Mystery

The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews to search for a dead man’s missing fortune. Hired by the legal heirs of the town eccentric who changed his will shortly before his death leaving his hidden treasure for whoever could find it, the boys start with the clues left by the dead man on a race against other treasure hunters, Skinny Norris, and other members of the man’s family all willing to take drastic action to beat the Three Investigators to the prize.

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Interior Chinatown – Bad Guy / Willis. Willis Wu.

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Bad Guy / Willis. Willis Wu.
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Set after the standalone episode structured to take place during a hiatus which focuses on Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) filming various commercials for products he doesn’t really understand, the final two episodes of the series bring the focus back to what’s wrong with the world as Wills asking the same questions his brother did leads to the show painting him as its new bad guy. Meanwhile, having taken Willis’ old job in the restaurant,  Lana (Chloe Bennet) makes a discoveries of her own involving how the citizens of Chinatown are being recycled constantly back into the show (explaining presumed dead characters seen earlier in the season) along with a tie between the lives of Chinatown and the video game at the restaurant from which Jonathan (Chris Pang) has been sending messages to Willis this entire time.

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The Irrational – Conversation Games

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  • Title: The Irrational – Conversation Games
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Suspecting her billionaire employer (Warren Christie) may be a serial killer Angelique (Sandra Shapiro) reaches out to Kylie (Travina Springer) and take advantage of her brother’s skills. “Conversation Games” offers an unusual setup with our initial suspect, who certainly meets the basic requirements to be a sociopath, agreeing that a member of his immediate team (who also all fit the right psychological makeup) is the killer and agrees to do whatever he can to help. The plot takes a few twists and turns before Alec (Jesse L. Martin) uncovers the truth with a little more help from Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones) than he was expecting.

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Will Trent – Abigail B.

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  • Title: Will Trent – Abigail B.
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Arresting a man (John Ales) involved in child trafficking, Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and the GBI with the help of Marion (Gina Rodriguez) work to find the missing girl before she disappears forever. The ticking clock adds tension, as does Will’s guilt over not acting sooner and discovering the girl’s abduction too late. The major piece of the interrogation involves a bit of deception by Faith (Iantha Richardson) and the group into giving the man the immunity asked for, but not quite when or how he expected. While being helpful in the case to successfully trick the suspect, Marion plays a big role. However, the show doesn’t gloss over her recent trauma and incorporates that into the ongoing story.

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The Great Films – The Third Man

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  • Title: The Third Man
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Set in post-WWII Europe, director Carol Reed‘s cinematic masterpiece begins with the arrival of American pulp writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) in occupied Austria only to learn the friend he had come to visit on his last dime, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), is dead. Despite everyone he meets telling him he should return home, Holly sticks around the city playing amateur detective hoping to learn more about how and why Harry died.

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