The Survivors 2.3 - Ticking Clock

The Survivors : Ticking Clock
Genre : Sci-Fi / Mystery / Drama
Showrunner: Tomas Alfredson
Writer : Mo Buck

Based on the French Canadian series

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Cara Buono, Logan Lerman, Owen Vaccaro, Michael Mando, Clancy Brown, Graham Phillips, John De Lancie, Peter Stormare, Zeljko Ivanek and Yaya DaCosta

Plot: Gerald (Brendan Fraser), Charles (Logan Lerman) and The League members John (Peter Stormare), Arthur (Zeljko Ivanek) and Steven (Graham Phillps) are sitting around the table in their underground hideout. Gerald is all confused, how is Steven involved in this? Steven basically says that everything he’s told them so far is a lie. He has travelled through time before and John here, is his father. They are looking for Chartwell and Victor because they too, know how to travel through time and together, they are planning the Apocalypse, or so they say. Gerald asks them how do they know if they aren’t just fooling everyone and will actually do the Apocalypse and Arthur says that he has been in the future and he has seen what they can do and they must be stopped. Gerald and Charles ask them to repeat everything one more time, because they are confused. 

John says that all of them live in the 2010’s, when Gerald and his family was sent. They don’t know when Chartwell and Victor actually lived, but it doesn’t really matter. He says they have learned about them when they were experiencing with time travel and they started interfering with their work. The way they acted and the secrecy around them caught their attention and they decided to follow them in time to see what they were planning to do. Charles interrupts John and he asks them why don’t they just reveal to everyone how to time travel and Steven says it’s too dangerous, people could change the past and it would have devastating effects on the future. Gerald asks how is he involved in this and they say he was close to arresting them in the sixties in his serial arson case and they had to put him away. They initially wanted to send his family in the past, but Steven interfered to send them in the present day so they can use his help to find them again. What they didn’t know was that in the meantime, Victor and Chartwell went back in time around the time they are now, and they killed John and Arthur, meaning they couldn’t be with Steven in the 2010’s. Gerald and Charles look at each other and sighs. They both think Steven, John and Arthur are crazy, but there are too many details in the story for it to be made up and with everything that happened to them in the last few months, well, everything is possible. They now know Chartwell and Victor got Father Logan, which means they got what they wanted. The clock is winding down and they need to make a move now. 

Chartwell (Clancy Brown) breathes on his metal stick as Victor (Michael Mando) gags at the odor of burnt skin. Father Logan (John De Lancie) is tied to a chair, his head down. Chartwell says that now that he’s marked with the seal, he can’t escape them. He has no choice but to help them now. Logan says in a low voice that even if he tried, he doesn’t know what they want him to do and Chartwell says he’s planning the apocalypse and Logan will help him kickstart it. The camera zooms out as Chartwell laughs and we see the abandoned warehouse where they hold him hostage.

Back in the modern day, Mary (Cara Buono) looks at the same abandoned warehouse from a window. It barely changed. Rita (Yaya DaCosta) asks her if she likes it so far. Mary is reserved in her answer and she says she thought it was going to be different, but you can say she likes it so far. Rita says it’s good news and it’s time for them to go back to work. She reminds her that the more she sells, the more she gets paid, there’s no time to lose. Mary turns around to reveal that she works at a telemarketing company specialized in selling male enhancement pills. She goes back in her cubicle and remembers Marco (Owen Vaccaro) teaching her how to use a computer. She remembers the steps and calls a random number. Rita’s head appears, looking on from the next cubicle and Mary gives her a thumbs up and Rita smiles back. 

The League, with latest additions Gerald and Charles are all standing in the streets and nobody moves. Gerald asks them what the plan is and they say they have no idea. Gerald says they must know more about them than he does and they answer that they choose a different hideout every time and they were counting on his detective skills to find out where they are. Gerald then suggest they search for them at the old church they used in the modern days and Arthur says they’ve used it once, so they aren’t going to use it twice. Gerald says it’s worth a shot.

They all begin searching the old church and find nothing of note. It’s located on top of a hill, with a nice view of the city and as Gerald looks at the rioting streets, he asks John what is going on out there. John says there was a referendum for independence during the day and the “no” has won, so the “Yes” camp is rioting. Gerald has an idea. He asks John if they can go in a certain neighborhood and John says they can. They get everyone back in the van and leave. 

They park the van in a busy street and Gerald asks them to trust him and to follow him, no matter where he goes. Arthur has some reservations about that plan, because Gerald won’t give them anymore details, but John says he trusts Gerald. Gerald takes his pistol out and goes in the riots in the streets. He starts shooting at windows and store displays. The crowd disperses, leaving Gerald isolated. The police were called as they arrest Gerald, who refuses to give them his identity. They throw him in the back of a police car and drive away. The League follows him, unsure about what to do next.

Hitman 3.3 - Operatic Events

Hitman: Operatic Events

Genre: Action

Director: Francis Lawrence

Writer: Dwight Gallo

Based on the video game series

Cast: Ed Skrein, Charlotte Riley, Joseph Mazzello, Chevy Chase, Matt McCoy, Roger Bart, Francois Cluzet, Raoul Bova and David Harewood

Plot: Rick Henderson (Joseph Mazzello) is still sitting in the study of Leland Alexander (Chevy Chase) for their interview. Henderson notices that it has gotten dark outside. He looks at his watch and is surprised by how long they've been talking. Henderson asks if he could come back and discuss everything with Alexander again. Alexander agrees, saying that he doesn't get out much since being confined to a wheelchair. Henderson shakes Alexander's hand and is led out of the house by security.

Agent 47 (Ed Skrein) pulls up to the front of the Paris Opera House in a taxi cab. He surveys the front of the building before walking around to the rear entrance of the building where he sees stage hands loading props into the building for the opera's latest production of Tosca. Agent 47 calls Diana Burnwood (Charlotte Riley) and tells him that he's at the location. She tells him that there are two targets in the building, an opera singer and the US Ambassador to Vatican City. He comments on the odd combination on the contract, and Diana assures 47 that both men certainly deserve the contract put on their heads. Diana further elaborates that both men are involved in a child prostitution ring trafficking in boys and girls from Eastern Europe. She sends 47 pictures of the two men. 47 observes the pictures and continues into the Opera House.

Henderson calls his editor Harold Langston (David Harewood) and tells him about all the information that Leland Alexander has given him. Langston says that it was supposed to be a simple article discussing Alexander's career as the head of the FBI and CIA, not some conspiracy theory about clones and assassins. Henderson asks if he can continue to pursue the angle and interview Alexander some more. Langston, realizing that even if the story ends up being a debacle, it will at least bring attention to the newspaper, so he agrees to allow Henderson to continue with that tangent.

Agent 47 sneaks up to the lighting booth of the opera house. Alvaro D'Alvade (Raoul Bova) is on the stage, yelling at the others involved in the production for not doing their jobs. He storms off the stage mid-song, and goes to sit next to Richard Delahunt (Roger Bart) in the seats in the middle of the auditorium. Delahunt hands Alvaro a tablet, and Alvaro begins swiping through pictures of mostly nude young children. Seeing this, 47 decides not to wait any longer. He leaves the booth and walks right up behind the two men. He then quickly shoots both in the back of the head. 47 then runs out of the Opera House, guns still in hand. A Paris police detective, Albert Fournier (Francois Cluzet), tries to stop 47, having heard the gunshots. 47 runs straight into the traffic, away from the detective. Fournier gives chase, and seeing a possible shot, fires his service weapon at 47. Agent 47 hits the ground, and looks at his side. He is bleeding, with a bullet hole in his side. Fournier knows that he hit the suspect and runs over to the location, but finds only a small amount of blood at the scene. He looks all around him, but Fournier doesn't find any sign of the man, not even a trail of blood leading away.

Agent 47 sits in the back of a car. Diana is in the back of the car. She offers to pay the driver extra if he can get them to the airport as soon as possible, traffic laws be damned. Diana takes 47's shirt off. She tells 47 this will hurt, and uses a pocket knife to pry the detective's bullet out of his side. Diana then stitches up 47's wound with dental floss, while 47 grimaces in pain. Diana is surprised that 47 is showing pain, saying that she didn't think he had any kind of feelings. 47 tells her that bullet holes regardless of any mental conditioning. The driver speeds through traffic and gets them to the airport in record time. Diana hands 47 a clean shirt to put on, and they walk into the airport together.

Alexander Leland watches television as the President of the United States, Thomas Steward (Matt McCoy), as he is in the middle of a debate while running for re-election. The question of cloning is posed to the incumbent presidential candidate. President Steward seems unsure of his stance on the topic, saying that he is all for science making better and longer lives for the American public. If legalizing cloning would benefit that, then he's all for it. Alexander turns off the television in disgust.

Call My Agent 3.3 - Old Foes

Call My Agent : Old Foes

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Chris Colfer, Michelle Yeoh, John Glover and Kristen Bell

Plot: Desmond (Chris Colfer) calls Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) to inform her on the Wilson situation. Speaking of Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James), he is still crouched under his desk, afraid of Mel Gibson. Desmond asks Andrea about Bob, but she doesn’t give him good news. When Desmond announces it to Wilson, it brings him down even more. Andrea is in her car with Miranda (Lesley Manville) and they are discussing a way to help Bob with his legal problem. Miranda says it wasn’t nice when she asked Bob if really did it. Sure, he looks unclean and desperate, but as Andrea pointed out, he always looks like that, but that doesn’t make him a killer. Although she agrees it could be a interest-killer in a woman, and that’s why he’s still single after all those years. Andrea is mad at Miranda for saying this when Bob is at a bad place and she says they should help him, they always had his back and now is not different. Andrea remembers him saying he doesn’t have a lawyer, so they should start looking for one. Miranda says she had this covered. Andrea pulls over in the agency’s parking lot.

When they enter the agency, they are met by Desmond, who tells them what happened with Wilson. Miranda heads straight to her office to take care of this lawyer thing. Andrea crouches down at Wilson’s level and asks him what’s wrong. He says he screwed the meeting and he pissed off Mel Gibson and he’s so ashamed that he won’t come out from under his desk. She asks him if he really is afraid of Mel Gibson, because that’s what Desmond said earlier. He says he might be a little. Andrea grabs him by the arm and makes him stand up, but he hits his head on the way up. Wilson claims he can’t do anything right and Andrea says there are worst things in the world and besides, Mel Gibson is hard to manage. It is quite late now and they decide to head home for the night and get a good night sleep. They say goodbye to Miranda and Andrea asks her how the lawyer thing is going and she says it’s going fine. She didn’t do anything for Bob, though, she’s doing a quiz on the Internet to find out which kind of apple she is. 

A couple of minutes later, the Jones’ offices are in the dark except from the light coming from Miranda’s office. She completed her quiz and found out she is a pink lady. She pats herself on the back, “at least it has lady in it”, she says. She suddenly remembers she wants to do her daily good action and call a lawyer for Bob. She takes a huge binder from her desk and flips the pages. She takes a deep breath, but she can’t do it. She heads to the bathroom and gives herself a little pep talk. She boosts her confidence a little and runs back in her office and dials a number. On the other end is Martin Freeman (Martin Freeman). She presents herself and she says he blew her mind away that time they had a mock trial and she wants to know if he would perhaps use his talents to help them once again. Their friend is accused of murder and he could really use his help. Martin sighs and reminds her once again that he’s not a real lawyer and he finds it odd and quite surprising that she isn’t able to tell the difference, given her job. He hangs up and she says he was rude. She says she’s now out of ideas. She grabs a pocket book from her purse and flips the pages to the current date. She writes that she tried to get Bob a lawyer and puts a little star next to it. She pats herself in the back and she says she’s heading into the right direction.

The next day, Andrea arrives at the same time as Wilson at the agency and she asks him if he feels better today. He says it depends on if he will be a spectacular failure again, but she says Bob didn’t have anything on schedule today, so he should be alright. They are surprised to see Miranda in the office so early. She says she has some bad news for them and they both think something happened to Bob. She says she hasn’t been able to secure the services of the lawyer she was thinking about. Martin Freeman was rude to her. Andrea can’t believe it, she reminds her once again that he is not a real lawyer. She suddenly remembers something and she grabs Miranda and leave. They’re going to find Bob a lawyer.

Wilson is alone in the office when he hears someone knocking. He opens the door to Kristen Bell (Kristen Bell) and she says she is here to meet with Andrea. Wilson says she had an emergency and she had to leave, so she could come back later. Kristen asks him if he’s an agent and Wilson laughs it off. He says they like to think he is, but he’s not really good at his job. She asks him if he could just show her the contract she was supposed to sign and she’ll just sign it and leave. He says he could do that and he heads over to Andrea’s desk and grabs the contract. She signs on the dotted line and she thanks him before leaving. As soon as she’s out, Kristen calls Andrea and she says she did it. Andrea thanks her for the favor and hangs up. Wilson, jumps in the air in his office, he finally did it, he really believes he’s got what it takes to be an agent, a real moral victory.

Miranda and Andrea are at the courthouse and meet with a lawyer (John Glover). Andrea asks if he remembers them and he says he does. She was the crazy woman who represented herself and beat him and made him a laughingstock amongst his colleagues. Andrea says it’s a weird way to put it, but it is who they are. She asks him if he wants to get his reputation back and he says he would be interested. She says they have a murder case that is a slam dunk for a win and he says he’s usually a prosecutor and he’ll see what he can do. Miranda thanks him, but he says he only told them he would think about it.

Wilson, still thrilled that he did his first act as an agent without screwing everything, turns around and he’s surprised to see an old foe, Melissa Hao (Michelle Yeoh). He asks her what a skank like her is doing here and she says he better be nice with her, because she might know how to get their friend out of jail.

She-Hulk 2.3 - Issue #13

She-Hulk : Issue #13
Genre : Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Showrunner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer : Chad Taylor

Based on the Marvel Comics characters

Cast: Jenny Slate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Himesh Patel, Michiel Huisman and Helena Howard

In her apartment, Stu (Himesh Patel) and Jen (Jenny Slate) pig out on snacks as he uses his comic book knowledge to tell her about one of the most notorious villains in New York City: The Hood. While his real identity is unknown, the legend of the Hood goes something like this: a small-time criminal in the Kingpin’s crime syndicate, this man encountered a drug deal gone bad in an abandoned warehouse in Queens. What he stumbled upon was a ritual summoning the Nisanti demon. Unable to escape, the story goes that this man had a showdown with the demon, where he shot and killed him. And then he stole the demon’s hood and boots, gaining its powers in the process. Jen looks to the camera.

Can you believe this shit?

Stu can tell that Jen is skeptical and says “Well, gamme-infused blood transfusion?”. She laughs and tells him that is a good point. Stu says that The Hood has formed a formidable crime syndicate of his own, although it is ran both figuratively and literally underground, meaning the police have had no success in tracking them down. She says that sounds like the job of a certain green-skinned superheroine and smiles. Stu does not smile and instead says he is worried about this job. The Hood has a lot of people in his syndicate and this could be very dangerous. She takes his hand and promises that she will be fine - besides he’ll be in her ear. He jokingly makes a suggestive look and she says not in a sexual way. Besides, what would that even mean?! He gives her a tracker to attach to Sasha, if need be.

Jen turns into detective mode and starts to pick up any hint of where her target might be. Admittedly, she confesses to Stu that detective work isn’t exactly her forte. He reminds her that she wasn’t much of a fighter before She-Hulk. Luckily for her, Sasha (Helena Howard) is a teenager and thus a novice criminal, leaving a trail behind her. Once Jen locates her, she starts to tail her as she wanders anonymously through the streets of Manhattan.

As she goes down the long alley, Jen whispers in her ear that this might be the Hood’s spot. As she is saying this, Southpaw turns around and looks squarely at She-Hulk. Jen thinks about turning around but she decides to lean into the confrontation. She says that she is not here to hurt or even arrest Sasha. This makes Southpaw even more angry, saying that that is not her name. She takes a swing at She-Hulk with her mechanical arm, twice the size of her regular arm. Jen takes the blow but stands her ground and says she is not here to fight a teenager. Southpaw hits her again, with even more power, knocking She-Hulk to the ground. Southpaw starts to climb up the fire escape but Jen comes after her and gets ahold of Southpaw’s leg. Sasha is able to kick Jen off, prompting Jen to then grab the ladder itself and pull it off of the escape itself. Stu tells Jen in her ear to neutralize Southpaw’s good arm and she sarcastically whips back “I know!!”. Southpaw, being smaller and more agile than She-Hulk, slides between her opponents legs while taking the ladder with her. She slams the steel ladder into Jen’s back before she can turn around. Jen realizes that she is kind of losing this fight and tells Stu in her ear that this kid is good. He tells her he knows and that’s why she needs to focus on the fight but before she can turn around, Southpaw has lifted up the alley’s dumpster and slams it on She-Hulk’s head, knocking her out.

Jen wakes up in normal form but being caressed in Stu’s arms. He exhales and tells her he is so happy to see her awake. He asks how she feels and she says that She-Hulk takes damage really well but it is Jen that feels the after-effects. But she’s good and ready to continue. She asks if the tracker stuck and he confirms. He was able to track to her current location, which he believes to be The Hood’s lair. She lights up and says “let’s do it!”.

We see an angle with a small tracking device the size of a dime and zoom out to realize it is Southpaw. She makes her entrance into the underground headquarters of the Syndicate and as she walks in, she accidentally runs into someone else down there. She helps the person up and it turns out to be Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Mary introduces herself and Southpaw introduces herself as Southpaw. Mary says they don’t need to use those names right now so Sasha says Sasha and Mary’s eyes light up telling her she’s heard big things. The Hood (Michiel Huisman) emerges from the shadows and places his hands on each of their shoulders. He summons them and they follow.

Outside, we see Jen and Stu observing the entrance to the facility, plotting their entry.