cross, who is in charge of keeping everyone safe, rips Alice's book as a punishment for visiting Alfred, despite his quarantine. Alice becomes very defiant and declares she knows it "by heart" and will read to him anyway.
The people hiding in the shelter slowly change into some of the book's characters, and Alfred himself changes into the White Rabbit ("Down the Hole"). During her time in Wonderland, Alice changes parts of the story, such as spending too much time with the White Rabbit and forgetting Chapter 3. She gets teased by not one, but two, Caterpillars ("Chillin' the Regrets"); receives advice from the Cheshire Cat; dances the Lobster Quadrille with the White Rabbit ("Those Long Eyes"); gets berated for growing up too fast by the Duchess; plays croquet with the Queen of Hearts ("Manage Your Flamingo") and other slight twists on scenes from ''Alice in Wonderland''.
Alfred tires of being the White Rabbit and wants to finish his life as himself, in the bunker with Alice, so he attempts to get her to finish the story early by taunting her as the March Hare. She tells him she hates him for getting sick, however before she can apologize he gets taken to Ward D ("Sick to Death of Alice-ness"). Alice attempts to go to him but is halted by the Jabberwocky. The Jabberwocky taunts her with claims of insanity and grief. Alice defeats him with thoughts of Alfred. ("Brililig, Braelig").
The Cheshire Cat urges Alice to let Alfred go and face her grief ("Some Things Fall Away"). Alice soon meets Mock Turtles who encourage her to not move on and live wholly in her grief ("Your Shell of Grief").
Alfred returns, wishing to finish the story with Alice, but Alice, taking the Mock Turtles' advice, pleads with him not to move on. Alfred asks how Alice will grieve him, both of them lamenting of what could have been ("Another Room In Your Head"). She tries to kiss him, hoping to contract Tuberculosis and die with him. He refuses, resuming the story as the hateful March Hare despite her protests.
During the trial ("Isn't It a Trial"/"Do You Think We Think You're Alice?"), Alice stands up for herself, and finally, Alfred joins her. With the help of Tabatha as the Cheshire Cat, they break out of Wonderland and back into the bunker ("I've Shrunk Enough"). Alfred and Alice then admit their feelings for each other before Alfred dies ("Afternoon"). The show ends with Alice finally accepting Alfred's death, and trying to be optimistic about life with everyone else in the bunker ("Winter Blooms").
An aging man turns his pistol factory over to a new owner at the urging of his sons. Soon, however, he notices the new owner's corruption; the shock of this revelation triggers a heart attack, and the old man dies. Soon afterward, his sons suspect one another of murder.
Marta and her mother come home and have a casual conversation that is interrupted by a phone call from Marta's 6-year-old son. He informs her that his father (her ex husband), with whom he is on holiday in southern France, has left him alone on a beach and he is scared because he does not know where his father is. Marta begins to question him about his father's whereabouts, how long he's been gone and where the boy is. Her son does not know where he is, and is even unsure as to whether he is in France or Spain. Marta asks him who is around him and he says no one. As Marta begins to become more and more concerned, she discovers that her son's phone is almost out of power. Marta has her mother talk to her son while she calls a friend of the father's, but the friend knows nothing of his whereabouts, having not spoken to him for some time. Her son asks to talk to her and the two get more and more scared and panicked.
The son's phone call is dropped. Marta calls the police who ask her several questions and then tell her to come in and make a report. She asks them if they can trace the call and they repeat that she must come in to make a report. Marta, now frustrated and angry, resolves to drive to France to look for her son. She leaves the apartment, but as she is going down the stairs the phone rings again.
It is her son. She asks him to describe the beach or anything he might have seen going there. She tells him to start walking down the beach, but her mother says that he should stay where he is. In the midst of this conversation, he tells her that an unknown man has arrived. He tells Marta that the man is alone and is seen relieving himself. The man is waving the boy over and her son reports being scared and that he does not want to talk to the man.
Marta tells him to run. She tells him to run and hide, which he does. He tells her that the man is looking for him, and then Marta hears the man's voice asking the son a question before the phone call is dropped again. Marta leaves the apartment. The film ends with a brief shot of a deserted beach.
The children of two villages come to the Hatangala school situated in the middle of a large forest, a rock and a tank. This is a very rural school. There is a shortage of teachers in the school due to the difficulties. The Principal Hewanayake (Manoratne) and the Amaravathi teacher (Kaushalya) , who are about to retire, are trying unsuccessfully to keep the children who are leaving the school day by day. Local politician (Chamila), think to take this advantage of the lack of children in the school, and are trying to close the school with Osukula (Priyantha), a school teacher and a group of villagers who believe they is a hidden treasure in a nearby rock. The principal Hewanayake and Amaravathi teacher, who are opposed to this, are trying unsuccessfully to run the school. At this moment a young teacher named Asela (Hemal) comes to school. Asela's parents are middle class public servants.
Asela holds a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Colombo and has a strong opinion on the current education system in Sri Lanka and the awareness of education among parents and children. Asela is having frequent conversations with his university friend and decides to become a teacher. He selects the Hattongala school as his first teaching school. Asela uses games and music they love are used for educational and teaching activities, allowing children to learn. In a short period of time, he is able to create a new educational awakening in the school with attractive, teaching methods. Children learn eagerly. There is an increase in the number of children attending school every day.
As the aims of local politicians are undermined, they begin to oppose the teacher. In the meantime, Asela makes alternative music and creates a band with local products. During the practises, one child drowned in a tank and escapes. Villagers and Osukula blame Asela for his radical behavior. But as a political revenge, Asela is suddenly transferred from school. Asela and the professor have been assigned a relative of a chief minister and send her as a new teacher to the Hatangala school. Arundathi (Kalani) also starts to continue Asela's work and send the band to All-Island competition. After winning the competition, they went to see old teacher Asela to his home.
Kelsey (Jocelyn Hudon) is beginning her career as a wedding planner by arranging the wedding of her cousin and bosom friend, Emily (Rebecca Dalton). The theme, as the title suggests, is Christmas Eve. Kelsey is running late to an event related to the wedding, annoying her Aunt Olivia (Kelly Rutherford), who is also her mentor. She had gotten delayed at a coffee shop, where she meets Emily's ex-boyfriend Connor (Stephen Huszar), and asks him for the last blueberry scone. He refuses to give it to her, and she leaves, going to the event and finding him there. Aunt Olivia tells Kelsey to "keep an eye" on him, so she goes over to talk to him. He baits her into walking outside with him and reveals that he is a PI (Private Investigator) who wants to get the skinny on Emily's ''fianceé'', Todd (Eric Hicks). Connor invites Kelsey to work with him, but she refuses.
After that, Kelsey goes to a fitting, where she finds out that Emily and Connor were getting serious when Connor left without warning or explanation. Then, she sees Todd acting in a way she perceives as "flirty" towards the store owner, and becomes suspicious of him, too, causing her to do a little digging of her own. She agrees to work with Connor and tells him that Todd and the store owner are having dinner at Turbo's on Wednesday night.
While spying on Todd, Kelsey and Connor encounter mishaps along their investigative journey that reveal to the audience that they like each other, and just how much they enjoy pretending to be in a relationship. At the dinner, they find out that Todd and the store owner are friends. Todd was thanking the store owner with dinner for the good deal he received for Emily's dress.
Aunt Olivia reveals to Kelsey that her uncle paid off Connor ten years ago to leave Emily and that a few months ago, her uncle had paid Connor again. Kelsey confronts Connor and tells him that she doesn't want to see him again.
Before the wedding, Connor tricks Kelsey into meeting, where he tells her that he took the money, which he believed was a loan, to help his friend George (Joey Fatone) keep his family restaurant. He is unable to explain the recent transaction of money, so Kelsey leaves. At the end of the movie, Connor crashes the wedding with dirt on Todd: he got a servant pregnant a few months ago and she went to Connor and told him everything. The movie ends with Connor proposing to Kelsey, and Kelsey accepting, as the wedding finishes off.
Daryl and Connie flee with Henry and Lydia from a group of Whisperers, led by Beta, within a horde of walkers. Connie directs them to an uncompleted high-rise that her group had taken shelter in before, where she shows to Daryl that they could isolate The Whisperers by laying an ambush on the upper floors. Unsure about Lydia's trustworthiness, Daryl locks her in a closet with Dog while they prepare for Beta's group to arrive. This plan works, as Beta and his allies are forced to abandon the walkers on the ground floor, giving Daryl and Connie the ability to kill them easily. Daryl soon has a one-on-one brutal fight with Beta, which ends with Daryl pushing Beta into an open elevator shaft. Lydia, fearing for Henry's safety, breaks out of the closet, in time for Dog to attack a Whisperer that was about to kill Henry, though Henry still ends up injuring his leg. With The Whisperers subdued, the group work to lure the walkers out of the ground floor so that they can escape, unaware that Beta is still alive at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
Elsewhere, as The Kingdom prepares for their fair, one of their scout groups, led by Jerry, is ambushed by a group called The Highwaymen, who strip them of all their gear. When Carol learns of this, she suggests that because The Highwaymen did not kill Jerry's group, they may be open to negotiation. Ezekiel, Carol, and other Kingdom members go to The Highwaymen's headquarters, and lure the group into a trap so that The Kingdom group can overpower them. Ezekiel tries to convince The Highwaymen to help them keep the roads clear for the other communities traveling to the fair, offering them access to The Kingdom in return. While The Highwaymen initially refuse, they agree after Carol convinces them that they would have an opportunity to see a movie if they help. The Highwaymen then return the gear they stole and later help the Hilltop community make their way to The Kingdom. When Carol discovers that Henry is not with the group, Tara worries that Daryl's group hasn't arrived either; efforts to locate them are launched.
As described in a film magazine, Alice Lambert (Stewart), after spending ten years in idleness and luxury, finds herself without funds and must make her way in the world. She becomes a cloak model, but the proprietor of the shop proves to be a despicable character and she leaves when he attempts to embrace her. She next secures work as an artist's model, but flees from the studio half clad when the artist attempts to make violent love to her. She seeks refuge in another studio belonging to artist David Leighton (McGrail), who prevents her suicide by offering to loan her $50,000. In return, she is to take out a life insurance policy for $75,000 for one year. At the end of the year, of course, she is supposed to die and David would be ahead by $25,000. This scheme results in several incidents and a happy ending.
Susan Scholfield and her little sister are sent to bed by their parents. Susan is angry. She does not want to go to bed, because she is not tired. Susan also finds it stupid that her parents decide when she has to get up or go to school. She is constantly told to do things she absolutely does not feel like doing.
Susan says that if she had it her way she would live in a big house with a monkey and a horse and a box full of gold. Then she would not be Susan any more, but Pippi Longstocking. She would be able to do whatever she wanted. In addition, she would have many friends, such as Tommy and Annika, two children from her neighbourhood.
Then Susan tells Pippi's story. Pippi moves one day into the abandoned house next to Tommy and Annika. Tommy and Annika are surprised that Pippi lives there all alone, but Pippi tells them she has her monkey and her horse.
The next day, Pippi, Tommy and Annika go to school together. The teacher wants to convince Pippi that she has to go to school, so she can learn something. But Pippi can convince her quickly that she knows everything. She can answer even the most difficult questions.
Later, Pippi is visited by two policemen. They want to put Pippi in a children's home. But Pippi throws them out of her house.
Afterwards, burglars arrive at Pippi's house. They want to steal Pippi's gold. But Pippi can persuade them to end their criminal career and do some real and honest work. The mother of the burglars thanks Pippi for that. She had been worried about her sons, and had been afraid, that it might not end well with them.
Soon Pippi fights against the strongest man in the world, the strong Alfons. She wins the fight. For the winner money she buys peanuts and popcorn for all children.
When Pippi celebrates her birthday, she wishes her father is with her now. Just when Pippi has told Tommy and Annika what she wishes, her father storms into the house. He takes Pippi to the South Seas, Tommy and Annika join them.
In bed Susan's sister wonders if Pippi ever returns. Susan thinks she does not. Then suddenly the parents of them realize that someone has moved into the abandoned house next door. Outside, only a horse and a monkey can be seen and a small girl. Susan and her sister are sure that the new resident of the house can only be Pippi Longstocking.
Gina (Chelsea Peretti) announces that she is leaving the precinct and will set to spend a "Gina moment" with everyone that she deems unforgettable before quitting in two weeks.
Her first moment is with Captain Holt (Andre Braugher), whom she has been playing chess with and every time, Holt wins. During their games, Holt questions Gina about her choice and worries about health insurance and her own baby, telling her that she needs a plan. Holt eventually comes to realize that even the best-laid plans don't work out, as despite planning for it for a long time he was not able to become Commissioner. Her second moment is a lunch date with Amy (Melissa Fumero) and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) where Amy makes an entire book made of Gina's tweets. Gina is embarrassed and asks Amy to burn the book in a fire dump. Amy can't bring herself to do it, and Gina reveals that this was her moment for Amy: telling Amy to be herself and never change. She inadvertently also gets Rosa to get emotional about this.
Her next moment is with Jake, who has set a meeting in a social club with actor Mario Lopez. After narrowly passing the entrance, Jake distracts the bodyguards so Gina can meet the actor and invite him to a party in the bar. However, in the bar, Gina refuses to let Lopez get inside, much to Jake's shock. She reveals that her moment was making clear she didn't need a celebrity there, when she had all she wanted: her friends. The next day and despite the farewell party, she shows up at the precinct and gives Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) a familiar jar. Terry (Terry Crews) gets annoyed he never got a "Gina moment". Despite this, Gina keeps showing up at work and Jake deduces that she's afraid to leave. After the precinct agrees to support her, they find a Gina golden statue and a video where Gina thanks them for everything and gives Terry his moment by signing him up for a yogurt club.
Jake (Andy Samberg) and Terry (Terry Crews) discover that Doug Judy (Craig Robinson) has died and go to his funeral. As Jake is giving a eulogy, he sees Judy, alive and well, and realizes that he faked his death.
Judy explains that he faked his death after a major drug lord put a hit out on him after someone stole the lord's favorite Ferrari using Judy’s MO. Jake and Terry agree to help him and agree to meet at a bar where the thief will most likely be. After Terry sends police enforcements to the bar, the trio discover that Judy’s sister Trudy Judy (Nicole Byer) was the one who stole the Ferrari using her brother’s MO. In exchange for a reduced sentence, Trudy agrees to help them recover the Ferrari and set up a sting operation to capture the drug lord. At the sting operation, they manage to arrest the drug lord, but Trudy betrays them and drives away, effectively becoming the new Pontiac Bandit.
Meanwhile, the rest of the squad discovers that the FDNY has taken over Shaw’s Bar and challenge them to a drink-off for the bar. Holt (Andre Braugher) leaves, claiming that it’s not a big deal and they can find another bar. However, after receiving a drunken voicemail from Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz), Holt realizes how much Shaw’s means to the squad and returns, eventually leading the team to victory.
Imprisoned in a tower on the Gem Homeworld, Steven (Zach Callison) dreams a memory of his mother, Pink Diamond, being scolded by Blue Diamond (Lisa Hannigan) millennia ago. When he wakes up, Blue, thinking he is Pink Diamond, arrives to scold him again. However, he helps her understand that Pink abandoned the Diamonds because of their dysfunctional family dynamic, and she decides to help the Crystal Gems escape. Yellow Diamond (Patti LuPone) tries to stop them, but Steven helps her realize that deferring to White Diamond's perfectionism has made her miserable. Steven and Connie (Grace Rolek) prepare to escape with the dormant gems of Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall), but are intercepted by White Diamond's spaceship.
Moments later, Bismuth (Uzo Aduba), Lapis Lazuli (Jennifer Paz), and Peridot (Shelby Rabara) arrive from Earth in Yellow and Blue's spaceships, and attack White's ship. After a brief battle, Yellow and Blue finally tell White about how they feel, but she responds by turning them into colorless drones acting as extensions of herself. Steven helps Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet regenerate their bodies by briefly fusing with each, and ultimately, all four fuse into Obsidian to reach White's chamber.
White Diamond (Christine Ebersole) turns Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl into drones, and tries to convince Steven that he really is Pink Diamond, wrongly convincing herself that she is someone else. Attempting to restore Pink to her true self, White pulls Steven's gem from his body. It regenerates a body in Steven's form, which rebukes White by yelling "She's GONE!" and blocks White's attempts to control it. Connie carries Steven's weakened human body over to his Gem counterpart, and the two fuse back into Steven. White refuses to acknowledge that Pink is gone, saying that Pink is just "acting like a child"; Steven responds, "I ''am'' a child—what's your excuse?" White blushes in embarrassment, releasing the others from her control. As White, realizing for the first time she is fallible, suffers an existential crisis, Steven suggests that she should let everyone, including herself, "be whoever they are".
The Crystal Gems and Diamonds travel back to Earth. Shortly after they arrive, Steven's friend Lars (Matthew Moy) arrives as well, in his starship crewed by Off-Color rebel Gems. The Diamonds help Steven heal the corrupted Gems that the Crystal Gems have spent centuries capturing. The episode ends with Steven spending a peaceful evening with his friends and family; he sings the song "Change Your Mind", celebrating his newfound emotional security.
Wilfred Tasbinder impersonates 77 year old Oliver Erwenter to get in an old-folks home. While there he shows the inmates that they are only as old as they feel. He helps a reverend have a romance.
The Straw Hat Pirates come to Delta Island for the Pirate Fest, a large pirate gathering organized by Buena Festa. Festa sends the pirates to a floating island to hunt for a treasure that belonged to the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger. The Straw Hats and many other pirate crews, including those from the Worst Generation as well as other past allies and enemies, set sail on a Knock Up Stream and battle each other as they race toward the treasure. However, this event is secretly set up as part of a plan between Festa and legendary pirate Douglas Bullet, who had been in the great prison Impel Down for two decades until being freed two years ago. Trafalgar Law discovers this and is attacked, but escapes onto the Thousand Sunny and warns the Straw Hats. Robin, Sanji, Chopper and Brook go with him to investigate, followed by the undercover Smoker. After sneaking into Festa's hideout, they discover that he has conspired with the Marines to send a Buster Call on Delta Island, which would destroy it and everyone on it.
As the treasure is found, a ship arrives and destroys the floating island. The pirates fall into the bay below, where Bullet takes the treasure and challenges the members of the Worst Generation to a fight. Luffy and the other Worst Generation members are quickly overwhelmed by his strength and Clank-Clank Fruit powers. He attempts to kill Luffy, but Usopp distracts him, causing Bullet to attack him instead. Meanwhile, the other pirates attempt to flee from Delta Island, but find the Marine Buster Call fleet headed toward them. As the pirates fight the Marines, Law's group encounters Smoker in Festa's lair, and Sanji battles him while Law and Robin escape. Sanji reveals to Smoker that Festa arranged for a Buster Call to arrive; Smoker was unaware and realizes that the Marines were set up. Meanwhile, Law and Robin run into the former Warlord Crocodile, who wants to involve Law in a plan. Bullet confronts the Buster Call fleet and reveals his awakened Devil Fruit powers, destroying the fleet and the town around him and forming it into a gigantic colossus, with which he overwhelms the pirates and Marines.
Festa reveals that the treasure in Bullet's possession is an Eternal Pose that can guide ships to Laugh Tale, the location of the most famous treasure One Piece. Bullet's dream is to become Pirate King by defeating the world's strongest people, and Festa intends to use his warpath and treasure to start a new era. After hearing of Bullet's actions, Marine Fleet Admiral Sakazuki orders a second Buster Call to attack the island. Sanji, Robin, Chopper, and Brook meet up, and the former two attempt to find a way to escape the island while the latter two look for Luffy. Chopper and Brook find Luffy and Usopp half dead, and Chopper treats them. After regaining consciousness, Luffy sets off to attack Bullet, but is overwhelmed. The Warlord Boa Hancock attempts to find Luffy, and she does so while running into Buggy, Smoker, Law, and Sabo in the process. Law shares his plan to defeat Bullet by tearing apart his colossus, and Crocodile as well as a lurking Rob Lucci join them. Their combined attacks destroy one of its arms, and Luffy destroys the other one with Gear Fourth.
Shots fired by Usopp then destroy the rest of the colossus. Luffy and Bullet engage in a fistfight, and Luffy defeats him. Crocodile and Lucci attempt to obtain the Eternal Pose, but Luffy destroys it, claiming he will find the One Piece with his crew without help. Festa mourns the failure of his plans, and is defeated and captured by Sabo. Luffy reunites with his crew and they attempt to escape along with the other pirates, but are confronted by the second Buster Call fleet. However, Smoker contacts his superiors to say there is no longer a need for the Buster Call, and Sabo helps the pirates pass through the fleet safely with his abilities. It is revealed that Roger disapproved of the Eternal Pose and threw it away, believing that the One Piece could not be obtained by someone who would rely on it. Luffy's crew is shocked that he destroyed the Eternal Pose, except for Usopp. Luffy claims that if that they had taken it, they would have missed out on many great adventures.
Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and her mother, Rose (Marin Hinkle), select outfits for their family's annual vacation to the Catskills. Later, Midge and Susie (Alex Borstein) meet for lunch where Midge tells her she is going away on vacation for two months, to Susie's displeasure.
Midge, her mother, father (Tony Shalhoub), and children drive to Steiner Mountain Resort, a vacation resort that caters to affluent Jewish people. Abe is displeased when he learns that his favorite staff helper Jimmy is not returning for the summer, and is harsh to his replacement Samuel. Camp director, Pauly (Saul Rubinek) tells Midge that she is ineligible to compete in the bikini competition because she is technically no longer a wife. Joel (Michael Zegen) arrives during the opening reception and asks to stay on their couch because he forgot to reserve his own room. That Midge is now separated from Joel brings forth judgment from the other vacationers. Joel takes the stage to tell the other guests to treat Midge with respect, which pleases Midge and her family.
Midge and her mother go to the beauty salon. Midge lies and says she has been dating and Rose tells her she will be on the lookout for any good men. Susie later surprises Midge by meeting her in the woods, and says she is posing as a plumber while attempting to book gigs for Midge in the area.
Rose urges Midge to meet a single Jewish doctor named Benjamin Ettenberg (Zachary Levi), the son of a guest Rose met at the salon. Midge finds and interrupts him to insist they spend some time together so that she can tell her mother that they met and it didn't work out. They get in a rowboat but Benjamin refuses to row, to Midge's embarrassment. That night Midge and her parents sit on a blanket by the lake watching fireworks. Joel observes them from a distance. Benjamin, a stranger to him, approaches Joel to bum a cigarette. They smoke together and have a short existential conversation about forgiveness.
''How to Build a Girl'' follows Johanna Morrigan, a working-class 14-year-old living with her parents and five siblings on a council estate in 1990s Wolverhampton.
After revealing to her disapproving elderly neighbour, Violet, that her father is on disability benefits, Johanna lives in fear that Violet will report her family to social services which will stop their benefits. Racked with guilt, Johanna begins to look for a way that she can help support her family as she waits for the inevitable letter to tell the Morrigans that their benefits have been suspended while under investigation. Johanna briefly attempts to be a cleaner, and fails to secure a paper round, but finally hits upon a writing competition with a prize of £250 which she wins with a poem. After appearing on a local television show to read out her winning poem and behaving embarrassingly due to nerves, Johanna decides that she must reinvent herself and begins on her path to becoming Dolly Wilde.
Two years later and Johanna has become Dolly Wilde, and sends one music review a day to the Disc & Music Echo. It pays off, as Dolly is invited to the ''D&ME'' offices and is given a music journalist job. As her career as a journalist progresses, Dolly decides that it is time to drop out of school to focus fully on her job, leading to conflict between her mother and father who disagree as to whether she is making the right choice. Ultimately she does not go back to school, and is offered a writing job involving a trip to Dublin where she meets musician John Kite.
Dolly meets John Kite in Dublin to interview him, and the pair instantly bond. After returning from John's gig to the hotel in order to conduct the interview, the pair end up staying awake and talking for the entire night. Upon returning to Wolverhampton the next day, Dolly remains infatuated and the pair exchange letters. Dolly's newfound love of John Kite has negative consequences however, as after her gushing review on John's Dublin gig is published in the ''D&ME,'' Kenny the editor stops calling offering more work and shortly after Dolly discovers her distraught parents and is informed by her brother Krissi that their benefits have been cut.
Finally, Kenny calls again and Dolly returns to London. The ''D&ME'' staff tell her how they had been disappointed with the "fannish" nature of her John Kite review but this is soon disregarded as Dolly accompanies the others to the pub and starts to drink for the first time. She is persuaded to come to a party where she reunites with John Kite, and they share a brief kiss.
After meeting ''D&ME''
The story concludes with Dolly vowing to reinvent herself once again and throw away all of the aspects of herself that she had grown to hate, and making the decision to move to London to work on her journalism full-time. She also shares a phone call with John Kite, who after their awkward last meeting tells her that one day it will all be okay, but for now she is just too young.
In the aftermath of the War of Unification, all the nations of the continent of Eastald are forcefully united under a single ruler. During the war, special soldiers were implanted with Fairy organs, allowing them to summon powerful Fairies to fight under their command. These soldiers were dubbed "Fairy Soldiers" and used by all sides. However, nine years after the end of the war, conflict still remains as rogue Fairy Soldiers and criminals take advantage of the postwar instability. To combat this threat, the government agency "Dorothea" is formed, whose sole purpose is to combat illegal Fairy users.
One of Dorothea's newest recruits, Marlya, teams up with veteran Fairy Soldier and Dorothea operative Free in hopes of tracking down her long–lost childhood friend Veronica, who is now an illegal Fairy Soldier working for an unknown organization looking to recover an artifact dubbed the "Black Fairy Tome".
Rodney (Steve Olson), about to turn 30, has no job or ambition. This changes when he meets June (Katherine Cortez), a reclusive widow.
Ivan Desny plays a disillusioned exile returning to Germany from the United States. The film centers around drug trafficking and the black market.
The Protagonist, a CIA operative, participates in an extraction at the Kyiv Opera House. His team retrieves an artifact but he is captured, tortured by mercenaries, and ultimately consumes a suicide pill.
Some time later, the Protagonist awakens to learn the artifact was lost and the pill was a fake, designed as a test. An organization called Tenet recruits him and briefs him on bullets with "inverted" entropy, meaning they move backward through time. After meeting his handler, Neil, they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in Mumbai.
The pair discovers that Priya is a member of Tenet, and that her cartridges were purchased and inverted by Russian oligarch Andrei Sator. The Protagonist approaches Sator's estranged wife, Kat, an art appraiser who authenticated a forged Goya drawing that Sator purchased from an acquaintance of hers. Sator discovered Kat's mistake and is using it to blackmail her.
In exchange for Kat's help, the Protagonist and Neil attempt to steal the drawing from Sator's freeport storage facility at the Oslo Airport, where they fend off two masked men who emerge from each side of a "turnstile". In Mumbai, Priya later explains these turnstiles invert the entropy of objects and people, so the masked men were actually the same man both entering and leaving the turnstile in opposite directions through time.
On the Amalfi Coast, Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator, who reveals he still has the drawing. Sator, enraged and jealous, plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist instead saves Sator's life when Kat attempts to drown him. The men strike a partnership to retrieve a case from Kyiv that supposedly contains plutonium-241 (though is later revealed the case contains another artifact).
In Tallinn, the Protagonist and Neil successfully steal the case but are then ambushed by an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Sator and rescues Kat, but they are soon recaptured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile. The inverted Sator demands the location of the object and shoots Kat with an inverted round. As Sator escapes into the turnstile, Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive, and the heroes take Kat through the turnstile to allow her inverted wound to heal.
The Protagonist travels back to the ambush and attempts to retrieve the object, but Sator overturns his car and sets it on fire. Sator gets away with the artifact, and Protagonist is again saved by Tenet operatives.
The Protagonist travels back in time to the freeport in Oslo where he fights his past self and enters the turnstile, followed by Neil and Kat. He visits Priya, who explains Sator has now collected all nine pieces of a device, the "Algorithm", which will enable people in the future to invert the entropy of the whole world in order to destroy their past. To complete his task, Sator plans to bury the Algorithm (which the Protagonist deduces Sator will do in his hometown of Stalsk-12) and transmit its location in a digital time capsule. Kat reveals Sator is dying from cancer, and the team surmises he plans to travel back to commit suicide during a recent family vacation to Vietnam, sending the coordinates into the future using a dead man's switch.
The Protagonist, Neil, and Kat travel back in time with Tenet troops. Kat poses as her past-self and tries to keep Sator alive in Vietnam until the Tenet forces can recover the heavily-guarded Algorithm in Stalsk-12. They use a "temporal pincer movement", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault, but Protagonist and Ives are caught by Volkov, Sator's bodyguard, who is about to bury the Algorithm. Sator calls and tells the Protagonist that the people in the future want to reverse entropy to escape the effects of climate change. As he hangs up, an inverted soldier with a trinket sacrifices himself to save Protagonist and Ives, and they secure the Algorithm. Kat kills Sator before he can kill himself and escapes.
The Protagonist, Neil, and Ives break up the Algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices the trinket on Neil's bag, and Neil reveals he was recruited in his past by a future-Protagonist. Later, Priya attempts to assassinate Kat for knowing too much, but the Protagonist, having realized is the mastermind behind Tenet, intervenes and kills Priya instead.
Bob and Larry are the two star player of a college team who compete to see who is the best player.
A story about an intertribal war and the threat of extinction to the Buhi tribe and its over-protective Balyan (shaman) of the Arakan Valley, North Cotabato, Mindanao.
One day, Yuko Yoshida wakes up with horns and a tail and learns that she is the descendant of the Dark Clan that was cursed into poverty by the opposing Light Clan. In order to restore her clan's honor, she is tasked with defeating the town's local magical girl, Momo Chiyoda.
Ahmed Shifan confesses his love for his childhood friend, Zeyna who politely declines his proposal as she is already engaged. Heartbroken, Shifan leaves the country to focus on his studies abroad. Eight years later, Zeyna is happily married to Ayaz and they are blessed with an adorable daughter, Enash, whom she had named as per Shifan's request during the time he had confessed to her. Meanwhile, Shifan who is now a medical school graduate is still disheartened by the rejection and has remained single despite his father's attempts to set him up with other women. Eventually, he decides to give an honest attempt at trying to move on and agrees to date his father's friend's daughter Nathasha who has fancied him for a while.
Zeyna runs into her school friend, Noora and the two reconnect. Noora reveals to Zeyna that she is homeless as she had been kicked out of her home by her gold digging stepmother who wanted Noora out of the picture in order to seize her father's property. Out of pity, Zeyna invites Noora to stay her place until she gets back on her feet. However, the cunning Noora has had bad intentions all along as she wanted to marry a wealthy Male' man to spite her stepmother. She had been eyeing Ayaz for a while and thought of him as the perfect candidate; which was what prompted her to reconnect with Zeyna in the first place. Noora attempts to seduce Ayaz on multiple occasions and he finally gives in during a time Enash and Zeyna were not in town.
After seducing him, Noora compels Ayaz to marry her by feigning pregnancy. Ayaz panics and reluctantly marries Noora on the condition that she accepts Enash as her own daughter, to which Noora agrees. However, Noora has a condition of her own. Ayaz must divorce Zeyna in order to marry her as Noora does not want to be in a polygamous marriage. Zeyna eventually finds out that Ayaz has been cheating on her with Noora and confronts her, only to be taunted. Not wanting Ayaz to oust her out of his life, Zeyna calmly approaches Ayaz regarding the matter. Much to her surprise, Ayaz is completely indifferent to Zeyna's feelings and suggests that they get a divorce instead of apologizing to her. Zeyna despite objecting at first eventually agrees in order to keep him happy. The whole ordeal breaks her heart and Zeyna begs Ayaz to let her keep Enash with her as she had no family left. As Enash herself wishes to stay with her mother, Ayaz lets her go. Zeyna and Enash leave Ayaz's apartment in Male' in order to go back to her native island. However, this arrangement doesn't last long as Ayaz starts missing Enash. Noora suggests bringing Enash back to Male' even if it meant taking her from Zeyna by force; as she becomes sick of Ayaz whining about missing Enash. The two take a trip to Zeyna's island where Ayaz snatches Enash from Zeyna.
Things abruptly change for Ayaz and Noora after marriage. Noora claims that she had a miscarriage, has a short temper, and does not respect Ayaz or his daughter. She is also controlling towards Ayaz, but spends time with other men and frequently goes out with them, despite Ayaz's objections. In an attempt to make things a bit better, Ayaz takes both Noora and Enash to Guraidhoo, Noora's native island, where Enash sees Zeyna in the mental asylum who has lost her memory due to the shock of losing her daughter. Enash attempts to make conversation with her, but Zeyna cannot speak and just blankly stares at her.
Noora is speechless after seeing Enash with Zeyna and forcefully tries to take the child away before she could call her father. After seeing Noora take Enash away similar to how Ayaz had taken her, Zeyna regains her memory and calls out for her child, but soon faints on the spot. Enash tries to tell her father that she had seen her mother in the mental asylum, but gets dismissed by Noora who calls her a liar. As the mood of the trip had been ruined by this incident, the trio return to Male'. Ayaz gets curious and phones the asylum to find out that a person by his ex-wife's name was admitted to their facility and realizes that Enash had been telling the truth all along. However, he decides not to do anything about it.
Here it is revealed that Shifan, now a clinical psychiatrist volunteers for the same asylum part-time. He is shocked to discover that Zeyna is now in a mental asylum and decides to treat her privately and takes her back to Male' with him as her guardian. At this point, Shifan has also broken up with Nathasha after realizing that his feelings for Zeyna were still too strong to make room for anyone else.
Zeyna and Shifan become close once again as she tells her all the events that had gone down and starts crying once she mentions her daughter. Touched, Shifan vows to help her get the custody of Enash. Soon after, Shifan visits Ayaz and gives him a brief update on Zeyna and requests him to send Enash to Zeyna for a few hours as they had not seen each other in months. He also informs Ayaz that Zeyna planned to take the custody matter to court. Ayaz agrees to drop Enash off. Enash starts visiting Zeyna at Shifan's house on a semi-regular basis and warms up to him. Zeyna and Shifan's friendship slowly blossoms into love and they start sharing romantic moments with each other.
One day, Ayaz walks into Noora hitting Enash and learns how abusive she has been towards Enash throughout their marriage. He angrily divorces her and kicks her out, forcing Noora to take a boat back to Guraidhoo as her stepmother would not take her in either. Later on, Enash realizes how lonely her father is and asks him to get back together with Zeyna. Ayaz decides to talk to Zeyna and ask her if they could still work things out for the sake of their daughter. However, Zeyna has now fallen in love with Shifan and no longer has space in her heart for a man that cheated on her. Nevertheless, she agrees to stay civil with Ayaz for Enash's sake.
Dejected and having processed everything, Ayaz drops Enash off at Shifan's place one last time and announces that he has given full custody of Enash to Zeyna and tells her that going to the court is unnecessary. He also wishes Shifan and Zeyna a happy life and walks out, having acknowledged his mistake of taking a faithful partner that truly loved him, for granted.
In a rural courthouse, a mother seeks justice for her son who was abducted by paramilitary men during the 1988-89 insurgency in Sri Lanka, only to discover that she has to confront the man who took away her son and his wife.
32 years ago, a young Ricardo Diaz is shown living in an orphanage and witnessing Jesse, an older kid that bullies him and makes him his personal servant, setting fire to a photograph of Diaz's father, the only remembrance he had of him.
In the present time, Diaz and Laurel Lance go to Blüdhaven, where he intends to join the Quadrant, a major organization that controls crime in the entire country. He expects having taken over Star City will be an achievement big enough to grant him a seat at the table. Diaz and Laurel meet Eric Cartier, the son of one of the Quadrant's members, but Cartier is unimpressed by Diaz's takeover and has him fulfill a task in order to prove his worth and meet his father: to locate Robert Baylor, one of the Quadrant's men, who is under FBI's custody.
Diaz learns that Baylor is actually cooperating with the federals, and Cartier requests him to capture the guy as an additional mission. Diaz reluctantly agrees, but as he delivers Baylor to Cartier, the latter has both of them shot. Diaz survives due to a vest he was secretly wearing and returns to Cartier's place, where he takes out his men, lectures him on survival, explains how Jesse made him feel powerless and inferior and tortures him for information on the Quadrant's next meeting.
On their way to the Quadrant's meeting, Diaz tells Laurel how he had so much fear of Jesse that he named it "The Dragon" and lived having nothing but that. Diaz has Cartier storm in the restaurant where the meeting is taking place with enough C4 in his chest to take out many security guards at once. After killing some additional men, Diaz and Laurel finally meet the Quadrant leaders face-to-face. Diaz offers them the entire Star City in exchange for a seat at the table, but Cartier is still unimpressed with Diaz's achievements and frustrated with his son's death and ends up mocking him for being nothing but a "street thug". Diaz reacts by executing him. Despite this, one of the remaining Quadrant leaders says she's interested in his proposal.
Having fulfilled his personal quest of becoming a crime lord, Diaz locates Jesse and brings him atop a building, where he shows him a fragment of his burned father's picture, which he recovered from the flames, resulting in blisters and severe burns. Diaz then burns him alive and tosses the fragment into the fire before a shocked Laurel.
Meanwhile, following her dismissal from Team Arrow, Felicity Smoak and Curtis Holt put their teams' differences aside and resume work on Helix Dynamics, but Curtis insists that they should talk about her dismissal and Oliver Queen working alone. After seeing news of the Green Arrow (Oliver) being caught in an explosion, Felicity rushes home and finds him alive and well.
The play revolves around the relationships between five school-friends are explored at three stages of their lives: in Year Two in 1994, Year Nine in 2001, and at a school reunion in the present day.
The film follows Dawid, a former member of South Africa's infamous C1 Counter Insurgency death squad, who must atone for his past when he helps one survivor Pravesh search for the bodies of a missing anti-apartheid cell. Unaware that as they hunt for answers, they too are being hunted.
"Notwithstanding that this film is based on real events, it is definitely a uniquely South African story because it’s about a fractured search for reconciliation in the face of a harrowing past that refuses to die out", says Rapid Lion festival director, Eric Miyeni,"It is a great metaphor for today’s South Africa".
Following his fight with Spider-Man, Norman Osborn resolves to find a means of restoring his powers, concluding that he has only ever defeated Spider-Man when allowing himself to draw on his inner demons.
The apparent first step in this plan occurs when Osborn manages to steal the Carnage symbiote from an abandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. storehouse while Spider-Man is occupied with the return of Scorpio. Osborn's efforts to control the symbiote initially backfire when he merges with it and finds himself overwhelmed by the urge to kill rather than his own prior plan to direct its power against Spider-Man specifically.
Norman Osborn is able to convince it to let him have control in favor of trying something other than its usual mindless slaughter.
While interrogating a captive J. Jonah Jameson for information on Spider-Man, Osborn takes a brief interval from the torture to kill Phil Urich as the self-proclaimed Goblin King tried to raid one of his old storehouses. After Osborn appeared as the Green Goblin, Jameson mentioned how he could not stop Spider-Man since even throwing Gwen Stacy off the bridge did not stop him from fighting back. Those words caused Norman to remember that Spider-Man is Peter Parker.
Attacking the ''Daily Bugle'' in his familiar Goblin attire, Osborn gives the rest of the staff time to evacuate as he fights Peter before revealing his new bond with Carnage, proclaiming himself to be the Red Goblin, driving Spider-Man away with 'Carnage bombs' that injure his leg. Discovering a sound-transmitting spider-tracer planted on him, Red Goblin uses this to deliver a 'devil's bargain' to Peter; if Peter abandons his identity as Spider-Man and never performs any further heroics, Red Goblin will leave him alone, but the second he sees any sign of Spider-Man's return he will kill everyone in Peter's life. Peter places his Spider-Man top on a flagpole so that Osborn can see it burn, but privately vows that he will find a way to defeat Osborn as Peter Parker rather than Spider-Man. Normie Osborn and Stanley Osborn's nanny "Emma" finds out that Red Goblin (her husband possessed by the Carnage symbiote) is coming after the kids. To keep them safe, Emma abducts them.
Peter is able to contact various allies like Human Torch, Clash, Silk, Miles Morales, and Agent Anti-Venom to watch over his loved ones. Liz Allan had tracking chips placed in her grandchildren as she, Mark Raxton, and Harry Osborn find the grandchildren as they discover that "Emma" is actually Emily Osborn. Red Goblin targets Harry Osborn, Emily, Liz, and Mark; proving immune to Carnage's traditional weaknesses of Human Torch's fire and Clash's sound devices. Peter is forced to step back into action despite his injured leg, with Agent Anti-Venom sacrificing a chance to get back into action himself to heal Spider-Man's injury. Upon catching up with his family members, Red Goblin merges a part of the Carnage symbiote with Normie turning him into a miniature version of Red Goblin.
Spider-Man first tries to procure more Anti-Venom from Alchemax, but is ambushed by the Red Goblin's talking Pumpkin Bombs. Seeing that Peter has donned his Spider-Man persona to stop him, Norman declares that he will kill all of Peter's family and friends. Norman first goes after Mary Jane Watson at her office inside the Stark Tower Complex, but she is helped by Venom who has been blackmailed by Jameson into protecting her. Although wary of being rescued by her longtime tormentor, Mary Jane disables Stark Tower's anti-symbiote defenses to allow Venom to fight the Red Goblin. When Spider-Man arrives, he teams up with Venom to stop the Goblin, but Osborn overpowers them both before making a tactical retreat. Knowing that Peter cannot match up to the combined strength of Norman on the Goblin Formula and the Carnage symbiote on his own, Eddie offers the Venom symbiote to as a means to better match the Red Goblin. Though reluctant to do so, Peter bonds with the symbiote. Then Spider-Man and Mary Jane subsequently forgive Eddie and the symbiote for all they have done over the years. Spider-Man heads off after the Red Goblin in the black symbiote suit.
Normie goes after Aunt May where she gets some unexpected help in the form of Superior Octopus and J. Jonah Jameson who uses an old Spider-Slayer. However, both of them are defeated by Red Goblin. Peter arrives after Norman and Normie have left, seeing a wounded Octavius being attended to by Aunt May. Thanking Otto for defending Aunt May, Peter offers him a truce, stating that Ock's heroism earned him a ‘clean slate’.
Norman and Normie arrive at Alchemax's headquarters. In a meeting with Liz Allan, Normie's mother and CEO of Alchemax, Norman reveals that while working at Alchemax disguised as Mason Banks he learned of a trust clause created by Liz to pass on control of Alchemax to Normie and whoever is his living legal guardian. After Harry Osborn intervenes with Norman's old Goblin equipment, Normie watch as his grandfather throws Liz through a window only to be rescued by Spider-Man, which causes him to turn on Norman. Despite the symbiote amplifying Normie's jealousy of his half-brother Stanley, Normie throws off its influence when he witnesses his grandfather try to kill his parents, realizing in the process that Spider-Man is not a villain but his grandfather is.
As Liz Allan is tasked by Harry to protect Stanley, Spider-Man leads the Red Goblin away from his inner circle. Norman reveals to Spider-Man he infected some of Peter's friends and family with slivers of the Carnage symbiote which he could send to their brain to kill them. However, it turns out that Flash Thompson has figured out Spider-Man's secret identity too and went to May and Mary Jane in order to remove those ticking time bombs. Flash then takes the fight to Norman and while it appears as if he's gaining the upper hand, it turns out that Norman still has some Green Goblin tech beneath his symbiote and he uses that to electrocute Flash. This causes Spider-Man and the Venom symbiote to fly into a rage, sending Osborn flying through several buildings with a single punch. Flash begs Peter to calm himself and not let his anger overtake the symbiote. Although Peter offers the symbiote to Flash to heal him, the former soldier and bully turned friend refuses the help, stating that Peter needs the symbiote more than he does and that the Anti-Venom symbiote might kill the symbiote. Flash's injuries prove to be fatal and he dies in Spider-Man's arms.
Spider-Man confronts Norman at Times Square as Red Goblin gains the upper hand. Spider-Man manages to hold him off by pointing out that it's not Green Goblin killing the Spider, but rather Carnage and Cletus Kasady. Red Goblin is enraged by this and when Peter removes Venom and to challenge him, Norman takes off the symbiote to reveal his old Green Goblin persona. Spider-Man manages to take his foe down and when the villain begs the Carnage symbiote to help him, the wall-crawler seemingly destroys it by hitting it with an exploding gas tank. However, the Carnage symbiote was attached to Norman when Peter destroyed it, and he wonders what sort of effect that might have had on his old foe's mind. Jameson then appears with a gun but Peter persuades Jameson not to shoot him for revenge. Norman is last seen incarcerated Ravencroft and believes that Spider-Man is Norman Osborn and he himself is Cletus Kasady.''Amazing Spider-Man'' #800. Marvel Comics.
The symbiote fragment on Normie is subsequently separated while the main symbiote is apparently destroyed. When the rest of his family rendezvous at Alchemax, Harry is determined to redeem his family's name from his father's villainous legacy and to be a responsible parent to his sons. Harry also forgives his mother for abandoning him. After getting a clean slate for his involvement in Norman Osborn's defeat, Dr. Otto Octavius reveals his new identity as Dr. Elliot Tolliver, a person who has just started working at Horizon University. He was seen applying for a job under Max Modell as Anna Maria Marconi starts acting suspicious towards Dr. Tolliver.
The first installment of the story in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #797 sold an estimated 128,189 issues in its initial run, an increase of 73,051 from the previous issues estimated 55,138 sales. Sales of Issue #798 sold 233,235 units, while sales of Issue #799 fell slightly to 192,609. Issue #800 sold 411,480 units, making it the number 1 selling comic of May 2018, and according to North American comic distributor Diamond Comic Distributors (DCD) it was the second best selling comic of 2018, followed by #798 at number 8 and #799 at number 10, and issue #797 at number 21.
A hermit who lives by a lake falls for a distressed young woman whom he aids.
Near the Mexico–United States border, when a woman's (Love) gold is stolen by a thief (Hearn), the woman seeks help from Rameriz (Santschi). Rameriz's jealous wife (Stonehouse) and the woman's geologist husband (Morley) assume that the woman and Rameriz are having an affair. In the end, the gold is returned and the honor of Rameriz is restored.
Judy and Punch are puppeteers in the town of Seaside, England who, alongside their baby daughter, are attempting to bring their marionette show back into the public eye. Judy wins the crowd with her puppetry but Punch suffers from a drinking problem. While chasing a little dog that has stolen a string of sausages, Punch trips and accidentally throws their baby out a high window killing her. Judy is incredulous when Punch casually admits to dropping their baby out a window, then she punches him, and he retaliates with a fire poker.
Punch believes he has killed Judy, hides her body, reports the crime to the local constable, and implicates two elderly people. They are arrested and Punch tells the whole town of their guilt of murder and subsequent canabalism of his daughter.
Judy is found unconscious and taken to live in a secret society of outcasts in the forest. When she recovers she swears vengeance on Punch, part of which is terrorising him, including by visiting Punch in their house with a large puppet representing a ghost that demands he repent and clear the name of the falsely accused couple or a worse fate will come to him.
On the hanging scaffold, Punch appears to recant, saying that the pair are not guilty, but he continues his speech saying that it is not they but the Devil who is guilty and who is being dealt with by the hanging and he works the crowd into a bloodlust. However, when he pulls the trapdoor lever, the pair fall to the ground as their ropes have been cut. Judy and the forest troupe arrive. Punch is lassoed about each wrist and hung from the scaffold while Judy approaches him with a large axe saying serious crime deserve serious punishment, and she cuts his hands off.
Some while later, Judy is seen living at her house with her companions. Punch is confined to an insane asylum where he puts on a mad Punch and Judy puppet show watched through the window by a few people on the street outside.
Swedish couple Tobias and Elin dote on their only daughter, Maja. However, during their vacation to Skagen, Denmark for Maja's eighth birthday, Elin is sent to the hospital due to an allergic reaction to shellfish from her mussel pizza at lunch. This is followed by the sudden death of Maja in her sleep on her birthday. Stricken with grief, Tobias and Elin's marriage begins to deteriorate as a result.
Three years later in Sweden, Tobias and Elin go on a camping trip for vacation. Their trip in the woods suddenly transforms into a dark, twisted nightmare as the couple are stalked and preyed upon by a trio of antagonistic nursery rhyme characters and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, led by a sadistic elderly gentleman in a boater hat and white suit named Mog. These figures are connected to a music box given to their late daughter as a birthday present. They find themselves stuck in a time loop in which they are repeatedly preyed on by these characters.
While stuck in the loop, a shadow play is performed centering on a family of rabbits who lost their only child and try to overcome their grief.
Growing up with his foster mother amongst the rolling fields of rural Lincolnshire, Femi's young life seems as idyllic as the landscape. But when he returns to London to live with his birth mother he begins to struggle with the culture and values of his new environment. As the years pass, he must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take and what it means to be a young black man in London during the early 2000s. His search for self and identity will take him on an emotionally charged and utterly unforgettable journey through various stages of his life.
A little girl, Anna (Marta Kozlova), miraculously survived the execution of local Jews, after her mother covered her with her body. She hides in the chimney of a Ukrainian school, which came to be used as the nazi's headquarters for the duration of the Nazi occupation. Anna watches war and life from her cover.
Two Voronezh families of different incomes learn that in the maternity hospital each of them accidentally mixed up children. After 16 years, adults decide to restore historical justice. Now Ivan has to learn to survive in the house of his poor biological parents, and Danila — to get acquainted with the rules of behavior in a secular society.
Soon the house of poor Ivanovs burns down, and they settle under one roof with rich Ivanovs. The joint life of two families is not easy. However, they still manage to come to compromises. At the same time, parents get closer to their "new" sons, but do not forget about the "former".
Camile Stoller (Marcia Gay Harden) is the mother of a sickly girl named Esme (Emily Skeggs). Their relationship turns fatal when Camile is found to have been stabbed to death and Esme is missing.
Amrita is awarded her doctorate, and her two friends Udayan and Aniket congratulate her on her achievement. From their youth onward, Udayan has been an important formative influence, guiding Amrita to reach her intellectual goals. Amrita had declared her love for him, but now Udayan observes that Amrita is growing partial to a lecturer in botany, Aniket. Udayan had played a role in introducing Aniket to Amrita. On that occasion, Udayan seemed to have brushed away Amrita's expression of affection, saying that what he desired from her was not so much her love as her understanding. For Udayan, love is contingent, an accidental matter.
During a trip the three take together to Juhu Beach, Udayan falls from their boat during a tempest and is injured. Amrita finds a note under her pillow from her ''bhabi'' (her brother's wife), informing her that the family regards her friendship with the two young men as socially embarrassing. Amrita confesses to Udayan that she feels the pressure to make a choice between the two is a threat to her pursuit of freedom. But at the same time, as she sees Aniket off from the station on a journey, Amrita tells Aniket that she will wait for him. Udayan decides to resign from his post as a lecturer in Gujarati, and to sell his property at Bhiloda. Amrita sojourns in Aniket's home, acting as caretaker in his absence. Aniket stays away, living in a rented house in Palanpur and hoping that, while he is gone, Amrita and Udayan will once more draw closer to each other.
In a final meeting, before Udayan, Amrita declares her preference for Aniket. Udayan leaves for Japan to pursue journalistic work on the effects of radiation on survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima. There he falls ill, suffering from kidney disease. On his return to India, he is looked after by both Amrita and Aniket but repudiates their care, even at one point cutting his veins. Amrita and Aniket donate blood to save him. Before Amrita and Aniket accept an invitation to travel to Japan, they visit the bedridden Udayan at Ahmedabad. There he dictates his final testament, a summing up of his life in which he states that he is not a believer, that love itself is an illusion, but that he feels gratitude to his two friends who, in different ways, have helped him understand himself.
The novel contains few science fiction tropes, instead focusing on the reactions of people in 1982 to the possibility of disaster. Politicians, cult leaders, and hucksters use the prediction for their own benefit. Two characters, a geologist and a NASA mission director, encounter each other during this time. The novel also focuses on Danny Deere, a real estate speculator who sponsors a cult called the "Jupes" to spread panic and drive down values so he can cash in.
Tib Sonderman, a geologist, reads ''The Jupiter Effect'' on his way to Los Angeles in late 1981. Rainy Keating, mission director of the deep space probe ''Newton-8'', has to defend her funding after the probe goes dead just as it is about to observe a transit of Jupiter across the sun from beyond the orbit of Saturn. They are thrown together during committee meetings overshadowed by rising panic among the population, especially when typical California disasters like wildfires occur. In the final chapter, it is discovered that the ''Newton-8'' probe shut down as it passed through an intense burst of radio transmission from an extraterrestrial source. The transmission was intensified by the combined gravitational lensing effect of the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. The novel ends with people realizing that civilizations can survive the self-destructive phase of their technological progress.
Norman Woods is a crossword enthusiast. Having progressed through clueless crosswords, skeleton crosswords and even more abstract examples, to the dismay of his neglected wife, he deciphers his latest puzzle by deducing that the arrangement of words must exist in four dimensions. He experiences a dizzy spell with patterns appearing in his vision, and suddenly finds himself in another world devoid of civilization. He is accosted by a woman with the words "Anagram of 'carthorse'?" to which he instinctively replies "Orchestra". The woman, who insists on being addressed as "Miss Hoff", discovered the world they are on by accident while developing mathematical theory. She is able to pass back and forth to Earth using her talent for visualization. She has been setting complex puzzles to "translate" men and women to populate the new world. She says she is the only one able to return to Earth. She introduces Norman to the other inhabitants of the world, including a woman from the American Civil War era, and a youth with mental disabilities. Each came to the world by attempting to visualize something complex. In the Civil War woman's case, it was a knitting pattern. Miss Hoff mentions in passing someone by the name of "Bathurst" as having arrived by unknown means. Time runs slowly in the new world so people from long ago are still alive there. She herself arrived in 1906 but still looks young.
Norman encounters Ambrose Gedge, a mathematician and one of Hoff's earlier captives. She found him disgusting, and he spends most of his time drunk. Gedge has come up with a way of escape back to Earth. He has constructed an intricate wooden model that, if examined closely by someone sufficiently intoxicated, will allow that person to return to Earth. Gedge was working on a secret project. When he went back himself, he discovered that he was wanted for defecting to the Communists and had to return. Norman tries his trick after drinking a lot of extremely disgusting home-made liquor, and returns to his home town, where he is arrested for drunkenness. Waking in jail, he is informed that his wife is on the way to get him. He resolves never to do another crossword.
In a medieval world, Tigtone is an intense and high-strung adventurer with a penchant for the over-dramatic and a murderous obsession for quests. He resides in the surreal, medieval kingdom of Propecia, ruled by its two-headed conjoined twin monarchs, King-Queen, who is regularly flanked by their effeminate man-child son Prince Lavender and their frequently put-upon attendant Command-Or Mathis. Joined by his trusty and expendable companion Helpy, Tigtone regularly accepts tasks and assignments that take him to various locations in Propecia, slaughtering numerous enemies along the way.
En route to more adventures, Lash and Fuzzy stop off in a saloon where Lash knocks down and straightens out an obnoxious drunk named Mack. Mack has been terrorising the barflies including Walker, an undercover Pinkerton Detective. Recognising Lash and Fuzzy as Marshals, Walker seeks their help in replacing his murdered partner to bring an outlaw gang to justice.
Gannon, an ex-police officer, is eating a meal one night, when he hears automatic gun shots and explosions in the distance. Listening to a police radio, he hears news that there is a gunman opening fire at a police funeral, and that the suspect has fled on foot. Gannon drives to a secluded warehouse where he meets 6 other members of a local militia of which he is a member. They discover one of the rifles in the armory is missing, as well as body armor and grenades, confirming someone in the group is the gunman. They resolve to stay in the warehouse all night until they can find out which of them carried out the shooting; none of the members will admit. The group's prime suspects are Morris, a former member of the Aryan Brotherhood, and Keating, a young man who never speaks.
While Beckmann mans the radio equipment and a fish tracker to see if anyone is approaching the warehouse, Gannon speaks to Noah, who he knows is an undercover officer assigned to the militia, and resolves to keep him safe through the investigation. Gannon first interrogates Morris, who admits to the shooting as revenge for the police covering up the rape and killing of his daughter, but the militia's de facto leader Ford intervenes, telling Gannon that Morris is lying to bring attention to his daughter's murder. Ford suspects Noah, who he threatens to kill if he doesn't admit to the shooting.
Beckmann hears over the radio that more militia shootings are taking place, inspired by the initial shooting, and attempts to broadcast that their militia has nothing to do with the shooting, to no avail. Keating finally speaks to Gannon, saying he doesn't speak because he prefers to be alone; Gannon reads from Keating's journal, in which he professes a desire to shoot up his school, and Keating neither confirms or denies that he carried out the shooting. Gannon decides that he needs to die in order to give the police a scapegoat, citing an incident where he was forced to kill his partner in order to maintain his cover and give the police a reason to arrest members of the Ku Klux Klan, but before he can shoot himself, Keating admits to the shooting and confesses over the radio. However, the police believe the confession to be false, mentioning that they've received multiple confessions in the last hour.
Ford believes Gannon is protecting Noah, who he feels connected with through their mutual history as police officers, and strings Noah up from a noose in the warehouse. However, the execution is interrupted by the arrival of a squad of police cars. Gannon and Noah both exit the warehouse and surrender to the police, as Gannon tells Ford to tell the police that they both carried out the shooting. The rest of the militia confront the police, armed with rifles and wearing body armor, but as soon as one of them makes a move, the police open fire, killing all of the members except the surrendering Gannon and Noah. Noah then admits that the police faked the shootings to get the militia to distrust each other and give his squad a reason to eliminate the militia. Gannon almost shoots Noah, but relents and gives him his gun, letting him walk away. The police ask Gannon if he wants to rejoin them; the film cuts to black before he decides.
As described in a film magazine, unaware of her ancestry, knowing only that she had been told that in her infancy her mother died, Mitsi (Philbin) is a beautiful young French woman leading a happy life in a convent. One day a young man comes to the convent bringing with him to be his adopted daughter the child of a friend who had died. Mitsi and the child were firm friends and their parting was touching. Came another day when to the convent came a woman saying she was the friend of the girl's mother and had come to take the girl away, which she did, to a room over a squalid cafe frequented by the Apaches of Paris. The woman was actuated by the money promised her by the business partner of the child's grandfather, who, on his death bed, pledged this partner to find the daughter the old man had disowned because of her marriage. Horrified by her surroundings, Mitsi escapes and goes to the great estate where her little convent friend had been taken. There she becomes a servant, but her beauty subjects her to abhorrent attentions. Through various incidents Mitsi again finds herself in the power of the woman who has taken her from the convent. Just as she decides that death is her only relief, there comes greater happiness than ever she had conceived for herself, and she comes into her heritage of love and inheritance of fortune.
Jerry Garfield, engineer-navigator, Graham Hutchins, a biologist, and George Coleman, a scientist, have travelled to Venus on the spaceship ''Morning Star'', and are exploring, in a scout car, the surface of Venus. Above are permanent unbroken clouds. They are on the Hesperian Plateau, hoping to reach the South Pole. Thirty miles from the pole, their progress is stopped by an escarpment. They see a dried-up waterfall on the cliff ahead, evidence of lakes above: they realize that here, on a plateau near the pole, the temperature is low enough for rain, although it will be boiling. Garfield reminds the others that "wherever life has the slightest chance of surviving, you'll find it. This is the only chance it's ever had on Venus."
Garfield and Hutchins leave the car and, wearing their thermosuits, climb the escarpment. They follow a dry river bed and reach a lake, the first free water found on Venus. What seems to be a horizontal patch of black rock at the edge of the lake is moving. The plant, or colony of plants, seems to be approaching them, but retreats when they move forward, a reaction to the heat expelled from the thermosuits' refrigeration units. Hutchins takes samples and photographs of the moving carpet, and speculates on its nature. They erect a pressurized tent and relax; "the true wonder and importance of the discovery forced itself upon their minds".
There is a short final section, like an epilogue, with a detached viewpoint: After Garfield and Hutchins have left, the organism reaches the abandoned encampment and absorbs the organic material from the human waste, cigarette ends and paper cups; bacteria and viruses begin to kill it. "Beneath the clouds of Venus, the story of Creation was ended."
Sakurako Kawawa is an intelligent and responsible girl about to start high school. Upon moving into a boarding house affiliated with the school, Sakurako meets her roommate Kasumi Yamabuki, an easygoing girl who prefers putting the least amount of effort into everything she does. The two of them quickly settle into their new life together and find that they are quite compatible with each other to the point of even sharing a bed and drinking from matching mugs.
''The Mind Game'' is a novel in which the wife of a television director joins a religious cult, Transformationalism.
''The Sleeper'' focuses on the Moon family, headed by Violet (Eileen Atkins), who descend into conflict when Fergus (Ciarán Hinds) and Claire (Annabelle Apsion), Violet's son and daughter-in-law, decide to sell the family farm from beneath her.
In Part One, as the family gather in the farmhouse to spend one last family Christmas together, a figure from Violet's past, determined to exact revenge, makes his way up to the farm amidst a rain and hail storm which cuts off power in the area, leaving the farm in pitch darkness.
In Part Two, suspicious are raised amongst the family when Cath goes missing, forcing Lillian and George to mount a search party. Claire also begins to suspect her mother's motives for bringing the family together.
Allayne Norman's husband Bruce is a drunkard and gambler. Finally unable to tolerate his behavior, she goes to her artist cousin for assistance. Her husband follows her to demand more money. The resulting argument and fight ends with Bruce killing his wife's cousin. Shortly thereafter, an amnesiac man enters the studio. In an effort to avoid the consequences of his actions, Bruce places his identifying documents in the man's pockets, then flees the studio with Allayne and their son.
The police are unable to determine what has occurred, but identify the man as Bruce Norman based on the planted papers, and send him to what they presume to be his home, in the hope that the presence of family will aid the return of his memory. Fearing the truth would result in her son being known as the child of a murderer, Allayne identifies the man as her husband while Bruce remains in hiding.
When Bruce returns, he attempts to kill the man who has taken his place. He fails and is shot instead. The man regains his memory, allowing him to be cleared of wrongdoing. Having fallen in love during their time together, Allayne and the man marry.
Jibran and Leilani are a couple who have been together for four years. Their relationship is fraught, and the two argue constantly about a variety of topics. While driving to a dinner party, the two mutually agree to end the relationship. Distracted by the breakup, Jibran runs a red light, hitting a cyclist with their car. The man refuses help and flees the scene. A man with a mustache suddenly commandeers their car, claiming to be a police officer and that the man on the bike is a criminal. He pursues the cyclist, but after catching him runs the cyclist over with their car several times, killing him. Mustache prepares to kill Jibran and Leilani with a gun but flees after hearing police sirens. Jibran and Leilani then flee the scene themselves.
Jibran wants them to turn themselves in, but Leilani argues that their unbelievable story and racial profiling will ensure they are blamed for the crime. Having taken the dead bicyclist's phone, they see he had planned a meeting at a bar with a woman named Edie. Leilani reasons that Edie will know who the man is, which will allow them to find out who the killer is and clear their names. The two meet Edie at the bar, only to find that it is a setup; the two are knocked out and tied up by Edie and her husband Brett. Edie mistakenly believes that Jibran and Leilani work for Bicycle, and alludes to blackmail being committed against Edie and Brett. As Edie prepares to torture Leilani, the pair manage to escape. The two travel to an address taken from Edie which they believe is Bicycle's home, only to find an apartment full of frat boys. They overpower and interrogate one of the boys, who admits he works for Bicycle as part of his blackmailing scheme. Before the two can learn more, Mustache arrives, killing all the boys in the apartment.
Jibran and Leilani escape with one of the blackmail envelopes, which contains photos of the intended recipients attending what appears to be a meeting of a secret society. They travel to the dinner party they were originally supposed to attend, tricking Leilani's co-worker Keith into unlocking Bicycle's phone, which contains an address to a black tie event. Leilani and Jibran travel to the event, where all the attendees are wearing masks identical to those shown in the blackmail photos. The meeting turns into an orgy, but is interrupted when the leader of the meeting discovers that there are impostors present. He tricks Jibran and Leilani into revealing themselves, but moments later an alarm sounds due to a police raid; Jibran and Leilani are taken into police custody.
The two meet with Detective Martin, who reveals that Bicycle's pursuit and murder were caught on traffic cameras, and the two were being sought as witnesses, not suspects. The police were aware of the secret gathering and planned to shut them down, but the group was somehow tipped off to the plan. Jibran and Leilani are being driven home, but their driver is revealed to be Mustache, who truly is a police officer, but is also paid by the society to shield them from law enforcement. Mustache also ran the blackmailing scheme with Bicycle, who was killed due to a dispute over payment. Mustache restrains Jibran and Leilani and prepares to kill them, but the three get into a struggle, and Leilani manages to shoot Mustache, who is then taken into custody. Jibran and Leilani make amends and kiss. One year later, Jibran and Leilani participate in ''The Amazing Race'', which tests their relationship once again.
Dave is a dirty-talking, washed-up musician who goes through a rough break up with his girlfriend and is forced to stay with his sister, Tess, and her son, Felix, a child with a fascination for tractors, space blasters, and Darth Vader.
While dropping Felix off at school, Dave meets Miss Caroline, Felix's kindergarten teacher, and is attracted to her. After a parent drops out from an upcoming field trip to a farm, Dave volunteers to chaperone, mostly to be near Miss Caroline.
On the day of the field trip, Dave is upset to learn that beloved children's television personality, Teddy McGiggle is filming his show there and that Miss Caroline is engaged to someone else. Meanwhile, zombies break out of a U.S. testing facility and head straight for the farm where they attack the class, who try to escape, only to realize the farm is overrun.
They try to seek shelter in the gift shop only to find Teddy McGiggle locked in and refusing to let them in. Miss Caroline and the children crawl into an opening next to the shop. Dave breaks in from the roof, beats up Teddy, and unlocks the door so Miss Caroline and the children can come in. Felix then has an allergic reaction after Dave accidentally feeds him chips with dairy in them. After a botched attempt to give Felix epinephrine, Miss Caroline rushes to get some from Felix's backpack, which was left in the tractor with the others. She makes it back as Teddy tries to signal a military helicopter but falls off the roof and is rescued by Dave, to whom Teddy reveals that his real name is Nathan Schneider and that he is an alcoholic sex addict who loves MILFs and hates children.
That night, while Teddy and the children are asleep, Dave and Miss Caroline talk to each other. Dave tells her about how his father left him when he was young and that only his sister was there for him. Miss Caroline reveals that she is no longer engaged as her fiancé had cheated on her with a coworker and that she only wears the ring to keep single fathers away.
The next day, the military plans to bomb the gift shop the children are in and destroy the zombies to prevent an outbreak. The survivors decide to get a large vehicle and drive to safety. Teddy and Dave attempt to get Teddy's McGiggle Mobile, but Teddy betrays him before he is eaten by a zombified Froggsie in the van. Dave is trapped and forced to stay on top of the van to avoid being eaten. He makes one last call to his sister before his phone is knocked out of his hands. When all seems lost, Felix arrives driving a tractor and saves Dave, and together they rescue Miss Caroline and the children. As they drive to safety, they discover that the zombies respond to the music Miss Caroline plays. They eventually reach the military and escape just as the farm is bombed. The zombies are confirmed to die in the attack.
Dave and Miss Caroline share a kiss as they and the kids are taken away by men in radiation suits. The survivors are placed in quarantine for 48 hours in case of infection. The final scene shows Dave, Miss Caroline, and the kids singing Taylor Swift’s "Shake It Off," which Dave previously hated, as the kids parents watch on with tears of joy in their eyes.
In a park, a young girl named Sarah Dillon is kidnapped by Irish criminal Maddy Hayes. Maddy calls Sarah's father, Patrick, a juror, and she threatens to kill Sarah if Patrick doesn't force a mistrial on her father, Horace, who is on trial in a court case.
Meanwhile, former US Marines, Jake Carter and Luke Trapper, later meet up with a man named Graham at a disused brewery. They hear a scream inside and bust into the room where it came from, where they encounter Maddy and her henchmen holding Sarah hostage. Graham wanders in, and ends up getting killed by Maddy. Jake and Luke get into various fights with the henchmen throughout the brewery as they try to rescue Sarah, while Patrick struggles with settling on his verdict for Horace.
Jake, Luke and Sarah are later confronted by more henchmen in an underground tunnel system and are eventually pinned down. Jake is shot and fatally wounded in the chaos, while Maddy snatches Sarah back. Trusting Luke to rescue Sarah, Jake sacrifices himself by running toward the henchmen, killing as many as he can, taking many hits. Maddy bids Jake farewell and throws a knife into his heart, killing him.
Luke follows Maddy and her remaining men outside towards a boat. Maddy learns that the mistrial has been confirmed, which then makes Sarah a loose end. Luke kills the remaining henchmen on land, and jumps onto the boat, where he kills her last henchman. Luke and Maddy then engage in hand-to-hand combat, and Luke manages to overpower Maddy with a rope and throw her overboard. An anchor connected to the rope later falls into the water, forcing Maddy to become submerged in the water and drown. Police and paramedics show up and Sarah reunites with Patrick who guarantees that Horace will be put to justice. Luke says his final goodbyes to Jake and his corpse is escorted away by paramedics. The film ends with a tribute to Jake Carter, showing everything he did throughout the franchise.
The book opens with the lines, "On the highest rock of a tiny island at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse. It is built to last forever." To this lighthouse comes a new lighthouse keeper. The keeper settles in to the lighthouse, which is also his home, and keeps the log. Through the book as the keeper maintains the log, he lives his life, including getting married, saving survivors of a shipwreck, getting sick and the birth of a child. As this is happening, the events of the ocean are also noted, accompanied by the repeated phrase "Hello! ...Hello! ....Hello!" At the end of the story, the lighthouse is automated and the keeper and his family move to a cottage on the mainland where they can continue to see the lighthouse, which continues to shine.
Merci Suárez is a Cuban-American student starting the sixth grade (her second year) at Seaward Pines Academy, which she and her older brother Roli attend on scholarship. Merci mentors new student Michael Clark for the "Sunshine Buddies" program as part of her scholarship obligation. Michael draws the interest of fellow student and mean girl Edna Santos, adding to the pressure on Merci at school. The Suárez family lives as an extended group in three neighboring houses: one for Merci, Roli, and their parents; another for Merci's tía Inéz, who runs a bakery while raising young twin sons Axel and Tomás; and the third for her Abuela and Abuelo, Lolo, who has always been in charge of walking the children home from school.
Merci Suarez never realized that 6th would be so hard–even with a scientific genius for a brother. That was before she met Edna Santos, started babysitting her 2 annoying cousin brothers, and became a Sunshine Buddy, and to top it all off, her grandfather (Lolo), her main supporter, has Alzheimer's disease, which has no known cure. Merci is also an amazing, budding soccer champion, who is so good, that she can “Play for za Feefa” says Simon (one of her dad’s football friends). She might even dare to try out for the school team–if only her mom would sign the permission form. There is only one thing that Merci has wanted for the longest time; a new bike. To get it, she saves up money to buy it, but bikes are getting more expensive, and her family is not rich at all. All this, with her grandfather’s sickness, and mean Edna and her “swarm of cawing crows” is building the pressure on Merci Suarez. Will she survive the sixth grade?
Diana and Enzo have an argument after she laughs at his new job opportunity: being part of a task force to take down a fatberg. During the operation, Enzo and other workers go missing and Diana rushes to the local hoping for him to be saved. He is then removed from the sewers, covered in dirt, and Diana embraces him, regardless of the dirt. Josh starts considering the possibility of being Malkie and Maggie's sperm donator. In an ayahuasca-like ceremony organized by Lauren, he sleeps and dreams about being a parent alongside Liza, thus leading him to turn down the request. Clare later shows up at his door, pregnant with his child.
Through Cheryl, Liza is introduced to Chicky, an imprint created exclusively for her to manage, with a focus on the young female audience, but not excluding men. Although impressed by having her own office and the high salary, Liza asks to return later with the signed contract. Jake Devereux is hosting a party in Washington, D.C., one that Kelsey wasn't aware, and Charles tells her that Jake specifically affirmed that she could not be there. He then reveals that Jake once asked to move his book from Millennial to Empirical and thus remove Kelsey's name from it, but Zane refused to, leading her to think that she has misjudged Zane. She talks to him about it and he confesses that he was in love with her back then and that their competition is over. She later discovers that Zane has quit his job, but she quickly learns that he has gotten another job already, to which he replies by smiling.
Quinn tells Charles that she is concocting a plan to invest in Empirical and help the company's financial situation, inspired by her own experience and her love for the publishing business. Her strategy is to turn Millennial the flagship brand of the publishing house, instead of Empirical. Once learning about it, Kelsey reaffirms that Liza can't leave, to which she responds that her secret could potentially damage even more the company. She remains decided to leave, have her own career without secrets and date Charles whereas Kelsey runs Millennial by herself. After learning the truth about Liza's age, Quinn gets further willing to invest, noticing that Liza is the embodiment of her ''Claw'' book.
Liza ultimately refuses Cheryl's offer, leaving the woman infuriated. Afterwards, Quinn meets with Charles and reveals the existence of an article about his affair with Liza, as his 27-years-old assistant. She then affirms that the source is Cheryl, who hasn't revealed Liza's secret, but the affair, which Quinn did not know about. With that liability, Quinn decides to drop her offer since Charles is the company's public face, but he quickly thinks of a new plan. The two reunite the company's staff to announce that Kelsey is the new publisher, replacing Charles, while he becomes chairman of the board, a title that removes him from the daily toil. Stunned by the recent changes, Liza follows Charles into Bryant Park, where they chat about him being more available now to build a proper relationship with her as he watches her career thrive. He affirms he's happy, they kiss, hold hands and start walking. Gradually, their smiling faces turn into discomfort.
While preparing for the apocalypse, a man meets and falls in love with a woman at the grocery store.
Roaming cowboy mistaken for a notorious killer is hired to bring law to the lawless town of Outpost. He is successful until the sheriff discovers he is not the killer and offers him a chance to leave.
On Christmas Eve in Laurel, Illinois, Julie Reyes runs into rising pop star Stuart Bale on a train. He mistakes her for a fan when she tries to return his phone to him, to which she takes offense, despite his apologies.
After the train is stopped by snowed-over tracks, Julie gets off to walk home, Stuart joins her and offers lunch at a local diner called Waffle Town. She reluctantly agrees and later has to save him from a group of fangirl cheerleaders. Julie reveals to Stuart she got accepted to Columbia and her mom is also deathly sick, but if she delays leaving, she will lose the scholarship.
They go sledding and meet Julie's mother, Debbie. Going to Julie's, Stuart is introduced to her grandpa and they bond over Mick Jagger. Everyone dances to one of his songs. While dancing, Debbie has a coughing fit, causing Julie concern. Stuart offers to get a nurse for her mom, offending her. He dismisses her concerns, stating he offered it because he cares about Julie. They almost kiss before Stuart's publicist shows up to take him back to his hotel. He asks Julie to come with him, but she declines, feeling a need to stay with her mother.
Across town, Waffle Town employee Dorrie tries to juggle her best friend, Addie, who is worried that her boyfriend is going to break up with her, and Kerry, a cheerleader Dorrie hooked up with. Kerry visits the diner with her friends and pretends not to know Dorrie; Addie makes a scene with her boyfriend in the diner. Dorrie tries to calm Addie down, but she storms off.
Later, Dorrie and Kerry meet in the bathroom, kissing passionately. Dorrie tells Keon that Kerry will probably be at the party. Meanwhile, Tobin plans to tell his best friend, Angie, 'The Duke', he likes her. They are invited to a party by Duke's friend, JP, who Tobin sees as competition. The three steal the keg from the party, ending up in a ditch. Waiting for the tow truck in a nearby church, Duke has Tobin play "Whole of the Moon", but when JP and Duke start dancing together, Tobin leaves. Duke attempts to talk to him about it, but he brushes her off, angering her.
Tobin's friend, Keon, attempts to arrange a party to impress a big time DJ at his house, but his parents shut down the party attempt and he gets called into work at Waffle Town. His friend and fellow co-worker, Billy, offers Waffle Town as a party spot, provided he get the necessary supplies. Back at home, Julie's mom convinces her to go to Columbia, stating "when life offers you something special, you take it". Everyone ends up at Keon's party after Tobin arrives with the stolen keg. Duke comes and Tobin confesses his love for her, to which she admits the same.
Addie returns to Waffle Town and apologizes to Dorrie for her rude behavior. Kerry also apologizes to her for being hot and cold, kisses her in the open, and they begin a relationship. Dorrie and Julie are telling each other about their day when Stuart returns, wanting to see Julie again before he leaves town. They kiss and make plans to meet in New York when she's at Columbia. Keon's party ends up a success, despite the DJ not coming, and they dance all night long.
American Bessie Love and Englishman Basil Radford try to sell their short film about life in postwar London, specifically highlighting various rationing measures, including petrol, cigarettes, meat, and beer.
Jodi Kreyman is 16 years old and tall. She has been tall for her age since she was three, which has made her insecure her whole life. Students regularly joke about her height. In contrast, Jodi's older sister Harper is of average height and has won multiple beauty pageants. Jack Dunkleman, a life-long friend, frequently asks her out, but she is reluctant, partly because he's much shorter than her.
Stig Mohlin, a Swedish foreign exchange student, joins Jodi's class, and she is immediately interested in him, along with most girls in her school. However, Kimmy Stitcher, her bully, starts showing him around. Dunkleman is distressed to learn that Stig will be staying at his house as the host family. Jodi asks her sister for help getting Stig to notice her. Harper and their mother help her with a complete makeover.
Kimmy and Schnipper prank call Jodi, pretending to be Stig and asking her to homecoming. To Fareeda's frustration, Jodi hides in the bathroom to avoid Kimmy. Stumbling across Stig playing the piano, he encourages her to play, and they sing the duet "I've Never Been in Love Before" from the musical ''Guys and Dolls''.
Jodi finds her father has organized a meeting of a club for tall people in their house, which she finds upsetting. Stig calls, and at first, thinking it is another prank call, she yells at him, but he invites her to watch a musical. She turns up to Dunkleman's house, and he becomes jealous when he realizes she is there to see Stig. He continually interrupts their evening, but as Stig escorts Jodi home, they kiss. Later, feeling guilty, Stig asks Dunkleman for advice, and he tells him to focus on being with Kimmy. Jodi gets angry at Dunkleman when she learns this.
Meanwhile, another girl—Liz—asks Dunkleman on a date. Schnipper is now interested in Jodi, so he gets Kimmy to ask her to join them for an escape room activity; Jodi ditches a concert with Fareeda to go. In the escape room, they kiss in couples: Jodi and Schnipper, Kimmy and Stig, and Dunkleman and Liz, until Jodi gets frustrated and leaves. Jealous, Stig talks to Jodi and agrees to go on a date to Harper's pageant competition. Harper wins, but Stig does not turn up. At Dunkleman's party, Stig explains that he lost track of time.
Dunkleman rejects Liz when she asks him to the homecoming dance. He gives Jodi platform heels to apologize for being a bad friend. Jodi is sent a video from after she left the party. Stig pretended that Jodi had an unrequited love for him and says he stood her up. Dunkleman and Stig have a fistfight, causing him to get a black eye.
At the homecoming dance, Kimmy and Stig are crowned Homecoming Queen and King, but he breaks up with her. Jodi arrives in the high heels Dunkleman gave her and made a speech expressing newfound confidence in herself. Stig asks Jodi out, but she rejects him. She talks to Dunkleman: he reveals the reason he always carries a milk crate: he stands on it and leans in to kiss her.
Meredith treats a patient whose family celebrates Day of the Dead, making her think about the loved ones she has lost herself. Richard delivers the news that her father Thatcher is dying of acute myeloid leukemia. As they haven't talked since Lexie's death, Meredith is unsure whether to reach out to him or not. After working a case together, Nico and Levi share their first kiss but Nico turns him down after learning that he does not have any experience with men. Jackson tries to make up with Maggie while Jo encourages Link to pursue Meredith, who continues going on blind dates. While Link's treating a kid with cancer shows Meredith that he has more depth than she thought, Andrew is also showing interest in her. Meanwhile, Teddy tries to tell Owen about her pregnancy but they get sidetracked when Betty disappears. In search for a liver for their patient who has prepared herself to die, Bailey and Jo bring a liver back from the dead.
After the three monoliths in the Lighthouse were destroyed in an explosion, S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers that it provoked a space-time rift that leads to a dimension that causes the worst fears of everyone that enters there to be manifested as illusions, and that it might spread uncontrollably if the rift isn't closed. Fitz then reveals that he may create a machine that may close the rift, but someone must sacrifice themselves in order to activate, as it only works if it is close to the rift. In spite of the danger of either being stuck in another dimension or being killed, Coulson offers himself to activate it. While Fitz, Daisy, and May try to convince him otherwise, Coulson suddenly faints.
After Simmons analyses Coulson, she reveals that he is dying due to an unknown disease, which May realizes is due to Coulson's deal with the Ghost Rider, which devastates the team, including Daisy. Coulson then comforts Daisy, whom he wants to direct S.H.I.E.L.D. after his death. Upon stopping an illusion of a LMD replica of Simmons from killing Yo-Yo, Fitz realizes how quickly the rift is expanding, forcing him to work quickly on the machine. Coulson goes to the lower levels with the machine, where the rift is located. Upon reaching the rift, he is confronted by an illusion of Mike Peterson, who claims that everything Coulson experienced since the creation of the team was simply a hallucination, and that he is still being healed after being killed by Loki. Coulson is unswayed, however, to which the illusion tries to forcibly take him to the rift, before being destroyed by the real Deathlok, who has been contacted by Deke, along with many other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Peterson then helps Coulson close the rift, though Fitz warns that it may not be able to permanently close it.
In the aftermath, Coulson marries Fitz and Simmons, with the team looking on happily. During the wedding, Deke reveals to Deathlok that he got Simmons' ring, which he says is similar to his grandmother's. Meanwhile, General Hale, who has been tracking down Deke and Daisy, runs a test with Deke's DNA to see if he has any relatives, with the DNA revealing that Deke is Fitz and Simmons' future grandchild.
The ''Two Kings'' series centers around the story of a young boy named David and his Good King and Bad King. The two kings represent his Yetzer Hatov, the inclination in Judaism to good, and his Yetzer Hara, the inclination in Judaism to do evil. David struggles with choices and the two kings fight with each other to influence David's decisions. At the end of each book, David eventually chooses the right thing and becomes wiser for it.
''Two Kings: Let's Go Play'', also known as ''Two Kings 1'', is the first book in the series and was published in 2008 by Israel Bookshop Publications. The book was written by Fishel Jacobs and designed by John Reinhardt. In the book, David must make a choice between babysitting his little sister inside or playing outside with his friends. He ends up inviting his friends inside to color with him.
''Two Kings: It's My Turn'', also known as ''Two Kings 2,'' is the second book in the series and was published in 2009 by Israel Bookshop Publications. In the book, David must make a choice between playing games on the computer or allowing his sister to use it, who needs it for a school project due the next day.
An alien comes to earth in a falling meteor and strikes a pond where local mobsters have stashed the body of their latest victim. The meteor reanimates the victim and, when the local college kids come to the swimming hole for a swim, excitement ensues.
The film centers on a young family that moves to a new apartment in the outskirts of the big city. The nanny they hired to look after their newborn daughter quickly becomes trustworthy. However, the eldest boy, Egor, notices frightening behavior of the woman, but his parents do not believe him. The surveillance cameras installed by his father for reassurance only confirm that everything is in order. However, one day, Egor returns home and does not find any traces of either the nanny and his little sister. His parents seem to be in a strange trance and do not even remember that they have ever had a daughter. Then Egor together with his friends arranges a search, during which they find out that the disappeared nanny is actually an ancient Slavic demon.
The film tells about the writer, Valentin Shubin, the author of the world-famous series of books about the Elephant Bear, going through a creative crisis.