Hitman 3.7 - Amendment

Hitman: Amendment

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, Matt McCoy, Sean Patrick Flannery, Janine Turner and Megan Stevenson

Plot: Diana Burnwood (Charlotte Riley) notices Vice President Daniel Morris (William Baldwin) on a video conference call while she is at the Alpha Zerox labs giving her input on the cloning process based on her experience working with Agent 47. She sends the information to Agent Carlton Smith (Will Arnett), but he tells her that he is powerless in a situation like this. She tells him that he knows this, but that he can perhaps entice Agent 47 to do something, since it is clear to her that The Franchise is planning on taking President Steward out of the picture and replacing him with Morris.

Agent 47 (Ed Skrein) wakes up to the sound of children screaming in Smith's guest room. He gets dressed and leaves the room, only to be offered coffee or orange juice by Smith's wife, Molly (Megan Stevenson). 47 declines her offer. Smith then tells 47 that they need to go for a drive. The two get into Smith's car, and he whispers to 47 not to talk about anything in the car. Smith then drives them to a run-down car rental lot, and rents an old, beat up cargo van. Once they are driving in the rental van, Smith finally says it's okay to talk. 47 asks Smith what he wants to talk about, and Smith tells him that he has been given strong intel that Alpha Zerox is planning on killing President Steward. 47 asks why he should care, and Smith offers to pay 47 to protect the president from AZ's assassins. 47 is annoyed at the suggestion, but then Smith pulls out his checkbook.

Leland Alexander (Chevy Chase) and Rick Henderson (Joseph Mazzello) are once again talking in Alexander's study. Henderson finally expresses doubts that Alexander is telling the truth about everything he's told him. Henderson says it all just sounds too far-fetched that groups of assassins are creating clones to kill people. Alexander assures Henderson it is real, and it must be put to a stop. If it is the last thing he does, he will put an end to cloning. Alexander then tells Henderson that he can leave and that hopefully he has enough information for an article at this point as he is growing weary of the prolonged discussion.

Daniel Morris introduces President Thomas Steward (Matt McCoy) to his new head of security, Mark (Sean Patrick Flannery). Mark nods at the president with a smile on his face. President Steward waves Mark and Morris off, saying he has more important things to do than have a meet and greet with the Vice Presidential security detail. Morris grows angry and tells the president that he isn't going anywhere. Mark then pulls out a gun and walks the president into the Oval Office.

Agent 47 uses fake White House security credentials to gain access to the White House. He sneaks through the facility and is surprised to find security shockingly light. He gets all the way to the Oval Office, but the door is locked. He quietly starts picking the lock, but is caught by Paula Steward (Janine Turner). He assures her that he is there to help her husband, not hurt him. She decides to believe him and guides him to a secret entrance. 47 storms the room and quickly dispatches Mark and Morris, before quietly disappearing from the vicinity.

The news reports that Vice President Morris has been killed by a domestic terrorist, showing a picture of Mark. The reporter informs the public that the President and the First Lady managed to survive the attack thanks to a heroic member of the Presidential Secret Service team. Leland Alexander throws his remote at the television in disgust, shattering it.

Call My Agent 3.6 - The Interview

Call My Agent : The Interview

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Chris Colfer and Katherine Heigl

Plot: When Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) arrives at work that day, he first sees the workers replacing the glass window because of his plan gone wrong, but that’s not the reason why he’s sweating profusely. He looks at his desk and gulps. Despite Bob’s return to work, Desmond (Chris Colfer) is still sitting at his desk and well, doing his job. Miranda (Lesley Manville) is already there, putting lipstick on in her office. He walks next to Desmond and puts his lunchbox on his desk. Desmond looks at him with a funny look on his face, asking him why he is sweating so much. Wilson lets an awkward grunt go and heads for the bathroom. He asks himself if he’s fired and he says it can’t happen, he was so good at his job. But then, he was no really good as an agent. This is driving him crazy. He slaps himself in the face and washes his face with ice cold water to regain his composure. He walks with confidence and enters Miranda’s office, who’s somehow still putting on lipstick. She says it’s a good thing he’s here, she wanted to ask him a question, since Desmond keeps saying yes to everything she asks because he doesn’t want to lose his job? Does her lipstick suit her well? Wilson says it does and Miranda thanks him for his input. She says it’s alright for him to leave now, but Wilson stays. He breathes heavily and is finally able to ask her if he can be an agent from now on. Miranda turns around in her chair and spins back to face him once more in dramatic fashion. She says he’ll have to pass a test first. Wilson says he always hated tests, they make him a nervous mess and Miranda says it’s just to see if he’s up to the task. 

Wilson sits anxiously at his new desk, eating the cap of his pencil when he Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and Bob (Rainn Wilson) arrive. They ask him what’s going on and he keeps on chewing his pen. Desmond says Miranda gave him a test that he needs to pass if he wants to become a full-time agent and not go back to do his boring desk job. Andrea asks Desmond if he likes his job and he says he has a complicated relationship with it. Wilson broke his pen and he has ink all over his mouth. He heads to the bathroom to clean himself up. Andrea and Bob head straight to Miranda’s office, where they surprise her looking at pictures of a shirtless Daniel Craig. She quickly closes the tab and hides her discomfort by pushing her purse of her desk. Both Bob and Andrea are surprised and amused to see the content of Miranda’s enormous purse. Once they got everything off the floor, they ask themselves if it really was a good idea. Miranda says he’ll get over it soon. They ask themselves if they should give him another client and Miranda says the rules were set, but it’s all fun and games, he’ll have the job anyway. 

Wilson doesn’t think it’s all fun and games, as he has no idea it’s all a set up to get back at him for his prank gone too far. He gets out of the bathroom, all ink is gone and sits back at his desk. He listens to relaxation music on his phone to try to calm himself down. He walks in Miranda’s office an he tells everyone he’s ready for his test.

Andrea drops a file on his desk. He needs to pitch a role to someone known as Madame X. Wilson says he has been able to get a woman to sign a contract before and it went really well, so he doesn’t see how it’s going to be any different and it calms him a little. Andrea looks at Bob, worried. Wilson looks at the role details, Madame X is supposed to play a doctor in a sports movie. She’s American and the movie is about soccer. That’s going to be hard to sell, he says, but he’s confident in his ability to make her sign the deal. The calls the number and Katherine Heigl (Katherine Heigl) answers. Wilson pitches her the idea, saying the film is about football and she lashes out at him, saying she doesn’t want to play a doctor again, just because she played a doctor television for six years. She says she accepts to come and see him as a professional courtesy, because she liked the old Tom Jones a lot, but only because of that. Wilson hangs up and is happy to say he got her to come to a meeting ad he gives Andrea and Bob two thumbs up. 

Katherine Heigl arrives the Jones Agency and she’s pissed off to learn that the old boss, Tom Jones passed away. She claims she had no idea. They sit her in the conference room and they give a pitch of water. She complains because Tom used to greet her with champagne. They didn’t even give her a seltzer, just plain water, like they live in the third world. Andrea leaves the conference room and starts to wonder if they gave him an impossible task and it’s going to ruin him forever. Bob gives him a pep talk, he wants to make sure he does his best in there. Wilson is all pumped up. He enters the conference room with a newfound confidence. He asks Katherine if she considered the offer and she says she always wanted to do a movie about football and Wilson is worried to tell her it’s in a movie about soccer, so he doesn’t. Wilson says she makes a good doctor, she was great in Grey’s Anatomy and she rudely thanks him, saying it’s what everyone tells her, but nobody offers her a job anymore. Wilson says it’s the point, she’s good at playing doctors and well, he offers her a job. She says it could be a good idea to sign, she needs money anyway. She points at her hair and nails and she says it isn’t cheap. Wilson says he believes her and he gives her a pen to sign the contract. She signs on the dotted line and says she’s leaving and thanks him for the role. She says if the movie fails, or if it gets bad press, he’s fired. Wilson has a hard time containing his joy and he’s really happy when she leaves.

Moments later, Wilson is still celebrating at his desk when Andrea says he made a classic mistake, but Bob disagrees, he says it’s one of the oldest trick in the book. Wilson asks what he did wrong, or right, and they say he kept saying the movie was about football, so she will think it’s about American Football, but Standing Back is a movie about football yes, but most people call this sport soccer. She’s probably going to be pissed about it. Desmond interrupts them and transfers a call to Wilson. She screams at him on the other side of the line, asking him why she just got cast in a film about soccer? She says he’s fired and she hangs up. Wilson says he still passed the test, right?

She-Hulk 2.7 - Issue #17

She-Hulk : Issue #17
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, F. Murray Abraham, Kate Walsh, Michael Richards, Kyle Mooney, Stephen Tobolowsky and Reid Scott

Plot: Just as she had before at the Daily Bugle, Jen (Jenny Slate) stands nervously in front of the offices of Goodman, Liever, Kurtzburg, & Holliway. However, this time she has decided to stick to her She-Hulk form, with specially tailored clothes to fit this form. She enters the office and it is just like old times. Mallory (Kate Walsh) and Awesome Andy (v.o. Kyle Mooney) welcome her back. She visits with Stu (Himesh Patel) down in the archives and library. He is surprised to see her in the She-Hulk form but she says she is fully comfortable in it now, no need to act like she’s something she’s not. When she leaves, Stu looks longingly and as if he wants to ask something but doesn’t.

At his home, Morris Walters (Michael Richards) goes through some files and looks like he has found a breakthrough. He attempts to get ahold of Jen but she doesn’t answer. He tells her to call him back ASAP as he has an important update.

At the office, we see that she is in a meeting with Holden (F. Murray Abraham) about the case. She gets a more detailed account of the claim against Starfox, the first of its kind regarding superpowers. As she hears about the victim’s claim, she gets flashbacks to her own first encounter on Krakoa with Starfox. Similarities between the case emerge and her ears start ringing. Holden asks if she’s still there and she snaps out of it and says she is. He gives her Starfox’s contact information for where she can find him

When she leaves, she is almost in tears as she thinks through her own experience and that she is going to have to defend this man. She wipes the tears away before anyone can see. Jen sees the message from her dad but doesn’t have time to get back to him. As she is walking out, she runs into Stu again. Stu asks if she wants him to be in her ear for her meeting with Starfox. She says that wouldn’t be necessary, she can do this on her own. He then asks her if she wants to try to set up another date again, immediately regretting it after he does. She looks heartbroken and tells him that things are really hectic right now and that she can’t. He tells her he understands

At her home, Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) mulls over the directive she wasn’t given by the Syndicate. She calls Dr. Jack Cereus (Stephen Tobolowsky), who specializes in converting super beings into post-villain life (including himself). He is happy that she has gotten back in contact after attending one of his meetings. Without telling him any concrete details, she tells him about her dilemma. She feels like she is