The Survivors 2.4 - The Great Escape

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

Based on the French Canadian series

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Logan Lerman, Michael Mando, Clancy Brown, Graham Phillips, John De Lancie, Peter Stormare, Zeljko Ivanek and Jesse Bradford

Plot: Gerald (Brendan Fraser) sits in the back of the police car, his nose bleeding from resisting his arrest. The policemen in front tell dispatch that they got someone from the riots and it’s more than the usual misdemeanors, so they need to speak to the Captain. She transfers them to the Captain and Gerald recognizes the voice. He smiles and they ask him what he’s smiling for. He says it’s for nothing and he keeps smiling. It evolves into a laugh and both policemen think he’s crazy. 

Not far away, John (Peter Stormare) is follows the police car slowly as Steven (Graham Phillips) tells him to keep his distance. Arthur (Zeljko Ivanek) is already thinking the worst and Charles (Logan Lerman) urges him to keep his cool. If he has learned one thing from all of this, it’s that he can trust his father no matter what, even if his methods are questionable. Arthur say they have a lot riding on this and they can’t afford to lose Gerald if he gets arrested. He’s too important to lose. They all agree and hope for the best. 

When Gerald gets to the precinct, they try to get his identity, but he refuses to give them anything and that’s true in a sense, he doesn’t have his id on him. They try to run his prints to see if they have him in the system and he resists, so much that they put him in a separate room. The arresting officers go into their captain’s office to explain what happened. It’s obviously a busy night at the precinct with the ongoing riots and it allows Charles, John, Steven and Arthur to enter without much difficulty. Charles sneaks around the precinct, trying to find his father, while the others lay low. He walks around and he sees his father locked up in an interrogation room, his nose still bleeding and him trying to wipe it off his face. He sees Charles in the doorframe and he tries to tell that they should try and find something in the computers while everyone is distracted. Charles doesn’t understand a thing and he has to leave, as officers are coming. The arresting officers get out of their captain’s desk and the captain is revealed to be Gerald’s old boss, Ben McRae (Jesse Bradford). He walks in Gerald’s direction and Charles passes them in the opposite direction. He tells The League they need to cause a distraction and Arthur, still dressed like he’s homeless distracts a police officer while John presses on the emergency button, unlocking all the cells and turning on the sprinklers. Gerald seizes the opportunity to get out. Ben McRae catches a quick glimpse at him and he recognizes his former employee who disappeared. He tries to get to him, but the chaos prevents him to. Gerald talks to John and he tells him that the police used to keep a record of all the abandoned buildings in the city as a potential hotspot for arson or other felonies and they should look for that. He gives the message to Steven and Charles who enter the file room, while John helps Gerald to get out of the building. Arthur stays inside, guarding the door in case someone tries to enter. 

Chartwell (Clancy Brown) and Victor (Michael Mando) answer Father Logan’s (John de Lancie) question. They will do everything in their power to launch the Apocalypse and it’s impossible for them to do it without him. He says their quest starts in the 1920’s and they need to get a book that will teach them how. The only problem is, the book is heavily guarded and only accessible by secular members and that’s when Father Logan comes into play. Outside, the rioters throw rocks at the building, breaking windows. Father Logan tries to scream for help, but Chartwell gags him. Victor grabs his shotgun and heads outside. He shoots them in the stomach and he drags them inside one by one. He tells Chartwell it was just an isolated group, no need to worry. Father Logan laughs at the possibility of travelling back in time, saying it’s impossible and against God’s will, but Chartwell says he’s above that and he’ll prove it to him. They get back into the car and Victor sets the buttons on the radio. He presses a button and in an instant, they’re gone, leaving no trace behind, other than the dead bodies in the warehouse and their stuff.

Charles feels like he’s close to find the file they’re looking for. On the other side of the door, Arthur, soaking wet, stalls Ben McRae who wants to get inside the room. Arthur makes up something on the spot to distract him. Charles finds the file and tries to leave, but Arthur blocks the door. John looks from the window and sees Arthur struggling. Against Gerald’s advice, he enters the precinct again and asks to speak directly to the Captain, causing a fuss. Ben is forced to leave Arthur and while he tries to find an officer to keep an eye on Arthur, Arthur allows Charles and Steven to leave the room. Arthur sneaks out behind officers and leaves the precinct. John makes up an excuse that he isn’t in the right precinct and gets back in the car. Everyone is soaking wet, but at least they got what they wanted. They ask Gerald why they just did all that and he says they now have a list of all the abandoned buildings in the city and they can start looking for them now. 

Chartwell and Victor appear in Italy in the 1920’s with Father Logan. The Vatican is not far away and Chartwell ask Victor to hide the car, it’s not supposed to be here. They ask Father Logan if he speaks Latin and he says he learned it a long time ago and he’s not sure if he remembers it right. Chartwell asks him to stop lying to him and Victor hits him in the face. Victor opens the trunk and they put on priests outfits to blend in, before walking in the Vatican’s direction.

Hitman 3.4 - Cover

Hitman: Cover

Genre: Action

Director: Francis Lawrence

Writer: Dwight Gallo

Based on the video game series

Cast: Ed Skrein, Charlotte Riley, Will Arnett, Chevy Chase, William Baldwin, Sean Patrick Flannery and Jamie Clayton

Plot: Agent 47 (Ed Skrein) and Diana Burnwood (Charlotte Riley) sit in the back of a commercial airplane flying west across the Atlantic Ocean. It's the middle of the night and the rest of the plane is sound asleep. At a hushed tone, Diana tells 47 that ICA is under the threat of another organization that has been killing ICA's contractors while out on jobs. 47 asks how that could happen, and Diana admits that she doesn't know exactly but that it is due to a rival organization known as The Franchise.

Leland Alexander (Chevy Chase) is in the office of tech-billionaire Daniel Morris (William Baldwin). Alexander asks Morris if he'd like to get into politics. Morris is confused and asks Alexander to elaborate. Alexander says that the VP slot of President Steward's ticket may be out of the ticket soon, and he would like Morris to take his place. Morris agrees, but only because he understands that it would put him one spot away from running the free world.

When their plane lands, Diana says that she has an off the books assignment for him. She tells him that a friend of the agency was sent undercover at a rehabilitation center, but has not reported back. She wants him to recover their friend. 47 is surprised that his contract involves him keeping someone alive for a change. Diana jokes that there's a first time for everything.

Agent 47 easily infiltrates the rehab center in disguise as an orderly and finds Agent Carlton Smith (Will Arnett) heavily medicated and loudly speaking gibberish. She he sees 47, he begins yelling that everyone is in trouble now because the world's greatest assassin has come to rescue him. 47 takes Smith by the arm, telling everyone that clearly this patient needs to be reminded about making commotions, and puts him down in a chair. 47 then sticks a needle into Smith's neck. Smith begins convulsing and foaming at the mouth. Doctors rush over to Smith, but they quickly proclaim he has stopped breathing and his heart has stopped beating. 47 pretends to pull a pill bottle out of Smith's pocket, expressing that he must have taken too many. Smith's body is taken out of the common area and brought into a back room to await the coroner. When the coroner van arrives, 47 wheels the body inside. Smith suddenly wakes up, finding 47 sitting next to him. Diana is driving the coroner's van. Agent Smith gives 47 a hug, and 47 pushes him away.

Diana asks Agent Smith what he learned in the center, and he says that his source inside said that a high level government official is going to be assassinated in New Orleans by The Franchise in order to frame ICA. Diana comments that 47 needs to make sure that doesn't happen or they'll both not only be out of work, but surely the subject of contracts on their own heads. Diana rents a helicopter and the three fly to New Orleans. When they get there they find the city is in the middle of a parade, and sure enough the US Secretary of the Interior is the grand marshal. Diana drops 47 and Smith off on a rooftop and tells them to reconvene there when the mission is over.

47 and Smith are wary once they get on the ground since The Franchise's assassins could be anywhere and they have no way of alerting anyone to danger. Smith tells 47 to get close to the Secretary and protect him, he has an idea how to get everyone's attention. 47 gets right up next to the Secretary's parade float. 47 then sneaks behind one of the Secretary's security guards and replaces him on the float. Smith suddenly starts firing his gun into the air like a maniac. Everyone at the parade scatters. 47 and the security detail quickly usher the Secretary away from the parade, while New Orleans police tackles Agent Smith to the ground. Mark (Sean Patrick Flannery) and Eve (Jamie Clayton), guns in hand, are frustrated by the sudden hysteria. They put their guns away and call their superior, saying that the mission has been blown. 

Call My Agent 3.4 - Locked Up

Call My Agent : Locked Up

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Jennifer Carpenter, B.J. Novak, John Glover and Julia Garner

Plot: Bob Hollis (Rainn Wilson) is chained up when Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) comes to see him at the local penitentiary. They talk about how they are doing and Wilson says he’s all excited about his new job as an agent and he was able to close a deal with a client. He was so happy, Bob wouldn’t believe it. Bob finds it mean that Wilson came all the way over here to tell him how much his life his better than his and how much he loves the job he stole from him. Bob asks for the guard to bring him back to his cell and Wilson pleads for him to stay. Once Bob is gone, Wilson asks the security guard f he can give his friendship necklace he made out of candies to Bob and he can’t, but it sure looks delicious. Wilson gets even more sad when the guard takes a bite out the bracelet and he leaves. In his car, he decides to eat the bracelet too, surprised to learn that it is indeed really good and sweet.

Back inside the penitentiary, Bob goes back to his cell that he shares with his new friend Jack (B.J. Novak). Once he enters the cell and it locks immediately behind him, Jack reminds Bob that every time he sees him enter the cell, he reminds him of someone, but he doesn’t know who. Bob says he has a recognizable face, he gets that a lot, but he hopes it doesn’t remind him of one of victims, because he would hate it if Jack tried to kill him during his sleep. Jack says he’s a changed man and he’s not capable of violence anymore. Bob says it’s new, because the last time they had free time, he tried to choke someone by dropping a dumbbell on his throat and it sent him to the hospital. As we see a flashback, Bob was very uncomfortable during the whole thing, not used to this level of violence. They are interrupted by a guard who asks Jack to pack his things because he’s moving to another cell. Bob complains, saying they were almost done with their friendship bracelet and the guard confiscates them.

As Bob throws on the wall, his new cellmate comes in. His name is Jules (Julia Garner). She’s silent and doesn’t talk a lot. When asked questions, she grunts instead of answering. Bob asks her if she knows it’s a men’s prison and Jules answers back that she’s a man and if continues to say otherwise, Bob won’t have any teeth tomorrow night. He thinks her threat is cliché and she threaten him once again, by whispering something in his ear. Bob leaves him, or her alone for the night and he goes to sleep. During the night, he can’t sleep, as he keeps on looking at Jules, in case he/she tries to choke him in his sleep or something.

The following day, Bob, tired and looking horrible, goes to the cafeteria and sits next to Jack, who wants all the details about his new cellmate. They stare at Jules while eating and she gives them the finger. Bob says he’s scared of him/her, because she’s a convicted killer and he can’t sleep right at night, fearing that she might attack him, she seems so hostile. He asks Jack if he can scare her, he’s a murderer and a cannibal after all. Jack is reluctant, but Bob pushes him forward so he really needs to confront Jules. He backs up and he confides in Bob that he isn’t a killer, nor a cannibal, he just committed tax frauds and he made this this alter-ego so people would fear him. Bob says he’s a good actor, he really believed him. He’s an agent and he could do wonders for his career once he gets out. He gives him a card with his contact information. Jack asks him where the card comes from and Bob tells him he pleads the fifth about this question and he changes the subject. Jack throws the card away out of disgust and tells Bob that he’s a killer, he shouldn’t be afraid of her. He says he’s not a killer, because he didn’t kill anyone, but Jack reminds him that he’s in jail because they think he murdered someone. Before he has the chance to answer, a guard, wearing the remaining bits of Wilson’s friendship bracelet gets Bob to come with him, because he needs to go somewhere. Bob comments that Wilson has now found a new best friend, pointing at the friendship bracelet.

Right after Bob leaves the cafeteria, Jules is approached by a group of men as he/she is eating alone. They start bothering her and harassing her. She grabs her fork and threatens the men with it. When they insist, she stabs her fork into a man’s arm and he runs away crying. Jack would’ve liked Bob to see that and he definitely will tell him. 

Bob enters a room where he meets with his unbothered and grumpy lawyer (John Glover) who complains that he had to drive through traffic for a long time to come here, so it better be important. Bob guesses that he is and then his lawyer complains that he had to pay parking here. It’s definitely going on Bob’s bill. Bob reminds him that he’s broke, so it will be hard to pay him and that’s why he didn’t want a lawyer. The lawyer says he didn’t want a murderer as a client, but here he is. They are interrupted by Detective Debra Dexter (Jennifer Carpenter) who comes in, complaining that she couldn’t even get a free parking around the building. Her and the lawyer bond over the lack of free parking and Bob has to remind them he’s here. Debra looks at the lawyer and she says she has some bad news for him. New evidence has surfaced in the case and Bob is free to go. Bob is ecstatic and he wants to go and hug Debra, but he remembers he’s chained to the table and he hurts himself. The lawyer is disappointed, because the case won’t go to trial and he will not have the opportunity to win a legal case in court. He asks Bob if he would consider going forward with the trial and then winning and Bob disagrees, to the lawyer’s disappointment. A guard comes in and unchains Bob, who hugs Debra. She immediately asks him to back off and Bob obliges.

Moments later, Bob is seen going back to his cell to gather his belongings. He tells Jules the good news, she/he seems unbothered. Bob packs his stuff silently and right when he’s about to leave, Jules grabs him by the wrist. She says she has something to confess. She turns around and removes a wig, revealing herself to be actress Julia Garner. She says she’s here to research for a role and she asks how she’s doing. Bob says she’s doing fine, aside from the fact that Jules is clearly a woman in disguise, not telling her he was afraid of Jules. She asks the guard if she can leave too, because this isn’t going to work and he denies her, saying she asked to be here for a month. As Bob leaves, Julia is seen panicking without her wig on, for all inmates to see, before putting the wig back on and acting tough. On his way out, Bob passes in front of Jack’s cell and throws him another business card, telling him it came from his pocket this time, asking him to give him a call once he gets out. 

Bob leaves the penitentiary and is sad to see that nobody is there for him. He sees a familiar face in the parking lot, his lawyer, arguing about the parking fees. He asks him if they can commute together back to Los Angeles and he reluctantly agrees.

She-Hulk 2.4 - Issue #14

She-Hulk : Issue #14
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, Helena Howard, Scott Porter, Mike White, Finn Wittrock and Ophelie Bau

Jen (Jenny Slate) and Stu (Himesh Patel) scope out The Hood’s lair, where they believe Southpaw to be hiding. Knowing that the facility must be heavily guarded, she asks if there are any heroes with X-ray vision. He tries to think and says none that he can think of - just some fictional ones like in Action Comics. She then says what about telepathy? Couldn’t they read the minds of anyone in the facility to figure out how many are there. He says that’s a good point. In terms of telepath, there is one person that comes to mind but it’s...a weird situation. She looks confused.

In his lair, The Hood (Michiel Huisman) sits down with Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and Southpaw (Helena Howard). He explains that he has decided to assign Mary as Southpaw’s mentor and has given them a job where they can both prove themselves. He takes out the file of Absorbing Man and tells the pair that he was one of his best hitmen. He will not take his defeat lightly. He shows footage of Absorbing Man’s defeat at the courthouse and Mary grows nervous, scared he is going to tell them to hurt Jen. Instead, he circles Dan Jermain (Danger Man) and says that killing him will send a message to She-Hulk and the other heroes of New York that the syndicate will not be taken lightly. Mary asks him to reiterate what they are supposed to do, thinking she misheard him say “kill”. She did not. Southpaw, despite being the teenager, tells Mary to suck it up and tells The Hood that she is ready. Mary, without much conviction, says she is ready too.

A knock on the door is heard in a dingy apartment, where Robert Reynolds (Scott Porter) sleeps while sitting up on his couch, an uneaten pizza slice on his lap. The knock wakes him up slightly and he checks the door. When he sees Jen there, he doesn’t recognize her and closes the door. She knocks again and introduces herself as Jen Walters, She-Hulk. He is skeptical so slightly opens the door and realizes that it is really her. He asks what she wants.

In his messy apartment, Jen explains to him her goal in taking down The Hood’s syndicate. “Single-handedly?” he asks, but she says not necessarily. She says that Stu recommended him to her but Robert stops her there. He says that nobody should know who he is. He then asks who she thinks he is and she tells him he is The Sentry. Most people might not know him but Stu is one of the world’s foremost comics experts and is one of the few that do. Robert starts to convulse as he has a vision, seeing himself as an almighty superhero with the power of a thousand suns. As Jen goes to check on him, he snaps out of it and is exasperated. He tells her that he is not a superhero, just look at him. That must have been in a past life. She says “Orrrr you’re secretly very old but never age because you’re a godlike superhero?”. “Well, how would I know?”

Paul Jenkins (Mike White) answers his door and is freaked out to see Reynolds there. Reynolds is surprised and asks how he knows who Robert is, while Stu says in their ears that he told them so. Robert tells Paul that he heard that Paul wrote comics about him. Paul hesitantly confirms before asking if Robert has come to kill him. Jen interjects and says that they’ve come to know everything they can about The Sentry. Paul takes a long breath.

2 Hours Later

Stu whispers into Jen’s headset that they REALLY need to be wrapping up. “And so you told me that whole life story so I could tell it in comics, before you wiped your memory clean.” Jen and Robert stare blankly at Paul. “Oh yeah, how to activate the powers! Well now that you have your memories again, I think you just are The Sentry again.” Jen jokingly thanks him for being concise and says they need to go. Paul says he needs to warn them before they go: now that The Sentry is activated, it opens the door for its dark side as well...The Void.” “Oh, the entity that YOU JUST TOLD US KILLED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE USING ROBERT’S BODY?!” “Yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have re-activated Bob’s memories.” Robert tells Jen they should not waste any more time and go straight to rescue the girl.

As Jen and Robert make their way down the street, they accidentally run into a couple walking the other way. They all turn around to find that it is John Jameson (Finn Wittrock) with a new girl, a young French model (Ophelie Bau). John is taken aback and says that he didn’t expect to see Jen around. Jen looks to the girl and says “New girlfriend?”. John smiles and introduces her as “Juliette. Fianceé.” Jen isn’t sure what to say. He looks at a disheveled Robert and asks her “new boyfriend?”. She feels like he is making a slight dig at Robert’s appearance and says “Yes, yes he is. And he’s actually also a superhero and he grows big like me.” At home, Stu hears this and is saddened. There is an awkward silence. Robert asks “What the hell?” telepathically and Jen tells him just to go with it. John smiles and tells Jen he is glad that she seems happy. He shakes Robert’s hand and tells him it is nice to meet him. Robert makes his grip extra tight and John is left with no doubt that Robert is also a superhero.

As they walk away, Jen tells him “We are going to go save this girl...but first, I have something to do.”

We cut to her on the phone.

“Hi, yes, this is Jennifer Walters. Yes, that one. I was calling your offices as I am interesting in booking an on-camera interview with Mr. Jameson. Tomorrow night? Perfect.”

She looks to the camera with a sly smile.

In her ear, Stu alerts Jen and Robert that the target is on the move and there is another woman accompanying her. They need to change course.