Drive 1.2 - The Hunt Begins

Drive: The Hunt Begins

Genre: Action

Executive Producer: Drew Goddard

Writer: H.G. Hansen

Based on the 2011 film by Nicolas Winding Refn

Cast: Dan Stevens, Peter Capaldi, Jessica Paré, Bruce Campbell, Morris Chestnut, Benjamin Bratt

A recap of the last episode plays.

We fade in to see the aftermath of Driver's assault on the club. Herb Lake Winston (Bruce Campbell) walks into the crime scene as his partner, Milton Brant (Benjamin Bratt), is already talking to the team about evidence. Herb looks at the carnage as he's beside himself by it. Milton is too as he informs him that a man in a wig and sunglasses beat the bouncer to almost death and forced himself up to this so-called VIP room. Herb asks if they got a good look at him. Milton mentions there were security cameras but it’ll be awhile since the explosion caused some damage. Herb looks around figuring that the people in the room were killed brutally with a hammer. The inserts from the nail remover are shown. Herb soaks it all up as Milton asks what he thinks. Herb thinks that whoever did this, he/she is just getting started and no one is safe.

We go to an empty alley as the camera slowly zooms in as someone is viciously shoved out the backdoor. The man stumbles as he tries to get up but someone is seen walking right up to him.

He knees the guy in the stomach a few times then lands a hard left punch. He asks him about who killed his wife as the guy tries to tell him he's got the wrong guy but it's no use. The man lands a few more punches till the guy finally tells him to look for Peter Ridge (Peter Capaldi). If anyone wants to put out a hit, they have to talk to him first. The man thanks him then knocks him out. He straightens his jacket as when the camera finally gets up to him, we see it's the Driver (Dan Stevens) will a little blood splatter on his face. A violent look coats his face.

Night by Kavinsky ft. Lovefoxx plays as the title in hot pink "DRIVE" display over the city of Phoenix, AZ. The driver drives around as road signs and places show. Till we get in front of the driver and it fades to black.


Driver is seen lying on the windshield of his car as he seems to be calm. He looks at the bright sky seeing many shapes in the sky. He enjoys what will probably be the last peaceful day. He gets off the car, puts on his coat, and then goes into the car. “Hold You in My Arms” by Ray LaMontagne

Driver opens the door to his apartment as he doesn’t turn the light on to avoid seeing the damaged apartment. Flashes of him finding Mia (Jessica Paré), the sadness, and then the rage, Driver can’t take it. He closes the door and leaves.

Herb and Milton are hard at work looking over the security tapes. Herb is frustrated because all they can see is just a man walking up to the bouncer, beating him ruthlessly, and walk in avoiding any other cameras. Milton mentions that the club is owned by one, Peter Ridge. Herb is setback by that as Ridge is the peace negotiator for all the crime families in town. Milton one ups himself by saying they found him after an anonymous call. Herb rushes to go question him but Milton tells him that’ll be awhile. Herb asks why. Milton tells Herb five of Ridge’s teeth were pulled out. Herb stares at Milton in disbelief as Milton agrees with Herb about earlier.

Driver is seen getting out his car in front of Moses’ house. Moses (Morris Chestnut) walks out to him, almost shouting if he is insane. Drive doesn't speak back as he pretends to not have any idea what that means. Moses heard about him taking on one of the biggest crime figures in town. Driver just wanted to talk but Moses isn’t having it. He’s crossed a line and now he’s in almost everyone’s sight. “Good” is all Driver says as he heads inside. Moses rubs his chin as he mutters how he needs better friends. He follows him as we see a dark car drive up.

Herb and Milton head inside of the hospital where Peter Ridge is being held. They talk how they hope Peter can help them find their mystery man. They walk up to the elevator as some rugged looking men walk out. Herb watches them Milton asks what’s up. Herb just had a funny feeling about them.

They walk into the room to see Peter Ridge with some bruises lying in his bed. Milton sees Peter is sleeping and asks how to wake him up. “Like this…” Herb folds the IV to make Peter wake up in a shock. Peter looks around like if someone came to finish the job. Herb notices and makes a crack about the night Peter had. Peter doesn’t speak because of the injury. Milton goes on to mention how they know who he is but don’t know why someone would attack him. Ridge just eyes them as Herb then gives his guess. Maybe Ridge crossed someone or maybe he just had it coming. Milton thinks those might be it but he sees on Ridge’s face they aren’t the answers. Milton offers to protect Ridge as long as they get something to tell them who did this. Ridge points at a pen and pad which Herb grabs for him. Ridge writes something down and shows them. “No Use…” They ask why that is and Ridge writes “The Driver will find me…” “And he won’t stop…” Herb looks like he might have seen a ghost by this. Ridge then writes “Now Fuck Off” Milton agrees as he sees Herb’s reaction.

Driver walks into Moses’ living room as some of his buddies are watching a game. Moses takes him to the basement as he knows what Driver wants. He also knows Driver told him to never offer anything than help. Driver reminds him this is help. Moses still unsure but takes out his set of weapons. Moses starts to display some guns but Driver only focuses on brass knuckles, some knifes, steel wires, and some grenades. Moses wonders why Driver needs all of that. Driver only replies with a question if his buddies upstairs are armed. Moses takes offense but Driver informs him he only asked cause there is gonna be a couple guys here to kill him. Moses doesn’t have time to respond as there’s a knock on the door upstairs.

One of Moses buddies answers the door to have someone rush in with a firearm as four others follow. They take control of the situation as Moses asks what he should do. Driver prepares himself and then tells him to cover his eyes and ears. Before Moses can react, Driver walks up to the door and throws a stun grenade in the room. It goes off leaving everyone in the room stunned. “Turn Down for What” plays somehow by the bang.

The group tries to regain themselves but Driver is quick to attack. He uses the assault rifle to bash one of them in the face. He then uses the brass knuckles to punch him down till blood flies by each hit. One the others think they have him but Driver throws a knife at him before he got to aim. The gun he’s holding goes off as we see Moses lead his buddies out of the house. Driver gets hit on the side of his head by someone as they go back and forth as Driver loses one of the knuckles. The guy uses his strength to throw him into the kitchen over the counter.

Driver stumbles to get up as the dude walks in like a predator stalking its prey. The guy grabs a kitchen knife tosses it with both hands. Driver uses a counter to get to his feet. The guy tries to stab one of Driver’s hands but misses. The guy grabs a different knife and swings it at Driver. Driver dodges most of them as he gets a cut on his collarbone. One of the other guys rushes in to grab Driver. The knife guy laughs as he goes for a kill shot but Driver jumps to land both feet into his chest. Driver then tries to get out of the hold but no use. Driver then goes to bite one of the guy’s hands. He bites down hard enough till blood gushes down. The guy lets go only for Driver to Spartan kick him throw the glass on the backdoor. The knife guy then goes to stab Driver in the shoulder. Driver groans in pain but grabs hold of the guy’s hand as he takes out the steel wire. He uses it to take control of his arms till he can wraps it around his neck, takes a knee for leverage, and pulls down. The guy swings around but with the camera staring at Driver, who is seen pulling down for life. It’s an intense scene as the guy’s body goes limp. The music stops as soon as his neck snaps.

Driver lets go to breathe a sigh of relief. Driver struggles to get up but he hears the other guy he kicked cock his gun. A gunshot rings but the other guy is seen with a bullet shot in the middle of his forehead. He falls down as Driver looks to see Moses standing behind him. Moses takes a hard look at Driver as he struggles to get up. Moses comments that he may have just seen the real Driver. Driver looks at him but doesn’t stay for long as the last guy tries to run.

The last guy rushes out but Moses’ friends stop him. The guy shrugs the off but Driver is behind him and starts an assault of punches. Moses walks out to stop Driver but sees the emotion he has and stops himself.

With one last sound of the punches, Milton grabs coffee for him and Herb, who is still shell-shocked. Milton asks if Herb is gonna finally tell him what happened. Herb is hesitant but then reveals how he used to be a detective turning into lieutenant till the week of the promotion he got a case. This case was about a robbery that wasn’t just some robbery. It turned out the place that was robbed was a mob front. This led too many getting killed except for one man. This man left a path of destruction where he went. They called him The Driver.

We see Driver still punching as Herb tells the story till the end. Driver gets off and watches the guy crawl. Driver screams for answers but the guy says nothing. Driver rushes up to him again to grab him but the guy’s head explodes by a gunshot. Driver looks up to see a car race away as tattooed hand can be seen going back in.

Herb narrates how The Driver “is the one man the mob wants to kill but is too afraid to try.” How the Driver is someone God & Satan wouldn’t help get killed? A phone can be heard from the dead guy. Driver goes to find a cell phone and opens up the call. “If The Driver is here, it’s like I said this is only the beginning… And no one is safe…”

"Pray" by Illenium ft. Kameron Alexander (Artic Empire Remix)

Lady of the House 1.2 - The Attic

Lady of the House - The Attic

Genre : Dark Comedy / Erotic / Thriller

Director : François Ozon

Writer : Chad Taylor

Cast: Linda Cardellini, Ezra Miller, Alfred Molina, Maia Mitchell

On the factory floor, Otto (Ezra Miller) goes about his daily routine. After his hard work, he is once again told by Mary (Maia Mitchell) that Frank (Alfred Molina) has his sights set on him and a promotion is not out of the question in the future. Mary is attracted to Otto but he maintains a sense of aloofness. After work, he goes to his small apartment, overcrowded apartment that he shares with a 6 other immigrants. He writes a letter to his sister in Europe, checking the clock constantly. Finally, when it hits 6pm, he darts out of the house.

After he is done working, Frank visits the local pub in a joyous mood - his true home away from home. Meanwhile, Otto arrives at a ritzy hotel and sticks out immediately. There, he goes to Room 432, where Polly (Linda Cardellini) is waiting for him, nude. So begins a montage of the couple having sex at several different hotel rooms over the course of months, inter-cut with shots of Frank joyously drinking at the local pub.

As they lay in bed, Otto tells Polly about what Mary had told him about his position at the factory. However, Polly challenges him and says he can’t be happy working at that factory. Is that really what he came to America for? Feeling a sense of trust with her, he says she is right and says that he actually dreams of being a pulp novelist but he is not a skilled enough writer. Polly tells him she has an idea.

Days later, Otto approaches Mary at the factory and strikes up a conversation. He eventually asks if she could help him with his English writing skills, as she is a secretary, after all. Given her crush on him, she is flustered at first and says she’s not sure. How will he come up with the extra money to pay for her services and what would her boss think about his secretary training his best worker to leave the factory. Otto assures her that money is not an issue and that Frank will never have to know. Mary reluctantly agrees.

We see a split screen montage of Mary helping Otto while Polly and Frank continuously argue. Otto pays Mary with money given to him by Polly. Over the course of this time, Mary and Otto grow closer but she tells him that they can’t be together as he is Jewish and she is Catholic. Otto holds her hand and tells her he’s sure she will find a good Catholic boy. Man. Catholic man. He thanks her for all of her help and says he is ready to turn his notice to Frank and pursue greener pastures. Mary’s palms start to sweat, worried that she’ll held responsible. Again, Otto takes her hands and cleans the sweat off, assuring her that Frank will understand.

Frank is irate in his office, chewing out Otto to shreds. He convinces himself that this is a plot from a rival factory to steal Otto. He tells Otto what he already knows - he sees big things in Otto and is willing to do whatever to keep him. Otto is able to negotiate both a higher pay and more lenient hours that allow him to leave earlier than others. Afterwards, Mary checks on Frank, who has her retrieve a drink to cool his anger.

That night in bed, Frank vents to his wife about his troubles today at work. Polly, turned to her side, smiles at the amount of stress this has caused him. He turns her over and kindly proposes sex, for once. As they do, the camera zooming on her stoic face, as she clearly is thinking deeply about something.

At work the next day, Otto receives a letter that tells him to skip the hotel and come straight to Polly’s home after work. Meanwhile, Mary is ready to date Otto despite her parents’ wishes and is planning to ask him out formally once he gets off. However, as soon as his shift ends, he darts out of the building, to her disappointment. At Polly's home, Polly asks him why he didn’t quit yesterday. He says that he believes in the American Dream and that he is ready to work his way up the ladder. Polly silently ruminates over this and then tells him that there is something she is ready for: them to fuck in her husband’s bed. Otto takes a nervous gulp.

After the sex, even Otto is hesitant to try it again. He is admittedly worried about the repercussions if Frank ever caught them. Would he kill him? He'd definitely kill him. Polly eases his nerves and says she has an idea: Otto should move into their attic. He has no friends and family in the states so who would look for him? He can read and write up there and Polly can cook him meals. And they can fuck whenever they want as long as Frank is not home. Otto is now very hesitant, especially given his new raise. She tells him he won’t ever have to show up to that job again. Instead of worrying about that hard laborious work, he can now focus on becoming a famous novelist. There is a prolonged silence before Polly gets out of bed and takes him by the hand. She leads him to the attic entrance and takes him up there as suspenseful music plays.

Nez Perce 1.2 - Discovery

Nez Perce : Discovery
Genre : Historical
Showrunner: Scott Cooper
Writer : Dwight Gallo
Cast: Adam Beach, Matthew Rhys, Ray McKinnon, Gil Birmingham, Forrest Goodluck, Damon Herriman, Jay Tavares, Kevin McKidd, Gabriel Mann, Michael Horse, Michaela McManus, Duncan Ollerenshaw, Tanaya Beatty

Plot:
1805. William Clark (Kevin McKidd) and Meriwether Lewis (Gabriel Mann) and their Corps of Discovery are frozen and starving in the Bitterroot Mountains during their journey to the Pacific. Almost completely out of food, Clark takes six hunters and hurries ahead of the group to hunt. Young Nez Perce boys notice Clark and his hunters. They are frightened and hide in the tall prairie grass. Clark spots the grass moving and quietly walks toward them. When he discovers that they are children, he offers them each a ribbon as a friendly gesture. Clark and the hunters follow the boys to a Nez Perce village. They are then taken to meet Chief Twisted Hair (Michael Horse), one of the Nez Perce chiefs, who invites Clark and his men to stay for a meal. Clark sends one of the men back to grin Lewis and the rest of the part to set up camp near the village.

1877. General Sherman (Ray McKinnon) stands in front of the Wallowa Valley to show General Oliver O. Howard (Matthew Rhys). Sherman tells Howard that in 1863, a Nez Perce chief sold the entire Wallowa Valley to the U.S. government, but that now there is a contention among certain Indian groups regarding the legality of the sale. A compromise was reached and the valley was divided in half, with the western half opened for settlement while the eastern half went back to the non-treaty Nez Perce who refused to assimilate into civilized society. In that time roughly half of the Nez Perce Nation has adopted white man's ways. They got to school and church. They look to the future, while the other half, the non-treaty Indians, led by Chief Joseph, have clung on to the past. Sherman tells Howard that four years ago, President Grant reaffirmed that half of the Wallowa Valley is to be reserved specifically for the non-treaty Nez Perce, but that the order was officially overturned - this morning. Sherman sits back down and gives Howard his orders: to proceed directly to the Wallowa Valley and rendevous with a Captain David Perry, then escort the Nez Perce tribe onto the neighboring reservation at Lapwai. Howard asks what to do if they refuse to be moved, and Sherman tells him to move them by force, by any means necessary. Howard asks if this is about Custer and Little Big Horn, or if it's actually about the gold that was discovered in the valley last winter.

On the streets of Washington, D.C., Howard buys a newspaper. Everyone on the crowded street is reading about the massacre at Little Big Horn. Howard runs into an old friend, Col. Nelson A. Miles (Damon Herriman), who offers to buy him a drink. At a tavern, Miles orders a shot of whiskey while Howard orders a cup of black coffee. They toast and drink. They talk about their time at West Point together. Howard tells Miles that he's being sent out to Wallowa to move the Nez Perce. Miles says the writing is on the wall. Little Big Horn has changed everything. Now the U.S. is going to hit the Indians full force.

Joseph (Adam Beach) watches as dozens of Nez Perce children, dressed in white man's clothing, pour out a school building in Lapwai, a town inhabited by miners and missionaries and Nez Perce Indians who have converted to Christianity and adopted white man's ways. The teacher, Rebecca Fuller (Michaela McManus), helps a Nez Perce student with his homework, when the doors opens. Joseph stands in the doorway, reluctant to approach. Rebecca sends the student home and looks at Joseph. Before she can say anything, Agent Robert Montieth (Duncan Ollerenshaw) bursts into the school house, announcing that Chief Joseph has been spotted in town. Rebecca motions to the side of the doorway, where Joseph stands. Montieth looks at Joseph, shocked. Joseph tells them that he means them no harm and that he will not stay long. Montieth is shocked that Joseph speaks English, albeit broken. Rebecca tells Montieth that she and Joseph attended school together in Lapwai, many years ago. Rebecca tells Montieth that she will be fine and that he can leave. Once Montieth has left, Rebecca gives Joseph a tender hug.

In the Nez Perce village, Wahlitits (Forrest Goodluck) comes out of his tipi, walking at a brisk pace. His father Eagle Robe (Jay Tavares) stops him in his tracks, asking him who is going to see. Wahlitits says nobody, but Eagle Robe knows he is going off to see Little Bird. Eagle Robe urges his son to be careful as Little Bird has promised to another man, but that he won't stop his son from being with the woman he loves. Wahlitits smiles and quickly leaves. Eagle Robe watches him disappear into the woods, then get back to work.

Joseph and Rebecca sit in the school house. He tells her that the white men have come before, but never this many. And there are soldiers too. All of them over the land granted to them by the great chief in Washington. He asks here why they are here. She hesitates, then takes something out of her desk drawer and sets it on the table with a soft thud. Joseph looks down at a small gold nugget. He picks it up and asks if it is the same rock they found in the back hills. Rebecca slowly nods. Joseph asks if what Red Grizzly says about Yellow Hair is true. Rebecca says it is. Joseph asks her if the white men know the difference between Lakota and Nez Perce. She tells him that some do, but many don't, and urges Joseph to be careful.

1805. By the time Lewis and the rest of the Corps of Discovery make it to the Nez Perce village, Clark has already made friends with Twisted Hair and has started to gather maps and geographic information from the Indians about the route further west. Twisted Hair introduces Clark to his daughter Winter Moon (Tanaya Beatty). She takes Clark by the hand and leads him into a tipi where the two have sex. With the Corps of Discovery's horse all in poor health, Lewis makes a deal with the Nez Perce for younger, healthier horses, giving the tribe guns and tobacco in return. Over the next couple of days, the Corps live among the Nez Perce, resting and building five dugout canoes to use once they reach the Columbia River, their gateway to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark thank Twisted Hair and the Nez Perce tribe for their hospitality and bid them fareful, hoping to cross their paths again on their return trip.

The James Morgan Show (S1E6)

I guess it's time for business, so let's proceed, shall we?

It was opening week here at Last Resort Television and we've had some good shows… and some bad shows, as it's usually the case for network television. You've waited all week for them and we were anxious to see the numbers, but here are the official ratings for the first week of Last Resort Television, followed by a reaction from Mo Buck.

1. Rolling Stone: 8.32
2. Hitman: 7.96
3. Gauntlet (Part 1): 6.29
4. Drive: 5.85
5. Miami Vice: 5.70
6. Nez Perce: 5.59
7. Gauntlet (Part 2): 5.36
8. Survivor: 4.94
9. Brimstone: 3.99
10. Lady of the House: 3.91
11. Leaving Everything: 3.81
12. Fa-Sass Queens of Style and Skill: 3.77
13. Search Here: 3.72

Mo Buck's reaction: As predicted, we have some smash hits and some shows that underperformed. The pressure was on the weekend shows to perform the best and they did just that. I'm just wondering if they'll be able to keep the pace. Gauntlet is also a pleasant surprise, with not much hope rating-wise when it was first announce, but it ranks the highest on week shows and it's on the Friday slot. However, the ratings were way down for the second hour of the double feature, so it will be interesting to see if the high season debut rating was just a one-time thing. I would say that four shows underperformed this week. Lady of the House and Leaving Everything were always going to be a tough sell, so let's see how it will pan out. The last two are a little worrying. With the amount of money we spent on these two projects, it's a profound disappointment seeing them struggle to find an audience like that.

Since I have your attention, I would like to officially announce, that with first ratings announced, the network has decided to officially renew two shows. 

From executive producer Oliver Stone, the network is pleased to announce that it will unsurprisingly renew the show for a second season, after the D.R. Cobb written show received unanimous critical acclaim and reached a big enough audience to justify the expenses. 

ROLLING STONE : RENEWED!

The Dwight Gallo and Francis Lawrence series is officially renewed for a second season. With a good critical reception and good ratings to justify the expenses, it was a no brainer for the network to renew a popular show.

HITMAN: RENEWED!

And now back to the James Morgan Show...

I know this is only our first week, but I was tasked to brief you about our next season, already. We've discussed the matter in the past week and we've reached the following conclusion:

Our next season will, hopefully, have 21 shows. We had a hard time to fill our current schedule, but we figured it's because we didn't give you guys enough time, so we are officially starting pilot season. So, here are the new criteria for Last Resort Television Season 2:

- Word limit hasn't changed. We're going for 2,500 words for the pilot and 2,000 words per episodes, but as you can see, there aren't a lot of shows who have reached that limit.

- With more shows on schedule, we've decided to increase the number of shows per writer to three. There was a limit of two shows per writer, but it has been increased to three.

- You may think that all of your shows are safe, since we're increasing the number of shows on schedule, but I can assure you that some shows will be cancelled. The cancellations will be announced around mid-season, so it will give more time to the writer to pitch a new idea, because we've decided to "protect" your spot when your show is cancelled. So if a show written by Mo Buck gets cancelled, then Mo Buck will still have that spot, unless he sends a message that he doesn't want to replace his show with another one for the following season.

With that announced, I can only say one thing : flood our inbox with your pilots people!

See you next week!

Rolling Stone 1.1 - Pilot

Rolling Stone - Pilot

Genre: Drama

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: D.R. Cobb

Based on the Rolling Stone magazine

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Karl Glusman, Aimee Teegarden, James Urbaniak, Ross Butler, Alicia Witt John C. McGinley, George MacKay, Lucas Pittaway, Rhys Coiro, Jeremy Davies, Grey Damon, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Gethin Anthony

Plot: December 1969. Brady Conroy (Josh Hartnett) is a professor of journalism at University of California - Berkeley, ground zero of the Bay Area subculture movement. Brady is a popular teacher around campus due to his laid back style and relative young age. He is especially popular with the female students.

Brady is secretly dating one of his students, Celeste (Aimee Teegarden), since the beginning of the semester. Together they go to a King Crimson concert at the Fillmore West. They drink and smoke weed with other concert-goers in the crowd. Things slow down when the band begins playing "Moonchild", Brady and Celeste passionately embrace as they dance together, the rest of the crowd seemingly fading away.

Brady drives Celeste back to her campus dorm building. She invites him inside and they have sex before falling asleep. They awake in the morning to pounding at the door, Celeste opens it up to see campus security, who then escort Brady out of the building and into the office of Dean Alan Smalling (John C. McGinley). Smalling berates Brady for having relations with his students before firing him and telling him to pack up his office immediately.

Unsure of what to do with his career next, Brady heads to a bar near campus to drink away his sorrows. As he drinks, he starts flipping through the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, which somebody has left behind at the bar. As he flips through the pages, something stops him in his tracks. He recognizes the name of the publisher Jann Wenner as a former student of his.

Brady heads straight to the Rolling Stone magazine offices on Brannan Street in San Francisco. He walks in like he knows where he's going until he is stopped by Kylee Hargrove (Alicia Witt), the office manager. He tells her that he is there to see Jann Wenner, but doesn't have an appointment. He gives her his name and asks her if she'll tell Jann that he's there. A few moments later, co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner (Karl Glusman), walks out of his office, surprised to see Brady there.

Brady and Jann catch up in his office with standard chit-chat for a few moments before Brady finally gets up his nerve and asks Jann for a job. Jann is caught off guard by this development. Jann tells him that he has a job that Brady can prove himself with, covering the Altamont Free Concert that Saturday at the Altamont Speedway and featuring Santana; Jefferson Airplane; The Flying Burrito Brothers; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; the Grateful Dead and most importantly The Rolling Stones. Brady comments that it's a pretty short-notice assignment. Jann tells him that Lester Bangs was supposed to cover the event, but had to drop out to head out to Detroit for undisclosed reasons. Jann tells him that if Brady can write an article that will impress he may have a regular gig on the staff for him. Jann tells Brady to grab his press credentials from Kylee.

Mick Jagger (George MacKay) and Keith Richards (Lucas Pittaway) leave the stage after a concert of their band, the Rolling Stones, and they are ushered into a car to the airport by their road manager Sam Cutler (Jeremy Davies). He tells them that they are on their way to San Francisco to play a free concert. Jagger is confused about why the concert is going to be free, and Cutler tells them that there has been a great deal of media criticism regarding the ticket prices for their American tour, so they're going to end it all with a big free performance.

On the day of the show, Brady invites Celeste to tag along, but she declines since she has some final reports to finish up that weekend. When Brady gets to the Altamont Speedway, the place is already packed with around 300,000 raucous fans. Brady takes his place next to the stage and notices the presence of dozens of intimidating bikers from the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels, led by Sonny Barger (Rhys Coiro). They sit at the edge of the stage double-fisting beers, their payment for protecting the stage.

When the show begins, Santana gives a smooth opening performance. By the end of their set, Brady notices that the Hells Angels running security are beginning to get loud and are clearly all drunk. The next band up is Jefferson Airplane led by their lead singer Marty Balin (Gethin Anthony). The crowd gets into the performance and, in an effort to get closer to the stage, topple over one of the Angels' motorcycles. Balin hops off the stage to try to sort things out during a guitar solo, and is hit in the head by one of the bikers with a beer bottle, knocking him unconscious. The band gets up and leaves, while some roadies help Balin up off the ground and bring him back stage. When the Grateful Dead's road manager, Rock Scully (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), hears about what happened to Marty Balin, he announces that his band will not go out and perform for such a violent crowd and begins having people pack up the band's gear.

The crowd begins to calm down as the next band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, led by Gram Parsons (Grey Damon), lay their country-rock stylings on the crowd. The women soon over Parsons, but many in the crowd are more mellow, and the whole set goes down without any violent acts from the crowd or the Angels. Brady, notepad, in hand takes notes on the audience response to the band, a personal favorite of his.

There is a lengthy break between the end of The Flying Burrito Brothers' set before the Rolling Stones are due to hit the stage. Brady observes back stage, as the other bands are already having trucks loaded up with their gear, eager to leave the premises as soon as possible. Parsons offers Brady half a joint before he hops in a van that takes him away from the venue.

The Rolling Stones finally take the stage as Brady finishes off Parsons' joint. They open with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" to rabid applause. Brady finds a spot at the front of the stage near the Hells Angels to get a better view of the band as they begin to play "Sympathy for the Devil". One of the Angels begins shoving up toward the crowd as he struggles to the behemoth biker his press pass. Sonny Barger pulls the other biker off of Brady when he notices the credentials. Suddenly a fight breaks out in the crowd at the foot of the stage. Brady watches as the Angels descend upon the chaos with fists of fury, dispatching and dragging off the fighting fans.

The show continues without incident until during "Under My Thumb" when a group of fans try to storm the stage. One of the fans makes it pretty close to the stage, clearly drugged out of his mind. One of the Angels grabs the fan by the head, punches him, and throws him back into the crowd. Undeterred, the same fan tries charging the stage again with a crazed look in his eyes. He draws a revolver from his jacket. Barger, seeing him draw the gun, pulls out a knife and stabs the fan several times until he drops the gun and collapses. Other Angels converge around the fan and begin stomping on him. Mick Jagger stops mid-song after noticing the scuffle and the stomping. Into the mic, Jagger asks if there's a doctor nearby. They take a short break.

Brady listens in as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards debate whether or not to continue the show. Richards suggests that the crowd may get even more unruly if they cut the show short and may degenerate into a full-scale riot. Brady watches as the lifeless body of the fan is dragged away from the crowd by medical staff. The Rolling Stones resume their set, and the crowd having been scared into submission for the most part, behaves themselves until a naked woman attempts to climb onto the stage past the drunken Hells Angels. The absurdity makes Jagger start laughing during "Gimme Shelter". Brady follows the medical staff to the side of the stage where the attempt to take the vitals of the dead fan. After the show, Brady heads straight to Celeste's dorm to see her. She asks how the concert was, but Brady doesn't want to talk about it.

Brady turns in his write-up of the concert to Jann at the Rolling Stone offices. Jann reads it aloud in the conference room to co-founder and consulting editor Ralph J. Gleason (James Urbaniak) and writer and senior editor Ben Fong-Torres (Ross Butler) while Brady waits out in the reception area. Jann finally comes out of the office and tells Brady they all loved the article and offers him a staff writer position with the magazine, which Brady accepts.

A brilliant return to form for the underrated Josh Hartnett. He's able to act with the huge cast of diverse characters around him with ease and it makes for a pleasant viewing.

Legendary director Oliver Stone's gift to the television world is an eclectic look at the raucous 70's music world and I can't think of a better director for this series. He nails the climate down to a tee. It offers a world of possibilities that I'm sure Stone will be able to exploit.

D.R. Cobb impresses in his TV debut, being able to balance so many characters with remarkable talent. It remains to be seen how he's going to be able to keep the bar so high, but I'm very excited for the future of Rolling Stone