The Survivors 2.6 - The Pact

The Survivors : The Pact
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, Odeya Rush, Jodelle Ferland, John De Lancie and Peter Stormare

Plot: Victor (Michael Mando) is carrying Father Logan (John De Lancie) in his arms and Chartwell (Clancy Brown) is following him when they enter in the warehouse where Gerald (Brendan Fraser), Charles (Logan Lerman) and John (Peter Stormare) were looking at traces of their passage. Gerald is looking at a book with John while Charles is looking at the dead bodies. Chartwell and Victor don’t move, but when Father Logan recognizes Gerald, he asks out for help. Gerald takes his gun out and he tells them to surrender. Victor and Chartwell comply. They throw their hands up in the air and let Logan go. Gerald asks them to surrender and to give themselves up. He sends John and Charles to search them and while Charles pats down Victor, he grabs his and takes hi hostage, taking out a gun of his own. Chartwell says it just got interesting. Gerald looks at John and he gestures him to grab the book, but before he has the chance to do it, Chartwell understood what was happening and he knocks down John. He grabs a stool and tells Gerald that they should sit down and talk their way through this. Gerald refuses to and he keeps Victor at gunpoint.

Chartwell is finally able to reason him not to try anything heroic and Gerald sits down with them, as Victor releases Charles. Gerald doesn’t waste any time and he asks Chartwell what he has done to him to deserve any of this. Chartwell laughs and he says that’s a long story. Charles prefers to ask who they are and Chartwell says this is also an interesting questions. They should start by the beginning. He says that by now he has been in touch with The League, referring to John, so he must know that they are planning the apocalypse. Gerald asks if this is really necessary and Chartwell says it is, because humanity must answer for their sins. He travelled a lot to achieve that and he did some evil things, but he all thinks it was worth it, because he’s closer to his goal than he ever was. But then, just when everything was going great, Gerald had to come along and start investigating him. He was good he must admit and they had to get rid of him. Gerald asks if his family had to go with him and Chartwell says he had to get rid of everyone, or it wouldn’t have worked. It’s more believable if a policeman who people think has gone rogue disappears with his entire family than if he just disappears alone. Plus, he couldn’t separate a loving family like Gerald’s, they all seemed happy together. Gerald asks him to cut the bullshit, they have backup coming, so better end this quick. Gerald looks around and he finds out that he was so captivated by Chartwell’s monologue that he didn’t realise Victor snuck in behind them and muffled Charles and tied Gerald up. Since Gerald wants to know what they’re doing, he should witness it with his own eyes. As for the backup, they’ll take care of him when they come back. He drags Charles and Gerald to the car and he shoves them in the backseat. Chartwell makes sure to bring their newly acquired book with him and their time travelling car disappears.

When they reappear, they find themselves in the Middle Ages, somewhere in what id today’s Germany. Still tied together, Chartwell brings them, along with Victor, inside an old barn in a village. They make sure they hide the car somewhere safe before. He says he loves to set fire to things. Watching a building burn away brings him so much joy, even more so when he knows that it gets him closer to his goal. Gerald asks what’s the point in setting buildings on fire and he says that the spirits that can help him in his quest to launch the Apocalypse must be fed and they feed with fires. He grabs chalk from his pockets and he draws his symbol in the barn.He gets down on his knees and says a prayer to himself, before signaling Victor to set it on fire. He sets it on fire with gasoline and they all leave and watch it burn. Chartwell looks on and starts praying. For the average people, it may just be nonsense and you can think Chartwell is just a crazy old lunatic, but Gerald and Charles are religious people and they really think Chartwell is talking to the devil himself. Gerald makes a move and he tackles Chartwell, breaking his trance. He gets angry and they hurry back to the car, he says he ruined the moment. As Chartwell curses in front, Gerald whispers that they he has a plan when they come back and to follow him closely in the believe in him.
When they get back in the warehouse, Victor takes the time to unload the car and Chartwell is still furious and he starts praying to his God so he can forgive him, basically leaving Charles and Gerald without surveillance. Gerald discretely walks over to where Chartwell placed the book he recently stole and seems to be really important. He grabs it and hides it in his clothes. He goes over by the fire, Charles still tied to him. He asks Chartwell if he still wants his book and dangles it over the fire, ready to drop it at any moment. Victor sneaks behind them and he grabs Charles and grabs his hand and pins it down on the table. Gerald says if they touch him, he drops the book in the fire. Chartwell keeps his calm and offers Gerald something in return of the book. He says he could bring him back to his family in the 2010’s. Gerald says that’s not really what he wants, he wants to go back to the sixties. Chartwell says that can’t happen, he knows too much. Chartwell says that if he gives him his book back, he will bring him back, he promises. Gerald asks him why he should believe him and he says he never wanted to hurt him, he just wanted him to get away. Gerald agrees. He gives the book back and Chartwell asks Victor to bring them back in the car and to drop them off in the 2010’s. Before Victor releases Charles, Chartwell says he has something to do first and he chops Charles’ finger off. Gerald asks him why he did that and Chartwell says it will be a way for him to remember that he’ll always be watched by them and stop chasing them and also to remind him that he chose his family and a son that isn’t even his, over saving the entire world. Gerald grabs something to stop Charles bleeding as they get in the back of the car and disappear.

In their bedroom, Sarah (Odeya Rush) and Judy (Jodelle Ferland) tell each other that they miss Charles and they should watch the video again. They watch it again and notice in horror that Charles is missing a finger now.

Hitman 3.6 - Family Man

Hitman: Family Man

Genre: Action

Director: Francis Lawrence

Writer: Dwight Gallo

Based on the video game series

Cast: Ed Skrein, Charlotte Riley, Will Arnett, Joseph Mazzello, Chevy Chase, William Baldwin, Janine Turner and Megan Stevenson

Plot: Agent 47 (Ed Skrein) follows a trail of blood out from the kitchen of the Shark Club all the way to an open window. He looks down below, but doesn't find anything except for a black business card with an odd white logo. He hears police sirens at the front of the nightclub responding to the gunshots. 47 shrugs and jumps out the window. He still doesn't see any more blood tracks, but decides to get out of the area quickly regardless and heads down an alley way.

Diana Burnwood (Charlotte Riley) is escorted through a high-tech facility. A large logo on the wall matches the business card found by Agent 47. Diana is told that she is at the labs of Alpha Zerox, The Franchise's cloning initiative. She sees several destroyed clones that look just like Mark being incinerated. Diana asks her guide why those clones are being incinerated, and the guide merely comments that they had defects.

Daniel Morris (William Baldwin) walks into a bathroom at the White House to find the First Lady Paula Steward (Janine Turner) having sex with one of the Secret Service agents. He waits outside the bathroom for her to finish. Paula finally comes out, flush with messed up hair. She tells him to not even think about telling her husband. Morris laughs, saying that he husband really is the useless figure head everyone in Washington says he is. Paula, angry, storms off.

Agent Carlton Smith (Will Arnett) arrives home with his wife Molly (Megan Stevenson) and three young children after going out to the movies. When they pull up, Smith notices that the light is on in his office. Smith tells his wife to keep the kids in the car until he can go in and check things out. Molly laughs, saying that all Smith could do as a internal government auditor is bore a thief to death by talking about numbers. Smith laughs and says that he's going to check things out anyways. When Smith gets to his office, he finds Agent 47 sitting in there waiting for him. Smith immediately calls out to his wife that everything is good, he forgot that he told an old friend to stop by. Molly and the kids come inside, and Smith introduces 47 to them, saying that he's an auditor at the Denver branch that he met awhile back and they've become good friends. 47 is clearly uncomfortable with the ruse Smith has chosen and smiles at Molly and the kids, introducing himself as Tobias. Molly says that she's going to put the kids to bed, so the two number-crunchers can catch up all they want.

Smith leads 47 back to his office and locks the door. Suddenly two high-tech computer monitors rise from the inside of an antique roll top desk. Smith then finally asks 47 what he came for. 47 hands the black business card to Smith, who looks the card over. He then pulls up a file on his computer about Alpha Zerox, with the logo matching. Smith says that the Alpha Zerox was started as the cloning program of The Franchise, but has slowly but surely gained far more influence on the worldwide stage than even the CIA can confirm. He says the group has pull in just about every domestic agency, and many agencies abroad. 47 asks who exactly runs these shadow organizations. Smith jokes that if they knew who was running them, they wouldn't be shadow organizations.

Leland Alexander (Chevy Chase) tells Rick Henderson (Joseph Mazzello) that most of Agent 47 and the ICA's recent assassinations were to secure the information regarding Agent 47's creation at the hands of Dr. Otto Ort-Meyer. Henderson is taking notes as Alexander describes the conditions in which Ort-Meyer bred and raised the clones to be killing machines, but that only 47 managed to survive longer than Ort-Meyer's program. Alexander shows Henderson some images of the destroyed remains of Ort-Meyer's labs and of the dozens of charred remains found inside.

Call My Agent 3.5 - Celebration

Call My Agent : Celebration

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Chris Colfer, John Glover, Michelle Yeoh, William Forsythe, Jennifer Carpenter and Paul Dano

Plot: Bob Hollis (Rainn Wilson) is at home, looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. He smiles and leaves his bathroom and sighs when he sees the letter pile that accumulated on his doorstep while he was incarcerated and then pardoned. The news are on in the background and when can see that mobster Boris Shelkovina (William Forsythe) has been arrested for murder and will have a trial soon. He knots his tie and leaves his apartment, happy to be free.

Back at the office, Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) run around, making sure everything is ready. Desmond is hanging a poster congratulating Bob on his pardon. Miranda (Lesley Manville) is sitting at her desk, staring at her old nemesis, Melissa Hao (Michelle Yeoh) who is the center of attention after she was able to bring forward evidence exonerating Bob. She brags about it to Bob’s lawyer (John Glover) who couldn’t more bored. When they see Bob’s car pulling in the parking lot, everyone hides as Andrea and Wilson hold party poppers. When Bob enters, he turns the lights on and everyone emerges from their hiding place. The party poppers go off and a distinct scream is heard coming from the bathroom. Bob is surprised by this show of affection and everyone quickly forgets about the scream coming from the bathroom. 

As everybody welcomes back Bob, Melissa wants everyone’s attention so she can show the video that allowed all of this to happen. Miranda doesn’t want to let Melissa get all the spotlight and she insists she’s the one who has to introduce the employee because she’s the most important person here. She starts arguing with Melissa, while Bob talks with Andrea and Wilson about how much money he owes now. Miranda overhears the conversation and she decides to one-up Melissa by saying that she’ll pay for Bob’s debts and legal fees. Everyone thanks her for her kindness and as she goes back in her office to note her good action of the day and giving herself a gold star sticker, Melissa reminds everyone, once again, that she allowed this to happen. She argues with Miranda once again and upon hearing the argument, Paul Dano (Paul Dano), all dressed up as Pee-wee Herman comes out of the bathroom, laughing in the distinctive Pee-wee laugh. Everyone stops what they’re doing and just look at Paul, not knowing what to do. Enjoying the discomfort, he starts laughing again.

Standing in the corner, Bob’s lawyer is drinking his sorrows that he still won’t have the legal victory he wanted, so he’ll just have to retire known as the guy who got beat by a diva who had no law knowledge. Miranda brags that she learned for the best, Puddn’head Wilson himself. He looks at her confused, before claiming he hates surprise parties and he leaves. Things went back to normal after the encounter with Pee-wee and now nobody knows where he went. Bob looks around for him, because he loves Pee-wee Herman, but he can’t find him anywhere, but he can hear him giggling. Bob suddenly hears Miranda screaming from her office, because Paul hid in her office and surprised her. She starts to hit him with her handbag and is about to pepper spray him when Bob intervenes. He asks Paul who invited him over and he says he doesn’t know and struts away while Bob tries to calm down Miranda. 

Melissa uses the confusion to finally show the video she’s been talking about all day and everyone gathers around to watch. The footage shows Melissa loudly eating a hamburger while she doesn’t know the camera is on. Embarrassed, she moves it forward until we can see Boris Shelkovina entering the Mark’s house moments before he was killed, all the while Melissa is loudly singing along to Take Me Home, Country Road, by John Denver. People are disappointed to see how little excitement there was to the footage compared to how she hyped it up, well, everyone except Pee-wee Herman who laughs his ass off in the corner. Melissa gets mad at Pee-wee for laughing at her and she starts chasing him around the office, as he skips and struts around and soon everyone joins in the chase, either chasing Melissa or Pee-Wee. When Melissa gets near the front door, Miranda uses the opportunity to push Melissa out of the office and lock the door. She laughs at her from inside, saying it’s a good thing the bitch is finally out. When Melissa tries to enter the office by the windows, Andrea, Bob and Wilson stop chasing Paul Dano and help Miranda lock the windows. 

They all sit down around the conference room table, out of breath and containing themselves, trying not to laugh, but they can’t help but giggle. Bob thanks them for the day, it was nice to just laugh and forget about the dark days for once. He thinks his life can go back to normal now and he thanks them for what they did for him and they say it was perfectly normal to help a friend in need. Miranda says he can’t go back to his normal life just yet. All her legal victories got her thinking that he could sue the government for wrongful imprisonment and he would probably win if he hires her. Bob laughs it off and he says he’ll have to think about it. Andrea excuses herself for a moment, saying she has to use the bathroom.

When she gets in the bathroom, she starts screaming, asking the perv to get out of the women’s bathroom. Wilson takes his cellphone and dials an unknown number. He tells the other person to enter and she says it’s locked and Wilson pleads her to enter. The glass door that serves as the front door breaks and Detective Debra Dexter (Jennifer Carpenter), Bob’s arresting officer, comes in and arrests Paul Dano, dressed as Pee-Wee Herman, for public indecency. Wilson laughs at his elaborate, set-up prank, but no one else does. Wilson notices no one is laughing, except Pee-wee and asks everyone if that was too far and Andrea screams to him that yes, that was too far.

She-Hulk 2.6 - Issue #16

She-Hulk : Issue #16
Genre : Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Showrunner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer : Chad Taylor

Based on the Marvel Comics characters

Cast: Jenny Slate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ron Perlman, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Richards, Michiel Huisman, Kate Walsh, Sarah Silverman and Eric Dane

Plot: Jennifer Walters (Jenny Slate) takes a deep breath before entering the offices of the Daily Bugle. She is met at the front by Betty Brant (Sarah Silverman). As they tour the building, Brant reveals that she has been Jameson’s assistant for 25 years and knows him like the back of her hand. She gives Jen a list of do’s and don’ts around Jameson (well, mostly don’ts). One major “don’t” is to not bring up his son John. Or Paparazzi Geoff, who they only just hired a replacement for. Just hearing John’s name makes Jen a bit angry but she bites her tongue and takes in everything that Brant says. 

J. Jonah Jameson (Ron Perlman) stares into the camera as a production assistant counts him down. He introduces himself and his program, which is streaming live on various platforms. He then brings in his guest for the evening: Jennifer Walters, also known as The She-Hulk (which he is quick to point out is a term he coined). She immediately looks to us.

“Boy, talk about a face for radio.”

“What was that?” Jameson asks. Jen looks back to the camera in confusion. They get on with their conversation which starts off about her public identity reveal by Jamson, which she shakes off like it didn’t it bother. He changes the topic to his previous complaint about the type of example she is setting for young girls who see a scantily clad women beating up men. She is quick to reverse this misogyny on him and points out a picture of him with Mike Tyson and asks if he is offended at those scantily-clad men beating up people on television. 

He stumbles on his response and she jumps in and asks if this is more about the skin she is showing or just the very thought of a female superhero. He says that is prosperous. Anyone can save lives as long as that’s what they’re doing. He then says that’s not always the case with her, as the chaos that she directly caused the death of Geoff Fahey. This doesn’t immediately ring a bell for her until Jameson describes him as one of the most respected photojournalists in his field and we realize that he is talking about Paparazzi Geoff. She is now the one stumbling over her words and unable to find an answer.

Jameson uses this dead air to segue them into a commercial break. At the break, he tells her that she can’t just go speechless like that - it ruins the show for everybody. He then says his son was right, she is better looking than she seemed in the photographs. She makes a quick disgusted look to us. After the break, Jonah says that they are taking callers. The first is someone who asks her if she is ever going to enter the legal field again after what happened. She gives a pretty firm “no” answer. The second caller is a familiar voice that Jen figures out is her father Morris (Michael Richards) - unbeknownst to JJJ. This scares Jen as she isn’t sure what he is going to say. However, Morris uses this opportunity to rip into Jameson and his son, who he accuses of malpractice in giving his daughter a faulty transfusion. Jameson cuts the call off mid-rant and announces that the interview is over and thanks Jen for coming on. Jen looks to us, impressed that her dad was able to get under Jameson’s skin more than herself.

Mary finds herself seated in front of The Hood’s associates, who are displeased with her for failing and abandoning yet another mission. The Hood (Michiel Huisman) enters and echoes these sentiments. He is already under the belief that Sasha is going to sell them out to her grandfather. They will be monitoring her to eliminate her, if necessary. But in the meantime, they need someone to break into the law offices of Goodman, Liever, Kurtzberg & Holliway and raid their superhuman archives of any incriminating information on the syndicate. He gives her the contact information of a man known as the Black Cat, one of the world’s most well-known cat burglars. She will need to get him to pull it off while she will provide cover. If Mary does not go through with this final task, she will be eliminated.

Meanwhile, Jen meets with Holden Holliway (F. Murray Abraham) about potentially returning to the firm for a one-off case. She finds that Mallory Book (Kate Walsh), her former enemy-turned-colleague, is also with him. There is also someone involved in the defense that has joined them, a muscular man with blue skin and a mohawk. He introduces himself as Kallark (Eric Dane), Majestor of the Shi’ar Empire.

That rings a bell. He’s totally from space, right?

Holliway lays out the case: a superhuman, Kallark’s younger brother, has been accused of using his telepathic abilities to seduce women to sexually engage with him. This is obviously a rather unprecedented case and one that is especially suited to their Superhuman Law division. Kallark interjects and says he has specifically asked for Jen to join the case as she knows the defendant. “I do?” she asks. He shakes his head yes and slides her a picture of him: it is Star Fox (Reid Scott), Jen’s superhero mentor.

She takes a look at the camera and takes a big gulp.

“I’m on board.”