Set on the historical background of the 1968 student riots in Paris, the plot is located in Van der Beck’s School of Housekeeping and Good Manners in Alsace, in one of the many schools meant for young women in France of that time, to teach them housekeeping, good manners, and, generally, how to be a good wife to a man. In the beginning of the school year, at late 1967, Paulette, the school headmistress and the other school staff, including her husband Robert, Robert's sister Gilberte and the school nun-teacher Marie-Therese check out the women coming to their school that year, and they notice that one of the women they will teach that year is red-headed, and they wonder if that will mean the year will be jinxed. In one of the dinners, a rabbit dish cooked earlier that day by the girls is served. Robert chokes on the rabbit bone and dies. After Robert, who was in charge of the school finances, dies, his wife Paulette and the staff go through his belongings. Among these, they find letters which show that the place in on the brink of bankruptcy. Paulette and Gilberte go to speak to the bank manager to ask for a loan to save the school. The bank manager, André Grunvald, tells them that Robert borrowed too much already; however, he suggests to Paulette to transfer the school on her name, and get another loan. After the meeting, Gilberte leaves the meeting, and Paulette tries to leave too, when Grunvald grabs her by the hand, and asks to meet her. Paulette refuses and leaves the room. Later, when she is back in school, Paulette receives a phone call from Grunvald, who tells her to meet him in 15 minutes. Paulette sneaks out of the school and meets Grunvald. Apparently, they were lovers before Grunvald went to the war. After the war, Paulette's mother dies of heartache after hearing that her husband, Paulette's father, was sent to the camps and died there. Paulette leaves her home after the war and finds a job in the Van der Beck’s School of Housekeeping and Good Manners, so Grunvald's letters never reached her. In the school the manager, Robert, falls in love with her and they marry. In the meantime, Grunvald had two kids but his wife has died. He ask Paulette to get back together with him again. Paulette hasn't decided yet. Back in school, one of the young women receives news that she is to marry a man the age of her father. She attempts suicide, but is saved in the last minute by the other young women who discovers her hanging on a noose. After the suicide attempt, Paulette lies in bed, despairing that everything the school stands for is wrong as it subjugates women. She is meant to go with the young women to a housekeeping fair in Paris meant for young women. Initially Paulette considers cancelling the trip to Paris, but finally agrees to take the women to Paris. Grunvald comes to the school and wants to be with her and climbs on the piping to her bedroom. Paulette only lets him off the pipe and into her bedroom after making him promise that he will do the cooking in their household, and making him give the details of an apple strudel before letting him into her room. They have sex in her room, and then Paulette joins the bus with the young women and the staff, for the trip to Paris. During the bus trip, they hear on the radio that students riots shut down Paris. As they approach the outskirts of Paris, the roads are blocked in a huge traffic jam. Paulette refuses to go back to the school; instead, her and the young women get out of the bus, singing, marching towards Paris to join the women's liberation revolution taking place there.
Gaston is a genial, strapping young man of twenty-two, but he is still called "Bébé" by his doting parents, Baron d'Aigreville and his wife. Gaston has been indulged all his life, and in consequence is ill-educated and amoral. The Baronne views him through the eye of love as a paragon of perfection, a model of virtue and innocence. He is engaged to be married to Mathilde, a rich heiress, whose guardian, a country cousin named Kernanigous, has just arrived in Paris with his wife, Diane. Usually Kernanigous' trips to Paris are unaccompanied, so that he can visit the cocotte Aurélie de Villecouteuse. When he hears Gaston's mother boasting of the perfect purity of her son, he cannot restrain himself from declaring that in his opinion no man can be a good husband unless he has sown his wild oats before marriage. In Kernanigous's view, before marrying, a young man should have been on intimate terms with three distinct categories of the opposite sex: chambermaids, demi-mondaines and married women.
Unknown to his adoring mother, Gaston has already attended to the first two of the items on Kernanigous' list – having slept with his mother's maid, Toinette, and moved on to Aurélie de Villecouteuse – and he is looking forward to engaging in the third. Kernanigous' attractive wife Diane seems to him an ideal subject. She, having discovered her husband's relationship with Amélie, is disposed to take her revenge by a liaison with Gaston.
Gaston and a friend are being coached for the legal profession by an eccentric tutor called Pétillon. When he should be lecturing, he encourages his students and their girlfriends to dance a cancan of the wildest kind. The Baron suddenly makes an appearance to demand what is the meaning of the music. The women are bundled out of sight and Pétillon convinces the Baron that he has discovered "une méthode mnémotechnique", an infallible way of cramming legal facts into the heads of his students: he has set the legal code to music, and he gives the Baron an example, singing some dry legal dictums to the tunes of popular songs.
Gaston's exploits lead to a frantic farcical sequence in Hennequin's customary manner: the characters rush in and out, hide, and are mistaken for others. Finally it turns out that Aurélie is Pétillon's estranged wife, and he is delighted to find that her infidelities mean that he can discontinue his ruinous maintenance payments to her. The Baron reproaches his erring son when the latter's affairs are revealed, but Gaston successfully bids his father remember his own misspent youth, and all is forgiven. Kernanigous gives his consent to Gaston's marriage with Mathilde.
Harry Hole started drinking again and was kicked out of his home by his wife Rakel. Recently, only minor cases have been entrusted to him, despite the fact that his investigative skills are well known at the anti-crime in Oslo. Everything changes when one morning he wakes up covered in blood without remembering what happened the previous evening and, a short time later, he discovers that a murder had taken place that night.
Each of the five groups and teams has their own story, focusing on their journey to convey their "true feelings":
After the introduction movie, the player must choose one of the five orbs three times. If at least two orbs have the same color, the game will automatically reveal a group (e.g. if the player picked all blue orbs, it will reveal Leo/need). However, should the player choose different color orbs, it will choose the group associated with the last colour they choose.
There are three types of stories. First are group stories (or Main Stories), focusing on the backstory of one particular group, more of which become available as that group reaches higher ranks. Card Stories, on the other hand, revolve around one individual character with two parts. The first part becomes available upon acquiring the prerequisite items for the card, while the second part is unlocked by leveling up the card. There are also time-limited event stories, which are unlocked by playing the event. They are further divided into two types of stories: standalone stories focus on single groups, while mixed stories feature characters from different groups.
''Happiness Is a Warm Gun'' is about the murder of the green pacifist Petra Kelly, who is shot in her sleep by her life partner Gert Bastian, ex-Bundeswehr-General, before he kills himself. The film begins where the lives of the real characters end. Petra and Gert find themselves in the transit area of a modern airport and settle down in this artificial in-between world, trying to pick up the thread of the past - their political activity - while in their conversations what happened is fragmentary.
A magician hangs a wreath in the air and makes a grotesque face appear inside it. He then replaces it with a woman's face, and finally with a copy of his own face.
''In Search of Forever'' is a book of paintings, sketches, photographs, and commentary.
''The Sceptre Mortal'' is a novel in which there is a quest for the Sceptre Mortal.
''Slow Birds and Other Stories'' is a collection of 11 short stories.
''Sold - For a Spaceship'' is a novel in which the despairing remnants of humanity swiftly improve until mankind has mastery of the universe.
In an ornate room, the jester Triboulet magically summons nine men from a trunk, seats them in levels forming a pyramid, and turns them into women in court dress.
An artist puts a mannequin on a platform, to use as a model for his painting. Meanwhile, his manservant and a woman visitor conspire to pull a prank on the artist. The woman switches places with the mannequin and hits the artist with a broom. The artist, realizing the deception, attempts to hit her back, but she has already changed places again with the mannequin. The manservant laughs at the success of the woman's prank.
Olivia is a Filipina trans woman who works as a live-in caregiver for the elderly Olga in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood. Olga, a Russian-Jewish woman, is in the early stages of dementia and relies on Olivia to confirm her surroundings, which she initially suspects is not her own home. As an undocumented immigrant, Olivia harbors fears of being detained and deported by ICE agents at any moment. Olivia's earnings go towards supporting her family in the Philippines, in addition to installment payments to Matthew, her American-born boyfriend, with the hope of Olivia securing a green card through a marriage of convenience. Olivia's plans are disrupted just as Alex, Olga's adult grandson, arrives to come live with Olga after a stay in rehab.
While Olivia is patient with Olga and understands Olga's needs, Alex is hotheaded and doesn't know how to handle his grandmother's care. Alex tries to maintain his sobriety and secures work at his uncle's slaughterhouse. Olivia and Alex form a bond despite their differences, and one night Olivia fantasizes about Alex after he reads his late grandfather's love letters out loud. She confides to him about her undocumented status and how she would need a green card in order to stay in America, which Alex is sympathetic to. The two enter into a romantic relationship, with Alex unaware of Olivia being trans.
Alex brings home a drunken male friend, Andrei, who snoops around Olivia's room and steals her money while she is in the shower. Here Andrei discovers Olivia's passport which reveals Olivia's pre-op identity. Andrei shows the passport to Alex, who does not disclose his relationship with Olivia and instead tells Andrei to keep quiet. Alex does not tell Olivia he knows she's trans. When Olivia realizes her belongings were rummaged through, Alex makes up a story that a masked intruder went through her things, increasing Olivia's fear that ICE will do a raid on her. Alex shows up to his job at the slaughterhouse drunk and is fired on the spot by his uncle. Although Alex is initially distant from Olivia, he eventually comforts her after he sees her watching the nonstop news on TV about ongoing immigration raids and deportations. He considers marrying her and looks up marriage license procedures in New York state online. He gets his job back with his uncle after promising to stay sober. While on a overnight trip to Atlantic City, Alex drunkenly offers to marry Olivia the next day and talks about his wishes to have a big family with her. Olivia is hesitant and tells Alex she has something to tell him, but he reassures her that he already knows about her being trans and would still marry her. The next morning in their motel room, Olivia demands that Alex return her passport to her. The ending is left ambiguous; though it is understood Olivia has decided not to go through with the marriage, as she tells her mom in the Philippines she has a new job and has met someone new, with her earnings again going towards financially supporting her family and securing a green card. The film ends with Olga again forgetting her surroundings.
Continuing from "Agony of a Witch", Luz Noceda prepares herself to rescue Eda, with King joining her. King explains how magic was once wild, until a mysterious witch named Belos arrived, claiming that he could "speak to the island". Belos established the coven system, resulting in him becoming the most powerful witch, and eventually becoming Emperor of the Boiling Isles. Under Belos' rule, witches who do not choose a coven are punished with petrification. Lilith brings her sister, Eda, to Belos in hopes that he will remove her curse. He instead orders Eda to be petrified, and for Lilith to destroy Eda's palisman, Owlbert.
Luz and King purposefully get caught committing a crime to get into the Conformatorium, where Eda is being held. Luz finds Eda and manages to speak to her in her monster form. Eda tells Luz that Belos wants the portal to the human world and that she needs to return home and destroy it. As Eda is taken away, Luz fights with Lilith, and they both pass through the portal to the human world. Lilith admits that cursing Eda was a mistake (she thought the curse would only last a day), as she wanted to get into the Emperor's Coven, but that Eda was willing to give it up for her. After returning Owlbert to Luz unharmed as a sign of trust, they return to the Boiling Isles together to rescue Eda.
Lilith plans to stay in the Emperor's Coven to spy on Belos, but she and King are captured, leaving Luz to confront Belos alone. Meanwhile, Willow and Gus rally the people in cheering for Eda's release. Luz, overpowered by Belos, is given the choice of giving up the portal to the human world (Belos claiming he has no intentions of world domination, instead of wanting it for another purpose), or having Eda suffer. Luz gives up the portal, but burns it upon leaving. Luz manages to rescue Eda, King, and Lilith, while Belos informs the citizens that Eda will be spared. After escaping, Lilith uses her magic to share Eda's curse, resulting in Eda returning to normal, but both her and Lilith's magic are weakened.
Later, Luz makes a video message for her mother, promising that she will find a way back home. Meanwhile, Belos sends a masked figure to spy on the residents of the Owl House while using the remains of the portal to construct another one, saying it will be needed for an event called the "Day of Unity".
Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American Hollywood star. As a young girl she knew she wanted to be a movie star, and by 17 she had become one. She went on to act in nearly sixty films in Hollywood, London and Berlin. She was one of the few silent film actors to successfully transition to sound cinema and television. She co-starred with Marlene Dietrich, Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks along the way. She was beautiful, glamorous, talented and cultured, but she was typecast for most of her career as either a scheming dragon lady or a painted doll. Due to the Hays production code, she could never kiss a Caucasian man on screen, so she could never be the one to end up with the leading man.
The documentary paints a vivid picture of a Hollywood original, summoning Wong's own words, from private correspondences and public interviews, to narrate her own complex and rich history. Actress Doan Ly portrays Anna May Wong in enacted sequences of the documentary. With generous excerpts from Wong's films and archival photographs, ''Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words'' is a detailed portrait of an extraordinary woman living ahead of her time. The documentary is an engrossing and imaginative survey of Wong's career, exploring the impact Wong had on images of Asian American women in Hollywood.
Set in Madrid in 2019, the plot sees a psychotic character using comics and superheroes' origin stories to kill people and leaves a mark. One man is killed after being fed enough supplements and steroids to be the Hulk. Another has his heart plucked out and is covered in a metallic suit.
Attempting to stop this is Inspector David, a man who feels comics are for overgrown adults and quickly pays the price for that sort of criticism. Initially, he is assisted by Cosme, a cop on spending his final days on the force after being forced to turn in his resignation. David's boss is the homicide chief (Norma), who loves cosplaying. In her words, she doesn't read comics, rather she watches movies and anime.
Joining the duo is Jorge Elías, Cosme's son. He is a comic geek and runs a comic book store in the city. When Cosme realizes the demented villain commits murders in the form of creating superhero origin stories, he feels Jorge is better suited to work the case with David.
Things escalate when David realizes his parents were killed the same way as Martha and Thomas Wayne were killed in the comics. Jorge, David, and Norma go up against a secret killer who is ahead of them the whole time. With time running out for the trio to find the killer, they face pressure as the news go public. Bruguera, the forensic man in the department, is eventually revealed to be the killer and the rest of the story follows the trio attempting to put an end to his nefarious plans.
At the beginning of the 1900s, George Wynne is growing up in his Father's Herefordshire rectory. He is intended for the Church, but a chance encounter with a sailor sets him on the track of a naval career. George meets his German cousin, Werner Stelling who is inspired by George to also aim for a naval career. They both fall in love with their beautiful but wayward American cousin, Claire Edwardes.
The cousins go through their country's naval colleges and are commissioned. George proposes marriage to Claire, but she evades the issue, eventually confessing to a long-standing sexual affair with a young farmhand on the family estate. George is horrified, but does not tell Claire of his own experience with a prostitute in the London docklands.
George's sister June is married to a local farmer. After the celebrations, Claire's Mother, who is going through a divorce, makes clumsy drunken advances to George. She reveals that Claire has loved only Werner.
By the start of the Great War, George is a Lieutenant, and Werner is a Leutnant zur See.
May 1916 finds George in command of ''HMS Nilotic'', a torpedo destroyer, part of a flotilla steaming out of the Firth of Forth into the North Sea. The flotilla will join the Grand Fleet under Admiral Jellicoe, which will shortly be involved in the Battle of Jutland. Werner is serving aboard the battleship ''Sachsen'', part of the German High Seas Fleet commanded by Admiral Scheer.
''Nilotic'' is soon in the thick of the fighting. George uses a brief respite to re-read a letter from Claire; she has married another man. Then a lookout spots the ''Sachsen''. Consumed with rage, George deliberately disobeys orders and alters course to intercept the ''Sachsen''. In the ensuing action, both of the ships are critically damaged and most of the George's crew are killed. George is forced to abandon ship, but not before firing his last torpedo at the German ship. Both George and Werner find themselves in the water; George tries to kill Werner with his remaining strength, but fails. The cousins are rescued by a Swedish ship. Headed for internment, a kind of peace is made between them.
The series revolves around 53-year old Dale Wayne Sigler; he killed John Zeltner, a Subway employee, in Arlington, Texas in April 1990. He was sentenced to death in 1991, but his death sentence was changed to life three years later because his lawyers argued that he should be retroactively considered under the then-new jury selection rules. Under Texas law, he became eligible for parole after 30 years.
A hypnotist-magician, invited to a wealthy man's house party, amuses the guests with various tricks. After his performance, he joins the guests for a game of cards, suggesting that they play for money. He uses his professional skills to cheat lavishly, and has soon collected all the winnings. The guests, discovering the fraud, chase the hypnotist out of the house and all around the area. At length the chase takes the hypnotist back to the house, where he hypnotizes his pursuers and makes a safe exit.
David calls his therapist to schedule an appointment after having suicidal thoughts. As they are in the middle of a session, a young man in a wrestler's uniform runs up and bangs on the window. The therapist tells David to ignore him, but the young man comes in. It turns out that the young man, also named David, is the therapist's son and was preparing for a match he is to have with a "beast" named Andy Doan. The therapist was supposed to attend, but he chose to put it off in favor of helping David. Despite David saying it is okay to postpone the session, the therapist insists that he stay and that young David leave. Father and son get into an argument about their relationship and the therapist's insistence that David's problem is more important, despite David becoming more and more detached from the situation. When young David claims that he will get a wrestler's scholarship, the therapist tells him that he will not because he barely made the team, resulting in young David telling him that he is not a good father. The therapist tells him that it is difficult to take back things that have been said and young David cries. David, sympathizing with young David, goes up and hugs him. Later, young David wrestles Andy Doan and loses almost immediately. As he stands back up, he looks into the crowd to see both his father and David, who stand up and applaud his effort, have come to see him and smiles.
Jerry Morgan appears in the court. He has to answer for more than 250 parking violations that were actually committed by his friend Norm with Jerry’s car. On Norm's advice Jerry pleads guilty to receive a minor penalty, but now he has to go to jail for several weeks. Soon after his release, Jerry learns that, in the meantime, Norm has sublet his apartment and that his girlfriend has dumped him.
As the two are short of money, Norm has the idea to hire a ship to Holland and to perform as knife throwers. Things go terribly wrong and they kill two of the ship’s servants. Therefore, they are taken into police custody when arriving in Amsterdam, where they are ordered to return to America on a cargo ship three days later. They have some time to visit the city, where they meet a talented female band, the Dolly Dots. Norm poses as an employee of Jerry, whom he introduces as Lou Winters, being the boss of Capitol Records. They offer the women that in case they ever visit Los Angeles, they will be welcome anytime. They attend another performance of the band in the evening, which results in a brawl, all ending up in police custody. The American attaché in charge wants to get rid of the two Americans immediately. He chauffeurs them personally to a small airport and puts them into a shaky, hardly airworthy plane. The crew, a drunken female pilot and her simple-minded copilot, take them to the United States.
Back in Los Angeles, Jerry and Norm are doing their normal, low-paid jobs. Jerry works in a hotel kitchen and Norm drives a cab around the city. The Dolly Dots actually come to Los Angeles to be managed by Lou Winters. They stay at the same hotel where Jerry works, because Lou Winters is staying there as well. Jerry and Norm manage to play their fake roles credibly in front of the band through various diversionary tactics. They arrange a small gig for the band and the go with them to a hip party. However, their cover is blown, as the lead singer of the band Dead Meat knows the real Lou Winters. The Dolly Dots are terribly disappointed by the two pretenders, hence, they want to leave Los Angeles for Holland again. Still, Jerry and Norm have a final plan, they want to make sure that the band gets their chance to play an important gig after all. In the evening Dead Meat performs in front of different music producers. Jerry and Norm disguise as roadies and are able to smuggle in the Dolly Dots. They lead helium through hoses to the microphones, so that the voice pitches of Dead Meat are changed. The band is booed off the stage, giving the Dolly Dots their chance to enter the stage and play. Lou Winters is really pleased and decides to sign the band.
Wisteria is an orphan girl living in a corner of the British Empire at the end of the 19th century. Her life is desolate and bleak–until she encounters Marbas, a powerful but equally lonely immortal being with a furry appearance, hounded by hunters. Together, Wisteria and Marbas roam the Empire–populated by humans and human-like beasts–in search of a place where they can live together in peace.
A mischievous duke comes across a drunkard in a town square, and decides to pull a practical joke. He has the drunkard carried to the ducal palace and dressed as a nobleman, where he is made to receive courtiers. A banquet is prepared for the fake nobleman, who is too far gone to understand the situation, and unusual things seem to begin occurring. When the drunkard attempts to get more to drink, the bottle magically grows to giant size and disappears, so the duke's servants bring in a large funnel and fill the drunkard up, with his stomach swelling up like a balloon to fit. The duke's doctors work to deflate him back to normal. The drunkard tries to get some sleep, but the paintings on the walls come to life, showing him all sorts of scenes of people drinking merrily. The duke decides to end the joke, and puts the drunkard back in the town square.
An aspiring costume designer moves into a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, unaware that the complex is owned by a cult who use torture to force new residents to join their community.
Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his hometown of Kiewarra in Victoria to attend the funeral of his childhood friend Luke Hadler, who has allegedly killed his wife Karen and their son Billy before taking his own life. Only their infant daughter, Charlotte, was spared. Luke's parents ask Falk to stay and investigate the crime, and he reluctantly agrees.
In flashbacks, it is revealed that Falk left town twenty years earlier to escape harassment when he was suspected in the death of his girlfriend Ellie. Upon his return, he finds many of the townspeople are still angry towards him, particularly Ellie's father Mal and her brother Grant who brand him a liar and a murderer.
With the help of the town's local sergeant Greg Raco, Falk begins to look into the events surrounding Luke's death. They discover that the bullets used in the crime were Remingtons, while Luke only owned Winchesters. Falk also interviews Scott Whitlam, the local school principal and Karen's boss, who explains that although she and Luke had some money trouble, they didn't appear to have any serious problems. When Falk discovers the word 'GRANT?' handwritten on the back of a library book receipt, he suspects Grant wants to purchase the Hadler family farm since Luke's parents can't manage it on their own.
Falk visits Gretchen, another childhood friend and Karen's co-worker who tells him there were applications found in Karen's desk for school funding. While reminiscing over an old photo album, Falk sees a photo of Luke holding Gretchen's newborn son Lachlan. He questions her about Luke being the father; Gretchen denies this, but indirectly confirms they were having an affair. Falk outrightly asks Gretchen if she is responsible for the murders, and she tells him to leave. The next morning, Falk steals some of the funding applications and realises Karen wrote 'GRANT?' in reference to finances.
Falk and Raco go to question Whitlam at the school, only to find he has fled to the bush with a jerry can of petrol and a lighter. When they catch up to him, Whitlam admits to his gambling addiction, stealing money from the school to pay his debts, and murdering the Hadler family to cover up his fraud. He then drenches himself in the petrol and sets himself on fire. Falk and Raco tackle him to the ground and put out the fire. Whitlam and Raco are badly burnt and hospitalised, although Falk's injuries aren't as severe. The investigation is closed with Whitlam's confession, and Luke's parents thank Falk for proving Luke's innocence.
Before leaving town, Falk meets with Gretchen and apologises for accusing her; she forgives him. She reveals she was always in love with Luke but that he chose Karen. Falk visits the rocky area that he and Ellie used to frequently go to; he finds her old backpack, which contains a journal noting that she intended to run away because Mal was abusing her. A flashback reveals that when Mal discovered she was leaving, he drowned her in a rage. Falk says goodbye to Ellie, and then walks back into town with the backpack along the riverbed, which is now completely dry.
A female pilot is tasked with completing a VR training exercise and mastering the use of a prototype tank called the CS-05 Metal Stoker. However, during the course of the game, she discovers that she was actually fighting a real battle rather than performing in a simulation.
On the lower level of a house, a husband and wife are trying to eat a meal, but are constantly disturbed by the noisy carousing of three boarders on the floor above. The boarders end up breaking the ceiling plaster, making a hole through which they steal a bottle of wine. One boarder goes through the hole to the lower floor, and grabbing a sheet and some tubing, disguises himself as an elephant-like monster, to the astonishment of the wife. An officer marches in to deal with the unruly boarders, but is vanquished with a pile of bedding. The boarders dance around in triumph and build a barricade against the door of the house.
A stubborn Nigerian-American teenager Eze (Antonio J. Bell) is forced to go to Nigeria by his mother. He then joins his cousin Pius (Chinaza Uche) who runs an online scamming business. He joined the online scamming business to collect the required amount of money in order to return to the US.
A small entertainment company, Hoshimi Production, based in Hoshimi City, produced one of the rising stars of the idol industry: Mana Nagase. One day, she died in a road accident on her way to the Venus Grand Prix finals, devastating the people around her, but also inspiring some of them to become idol at the same time.
A few years later, Hoshimi Production holds an audition to find a new idol. Kotono Nagase, the younger sister of Mana, appears on stage along with Sakura Kawasaki, a girl with a voice just like Mana's. Starting with just Kotono and Sakura, and later totaling to a group of ten girls which are divided into two groups: Moon Tempest and Sunny Peace, they all gather and start living together in a dormitory.
The story also features TRINITYAiLE, who want to surpass Mana, in addition to LizNoir, who have an extraordinary rivalry with Mana. Standing up to each other and competing with the pride in their hearts, they aim for their best as the emotions surrounding Mana and the rivalry become entangled.
The plot of the series is located in occupied Sarajevo during World War II in Yugoslavia. Everyone comes to Hilmija's Inn. From Partisan illegals from the woods, through Chetniks, Ustashas, soldiers of the SS "Handschar", all the way to German soldiers and the commander of the town of ''Sturmbannführer'' Schiling. Everybody makes conspiracies and problems in which national tensions became less important than personal material interest.
The plot gets additionally spiced up by two miners, Partisan illegals hidden in the basement, who have been given the task by Josip Broz Tito of digging a tunnel to the German weapons warehouse.
High school student Vada goes to the bathroom in the middle of class after her younger sister Amelia calls her when she has her first period. While in the bathroom, a school shooting happens, and Vada hides in a stall with her schoolmates Mia, a dancer, and Quinton, whose brother is killed in the shooting. In the weeks following the incident, Vada's trauma causes her to become depressed and isolated from her family. She also withdraws from her best friend Nick, since she cannot relate to the gun control activism he has been spurred to do in the aftermath. Instead, she becomes closer to Mia and begins to spend more and more time at the latter's house.
At her parents' behest, Vada attends therapy and returns to school, but finds the ordeal uncomfortable. She cannot bring herself to enter the bathroom where she hid, resulting in her urinating in her pants when she hears the sound of a soda can being crushed. In order to cope with the stress, she takes ecstasy, resulting in Nick having to help her through the resulting high. After another night of drinking, Vada and Mia kiss and have sex. She and Nick argue about her poor coping mechanisms, resulting in Vada venting to Quinton and then trying to kiss him. Quinton gently rejects her, as he is not emotionally ready for a relationship yet. She withdraws further from her family and friends, including Mia.
Later, Amelia admits to Vada that she assumed Vada resented her for the phone call that had put her in more danger. Vada assures her that that is not the case, and the two make up. Vada reconnects emotionally with both of her parents, and reconciles with Mia, with the two of them agreeing to move forward as friends. By her next therapy session, Vada has made genuine progress in coming to terms with what happened, though she admits that she and Nick might not reconcile.
Vada waits for Mia outside the latter's dance class. She receives a notification on her phone about another school shooting elsewhere in the country, and has a panic attack.
The player characters are tasked by the ghost of Queen Victoria to recover the Holy Grail, stolen in 1898, from a powerful supervillain. The adventure starts at Buckingham Palace, moves to New York City, and returns to England for the final confrontation.
''Silent Slaughter'' is a novel in which Beekay, a crook and coward appears in volume 3 of the 'Trauma 2020' series.
''The Science Fiction Film Source Book'' is a book consisting of list of science fiction film plot summaries, with information about producers, directors, and more.
Hawk and Demetri are in the principal's office for the complete chaos that happened all over the valley, while arguing over who's telling the truth over how it all started. The principal tells them that they're both gonna get suspended unless they can make their story make sense, and to tell it all the way from the beginning.
Hawk starts his story by saying that it all started at the Mini-Golf & Arcade where Miguel got a note and thought it was from Sam telling him to meet her for a date, but it turned out to be a gang of thugs. After Miguel beat up the thugs, they drive away and a map flies out of their car, which Miguel shows to Johnny. Johnny and Miguel conclude that it might be Daniel trying to get revenge for his trauma in high school. They go to Smitty's Diner where they find Kyler. He was following instructions from an unidentified martial artist, saying to come to the diner if he wants revenge on Miguel. Their next destination is the mall because Miyagi-Do was using it as their next meeting spot where they might be preparing another trap, so they go to investigate. They defeat Demetri and a thug name Shawn. Afterwards, a mall cop shows up and captures Shawn, but everyone else manages to escape. They later head to the All-Valley Tournament campus after receiving a falsified tournament invitation. Upon arrival, Cobra Kai defeats Xander and Robby. Their next destination is Weinberg TV Studios where they find Johnny's step father, Sid. They learn that he partnered up with Miyagi-Do to make a movie. They then go to the high school, where they defeat Sam.
Their next destination is Oaks on the Beach Club, where they find Trey and get information that he was under instructions by the same martial artist to pass out falsified tournament fliers. Cobra Kai's next destination is the Beach Bonfire where they find Yasmine, who is upset at Cobra Kai for showing up at her party uninvited. They find out that the same martial artist had the All Valley Tournament sponsor her party and only requested for her to appear, prompting them to conclude that Miyagi-do is behind it. The next place they go to is 5th Avenue Bar, where they find Armand and get information on what he's up to with Miyagi-Do, but he tells them that he came to the bar for a business meeting with a buyer to tell him that he wanted to buy the strip mall because he had plans for true karate, but he missed his deal and blames Cobra Kai for it. Cobra Kai heads to the Valley Fest, concluding Daniel was the mastermind and promptly defeat him.
Hawk closes the story by telling the principal that there was an anonymous tip that said that Daniel was the one behind it all because he couldn't get over his traumas from high school, but Cobra Kai put an end to him and Miyagi-Do. Kreese became the president of the All Valley Karate Committee and helped Johnny get back on track and let him run the dojo as long as he agreed to abide by Kreese's rules in showing no mercy, a claim which Demetri objects to.
Demetri starts his story by saying that it all started at the Mini-Golf & Arcade where Sam got a note and thought it was from Miguel telling her to meet him for a date, but it turned out to be a gang of thugs. After Sam beat up the thugs, they drive away and a map flies out of their car, which Sam shows to Daniel. Daniel and Sam conclude that it might be Johnny trying to get revenge for losing to Daniel in the tournament. They go to Smitty's Diner where they find Kyler. He was following instructions from an unidentified martial artist, saying to come to the diner if he wants to get back with Sam. They go to LaRusso Auto where they meet dealership rival Tom Cole, learning that was bribed by a local martial artist to trash the dealership and relocate the cars. Their next destination is the mall because Cobra Kai was using it as their next meeting spot where they might be preparing another trap, so they go to investigate. They defeat Hawk and a thug name Shawn. Afterwards, a mall cop shows up and captures Shawn, but everyone else manages to escape. They later head to the All-Valley Tournament campus after receiving a falsified tournament invitation. Upon arrival, Miyagi-Do defeats Xander and Miguel. Their next destination is Weinberg TV Studios where they find Johnny's step father, Sid. They learn that he partnered up with Cobra Kai to make a movie. They then go to the high school, where they defeat Tory.
Their next destination is Oaks on the Beach Club, where they find Trey and get information that he was under instructions by the same martial artist to pass out falsified tournament fliers. Miyagi-Do's next destination is the Beach Bonfire where they find Yasmine, who is upset at Miyagi-Do for showing up at her party uninvited. They find out that the same martial artist had the All Valley Tournament sponsor her party and only requested for her to appear, prompting them to conclude that Cobra Kai is behind it. The next place they go to is 5th Avenue Bar, where they find Armand and get information on what he's up to with Cobra Kai, but he tells them that he came to the bar for a business meeting with a buyer to tell him that he wanted to buy the strip mall because he had plans for true karate, but he missed his deal and blames Miyagi-Do for it. Miyagi-Do heads to the Valley Fest, concluding Johnny was the mastermind and promptly defeat him.
Demetri closes the story by telling the principal that there was an anonymous tip that said that Johnny was behind it all because he couldn't get over losing the tournament to Daniel. With Johnny apparently ousted, Cobra Kai turned into something else with Kreese as president of the All Valley Committee with new rules for the tournament. Miyagi-Do stood it's ground as one of the valley's best dojos, a claim which Hawk objects to.
Daniel and Johnny blame each other for starting this whole mess until Kreese shows up and admits that he was the one who caused the mess and pitted Daniel and Johnny against each other. They decide to team up and fight Kreese together. After they beat Kreese up, Johnny puts him in a head lock with Kreese asking him if he would really do that to his sensei and tells Johnny that he always rooted for him, but Johnny didn't believe Kreese because he only cares about himself. As Johnny plans to finish off Kreese, Daniel tells him not to do it because that would make him no better, so Johnny decides to let Kreese go and they tell him to leave and never come back. Daniel and Johnny were both surprised at how Kreese used their history to turn them against each other like that and surprised that Kreese is still as evil as he always was. Daniel and Johnny decide to call a truce and make sure that this doesn't happen again. The principal doesn't believe one word that Hawk and Demetri are saying. They tell him that it's all true, but the principal tells them that everything's a mess and their best explanation being a retired mastermind veteran with a penchance for chaos sounds more like a fictional story book. They keep telling him that it really happened, so he decides to give them detention where they can write their tale on paper. He jokingly says that their delusion would make a good cartoon or a video game.
The heroine of Euripides' play is Hypsipyle, the former queen of Lemnos, and lover of Jason. When the women of Lemnos killed all the men on the island, Hypsipyle had refused to kill her father Thoas, the king, and instead secretly helped him flee the island. She ruled Lemnos when Jason and the Argonauts visited the island, and she had, by Jason, twin sons Thoas and Euneus. Later, when the Lemnian women discovered Hypsipyle's deception, she fled the island, but was captured by pirates, and sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the priest of Zeus at Nemea. Hypsipyle has come to be the nursemaid of Opheltes, the infant son of Lycurgus, and his wife Eurydice.Gantz, p. 511; Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml p. 251]; Euripides, ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.311.xml fr. 759a.72–74], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.313.xml 79–87] (Hypsipyle's flight, capture by pirates, slavery), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.275.xml fr. 752h.26–28] (Lycurgus as priest of Zeus), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.293.xml fr. 757] (Eurydice as mother), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.293.xml fr. 757.41–44] (Hypsipyle as nurse). Although Lycurgus is a king in later accounts, there is no indication of that here, see Bravo, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6mdQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 p. 107].
As the action of the play begins, Hypsipyle's twin sons by Jason, Euneus and Thoas, arrive seeking shelter for the night. The sons have been separated from Hypsipyle since infancy, so neither recognizes the other. When Jason left Lemnos he had taken his sons to Colchis. After he died, Jason's fellow argonaut Orpheus took the boys to Thrace, where he raised them. They eventually met Hypsipyles' father Thoas, who took them back to Lemnos. From there they embarked on a search for their mother.
The Seven against Thebes have also just arrived and encounter Hypsipyle. Amphiaraus tells Hypsipyle that they need water for a sacrifice, and she leads the Seven to a spring. Hypsipyle brings Opheltes with her, and somehow, in a moment of neglect, Opheltes is killed by a serpent. The child's mother Eurydice is about to have Hypsipyle put to death, when Amphiaraus arrives and Hypsipyle pleads with him to speak in her defense. Amphiaraus tells Euridice that the child's death was destined, proposes that funeral games be held in Opheltes' honor, and is able to convince Euridice to spare Hypsipyle's life. Funeral games are held, and Hypsypyle's sons participate, as a result of which, a recognition and reunion between Hypsipyle and her sons is effected, who then manage to free Hypsipyle from her servitude.
The surviving fragments of Euripides' play do not make it clear how the recognition between Hypsipyle and her sons was brought about, but two later accounts may have been based on the play. According to the Second Vatican Mythographer, after the sons won the foot-race, at the funeral games, their names and parents were announced, and in this way their identities were revealed. The Cyzicene epigrams, the third book of the ''Palatine Anthology'', describes a depiction, on a temple in Cyzicus, of Euneus and Thoas showing Hypsipyle a gold ornament ("the golden vine") as proof of their identities.
This episode explores the rise of the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis.
Dale Jennings and Harry Hay were both married to women before they founded the Mattachine Society. Dale has twice married women.
Kinsey Reports on male sex is first published in 1948.
Del Martin was married and divorced from a man.
In the 1950s, gay people were prohibited from working for the US government because of Executive Order 10450; this loss of employment became known as the Lavender scare.
ONE magazine was first published in 1953. Mattachine Society members sought to outlaw entrapment. The Ladder (magazine) was first published in 1956. In the 1950s, Ernestine Eckstein says, "The negro cause is widely accepted. The homosexual cause is not yet accepted." Gays and lesbians were seen as "immoral" and "sick." The Council on Religion and the Homosexual was set up in the 1960s to win religious support for the civil rights of gay people; Evander Smith and Herb Donaldson (lawyer) were its leaders.
This episode focuses on the 20th-century transgender movement, including the 1966 Compton Cafeteria riots in Tenderloin, San Francisco. Even earlier, masquerade laws were used to arrest trans men and women.
The FBI goes after Lucy Hicks Anderson because she was receiving the extra pay allotment as the married wife of her husband Reuben Anderson. She faced a "federal fraud case" since the authorities didn't accept her female gender.
This episode highlights contributions from the Black community to the growing LGBTQ civil rights movement. David Susskind praises Lorraine Hansberry's ''A Raisin in the Sun'' on his television show. Hansberry and her husband become active in Greenwich Village.
José Sarria performed at the Black Cat Bar in San Francisco, California. In 1961, Sarria becomes the first gay person to run for public office.
In Los Angeles, police arrest hundreds of gay people at the Black Cat Tavern in 1967.
This episode tackles the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the Pride movement."
Craig Rodwell does janitorial work on Fire Island. Later, he opens up a book shop on Mercer Street (Manhattan).
Marsha P. Johnson became known as "the mayor of Christopher Street" in the 1960s. Billy Porter says that the Genovese crime family opened up the Stonewall Inn; in the 1960s, it was illegal to serve liquor to gay and trans people in public bars in New York City.
The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) is founded in June 1969 after the Stonewall Riots. While the Gay Liberation Front sought to form coalition with racial and feminist groups, the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) focused more on gay rights.
Gay activists in 1969 sought end of police arrests for same-sex public displays of affection (PDA). They also clamored for end to firings and employment reprisals for being gay. In 1973, Sylvia Rivera gives a speech saying, "I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation."
An aging chef from Minnesota has his life turned upside down when a relentless filmmaker from Las Vegas tries to make the chef's onion rings world famous.
Im Chi-woo (So Yoo-jin) is someone who always bravely faces challenges that are thrown in her life. Since young, she worked at many jobs to financially support her adopted family. At age 30, she married a younger man, Park Wan-seung (Yoon Jong-hoon), who is immature and irresponsible. She holds several jobs just to make ends meet and has to support her own family while doing her part as a daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, she crosses paths with divorced single father Choi Jin-yoo (Yeon Jung-hoon), a chaebol heir who is a managing director at his family business, and their fates become intertwined.
When she finally finds her birth family and slowly recalls the circumstances leading to her separation from her family, she has to face the painful facts when she realises she was actually abandoned by someone in her family.
Morgan, Dwight, and Grace receive a call from Chuck, a man who works at a nearby mall. Chuck was bitten by a walker and wants them to kill him before he turns. At the mall, Grace begins to feel ill from the effects of radiation sickness and passes out. Dwight leaves to get medical supplies and vows to return with the caravan the next morning.
Alone at the mall, Morgan and Grace share details about their past lives and they are both attracted to one another. They find an Urgent Care center, but when they try to enter, a security alarm goes off, attracting walkers.
When Dwight returns with the caravan, he is kidnapped by Rollie, a member of Logan's crew. Rollie taunts Dwight over Sherry, but Dwight quickly takes the lead. Instead of killing him, Dwight decides to free Rollie, but orders him to leave the area and never return. After fighting the walkers, Morgan and Grace find Chuck on the roof, where he dies in peace. Grace decides not to use the urgent care center because she doesn't want to worry about how long she has left. The next morning, Morgan and Grace bury Chuck when the caravan arrives. Morgan decides to help Althea on a separate supply run, leaving Grace behind without admitting his true feelings for her.
After hallucinating Sherry's voice, Dwight finds a group of horses near the remains of the caravan and returns to help. The group clear Humbug's Gulch of walkers, revealed to be the previous survivors who used the location before Virginia massacred them for resisting her. They decide to use the walkers to ambush the Pioneers, but are forced to abandon the plan when they discover that Luciana is with them. Knowing that Virginia is on the way, the group enjoys the time they have left together, as John and June finally get married.
When Virginia arrives, she splits the group into her various communities and gets a doctor to examine Grace, who is revealed to be pregnant and malnourished. Once everyone is gone, Virginia attacks Morgan by shooting him in the shoulder and leaves him to die when the walkers approach her. Morgan relays a message to his friends, encouraging them to "just live" as the walkers approach him. It leaves off on a cliffhanger, making us wonder what happens to Morgan.
Virginia creates a documentary to entice people to join the Pioneers, inspiring Althea to create a new documentary to counter Virginia's message. Grace's condition continues to deteriorate. Tom reunites with his sister Janis, who turns out to be the woman Wes rescued, and dedicates himself to helping create the documentary to show people the differences between the two factions. As the group attempts to cross a damaged bridge, Virginia confronts them. She offers to help them cross, as well as information on Sherry's whereabouts, if they join her.
When no one steps forward, Virginia summons a herd of walkers to force them to need her help. Most of the group make it to safety, but Tom is killed when the bridge collapses, and the group also loses the tanker and most of its supplies. They enter Humbug's Gulch, a nearby Old West-style theme park where John thinks they can safely settle, but is surrounded by a huge herd of walkers. Feeling they have no other choice, Morgan turns to Virginia for help, while Dwight storms off angry at the decision.
Disappointed that she hasn't found a new shelter yet, Charlie runs away from the group and ends up in a synagogue. There she is saved by Rabbi Jacob Kessner, who offers her an inn for the night. After shaking hands while repairing a light, Charlie thinks they can reinforce the chapel and create a new safe area for the group.
John and June arrive, who say it won't work because it is too small and lacks a water supply. Charlie has to abandon the idea when the walkers invade and destroy the temple, forcing everyone to flee.
Meanwhile, some members of Logan's crew discover the location of the caravan and chase after Sarah and Dwight, who are in the oil truck. They eventually run out of fuel, but Logan's group surprisingly leaves without conflict. Sarah is relieved, but Dwight wonders if it was a setup. Elsewhere, Logan arrives at the oil fields, having discovered the location through the Althea tapes.
During a scouting trip with Strand, Alicia finds another tree painted with the message "If you're reading this, you're still here." Wes contacts them, who explains his personal encounter with Logan. Alicia and Strand take Wes to their abode, which is a nearby police station. When Wes walks in, a gun battle is heard and an injured man runs out and steals his car.
Elsewhere, Morgan and Althea enter a bank, where Althea keeps her interview tapes in a safe deposit box. They pick up a distress call from Alicia and attempt to locate the injured man and the stolen truck, but their progress is stopped by Logan's crew. Alicia, Strand and Wes escape from the police station and locate the wounded man. He tries to strangle Wes, but Wes overpowers him and stabs him before asking where a manuscript is.
The man tells Wes that it is in his bag before he dies. Alice angrily wonders why Wes would kill someone for a manuscript; Wes just says "people are people" before walking away. While looking at the manuscript, Alicia discovers the phrase of the trees on the final page and realizes that Wes was the one who painted them. That night, Logan's crew invade the bank and steal Althea's tapes, hoping to learn the whereabouts of the oil field location.
In a sequence of flashbacks, a more cheerful Logan is shown placing a supply crate on the side of the road. He receives a call for help from a woman, Serena, who is trapped by a herd of walkers at a gas station. Logan asks Clayton for support over the radio, but he doesn't answer. He makes a desperate attempt to save Serena, but is too late as the walkers devour her (it is revealed that Clayton was unable to help because Sarah and Wendell stole his truck during the hurricane).
A distraught Logan is soon found by a group riding on horseback, led by a woman named Virginia. She says she has been watching him and shares his vision. In the present, Logan's crew arrive at the oil field and a standoff ensues, with Logan declaring they are taking all of the oil. The smoke and fire from the oil field attract countless walkers, forcing everyone to take shelter. A reluctant Sarah saves Logan's life as they hide in an office. Meanwhile, Alicia and Strand receive a call from a woman holed up in the same gas station Serena was.
Logan, who is listening, encourages the woman to commit suicide, but she is rescued by Wes. Alicia and Strand arrive, but the woman says they need to leave before the people she ran away from show up. The next morning, the oil field walkers are dispatched and the standoff resumes. Logan appears to have a change of heart, but he and his crew are viciously gunned down by another group. Virginia arrives, and feels they can all help each other. Her offer is declined, and when it appears Virginia is about to have everyone killed, Luciana offers to stay behind to help make gas if everyone else can leave. Virginia agrees, but lets everyone know her offer still stands.
Much of the episode is presented in documentary video. Althea interviews the entire group to document how things have changed since the group escaped from the radioactive zone: the group is traveling in a caravan, but June is working to find a safe haven for the group; Alicia has stopped killing walkers and is struggling to find a new purpose; Dwight is grateful to find the group, but still hopes to find Sherry; Sarah reveals that Logan's oil truck was stolen and abandoned.
Morgan tells a story in which he and several others helped a woman, Tess, get medicine for her son and convinced them to leave their home for the first time since the outbreak. The film concludes with everyone pleading with future survivors to help others in any way they can.
The tape is then revealed to be being watched by another survivor, Wes, who is at a gas station. As he prepares to leave, Logan's crew shows up and steals his gas before destroying his motorcycle. Logan tells Wes to call Morgan for help and to let him know that they are making more enemies than friends. Logan's crew leaves Wes behind as a pack of walkers approach.
After an earthquake causes some damage to a nuclear power station, one of the chief nuclear physicists, Paul Brack, starts to investigate the safety procedures and policies of the station. He is dismayed to discover that there is a lack of real safety processes at the station, and quits his job in disgust. His disillusionment puts a strain on his relationship with his wife, Pat, a fellow researcher and academic.
Through a mutual friend, Brack meets and begins to work for energy consultant Harold Harlan, with hopes that Harlan can highlight the issue of nuclear safety, and explore alternative energy sources. Unfortunately Harlan has his own plans for how he can use Brack.
''Class Action Park'' begins by chronicling the life of penny stockbroker Eugene Mulvihill, who is described as having become rich from pump-and-dump schemes. It outlines his path to opening Vernon Township's Action Park in 1978. He envisioned it as a park with "no rules".
The first two-thirds of the film features former Action Park guests and employees reflecting on the park's more dangerous rides, such as the Cannonball Loop, the SuperSpeed Waterfalls, the Alpine Slides and the Tarzan Swings, and reflects on the park itself and its general atmosphere and culture. The life of Eugene Mulvihill is also chronicled, including a discussion of his legal issues, which often involved Action Park. For example, a land dispute with the state of New Jersey is said to have been resolved after the state got tired of dealing with him.
The last third of the film focuses on the dangers of Action Park by chronicling the deaths that occurred there, as well as documenting the story of George Larsson Jr.'s death while riding the Alpine Slides in 1980, which was the first death at Action Park. It was covered up by the park in order to avoid reporting his death to New Jersey authorities. It was claimed that they didn't need to, as he was not a member of the general public. Action Park claimed that Larsson died as an employee of the park riding the slide at night during a rain shower, but in fact, all three claims were untrue. The suggestion that Mulvihill corrupted Vernon Township officials during Action Park's existence is also mentioned, as are the downfall of the park and Mulvihill's death. The film ends with the interviewees reflecting on Action Park as a whole, with one stating that its vision continues to live on in schemes such as Fyre Festival and Theranos. Another calls it an '80s movie in real life that will never happen again. Footage of George Larsson Jr.'s parents visiting his grave is shown.
The film also mentions that Donald Trump considered investing in the park at one point, but backed out after finding Mulvihill's vision for the park to be too risky.
The film tells the story of Al Capone's rise in the Chicago underworld from the perspective of Jack McGurn. McGurn, the successful amateur boxer, joins the Italian Mafia after the murder of his father and rises within the organization together with his friend Al Capone. Business flourishes, but the Italians and the Irish mafia around Dean "Dion" O'Banion and George "Bugs" Moran begin a fierce battle for criminal supremacy in the Chicago underworld, culminating in the so-called Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
In Manila, a feline named Nimfa Dimaano visits Manghuhula, an octopus fortune teller who divines that Nimfa will fall in love with two men at the same time, as well as have wild sex in the future. Nimfa works as a perfume salesperson at a mall department store, and is dating a muscular mongrel named Roger Europeo, a janitor who lives with Nimfa and frequently has sex with her. That night, Nimfa and Roger eat stew at a kiosk that they frequently visit. Roger casually proposes marriage to Nimfa and she declines, noting their lack of money. He suggests that Nimfa, who pays for their rent, stop paying for her sister Linda's school tuition, but she refuses, saying that she does not want her sister to be a dropout like she was.
While selling perfume at work one day, Nimfa is approached by Iñigo Villanueva, a wealthy dog with a career as a high-profile entrepreneur but also a secret sex addict. Nimfa helps Iñigo pick out a luxury perfume to give to his mother as a gift for her birthday. Iñigo suggests that he and Nimfa go out on a date, and gives her his business card. After work, Nimfa finds herself irritated by Roger, and rejects his sexual advances that night. At Iñigo's mother's birthday dinner, Iñigo gives her the present, which she unwraps to find a cheap cologne. Realizing that Nimfa gave him the wrong item, Iñigo finds Nimfa on social media and messages her about the mistake while she's in bed with Roger. They arrange to meet and have the cologne returned, and after doing so, Iñigo drives Nimfa home.
For their anniversary, Roger takes Nimfa to the stew kiosk. Nimfa ignores her meal, instead texting flirtatiously with Iñigo; the attention she gives to her phone causes Roger to feel suspicious. Later, Iñigo visits Nimfa at her job to pick up the correct perfume. He is accompanied by a hot female poodle named Marie, which makes Nimfa jealous. Iñigo senses Nimfa's jealousy, and discovers he is in love with both women. Despite this, he texts Nimfa again that night, telling her Marie is just a good friend, and invites her to go on a little trip with him the next day, which she reluctantly accepts. However, after Iñigo finishes with her, he joins Marie for champagne in his hot tub.
The next day, Iñigo brings Nimfa to a lavish seaside property in Batangas, wanting her to be his secretary for the day. Nimfa becomes so enticed by Iñigo, she even gets a nosebleed when he reaches across to buckle her seat belt, thinking he's trying to grope her breasts. When he insists that she spend the night, Nimfa calls her friend, a rabbit named Jhermelyn, and asks her to tell Roger that she is staying with her that night. After dinner, Nimfa walks in on a shrine of Iñigo's most recent girlfriend, Irene, who dumped him after he had an affair with Marie. Nimfa starts to reconsider her feelings towards Iñigo, but after she walks in on him while he's showering, the two become aroused by seeing each other naked and end up having sex.
The following day, Iñigo flies with Nimfa back to Manila in a helicopter. They visit Iñigo's mother and give her the correct perfume, and Iñigo drives Nimfa back home. Roger angrily confronts Nimfa for cheating on him, as Jhermelyn told him that Nimfa was not with her the previous night. Nimfa kicks Roger out of the house, feeling that making love to her is all he cares about. The day after, Nimfa arranges to meet Iñigo at the high-rise building where he works. Roger appears and pummels Iñigo's car, believing Iñigo to be inside it. In reality, Iñigo's valet, a frog named Jerry, was the only one in the vehicle. Roger is placed in a prison cell, and Nimfa arranges for him to be released. She then visits Jerry, who was brought to a hospital.
Nimfa travels to the countryside for an unannounced visit with her sister Linda and their mother. There, she discovers that Linda has not been going to school at all, and is instead raising a baby with her partner Ramil. Upset at both the lies and the fact that her sister followed her path, Nimfa abandons her family, returns to Batangas with Iñigo, and sleeps with him again. Feeling nauseous the next morning, Nimfa checks in at a hospital and learns that she is nine weeks pregnant. As her affair with Iñigo lasted for only three weeks, she realizes that Roger is the baby's father. She visits Jhermelyn and is stunned to see Roger coming out of Jhermelyn's shower, indicating they are sleeping together. After calling a radio show to talk about her problems, Nimfa visits Iñigo's building. Upon seeing him making out with Marie, she and her get into a fierce fight which Nimfa wins. When Iñigo suggests they both can share him, she promptly rejects and mercilessly knocks him out of a window.
After leaving the building, a recovered Jerry sees Nimfa and takes her to the stew kiosk for a meal. Some time later, Nimfa gives birth to her illegitimate offspring, and opens up her own sari-sari store.
Valeria Fernández (Michelle Renaud) has been the lifelong girlfriend of Leonel Montes (Víctor González) without ever questioning her love for him. After Leonel's father, a wealthy landowner, dies, a war begins between the heirs to the fortune. In the midst of this commotion, Valeria meets Mateo Santos (Danilo Carrera), son of the executor of the inheritance, and will fall in love with his nobility and passion for life.
While learning to make a Plant spell, Luz receives a text from her mother, Camila, asking how she is. Luz panics, as her mother believes that she's in a summer camp and is unaware that she's in another world learning how to be a witch, and responds that she is fine. After going to magic school Hexside, Luz discovers from friends Willow and Gus that a ceremony named "Grom", which somewhat resembles a prom, is coming to the school. Luz's other friend, Amity Blight, is selected as the Grom Queen, much to Luz's joy. However, Amity is sad about being chosen. While checking on the decorations for the Grom, Luz finds weapons, to which Amity reveals to her that the Grom Queen has to fight against Grometheus, a monster living below the school that takes the form of anybody's worst fears, to prevent it from escaping and consuming the Boiling Isles. Seeing Amity is reluctant to do this, Luz suggests talking to Principal Bump about it.
Upon returning to the Owl House, Luz learns that her mentor, Eda, will be a chaperone at the Grom, while their roommate, King, will be the dance's emcee with Gus. Later, while walking through the forest, she finds Amity, who reveals that she will be no longer Grom Queen if she can find a replacement, to which Luz offers herself. The next day, Amity and her siblings, Edric and Emira, help Luz prepare to fight Grometheus by creating illusions of her worst fears. That night, during the Grom dance, King is revealed to have stage fright and struggles to work as an emcee. Later, Luz's duel starts, and initially manages to hold off against Grometheus, until it takes the form of her greatest fear: Her mother learning of her witch training. Terrified, Luz runs from the school, causing everyone to panic, until King overcomes his stage fright and calms them down, directing the students towards the fight.
As Luz tries to run from Grometheus, Eda appears to hold it off so she can run. However, Amity shows up and apologizes to Luz for having her fight Grometheus instead of doing it herself. As Amity faces Grometheus, the monster manifests Amity's greatest fear, which is revealed to be rejection from an unknown individual whom she wanted to ask Grom as her date, by taking the individual's physical appearance and tearing Amity's invitation letter in half. Upon watching it, Luz comforts Amity and offers to accompany her instead. Luz and Amity then dance-fight against Grometheus and manages to defeat it. As everyone celebrates their victory, Luz asks whom Amity wanted to be her date, but Amity dismisses the subject and throws her letter away. The letter is then revealed to be addressed to Luz.
Back in the Owl House, Luz finally sends a text to her mother about her experiences, albeit keeping it vague enough for her to remain unaware of the Boiling Isles. Camila then responds by saying that she loves Luz's letters, which Luz believes means her texts. However, it is revealed that someone has been sending her mother letters while claiming to be Luz.
Six months after the Mugen Academy incident, Usagi and Chibiusa receive a vision from a pegasus named Helios asking for their help, and Mamoru gets a stabbing feeling in his chest. The Dead Moon Circus arrives on a flagship and its members conjure a dark barrier around the area where the circus tent is. That night, Chibiusa dreams of riding Pegasus, who tells her that he needs the Golden Crystal to save his home realm of Elysion. When Chibiusa tries to return to the 30th century with Diana, the dark barrier stops her and alerts the Amazoness Quartet, prompting them to send a tiger to investigate. Usagi and Chibiusa's brooches are upgraded, allowing them to transform into Super Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi Moon. The Amazoness send some Lemures to fight the Sailor Guardians, but they quickly destroy them.
The circus' ringleader Zirconia is instructed by her master, Queen Nehelenia, to let the Sailor Guardians' nightmares take hold of them so she can obtain the Silver Crystal. PallaPalla sends the Amazon Trio members Fish Eye, Tiger's Eye, and Hawk's Eye to respectively trap Ami Mizuno, Rei Hino, and Makoto Kino in their respective nightmares, one Guardian at a time. However, the girls are able to break free of them and transform with their respective Sailor Crystals into their Super forms, enabling them to destroy the Amazon Trio. Helios reveals that Mamoru's incessant chest pain are caused by Nehelenia's curse on Elysion, a sacred place within Earth, which also caused Helios to turn into a pegasus, imprisoning him in a cage from which he is astral projecting. Sailor Moon promises that she'll heal Mamoru and hugs him which then gives Usagi the same curse as Mamoru.
Minako Aino is unable to transform, and the Amazoness VesVes sends two knife-throwing twins, Xenotime and Zeolite, after her. In the ensuing conflict, VesVes sends her falling to her death, but she is saved by Artemis, who is about to be crushed with a boulder by PallaPalla but he turns human and gives Minako her crystal, enabling her to transform into Super Sailor Venus and destroy Xenotime and Zeolite. PallaPalla then traps the four Sailor Guardians in vines. Usagi then falls ill from a black rose inside her as well, and Zirconia brings darkness to Earth with the nightmare energy she has accumulated.
The spirit of Sailor Saturn talks to young Hotaru Tomoe, and restores her memories of her previous life. Hotaru then gives Haruka Tenoh, Michiru Kaioh, and Setsuna Meioh their crystals, allowing them to transform into Super Sailors Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn, they also manage to release Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus from PallaPalla's vines. Sailor Chibi Moon, Sailor Moon, and Tuxedo Mask arrive to help, but Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask are mortally wounded by Zirconia. Helios teleports Usagi and Mamoru to Elysion to save their lives with what purification power it has left. Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn confront the Amazoness Quartet inside a tent, and Saturn reveals the Amazoness Quartet were corrupted by Nehelenia's nightmare power. As the Amazoness Quartet start to come to their senses, Zirconia imprisons them inside orbs, and traps Chibi Moon and Saturn inside shards of glass, before putting all six inside Queen Nehelenia's mirror.
In Elysion, Helios explains to Usagi and Mamoru that the Golden Kingdom used to exist in Elysion, and the Golden Crystal is Earth and Elysion's counterpart to the Silver Millennium's Silver Crystal. Usagi then realizes the Golden Crystal is inside Mamoru, just as the Silver Crystal was sealed inside her. After Helios sends Usagi and Mamoru back to the surface, Zirconia casts a hot, suffocating fog around Jūban which incapacitates them. Helios uses the last of his power to send Elysion's purifying crystals to Earth, blocking Zirconia's fog, and heals the group, but apparently dying as a result. Zirconia attacks Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask, and spreads hellish nightmares, but Tuxedo Mask manages to break free and others from the nightmares and the Sailor Guardians use their combined powers to blast and weaken Zirconia who then escapes into Queen Nehelenia's mirror and Sailor Moon follows her inside. She then frees Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn, with the latter taking the four orbs containing the Amazoness Quartet with her while the others break the mirror and frees them all, but Nehelenia disappears and Zirconia remains inside the mirror.
The Dead Moon Circus disappears, but the darkness remains throughout the city. The Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask teleport to Elysion, where Queen Nehelenia appears inside her mirror and reflects Super Sailor Moon's attack back at her and everyone, sending them all into a flashback of Queen Nehelenia's past: Queen Nehelenia had arrived uninvited at the party celebrating the birth of Princess Serenity. After their exchange was escalated, Queen Nehelenia was permanently sealed inside her mirror by Queen Serenity, but not before cursing the newborn princess and the Silver Millennium realm to their inevitable downfall.
Queen Nehelenia takes the Silver Crystal from Super Sailor Moon, but before she can kill the Super Sailor Guardians and take over Earth, Usagi and Tuxedo Mask kiss, breaking free of Queen Nehelenia's nightmare and getting the Silver Crystal back. Super Sailor Moon transforms the other Sailor Guardians into their princess forms and summons Luna, Artemis, and Diana in human form. The other Eternal Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask, using his Golden Crystal, send power to Sailor Moon, transtormimg her into Eternal Sailor Moon, who destroys Queen Nehelenia and her mirror, restoring Earth and Elysion to normal. Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon revives Helios with the power her Pink Moon Crystal, causing him to realize she was the maiden in his vision. The Amazoness Quartet, who are revealed to be Sailor Guardians of the asteroids named Sailors Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, who were asleep in the Amazon Jungle until Queen Nehelenia forced them to awaken into a nightmare. They return to their slumber, only to reawaken when Sailor Chibi Moon becomes a full-fledged Sailor Guardian in the future. Helios escorts the others back to the surface before returning to Elysion, assuring Chibiusa that they will meet again. Mamoru wonders if the warm feeling in his chest is caused by the Golden Crystal, but Usagi assures that it's a star shining in his heart.
Wendy works in a diner and lives with her husband and son in an unnamed suburb in Germany. When she meets the homeless Marek, her life changes. He advises her to stop taking the pills that her psychiatrist prescribes for her. She takes them because of an event in her childhood where she was inexplicably involved in the death of the school principal. He also says to her "You are one of us," then jumps off a highway bridge and is run over. The next evening she meets Marek again, who is unharmed. This convinces her to stop taking the pills.
After she leaves the diner after her next shift, she is attacked. She discovers her powers and hurls her attackers into the air for several meters. Then she uses her skills and threatens her boss to get a promotion. Her colleague Elmar, who also has powers, sees this.
Together they try to get to the bottom of the origin of their abilities and discover a government conspiracy. The government attempts to lock away people with abilities and drug them to suppress the forces.
Webster Shakespeare Cabangbang deludedly thinks he has mastered the English language, and his university decides to give him his diploma so they can get rid of him for his poor performance. Through a chain of events, Webster ends up as an English teacher at a school, and with the help of a fairy godmother, girls come after him whenever he says the line "I love you three times a day".
In 1925, a British officer and World War I veteran, Lieutenant Cleary, is killed while on a Norwegian ski holiday, his body ravaged by wolves. Now someone is trying to blackmail his family, suggesting Cleary had been having an affair in Norway. The Investigators are hired by Cleary's cousin to find what happened in Norway and who is behind the blackmail threats. The Investigators must travel to Norway, where they will find themselves isolated and under attack by a mysterious new supernatural nemesis.
''The Outcasts'' is an espionage mission where the player characters try to turn a renegade Romulan into a spy for Federation Intelligence.
''Termination: 1456'' is an adventure for Klingon player characters. The characters are ordered to assassinate a Thought Admiral suspected of treachery against the Emperor. Once the gamemaster has given the players this order, there is no more prepared plotline; the players must decide how to proceed.
''A Quest for Simbilis'' is a novel in which the plot is a sequel to Jack Vance's ''The Eyes of the Overworld'' (a.k.a. ''Cugel the Clever'').
''Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were'' is a book detailing myth and magic written by Page and painted by Ingpen.
''Molly Zero'' is a novel in which Molly Zero escapes a training school for the ruling class of a Britain set 200 years in the future.
''Politician'' is a novel in which Hope Hubris enters Jovian politics.
''Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community'' is an academic book containing notes, appendices and an index.
A self-obsessed college student becomes stranded in the Colorado mountains and has to rely on his quickly dying phone to survive.
Maryam, a 40-year-old woman from a Muslim family, is working in an orphanage, where she interacts with people of various religions. In 1980, having become a Catholic, she moves to Ambarawa, Semarang, to work as a religious sister at St. Stanislaus Girisonta Church after meeting seven friendly older sisters and deciding to be their assistant. RomoIndonesian honorific prefix for "pastor." Martin introduces Maryam to senior nun Sister Monic and monastery manager Mila. Maryam's work involves showering elderly sisters, cleaning, and preparing meals. She is helped by Dinda, a young Muslim who frequently sends milk and food.
One day, the sisters receive the announcement Martin is being replaced with new pastor Yosef—Monic's foster child—until Christmas. Martin had predicted Yosef's presence for a long time. Yosef is set to teach musicianship to the sisters. Yosef's high level of musical ability makes Maryam fall in love with him. Monic warns Yosef about Maryam's attitude but fails to persuade him. Maryam and Yosef become closer despite knowing it is forbidden;In Catholicism, sisters and pastors are technically "married" to Jesus and are thus not allowed to have any romantic relationship. Doing so may result in expulsion from the Church. at one point, they run naked on a beach and make out.Only included in the uncut version. Maryam is guilt-ridden and questions her faith, and despite the sisters' attempts to calm her down, leaves the church upon the sisters' notice. She boards a city-bound train and hallucinates that Yosef is looking at her, tempting her to disembark and miss the train.
Maryam goes to Girisonta's confessional where, unbeknown to her, Yosef is the pastor. Yosef disguises his voice and after hearing her apology, he silently cries with heartbreak. Maryam leaves after the sisters pass by.
In the first season, Captain Riccardo Venturi's men must face a sadistic and intelligent bomber who builds miniature bombs by hiding them in various everyday objects. From the very first episodes, for some strange reason, "the Bomb Man" (so nicknamed by the media) targets Captain Venturi, trying to hit him by inserting a bomb into an energy drink. He will be able to get to the heart of the RIS like no one had ever done before, sending a bomb hidden inside an artifact. At the same time the RIS of Parmadeals with "simpler cases" such as serial killings, "family crimes", rapes, kidnappings and cases inspired by the recent Italian news. Along with the story there are also subplots that see the private life of the members of the team as protagonist: the death of Venturi's parents, the rape of Anna, the accident of Francesca De Biase, the daughter of Marshal Vincenzo De Biase, and love relationships among colleagues. The series culminates with the latest bomb that the bomber sends to the RIS to try to kill Anna. But Venturi's intervention at the last moment saves her by destroying the laboratory.
Sumire Suō and Midori Soshizaki are the stars of their respective middle school girls' soccer teams. As they graduate to high school, they end up joining an eclectic cast of other new girls at Warabi Seinan High School, with hopes of taking the school's normally poor-performing team to the top. With the help of former Nadeshiko Japan player Naoko Nōmi as their new coach, they must find a way to defeat powerful new enemies ranging from other nationally-ranked school soccer teams, to their own school's administration.
Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert has a mundane life as a bank teller in Potsdam, Germany. A zombie outbreak in Nevada dominates international news, giving him nightmares about zombies. He also produces YouTube videos about safecracking that receive no attention until a mysterious figure comments on his most recent, inviting him to an underground safecracking competition. Sebastian wins the contest and is introduced to Gwendoline Starr, a skilled jewel thief who had commented upon his YouTube video.
Gwendoline recruits Sebastian into a heist crew consisting of herself, expert hacker Korina Dominguez, getaway driver Rolph and gunman Brad Cage to break into three banks that have the three safes created by legendary locksmith Hans Wagner, which currently belongs to billionaire Bly Tanaka. The safes will be decommissioned in less than a week, so time is running out for someone to break into them.
Sebastian, a theoretical expert on Wagner's work and safecracking but with no practical experience, is convinced by Gwendoline to join them for the challenge of breaking into a Wagner safe. Together, the crew successfully undertake their heist of the first safe in Paris, escaping with only a fraction of the money that is actually in it. Gwendoline justifies this as the challenge and reputation being better than any major monetary gain.
As the crew celebrates after the Paris heist, Sebastian develops feelings for Gwendoline, drawing jealousy from Brad, her boyfriend since their teenage years when his real name was Alexis. The crew travels to Prague, the location of the second safe, and are followed by Delacroix, an obsessive Interpol agent leading a unit that has been trying to capture Gwendoline and the crew for years after Brad shot him during a theft.
Sebastian and Gwendoline enter the bank but are soon identified by security, forcing Brad to create a distraction with a pretend robbery. Sebastian cracks the second safe, leaving with Gwendoline and another haul of money as Delacroix and his team race to the bank to stop them. Brad is shot in the shoulder by a security guard and narrowly escapes the bank, ahead of Sebastian and Gwendoline. Brad deliberately leaves Sebastian behind as the team flees, forcing him to shake off the pursuing police alone.
Angry at Brad's actions, Gwendoline and Korina leave the crew. However, the original plan was to ditch Sebastian after the three heists were complete. The women head back to Potsdam and reunite with Sebastian, telling him that the pursuit of the Wagner challenge is more important to them than any monetary gain.
The trio heads to St. Moritz, location of the last safe in Europe, while Interpol also arrives. Delacroix's team believes they have a lead on the theft, only to be tricked again by them. They hijacked the safe during its transfer from the casino. Their hijacking also usurps Brad and Rolph's idea of robbing the safe.
Gwendoline and Sebastian leave St. Moritz on a lorry, chased by Brad and Rolph. Korina, caught by Interpol, manages to warn them about the other two before selling them out in exchange for her family's safety. Sebastian has to crack the safe in the lorry while Brad, Rolph, and Interpol pursue them. He succeeds, finding another large haul of cash. However, before they can leave with it, Rolph and an increasingly unstable Brad arrive. She overpowers and handcuffs them to the truck for Interpol to find before leaving with Sebastian.
Before escaping on a boat from the town of Hallstatt, Austria, Sebastian and Gwendoline confess their mutual feelings. However, Delacroix catches them, resulting in a standoff between him and Gwendoline. Out of love for Sebastian, she sacrifices herself to be arrested so that he can escape, promising to find him once she is free. Sebastian goes, vowing he will be reunited with Gwendoline one day.
Later, Scott Ward and Maria Cruz find Sebastian's (now by Ludwig Dieter's name) locksmith shop in California. They offer him the chance to crack Wagner's legendary "missing" safe, which Gwendoline and Sebastian had resolved to break together once she was free; Ludwig accepts the job.
The half-elven rogue Vax'ildan and the ranger Vex'ahlia, his twin sister, are investigating the swamp near the city of Stilben on behalf of peasant residents who believe a curse is responsible for killing their children. After they battle shark-speakers, a squirrel reveals itself to be the half-elven druid Keyleth who then heals Vax. Keyleth is also investigating the swamp, on behalf of a sorcerer friend, to verify if the swamp is being poisoned rather than cursed. The twins return to the city to track down the alchemist who informed the peasants that the swamp was cursed. The alchemist heads to a meeting; Iselda steps out of a mirror and informs him that she'll take care of the people following him. In a nearby ally, the twins fend off an attack.
The gnome bard Scanlan and the goliath barbarian Grog, along with other mercenaries, successfully raid a fish-god temple and return to Stilben to have an alchemist identify a potion they recovered. Upon arrival to the alchemist's shop, the group is attacked and a member is killed. Later, after recounting their tale at a tavern, they are approached by the dragonborn sorcerer Tiberius who identifies the potion as a type of poison used by an assassins guild based in Wildemount and buys the vial. Keyleth and Tiberius attend a meeting where their group is given twelve hours by the Clasp, a criminal guild, to identify what is killing the peasants; Keyleth and Tiberius spilt off to investigate on their own. Each pair manages to track down the alchemist hiding in a sewer lair at the same time, leading them to attack each other before grouping together to fend off an attack from the alchemist's allies. While initially successful, the group is attacked by Iselda who ambushes them by stepping out of a mirror; she seriously damages the group before fleeing through the mirror with the alchemist. Tiberius identifies her as a member of the Myriad, a Wildemount crime syndicate.
After healing up, each pair splits up again. Vax is then kidnapped by Iselda; Vex seeks help from both Scanlan and Grog's group and Tiberius and Keyleth's group. Neither group can help, so Vex storms off but Keyleth follows after and joins Vex who retrieves her pet bear Trinket. Vex, Keyleth, Tiberius, Scanlan and Grog converge on the docks as a nearby ship explodes; Vax has managed to escape on his own. As a group, they storm the ship and discover that both a poison and a ritual spell are being used to harm the swamp the peasants depend on. After creatively diluting the spell, they are attacked by Iselda who transforms into a fiend. While almost being overwhelmed, Grog kills Iselda and the group decides to get to know one another.
Following another successful job in Stilben, the party celebrates in a tavern; in the middle of the night, Grog has a vision of his father and leaves. At breakfast, the group realize that Grog is missing and the twins learn from the city guard that a goliath with an ax left at dawn heading towards Westruun. They decide to go after Grog except for Tiberius who splits off to pursue research in the Ashen Gorge, the opposite direction. Their investigation in Westruun leads them to the home of the gnome cleric Pike and her great-great-grandfather Wilhand Trickfoot. Pike informs them that Grog is a childhood friend; Pike then channels her god, the Everlight, and scries on Grog. Her spell reveals that Grog is in a nearby mountain known for madness and she decides to join the group to rescue him.
On their journey, Pike tells the party that Grog protected Wilhand from a group of half-giants, including Grog's uncle, who then proceeded to beat Grog to near death. Wilhand and Pike took Grog in and nursed him back to health. Inside the mountain, the group discover a tattered shadow skeletal creature, Drath Mephrun, who has magically ensnared Grog along with a bunch of skeletons, including Grog's father. They beat the creature, rescue Grog who is left with an itchy scar, and then bury Grog's father. Back in Westruun, they look for help to heal Grog's scar; however, at the Temple Ward, they are informed Lady Kima of Vord is away on pilgrimage and at Greystone Tower, they are informed that Realmseer Eskil Ryndarien has a nine week long waitlist. Regrouping at a tavern, they are approached by Drez Vina, a representative of the Realmseer's rival, who offers them a way into his tower if the group agrees to steal an object from the tower.
After agreeing, the group infiltrate the mage tower; the group's behavior and discussion (including the decision to not steal the object) intrigue Eskil who then identifies Grog's scar as a curse that will allow Drath Mephrun to return via a makeshift lichdom ritual. Eskil can cure Grog but only if the group splits up to retrieve two components. Vex, Vax, and Grog head to the Frostweald Forest to retrieve the heart of a nymph. Overcoming basilisks, they reach the nymph's sanctuary; while the twins discuss a plan of action, Grog walks up to the nymph who then whisks him away via portal and then returns him to the sanctuary with a nymph's heart. Pike, Scanlan, and Keyleth head to the Umbra Hills to retrieve the scull of a nightmare. In Jorenn Village, their investigation leads them to a local jail where they discover gunslinger Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III. Percy was pursuing a doctor who was meeting a local cult; the cult plans on summoning a nightmare. Subsequent a jailbreak, Percy helps them fight the cult, kill the nightmare and then joins the group. Upon regrouping, Eskil begins the ritual but Grog is possessed by Drath Mephrun. The group successfully fight to keep Grog in the ritual circle until Eskil destroys the near-lich. Eskil informs them that they now owe him a favor; later in the tavern, Drez Vina informs the group that they now owe his master a favor for failing at the job.
Michio Saito is a middle-aged Japanese screenwriter with little success. He is a former foreign student who returns to California to attend the wedding of his best friend, Daisuke Uehara, to an Alli, an American. Uehara is a former actor who has lived in California since college and is now a restaurant manager. Before the wedding, the two men take one last bachelor trip to the Napa Valley wine country, where they meet a woman that Saito once tutored and admired, Mayuko Tanaka, and her barista friend, Mina Parker. Tanaka and Saito rekindle their acquaintance, and Parker and Uehara become romantically entangled.
Rübezahl lives in the Giant Mountains (German: Riesengebirge). For 999 years he has not appeared among the people who live in a nearby valley. When one of his dwarfs tells him that the bad people are gaining the upper hand and the good people are calling him for help, he decides to go down to the valley and teach the bad people a lesson.
The film opens with Day laying in a drained pool with several injuries to his body. He looks down and screams as a crocodile bites down on his leg.
In a flashback, Day is working on a photoshoot in the same pool as in the opening, now full of water. His girlfriend Koi and his dog Lucky wait for him to finish.
The following morning, Day clears the pool of the props used for the photoshoot and relaxes on an inflatable raft, Lucky is tied to a leash nearby. He is advised by his boss that the pool is being drained, so he will need to get out soon. Day ends up falling asleep, and by the time he wakes up, the water level is too low for him to get out. He attempts to climb out, only to severely injure the nail of his right index finger. He screams for help, but no one is around to hear him.
The next day, while Day is asleep on the raft, Koi shows up to surprise him. Not noticing the lowered water level, she prepares to jump off the diving board. Day awakens and shouts for her not to jump, startling her and causing her to slip and fall into the pool, hitting her head on the diving board on the way down. Day pulls her onto the raft and tends to her while she is unconscious. That night a crocodile appears and crawls towards Lucky but slips on some metal poles by the side of the pool and falls in.
By the morning, the water has completely drained. Day discovers a positive pregnancy test in Koi's pocket and must fend off attacks from the crocodile, revealed to be a pregnant female when it lays a brood of eggs the following night.
Day and Koi fight against hunger, the heat, and a ferocious mother crocodile in order to survive.
A dark curse threatens the world, stemming from an ancient island at the end of the sea where the god-spirits, the Tall Ones, reside. The Hunter (Laura Bailey), a master archer, travels to the island to attempt to end the curse. There, the Hunter finds a Spirit Mask that allows her to see the world’s secrets, and takes it for her own, before meeting the creator spirit, Eagle Mother. After the Hunter cleanses Eagle Mother of the curse that is slowly killing her, the Godslayer (Troy Baker), a powerful entity responsible for the curse shrouding the world and corrupting the Tall Ones, attacks and seemingly kills the spirit. He then leaves for the Floating Isle, a massive landmass floating in the sky. The Eagle Mother speaks to the Hunter and bids her to cleanse her four children, the other Tall Ones who have also been cursed by the Godslayer, in order to stop his plan to destroy the world. Eagle Mother then reincarnates into the form of a regular Eagle, who joins the Hunter on her quest.
The Hunter and the Eagle manage to cleanse the first three corrupted spirits: Cernos, the Elk Spirit; Sauro, the Lizard Spirit; and Nimue, the Snake Spirit. Throughout her quest, the Hunter can learn of the Pathfinder, a man who believed that the world the Tall Ones had created and ruled was full of chaos. Thus, he wished to discover the ‘One True Path’ to allow all people to reach salvation by following it. His beliefs created a cult of followers that committed many terrible acts against the people of the island in their zealotry. Eventually, the Pathfinder collected the Mask of Ancients, a mask that allowed him to see “as the Tall Ones see”. However, upon donning the Mask, the Pathfinder realized that the world was truly chaotic and 'pathless' and thus no 'one true path' existed, and that the only way to create such a path was to destroy the world and create a new one. The Pathfinder acquired the Sun Sword, a sword unmatched by any other weapon, via the ritual sacrifice of his followers, and became known as the Godslayer.
Upon heading to the mountains to find and cleanse the fourth spirit, the Hunter is attacked by the Godslayer, who notes that the Eagle is not a normal bird before leaving again for the Floating Isle to prepare for his ritual ascent to godhood. The Hunter and the Eagle manage to cleanse the fourth and final spirit, Kumo the Bear Spirit, and fly to the Floating Isle, atop which is a barren wasteland populated by a single tower. There, the Godslayer ambushes the Hunter, breaking her bow, and curses the Eagle upon realizing that she is the reincarnated Eagle Mother, transforming her into a massive corrupted spirit that attacks the Hunter. The Hunter manages to avoid the Eagle’s attacks as she crosses the Isle to the tower. There, Cernos, Sauro, Nimue, and Kumo grant her the Moon Bow, the twin of the Sun Sword and the only other weapon that can match it, and send her to the top of the tower to face the Godslayer.
Evenly matched against the Godslayer due to her possession of the Bow, the Hunter manages to activate three obelisks to weaken the corrupted Eagle. However, before she can cleanse the Eagle, the Godslayer completes his ritual and ascends to godhood, transforming into a massive skeletal monstrosity. Before he can kill her and the Eagle, the Hunter absorbs the Eagle’s curse into her own body. She is transported to the spirit world, where the Eagle Mother speaks to her about the resolve she has displayed in cleansing the Tall Ones and her connection to the Eagle. The Hunter is reunited with the cleansed form of the Eagle, with the other Tall Ones granting her strength to defeat the Godslayer. The Hunter defeats the Godslayer, explaining that if everyone follows the same path they will not find salvation, and that a pathless world allows everyone to find and make their own way. The Godslayer is cleansed and destroyed, finally freeing the land of its curse. The Hunter shares a final moment with the Eagle before sending her to spread the message that the world is free and take her place as the Eagle Mother, before the Hunter succumbs to the curse.
If the player has found all fifty-seven lightstones throughout the game, a post-credits scene shows the Eagle returning to the tower and cleansing the Hunter of the curse, saving her life and reuniting with her.
In the year 2031, the first colony of Mars is founded. By 2042, the Alliance was formed and quantum propulsion technology allows humanity to travel beyond the solar system. Unfortunately, the Mars colony fails in 2281 and the Alliance controls the three colonies: Earth, Zafdie, and Ellora.
Zafdie attempts to secede from the alliance in 2519. In this war James Ford drops a Q(uantum)-Bomb on the rebel colony, killing 70 million people. After committing this atrocity, he is dishonorably discharged from the Alliance military; his wife, Dr. Lea Goss, leaves him; and he is subsequently known as "The Blood General".
In space, the Sigea is an invasive alien species that invades and conquers other worlds. They can parasitically infect others by forcing them to ingest a black fluid that puts them under the control of the Sigea's hive mind.
In the year 2524, the Vander Mining Corp is stationed on planet 4217LYA (Heracles System) when Captain Juda Sayle reports an alien encounter to the Alliance. On Earth, General Eron Ryle is notified and wants Dr. Goss and Ford in on the situation.
At a local bar, Dash is meeting with Ford for a job when civilians pick a fight with him, but Commander Marcus Bleck appears and intervenes. Bleck requests his presence but Ford refuses, relenting only when Bleck mentions that a successful mission will earn Ford's reinstatement. At the McMillian Airfield, Dash tags along with Ford to a meeting with Dr. Goss and Ryle about what happened in the Heracles System. Survivors of the Vander mining operation are sent to the airfield for debriefing, but Goss raises concerns. The survivors are under Sigea control and start killing security. The soldiers fight back and win, but at the cost of 53 lives.
The incident is considered an attack on humanity and the Alliance is to strike back in the form of Operation: Cosmic Sin. Ford, Ryle, Goss, Braxton, Bleck, Dash, and Ardene travel to Ellora via Quantum Jump Gate to stop the Sigea; however while entering Ellora, Ryle's suit gets damaged and he is presumed dead when he doesn't rendezvous with the team. Ford and Goss have also been separated from the group during entry, and Bleck is mortally wounded shortly after making it to the surface. As the team struggles to take out their attackers, Elloran survivors aid them, including Sol Cantos who was escorting survivors when she encountered the team.
After verifying they're free of Sigea influence, the survivors agree to guide them to the orbital cannon and treat Bleck's injuries. At the Alliance outpost, the surviving team learns about how the Sigea infect and control people. Ford makes it to the outpost to find Bleck, whom he mercy kills. In a meeting with the surviving soldiers, a plan is formed to try and collapse the gateway between Ellora and the Sigea galaxy with a Q-Bomb the team brought with them.
In space, Ryle is able to reach out to Ardene through the coms. Stranded in space, he volunteers to help detonate the gateway to seal off the Sigea. The Sigea know the survivors are holding up at the orbital cannon and converge on the outpost; Goss reveals herself to be an agent of the Sigea, and gives them a chance to surrender, which they refuse. The group prepares to make their last stand, defending the outpost as long as possible for Ardene to fire the cannon.
While the rest of the group holds off the alien attackers, Ford latches on to a Sigea ship and follows Goss to the gateway, where she says that there was never going to be peace between humans and the Sigea. Ford is repelled back to Ellora while Goss drifts through the gate. Unable to detonate his suit's remaining fuel manually, Ryle has Ardene and Braxton fire the cannon at him after a final goodbye to his nephew. The resulting chain reaction destroys the gateway as the Q-bomb crosses over into Sigea space and opens a black hole. The gate closes behind the black hole, sealing and wiping out the Segia attack fleet and their entire solar system.
A week later, Ford heads back to the bar for a drink along with the survivors of Ellora. Dash, Ardene, Braxton, and Sol Cantos survived the battle and the Alliance celebrates their victory with the remaining Sigea having unconditionally surrendered following the destruction of their fleet and their home star system. Ford takes a shot and leaves the bar.
The Runners are hired to break into a lab via a city sewer to steal data from Aztechnology. However, the Runners discover that the lab is over-run by mutagenic experiments, and a terrorist cell also wants the data. When the break-in goes awry, the Runners take shelter in the sewers underneath Tacoma, where they must negotiate with the Orks who live there.
The adventure is set in Seattle in 2050. The Runners are hired to protect the rock star Maria Mercurial from her former manager, who apparently wants to harm her after she broke their contract. Soon it becomes clear that this is not a simple bodyguarding gig, as first a Yakuza gang and then a second group appears, and details of Maria's unhappy past begin to surface.
A new arrival in the RIS: it is Lieutenant Giorgia Levi, a criminologist psychologist hired to trace a psychological profile of the serial bomber. Meanwhile, the Bomb Man aims higher and higher: he kills Lieutenant Anna Giordano, poisoning her with a bracelet. The desperation of Captain Riccardo Venturi, who was having an affair with the girl, and the determination of the RIS men lead to the arrest of the serial killer, who however denies involvement in the murders. But the truth is burning: the arrested is not the Bomb Man, but his twin brother; the two had been separated at birth and neither knew of the other's existence. The hunt for the Bomb Man ends, or so it seems, at Borgo Val di Taro, on top of a dam from which the Bomb Man throws himself. But the body is not found: Venturi cannot believe in the man's death and stubbornly throws himself in search of him, even ending up on leave. Eventually, however, the captain manages to prove that the Bomb Man is alive and that he was saved via a special silicone vest.. Back on duty, the captain resumes the hunt for the bomb, which culminates in a violent firefight, where the twin of the serial killer is killed and Venturi himself is wounded. Relieved of his post, he will still manage to foil the latest attack and capture the Bomb Man. Naturally, around the central plot revolve sub-plots that speak of crimes, rape, serial murders, satanic crimes, suicides, robberies and kidnappings. In this season, particular space will be given to the character of Venturi and in one episode he will also discover himself atheist (The Last Greeting). In the meantime, Martinelli's struggle against the factory that made his father sick continues and a love is born between Martinelli himself and the new arrival Giorgia Levi. The story between Davide and Francesca De Biase ends when she decides to go and take care of her legs and study in the United States.
The play takes place amidst conflict between the Persians and the Medes. Leamira is the daughter of the Persian king, Darius. Her father commands her to marry Tygranes (Prince of the Medes), but she loves the Persian general Cleomedon.
At the end of the play, it is revealed that Cleomedon is actually the son of Astiages, King of the Medes. Leamira and Cleomedon are therefore free to marry.
Written with Gilbert's usual urbane and understated style, the events mostly take place in and around London, as is customary in most of his books: in sundry law offices, courts, government offices, and gentlemen's clubs. Gilbert himself was a most Establishment figure, frequently writing about other Establishment figures, and was usually firmly on the side of England's police forces and shadowy (though lethal) Intelligent departments. But perhaps because of his many years of legal practice, he was also equally at home in filling his narratives with other types of characters: sleazy strip-club owners, tough and semi-crooked policemen, hard-bitten union officials, factory workers, relentless and unscrupulous Intelligent agents, and a wide variety of hard-boiled villains and crooks from small-time burglars and con men to gangster chieftains.
''Flash Point'' begins with Jonas Killey, an obscure but obstinate and somewhat truculent solicitor with a small practice in Wimbledon, attempting to bring charges against Will Dylan, a rising young politician, for what he purports to be the embezzlement of funds during Dylan's handling of the merger of two small labor unions several years before. The facts are obscure, the documentation equally obscure, the matter of no interest to anyone except Killey; the various Law Societies and associated bodies to whom he appeals for help in pursuing his claims are reluctant to take up the matter. The story unfolds through the points of view of various legal and political personalities, and little by little Killey succeeds in bringing the matter to wider public attention—at the cost of drawing into the picture a number of unscrupulous characters, communist trades union men apparently acting on his behalf, and an even more unscrupulous intelligence department's chief acting to discredit Killey and suppress the entire matter. Much of the ensuing book takes place in lawyer's chambers, magistrates' courts, newspaper offices, and the occasional meeting between high government officials, including the Prime Minister himself. By the time the book ends, the cover-up has become a newspaper sensation comparable to the Watergate scandal of that time in the United States and in the ensuing election the Prime Minister and his party are turned out of office. Unlike most other Gilbert books, however, all of the violence is of the non-lethal kind: people are threatened, roughed up, and actually beaten, but the only two fatalities in the story are inadvertent. There is, nevertheless, a sharp edge to the entire story that is entirely in keeping with what one of Gilbert's American editors said about him after his death in 2006, many years after the publication of ''Flash Point'':
"He's not a hard-boiled writer in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded.". Such is the case in ''Flash Point'', although Jonas Killey himself, the uncompromising instigator of so much national drama, ends up in surprisingly benign circumstances in totally different, non-legalist surroundings.
After he witnesses his father's murder at the family dojo, Ryo Hazuki dedicates his life to finding the man responsible – a mission that takes him from the streets of Yokosuka, Japan, to the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong and beyond. Ryo will learn that larger, mystical forces are at play as he trains to become the ultimate martial artist in his quest for revenge.
Emerging from a terrible event that changes the course of his life, Emman finds a stable job and lives a simple life in the province of Alcala with his father and brother. Blessings continue to come Emman's way when he reunites with his son, Robbie, for the child's birthday celebration and finally buries the hatchet with his ex-wife Celine. However, Celine's fiancé Anton cannot help but burn with jealousy despite her continued reassurance. As their reunion nears its end, things take a turn for the worse when an unidentified man takes Robbie captive in broad daylight. The story of Emman's and Celine's loss is every parent's nightmare. To lose one's child is devastating, and to lose them to an organ trafficking syndicate preying on defenseless and innocent children is an abomination. The couple, once estranged, come together to search for their son, and discover their love for one another is still there. In the process, they discover the betrayal of people they trust, and the evil permeating within their community.
Martinelli is promoted to captain and transferred to Messina. To make up for the absence, however, Francesca De Biase will arrive who, with her hilarity, will bring a breath of freshness to the Parma laboratories. Riccardo Venturi, after the loss of Anna, has become even more methodical and precise in his work. The Man of the Bombs, meanwhile, is in prison and is sentenced to life imprisonment and a regime of solitary confinement: however, it will be discovered that the affair is far from over. An anonymous package arrives at the RIS for Captain Venturi where, inside, kept in a box, there is a woman's finger recently amputated. Thanks to the ring, the group will go back to the victim and, once they arrive at the inspection in the woman's house, a DVD will be foundfor the captain. Inside is a video of a woman tied to a cot, gagged and forced to undergo hallucinating torture. Venturi thinks he's a serial killerand he is proved right when, thanks to the analysis of a larva found in the victim's house, they arrive in a wood and find the buried corpses of two different women: one already reduced to a skeleton and another recently dead. Scientists will understand that there is a new serial killer out there and that he has started a personal challenge with Captain Venturi, emulating the bomb man. During the series Venturi will have an affair with a journalist but, the latter, will be kidnapped and killed by the new serial killer. The autopsy leaves no doubt; the serial lets women die of starvation, in the most atrocious way possible, between torture and amputations in a former psychiatric hospital. The same serial will send a bomb package to Levi which, however, will explode in Venturi's hands, forcing him into a coma and leaving him with a serious problem in his hand that prevents him from keeping objects in balance. The new killer will even go to visit the captain while he is in the hospital. In the end it turns out that the serial killer is the psychiatrist who drew up the psychological profile of the man of the bombs: Carlo Vasari. It turns out that the man was the brother of a lesbian girl accused of killing his girlfriend with a tripod. Venturi had dealt with the case and had the girl arrested despite the fact that the real culprit was the brother who wanted to "punish" his sister's girlfriend for being an adulteress. Once arrested, Anna Maria Orazi (this is her sister's name) had had a psychic crisis and had been hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital (the same where the serial killer keeps his victims prisoner) where, refusing food, she was allowed to die of hardship. Vasari, before being discovered, kidnaps Francesca and keeps her prisoner first in a room of a country cottage and then, after the girl's awakening, in a labyrinth cave after having poisoned her with botulinum. In a fight with Venturi, Vasari is wounded by Marshal De Biase with a gunshot. Taken to the hospital he will go into a coma and, upon awakening, he will confess the place of Francesca's imprisonment to the man of the bombs before committing suicide in the hospital with a knife. L' Man of the Bombs will escort Venturi to the place where Francesca is but will escape and find death at the hands of Davide. Venturi goes down inside the cave and with his disabled hand breaks the unbreakable glass that separates him from Francesca and injects her with an antidote to the Botox that makes her wake up. Completely injured by the glass and ropes, Venturi manages to save little Francesca and take her to the hospital. The series ends with General Tosi who warns Venturi: if the problem in his hand is not solved, he will be forced to give the Venturi manages to save little Francesca and take her to the hospital. The series ends with General Tosi who warns Venturi: if the problem in his hand is not solved, he will be forced to give the Venturi manages to save little Francesca and take her to the hospital. The series ends with General Tosi who warns Venturi: if the problem in his hand is not solved, he will be forced to give thepermanent leave . Naturally, the simpler investigations taken from Italian news cases revolve around the history of the serial, such as crimes, serial rapists, kidnappings, armed robberies and "family murders".
Players assume the role of a faithful priest of the Orthogonal order, exiled for a crime of retaliation against the order for sacrificing his adoptive daughter. The game begins with the priest adrift in a swamp, ferried by a stranger to solid ground. He bestows vague instructions, along with a mysterious staff and book. The priest embarks to hunt down the foul heretical sects responsible for conjuring plagues and twisting the natural order of the seasons.
Kim goes to a pub for the first time as an adventure and meets two brothers. She is naive and goes home with them where a practical joke is played on Kim a fake video depicting a nuclear apocalypse and that everybody has just two weeks to live. Kim, raised to believe the end times were close, sets off to kill the man who murdered her father in front of her when she was a child.
John Brock is a down-on-his-luck archaeologist who returns from an expedition to the caves of rural Kentucky after unsuccessfully trying to locate a mysterious relic that his family has sought for generations. Upon his return, John starts to see dream-like visions of a ferocious bird-like creature from ancient folklore. John soon learns that the cave he came into contact with on his last expedition was indeed the cave that contains the relic and also a portal to Hell and a place of worship for the Occult. John discovers that the only way to stop the increasingly realistic visions is to go back to the cave with his family, find the relic once and for all, and destroy it.
Chowder, a nine-year-old cat-bear-rabbit hybrid, retrieves two bags of food from the Marzipan city market and journeys back to Mung Daal Catering. Getting tired from lifting the bags, he uses a piston to launch himself towards his destination. Meanwhile, Truffles receives a call from a ordering customer. As Truffles calls for her husband Mung to get her order pad, Chowder crashes through the roof and lands next to her, thus she hands Chowder the order instead.
Mung and Shnitzel, the latter a rock monster assistant, are waiting in the main kitchen as Chowder enters with the two bags and the order for a "froggy apple crumple thumpkin". As Mung notices that the two bags seem smaller than they should be, Chowder admits to snacking a bit on his way back, and proceeds to regurgitate the things he ate. With the mess Chowder has made, Schnitzel steps out of frame and shakes away the clutter from the screen. Mung begins to prepare the order by consulting the gigantic "Big Book of Recipes", as its recipe is at an "advanced level" and Mung has not made the dish in centuries.
For step one, Mung introduces the "no-fruit" (based on tofu) to Chowder. Once a leaf is pulled off, the no-fruit cycles through various types of fruit, and by hitting it at just the right moment, a chef can bring forth the desired fruit. As Mung, Chowder, and Shnitzel tries to turn no-fruits into apples, Chowder excessively hits an already-altered no-fruit, which leads to its transformation into a violent critter that proceeds to attack Shnitzel. For step two, Mung gives to Chowder the meat from a twelve-legged cave frog. Chowder accidentally places the meat into a chipper machine before removing the explosive stink sac; once the sac comes out, Chowder tries to taste it, only for it to start beeping. Chowder throws it away, with the sac landing on Shnitzel and exploding into pungent gas. After 67 steps, the final step involves a thumb wrestling match with the dish. Meanwhile, the customer has arrived to retrieve his order.
The dish proves difficult for Mung to beat, so Mung tags in Chowder for the match. Chowder panics and proceeds to run away, until Mung advices him that a chef tastes the dish before serving it. Chowder regains his confidence and takes a bite out of the dish, defeating it. However, Chowder becomes too gratified and tries to consume it entirely. The dish is able to carry itself over to the customer while Mung keeps Chowder at bay, and the customer leaves the building. As Mung and Truffles note their success with the dish, Chowder consumes the entire screen and leaves.
Deep in the mountains, a young girl named Tove lives with her father, Henrik, and her younger brother Lars. When Lars was just a baby, his and Tove's mother, Eva, passed away, leaving Henrik grief-stricken and spending most of his days asleep in front of the fire. Thus it is left up to Tove to care for her father and her more imaginative younger brother Lars, who loves fairy tales and often acts like he can see the creatures from those folk tales. One night, as Tove is putting Lars to bed, she decides to read Lars their mother's favorite fairy tale, about the Jötnar and the Baby, which Eva had always told Tove was real. The fairy tale goes that there existed four giant guardians of an enchanted forest, Jötunbjörn the Bear of Autumn, Jötunhjort the Stag of Summer, Jötunúlfur the Wolf of Spring, and Jötunravn the Raven of Winter. Soon humans came to the forest, and a humble woodcutter caught the Raven's eye, falling in love with him. The Raven took human form and assumed the name Rörka, marrying the man and becoming pregnant. However, because the child was only half-human, he was wild and dangerous. Horrified, the other three guardians imprisoned Rörka and her son in the prison realm of Utangard.
That very same night, the children's home is attacked by a pitch-black creature. The children managed to escape down the mountain, but Henrik is left trapped beneath debris and surrounded by fire, and he forces Tove and Lars to leave him behind. The two children escape into the forest at the base of the mountain, intending to reach the nearby town for help, but Lars, momentarily forgetting the danger and distracted by his imagination, is separated from his sister and captured by the monster. Tove manages to pursue the two to a portal at the edge of a lake, and sees Lars just as the monster's claw grabs him and drags Lars through the portal. Tove is unable to reach the portal in time as it closes. Lars is taken to Utangard, where the monster is revealed to be Röki the son of Rörka, who intends to use Lars, because he is forest-born and thus touched by magic, as a sacrifice in a ritual of dark magic to transform Röki into a human, intending to give her son the life she believes he deserves as humans cannot accept monsters. The ritual had previously been attempted before, but has failed each time, with the previous children dying before Röki could be transformed. During the ritual, Lars and Röki begin to grow close, and develop a friendly bond, which Rörka writes off and tries to prevent her son from making it more painful than it has to be.
Meanwhile, dawn breaks in the forest, and Tove decides to set off and reopen the portal to rescue Lars, finding she can see the many magical creatures of the forest after nearly getting through the portal, and learns that she needs a Jötunn to fully open the way. Thus, Tive sets off to find the three guardians. During this time she meets and helps various folkloric creatures inhabiting the forest. Tove's adventures in the forest include; meeting the Tree of Many and the Waytrees, which became disconnected from their Great Mother Tree thanks to Rörka's ravens, becoming friends with two trollsisters, the last of the trollfolk that once lived in the forest, reuniting a family of Krokelings with their mother, giving an offering to the Fossegrim, who teaches Tove how to control water, helping the Yule Cat whose black fur has grayed, freeing a Nokken, the spirit of a drowned girl, rescuing a trapped Älva, and defeating the giant spider Widow Drau and freeing her prey, the cave Tomte. During this adventure, Tove also finds mysterious illness spreading throughout the forest, a fungus blight, and meets with a mysterious voice who gives her two recipes to help Tove in her quest, one for a mask of invisibility and another for a mask to reveal hidden beings. After collecting all the ingredients and freeing two of the Guardians, the Wolf and the Bear, from the source of forest's illness, the Nattamare Parasites, the voice reveals itself to be a Shroomi, a living mushroom. With the masks made by the Shroomi, as well as a cure for the blight, Tove is able to free the Stag, the final guardian, and end the forest's illness. While freeing the guardians from the Nattamare Parasistes inflicted upon them by Rörka as they slept, Tove undergoes visions that reveal forgotten memories involving her mother, including an old song her mother taught her, that it was Tove and not Henrik who dropped her mother's belongings down a well after Tove's mom passed, and fixing corrupted memories of the events prior to Eva's death.
After awakening all the guardians and getting each to agree to help Tove, as well as the Bear and the Stag revealing regret for banishing Rörka and that she had run after Röki's birth out of fear of her husband's reaction before being imprisoned by her brothers and sister, the guardians open the portal for Tove to Utangard. Henrik is revealed to be alive, and recalling the nights events, rushes down the mountain on foot to find his children, retracing their steps through the forest, and arriving just after Tove passes through the portal as it closes. Seeing that Utangard (the giant castle) is across the lake, Henrik takes a nearby boat and rows towards it. Henrik arrives at the castle, but because he did not pass through the portal, it is simply a normal castle, leaving him and Tove separated on two different planes. Despite only feeling a ghostly presence of one another, which Henrik originally misinterprets to be Eva, the two work on their different sides to get through the castle. While exploring, Henrik finds leftover equipment and notes of a prior expedition to the castle, led by a man looking for his missing son, Elias, though like Henrik, he had not passed though the guardian's portal and was thus unable to enter the true Utangard, meaning he was unable to rescue his son. Unable to go any further, Henrik uses a cage to allow Tove to reach the top of the tower where Röki, Rörka, and Lars are.
At the top of the tower, Tove finds the ritual almost complete, Lars near-death, as is Rörka, the ritual having taken a stronger toll on her than she thought. Despite a plea from Tove to use her instead of Lars, and Lars stating that Rörka is turning her son into something he doesn't want to be, Rörka continues with the ritual. Upset over being called a monster, Rörka sends Tove into her repressed memory of Eva's death; The family's car crashed in the forest as they were on their to the hospital for Eva to give birth. Henrik asked Tove to find a nearby payphone, but Eva stopped her from running off and give birth to Lars in the cold of the winter forest, dying shortly afterward from exposure. Rörka tries to make Tove think she is the true monster for letting her family down and leading to Eva's death, but Tove is able to ward off Rörka's manipulations and convince Röki to stop the transformation and save Lars, his friend. Though the ritual has been stopped and Lars saved, Rörka, still greatly weakened and near death, is greatly angered. However, her brothers and sister, the other guardians, arrive and apologize for what they did to her and to Röki. They explain how Tove helped them, and see that the forest can only be restored with all of them leaving for 'the next realm.' The other three want Rörka to come with them, and convince her that Röki should be allowed to make his own path, free of his mother. The guardians depart, wishing Tove well and Rörka apologizing for all the pain she caused while hoping that her son finds the life he deserves.
Some time later, Tove calls for Lars, alerting to him that its time for dinner, made by Henrik for a change, who has also completed rebuilding the house. As Tove and Henrik run off-screen, Lars hears the footsteps and roar of Röki behind him, and tells him that their 'adventuring' is finished for the day, and time for the two of them to return home. It is left ambiguous whether or not only Lars can see Röki, or if Tove and Henrik can see him too as they did at the start of the game.
''Thirty Years of Adonis'' explores the philosophy of life and death, religious beliefs and karma through an erotically charged story. Yang Ke is a 30-year-old man who dreams of becoming a famous Beijing Opera actor. He is an attractive man who can effortlessly charm both men and women. However, his fate leads him to the underworld as he joins a cult-like society of masculine sex workers. Despite his faith and his willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed in a heart-breaking moment from which there is no return.
The isolated town of Hinomori is the last outpost in a destroyed world. It's repeatedly attacked by 'beasts of sin'/Zaiju, and is protected by the legendary Heart Princesses, who are responsible for its continued survival. A young, ditzy girl named Haruka Hani, whose dream is to become a Heart Princess, is asked to join their ranks by a creature called a Moon Cat. She saves her best friend, Tamaki Teijou, from an attacking Zaiju in the second episode.
As the series continues, references are made to a conflict between two species, the Moon Cats, colorful cats who transform girls into Princesses, and the Earth Wolves, the main antagonists of the series. A group of Earth Wolves in human form attend the same school as the Princesses and are responsible for summoning Zaiju.
Later, Ami Gido, a girl who works at her family's Chinese restaurant, becomes Blue Princess, and Yukari Mure, a glasses-wearing girl, becomes Yellow Princess. Three others are introduced- Megumi Daishin/ Gold Princess, Kanade Chidori/ Purple Princess, and Makoto Yoshitada/ Green Princess.
In episode 6, Tamaki is transformed into Black Princess, but she's turned into a Zaiju in the middle of the process and begins attacking the others.
Written with Gilbert's usual urbane and understated style, the events mostly take place in the West Country of southwestern England, around the small cities and moors of Exmoor and Dartmoor and its extremely dangerous seacoast.
''The Empty House'' begins with the apparent death of Alexander Wolfe, a genius-level biologist working at the Biological Warfare Research Station under the close supervision of the Army's Western Command Headquarters at Exeter. His car has plunged, apparently accidentally, off a cliff far from the main roads into the churning waters of the Celtic Sea below, waters so turbulent that no thought is even given to trying to recover the car or his body. Wolfe has recently taken out a large, and unusual, insurance policy that specifies that if his body is ever lost at sea and never recovered, he is to be presumed dead and his sister shall be paid a large amount of money. The unhappy insurance underwriters send a young but highly qualified adjuster, Peter Manciple, to look into the peculiar circumstances of Wolfe's disappearance and to recommend whether the claim should be paid or not. A personable young man, Peter spends the next couple of weeks moving from town to town and one overnight stay to the next, meeting a variety of interesting people and gradually coming to a conclusion as to what has happened to Alexander Wolfe. Even for Gilbert, a writer who was comfortable writing many types of thrillers and mysteries, ''The Empty House'' contains an unusual number of disparate elements: there are domestic scenes; chases and violence on the moors; cross-country Buchanesque escapes; sympathetic but murderous Israeli agents; even more murderous Palestinian agents; stolid policemen; clever lawyers; affable innkeepers; shrewd schoolmasters; relentless Army soldiers and counter-agents; and unexpected shifts from one apparent sort of story to the next. In the end, in one final surprise, Manciple delivers his report to his employers, rejects an offer from the Army to join its counter-intelligence group, and goes off to become a schoolmaster at Blundell's School.
Gilbert himself was a most Establishment figure, frequently writing about other Establishment figures, and was usually firmly on the side of England's police forces and shadowy (though lethal) Intelligent departments. In ''The Empty House'', however, there is a sharp edge to the entire story that is entirely in keeping with what one of Gilbert's American editors said about him after his death in 2006, many years after the publication of this book: "He's not a hard-boiled writer in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded.".
Alienated by her peers as a young girl, Scarlet finds escape from her loneliness in the forest where she meets a mysterious witch. Scarlet refuses the offer of magic at first, but maintains the friendship into her college years. When her blossoming relationship with a handsome boy at school is threatened by another girl, Scarlet turns to her old friend and her sorcery to get what she wants. Will her newfound powers fulfill all her desires or destroy everything she has known and loved?
In an unspecified snowy wilderness, a group of loggers are finishing work for the day and prepping a massive roast when a grotesque axe-wielding man emerges from the woods, massacres nearly everyone, then runs the foreman through the circular saw. Sometime later, a group of five young first-time offenders, Marty, Trish, Zack, Rosa, and CB, are taken into the woods for a week long rehabilitation excursion led by Sergeant A. Hoke and Ms. Sam Kowowzinkowski, a guidance counselor. When they arrive at the remote cabin, Hoke tells the others they will all be sleeping in tents outside while he enjoys the cabin. In the nearby woods, a grizzly bear is stalking a deer when a giant man (Bunyan) emerges from the trees, picks up the grizzly, snaps its neck, then skins and cleans the carcass.
During a night around the campfire where Ms. K talks with the youths, a local hermit, Meeks, crashes their program discussion, startling them, before Hoke runs him off and sends everyone to bed. The following morning, Hoke takes the others on a grueling hike. When they stop for lunch, Zack and Martin find the bones of a large ox jutting up from the ground. Zack takes a horn from the skull as a souvenir. Later, Bunyan visits the site, revealing it to be the grave of his ox, Babe, and finds the skull missing a horn, which enrages the giant.
The delinquents, Hoke and Ms. K stop for a break in their hike. When Martin and Zack toss the horn back and forth, a wind passes through it, alerting Bunyan to their location. The giant emerges from the trees behind an oblivious Trish—who's distracted when her phone picks up a rare signal—and brings his axe down on her, splitting her vertically in half. The others run away in a panic and Bunyan bisects Hoke, but lodges his axe in a tree, which allows the others to escape back to the cabin. Bunyan follows them and pulls their van away with him, trapping them, then returns to his cave.
Meeks runs into the campgrounds in a panic and the others let him in the cabin. Once he sees the horn, he tells the group of their misdoing and that the tall tale of Paul Bunyan is based on an actual person, the son of a 19th century lumber baron and European immigrant. He was born with a rare condition that caused extreme gigantism as well as tripling his life expectancy. In adolescence, Bunyan's blue ox, Babe, got wounded and wandered into some loggers’ area, who in turn killed Babe for the meat. Bunyan slaughtered the loggers in retaliation, which caused the nearby townspeople to seal him inside an abandoned mine. Bunyan survived and grew to his full height while living in the mountains. Meeks tells them they must return Babe's horn to Bunyan's shrine or they will all be killed.
Upon hearing this, Zack runs out of the cabin with the horn and throws it into the forest. The horn is thrown back out of the trees and impales Zack; Bunyan emerges, drags Zack's body off and returns to his cave to sharpen his axe. CB's father (who's also the local sheriff) is called to the area for a bear sighting but finds Hoke's body. Bunyan returns and smashes through the roof of the cabin. He grabs Rosa and throws her against a tree, killing her. The others rush outside and as Bunyan is about to attack them, he's shot with several tranquilizer darts by CB's father, who's just arrived on the scene. Bunyan falls backwards incapacitated, and crushes the cabin. Meeks emerges from the woods and hold them all at gunpoint while defending Bunyan. He shoots Martin and prepares to kill the others, but Bunyan regains consciousness and decapitates Meeks. Bunyan chases Sheriff, CB, and Ms. K to a footbridge over a river where they are trapped until a militia composed of local hunters arrives. They empty their weapons into Bunyan who falls seemingly mortally wounded into the river below and sinks. Sheriff, CB, and Ms. K leave with the militia.
In the future, ecological collapse has caused society to crumble. Governments have given way to massive corporate powers. Facing extinction, a mysterious group of conspirators has formed to ensure the survival of humanity by any means necessary. The game begins as the player-character wakes up in a cold storage pod without any idea of what is going on, and now as much a machine as human. The player must explore the perilous installations of this shadowy organization and discover what they are planning.
The film tells about the Soviet footballer, Eduard Streltsov, and his difficult path to national fame.
In the preamble of the tragedy, John, Duke of Mirandola, marries a lady named Isidora, who was initially betrothed to Guido, the Duke's son. According to the deception of the monk Gheraldi (one of the main conspirators of the conspiracy), who had reported Guido's death in battle, Isidora is induced to consent to the marriage with Duke John.
The first act therefore opens with Guido's unexpected return to Mirandola, impatient to claim the love of his betrothed and unaware of the plot that took place in his absence, since all the letters between father and son had been intercepted by the monk's machinations. Once the deception was discovered, feelings of jealousy and mistrust arose between the Duke and Guido, accentuated by the attitude of Isabella, the Duke's sister, who hoped to ensure her son's succession to the Duchy of Mirandola. With his arts and the help of the notorious monk, the Duke's passions are driven to madness: he discovers Isidora together with his son Guido, and in his jealous frenzy orders the young man to be put to death. Guido's friend, who breaks in with the intercepted letters he had accidentally recovered from Gheraldi, arrives too late to save him. Duke John then dies in an agony of repentance and passion, with Isabella's diabolical schemes crowned with success. Isidora's destiny is instead left to the imagination of the spectator.
In this female-driven comedic series, Alex (Brunson) and Daisy (Akana), two millennial women, are given the duty of protecting the universe while getting their lives together and pay rent to their demanding landlord.
During the Great Calamity, a small Guardian awakens within Hyrule Castle. It escapes the destruction through a time portal but is followed by a portion of Calamity's Ganon's Malice. Arriving in an alternate timeline before the Calamity began, the Guardian is reactivated by Link and Impa during a battle. They take it to engineers Purah and Robbie for study and learn that it came from a future in which Ganon reawakens and destroys Hyrule. To prevent this, King Rhoam assembles four pilots for the recently-discovered Divine Beasts – Mipha, Daruk, Urbosa, and Revali – and commands them, Link, and Zelda to find the Master Sword in Korok Forest.
The Champions encounter the dark prophet Astor, who seeks to revive and control Calamity Ganon, corrupting the Forest, but Link draws the Master Sword and forces him to withdraw. Purah's research reveals the presence of Sheikah transport towers hidden underground, and the Champions reactivate them and use them to lead a preemptive strike on the Yiga Clan's hideout in Gerudo Desert. Learning from the Guardian's records that Calamity Ganon will return on Zelda's seventeenth birthday, King Rhoam sends her to train in hopes of awakening her sealing magic in time and deploys the Divine Beasts to prepare for the Calamity's impending return.
Robbie and Purah are captured by Yiga spies while restoring the Guardian's memory, but it escapes with the Sheikah Slate and delivers it to Zelda just as the Calamity arrives. With Hyrule Castle besieged and the Sheikah Towers shut down across Hyrule, the Champions are ambushed in their Divine Beasts by Calamity Ganon's Blights and King Rhoam seemingly sacrifices himself as Link, Zelda, and Impa escape the Castle. The Guardian summons Sidon, Yunobo, Riju, and Teba from the original timeline to assist Mipha, Daruk, Urbosa, and Revali, respectively, buying Link enough time to destroy the Blights. With the Champions saved and the Divine Beasts restored, they begin to clear the way to Hyrule Castle. To stop the timeline from changing, Astor kills many of the Yiga Clan and uses their life force to resurrect the four Blights. Link is cornered by the revived Blights, but Zelda finally awakens her sealing magic to save him, forcing Astor to retreat. The remnants of the Yiga Clan defect to Zelda's side, and the group also discovers that King Rhoam survived.
After Zelda and King Rhoam reconcile, Purah uses the Sheikah towers to transport all their allies to Hyrule Castle for a full-scale assault against Calamity Ganon. Although the Divine Beasts weaken Ganon's spirit form, Astor arrives with Harbinger Ganon, the small Guardian from the current timeline infected with the Malice from the original timeline. After being defeated by Link, Zelda, and the Champions, Astor is consumed by Harbinger Ganon, who transforms into Calamity Ganon. Calamity Ganon corrupts the little Guardian and turns it against the group, forcing them to destroy it. Upon its defeat, Zelda remembers she activated the little Guardian as a child and named it Terrako, but Rhoam took it away so she would focus on her training. Zelda and her allies confront Calamity Ganon but are unable to damage him until Terrako uses the last of its strength to self-destruct, weakening Calamity Ganon. Now vulnerable, Calamity Ganon is defeated by Link, and Zelda uses her power to permanently seal him away. The future heroes are returned to their timeline while Link, Zelda, and their allies look out at the now peaceful Hyrule. In a secret ending, Purah and Robbie repair Terrako, reuniting Zelda with her friend.
''Judgement Day'' is an adventure set in 2018 that takes place in both Mega-City One and on the prison moon Titan orbiting Jupiter. The evil Judge Cal, former tyrant ruler of Mega-City One, had his personality saved on a microchip before his death. The players must find the microchip and prevent it from being used, which would lead to the return of Judge Cal and his nefarious plans.
The adventure is divided into four chapters:
''Pohlstars'' is a collection of 11 stories.
''A Blackbird in Silver'' is a novel in which a quest is undertaken, involving spaceships and astronomy, and mystical mental powers.
''Sex Secrets of Ancient Atlantis'' is a narrative featuring sexual revelations about ancient Atlantis.
''Nectar of Heaven'' is a novel in which Earl Dumarest follows a false trail as he searches to find Earth.
''Science and Creationism'' is a book containing essays by many writers including Isaac Asimov.
The series takes place in the 2020s, where self-driving electric cars have replaced internal combustion ones. However, in Japan, there is a large organization called MFG, founded by Ryosuke Takahashi (from the ''Initial D'' series), who does street racing with internal combustion cars. A new rookie, who is competing with the pseudonym , a 19 year old Japanese-British young man, has showed up on the scene driving a Toyota 86, and beating European top-tier cars, such as the Lamborghini Huracan Performante, Ferrari 488 GTB, Lotus Exige, Alfa Romeo 4C, Lexus LC500 and Porsche 911 Carrera. Kanata has been trained by legendary downhill and rally racer Takumi Fujiwara (protagonist from the ''Initial D'' series) at the Royal Donington Racing School in the UK and is a Formula 4 world champion. He has only one motive: to find his long-lost father.
After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. However, after finding out he's alive and fighting against his home land, Benio starts looking for her first love. Wondering why he didn't return and wanting to welcome him back. Hardships will happen and hearts may be broken, as he might have moved on.
An unnamed male high school student comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a fatal illness in her pancreas. Despite this, Sakura intends to maintain a normal school life and thus is drawn to him due to his relatively unfazed reaction to her condition. They begin to spend time together and become friends.
During their school break, Sakura invites him on a train trip to Fukuoka where they play truth-or-dare game and eventually share a bed in their hotel room. Afterward, Sakura's friends and classmates grow suspicious and resentful of his newfound closeness to her. The two begin doing activities from Sakura's bucket list together until she is suddenly hospitalized. During her hospitalization, the two sneak out to see fireworks together. When she gets discharged, Sakura invites him for lunch but fails to show up at their meeting place. Later that night, he learns from the news that Sakura died from a stabbing. He breaks down and does not attend her funeral.
Later, he visits Sakura's mother and asks for her diary. Her mother recognizes him and reveals Sakura left a message in the diary for him. The message tells him to keep the diary and to make her best friend Kyoko read it since she was unaware of her illness. Soon after reading the message, he immediately breaks down into tears as he never felt so much sorrow for a single person before. Sakura's mother learns of his name as Haruki Shiga before he leaves and explains how his name meaning "spring trees" corresponds to her daughter's name of "cherry blossom". Haruki meets with Kyoko, who is in denial that Sakura ever lied to her, but she runs away after reading the diary. Haruki runs after her and asks her to be his friend. In a post-credits scene, Haruki and Kyoko, who are now friends, visit Sakura's grave a year later.
Danish 7th grader Pierre Anthon tells his classmates about his existential dread. Upon doing so, he leaves school, returning to his home, where he lives with his dad. He takes residence in a plum tree.
Agnes, the narrator, decides to work with her classmates in an attempt to convince Pierre that life has a purpose, and to convince him to give up living in the plum tree in favor of returning to school. The classmates decide to create a "heap of meaning," which is a collection of one personal sacrifice from each participant. The participants choose items based on personal meaning. A classmate named Dennis begins the heap by giving up his Dungeons and Dragons books, and then challenges another classmate Sebastian to give up his fishing rod. Sebastian complies, and asks Laura to sacrifice her earrings, which she does.
The classmates begin to see the heap as a game, asking "Who can sacrifice the most meaningful item for the heap?" Agnes is forced to sacrifice her new sandals, and as a result she forces Gerda to sacrifice her pet hamster. The children begin to sacrifice darker and darker things, including their virginity, their fingers, and additional animals. Law Enforcement and the media get involved, and the heap begins to receive national coverage. The classmates sell the heap to a museum for $3.6 million.
Pierre is still not convinced, citing the sale of the heap as rendering it meaningless. Sofie begins to wreak havoc, causing the entire group of classmates to break out into violence. Agnes flees the unfolding violence and pleads with Pierre to give up his existential dread and come down from the tree, which he agrees to. He comes to see the bloody violence, and scolds the classmates as being idiotic. He is then murdered, and the novel ends with Agnes reflecting back upon the events.
The year is 1986, and 30-year old Pripyat firefighter Alexey Karpushin has begun to reconnect with a former lover, local hairdresser Olga Savostina. Olga reveals to him that he is the father of her 10-year-old son. Their growing romance falters when Alexey fails to turn up for a picnic with Olga and their son, and Olga tells him never to visit again. Alexey applies to be reassigned to Kyiv for a fresh start and is just about to leave when the explosion at the nearby Chernobyl power plant occurs, and instead, he boards a fire truck heading to reactor number 4.
Alexey survives the radiation exposure in the initial fight to control the fire. As the scale of the disaster becomes apparent, the potential for an even greater catastrophe is identified – a secondary steam explosion of a large water reservoir, which lies beneath the melting reactor, and that would eject enormous quantities of radioactive core material into the upper atmosphere, placing the European continent in danger. Alexey has prior experience of conducting fire inspections on the corridors that lie underneath nuclear reactors, however, he is reluctant to sign up for what will likely be a suicide mission to manually drain the water reservoir before the reactor collapses into it. Alexey then learns that his son is now suffering from radiation exposure and is at risk of dying. He agrees to join the team on the basis that his son will be sent to Switzerland for radiation treatment.
After an unsuccessful first attempt, Alexey is convinced by his teammate Valera to make a second attempt to drain the water reservoir. During the ultimately successful second attempt, Valera is trapped but cuts the connecting rig to enable Alexey to escape without him. However, Alexey refuses to abandon Valera, and as the water is drained, the rescuers find Alexey in a heavily irradiated state. He is reunited with Olga in the hospital who embraces him before he dies. Three months later, his son returns after successful treatment in Switzerland.
Set in the year 2077, the plot follows Nadia, an EMT for the privately owned and heavily militarized healthcare company named Trauma Team International. When a shootout leaves the rest of her team dead, Nadia agrees to continue working for the company.
The action takes place during a single day. Guinevere Pettigrew, a straitlaced unsuccessful governess in her late 40s, is facing destitution. Her employment agency arranges an interview with Delysia LaFosse, a nightclub singer and socialite, whom they believe to be looking for a nursery governess though in fact she is seeking a maid. When Miss Pettigrew arrives at the luxury flat at 10 am, she is frantically invited in by Delysia who, without troubling to find out why Miss Pettigrew is there, enlists her help in getting rid of Phil, a lover who has stayed the night. Rising to the occasion, Miss Pettigrew tells Phil she is there to fit Miss LaFosse with new underclothes, and convinces him to leave. Delysia explains that at any moment another lover, Nick Calderelli, who owns the flat, may let himself in. They clear away traces of Phil's presence.
Nick arrives, handsome and dangerous – a man with a cocaine habit whom Delysia finds irresistible in spite of herself. Convinced that Nick is a bad influence, Miss Pettigrew dissuades him from staying by telling him that she is an old friend who will be staying the night. Delysia confides that she is torn between Phil, who is in a position to back her for the lead role in a new show; Nick, who part-owns the nightclub in which she is a singer; and also Michael, a self-made and newly-wealthy man who wants to marry her.
The doorbell rings, announcing Edythe Dubarry, a beauty salon owner. She is desperate for advice, her fiancé Tony having just left her. Immensely impressed with the way in which Miss Pettigrew had dealt with Phil and Nick, Delysia tells her friend that Miss Pettigrew will no doubt also be able to talk Tony round. They dress for a late afternoon party, Delysia lending Miss Pettigrew a gown while Edythe gives her a makeover. At the party, Miss Pettigrew has a little too much to drink, and later frets she was rather rude to Tony, but almost by accident convinces him to reconcile with Edythe.
Delysia and Miss Pettigrew have just returned to the flat when Michael unexpectedly arrives, furious. Delysia explains why: having agreed to marry him, she had been distracted by Nick on the morning of her wedding, and had simply not turned up. Michael had got drunk, had hit a policeman, and had been sent to prison for thirty days. In spite of his evident temper, Miss Pettigrew is impressed.
They take a taxi to Nick's nightclub, where Delysia will be singing. Miss Pettigrew strikes up a rapport with Joe Blomfield, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor who has made his fortune designing women's corsets. Delysia is sitting with Michael when Nick demands a dance. Michael bridles, and the two men square off. Seeing that Delysia is unable to resist Nick, Miss Pettigrew hisses to Michael "Sock him one". Michael does so, and Nick backs off. Quickly leaving the nightclub, Michael and Delysia hail a cab, while Joe and Miss Pettigrew hail another. Miss Pettigrew confesses that in spite of appearances she is in reality a penniless governess; Joe says that makes no difference to his growing feelings. The couple drive around for 45 minutes to allow the others some time at the flat alone. By the time Miss Pettigrew arrives, Delysia and Michael have decided to marry. Planning to buy a large house, they ask if Miss Pettigrew will live with them as their housekeeper. Overjoyed, she agrees, and is even happier when she hears that Joe will be calling for her in the morning. She comments "I have a beau at last."
A poor boy has to compete with other poor children to find a job. The winner is the child who is better able to pick up a child who lost his legs in the war to go to school. The race begins and the poor boy wins. For $1 a day, the boy picks up a stray boy like a horse every day and takes him to and from school. When he has him on his back, he races with donkeys and horses roaming the streets. He takes him to the bathroom at home and rides him, but the helpless boy is unhappy with him, because he has not yet gotten a horse the way he wants.
In the course of the political and cultural turbulence surrounding the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s, groups of hippies and beatniks formed the ''National Allied Zombie Initiative (N.A.Z.I.)'', a movement to promote the civil rights of zombies, which has since been neglected and forgotten. Their aim was the equality and social integration of zombies into society. So far, zombies have been interned by the US Army to ward off a possible Soviet invasion, have been abused as test objects in crash tests or in the cosmetics industry, or have been killed for no reason. The film reports on the fragile beginnings of the movement in Pittsburgh about its heyday when living and undead activists took the capital Washington D. C. by storm and zombies achieved, albeit only temporarily, equality with full suffrage. Finally, the film concludes with the tragic story of Chocolate Chip, one of the heroic leaders of the movement.
While the Simpson family visit a museum exhibit on Ancient Rome, Marge chastises a bored Homer for his lack of ambition when he admits to shirking chances for promotion. The curator overhears their argument and begins to relay the tale of Obeseus the Wide (played by Homer), the son of a poor farmer.
While years of toil make Obeseus strong, his father Abus (played by Grampa Simpson) sells him to the Roman slave master Gordus Antonius (played by Fat Tony) who puts Obeseus in the gladiatorial fighting pits. Obeseus' actions catches the eye of his master's daughter Marjora (played by Marge), who seduces him and gets pregnant. When her father demands the slave who impregnated his daughter reveal himself, Obeseus comes forward and is freed from slavery so he can marry her. Marjora gives birth to their twin children, Bartigula and Lisandra (played by Bart and Lisa), and Gordus gives Obeseus control of his laundry business and his former slave friends as a wedding present.
Years later, Obeseus runs the laundry business into the ground through his own incompetence. When the ambitious Marjora tells him to get his act together, Obeseus' slave friends suggest gathering ammonia (used in the cleaning process) by placing pots near drinking establishments. Obeseus becomes wealthy, only for Marjora to push her husband into joining the Senate to raise their status further. Obeseus asks Emperor Quimbus (played by Mayor Quimby) to put him in the Senate, but he refuses. However, his "politically adopted" son Senator Montimus (played by Mr. Burns) offers Obeseus a position in the Senate if he assassinates Quimbus. He reluctantly does so, and Montimus crowns himself emperor and appoints Obeseus to the Senate.
Obeseus becomes rich and powerful (and fat), but Marjora wants more and goads her son, Bartigula, into assassinating Emperor Montimus as well so he can claim the throne. After he is crowned emperor, Bartigula declares war on Neptune, builds a massive wall across Rome, and kills the entire Senate with acid. As Bartigula goes mad with power and declares himself a god, Obeseus challenges his son to a gladiatorial battle. The ensuing fight results in their deaths, driving Marjora to commit suicide.
Back in the present, the Simpson family argues about the moral of the tale, and the curator laments letting stupid people into museums.
During the credits, the Greek gods watch the argument, which they have been viewing for years. Athena complains that the argument has declined in quality, but Jupiter states that he wants to watch it to the end because he has already invested so much time in it, and "it feels like they're wrapping it up".
While being home sick, Lisa Simpson reads a book about western art and fantasizes the stories as follows.
Back in Vinci, Italy in 1462, Lisanardo da Vinci (Lisa) draws a suspect for Chief Wiggum, Wiggum thinks that this would make a lot of money for Homer. Florence at that time was at the start of the Renaissance. Soon, Lisanardo becomes the most famous artist in Florence, leading to jealousy from her fellow students.
Later on, Lisanardo becomes worried about being too talented and starts writing secret diaries that no one will decipher for 400 years.
One of the diaries is stolen by Bart Simpson and is given to Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns uses the ideas for evil, ultimately destroying the city. When Lisanardo learns her ideas are being used for war, she escapes to France and goes to the Court of King Francis I (Nelson Muntz), where she works on her newest masterpiece, a novel titled ''The Da Vinci Code''.
After initially being picked on by the other students in 1863, a French Impressionist (Bart), receives praise from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Moe) for his work and he earns the respect of the other students. The school administration worries that the Emperor will not like the art, so they tell the students not to show it to him. However, the students do anyway, and the Emperor praises their work.
Cupid (Maggie) accidentally shoots Homer with a death arrow instead of a love arrow and he dies, ascending into heaven on an escalator before it plunges into a Hieronymus Bosch hell.
Shortly after Diego (Homer) and Frida (Marge) are married, Diego has them move to America, where John D. Rockefeller has Diego paint a mural at the Rockefeller Center, while Frida is left out. Frida's sisters (Patty and Selma) encourage her to leave Diego, but she is hesitant. In an attempt to be noticed for her work, Frida shows her works to Diego who praises them. Diego them decides to adapt his mural to reflect Frida's ideas, which Rockefeller doesn't like, so he tells Diego to paint over it or lose the job. Diego refuses and so they leave.
Moe sings a song to the tune of "Vincent", as the credits roll over famous paintings.
Paxton and Linda are a disgruntled couple living in London during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Paxton is able to get only jobs as a delivery truck driver due to an assault arrest 10 years prior and is upset about how his life has turned out.
Due to stores being shut down there are a limited amount of drivers available for high-value deliveries, so Paxton’s boss asks him to make runs under a false identity for him. Linda, who is a CEO at a marketing company, is tasked with clearing out inventory from a fashion display she planned at the nearby Harrods department store. She soon realizes their delivery schedules at the store overlap, and Paxton would not get past the security checkpoint Linda has set up.
Linda discloses that there is a £3 million diamond in the vault at Harrods that has been sold to an anonymous buyer, and the store keeps a duplicate on location. She and Paxton agree to take the real diamond for themselves and send the fake one to the buyer in New York City, splitting the sale between themselves and the National Health Service.
Upon making it to the store, Linda and Paxton retrieve the diamond and swap it out with the fake. However, they are confronted by Donald, a former co-worker of Linda's she was told to fire earlier in the week. Donald had called the police after learning of Paxton's fake identity. Linda reveals their plan, and Donald agrees to lie for them.
Paxton and Linda, who originally planned to go their separate ways, decide to reevaluate their relationship. Then the COVID lockdown is extended by another two weeks.
A woman (Manibog) marries an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) in Saudi Arabia after her boyfriend leaves her. However, while her husband is away, she begins having a relationship with another man. She invites her friend (Miranda) to get together at a beach with their boyfriends, until she realizes her friend's boyfriend is her own former lover. Tensions and conflicts between the four ensue, all while the OFW plots his revenge on his wife after finding out about her affair from their naïve driver.
The program has a format similar to the American version, with 20 women competing for a single man to be selected as his romantic partner. Through the series, he learns more about each contestant. At the end of each episode, the candidates will be awarded a rose by the bachelor, symbolizing their continued stay in the contest. On the other hand, candidates who do not receive a rose are eliminated and leave the program.
''Alone Against the Wendigo'' is a ''Call of Cthulhu'' adventure for a single player, with no need for a referee. The player takes on the role of Dr. L. C. Nadelmann, an anthropologist from Miskatonic University. The doctor, accompanied by a local Métis guide and three graduate students, travels deep into the wilds of Canada, seeking the mysterious North Hanninah valley. The doctor and companions will face many challenges, including an encounter with the Wendigo.
''Send in the Clones'' contains three linked mini-scenarios: * Sewerworld: The Troubleshooters are sent to apprehend and execute the traitors who are broadcasting subversive songs through Alpha Complex's communication system. They are saved from execution themselves by the broadcasting star Teela O'Malley. * Bureaucracyworld: The Troubleshooters must find and eliminate Teela as a traitor, as well as test pieces of new equipment and deal with bureaucratic red tape. * Entertainmentworld: The Troubleshooters become contestants in a televised game show, and discover the source of Teela's incredible poplarity.
Six pregenerated characters are available for players, and each player is allowed five "lives" (clones), should their character die multiple times. The adventure also comes with a mini-boardgame, "Date with Death"; an "Information Inquiry Form"; and the Alpha Complex Songbook.
The player characters are assumed to be members of the Celestial Intervention Agency, and are sent to London in 1885 to investigate the mysterious arrival of some anachronistic technology, discover who brought it there, and ensure the Time Stream is not damaged. In addition to the adventure, the book contains background information on Victorian London, the alien race known as Iyteans, as well as a large section of advice for the gamemaster.
The Companions are sent aboard an enormous 10,000 km long World-Ship that is moving through space at near-light speed, destroying any planets that lie in its path. A ruling computer keeps the ship's inhabitants unaware of this destruction or that anything exists outside the ship. Meanwhile, rebels are trying to overthrow the tyrannical Captain-Lords.
Three separate plot elements eventually come together in '''Body of a Girl'''. First, New Scotland Yard and high government officials are concerned about an alarming rise in organized gangster activities, particularly from the Crows, and, under the command of Chief Superintendent Morrissey, determine ways to combat it. One step, apparently related to this, involves promoting Inspector Bill Mercer to Chief Inspector and posting him to the small city of Stoneferry on Thames, an upriver station of Q Division of the Metropolitan Police. (Q Division, it will be recalled, was the division in which Gilbert's better-known Inspector Patrick Petrella spent most of his career.)
Not long after arriving in Stoneferry, the tough, scar-faced, and rather enigmatic Mercer becomes a drinking companion of John Bull, the one-armed but extremely rugged proprietor of the town's leading garage; somewhat to the puzzlement of his fellow policemen, Mercer takes a peculiar interest in the operations of the garage and in the history of how it came to have its predominant position on the High Street.
The third component also shows up soon after Mercer's arrival: the discovery on a small island in the Thames of the body of a young woman; she has been completely buried and been there long enough now that only her clothes and bones remain. Mercer, as a divisional detective, takes charge of the investigation, supervising the local uniformed branch. Because of a handbag found buried nearby, it becomes nearly certain that the remains are those of Sweetie Sowthistle, a teenage girl who was a well-known and very well-liked local prostitute and who had suddenly vanished two years earlier. An inquest is called to formally identity the remains but, to the chagrin of the local police (and the apparent indifference of Mercer), evidence is unexpectedly introduced to indicate that the victim was a somewhat older woman who could not have been the missing Sweetie.
A second young woman, the clerk from a local solicitor's office, who also apparently left Stoneferry two years earlier is soon brought into the picture but it proves curiously elusive to determine her actual status: Were those her bones in the sand or had she simply moved to London? While Mercer and his fellow policemen attempt to solve this riddle, Mercer's interest in John Bull's garage continues to grow and, in a sudden change in the narrative flow, the story becomes less of a procedural and more of a study in violence as it pivots back to Superintendent Morrissey and his determination to smash the criminal gang the Crows. In a final, carefully planned ambush of the Crows with a deadly shoot-out in London, Mercer plays a key role, bringing him face to face for a final time with John Bull, the one-armed garage proprietor. And then, on the final page, almost as an anti-climax, we learn the apparent story behind the disappearances of the two Stoneferry girls two years before.
As one of Gilbert's editors said after his death in 2006, "He's not a hard-boiled writer in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded.". Such is the case here.
''Sunrise on Mercury'' is a collection that comprises thirteen stories dated 1954 to 1979.
Zeca agrees to be arrested for a murder he has not committed in exchange for a large amount of money for her mother’s medical treatment. They don’t receive the money and his mother ends up dying. Zeca spends several years in jail and, when he gets out, he wants to prove his innocence, find the culprit and make up for all the lost time. Neither the family of the murdered man nor his own will make it easy for him.
With Christmas just weeks away, the architecture firm Taylor works for enters her in a contest in which the teams will design and build life-sized gingerbread houses. After the contest, Taylor will likely be getting a promotion to a position in another city. The firm teams her up with Annabelle, a renowned French pastry chef with whom Taylor instantly locks horns. When Annabelle backs out, Taylor stumbles into a local bakery and meets Adam, a baker and single dad. In an act of desperation, Taylor convinces Adam to partner with her for the contest, arguing that winning would give the bakery and his designs much-needed exposure. For years Taylor has been resistant to call anywhere 'home' for fear it will only be temporary. But the time she spends with Adam and his daughter in their cosy home, decorating for the holidays and exploring the town at Christmas, fills her with a longing for a place to call home.
A chorus introduces a kingdom where no one can marry until Prince Dauntless does, but his mother, Queen Aggravain, has incredibly high standards for his bride. One princess is seen answering questions to prove if she is a good enough princess for Dauntless. She answers one question incorrectly and Aggravain tells her that "A genuine princess is exceedingly rare," before promptly kicking her out of the castle. While having breakfast, Dauntless mentions to Aggravain that he suspects that she is purposely turning down all the princesses. She denies this, though it's true. Meanwhile, Lady Larkin has discovered that she is pregnant and that she and Sir Harry, captain of the guard, need to find Dauntless a bride so that they themselves can get married. Harry brings back Winnifred, a princess from the northern swamps. Though Aggravain is disgusted by Winnifred, Dauntless falls instantly in love with her. Dauntless and the ladies of the court take Winnifred to get dry, as she swam the moat to get into the palace, and Aggravain consults with the Wizard to pick a test. Aggravain decides that the test should be on sensitivity, something Winnifred surely knows nothing about. They decide to test her that evening by placing a tiny pea under thirty goose-feather mattresses. Aggravain concludes that if Winnifred can feel the pea, then she will be a proper pick for Dauntless.
As Winnifred is getting dressed, she is visited by the much nicer King Sextimus, the real ruler of the kingdom who is mute, and his Jester. The Jester explains that Sextimus was cursed by a witch and that it would only be reversed when "The mouse devours the hawk." Dauntless and the ladies of the court are then entertained by Winnifred's stories from living in a swamp. After a round of croquet, Aggravain tells Winnifred and Dauntless that they will be holding a ball later that evening to celebrate Winnifred's arrival. Secretly, Aggravain tells the Wizard that they will be dancing to the Spanish Panic, one of the most tiring dances ever, in order to ensure that Winnifred sleeps and fails the test. Larkin meets up with Harry and tells him that Winnifed will never pass the test, and that Harry should have found a better princess. She asks him to help Winnifred cheat but as captain of the guard, he is conflicted. At the ball, Winnifred survives the dance and even suggests that everyone do it a second time, much to Aggravain's fury. Dauntless cheers up Winnifred by telling her that he loves her. He then expresses to the citizens in the kingdom how much he loves Winnifred and how different she is than all the other princesses he's met. The Wizard and the Kingdom staff prepare for the evening by stacking thirty mattresses in a tower of the castle. Lady Larkin sees the group and follows, unaware that it's a secret. She accidentally asks a question, is discovered, and then is sent to the castle prison for the evening. Meanwhile, Winnifred and Dauntless study academics for the test which they think will be the next day. He says goodnight and leaves her alone where she dreams of her happily ever after with him. Dauntless pays a visit to his father asking for a "man to man talk" about having children. Sextimus explains this as best he can through hand movements but Dauntless eventually realizes that he wants to marry Winnifred. Walking the halls in the castle, Winnifred sees Larkin and frees her from the cell. Larkin finds Harry and apologizes only to hear that Harry has decided to help Winnifred cheat. They romanticize about going to Normandy after they're married. At the same time, the Wizard has given Aggravain the "smallest pea in the kingdom" and they go to place it. Unbeknownst to them, Sextimus was listening secretly to their conversation and proceeds to explain the plan to the Jester, Harry and Larkin.
In her room, Aggravain dreams about ruling the kingdom for the rest of her life and goes to place the pea under the bottom mattress. Winnifred enters the tower where she is given opium to drink and a nightingale (really just the Wizard in a costume) to sing a lullaby to help her sleep. She practically falls asleep on the ladder up to the top of the bed but once she is atop, she feels poked and hurt by the mattress. She sends the Wizard out of the room and rips open the mattress angrily. Exhausted from trying to find the source of the pain, she begins to count sheep. The next morning, Aggravain informs Dauntless of the real test and how Winnifred is sure to have failed. However, Winnifred enters counting sheep in the thousands and reveals to the court that she never closed her eyes. Dauntless tells her that she passed but Aggravain quickly tries to come up with excuses to prevent him from marrying. Finally he says "I told you to shut up!" and she goes silent. The Jester realizes that the curse had been about Aggravain all along and that Sextimus can now speak and rule once again. Larkin and Harry embrace and go off to be wed but reveal to the court that Winnifred wasn't actually hurt by a pea. The Jester is then seen taking various medieval weapons out of the mattresses and wheeling them out of the tower. Dauntless brings Winnifred back into the room to let her sleep again but she still feels a slight pain, revealing that she could have felt the pea even if the others hadn't cheated. Dauntless takes the pea out and she sleeps soundly as he watches on. A title card reading "And they lived happily ever after" is seen.
A hotel porter finds out the secrets of the guests by looking through the keyholes of four different rooms: * in the first one he sees a woman combing her hair, * in the second, what looked like a woman removes her whig and false breasts, revealing that she was in fact a transvestite, * in the third, a man drinks champagne with a woman sitting on his lap, * finally the door of the fourth room opens while he is watching and the furious guest kicks him down the stairs.
11-year-old Nat Love is eating dinner with his parents when Rufus Buck and his associate Cortez arrive. Buck guns down Nat's parents and then carves a cross into his forehead.
Twenty years later, Love finds and kills Cortez. Meanwhile, his partners, sharpshooter Bill Pickett and quick draw Jim Beckwourth, ambush the Crimson Hood gang and steal their haul from a recent bank robbery. The lone survivor tells them the $25,000 they have stolen belongs to Buck. Love travels to meet his former lover Mary Fields, who runs a chain of saloons. Pickett brings news of the heist to Love.
Buck's gang, led by Trudy Smith and Cherokee Bill, forcefully free Buck from a train leaving from Yuma Territorial Prison. They reveal Buck has been pardoned, and they have been paid to kill the corrupt U.S. Army soldiers guarding the prison car. After slaughtering the soldiers, Buck and his gang arrive in their former stronghold of Redwood City, now run by Buck's associate, Sheriff Wiley Escoe. Learning that Escoe has used the position to profit at the expense of the town, Buck brutally pistol whips him and orders him to leave town. Buck gathers the townspeople and after killing a naysayer, demands that they raise $50,000 to save Redwood, threatening to kill and burn the property of any who resist.
U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves arrests Love after a standoff in a saloon. However, Reeves reveals to Love that Buck has been released, and he offers him a chance for revenge. Love's gang, accompanied by Fields and her friend and enforcer, Cuffee, arrive and insist on joining. They encounter Escoe, who tells them Buck has returned to Redwood. Fields volunteers to scout Redwood under the cover of offering to buy Smith's saloon. Love proposes marriage to Fields, but she turns him down.
When Fields arrives in Redwood, Smith takes her prisoner and beats her. Love's gang arrives, and Love joins Fields in captivity to save her life. Smith has Love beaten, and he in turn asks Buck to release Fields. Buck demands Love return the money he stole plus $10,000 as 'interest', requiring him to rob a bank in a white town. Love and Cuffee rob the bank without killing anyone and escape. However, the group recognizes that Buck is unlikely to release Fields willingly, so they devise a plan to rig a decoy wagon with dynamite.
They enter Redwood and the decoy wagon is destroyed, killing some of Buck's gang. Love prepares to hand over the money, but Cherokee Bill prepares to shoot him in the back before Beckwourth intervenes, challenging him to a quick draw showdown. Beckwourth challenges Bill to a shoot out, with Bill suggesting a count down from five. As Beckwourth counts down, he is shot and killed by Bill at the count of three (proving indeed that he cheats), causing a gunfight to erupt. Love, Reeves, Pickett, and Cuffee kill most of Buck's gang, and the money is destroyed in another explosion. Escoe infiltrates Buck's house but is killed by Buck, while Pickett and Love are wounded.
Fields is freed by Cuffee and pursues Smith, who she defeats in a hand-to-hand fight. Pickett is shot in the back by Bill, who is subsequently killed by Cuffee in a quick draw confrontation. Love finds Buck, who is unwilling to defend himself. Buck reveals that they are half-brothers, and that their father was once an abusive outlaw who killed his first wife (Buck's mother) when she tried to protect her son. He further indicates that driving Love to outlawry was his true act of revenge against their father. Love reluctantly kills Buck and closes his eyes out of respect.
Love and his companions bury Pickett and Beckwourth, alongside another grave marked "Nat Love". Cuffee joins Reeves as a deputy. Cuffee and Reeves ride off in one direction and Love and Fields in another. A woman holding a bowler hat, presumably Trudy Smith, looks at them from a distance.
As a little girl, Olive Smith performs a piano recital. Olive's parents miss the performance when her depressed father Michael hangs himself following an argument with Olive's mother Crystal. As an adult, Olive breaks up with her difficult boyfriend York. Olive's friends Lenore and Blaire console Olive after her sexist boss Asher fires her too. Olive plays a keyboard for her friends, who tell her she is great even though she is tone deaf. Olive sees a frightening vision of her father in front of the urn holding his ashes. Olive calls her mother Crystal, who lives in a hippie commune, about the incident. Crystal mentions that Michael wanted his ashes scattered into space. Crystal also recommends that her daughter clear her head by getting away for the weekend. Olive has another haunting vision of her dead father when York comes by with his new girlfriend to pick up his things.
Through Airbnb, widower Harvey Parker rents his remote house to Olive for the weekend. Harvey rants to himself about millennials while mourning at his wife Edith's homemade grave. Olive meets Harvey's family friend Agnes, who later asks Harvey why he is renting out his house. Harvey takes Agnes captive by tying her to a bed in his cabin down the road. Olive plays Harvey's piano for her mother over the phone. Harvey sees a vision of his dead wife slitting her throat with a letter opener at the piano while secretly watching Olive play. Harvey tells Agnes that his estranged son David thinks Harvey suffers from dementia and wants to put him in a home. Harvey reveals that he wants to know what it feels like to kill someone, which is why he set up Olive in his house. Harvey regrets that he has to kill Agnes too because she interfered.
Harvey is unable to kill Olive while she sleeps. Harvey hears Edith's voice telling him to stop. Harvey puts a spider in Olive's contact lens case. Fellow commune member Uriah professes his attraction to Crystal. Crystal allows Uriah to go down on her while she texts Olive. Harvey returns to Agnes. Agnes angers Harvey by claiming he trapped his wife in their marriage by lording custody of their son over Edith. Harvey suddenly stabs Agnes to death. Unaware that Olive rented the house, David comes by to pick up his prototypes for a Shark Tank pitch. Startled by his unannounced appearance, Olive compels David to leave.
Harvey follows Olive to The Cowboy Palace Saloon where she meets her Tinder date James. A news bulletin on TV reports on a missing woman. Harvey sees James secretly drug Olive's rum and Coke, but Olive doesn't drink it. Olive instead invites James to join her at the house for dinner later. Harvey follows James back to his nearby motel room. Harvey murders James with a hammer. Harvey finds a captive woman in James’ closet and kills her too. Olive buys LSD from the attendant at a makeshift car wash. While tripping back at the house, Olive sees visions of various ex-boyfriends before her father finally appears to her. Michael talks about Crystal and his depression before urging his daughter to choose better boyfriends and get rid of his ashes. Michael adds that Olive is great at playing piano. York calls to tell Olive that he made a mistake and wants her back. Olive hangs up on him.
Harvey murders a homeless man on his way to the house. Harvey cuts the house's power, crushes Olive's glasses, and lays boards spiked with nails on the staircase. Harvey wakes Olivia by loudly playing the radio. Frightened, Olive texts her mother for help before her phone goes dead. Seeing an opportunity to make things right with Olive, Crystal drives to the house with Uriah. Their car gets a flat tire on the way, but David stops to help them fix it. Olive arms herself with the letter opener Edith used to commit suicide. The spider bites Olive when she tries putting in her contacts. Harvey calls Olive downstairs. Unable to see, Olive steps on one of the nails. Olive stabs Harvey with the letter opener when he attacks. Olive tries to hide, but Harvey crushes her foot and knocks her unconscious.
Olive recovers to find that Harvey dressed her in Edith's clothes and seated her at the piano. Harvey forces Olive to play like his wife used to do. Harvey hears Edith's voice and sees a vision of Edith as a ghoul. Harvey smashes the piano with a tomahawk when he realizes Olive is tone deaf, which Olive never knew. Crystal and Uriah arrive at the house. Harvey kills Uriah. Crystal shoots Harvey to the ground, although she accidentally shoots her daughter too. Olive kills Harvey by stabbing him with the letter opener. Crystal tells Olive that she is terrible at playing piano and now realizes it was wrong to falsely encourage her. Olive curses baby boomers and calls 911 for an ambulance. David later surveys the crime scene with his boyfriend. Olive and Crystal try scattering Michael's ashes using a toy rocket that falls limply to the ground. The women walk away confident that Michael would have appreciated the effort anyway.
Rouch took the title of his film from a poem by the Surrealist Paul Eluard. In Abidjan in newly-independent Ivory Coast, the film sees a mixed-race lycée class in which the filmmaker asks why white and black students do not mix together socially after class. They are interviewed separately and together, and are shown in their home environments and meeting together socially. They also improvise scenes of fantasized events. Racial tensions intensify when a new female student from Paris starts dating an African student. The film is both ethnofiction and a documentary account of making ethnofiction:Graham Jones, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3567682.pdf A Diplomacy of Dreams: Jean Rouch and Decolonization], ''American Anthropologist'', Vol. 107, No. 1 (March 2005), pp.118–120. counterposed to the main plot of the relation between the two racial groups is a subplot, which is the effect on the student actors of the making of the film itself.
1977: Two young brothers are living in a decrepit junkyard with their father, Jimmy, who has a hobby of listening to a police radio for nearby car accidents. Hearing of a wounded female motorist, he forces the boys into his stolen ambulance and reports to the scene of the crash, posing as a paramedic. He strangles the woman then relishes in her open wounds as the boys watch from the front seat of the ambulance. News reports and newspaper clippings reveal more than 30 motorist disappearances in the Pine Barrens area along Ash Pine Road over the span of 20 years.
Present Day: Samantha and her boyfriend Jordan are making out while driving down Ash Pine Rd and Jordan loses control and wrecks. Samantha calls 911 and soon ambulance 37 arrives; the couple is quickly dispatched by the brothers, Darryl and Jon Roy, who are now grown and using their father’s modus operandi.
Amy, a teenager ostracized by her classmates for her breast size, recently lost her firefighter father and is troubled by her mother Mary’s newly active dating life. Amy has also recently experienced a rift in her longtime friendship with another high school outcast, Angel, due to Angel’s new boyfriend Brad. While Angel is with Brad and his friends, Tim, Jason, his girlfriend Brooke and her friend Rachel, she attempts to stand on both Jason and Brad’s cars as they drive parallel down Ash Pine Rd. Brooke, having just successfully pulled off the stunt herself, is annoyed Angel is now trying it and intentionally distracts Jason, causing Angel to fall to the road, killing her. When the police arrive, they lie and say that it was an accident and solely fault Angel.
After Angel’s funeral, Jordan is reported missing which causes the police investigation surrounding Angel’s death to intensify and the lead investigator, Officer Higgins, questions Amy regarding Angel’s new group of friends. Amy later asks her mother for a breast augmentation, which Mary reluctantly agrees to. They see a doctor and her surgery is scheduled. Brooke and Jason have arguments and Jason begins talking with Amy online and asks her to come with him to a party at Brooke’s. At the party, Brooke jealously reveals to Amy that She, Jason, Samantha and Jordan were previously responsible the death of an old woman in an unreported hit and run along Ash Pine Rd.
Brad and Rachel leave the party together and unintentionally park outside Jimmy’s Junkyard on Ash Pine Rd. While they’re making out, Darryl and Jon Roy attack and kill them, taking the bodies inside the junkyard. Tim, who left the party to look for Brad, arrives at Brad’s car and follows the blood trail into the junkyard. Inside, he recognizes Jordan’s car and finds Brad and Rachel’s bodies in the trunk. Jon Roy appears behind him and smashes his head with the trunk and stashes his body inside. Later, Officer Higgins responds to a report of an abandoned car outside the junkyard and inspects the property but narrowly misses the bodies.
After fighting with Jason at the party, Brooke drives along Ash Pine Rd but she’s driven off the road. A motorist reports the accident and Jon Roy and Darryl quickly respond. They take Brooke back to the junkyard where they tie her down and Darryl pours liquid lye on her, then lights her on fire. Meanwhile, Amy has her breast augmentation surgery.
Some time passes and Jason and Amy are now a couple. One night while on a date, they are stalked and lured to ambulance 37 by Jon Roy and Darryl, who abduct them and take them to the junkyard. Jason attempts to fight Jon Roy but is overpowered while Darryl terrorizes Amy, chasing her around the yard and stabbing her in her breast implant. Amy finds her mother’s body strung up in a mock crucifixion in the middle of the junkyard before stumbling into the trailer the brothers live in. Inside, she finds their mother, preserved in a display case as well as a lobotomized Jimmy and she hides. It is revealed through flashbacks that Darryl and Jon Roy’s mother was the old woman killed by Jason and Jordan.
Officer Higgins arrives at the junkyard, suspicious of Darryl and hears the screams from inside. He enters and finds Brooke, barely alive but is soon killed by Darryl. Darryl and Jon Roy both corner Amy and Darryl is about to kill her when Jon Roy is reminded of a time in his childhood when Darryl disfigured him and he turns on his brother, killing him before he can kill Amy, which allows her to escape. Amy wanders down Ash Pine Rd when she’s nearly struck by an oncoming police car, but Jason saves her. The officer stops and checks to see if they are alright when ambulance 37 turns the corner at high speed, driven by Jon Roy, and crashes into Jason, Amy and the officer.
Retired disabled cop Damon (Morgan Freeman) forces Victoria (Ruby Rose), a former drug courier and his caretaker, to collect bags of money around the city during a single night by holding her daughter hostage. As the night progresses, Victoria finds out that at every stop point she makes, various enemies from her past attack her. Meanwhile, a cop breaks into Damon’s home, but Damon kills him.
At her final stop, Victoria is captured and taken to the home of the corrupt Governor. The Governor asks for Victoria’s help in taking down Damon, but Victoria refuses and kills the Governor instead.
Upon finally returning to Damon’s home, Victoria is reunited with her daughter. Then Damon explains that he had no need for the money that Victoria had collected; instead, this night was a part of his plan to eliminate all of Victoria’s enemies along with the corrupt Governor, thus cleaning the city of crime and corruption.
As the dawn breaks, Damon lures all the corrupted cops that had been working for the Governor into his home, where he blows himself up along with them. Meanwhile, Victoria and her daughter escape safely.
The animated film follows a young Irish boy named Keegan, who’s been at a heart loss after his grandfather passed away. He and his Spanish friend Moya go on a journey to a magical world to learn about Riverdance as well as the dangers of the Huntsman.
Amy is a 14-year-old that has just lost her father and, after finishing her babysitting course, is hired to take care of a 3-year-old baby girl from a wealthy family. After beginning her new job, the girls are kidnapped and offered for ransom by two criminals. While recording the tapes they plan to deliver to the baby's parents, Amy sends coded messages through the recordings to help the parents figure out where they are being held.
An explosion at a mine in Manitoba traps 26 miners. Mike McCann and his brother Gurty, an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD and aphasia, work for a trucking company in North Dakota until Mike punches another trucker for referring to Gurty as a "retard", and they are both fired. Mike hears about ice road truckers needed in Winnipeg, and they apply. Jim Goldenrod, another trucker, agrees to lead a rescue mission to deliver wellheads to the mine. He hires McCann and Gurty, along with a young Indigenous woman, Tantoo. Also joining is actuary Varnay, responsible for insurance risk assessment for Katka, the company which owns the mine. $200,000 is split between the four truckers, which will be redistributed among the survivors if anyone dies. Meanwhile, the miners are communicating with Katka executives using Morse code, and Katka General Manager Sickle transmits a message that they plan to free the men by blasting a tunnel.
The team leaves for the mine with three wellheads. During the trip, Goldenrod's engine seizes. While attempting to repair it, the ice beneath his trailer breaks and his leg gets trapped. Knowing he can't escape, he convinces Tantoo to sever the strap attaching him to the truck, causing him to drown but saving the other two rigs and wellheads. In an attempt to flee the rapidly approaching pressure wave and cracking ice, the remaining two trucks fishtail and roll over, stopping the pressure wave.
Varnay convinces Mike to accuse Tantoo of sabotaging Goldenrod's rig, but Tantoo reveals her brother Cody is amongst the miners. When they continue to interrogate her, she pulls out a pistol, but Gurty disarms her and ties her up. After the men right the trucks, Varnay locks Mike and Gurty in the back of their rig. Varnay is revealed to have been the one who sabotaged Goldenrod's rig, and knocks Tantoo unconscious. He rigs Mike's truck with dynamite and drives off with Tantoo, but Mike and Gurty escape from the trailer and throw the dynamite away just before it explodes. Varnay watches the explosion from afar, believing that Mike and Gurty are dead.
While winching their trailer out of the ice, Gurty tries to warn Mike the winch will fail, but Mike starts the machine anyway. The winch snaps, causing Gurty and the trailer to fall into the water, but Mike rescues Gurty. Varnay meets with Sickle, telling him Mike and Gurty have died. Sickle instructs Varnay to get rid of Tantoo and the last remaining wellhead by making it seem Tantoo lost control and veered off a cliff. Varnay prepares to kill Tantoo, but is bitten by Gurty's pet rat Skeeter, enabling Tantoo to throw him out of the rig. Mike and Gurty arrive and kill the Katka contractors pursuing Tantoo.
After Tantoo runs out of fuel due to Varnay disconnecting her fuel equalizer, he catches up to her, but Mike crashes his rig into Varnay's truck, sending it off a cliff. Varnay survives and creates an avalanche with dynamite. Mike and Gurty escape, but Tantoo is hit by snow and wounded by a branch. They uncouple her trailer, and drive off with the wellhead. Varnay pursues them in Tantoo's rig and begins ramming them. Mike boards Varnay's rig and both fall from the truck. After a struggle, Mike attempts to drive away, but Varnay climbs onto the rig. Mike knocks Varnay out, accelerates the rig, and jumps out, causing it to fall through the surface and kill Varnay. Meanwhile, Tantoo and Gurty cross a bridge not designed for the weight of the truck, and barely make it over before the bridge collapses. After crossing, the truck starts sliding backwards, and Gurty is crushed trying to prevent the truck from falling. Mike arrives and comforts a dying Gurty. Mike and Tantoo arrive just in time to rescue the miners. After learning the truth, the Katka CEO fires Sickle, who is arrested for his actions.
Three months later, Tantoo is seen working in Goldenrod's garage as a mechanic. Mike visits her in his new gold truck, which he drives as an independent contractor to deliver sporting goods. As he drives off, he is seen tending to Skeeter and his license plate reads "TRK TRK TRK", in honor of Gurty's chosen name for a truck.
The story takes place in a virtual reality world known as the Escapist Dream, where all kinds of geeks can live a life of superpowered adventures based on their favorite film, comic, anime, novel or video game characters.
Two individuals – a shy teenage geek named Charlie, and a serious programmer named Jim – came to the Escapist Dream for different reasons. One came to this virtual reality to have fun while the other was sent to fix bugs that have been plaguing the Escapist Dream. Charlie and Jim would soon find out how the bugs have caused madness in this place, and must now work together to protect themselves and save the Escapist Dream.
The world of the Escapist Dream is divided into different areas: Stan City is a place where American comic book and superhero fans reside, Otaku Academy is the place for Japanese otaku and anime fans, Gamer's Den is video game-like area for gamers, The Library is the area for bookworms and fans of classic literature, and Zone of the Macabre is a dark place for fans of controversial medium. Both Charlie and Jim have to journey through each areas to find and remove the viruses affecting the virtual reality world.
The film claims to be based on a true story.
Chris, one of the two main characters in the film, is shown standing on a beach, when suddenly the film fast forwards and shows him being wheeled into an operating room.
The film then goes back to an earlier decade to the story of Jorge, who is playing soccer when suddenly he falls unconscious and is also operated upon. The doctor tells his parent that he will probably not live till the age of 20 and should not exert himself.
At university, Chris bumps into Samantha (Sam), twice, and starts helping her with her "safety buddies" program. An already 30 years old Jorge meets Leslie, a flight attendant on his flight. He is the son of the Cuban owner of the Bolivar rum brand. While spending time with Jorge on Hawaii, Leslie asks him about his cough and scar, and he tells her about his condition, but the film does not show that to the audience.
Jorge proposes to Leslie. Before taking his driving test, Chris fills out a form at the DMV on which he indicates that he is willing to be a donor, and tells Sam that she must go on a date with him if he passes the test. They have their first date that night. Sam meets Chris' family during Easter break. Jorge and Leslie get married, without his parents, who apparently disapprove of their son marrying an American woman.
While hanging with Sam and his two best friends in the dorm, Chris suddenly falls and looses consciousness, and the film shows him being wheeled into the operation room as in the opening scene. Later, a doctor comes into his room, where Sam and Chris' parents and brother are present. Chris comes to and says that he wants to asks Sam something. Next the film shows their marriage.
At his point Chris the narrator mentions that years earlier Jorge and Leslie lived a life similar to that of him and Sam, but that there were some painful differences. Leslie is shown crying next to a baby crib, while Sam is shown to be pregnant. A doctor tells Jorge and Leslie that they can't get children. Chris and Sam go to pregnancy training together, while Jorge's cough gets worse. Jorge is shown with an oxygen generator, while Chris and Sam are shown with their baby. A doctor tells Jorge and Sam that he has scheduled a lung transplant for Jorge, and Jorge is shown being wheeled to his operation in the transplantation clinic.
Chris and Sam are shown with their child as Chris gets promoted to lieutenant firefighter, when suddenly Chris the narrator says that this is not what happened, and the film returns to him being wheeled in the operation room and the doctor coming into his room. The next morning the doctor informs Chris'family that Chris is brain dead. The doctor tell the family that they found donors for Chris' heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys and eyes. Here the film shows the receivers of the organs getting a phone call. Chris' family is met by Chris' friends who are holding a candle wake in front of the hospital.
Jorge comes to after the transplant and asks "Who is in here breathing for me" as Leslie answers "An angel, that is all we know". The film proceeds to show Chris' funeral. Jorge insists on knowing who his donor was, and sends a letter of gratitude to Chris' parents, and they send a letter back. Sam and Chris' parents meet with Jorge and Leslie. The final scene shows Chris on the beach as in the opening scene, looking towards Jorge and Leslies yacht with Sam and his parents on it.
Two young woman both have men they wish to marry, but their father has given first refusal to a fop. Together they try and work their way around the obstacle.
The album continues the story started on ''Apex''; vocalist Brittney Slayes described the plot as follows:
In the end, the characters decide to use anger to raise their soul instead of spreading mayhem. According to Slayes, ''Abyss'' deals with topics such as good versus evil and light versus dark, while showcasing the conflict between the protagonist's good and bad sides and his will to define if he's just a tool or a free being.
Unlike many of Gilbert's novels, which have plots within plots and apparently disparate themes that eventually merge. The ''Family Tomb'' is a straightforward suspense story involving only members of the British colony in Florence. They include a wealthy Etruscan professor who excavates and sells ancient art objects, Italian police and judiciary officials, assorted politicians and lawyers, sympathetic Italian working-class people, and two sinister Mafia figures.
The protagonist, Robert Broke, a middle-aged Englishman and expert on Etruscan art, lives in Florence in a state of semi-suspension, having never fully recovered emotionally from the sudden deaths of his wife and child in England several years earlier. He runs a bookstore and art gallery and is on friendly, if somewhat distant terms, with the other members of the British colony. He is attached to his youthful housekeeper and her elderly father, who is a marvellous craftsman excelling at restoring broken antiques. Broke is invited to an elaborate luncheon at the country estate of Professor Bronzini, where excavations into ancient Etruscan tombs are ongoing. Broke encounters the very different members of Bronzini's peculiar household and is shown some of the excavations and ancient tombs. Without quite realizing it, he catches a glimpse of something that he should not have seen—apparently an ancient Etruscan's helmet—and from that point onward his well-being is in danger.
Within a few days, the elderly craftsman who worked for Broke is killed by an apparent hit-and-run driver late one evening—and Broke himself is arrested, put into jail, and accused of killing the man. The rest of the book dwells on attempts by a devoted band of British expatriates to free him and their experience with the Italian legal and political system that weaves its mesh around Broke, and vicious counter-moves by Mafia gangsters who hope to ensure that Broke's arrest will lead to his conviction so that the shadowy deeds taking place on Professor Bronzini's estate are left in peace. Fortunately for Broke, a few Italian officials are less committed to gaining a guilty plea than others. Moreover, an extremely clever local lawyer takes up his case, and on his side is a gilded youth with special talents, who is also the adopted son of Professor Bronzini, and a giant Corsican handyman who works for the Professor. As is frequently the case with Gilbert books, there is a violent dénouement with a satisfactory number of corpses—which leads to a newly found interest in life on the part of Broke.
A young couple's dream of starting a family is shattered as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must fight to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their own lives.
High school friends April and Nick start dating and are together for two years, until they break up during their senior year after learning that they have applied to different colleges and would be unable to make a long distance relationship work. During the summer before college, April finds out Nick is dating someone new named Clara.
April goes to a party with her other friends, Molly and Sally, and Clara shows up at the party with Nick and April’s mutual friend, Ben. April texts Ben to meet with her to try and find out more about Clara, and then spends the rest of the party hiding in bedrooms from her until Clara finds her and introduces herself. April is surprised to discover how much she has in common with Clara, and they two end up having a great time together at the party. At the end of the night, Clara puts her phone number on April’s phone.
Clara and April start spending time together, drawn to each other by their similar tastes and attitudes. They set up rules to never talk about Nick or tell Nick about their friendship, although Ben is aware of their friendship. They become best friends and one night April invites Clara over to her home for dinner. Things go awry when April’s little sister, Agnes, who is also “obsessed” with Nick, reveals that Clara is Nick's current girlfriend to their mother, making everything awkward.
Orientation is just around the corner and Nick’s birthday arrives, prompting April to send him a message wishing him a happy birthday. This angers Clara when she finds out.
One last high school party takes place and April tries to avoid going since Clara and Nick will be there together. She goes out with Sally and Molly but changes her mind and ends up alone at the party. There, trying to avoid Clara and Nick, she spends the time dancing and doing shots with Ben. Nick decides it's awkward not to say hello and goes to “introduce" Clara to April in a tension filled moment. Clara and Nick leave together and so do April and Ben.
On the ride home April is mad at herself for putting herself in that situation and yells at Ben, who ends up kissing her. The Lyft driver orders them to get off the car due to the yelling and April and Ben start making out until she decides to stop since it's a stupid move. The next day she wakes up with a text from Nick saying he's outside of her house and wants to see her. They spend the day together and later admit they still have feelings for each other and kiss.
Later, Clara storms into the movie theater where April works and throws a client's Icee drink in April's face, yelling that Nick dumped her. April follows her and they start yelling at each other. April says something hurtful prompting Clara to leave . April gets fired. With just a few days left before orientation, April tries to put her affairs in order. Ben and her together tell Nick what happened between them and Nick punches Ben. She also comes clean to Nick about being Clara’s friend. Nick and Ben eventually make up.
The night before she leaves, April is enjoying a nice family dinner with her mother and sister, without yelling for once. Later, someone knocksat the door and it's Clara. They both apologize to each other and make up, deciding to spend their last night together doing something fun.
The game continues where Search for the King ended. Les Manley's friend Helmut Bean and his girlfriend LaFonda Turner have disappeared. Les Manley needs to visit many locations in Hollywood to unravel the mystery and find them.
Les Manley is an employee at a TV station. The station wants to improve their ratings and to achieve this, they offer a million dollars to the person who manages to find "the King", that is, Elvis. Les Manley sees this as an opportunity and embarks on a quest to find Elvis, after bragging to female secretary Stella Hart that he'd succeed.
Les Manley impersonates a reporter to visit a woman possessing a scarf said to belong to Elvis, and steals it from her. At a local circus, he befriends Helmut Bean, the world's smallest man, by giving him a dream that he grabbed from a sleeping guard. Les Manley makes a fortune teller - who says she's a mere dream - vanish by touching her, and finds a resurrection card among her belongings. An acrobat is helped by Manley to perform, but plummets to the ground when attempting to jump into a water container from a high altitude, after which Manley takes his cape.
Les Manley is catapulted all the way to Las Vegas by a strongman game, and reacquires the unharmed Helmut whom he mailed there beforehand. In a hotel suite, Helmut is small enough to enter a bathtub's drain and find therein a receipt of nearly 20 years of age. The receipt earns Les Manley an Elvis-styled suit at the hotel's laundry service. When he talks to a sunbathing woman, she is quickly excited by him and goes swimming to relax, leaving for him sunglasses like the ones Elvis used to wear. Les Manley then hitchhikes to Elvis' mansion.
Les Manley partakes in a celebrity lookalike contest and dresses up like Elvis with the scarf, sunglasses, suit and cape. He secures last place even though he's the only contestant so far, but as a consolation prize he is allowed unsupervised access to Elvis' mansion. Les Manley finds therein items to improve his outfit, and his second attempt in the contest is so successful that the crowd mistakes him for the real Elvis and in wild ecstasy tramples him to death. Les Manley meets Elvis in the afterlife, gets a photograph of him, and the resurrection card allows Les Manley to return to life with the photo. The TV station is unable to pay him the required reward, so he gains ownership of the station instead, Stella becoming his personal assistant.
King Eryk rules the kingdom of Davern with his wife Queen Aurelea and his daughters Lorsulia, Asalia, and Cedani. However, all is not well in Davern as Eryk has so far been unable to father a son, risking a succession crisis if he were to pass away. In addition, King Beyran of the neighboring barbarian nation of Radovia threatens to invade Davern if Eryk does not marry Lorsulia to him. In desperation, Eryk arranges for Lorsulia to be married to Prince Ivo of Atania, a large and wealthy kingdom more than capable of fighting off Radovia. Ivo and his father King Talys arrive in Davern for the wedding, only for Talys to die from a poisoned drink. Ivo accuses Eryk of the murder and threatens to declare war, forcing Eryk to pin the blame on one of the partygoers. With justice served, the wedding continues and the alliance is secured.
Despite the alliance with Atana, Eryk comes to learn that Ivo cannot be fully trusted, as he is a cruel and sadistic man who regularly abuses Lorsulia. In order to better prepare for the Radovian invasion, Davern sets about securing the loyalty of his nobles and improving the kingdom in order to build his own army. Once the Radovian army arrives, Eryk rallies whatever forces he has been able to muster and engages in battle. However, during the battle, Atana's promised reinforcements do not arrive, forcing Eryk to fight on his own. The battle eventually ends in a victory when a fortuitous avalanche crushes the Radovians, but Eryk's forces suffer heavy casualties and his nobles decide to pull their support.
Meanwhile, Ivo uses the avalanche as a pretext to accuse Davern of practicing witchcraft and has Lorsulia burned at the stake, and promises to send his army to crush Davern. Eryk is forced to appeal to other kings from neighboring nations for support. Meanwhile, Beryan and the surviving Radovians arrive in Davern. It is revealed that they are simply refugees fleeing a civil war in their home country. Eryk can decide whether to have Beryan and the Radovians executed or spare them and allow them to settle in Davern. Eryk may also decide to conduct a magical ritual to ensure that his and Aurelea's next child will be a boy, though there is a risk that Aurelea or the child will die if the ritual is performed incorrectly.
Eventually, Ivo leads his army to Davern and lays siege to Eryk's castle. Depending on how well Eryk made his preparations, his forces may suffer light or heavy casualties, and his family may be killed during the siege. The siege is eventually broken and Ivo is captured. Eryk comes to realize that it was Ivo who poisoned Talys at the wedding. Eryk was Ivo's actual target, but the cups were accidentally switched and Talys was killed instead. Eryk is then left to choose whether to execute or imprison Ivo.
If Eryk made the wrong choices or failed to adequately prepare for the attack, he will lose his family during the siege and Davern will fall into chaos when he eventually dies without an heir. If Eryk made the right choices and made all the necessary preparations, all of his family will survive and he leads Davern into a new golden age that will be secured by his son.
In 1980s London, teenage friends Peter Hale and Samantha steal a bobby's helmet from an officer and escape into the tunnels of the London Underground. Taking a service tunnel, they are surprised to find an oddly well-dressed man mysteriously awaiting their arrival. After introducing himself as Frank, he opens a nearby door onto a green portal, offering the two teenagers the opportunity to 'step inside'; further warning that 'time is running out. Samantha accepts while Peter hesitates. A disappointed Frank says his goodbyes and enters the portal, the door shutting behind him. The pursuing bobbies arrive seconds later, opening the door to find nothing but a wall; the portal, along with Samantha and Frank, gone without a trace.
The game then jumps to 2020s London, covering three stories: * '''"Paper Dolls"''' John Smith, a middle-aged father to daughter, Molly Smith, and Jack Smith (no relation), a young programmer that lives in a nearby building but otherwise unrelated, find their bodies switched after a run-in with the same older man in the Underground. After coming to grips with the situation and telling Molly what has happened, they try to live out each other's lives, but both end up getting fired from their jobs. John, in Jack's body, is able to reapply for his old job with the help of friend of the family & fellow co-worker Shazia Aslam. Meanwhile Jack, in John's body, is hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. John is contacted by the Vape Lord, a vaping store owner who is brothers with Frank, the older man that inadvertently swapped their bodies. The Vape Lord apologizes and offers John travel through a green portal to meet Frank and get the means to return to his own body. * '''"Domestic Affairs"''' Meena Hughes is a high-level agent with an intelligence firm run by an elderly Peter Hughes. She is screened for an important mission, but Peter also brings in Amy Ng, a relatively new employee, as a second possible candidate. This puts Meena at unease, as she is having an affair with Felix Ajibola, while trying to maintain her marriage to Dan Hughes and their son Dylan Hughes. She also is appalled that her father, Samir Patel, has been buying drugs off a street vendor working under the alias 'Spider'; later revealed to be Gavin Briggs. One night on returning home she finds a note that reveals the writer knows of her affair. Her personal investigation into who may have written the note leads to further strain on her marriage. Suspecting Spider had written the note, she follows him to a garage and confronts him, only for Amy to show up shortly afterward and threaten Spider. Meena tries to defuse the situation but Spider and Amy shoot each other; Spider is killed and while Meena first tries to save Amy's life, realizes she was likely the one spying on her. Leaving Amy to die, Meena enters Amy's flat and finds several top secret files on her that show she had been stalking her. She goes to Peter to call him out, only to learn that the mission, to enter a green portal that has just opened and look for Samantha, is now on. Meena tries to make one last call to Dan to save her marriage before donning a special suit and is lowered through the portal. * '''"Stranger Danger"''' Donna Adeleke is a teenage student living with her mom, Tamara Adeleke, her sister, Emma Adeleke, and Emma's fiancée, Aisling Fisher. While hanging with her schoolmates Vivek Chowdhry and Becky Kim, they spot a handsome man whom Vivek claims to see take people into his house but has never seen them leave. They follow him to an abandoned swimming pool and spy on him as he enters the water glowing green. He discovers their presence, but Becky knocks him out and they secure him there. The three maintain a watch, fearing the man will go to the police. The man doesn't speak except when alone with Donna, and gets Donna to talk about her problems with her family. Out of Donna's sight, the man uses his powers to cause Aisling to be completely wiped from history and memories. Over time, the man similarly wipes Tamara, Emma, Vivek, and Becky from Donna's memory, leaving her living alone in the pool. The man tells her that he can take her elsewhere, and leads him back to his house where a hole over a green portal sits. As they descend through, Donna sees the bodies of those he made disappear and while she cannot remember them directly, suspects she knows them.
The three stories converge in the final chapter. Meena lands hard on an alien planet but is saved by Irving, an alien that guides her to a large settlement. Donna is escorted by the stranger on a train to the same settlement, and when another alien pesters the man about Donna, he uses his powers to cause the alien to disappear, which Donna sees and realizes that he has done that to her friends and family. John arrives and finds Frank who apologizes about the swap and gives him a bracelet to undo it. All three converge onto the council chambers, however, Donna becomes scared about being with the stranger and impales him with a sword. The three are taken prisoner and held on trial, where they are sentenced to death. Meena uses an explosive on her suit to distract the guards so the three escape the judgement arena and they end up crashing into a pub where they find an elderly Samantha. Samantha helps to hide them and explains that she doesn't want to go back since she has made a life here. Samantha explains how they can return to Earth, and after distracting the guards protecting the portal, the three return safely.
The player then has an option to resolve each story with two choices. For John, either John can decide to swap bodies, or otherwise continue to live out his life in Jack's younger body. For Donna, a ghost of the stranger appears and offers her a contract by which he will return all those he took from her in exchange for Donna having to join him forever after she dies, or otherwise continue to be alone. For Meena, she lies to Peter about Samantha's fate, and Peter feels all his work to now has been for naught. As to punish Meena, he shows her images from the shootout between Spider and Amy, revealing he had been manipulating her all along. Meena can either quietly accept a lower position in the company but otherwise protect herself and her family from any repercussions, or she can quit and take the fall for the murders.
The story is about a night club owner Lee Chan-woo (Park Hae-soo), his club manager Seong Eun-yeong (Seo Yea-ji), and police officer Park ki-hum (Kim Sang-ho) that fights with an organized crime which involved alleged drug abuse, sex crimes and police corruption.
An English tourist, sightseeing in Paris, wants to light his cigarette but does not have a match. He stops a passing coal deliverer and attempts to ask for a match, but cannot make himself understood. Rifling through all his pockets, the tourist finds one match, but it will not light, and another passerby also cannot help. Finally, the tourist splits himself into two identical Englishmen, one of whom lights the other's cigarette. The two doubles exit to have a drink together, linking arms and merging back into one man.
Besieged on the Hill of Tara by the invading Viking king Tergesius, the King of Ireland O'Brien waits for help from the Ulster leader O'Neill.
Park Mi-jung (Seo Yea-ji), a rookie horror movie director, wanted to make her next movie. In the preparing process, she heard about a banned horror movie from 8 years ago, directed by Kim Jae-hyun (Jin Seon-kyu). Mi-jung decided to find out what happened in the past, expecting that it might give some inspiration for her upcoming movie.
In the 1980s, young Fabietto lives at home in Naples with his father Saverio Schisa and mother Maria Schisa. He doesn’t have many friends nor a lover and wants to study philosophy in college. For the time being, he's mainly listening to music and watching Diego Maradona play for his home team, Napoli. His brother Marchino takes him to acting auditions and sympathizes with his affection for their emotionally troubled aunt Patrizia. Then, tragedy strikes the Schisa family and Fabietto comes of age in a cruel and brutal manner.
''The Limits of Vision'' is a novel in which housewife Marcia wages a battle against dirt.
''Welcome, Chaos'' is a novel in which the heroine is manipulated to a far-away place involving an immortality virus.
The novel opens with the arrival of an evil entity countless years before the dawn of humanity and life as it is known on earth. It eventually manages to meet and coerce a human boy to serve it, with the goal of eventually returning to its true strength.
Decades later, graduate student and adjunct professor Jeremy Freirs decides to rent a renovated chicken coop located in the New Jersey countryside. The property sits on the farm of Sarr Poroth, who along with his wife Deborah, belong to a restrictive and conservative religious sect that prides itself on eschewing modern conveniences and the modern world as a whole. Prior to traveling to the farm Jeremy meets Carol, a library assistant and failed novitiate to whom he is drawn. While they believe their meetings to be random coincidence, in truth they were orchestrated by the elderly Mr. Rosebottom, the human boy from so long ago.
Rosebottom's goal is to guide Carol through a series of rituals preparing her for a final one to be held on Lammas, using her naiveté to ensure that she is unaware of her participation. This final ritual will use Carol's body to birth the evil entity. Jeremy is to be killed and reanimated by the entity so it can serve as its own "father". While Rosebottom is busy in the city with Carol, a remnant of the entity manages to possess one of the Poroth's cats and eventually Deborah herself, in the process killing its hosts. As the rituals continue the arcane magic results in dramatic environmental changes in New Jersey and New York, as well as disturbances in the Poroth's religious community and the formation of a suspected volcano in an area close to the Poroth farm. This causes the community to believe that Jeremy's presence is the cause.
On the night of the ceremony Rosebottom arrives with Carol to the Poroth farm. It works with Rosebottom to prepare the volcanic hill for the ritual, however they fail to obtain Jeremy as a host. The entity instead possesses Sarr, discarding Deborah's body in a wasp-filled shed, unintentionally trapping the insects. It also manages to abscond with Carol, after drugging both her and Jeremy and tying them up. As the community arrives to force Jeremy to leave, Rosebottom hides in the shed, unaware that it is full of angry wasps, and is stung to death. The angry religious members arrive and discover Jeremy, unconscious and tied up. When he comes to, Jeremy realizes where the entity has taken Carol and manages to arrive just as the ceremony is in progress but has not been completed. He manages to defeat the entity; however, a remnant of it escapes.
The book ends with Jeremy and Carol walking through New York City. The pair are now married and while the ceremony was seemingly unsuccessful, Jeremy briefly worries that the entity is still out there.
The narrative starts in 1947. American college student Charlotte (Charlie) St. Clair is on her way to Switzerland with her mother, who has arranged for her to get an abortion. However, Charlie is more interested in finding her French cousin Rose Fournier, who disappeared during World War II. During a stopover in England, she slips away from her mother and tracks down World War I British spy Eve Gardiner, whose name appeared on a report Charlie’s father had received when he was trying to locate Rose.
The story of Evelyn (Eve) Gardiner starts in London in 1915. She is recruited by "Uncle Edward" (Captain Cameron) to join the Alice Network, a group of mostly female spies working against the Germans in northeastern France. The ring is headed by “Lili” (Louise de Bettignies). Using the code name Marguerite Le François, Eve takes a waitress job in Lille at a restaurant named Le Lethe, which caters to German officers and is operated by René Bourdelon, a French collaborator and profiteer.
Eve conceals her fluency in German so she can eavesdrop on conversations at the restaurant and pass on valuable intelligence to Lili and her lieutenant “Violette” (Léonie van Houtte).
Over time, Bourdelon becomes attracted to Marguerite and seduces her. She accepts his advances so she can get even more information to pass on to Lili. Eventually, he discovers that she is a British spy. In attempting to get information from her, he breaks all of the joints of her fingers. When she refuses to tell him anything, he gives her opium and tells her afterwards that, while under the influence of the drug, she betrayed Lili and her network.
Eve and the others are arrested by the Germans and sent to Siegburg Prison, where Lili dies. Upon her release at the end of the war, Eve returns to England, where she refuses to accept the medals that she was awarded for her service because she believes that she doesn’t deserve them. She lives on her pension and becomes an alcoholic, working for a time helping people locate family members during World War II. Because her misshapen hands keep her from doing many normal activities, she hires a Scotsman named Finn Kilgore as a cook and driver.
When Charlie finds Eve in 1947, she convinces her and Finn to help her look for her cousin. Eve agrees because Charlie has information that Rose had worked at a restaurant named Le Lethe for someone named René in Limoges. They learn that, during the war, René Bourdelon moved from Lille to Limoges, changed his name to René du Malassis, and opened a restaurant named Le Lethe like the one in Lille. While working at the restaurant, Rose also worked for the French Resistance using the name Hélène Joubert. She was killed by the Nazis in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre based on information passed on by René.
Bent on vengeance, Eve and Charlie go with Finn to Grasse, where Eve remembers that René owned a villa. They find him there, now retired and using the last name Gautier. Eve shoots René at his villa and plans to kill herself, but Charlie intervenes. She had contacted Violette, who was able to find out from court records that someone named Mlle Tellier had informed on Lili, so Eve was not at fault after all.
In the end, Charlie decides not to have an abortion, marries Finn, and settles down with him in Grasse. Eve goes to France and visits Lili's grave with Violette. She goes on safaris, where she meets people who accept her for what she is, and stays in touch with Charlie, Finn, and her goddaughter Evelyn Rose Kilgore.
The film centres on Syd Stone (Gharrett Patrick Paon), a closeted gay movie star filming a made-for-TV film called Soccer Dad, while worrying about his high school reunion. While there, he tries to mentor his young co-star, who has an emotionally abusive father. At his hotel near the movie set, Syd meets a handsome, young lawyer in town representing a defendant in a murder trial, Brent (Michael Gaty) who awakens his repressed sexuality. Matters are further complicated when his trophy girlfriend shows up unexpectedly.Tim Isaac, [https://www.biggaypictureshow.com/bgps/2014/08/syd-stone-trailer-take-look-iris-prize-nominated-gay-themed-short-film/ "I Am Syd Stone Trailer – Take a look at the Iris Prize nominated gay-themed short film"]. ''Big Gay Picture Show'', August 13, 2014.
After World War II, budding musician Jerry Herst (Leo Marks) returns to Los Angeles for one more go at becoming a successful film composer. In Los Angeles, Herst studies with the famed instructor Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Xander Berkeley), whose students include John Williams, Andre Previn, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle and Jerry Goldsmith. Herst, who already had a hit under his belt, 1937's "So Rare", struggles between family pressure and his musical calling, as Tedesco teaches him what it means to be a successful artist. The film also features actor Jon Polito as fictional MGM executive Herbert Englehardt in what would be Polito's final performance.
''Troubled Blood'' begins in August 2013 and ends on Robin's 30th birthday on 9 October 2014. While visiting his terminally ill aunt Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants to hire Strike's firm to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamborough, a general practitioner in London, almost 40 years previously, on 11 October 1974. As a result of their previous successes, Strike and Robin (still a salaried partner) now employ three contract investigators and an office manager. Both are dealing with their own irritations: Strike over his aunt's illness, suicide threats from his ex-fiancée Charlotte (now a married mother of two), and the attempts of his half-siblings to get him to attend a party honouring his rock star biological father Johnny Rokeby; Robin over Matthew's intransigence in their divorce, her continuing PTSD, and her unsettled personal life, brought into clearer focus by her brother and his wife having their first child.
The police's principal suspect in Margot's disappearance was a currently incarcerated serial killer named Dennis Creed. The daughter (Anna) and her wife give the firm a one-year contract to try to trace information, although, because the small firm has three other ongoing cases, it takes several months to run down the surviving witnesses and investigators (or their children). During the year, Strike's aunt dies from cancer, Matthew grants Robin the divorce because his mistress/girlfriend becomes pregnant, Charlotte attempts suicide and calls Strike to tell him goodbye—although Strike's quick reaction gets help to her in time, and the heavy work schedule combined with a lack of communication about all of the issues contributes to many personal misunderstandings within the firm, including arguments between Strike and Robin and the termination of one of the contract investigators for instances of inappropriate behaviour toward Robin.
In August 2014, although the firm is still trying to trace leads, the client and her wife end the contract as of the end of August, two weeks before the allotted year. Despite this, Strike and Robin continue to investigate. There are three breakthroughs with the case: Strike locates an elusive patient of Margot’s, Steve Douthwaite; a receptionist, who claims she was the last person to see Margot alive, agrees to speak to Strike and Robin; and, through Robin’s inventiveness and persistence in attempting to secure an interview with Creed behind Strike’s back, Strike is granted permission to interrogate Creed in Broadmoor Hospital on 14 September. Strike outwits Creed and this leads to the discovery of the remains of another victim of Creed, Louise Tucker, bringing closure and relief to her father. Robin and Strike then use evidence from the original police investigation and their subsequent investigation to find Margot's body and identify her killer: Janice Beattie, a nurse who worked for Margot's practice. Margot had (correctly) begun to suspect Janice had been poisoning Steve Douthwaite and was implicated in the apparent suicide of Douthwaite’s lover, and after examining Janice's son, she realized she was poisoning him also. Strike deduces that Janice is a serial-killer, who has murdered many more victims over decades. An avalanche of publicity follows the discovery of the remains of Louise Tucker and Margot Bamborough, and the arrest of Janice Beattie. Robin and Strike both move out of their homes temporarily to avoid journalists. The novel ends on Robin’s 30th birthday, with Strike (in contrast to the generic last-minute gifts he gave Robin at Christmas and on her previous birthday) buying Robin thoughtful and personalised gifts and taking her to the Ritz for champagne; enigmatically, Strike smiles to himself as he remembers a conversation with his friend Dave Polworth about the competing demands of career, romantic relationships and marriage.
Richard Brumere is a secret agent who worked for the government. During an operation, Richard had impregnated the wife of his friend Jouard. The two have a son named Archibald al Mahmoud. His wife asks that her son be given two things: money given by the government and someone to take care of him. An agent by the name of Fernand was assigned to take care of him and did so for the past couple of years. Archibald never knew his father, so he always assumed Fernand was his dad. Meanwhile, at a bank, Ministre Sivardiere had discovered a fake employee providing Archibald al Mahmoud with money for the past couple of years. Also, Archibald al Mahmoud was considered a terrorist wanted for arms and drug trafficking. Sivardiere had shut down the money, which also erased the immunity, leading government agents to pursue him. Agents show up at his home, and with the use of a device only known as the Big Mac, Fernand has a heart attack after his pacemaker fails due to the Big Mac frying the electrical signal. Archibald tries to get away but is arrested. He is interrogated about his alleged activities but is passed out. Richard finds out about his son and how he's being held by the government and stages a rescue. After a lengthy brawl with agents, Richard saves his son but does not disclose he is the father by using the alias, George. While getting away and kidnapping a willing Sivardiere, Richard is exposed, and Archibald feels betrayed. Richard reminisces about his wife twirling the pendant around her finger. Archibald comes out and realizes he was the man who comforted him at the funeral, realizing he was never truly abandoned. After recovering the Big Mac, Jouard realizes that Richard still had to be taken in for the events of the prior operation cup and ball. Richard triggers the Big Mac killing the power in the building and escaping but still promises to be there for his son.
Bittersweet first love story of a stage frightened prospective musician Woo-jin (Kim Jung-hyun) and vivacious would be actress Yeon-soo (Seo Yea-ji).
Dum Dum, an eccentric music hall clown, enters a stage set complete with footlights and a prompter's box. He assembles a mannequin on a bench, and begins to dance. A rival clown in a frock coat enters and attempts to take control of the stage. The annoyed Dum Dum tries various ways of getting his rival off, ranging from angry shouting to spraying him with water. Finally, with a huge mallet, he manages to hammer his rival out of sight. Dum Dum then performs an elaborate magic trick in which the mannequin is disassembled, transformed into a living ballerina, and then turned back into parts. Dum Dum attempts to bow, but the rival clown appears once more. Enraged, Dum Dum hurls his rival into the pile of mannequin parts, from which he emerges dressed in a piecemeal combination of the frock coat and the ballet tutu.
After foiling Steam Smythe's plan to destroy a telephone industry, Ben Tennyson feels like everything he does is getting repetitive and feels like there's no one left to give him a challenge. When his cousin Gwen and Grandpa Max start encouraging Ben to not let his guard down when there are new threats coming, they suddenly get an urgent call from their friend Phil, and they quickly travel to his house. After getting there and entering his secret lab in his garage, Phil shows them a meteor heading towards Earth that threatens to destroy all life on the planet. Left with no other options Ben decides to destroy the meteor with one of his aliens but before he does that, Phil tells Ben that the key which is used to unlock his “Omni-Kix” armor is actually in reverse and turning it into its proper lock could unlock the other secret upgrades of the Omnitrix. After putting the key back in its proper place in the Omnitrix, Ben turns into Jetray, then twists his Omnitrix twice, giving him a new upgrade and suit called “Omni-naut Armor". After doing a couple of test runs, Ben is ready to fly into space and destroy the meteor.
Ben flies into outer space while Gwen, Grandpa Max, and Phil monitor Ben while also feeling worried as he tries to stop the meteor. When Ben reaches the meteor, he suddenly changes direction, and flies into a portal to another galaxy while the meteor continues heading towards Earth. As the Tennyson's and Phil moan over Bens disappearance and brace for impact, the meteor lands but is actually revealed to be Ben's arch-enemy Vilgax who has escaped from his imprisonment in the Null Void in the Season 2 finale and wants revenge against Earth and Ben Tennyson.
Meanwhile, after exiting the portal, Ben finds himself stranded in space and when he times out, his Omnitrix gives him a spacesuit to help him survive in the depths of space while also being abducted by the Incurseans, who think he is Vilgax. Ben tries to escape using Omni-Naut Humungousaur, but he times out, the Incurseans overpower him and they bring him to the Grand Magistrate to face justice against the entire universe.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the Tennyson's and Phil try to find Ben's energy signature in the Omnitrix, but instead they find Ben's rival, Kevin, who is hiding in a cave while his Antitrix is malfunctioning, just like Ben's Omnitrix did in the season 1 finale. After convincing Kevin they could help him repair his Antitrix, he agrees to protect the world in Ben's absence. After they leave, the police hear a report about a jaywalker in a nearby city but it is revealed to be Vilgax who is looking for something that belongs to him and destroying anything that gets in his way.
While in space, Ben tries to convince everyone in the Galactic Court that he is not Vilgax, but they do not believe him after Tetrax arrives with false evidence claiming that Ben is Vilgax, and he is banished to the Null Void. As Ben tries to find a way out of the Null Void, he soon encounters criminal aliens that are also stuck in the Null Void who try to take Ben's Omnitrix as they heard rumors of the device and Ben told by Vilgax while he was trapped. When the aliens prepare to take the Omnitrix, they are suddenly stopped by Azmuth, a Galvin, and the creator of the Omnitrix. After the aliens leave, Ben tries to fight him, thinking that he works for Vilgax, but Azmuth takes away the Omnitrix from Ben telepathically and accidentally tells him that he knows Vilgax. Ben tries to get Azmuth to tell him everything he knows about Vilgax by continually asking him, Azmuth eventually agrees to do so in order to get Ben to stop talking.
He tells Ben that when he was a young inventor, he didn't care about the consequences of his decisions or the inventions he made. He secretly created the Omnitrix to changes a person's genetic information and allow the wearer to feel what it's like to be in a different species shoes, and planned on using it as a symbol for peace around the Universe. He later met a young Vilgax who wanted to learn more about his work so Azmuth decided to teach him as an apprentice in the possibilities of science. But Vilgax became power-hungry and wanted to use the Omnitrix's power to control the universe, so in desperation, Azmuth used the Omnitrix's power to trap half of Vilgax's DNA to save the universe and sent himself in self-imposed exile to the Null Void out of guilt for Vilgax's crimes.
After finishing his story, Ben tries to convince Azmuth to give him the Omnitrix back so he can save his planet, but Azmuth still refuses to do so until Ben tells him he is willing to rescue his planet even without the Omnitrix. This speech makes Azmuth slightly interested and agrees to give it back to him as long as he passes one trial first, which Ben accepts.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Kevin has just defeated Solar and Polar at Phil's house when Vilgax arrives to take the Antitrix that he had sent the blueprints to Kevin in his dreams and used him to build the device. When Vilgax demands Kevin to give him the Antitrix he refuses and a fight bring on between the two. At first Kevin is winning, but then loses the Antitrix to Vilgax, who uses it to become a hybrid of all of Kevin's aliens known as Anti Vilgax. As the Tennysons and Phil try to escape with an unconscious Kevin, they are stopped by Vilgax and he attempts to kill them until Kevin wakes up and tries to use Glitch to stop him, but when that fails and Vilgax crushes Glitch's rustbuggy form, Glitch turns into a suit of armor for Kevin to wear and fight Vilgax, who has grown weary and used his Galvanic Mechamorph DNA to terraform the Earth into “Planet Vilgax.”
Meanwhile, in the Null Void, Azmuth reveals his trial to Ben, he must pass through a large pipe with traps before the timer on his Omnitrix runs out. After numerous attempts fail, Ben starts to lose hope until he asks Azmuth for a hint or advice, which Azmuth gives to Ben in order to keep things interesting. He tells Ben that all his usual tricks with the Omnitrix are keeping him from unlocking its true potential. As Ben tries to figure out what Azmuth's advice is about, two of the alien criminals attack him and try to take the Omnitrix for themselves. While they are fighting, a rift opens and it begins sucking one of the criminals in while the other one abandons his comrade.
When Ben sees the criminal in trouble, he tries to use the Omnitrix to save him but none of his aliens can save him until he figures out how to switch out the DNA Pods in the Omnitrix and changes into a slimy alien dubbed Goop (though he is referred to as "the booger guy"). Ben uses Goop to rescue the alien but fails to finish the trial.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Vilgax continues to terraform the Earth while Kevin tries to beat Vilgax to no avail. In the Null Void, Ben sorrows that he failed the trial, but Azmuth gives Ben more time after seeing him heroically rescue the alien criminal from the portal. With his confidence restored, Ben tries to find a way out but Azmuth already has one for him, he shows Ben a device that opens a portal out, Ben escapes after using Omni-Naut Shock Rock to charge it up bigger. Before Ben leaves, he asks Azmuth why he didn't escape the Null Void in the first place, Azmuth responds by saying that he believes he deserves to be here for what he has done, but Ben tells him that people can change and he escapes the Null Void.
After successfully escaping, he sees the Incursions flagship getting sucked into a Null Void portal, so Ben helps get them to safety but passes out after he uses too much of his power. He awakens in the Flagship where the Incursions tells Ben that they rescued him when they find out he saved their ship, something Vilgax would never do. The Grand Magistrate thank Ben for his heroism and tries to help Ben to get back home using their flagship, but the engines were knocked off when they were trying to escape from the Null Void. But first, they try to find Tetrax who is about to escape. Ben captures him, but lets him go on the basis that Azmuth hired him.
After returning to Earth, Ben finds Vilgax and Kevin fighting and helps Kevin fight off Vilgax with Omni-Kix Four Arms. But Vilgax's many powers make him able to take down Ben and Kevin and destroy Glitch. After incapacitating them, he steals the Omni-Kix Key and places it into the Antitrix. Kevin removes the Antitrix, but Vilgax has already charged himself up to a cosmic entity named Alien V. While Ben and Kevin attempt to defeat the super-powerful Alien V, his super-charged abilities make him too powerful for them and Kevin gets knocked many feet away. Ben starts to lose faith again until Azmuth, who has escaped the Null Void, calls him using the Omnitrix and reminds Ben of what he learned during his trial in the Null Void. With his faith restored, Ben adds a new alien into his arsenal, a giant alien dubbed Way Big. After a tense battle, Ben defeats Vilgax.
Azmuth and the Incursions arrive as Azmuth takes his strongest and most dangerous creation away from Ben to use its DNA repair function to restore Vilgax to his normal self and repair the Earth, and then returns it to Ben, asking him to keep it safe for him and but make him regert such a decision. The Incursions take Vilgax into custody. The Tennyson family try to find Kevin, who disappeared after the fight, while Phil recovers Glitch's remains with the hopes of rebuilding him. Phillip and the Tennysons head to Nebraska for another vacation.
Three weeks after Roseanne's death, the family is still grieving. The family finds out that Roseanne didn't die from a heart attack as they had originally thought, but rather from an opioid overdose. Dan blames their neighbor Marcy Bellinger, who gave Roseanne the pills they found in her closet, for her death. Later after learning Roseanne had also gotten pills from other sources, and after talking with Marcy, Dan decides to stop blaming her. Dan also helps Mark decide which boy he likes, Jackie grieves by trying to reorganize the kitchen, and Geena returns home from Afghanistan. Lastly, Dan, after sleeping on the couch since Roseanne's death, decides to sleep in his bed again.
The game is set in March 1937, and follows Anastasie "Tasi" Trianon, a French drafter on an expedition in colonial Africa. After her plane crash-lands in Algeria, she wakes up to discover that her companions are missing, with no recollection of what happened. Following the trail of her expedition, Tasi realizes that she is pregnant and has come into possession of a Traveler's Amulet, an alien device that allows her to travel to an alien world. During this time, she finds her husband Salim's corpse, having died from the crash.
Tasi reaches an abandoned French fort and discovers an unknown force has slaughtered its garrison. She contacts an expedition survivor, Dr. Metzier, who instructs her to head to a nearby village. Tasi travels under the fort and encounters mutated ghouls that stalk the tunnels. She makes her way out but is caught in a cave-in and falls into ancient ruins that belonged to a highly advanced, but now extinct, society. As she studies the ruins, Tasi learns that the facility was built by an alien race dubbed the Gate Builders, who could traverse worlds and extend their lives thanks to vitae, a substance obtained by torturing humans on a mass scale. A failed plot to end the suffering caused the Gate on their homeworld to destroy itself, wiping out the Gate Builders and spreading the Shadow, a dangerous force that manifests in red tumor-like growths. Tasi also comes across signs of a previous expedition led by Professor Herbert. To her horror, Tasi discovers that one of her expedition members, Leon, has been turned into a ghoul. She later rescues another expedition member, Richard, but kills him in a rage when he attempts to leave her to die.
Tasi activates a teleporter in the ruins to transport herself to the village, but find it deserted and goes into labor. She encounters expedition member Yasmin, who in the process of turning into a ghoul had killed the villagers. Metzier arrives and kills Yasmin. Tesi enters labor, assisted by Metzier, and gives birth to a girl, Amari. Metzier takes Amari, claiming she is needed to reverse the curse causing them to become ghouls. Tasi chases after Metzier, who uses the Traveler's Amulet to travel to the Gate Builders' world.
During the pursuit, Tasi recovers her memories. Shortly after the plane crash, the Empress of the Gate Builders approached the expedition and brought them to the Gate Builders' world. The Empress, longing to be a mother after vitae treatment for an affliction rendered her infertile, gave them the Traveler's Amulet and promised to save them if Tasi gave her Amari. Tasi, still traumatized by the loss of her previous daughter Alys, refused. The Empress then tricked the expedition into drinking from a fountain that inflicted the curse, before sending them back to Earth.
Tasi catches up to Metzier and kills him. The Empress warns Tasi that Amari is afflicted with the same illness that killed Alys. She pleads with Tasi to allow Amari to stay with her, as she can provide vitae to Amari to suppress her illness, allowing her to live a full life. Tasi is left with three choices.
Pedro Cáceres (Gabriel Soto) is married by convenience to the daughter of his tutor and boss. He decides to end the farce of his marriage when he falls in love with Vera Solís (Fátima Molina), whom he meets during a business trip. But Pedro's father, Olmo Cáceres (Guillermo García Cantú) threatens him to prevent him from breaking up his marriage. Pedro gives in to his boss's threats and abandons Vera. Years later, Pedro will meet Vera again, when she reappears as the girlfriend of his father-in-law.
The play occurs in 1812 during Spain's occupation of Venezuela. A Spanish captain, Montserrat, concludes that the occupation is wrong and switches sides to support Simón Bolívar revolution for independence. Monserrate is captured by the Spaniards, and Colonel Izquierdo uses cruel tactics in an effort to compel Montserrat to reveal Bolívar's location. The tactics include taking six strangers from the street and telling them that if they fail to persuade Montserrat to talk the information, they will be killed. In the second half of the play, each of the six strangers pleads his case and is executed.
The book centers 16-year-old Bree Matthews, who attempts to infiltrate a historically white magical society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pre-college program she is attending when she finds out that some members may have been involved in her mother's recent death.
Three months after her mother's death, Bree attends the University of North Carolina with her friend Alice. On the first night, they sneak out of campus with a group of people. They end up getting caught and are given peer mentors to watch over them due to breaking the law. While Bree is walking with her peer mentor Nick, a 'shadowborn' monster appears, Nick slaying it with a sword. Bree is then taken to an unknown building where a strange man attempts to erase her mind, but fails without knowing so.
Through Nick, she discovers a secret organization that is full of Legendborn nobles, descendants from fifteen of King Arthur's knights. She gradually recovers her memory of her mother's death, and is able to uncover the mage's organization enough to decide to infiltrate it as a page; a person training to defend the Legendborn nobles.
Over time she slowly uncovers more about the society: the fifteen knights reincarnate in a sense in a descendant called a Scion, each knight sometimes Calls their Scion giving them power at the cost of a shortened life, and there is a set order in which they are Called. The descendants of Merlin are mages called Merlins, like the mage who attempted to wipe Bree's memory earlier in the book, Sel. As Nick and Bree's relationship grows, Sel begins to suspect that Bree is an undercover shadow monster, complicating her chances of becoming a Page.
Bree's therapist has connections to a group that uses magic (called by them Root) differently than the descendants of Arthur. The Root practitioners call the Legendborn magic bloodcraft and hate it's users; bloodcraft grants lots of power, but it always comes at a cost. For the Legendborn, it means that their lives are shortened.
With studying with the Root practitioners, she learns that Sel is part-demon. Bree confronts Sel, and Sel reveals that their demonic nature as descendants of Merlin is why they are bound young in oaths.
''The Blackwell Deception'' focuses on Rosa and Joey again and takes place some time after the third game. Rosa receives a call from a former co-worker asking to investigate a case for him. She soon finds out that he has been murdered while investigating a contact given by a psychic Lisa Tenzin. Rosa then proceeds to solve two more murder cases and finds out that Lisa had referred both to a man named Gavin. She confronts the psychic about their deaths and it turns out Gavin had brainwashed her into helping him. Gavin has in fact been "feeding" on their energy to remain immortal. Gavin then captures Rosa and kills Lisa who tries to escape. He brainwashes Rosa into trapping Joey and tries to feed on her. However, Joey escapes and manages to bring Rosa to her senses. As she breaks Gavin's ritual of feeding on her, she accidentally kills him. Since Gavin fed on a large number of souls he tries to resurrect himself but Lisa's ghost distracts him. Rosa takes advantage and drags him as well as Lisa's soul to the gates where someone unseen stops Gavin from moving on and, in order to punish Gavin for failing his mission, somehow destroys his soul. After Lisa's departure Rosa, confused by her purpose, decides to track down the organization that was behind Gavin and found a full scale "Ghost Investigation" agency.
The story starts off with Rosa investigating a condemned building. After freeing a soul, Rosa witnesses a man named George Ostin being shot dead. George's ghost pleads for Rosa's help, knowing that she's a legitimate spirit medium, but before Rosa can take any action, George's ghost is ripped apart by an unknown force.
Rosa investigates George's death and, through the trail of several other ghosts, uncovers the existence of a church-based self-help group known as the Grace Group. Every member is in danger of dying or already dead, and their ghosts are in danger of being torn apart by an unknown force instead of moving on. With the help of Madeline, the former spirit guide of the Countess, Rosa and Joey are able to protect most of the souls. Later, however, Madeline betrays everyone by revealing that she had been ripping the souls herself to absorb them and gain their life force, and that she had targeted the Grace Group because their souls were exceptionally weak. Madeline explains that she wants nothing more than to end her several centuries of thankless work as a spirit guide, and intends to return to life because she cannot pass on. She absorbs the souls of the remaining Grace Group members and possesses Rosa's body, effectively returning to life. Joey is able to extract Madeline from Rosa's body, but in doing so, Rosa's mind becomes overloaded with "the knowledge of the universe", and is driven insane the same way as her aunt and grandmother before her. Madeline reveals that she was responsible for driving the other Blackwell women insane by attempting to possess them, but failing due to her insufficient life force and the emotional weakness of the host. Madeline's occupancy then departure would cause the universe to fill the void left behind and overstimulate the mediums' senses.
Rosa is placed in solitary confinement at Bellevue Mental Hospital. With the help of Joey and the ghost of her late aunt, Rosa gains temporary control over her immense knowledge, and explains that Madeline is now threatening to wipe out all life in New York in an attempt to forcibly vaporize her own soul by drawing in the power of the universe through a portal. Rosa and Joey escape the hospital, and confront Madeline. Rosa takes control of the portal and subsequently allows every departed soul currently in the world to flow through her and pass on, Madeline and her aunt included. Joey, however, is still unable to pass on. The portal closes. Rosa, losing control of her mind again, decides to pass her life force to Joey with her remaining power. Joey's body becomes corporeal as he is properly alive again, and Rosa dies.
The end scene shows Joey spreading Rosa's ashes over the docks where Rosa had spread her aunt's ashes at the beginning of the series. Joey monologues about how he has tried to look for spirits to help since Rosa's death by investigating the scene of a recent highway accident following rumors of disembodied screams and cries, but finds that he is no longer able to hear and see ghosts like before. Uncertain of what to do now that he is just a regular human again, Joey merely concludes that "life is worth living", and promises to live it out fully to honor Rosa's sacrifice.
The film begins with Ariyanachi getting ready for her daughter's ear piercing function. It is shown that her husband Ranasingam lives in Dubai to support their family. As the function is happening, Maayi, Ranasingam's younger sister, learns that her brother died during a protest in Dubai through the police. As everyone is in shock and heartbroken, they try to bring Ranasingam's body back to India.
In a flashback, Ranasingam is revealed to be a water dowser. Ariyanachi's father hired Ranasingam for divining water on their land. Ariyanachi does not believe him and thinks he is a hoaxster who is tricking her family, whilst also trying to court her. One day when Ranasingam was passing by, Ariyanachi blocked him as asked him to show him where the water is as she believes that he is just making a magic show. He then identifies the water in the sky, saying that it will rain on her side but will not rain on his side. In disbelief, Ariyanachi stood and waited but it happened, which started their love.
The film is taken back to the present where their family is still trying to recover Ranasingam's body. Ariyanachi gets a call from Ranasingam's friends abroad, saying that he did not die during a protest but during an accident, while he was working in the oil factory. In shock, Ariyanachi decided to go to the police, where they do not believe her and ask her for evidence. Trying her best, she files a case in court, where they decided to tarnish Ranasingam's name and did not come with a decision.
Taken back to the past, it is shown that Ariyanachi and Ranasingam get engaged, but on the day of their wedding, the police decide to enforce a curfew to stop the wedding. They still managed to get married overnight but failed to get any evidence because it was sudden. Ariyanachi tells Ranasingam that she wants to build a house for the whole family to stay. Ranasingam is involved with people's problems and helps them solve them, but this is disliked by the police. As Ariyanachi struggles to bring her husband's body, back she decides to do everything she can. While everyone is at the airport to drop Ranasingam as he is going to Dubai for work, it is shown that Ariyanachi is pregnant. During their calls, he shows Ariyanachi that he got a tattoo of her name on his hand so when he shakes people's hands, the first thing they notice is her.
Ariyanachi decides to talk to the MLA, CM, and others, but nothing worked. 10 months passed, and then she decided to take matters into her own hands when she stood on top of the dam attempting to commit suicide. This catches the attention of the Prime Minister of India. Attempts are made to bring Ranasingam's body. Ariyanachi's family picks up the body from the airport, and the funeral arrangements are made. As they go to cremate the body, Ariyanachi finds out that the body is not Ranasingam's as it does not have the tattoo of her name, but she stays quiet. As Ariyanachi is talking to Ranasingam's photo, she asks for forgiveness as she could not bring his body back home. At the end, Ranasingam's body is shown floating in the middle of the ocean as he did pass away due to an accident and his corpse was abandoned or thrown into the ocean.
The play tells the story, in semi-documentary form, of the Italian-born anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti, who were arrested, tried, and executed for the murder of a guard and the paymaster during the robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
The first hour was aired on June 3, 1960, covering the events occurring between the arrest and conviction. The production opens with the two men in their jail cells and uses flashbacks depicting the police investigation. It then reenacts portions of the trial, focusing on abuses by the presiding judge and prosecutor, and suggests that the men were convicted because of their radical political beliefs and due to prejudice against foreigners.
The second hour was aired on June 10, 1960, covering the six years following the convictions, including appeals, the confession of Celestino Medeiros that he was the actual killer, public protests, the commission established by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller to assess the fairness of the trial, and the execution in 1927.
The plot of ''Grace and Glorie'' revolves around a couple who move from New York City to a rural location where the couple become acquainted with an eldery, illiterate woman named Grace Stiles (Gena Rowlands).
Taking place entirely in pantomime, Andy Panda is going through a cookbook looking for something to prepare on a Meatless Tuesday when he hears a rooster crow outside, asking him to have roast chicken for supper, but the farmyard rooster isn't cooperating. Andy pursues the rooster to a chicken coup, where he locks himself inside. He tries a few other methods to get the rooster out, like using bird seeds and prying the coup door open, but none of them appear to work. Andy then uses a shovel to dig his way into the coup, but the rooster and the other hens repositioned the coup above a fountain, leading Andy to be splashed out of the earth and into his cellar.
Andy emerges from the cellar with an axe and begins chasing the rooster once more. He eventually catches up with him and prepares to sever his head from his neck, but he hesitates. The rooster responds by blindfolding Andy, who then proceeds to hack off his head. The axe blade, however, flies away from the handle and lands in the roosters neck. With the upper hand, the rooster pursues Andy up a telephone pole, which he then chops down into Andy's garden. The rooster lets out another crow, and the hens around him applaud him, only to be whacked with a tomato by Andy in return.
After Angela moves to suburbia with her controlling new husband and his 9-year-old daughter, she begins to exhibit strange behavior such as sleepwalking and nightmares. These ailments soon permeate her everyday life as her husband struggles to diagnose her physical and mental issues. Angela's burgeoning aggression becomes directed at her step-daughter Maddie, whose silent pleas to her father go unnoticed.
Ugyen has completed four of his five mandatory years of training as a teacher for the government. However, he does not enjoy teaching and wishes to move to Australia to become a singer. When he is assigned to teach in the remote mountain village of Lunana, he considers quitting his job, but his grandmother urges him to complete his teaching duty. He decides to take the assignment and leaves the city.
Ugyen meets Michen, a village guide who leads him up the perilous path to Lunana. The villagers are excited by his arrival, but Ugyen, appalled by the poor conditions of the village, admits regret at coming and requests to be taken back. Michen informs him that the mules need time to rest and he can take Ugyen back in a few days. The next morning, Ugyen is awoken by Pem Zam, the class captain, who tells him the children are waiting for him in the classroom. Ugyen is taken aback by their affection for him, as the children believe teachers have the ability to “touch the future.” He decides to stay and teach for the remainder of the year.
Ugyen returns the next day better prepared to teach, and improvises the lack of a blackboard by writing directly on the wall with charcoal. Michen later constructs a makeshift blackboard for him. Ugyen slowly makes improvements to the classroom, including sacrificing the paper covering his windows when the children run out of writing material. He quickly becomes a favorite of the children, performing songs on his guitar and teaching them math, English and Dzongkha. They are sad when they learn that Ugyen plans to leave when winter comes and will not return.
Ugyen later meets Saldon, the daughter of village leader Asha, as she sings a traditional song atop a hillside. She tells him that she sings it daily as an offering to the village, and he asks her to teach it to him; they meet daily and he slowly learns how to sing it himself. She says it is called Yak Lebi Lhadar, and it was written by a local yak herder who lamented having to slaughter his favorite yak for the good of the village. Saldon later gifts Ugyen with a yak, Norbu, so that he can use its dung to start fires. Because of the cold, Ugyen must keep Norbu in the classroom and he becomes a fixture of the children’s lessons.
Asha approaches Ugyen with news that winter is approaching and it is time for him to leave before the pass is covered in snow. He asks Ugyen to come back the following spring, but Ugyen says that he intends to leave Bhutan for good, disappointing him. He breaks the news to Saldon, reassuring her that a better teacher will come in the spring, but Saldon says that only the children can be the judges of that and they all love Ugyen. She hopes he will come back someday and perform Yak Lebi Lhadar for her.
Ugyen leaves Lunana after a heartfelt goodbye from the villagers. Pem Zam gives him a letter from all the children, and Saldon gifts him with a scarf. Asha sings Yak Lebi Lhadar as he departs, and Michen informs Ugyen that Asha originally wrote the song. Ugyen later reads the letter from the children, thanking him and calling him their favorite teacher while urging him to return in the spring. On the way down the mountain, Ugyen stops at a shrine and leaves an offering for safe passage, saying that he hopes to return.
Ugyen travels to Australia where he performs in a bar, but nobody pays attention to him. He stops playing his song and sings Yak Lebi Lhadar to a rapt audience.
Saeed is a teenage boy who urgently needs surgery due to heart disease on the advice of his doctor. Saeed's school friends, who are aware of his inability to pay for surgery, form a group called Sohrab. With the help of Khosrow (Akbar Abdi), the school caretaker, who is Sohrab's uncle, Saeed's friend, they decide to pay for Saeed's surgery by forming an orchestra to participate in the festivities, when suddenly all the money is stolen by someone. But with the help of the plan of one of the members of the group named Hamid, the children regained the money and Saeed's surgery was performed successfully.
After his father, Mr. Hanson, is attacked by a dog, Russ' pet wolf comes to the father’s defense and kills the dog. Frightened, the wolf, named Grey Wolf, runs away, and in the process frightens a young neighborhood girl. When the town is roused to take action against the Grey Wolf, Russ takes the wolf into the forest. He realizes he will never be able to bring the wolf home. But he also understands he cannot simply release the wolf into the wild. So he starts trying to re-establishing the wolf’s natural instincts.
''Time-Slip'' is a novel in which a new Messiah appears in a post-holocaust Scotland.
''Escape Plans'' is a novel in which ruling class dilettante Alice descends into a world totally dependent on information systems, and a revolution brews.
''The Ice King'' is a novel in which archaeologists dig up an ancient evil.
''A Noose of Light'' is a novel in which djinni do evil things to humans.
''Hogwarts Legacy'' is set in the late 1800s and follows a student starting at Hogwarts in their fifth year. The player character, who holds the key to an "ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart", is capable of manipulating a mysterious ancient magic, and will need to help uncover why this forgotten magic has suddenly made a resurgence and the ones that are simultaneously trying to harness it. The player is able to interact with characters previously seen within the Wizarding World franchise including Nearly Headless Nick, The Fat Lady, and Peeves. The player character will also be introduced to new characters such as Professor Eleazar Fig, acting as a mentor figure to the protagonist. Antagonists featured in the game include Ranrok, the leader of the Goblin Rebellion, and Victor Rookwood, the leader of a group of Dark Wizards.
The story is set in the that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The school was originally going to be demolished, only to have instead recently reopened to accept students. Within a school that has not made a name for itself, along with no history or accomplishments to speak of, Kanon Shibuya and four other first year students discover the existence of "school idols" and set out to let their voices be heard. They form a school idol group named Liella!, and aim to become superstars in their own right one day.
Set in an unspecified South American country, the play follows three rebels who are assigned with the task of assassinating their country's brutal dictator, Montez.
The kidnapping of a wealthy Texas oil man is depicted in a "semi-documentary" style from differing points of view. After the ransom is paid and the oil man is freed, he provides clues to assist investigators in locating the kidnappers. The play was loosely based on the kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel.
The plot concerns the rivalry between the aristocracy and middle class as played out between an English country gentleman, his family, an airline pilot, a passenger, and a socialist.
Lerka and his two sidekicks Slegga and Proffen have been convicted of cheating people out of money and housing fraud. When they are released from prison after six months, they realize that it is not easy to get work after "graduating" from the Oslo Penitentiary. Society does its part to undermine the good intentions of the "misfits," including Dråpan, who has stopped drinking and has been given a painting job by Colonel Ruud and his wife. His thirst—and a thoughtlessly poured glass of liqueur—are enough to drive him off the wagon. Nelly—who is working the Oslo City Hall neighborhood—gets the upper hand over Harald Drangeid. With the help of the money in his well-stocked wallet, Lerka realizes his dream of buying a boat. Lerka's girlfriend Maja is hauled off to jail at the same time as her boyfriend is released.
Soo-wan (Kim Jae-wook) and Jung-won (Seo Yea-ji) come from unstable families and have their own problems. After they meet on an online internet cafe, both of them decide to do a suicide pact.
The plot concerns the pressures of modern politics as shown through a corruption investigation into a politician of the highest integrity.
The play is set in the Civil War and depicts the plan by a Union officer (Henry Pleasants) to end a stalemate by digging a tunnel under Confederate forces and then exploding the enemy with dynamite. The story was based on the Battle of the Crater that occurred in July 1864 near Petersburg, Virginia.
The play concerns a charming vagabond who arrives at an old people's home and brings new life to the home's residents.
The plot is a tragic love story set during World War I. British Army officer Capt. Leslie Cronyn deserts his unit after becoming disillusioned with the war. He meets American nurse Janet Marshall who holds a romantic view of the war as a glorious contest. The two fall in love and he finds new meaning in life, but complications arise, including Marshall's husband serving at the front and Cronyn's efforts to elude the military police and flee from France.
Hit-Monkey is a wronged Japanese macaque who is mentored by the ghost of an American assassin named Bryce Fowler as he damages Tokyo's crime underworld.
A French Army captain arrives with his wife and son at an outpost in a small town in Algeria during the Algerian War. Upon his arrival, rebels stage bomb a house, resulting in the massacre of a local family. The French forces capture a rebel courier, a handsome and intelligent 15-year old boy. When a lieutenant recommends torturing the boy to elicit information on the rebels, the captain faces a crisis of conscience. He debates the dilemma with himself, the prisoner, the prisoner's father, a priest, his wife, and his fellow soldiers. Frustrated at the captain's indecision, the lieutenant fails to act and allows a sniper to shoot and kill the captain.
The play is set in the Warsaw Ghetto in the months before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It opens with a Nazi calling out names of Jews to be deported and closeups of grim Jewish faces as a song of Jewish mourning plays in the background. A Nazi asks: "They call them in here to pick out the ones who are to die, and yet they sing. Jews. Who can explain Jews?".
Rabbi Adam Heller lives with his beautiful daughter Rachel. His son Paul returns home in the first act after escaping from a Nazi prison camp. The rabbi and his son are at odds: the rabbi believes faith will guide the Jews through the war, but Paul has seen the savagery of the Nazis and advocates resistance.
A Christian peddler, Josef Chinik, aids the Hellers with food and books. Another character, Israel, collects weapons for an army of resistance forming in the ghetto.
At the end of the first act, a German officer, Capt. Richter, and a younger German soldier, Sgt. Lott, arrive to investigate rumours that the building is being used by a resistance group. In the second act, Capt. Richter rapes Rachel. On learning of the rape, Rabbi Heller becomes disillusioned and says, "My life has been an endless prayer and prolonged supplication to a God without ears, to a God without eyes.". Paul takes a knife and leaves the apartment to kill Richter.
In the final half hour, the Nazis conduct a search for Richter’s killer. Chinik falsely confesses that he killed Richter in order to save his Jewish friends. Chinik is executed, and his death causes Rabbi Heller to break down.
Three months pass, and Rachel is pregnant. Paul and Israel talk of the uprising planned for that evening. Sgt. Lott returns to the Hellers' apartment, professes his love for Rachel, begs the rabbi for forgiveness, and offers to escape with her. The rabbi forgives Lott. Initially, Paul resists the idea of Rachel leaving with a Nazi but then relents, allowing them to leave.
The play closes as the uprising begins with gunfire heard outside the apartment. Paul and Rabbi Heller walk down the stairs to join the uprising, a rifle in Paul's hand and a book in the rabbi's hand.
In Kamura Village, the player-character is informed they have been promoted to a Hunter by the Guild by the Wyverian twins Hinoa and Minoto. They escort the new Hunter to the village leader Fugen, though along the way, the Hunter catches sight of an unknown flying monster far in the distance. Fugen congratulates the Hunter on their success, but warns that they have been alerted about pending signs of "The Rampage", a mysterious calamity that occurred fifty years ago where a large horde of monsters attacked the village in a frenzied rage. Fugen tasks the Hunter to prepare themselves for a possible recurrence of the Rampage by helping with various quests to protect and supply the village with goods while building up their hunting. Further signs of the Rampage emerge, and Fugen instructs the Hunter to go to the Stronghold, a battleground that guards the gates to Kamura. After repelling the attack, the Hunter, Yomogi, the village chef, and Iori, the "Buddy Handler", are suddenly attacked by a tiger-like, mace-tailed fanged wyvern, forcing them to retreat. Fugen tells the trio that the monster is known as "Magnamalo" who appears alongside the Rampage and feeds on monsters of the horde. Under Fugen's orders, the Hunter slays Magnamalo. Upon returning to the village, Fugen and Hinoa congratulate the Hunter on their victory. Fugen then gives the Hunter his Long Sword, which has been passed down in Kamura for generations.
After repelling another Rampage attack, as Hinoa wonders how long the Rampage is going to last, suddenly the same flying serpentine dragon-like monster that the Hunter saw earlier appears. Hinoa's eyes suddenly turn blue as she says, "Where is my queen? Where is my queen?" before regaining her senses. The monster is later identified as an Elder Dragon known as the Wind Serpent, Ibushi. After Ibushi is repelled, the group begins to question who Ibushi's "queen" is. Master Utsushi, the village's lookout, discovers who Ibushi's "queen" is: the Thunder Serpent, Narwa, who is Ibushi's female counterpart and mate. Further research from the guild reveals the origins of Ibushi and Narwa. Every fifty years, Ibushi, as well as Narwa, will emerge to mate with each other; in order to do so, Ibushi will wander the land to seek out Narwa. Ibushi is also known to cause destructive storms by sending dragon energy into the ground. This turbulence is strong enough to uproot trees and wipe out the landscape. This causes nearby monsters to become terrified and flee directly into Kamura Village. Meanwhile, Narwa seems to wait in a location she prefers until Ibushi is able to locate her. However, the disturbance caused by her presence and electromagnetic abilities tend to drive other monsters berserk, leading to a rampage event that regularly hits Kamura Village during the Serpent's mating process. This information reveals that the actions of the Serpent Elder Dragons are the primary cause of the Rampage. Due to the fact that Narwa had wiped out most of the village's hunters, they call on the Hunter to slay Narwa. After a fierce battle with the Thunder Serpent, Narwa is seemingly killed when she falls to her death. Narwa's corpse is not found, however, causing Fugen to believe that Narwa is still alive. At night, the Hunter witnesses Hinoa and Minoto (possessed by Ibushi and Narwa) talking to one other, saying that their offspring will roam across the earth.
After fending off various elder dragons, the Hunter is told that Narwa and Ibushi have returned and finally united. Fugen calls on the Hunter to confront the two serpents and end the Rampage for good. The Hunter battles Ibushi, whose life force is devoured by Narwa, transforming her into Narwa the Allmother, greatly enhancing her power. The Hunter faces Narwa again and is aided by the unexpected arrival of Magnamalo, who attacks the Thunder Serpent. After a destructive battle, the Hunter slays Narwa and returns to the village. Fugen names the Hunter the Savior of Kamura as the village celebrates with a great feast and Hinoa states that the village is finally at peace.
After the end of the Rampage, the hunter is hailed as a hero and peace returns to Kamura. This peace turns out to be short-lived and ends as a Daimyo Hermitaur arrives in the shrine ruins. The Hunter and Utsushi investigate and slay the Hermitaur but a new, strange monster appears. They are unable to defeat it until the arrival of a knight from Elgado named Fiorayne. Fiorayne, who is Rondine's sister, repels the monster with a flash bomb then explains that the monster is Lunagaron from Elgado.
Fiorayne shares that her purpose in Kamura is to recruit the Hunter to help the people of Elgado face a dangerous monster named Malzeno that has appeared from a strange pit in her homeland. Fugen also remembers a Kamura villager named Oboro opening a business in Elgado that has suffered under the threat of Malzeno. Fugen accepts Fiorayne's invitation and allows the Hunter to travel to Elgado in order to meet its commander and defeat Malzeno.
Dr. Gutera is assigned to lead group therapy at a state mental hospital. The play covers several group sessions with six patients: Katherine, a highly intelligent schizophrenic woman; Arthur, a talkative actor suffering from manic-depressive disorder; Martha, who is catatonic; Mr. Cooper, a con man sent to the asylum by the court; Billy, a delusional teenager committed to the asylum by his mother; and Helen, a housewife suffering from depression.
A young woman known only as "Girl" rides a bus back to her small hometown of Golden with the intention of murdering her abusive father named CW James, bringing her father's hatchet as a weapon. Girl calls her mother asking her to read a letter written by her father, her mother says that the letter contains a threat to kill the mother; Girl asks her mother for the return address, but her mother says she doesn't need to know it. The bus stops to let Girl walk away from the highway into the small town of Golden. As she walks, a town sheriff offers her a ride but she refuses and stops at the bar, where she finds the address of her father in the phonebook and has a drink, and a run-in with Betty. Upon arriving at his house, however, she finds her father already murdered by someone else. Attempting to report the murder to the sheriff to no avail, Girl returns to the bar where she calls her mother about his murder, vowing to find out who is responsible but her mother persuades her to go home.
At the laundromat, she encounters a man who goes by the name “Charmer” and they chat. Girl is apprehensive at first but warms up to Charmer; she begins to casually flirt and even opens up about how her father taught her how to expertly throw hatchets when she was only six years old. However, when Girl sees Charmer wearing a watch with CW’s initials on it, suggesting that Charmer might be the killer, Girl attacks him and tries to kill him with her hatchet but the sheriff arrives and intervenes. Girl tells the sheriff that Charmer killed her father, and the sheriff brings Charmer and Girl to his car. However, it turns out that the sheriff and Charmer are actually responsible for CW's murder, and the two are belonging to the group called "The Brothers." The two learned about the money and the secret letter, which Girl is unaware of, but they refuse to reveal the information about the letter. The two then drive to CW's house and they tie Girl up at the shack. The sheriff asks Girl the whereabouts of the hidden money by threatening her with an angle grinder, but she claims she does not know where the money is. Eventually, Girl tells them that the money is underneath the bathtub of the house. When they check the bathtub, they find nothing. Girl manages to break free and escapes.
Girl asks the barkeeper the address of The Brothers. She goes to Charmer's house where she confronts Charmer. Charmer taunts Girl for being a coward, and she stabs him with a knife. Charmer stumbles back into the stove and his robe catches fire resulting in him being burned alive. After the sheriff arrives, Girl escapes in Charmer's car and the sheriff chases her. Girl then hides at Betty's house (who is the sheriff's acquaintance) and reveals that her father abused her mother when she was a child, causing her mother to kick him out of the house, never to see him since. Betty tells him that Girl's father, having a change of heart, began to care for her, and her father began to save money from work, intended for Girl. Betty also reveals that her father was killed because of his love of his daughter and the money; Charmer and the sheriff are actually Girl's mom's brothers.. Before she leaves, Betty gives her a photo of Girl and her father. Girl sees a small log on the photo, realizing that the money might be hidden there.
Girl arrives at her father's house where the sheriff attacks her and asks her for the whereabouts of the money until Girl kills him with an axe. She finds the bag of money buried under the small log. Shortly after, her mother arrives and Girl demands to know about the letter and her motive, but the mother refuses because she left it at home. Intimidated with an axe by Girl, the mother reveals that her motive for CW's murder was that her husband cheated on her. After understanding each other's predicament, the mother leaves. The next day, Girl gives some of the money to Betty and leaves the town on a bus.
In early 2020, CIA officer Henry Pelham is informed by his boss, Vick Wallinger, that the CIA has reopened the case of Turkish Alliance 127, a 2012 terrorist hijacking which ended in tragedy. Headquarters suspects there was a leak from the Vienna station, where Henry and Vick work. Henry is sent to interview Celia Harrison, who also worked at the Vienna station at the time of the hijacking. Henry and Celia were lovers, but she left him shortly after the event.
Celia, now retired, lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with her family. Henry meets her at an upscale restaurant, which is almost empty of customers and staff. As Henry and Celia talk, she reveals that an Austrian intelligence agent named Karl Stein approached her shortly after she moved to Carmel. He wanted her to inform on her coworkers, but she refused. Henry has Celia recall the events of the hijacking.
In a flashback to 2012, Flight 127 is on the runway when it is hijacked by four armed militants belonging to an Islamic terrorist group. The Vienna station jumps into action to address the crisis and learns that Ilyas Shushani, a Chechen and former informant for Henry, may be involved. The hijackers threaten to kill the passengers unless several of their comrades are released from custody. Ahmed, a CIA courier who happened to be on the plane, contacts the CIA and suggests an attack via the plane's undercarriage. Celia connects with a possible source named Mohammed, but the meeting seems to yield nothing of value. Henry tells Celia and her mentor, Bill Compton, that when Henry worked in Moscow his superiors forced him to betray Ilyas to the Russian government to placate them after a terrorist attack.
The Vienna station receives another message from Ahmed saying that the terrorists have a camera mounted on the plane's undercarriage and the assault should be called off. Celia notices differences in the language of Ahmed's messages and fears he has been compromised. Checking the station's phone logs, she notices that a call to Iran was placed from Bill's office phone. Then Ahmed is killed and thrown off the plane. The next day, Celia leaves both Henry and Vienna.
In the present, Henry asks why she ended their relationship so abruptly. Celia reveals that she saw a call on Henry's cellphone from the same Iranian number that she found in the station phone logs. It is revealed that when the terrorists' demands were not met, they released sarin gas, killing themselves, the crew, and all passengers. The Vienna station is devastated by the outcome. Realizing that Henry was the leak, she left him but did not divulge her discovery to the CIA.
She further confesses that, after Henry contacted her to arrange this meeting, she contacted Karl Stein, and he arranged the meeting place, the staff, and fake customers, with the aim of poisoning Henry via his wine.
As Henry begins to succumb to the poison, Celia tearfully asks why he betrayed everyone to the terrorists. He explains that he was lured into a meeting with Ilyas, who had become radicalized and masterminded the hijacking. Ilyas' people staged the meeting between Mohammed and Celia to create the impression that Celia's life was in danger. This pushed Henry into revealing the presence of Ahmed on the plane, as well as the plan for an undercarriage assault in exchange for her life.
Henry comes to terms with his impending death, and Celia returns home to her husband and children. Karl calls Vick to report that Henry has died, revealing that they had been working together the entire time.
The story begins with the mass disappearance of Rathalos around the world, as well as large pits emitting a strange, pinkish light appearing everywhere. As the descendant of the legendary Rider named Red, the player character has a fateful encounter with a white-haired Wyverian girl, Ena, who has been entrusted with a Rathalos egg by Guardian Ratha. A Rathalos with small black wings bursts out of the egg, which is said to bring ruin to the world in time. As the story progresses, the player character faces many monsters that have pink, glowing eyes. These "rage-rayed" monsters attack and destroy everything they see, and the source seems to come from the pits. The Hunters believe that the birth of "Razewing Ratha" (the player's Rathalos) is the source and capture it. Eventually it is discovered that the Hunters are working with a mysterious group that wants Ratha for themselves. The player, however, is able to get Ratha back and escape with Ena, with Ratha spreading his wings in the process. Later, the player sees an enormous worm-like creature emerge from one of the pits and devour a Rathalos. This monster is later discovered to be a powerful Elder Dragon called Oltura, which has been creating the pits and luring Rathalos in to consume them and gain power. The pits' light starts to turn blue as the player and Ena tries to track down Oltura. Eventually, they go to Hakolo Island, Oltura's birthplace. The player and Ena then confront Zellard, who is revealed to be the leader of the mysterious group and intends to awaken Oltura in order to destroy the world and create a brand new one, having grown disillusioned with humanity after Red's death. Zellard nearly sacrifices Ratha to Oltura, but Oltura instead consumes Guardian Ratha, awakening fully. Kyle discovers during the issuing fight that the wings of Oltura are its weak points, and uses two relics that Ena wore around her neck as a pendant to destroy them. The player and Ratha then perform a Sky-High Dive on the weakened Oltura, killing it for good and saving the world.