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Leverage: Redemption – The Digital Frankenstein Job

  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Digital Frankenstein Job
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Trading out Hardison (Aldis Hodge) for Breanna (Aleyse Shannon), the season’s second episode starts with Harry (Noah Wyle) smelling something fishy in court as the team targets an unscrupulous ghost gun manufacturer (Andy Cohen) and the judge (Rachael Harris) he has in his pocket. Running cons on each, there’s some goofy cons including Eliot (Christian Kane) playing two different roles to each of the marks as both a survivalist and the owner of what the judge is looking for to legitimize her family business.

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Will Trent – A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine

  • Title: Will Trent – A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine
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The death of Ms. Pearl (Marla Gibbs) in “A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine” is the precipitating event for Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and the team to wrap up the Rafael Wexford (Antwayn Hopper) case in an episode that devotes multiple segments to giving us a young Rafael (Yannick Haynes) and Will (Andres Velez) highlighting the ebbs and flows of their relationship including their first meeting. The segments provide a bit more backstory but lacks any shocking revelations. Despite their turmoil, the pair come together to honor the woman they both loved and plan a funeral together (which Will uses to spy on Rafael and Rafael uses for money laundering purposes) before getting caught in a shoot-out at the funeral.

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums #2

Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums #2 picks up at the moment the first issue ended with GenMiyamoto Usagi and Yukichi, having been stopped by the Shogun’s men, hearing cries which lead them to a field of bodies and the only living witness being a young girl too stunned to explain what she saw (or so our wanderers believe). We’ll get more uncertainty from our travelers, who are still quick enough to jump into action, but it will appear to be at least one more issue before they become aware just what story is unfolding here.

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Death in Paradise

  • Title: Death in Paradise
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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the third of Robert B. Parker‘s novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone. Death in Paradise gives us Jesse looking into the murder of a promiscuous high school student no one seems to miss. Even the girl’s parents deny any ties to young Billie whose body washes up on shore. It seems Jesse is the only one in all of Paradise who cares what happened to her.

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The Rock

  • Title: The Rock
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Flashback Friday takes us back to director Michael Bay‘s best film. Sure you could make a case for Armageddon, and some (not me) would argue for Bad Boys II. However, the most successful movie of the popcorn director’s career is unquestionably the 1996 film that united Sean Connery as an aging British Secret Agent unjustly imprisoned for decades after stealing the United States’ most precious secrets and Nicolas Cage as an FBI chemist who find themselves responsible for saving the lives of 81 hostages from mercenaries who have taken control of Alcatraz.

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