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Move my films to these dates:

Timmy's Winter Vacation to January 24th

Ophidiophobia to January 31st

Six Shots to March 13th

Also bump Six Shots TC to 3,461 and Timmy's TC to 3,022.

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On a mountain

Studio: good movies studio

Genre:action

Director: Chad Stahelski

Budget: 30 million

Runtime:85 minutes

Release Date: March 20th

Ratin*g: pg13

Theater count: 3,200

Cast: Keanu Reeves-Blake

Joe Spano- Don

Ray Stevenson- Ash

Plot:

Keanu Reeves plays Blake a CIA agent on a ski trip vacation.

Blake sits down on the ski lift next to a father and his litle daugter. The Man askes Blake questions about his life and Blake makes a fabricated story about being an alt plane piolit. He then Begins to talk to the little girl and he finds out that her name Is Rosey shes in 1st grade and She likes to draw. Blake smiles and says my daugter was always an artist. He then leans over and whispers to her i tell you What.if i See you in the lobby later this evning i still Have some of her special paints and id like.You to Have them. They aproach the top of the mountain and head in different dgirections.

Blake pauses to look at the beutifal supnrise. And then pushes off heading down the steeper side of the Hill.He cotinues on peacfully for several minutes. He suddenly realizes he Is the only person around. And then a helicopter flies over head and Begins shooting at Blake. He swerves all over the.Hill avouding the bullets. Blake swerves off on to a more wooded path. Thats when two snowborders swing down from ropes and begin to pursue Blake. The first one shoots and hits a tree right by Blakes head. Blake begins skiing backwqrds and pulls a gun out of his backback and the fires back at the two snowborders. One of the snowborders looses his balance and hits his head on a tree. The other two continue to fire at each other. Blake runs out of bullets so he turns around and barley avoides hitting a beaver. But the othert snowborder catches up with him. Blake lifts the back of the ski and uses it to knock the gun out of the snowborders hand and does a jump twist in the air landing a perfect kick with the front of the ski on the mans jaw sending him sprawling. Blake stops and momentarily looks at the passed out Man and says to himself "who are you" he Begins looking .for any indication of who the man might be but finds nothing. He takes a picture of the man with his phone and calls the CIA headquarters. "Hello Blake how Is your vacation" "Don im about to send you a picture of a Man who.just tried to take me out. I need you to do some reaserch and find out who . He works for." "Holy cow! Ofcourse im right on it." Blake grabs a swig from his water bottle and continues on down the mountain.

Blake spot.a row of men armed with machine guns blocking his path. They begin fiering simultaniously. Blake aluds their fire by sliding.down close to the ground but knows he doesent Have much time. Taking a ccalculated risk he slides off the edge of the hill onto the steep and rocky non path side of the hill. He bouncces along tumbiling and struggiling to keep control as gunshots fire all around him. Suddenly a dear runs into his path being unable to slow down he hits the dear straighto on. He looses his balance and suddenly finds himself haning on to a ledge for dear life. His phone Begins to ring. He puts it on Speaker and says "now Isnt the best time. Can i call.You back in a miniute.".He hangs up the phone. He swings.from the Cliff into a cave.that is a good 50 ft.

He picks up his phone and says while sounding out of breath "hey Don what'd you find".Don sighs and says ".Your not gonna like it" Blake says harshley" Who is it" "well"Don says shyly "remember Ash Powell" Blake Begins to tremble and falls to his knees speechless staring into empty space his eyes begin to tear up. Don says"Blake just try and stay calm". Blake hangs up his phone and Begins pounding the gtound.

Blake Begins building a fire as the Sun begins to set. He pulls a locket out from. under his shirt and opens up to a picture of a littlel girl. He starts crying softly and than harder.

He climes back on to the slope. using a pick. He skis down the Hill at a rapid pace. He sees when he reaches the bottem that the lodge. is surrounded with guards. He pauses assecing the best rout.He Curls in a ball toincrease speed.And deacrease tartget size.And zoomed straight through a window. He dives Behind a table table.to avoid gunshots. He army crawls.over to.his travle bag and throws a smoke gernade While the shooters are disorianted he punches one in the face throwing him back into the next guy. And quickly hits another with a handle of the first Inés gun. Pushing the forth one back onto.a table.that colapses.under his weight. The fiifth shooter had regained his wits and aims his gun at Blake. But Blake without hesitating twists the mans arm causing him to drop his weapon and Blake head butts him rendering him uncuncious.

Blake takes a deep breath. Then the bullets begin flying all around him. He dives to the ground barell trolls fiering at the . gun men. Taking one down. But the rest continue fiering barley missing him. He croches Behind a table trying his best to shoot the gun Man. His gun runs out of amo. He gets under the table. He can head the bullets hitting the table. He looks around wildley surveying his options. His eyes land on a fallen gun across the room. He throws a table aginst the window giving him a split second too sprtint for the gun bullets still flying. He picks up the gun and presses himselm against the Wall. He runs up the stairs. When he gets up there there are more shooters standing on the deck. A chandileir is hit and falls onto Blake. With some quick thinking Blake shoots the decks supports causing it to collapse. Crushing the shooters below and injuring the shooters on the deck. Blake groans and pushes the chandileir off of him. (Bullets flying randomly the whole sceene)

The next seen cuts too Blake at the airport. He speaks to a young woman behind the ticket counter. "I would like to get on the next flight out of here" The woman gives him a strange glance before turning her attention back to the computer saying " If you hurry you can catch the 4:15 flight to Dallas" Blake says "Thank you. I''ll take it." He begins rushing twords the flight gates. But he is stopped by a nicley dressed man before he can get their. Blake says "What are you doing here Don" Don replays "I knew you'd do this" Blake attempts to interject but Don smacks him knocking Blake to the floor. "Blake you do this every time. You know most people see you as an unbreakable man? (Scoffing) I know what you really are your a coward! People in the airport begin turning their head. Blake suggests "finish this conversation in the parking lot?"

They head out to the parking lot Don asks "Do you really wanna run from him the rest of your life? If you remember that cost you Megan! How much do you have to loose before you grow a fucking pair! He looks long and hard at Blake "here's your chance now just finish this" Blake nods solomly . "What about you" Blake says. Don laughs "I just run the computer". For a split second they both smile like they could almost be two normal guys talking bout old times. Then hops back in a 90s Ford Mustang and heads back to the ski resort .

Blake uses his binoculars scouting the ski park. He spots a group of armed skiers at the top of the mountain. So Blake hops on the lift and heads to the top of the hill. While on the lift he says a silent prayer. When he gets to the top the men begin fiering at him. But he expertly avoids the fire. He then slidss into two of them knoccking them off balance. He begins skiing away and all 5.men pursute. Tue two armed fiering.as they ski.Blake makes an abrupt stop elbowing the first man in the gut and pounding him on the head. Blake saying ".don't you known you should wear a helmet" He then stccks his ski into the second man's face and swings him into.the third man. He grabs the thirds man gun and begins fiering.it at the remaining 2. Then they enter the half pipe. Blake slides up.one side fiering at the other 2.inth middle. One of them fires back at Blake while the other one follows him up the pipe Blake and his follower both jump and Blake knocked him into the side of the barrier.He then skis tword the final shooter disarms him and picks him up by the neck. "Where is ash" Blake screams in the mans face. " By the helicopter pad" he replies voice shaking.

Next seen cuts to Blake walking up to to the Helicopter pad where Ash stands unmoving.

Ash says smiiling "I was hoping hoping you would come" Blake says "I will kill you and I will make it hurt so bad". "In front of the little girl" Ash says with fake bafflement ( motions to guard).The guard pushes Rosey out of the shadows and Ash puts a gun to her head while saying I would choose my next move very carefully. We dont want another incedent like the last one"(sneering) Blake drops to his knees sets his gun down and puts his hands behind his back saying "okay okay just don't hurt her" Ash motions to the guard again "saying get him in the chopper and startt it up" Blake is hand cuffed and tossed into the back of the chopper. Ash shoves Rosey into the snow and follows into the chopper.

fighting ensues between Ash. Ash shoves Blake outside of the chopper but Blake grabs onto the edge. Ash steps on Blake's fingers and Blake let's go with his left hand. Right before Ash can step on his other fingers Blacked launches himself upward and kicks Ash, knocking him into the pilot. The helicopter goes in to a tail spin and Black grabs onto the back end of the helicopter. He begins to climb forward. Blake sees that his gun is still laying on the floor of.the helicopter. He dives into the side door and points his gun at Ash

Ash shots the pilot and dives at Blake. They free fall until they both land hard on the gondola. Blake looks up and sees the helicopter spinning out of control until it hits the lodge and explodes. All this time Blake can hear Rossies screams and then suddenly they stop. Blake looks at Ash and Ash smiles. Blake grabs Ash and drags him over to the edge of the gondola. Blake holds him over the edge and begins to scream stuff angrily as he punches Ash. Finally he drops Ash off the edge of the Gondola and says “That's what you fucking get"

Next we see him pull in next to Don I'm the airport parking lot. He says to Don “Tell boss I'm resigning." And he continues into walk on. Don't screams at him “ Where are you going?" Blake looks at him and says “Back home to Texas."

Now we see Blake sitting in a room glancing around at the walls around him finally back woman comes in and says you'll have to fill these out before you can start the adoption process. Blake smiles.

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The Cube

Studio: Hunts Production

Genre: Documentary

Director: Stephanie Soechtig

Release date: January 3rd

Theatre Count: 2,700

Rating: G

Budget: 100K

Runtime: 87 minutes

Cast:

Jesse Eisenberg- Narrator

Plot: A documentary detailing the creation of the the Rubik's Cube, a look at why people are so fascinated with and a view in the lives of some of the people with the quickest ability to solve it. Also a look at how the four by four,.five by five, ect. Are different from the typical three by three. All narrated by Jesse Eisenberg!

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That Was a Long Time Ago

Studio: Hunt Productions

Genre: Rom-com

Director: Luke Greenfield

Release date: February 14th

Theatre Count: 3,400

Rating: pg-13

Budget: 30M

Runtime: 104 minutes

Cast:

Adam DeVine- Grant Klein

Emily Blunt- Kori Merriman

Zac Efron- Sean Price

Robbie Amell- Jake Thomas

Daniela Ruah- Michalea

Plot:

Spoiler

Grant and Kori are high school sweethearts and have dated throughout there junior and senior years of highschool. Though after they graduate Kori decides to break up with Grant because they are going two different directions in life.

10 years later we see the dorky Grant driving into New York City while his stylish friend Sean sleeps in the back seat. Grant shakes Sean awake screaming “we're here". After driving a little bit farther into the city and pointingl out a few famous locations to Sean he asks him for directions to the hotel. Sean complys with Grant's request shortly the arrive at the hotel.

Both men are astonished by how big the building is. They walk insides and see how fancy and nice of a place it is. Grant asks Sean “How did you afford this place?" Sean replies smoothly “I've got friends." They make their way up to the floor where they are staying. Both are very impressed with the room.

Next we see the two individuals visiting several locations around the area including; The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building, and Time Square. They had back to the hotel, go up to their room and pass out.

The next morning they get up and go out to a nice restaurant together. Sean mentions that New Year's eve is today and asks Grant “How many girls are you gonna make out with tonight?" Grant waves his hand dismissing Sean's comment.

You see both of the individuals getting dressed up to go out for New Year's celebration. They head out to time square. While they are there Grant runs into Kori. The two of them reignite their flirtatious spark immediately. Kori and Grant ditch Sean using the excuse that he'll find a.girl to hook up with. Kori and Grant share a kiss as the ball drops and then they head back to the bar at Grant's hotel to get drinks. After they share a few Kori admits to Grant that she has a boyfriend who is in California on a job. They finish there night on that not so positive note (at least from Grant's point of view) but they do promise to keep in touch.

Grant and Sean head back to there hometown. Grant and Kori talk to each other over Skype from time to time. Kori eventually admits to Grant that she is not happy with her current relationship. Meanwhile Sean has begun dating Grant's dentist Michalea. Grant is not happy about this because he thinks that Sean will just “Screw her and leave her" creating an untrusting relationship between Grant and Michalea.

When Sean and Michalea go in a date Grant follows them watching them. Sean realizes that Grant is following them..Sean slips away from Michalea and goes and beats Grant up out I'm the alleyway. Sean goes back inside to his unknowing date and Grant walks home in the rain.

That night over Skype Grant and Kori have a heart to hart over there difficult experiences of the day and they find comfort in each others presence and spend all night talking to each other. Kori expresses even more frustration with her boyfriend, Grant tries to tell her that she should end it with him. Kori says she appreciated his advice but does not suggest whether she well use it or not.

After that night Grant and Sean don't talk to each other. Despite many efforts from Grant Kori no longer responds to his attempts at communication. Grant goes through a period of time where he is unsure about many things in his life.

Michalea convinces the two boys ( Grant and Sean) that they need to rekindle their relationship. The two meet at a bar. Grant sits silently and ignores Sean while he goes on a speech about all important Grant is to him. When Sean finishes with “ I've missed you man" He and Grant finally reach a connections and revitalize their friendship

Some time later when Grant goes to a high school graduation he sees Kori there. They get drinks and she tells that she tried to leave her boyfriend but he threatened her and she became scared. Eventually she had broken free and been roaming the world since.

They walk out to the football stadium of their old school. They both start going through a bunch “Do you.remember... " Scenarios of things from when they were in high school. The both laugh and giggle and hold each other tight.

The movie ends with Sean and Michalea's wedding (where Grant is the best man)

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The Call of the Revenant

Period Horror

Directed by Frank Khalfoun

Composer: Ramin Djawadi

Date: January 10

Studio: Lager Entertainment

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell, Corey Stoll, Michael Keaton, Skylar Astin, Richard Madden

Runtime: 102 minutes

Theaters: 3,121

Rating: R for Scenes of Graphic Violence and Language

Budget: $25 million

Tag line: Some things are better left off buried

Plot: Following the defeat of Germany in 1945 during the Second World War, a group of American soldiers interrogate a German officer who has connections with Adolf Hitler to try and uncover top secret information. The officer reveals that Hitler had taken an interest and dabbled into voodoo rituals, thus accidentally reviving something that should've been left alone. Now unleashed into the world, the unknown creature tries to track down those who revived him to satisfy its thirst for blood in the process ultimately crossing paths with the soldiers.

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Black Friday

Horror Mockumentary

Directed by Ciaran Foy

Date: March 6

Studio: Lager Entertainment

Cast:

Mikes Teller as John Lassetter

Evan Peters as Andrew Stanton

Jack Gleeson as Pete Docter

Josh Gad as Joe Ranft

John Gallgher Jr as Ralph Thompson

Runtime: 119 minutes

Theaters: 2,627

Rating: R

Budget: $30 million

Tag line: The Toy Story you never saw

Plot: An exaggerated retelling of the production hell the makers of Toy Story went through in the early stages of production.

Original Story: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Black_Friday_Incident

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The Adventures of Scrooge McDuck - IMAX Special Edition

Relive the adventure on the even bigger screen

Also featuring an IMAX-exclusive first look at THE BLACK KNIGHT

Studio: Cookie Pictures Animation

Genre: Animation (2D) / Re-release

Director: Mark Dindal

Producers: Sebastian Peters, Mark Dindal

Composer: Alan Silvestri

Budget: $125 million originally ($2m IMAX conversion)

Release Date: April 10th

Format: 2D, IMAX

Theater Count: 365 (IMAX exclusive)

Rating: PG for scenes of peril and crude humor

Running Time: 115 minutes (1 hour, 55 minutes) [The film is 110 minutes and the additional preview is 5 minutes]

Cast: Alan Young (Scrooge McDuck), Tony Anselmo (Huey, Dewey & Louie), Brian George (Flintheart Glomgold), Jim Cummings (El Capitan), Chris Edgerly (Gyro Gearloose), Frank Welker (Bigtime Beagle) Chuck McCann (Duckworth, Bouncer & Burger Beagle)

Jean Dujardin (Arpin Lusene/Le Chevalier Noir)

Plot:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H_vWRXaN_MtxIiWa3ZYH56Ed_jkkIawWEnA9xMjp2Wk

There are no changes made to the film so you do not need to read it unless you want to and/or haven't read it in its original release.

THE BLACK KNIGHT IMAX preview:

The preview begins with Arpin Lusene, dressed in a morning robe, drinking morning coffee at the Ritz hotel while reviewing his stolen goods (this scene takes place after Lusene breaks into Scrooge McDuck's office and finds the omnisolve). As with the clip that premiered during the Year 9 oscar ceremony, the animation is a bit rough and the soundtrack consists of temporary music, as the film is still a year-and-a-half away from completion. Looking over what he has stolen, Lusene is unimpressed.

Lusene: Bah! Diamond dust? Who saves diamond dust? This Scrooge McDuck is, 'ow you say, a cheapskate! [opens the diamond-coated jar next to him and dips his coffee-spoon into the omnisolve] And zis black goo in ze lovely diamond jar... McDuck probably saves his used motair oil!

Lusene removes the spoon from the jar only to find that the bottom half of the spoon is now missing. Flabbergasted at first, he grabs another spoon and dips it into the omnisolve and gets the same result. Now curious, Lusene takes various items from the hotel room including towels, tooth-brushes, soap, paper, pens, a hair dryer and even a lamp and dips it all in the mysterious black liquid, only to see it all dissolve into nothing. He then recalls reading about the incident at one of Scrooge's construction sited earlier in the film, and realizes that this is the same liquid that was involved.

Lusene: No wondair it was in zat safe... tres dangeroux! [sips his coffee] But worthless to me. It will bring me no closer to attaining mah finale grande... unless...

Lusene spots the knight's armour sitting across the room (which he also stole from Scrooge) and gets a very daunting idea. Cut to Scrooge McDuck's money bin, where Scrooge, Donald (voiced by Tony Anselmo), Huey, Dewey and Louie (now voiced by Russi Taylor) investigate the crime scene Lusene left behind the previous night.

Huey: And after all that, the Black Knight stole only a bag of diamond dust?

Scrooge: "Only"? "ONLY"?!

Donald: AND a suit of armor!

Scrooge: What does me mean "only"?!

Donald: Simmer down...

Louie: Did you check everything, uncle Scrooge? Even the omnisolve?

Scrooge: [chuckles] Why on earth would he want that awful stuff?

Louie: Well, to the Black Knight, this classy safe might have been like a red cape to a bull...

Scrooge: [sudden realisation] HORRORS! YOU'RE RIGHT!

In a fit of panic Scrooge tries to open the safe he stored the omnisolve in, pleading that Lusene did not pay attention to it. As he opens the safe, he gasps as inside the safe we see only one thing left: Lusene's calling card.

We are then treated to several small clips from the rest of the movie (including a shot from the slow-motion sequence from the oscars clip) set to an imtensifying drumbeat, concluding with a shot where Donald stands in front of the valve door protecting him inside Scrooge's vault. Suddenly, Lusene (in his omnisolve-coated suit) glorps his head right through the titanium door and greets Donald on the other side with a threatening glee.

Lusene: Peek-a-boo, AH ZEE VOUS

THE BLACK KNIGHT

November 24 Y11

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Rhino Riders

Studio: Hunt Productions

Director: Jon Chu

Genre: sports/adventure

Release Date: March 13th

Theatre Count: 3,050

Budget: 59M

Runtime: 99 minutes

Rating: PG

Cast:

Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Tim

Rachel Bilson - Tim's love interest

Armie Hammer- Tim's main com

William Sandler- The rhino owner/Tim's employer

Plot: in the near future Horse racing has become impossible because of global warming making it to hot for horses to be used. As a replacement option people have begun using rhinos instead.

Tim is former great Rhino rider who is now down on his luck, but he meets the wealthy owner of a up and coming rhino who asks him into work as the jockey. Tim meets his daughter and they become a thing.

Before the race Tim is very nervous about about a specific competitor who is a real jerk (Tim has met him on several occasions.)

When the race day comes Tim when's the race comes Tim easily wins the race but the competitor he was worried about gets angry and their rhinos get in a fight. Tim's Rhino gets pretty beat up and they are not sure if he will live

Later we find out that his rhino will survive but will never be able to race again. The competitor involved ends up going to jail because an investigation shows that he rigged many races

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Second to Singapore

Studio: Fine Films Inc.

Genre: Action / Comedy / Stoner

Cast: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Amber Heard, Danny McBride

Director: David Gordon Green

Producer: Doe John

Release Date: March 13

Budget: $35m

Theater Count: 3,250

Rating: R for drug material, language and violence

Running time: 102 minutes (1 hour, 42 minutes)

Plot:

Spoiler

Mark Shallow (Franco) and James Berk (Rogen), two stoners who live in a beach house in California, are visited by their friend and drug dealer ”Plex” (McBride), who asks them to do a favor for him (as repayment for crashing his car earlier in the month). He asks them to deliver a package of marijuana to Singapore, worth over $100,000. Should they succeed they get 10% of the cut and some of his spare crack. As the two depart for Singapore, they find out that there are some very strict laws in the country regarding drugs. Even a tiny amount can get them both sentenced to death by Singapore courts.To bypass this, they have to come up with a plan: Instead of flying to Singapore, they both carry the package onto a cruise ship (disguising it as a clothing bag), which is set to sail all the way from California to Singapore. All goes well, until the captain finds out about their plan. Luckily, the captain allows them to walk away with no conflict, if they give him some of the marijuana. Soon enough, the ship reaches Singapore, as the package travels further on into the city. The package reaches its ”target”, a mob centered in the Singapore underground. Believing the mob, Mark and James give them the package they want. However, it turns out the mob is a bunch of cops in disguise. It turns out Plex lured the two into a trap as payback for trashing his vehicle. Realizing this, Mark and James make a daring escape from the cops.

 

The only way the two stoners can leave Singapore alive is to get to the airport without getting caught. In disguise they manage to fool the police as they make their way to the airport. However Mark`s sister, Eva (Heard) happens to be in Singapore with her fiancee and recognizes the two immediately, spoiling their plans without her knowledge. The cops arrive and they take the two to court. In court, Mark and James try to convince the judge that they`re innocent, claiming they had no knowledge of the content inside the package this "Plex" guy sent them. However, the attempt for mercy fails, but just before the judge is ready to sentence them an officer rushes in, screaming that the evidence has been stolen. It turns out Plex is going to deliver the package all along, with the help of corrupt members of the Singapore police force.

 

A large-scale search for the missing package begins, as the court decides to hold off on Mark and James' case for the moment. As the two stoners sit in a holding cell for the night, one of the cops approaches the two and strikes a deal with the two. If Mark and James finds this ”Plex” guy and bring the package back, he can make sure they get to leave Singapore alive. Knowing that the alternative is death, the two stoners agree to help, and they know just where to start. Later that night, Plex makes a deal with a real mob - ironically in the same building where his two ”henchmen” were caught earlier - handing over the drugs for a reasonable amout of money. However the party is interrupted as the Singapore police breaks in. At the same time, Mark and James escape the holding cell as Mark finds he doesn't trust the cop he struck a deal with, and goes with James to confront Plex themselves. A shootout occurs between the mob and the police but the law gets the upper hand. Soon the entire mob is defeated but both the package and Plex are still missing. They all hear a helicopter fly over them, as one appears to take off from the top of the building. To celebrate his success, Plex lights up a smoke. He then spots another helicopter heading towards him. Mark and James turn out to have stolen a police helicopter and are now going to get back at Plex for his betrayal. Plex takes out his gun to fire at them, but being high of his ass he is of course a terrible shot. In fact he's such a terrible shot he accidentally shoots his co-pilot dead instead. Being unable to control the vessel the helicopter crashes as Mark and James approach the wreckage. Plex emerges wounded and pleads for forgiveness, but Mark punches him in the face instead. Mark and James decide to vanish from the scene before the police arrive to arrest Plex. The two stoners manage to sneak aboard a plane heading back to the United States, and they both agree to never take another drug smuggling job ever again. When they get home they get a call though, from another drug dealer that promises them big money if they pull off the job. Being stoner idiots Mark and James agree to the job, and only realize when it's too late that the job is in North Korea.

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E.S.P

Director: Don Hall
Genre: Animation/Superhero
Date: March 27th
Cast: Hugh Dancy (Jack Mitchell), Tiffany Grant (Elle), Amanda Winn-Lee (Shiro), Stephanie Sheh (Paulie), Chris Pine (Sammy),  Liam O'Brien (Major), Catherine Zeta Jones (Fujiko),

Plot:

We open on an apartment complex heavily ablaze. While firefighters below attempt to put out the blaze, it’s clear they’re having little luck. In addition, there are several families still trapped on the upper floors where rescue workers can’t reach them. One such family are in particularly bad straits as they are surrounded by flames and the floor is beginning to give away beneath them. However, just as one girl slips through the hole, Paulie, a young girl with glasses, teleports in, grabs her and teleports them both out to a nearby safe rooftop. While the girl is wondering what happened, Paulie disappears again and seconds later reappears with the rest of her family. Down at the bottom of the blazing building, in a cordoned off back alley, we see another young girl with white hair, Shiro, with her hand placed against the wall. We see her senses move through the blazing building until she finds more people trapped. She contacts Paulie with their location via radio. Their adult supervisor, a harsh faced woman named Ms Campbell, watches over this with a frown. We see Paulie teleporting through the building, rescuing every trapped person (and one pet rabbit) until Shiro tells her everyone is all clear. Campbell then contacts the third member of the team, a redhead named Elle who has been using telekinetic powers to hover above the building. Under Campbell’s instruction, Elle psychically picks up a water tower and breaks it open to try and extinguish the flames. However, it is not enough and Elle decides to try and supress the fire directly with her telekinetic powers. Unfortunately, she puts a little too much effort into it and collapses the building (although luckily no-one is hurt). As everyone looks on stunned (except Elle who looks a bit embarrassed) the following narration sounds.

 

“Espers. Those gifted with sometimes outstanding psychic powers. Under the right hands, they might be mankind’s greatest aid. Or its greatest curse.”

 

E.S.P

 

After the title sequence, we cut to Jack Mitchell attending a lecture on Espers. (It’s a cool lecture with holograms and stuff, so people don’t get too bored). The lecture explains that Espers began to appear shortly after the second world war and goes on to explain the four different types of Esper. Psychometrics, like Shiro, have a form of extra-sensory perception that allows them to read all sorts of information from touching an object (such as history, use, etc) as well as being able to read minds. Teleporters, like Paulie, are able to teleport or warp space to their will. Clairvoyants are able to loosely predict the future, or at least the probability of a future coming to pass. And Psychokinetics, like Elle, have tremendous telekinetic abilities. In addition, there are multiple other subtypes of abilities formed by utilising said main four. The strength of an Esper is measured by Level, 1 being lowest and 7 being highest. Most Espers are low levels and Level 7’s are incredibly rare, to the point of being very closely monitored by the government on birth. Suddenly, the lecture is interrupted by a couple of protesters breaking in from the anti-esper activist group ‘The Normal People’. While they are quickly escorted out by security, the lecture is put on hold while they sort out the breach in security.

 

Jack meets up with his friend, Sammy who is a Level 5 Psychometric who works as a medical doctor. He’s also a bit of womaniser as shown when Jack finds him reading the mind of a cute lady to find and chat about common interests. Jack quickly shuts him down though. Sammy introduces Jack to the lecturer, Jane Baker, who is part of BABEL, the government’s official Esper taskforce, where Sammy works, and where Jack is attempting to get a job. Jane notes that Jack’s resume is quite outstanding as he excelled in school and asks why he wants a job at BABEL. Jack explains that he believes being able to study Esper abilities could lead to countless useful discoveries in the future. Jane says that there are no important jobs open at this moment in time, but she could arrange for him to work as an assistant for one of the Esper team handlers. Jack leaps on this opportunity and agrees. As he leaves with Sammy, Jane receives a phone call from a mysterious woman, Fujiko. Jane asks whether assigning Jack to that particular team is really necessary, but Fujiko assure her that he’s ‘their best chance’.

 

Unsurprisingly, the next day, we find that Jack has been assigned to be Campbell’s assistant in dealing with Elle, Shiro and Paulie, who are known as ‘The Children’. Campbell explains that their team is the most important in BABEL as all three of the children are Level 7 espers, the only ones in the organisation, if not the country. As such, they have to be treated with an iron fist and are forced to wear power limiter collars all that time, partially so they aren’t hurt by their own powers. Said limiters don’t remove the powers entirely, but quash it and can only be removed remotely by their handler. Jack is then introduced to the three children, who act fairly mischievous towards him. We also get some insight into their personalities. Paulie is the nicest of the three, but a bit dorky and clumsy. Shiro has a very dark and sarcastic sense of humour (and deliberately tries reading Jack’s mind to find out his embarrassing secrets). Elle is very hotheaded and quick to anger. However, when Elle is rude towards Jack and Campbell, Jack is shocked and angered to see Campbell activate the limiter (which doubles a shock collar) as punishment. To this, Campbell claims that Espers should be forced into being loyal dogs in case they turn against humans.

 

Jack immediately goes to Jane to complain about the treatment of the children. Jane agrees that Campbell’s methods are harsh, but explains that she is the only willing handler capable of dealing with the children as all other handlers quit due to Elle’s violent temper/tendency of telekinetically throwing them at all a wall. She asks whether Jack is willing to take over as full time handler but, even considering their abuse, Jack is fairly reluctant due to not being very good with kids. Suddenly, alarms start blaring. It is revealed that BABEL’s advanced clairvoyant system (which is used to predict major disasters for the Esper teams to intervene in) have predicted a major disaster in a nearby subway system. The Children, along with Campbell and Jack, are sent to intervene.

 

Upon arrival, they discover that an explosion of unknown cause has just occurred and many people are trapped on the trains below. Jack thinks they need to come up with a proper strategy for dealing with this, since the facts are unknown, but Campbell overrules him and sends the children into the tunnels directly. The children successfully manage to direct many of the civilians to safety, but a second explosion happens causing parts of the tunnel to cave in and for the Children to be trapped, with only Elle’s powers keeping the roof from crushing them. However, she is obviously struggling to do so. Jack demands Campbell deactivate the Children’s limiters, but she refuses, stating if she does the children will only turn on her. Fed up, Jack punches out Campbell and takes over operations. Unfortunately, Campbell has a password on her remote that Jack must break before he can deactivate the limiters. In the meantime, he takes over comms and directs the children to a safer place. While they are initially hesitant to follow, when his advice pans out and takes some of the heat off them, the Children begin to trust him. However, they are still trapped and things are getting worse. With time running out, Jack resorts to guessing Campbell’s password, eventually guessing, due to her treatment of the children, that it is ‘Dogs’. This deactivates the limiters allowing the Children to fully use their powers to escape.

 

Upon return to BABEL headquarters, Jack expects to be fired due to disobeying and punching out Campbell. Instead, however, he is brought straight to the director of BABEL, Fujiko, a mysterious but eccentric white haired woman, who congratulates him on bonding with the Children. She then offers him a full time job as their handler replacing Campbell (who’s getting fired anyway). While Jack is still slightly reluctant, he eventually agrees, on the condition that the limiter shock collars are removed and replaced with something more appropriate, like limiter bracelets. Fujiko also suggests, as a way to help them bond, Jack look after the children in his BABEL-issued apartment. This Jack definitely objects to but, upon seeing the current rooms for the Children (which are little more than jail cells) he reluctantly agrees. As he leaves, Jane wonders whether they should’ve told him the whole truth. Fujiko states that it’s not yet time for him to know. Elsewhere, in a high-security jail cell, a white haired man with a scar on his forehead opens his eyes and smiles. (“It’s almost time… Queen”)

 

Meanwhile, Jack and the Children are getting used to having to live together with… mildly disastrous results. While Jack’s naturally hardworking nature, along with cooking and cleaning skills make taking care of the apartment easier, the Children’s quirks make things difficult. Paulie and Shiro are both trying to make a good impression for Jack (although Shiro is still enjoying revealing Jack’s secrets) and enjoying their newfound freedom, but Elle is still distrustful due to Campbell’s neglect and has a habit of blasting Jack into a wall when she gets mad (which is often). Their initial missions together don’t go great either due to a mix of Elle’s stubbornness, Paulie’s overeagerness and Shiro’s willingness to sit back and enjoy watching the disaster unfold. However, Jack also begins to get to know the children a bit better. He learns that Paulie has self-confidence issues stemming from her constant contact with the more assertive Elle and Shiro. He also learns Shiro’s dark, sarcastic nature comes from being assigned to investigate rather gruesome crimes at a young age due to her outstanding psychokinetic abilities. He also realises Elle is bitter at him because she fears he’s stealing Paulie and Shiro away from her and he manages to make some serious steps towards bonding with her.

 

During one mission, however, after the limiters are deactivated, Kaoru’s powers accidentally go out of control and begin crushing her own body. Jack tries to help, but nothing seems to work. Suddenly, the white-haired man from before appears via teleportation. He introduces himself as Major and manages to coach Elle into bringing her powers under control. He then loudly admonishes Jack and BABEL for thinking they could use Espers as a tool, before teleporting away, but not before sneaking Elle (who he calls ‘Queen of Catastrophe’) a blank card. After this, Jack meets with Sammy, Jane and Fujiko. They reveal that Major is a powerful esper who recently escaped from BABEL custody. He is a rarity among Espers in that he has multiple powers, including Psychometry, Teleportation and Psychokinesis and does not seem to age (indeed, being alive since WWII). Before BABEL captured him (with Fujiko (a powerful esper herself) personally leading the team), he was attempting to overthrow humanity and place Espers in charge. While reading through the report on his capture, Jack notices that it was on the same date and location as Elle’s birth. When he asks Fujiko about this, she deflects his question. Sensing that something important is being hidden from him, Jack demands answers, which Fujiko reluctantly agrees to give, telling Jack that he may wish he hadn’t known.

 

Back home, Elle is examining the blank card on her own, curiously, when Major appears at her window and convinces her to let him in. Once he’s in, he tells her how to deactivate some of the tracking devices in her limiter so they can talk privately and quickly wins her over with his amusing eccentric nature. He explains to her that he runs a secret organisation behind BABEL’s back whose job is to rescue oppressed and abused espers and give them a safe place to live, in addition to promoting esper rights. Knowing that Elle has tremendous powers and loathing towards humans like Campbell who abused her, Major gives Elle an offer to join him. Elle is visibly tempted but doesn’t want to let Jack down. Major scoffs at hearing this and tells her that, while Jack may act pleasant now, he’ll turn on her like all humans do. Elle asks how he can be so sure. Major reveals, by memory sharing, that when he was young, he was part of a special esper squad in WW2 (along with a younger Fujiko) led by a human, Colonel Reynolds. (Indeed, ‘Major’ was actually his rank rather than his real name.) Major looked up to and admired Colonel Reynolds like a father figure. During the war, most of his squadmates were killed, but Major managed to pull through. However, once the esper unit was shut down, Reynolds attempted to shoot him in the head, claiming he was too powerful and too much of a risk to leave alive. While the bullet pierced his skull (leaving the forehead scar), Major was able to unlock his powerful psychic abilities to save his own life and kill Reynolds, but his faith in humans was left permanently shaken. Elle is shocked by the story but insists Jack wouldn’t do something like that. Major tells her he will in time and vanishes into the night. Shortly after, Jack returns home. However, he is acting oddly cold and distant to the children, which they quickly pick up on and causes Elle to wonder if Major has a point.

 

We cut to Jack lying in his bed, reminiscing about what he learnt that day. Fujiko and June took him to the room where their strongest clairvoyants are hooked to a computer to predict disasters. Fujiko tells him that the clairvoyants predicted that in 15 years a war would break out between humans and espers, causing untold destruction. The esper side would be led by the grown-up Children, in particular Elle who is nicknamed ‘The Queen of Catastrophe’. Major also came to learn of this future vision and is determined to make it true, hence his attempts to forge a connection with Elle (indeed, they were able to initially capture him by predicting he would visit Elle at her birth). Since deliberately attempting to kill the Children may only make things worse (like it did when Reynolds tried to kill Major), Fujiko has desperately been trying all sorts of things to reduce the chance of that future coming to pass, however, it is still stuck at a 90% chance of happening. One of the things that caused the biggest change to the future vision was the introduction of Jack. In that future, the esper war still comes to pass, but Jack confronts Elle and after a heated confrontation, manages to fatally wound her with a special anti-esper gun. Jack is naturally horrified by all of this, especially the implication that he was only brought in to kill Future Elle. He leaves before anyone has any extra chance to explain and returns home where he ends up acting cold to the Children. In bed, he says to himself that he wants nothing more to do with this and intends to quit the next day. This is overheard by Elle who, misunderstanding, assumes Jack wants nothing more to do with them and is abandoning them like Major said he would. She decides to run away. Before she leaves, she is confronted by Paulie and Shiro who have decided to join her. While they still like Jack, they consider their friendship with Elle more important and, with Shiro’s psychometry and Paulie’s teleportation, they are able to get past the BABEL guards after deactivating their trackers. However, unbeknownst to them, they are being watched by a camera from a nearby building.

 

The next day, BABEL are investigating the Children’s disappearance and Jack is naturally feeling fairly guilty over the whole thing. However, he is still uncertain whether or not he should stay involved in the Children’s lives, considering what he knows about their future. At that moment, Sammy, who has been called over to help track the Children with his psychometric abilities, arrives to comfort him. The two reminisce on when they met as young children. At that time, Sammy was an outcast due to his psychometric abilities. People were unwilling to approach or even touch him in case they read his mind. As such he lashed out, became a troublemaker and wasn’t expected to do much with his life. However, Jack showed no fear of approaching or touching him and helped him set his life straight. Sammy says that if anyone can put the Children on the right track and prevent the bad future, it would be Jack. Emboldened by this, Jack agrees to stay on as their guardian/handler and help find them. However, when Sammy begins using his powers on their old clothes in the hopes of finding a clue to their location, he finds something odd. There are tracers hidden in all of their clothes, which BABEL did not put in or authorise. Jack wonders who could’ve snuck in and placed the tracers when a horrifying thought hits him. At the same time, June finds that a virus has infiltrated BABEL systems and is shutting down all communication to other units. It’s also shutting off and sealing the doors and ventilation, leaving the staff to potentially suffocate.

 

Meanwhile, the girls are making their way alone down some abandoned alleyways to where Elle recalls Major telling to go if she ever wants his help. However, on the way there, they are ambushed by several masked people with anti-esper weaponry and drones which they use to try and subdue the Children. Elle manages to use her powers to give Paulie a chance to escape but is captured in the process. Meanwhile, Paulie teleports around the city in an attempt to outrun the drones sent after her, but with little luck. Just as she is about to be caught, Jack and Sammy arrive and take out the drones (Sammy using his psychometric powers to throw scalpels with perfect accuracy). Paulie explains what happened to Elle and Shiro and they receive a very brief transmission from June explaining the situation back at BABEL before she is cut off. Jack sends his available BABEL personnel (minus Sammy) back to the base to help rescue staff, while he deals with the Children. Sammy asks how they’re expect to find Elle and Shiro, but Jack has a theory as to who took her.

 

We cut to Elle waking up in a secret base, with her powers fully blocked out by limiters. Her kidnappers are revealed to be the Normal People, the anti-esper organisation, led by none other than Campbell. Campbell reveals she had been secretly sabotaging BABEL operations for years (and had placed tracers in the Children’s clothing) and that the Normal People were also behind the subway bombing in an attempt to kill the Children. However, since they survived, the Normal People came up with a new plan for them. They would use Elle’s tremendous psychic powers and hook her up to a machine that would give her the power to wipe out every esper in a tremendous pulse that would only affect those with psychic abilities. If she does not comply with their demands, they will kill Shiro. Unwilling to let her friend get hurt, Elle agrees to connect to the machine. However, unbeknownst to them, Shiro has managed to open up her own limiter and reactivate the tracking device inside, signalling Jack & co as to their location.

 

However, while the Normal People are hooking Elle into the machine, Major arrives and begins tearing apart their base to rescue Elle. It is revealed that he witnessed their kidnapping, but deliberately let them go through with in order to make an impressive heroic entrance later to save Elle and win her trust. He tears his ways through their defences with little difficulty, but the untold glee and cruelty that he shows when dealing with the Normal People is shown to visibly disturb Elle, especially when it nearly gets Shiro killed in the crossfire. Just as Major is about to destroy the machine, Campbell turns up in a special powered suit designed specifically to deal with powerful espers and begins fighting with Major, quickly getting the upper hand due to the latter’s overconfidence. She finishes stomping him down and activates the anti-esper machine… only for nothing to happen. It is revealed that Jack and his team had arrived earlier and, using Major’s rampage as a distraction, disabled all the Normal People’s technology and the anti-esper machine, as well as taking down any remaining goons and rescuing Shiro. They free Elle and Jack releases their personal limiters so they can battle Campbell. Using teamwork and Jack’s instructions, they are able to disable her powered armour. However, when they open it up to arrest Campbell, she draws a gun and shoots Elle.

 

Elle manages to instinctively use her powers to block the bullet and save her life, but this causes them to go out of control again to a truly catastrophic degree. Unable to control herself, she quickly ends up psychically tearing apart the building and creating a telekinetic twister around herself which, if allowed to expand, could devastate the entire city. Major regains consciousness and tries to calm her down, but nothing he does works. However Jack thinks he can get through to her and, with Shiro tracing out a psychic path of least resistance through the hurricane, Paulie teleporting him there and Major (reluctantly) giving him a bit of a boost to push him through, Jack is able to reach Elle and calm her down with a Cooldown Hug, promising he won’t ever give up on her.

 

In the aftermath of the fight, Campbell and the Normal People are arrested and everything begins to go back to normal. Major escapes from custody and is confronted by Fujiko on a rooftop. He admits he’s gained a new respect for Jack and has no intentions of killing him (since that would turn Elle and the Children against him). But he is still certain that the war between espers and humans is inevitable and says that Fujiko is deluding herself. He then flies off. Fujiko watches him go and mutters that he needs more faith in humanity. We cut to the clairvoyant room where it is revealed that the chance of the bad future coming to pass has reduced by a whole 10%. We also see Jack and the Children resting in the back of an ambulance, the three having obviously accepted him as their guardian.

 

Theaters: 3892
MPAA Rating: PG
Budget: $120m

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Jurassic Knights

Director: Fede Alvarez
Genre: Action/Fantasy
Date: March 6
Cast: Taron Egerton (Tellen), Alicia Vikander (Setina), Idris Elba (Rejex), Ray Winstone (Black Knight)

Plot:

Takes place in an alternate universe where medieval men and dinosaurs (slightly shrunken down from normal dinos) live together in harmony. Dinosaurs are fairly domesticated, with herbivores used for farming and work and carnivores are used for hunting and war. Tellen, a young farm boy, comes across a rare young Strongfang dinosaur (which are basically T-Rex's) and decides to adopt it, much to the consternation of his family as Strongfangs tend to be violent and difficult to train. He names it Hook and, while having a lot of problems keeping it out of trouble, manages to form a bond with it, enough that Hook allows him to ride him. Shortly this, however, Tellen's village is destroyed by the Dark Knight (who rides a fully grown Strongfang), a knight for the nation of Klaasek. Tellen + Hook are captured and sold to a gladiator colosseum where they survive by fighting in competitions against other gladiators and their dinosaurs. He prove themselves to be fairly popular among the crowd and quickly grabs the eye of a young noblewoman, Setina, who manages to purchase him and his friend Rarta (an ankylosaur riding former knight). 

 

Setina reveals she purchased Tellen and Rarta to act as bodyguards for her. She is a diplomat between their home country of Mesofo and Klaasek. She has reason to believe that someone is trying to assassinate her and begin a war between their two countries. Since she believes the assassin is linked to her own court, there aren't many people she can trust to guard her outside of her own personal bodyguard and confidant, Rejex (who rides a triceratops). Tellen also has to struggle to hold in his temper as the Black Knight is a prominent nobleman for Klaasek.

 

Some political intrique and dinosaur fighting later, the velicoraptor-riding assassin (with poison claws) is killed, but another political rival of Setina's is killed instead and the two countries are on the brink of war. Setina realises the Black Knight was responsible for the assassinations and builds a small army to attack his stronghold, capture him and force his confession. Epic dino action ensues with Setina (on a pterodactyl) helps Tellen, Rarta, Rejex and their dinos sneak into the stronghold where they engage the Black Knight. Rarta stays to hold off any attackers and Rejex is killed fighting the Black Knight who quickly whomps Tellen and Hook. However, thanks to <insert chekov's advice here> they manage to overcome and kill him and his steed, although Hook is badly injured. The war is stopped (thanks to evidence found), Hook manages to make a recovery and Tellen takes over as Setina's head bodyguard.

Theaters: 3822
MPAA Rating: PG 13
Budget: $150m

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Heads or Tails

Director: Louis Letterier
Genre: Crime
Date: January 3rd
Cast: Jason Statham (Harry Head), Sam Rockwell (Tex Tails)

Plot:
Two professional thieves, Harry Head and Tex Tails constantly find themselves going after the same targets and getting in each others way. On the suggestion of an acquantance, they decide to have a competition to decide who's the best by going after the fortune of a mob boss who crossed them both. The first man to reach his secret vault and take the prize within wins. Thus a competition of double-crosses, sabotage and thievery begins.

Theaters: 3456 
MPAA Rating: R
Budget: $20m

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Kensington

Director: Paul Greengrass
Genre: Action
Date: April 24th
Cast: Mostly Unknowns

Plot:
A dramatization of the hostage situation of the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege


Theaters: 3245
MPAA Rating: R
Budget: $12mil

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Ciaphas Cain

Director: Doug Liman
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
Date: April 17th
Cast: Karl Urban (Ciaphas Cain), Eva Green (Amberlery Vail), Imogen Poots (Jurgen), Paul Giamatti (Grice)

Plot:

Ciaphas Cain has a problem; since leaving the Schola Progenium as an Imperial commissar, all he's ever wanted is a nice, safe posting, far away from any action, where he can keep his head down and count the years until his retirement. Unfortunately, his unwanted reputation for heroism follows him wherever he goes, together with the risk of imminent death. Even a lofty posting to a brigade headquarters isn't safe, since most general officers tend to see him as the perfect man to lead the most daring (i.e., suicidal) missions they can imagine. His only safe option, he reasons, is to request a transfer back to a serving line regiment.

 

He is saddled with the fractious Valhallan 296th/301st , the amalgamation of two Valhallan Ice Warriors regiments torn to pieces by Tyranids on Corania, while it is en route to Gravalax. The fact that the unit's new and surprisingly young C.O., Colonel Regina Kasteen, is genuinely glad to see him (a Commissar (who tend to be trigger happy and fascist-y) and his aid Jurgen when they step off the transport, gives him an idea how bad things are.

 

The 296th was a rear-echelon all-female regiment, while the 301st was a battle-hardened all-male one. The remnants of the two units openly detest each other, and the male troopers understandably resent Kasteen's promotion (by virtue of simple seniority) over their more combat-experienced senior officer, Ruput Broklaw.

 

Less than a week after Cain's arrival, a riot breaks out in the troop ship's mess hall that leaves several troopers and naval provosts dead. Cain manages to stare down the rioters, preventing an all-out bloodbath from engulfing the rest of the ship.

In conference with the regiment's senior officers, Cain declares that the regiment will never be an effective fighting force unless its troopers learn to work together, so he orders them integrated together at squad level, and, in order to preserve their pride, re-designates the regiment as the Valhallan 597th (296 + 301); the two former regiments, he explains, are not being abolished, only reborn and redefined. Kasteen and her subordinates are skeptical, but he lightly reminds them that another Commissar would have happily ordered wholesale executions to restore discipline.

 

Gradually, the troopers begin to adapt to the change, and morale recovers. But it threatens to dive again when the captain of the ship demands that the worst of the rioters be tried for murder and shot. Cain has no authority to overrule the Navy, so he works out a clever compromise: the five troopers found to have committed murder are tried and convicted, but instead of execution, he orders them held until they can be transferred to a Penal Legion, or, failing that, "volunteer" for a particularly dangerous mission.

By the time the ship has reached Gravalax, the 597th is united in regarding Cain as one of their own.

 

The regiment's official mission is to police Gravalax and discourage the local populace from defecting to the Tau Empire, which seems set on annexing the planet. Right away, Cain notices the conspicuous lack of the respect, or fear, he is used to seeing among Imperial populations whenever a Guard unit makes planetfall. He also gravely notes the enthusiasm with which the people have adopted Tau styles of dress and architecture.

 

Soon after the regiment establishes its base, Cain is surprised to be hailed by an old friend, Toren Divas from the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery, also deployed to Gravalax. The two men spend a night out on the town, and Divas, half-drunk, mentions rumors that the situation is serious enough that an Inquisitor is poking around. While staggering home, they run into a gang of pro-Tau locals, and are nearly beaten to death, before a Kroot warrior, Gorok, appears and tells them to go home.

 

Cain and Kasteen are invited to a reception at the Governor's palace, where they are introduced to the vapid (and, Cain suspects, inbred)Governor Grice, the local Imperial envoy Erasmus Donali, and a Rogue Trader named Orelius. Cain has heard enough gossip to suspect Orelius of being the rumoured Inquisitor, but he is most captivated by the young lounge singer providing entertainment for the party, Amberley Vail. They share a few minutes of conversation, and a dance around the room, before the footman announces the arrival of the Tau ambassador.

 

Moments after the Ambassador pays his respects to the governor, a gun is fired, and the Ambassador falls dead. No one saw where the shot came from, but some in the Ambassador's entourage accuse the Imperials of killing him. Cain steps in and narrowly prevents a firefight, pointing out reasonably that whoever killed the Ambassador is trying to provoke war between the two factions.

 

Unfortunately, news of the crime has already spread, and word comes in that there is rioting in the streets between pro-Tau and anti-xenos extremists. Kasteen voxes the regimental headquarters, ordering them to support the PDF in restoring order, but not to engage the Tau for any reason. When another hidden agent destroys the Tau's transport skimmer with a rocket, Cain and his Guard escort reluctantly agree to escort the Ambassador's party back to their compound. Doing so forces them to shoot an over-zealous PDF lieutenant and his squad that mistakes them for Tau sympathizers, but returning the Tau safely helps prevent open war, although the rioting that engulfs the city for the rest of the night is savage.

 

Cain's actions have brought him to the attention of Lord General Zyvan himself, who frankly is reluctant to draw the Imperial Guard into a protracted conflict with the Tau over a "mudball" like Gravalax. Instead, the Guard regiments are detailed to box in and neutralize the rebellious PDF elements who are still fighting, while Donali makes it known that Cain is heading the investigation into finding the Ambassador's killer.

 

As Kasteen and the 597th are preparing to advance against a rebel stronghold, Cain invents a task that will let him absent himself – putting the fear of the Emperor into a loyalist PDF unit that is maintaining a somewhat slack perimeter around another rebel garrison.

 

Accompanied by Lieutenant Sulla's platoon, including Sergeant Lustig's squad (who escorted him and Kasteen from the Governor's Palace), Cain visits the PDF, only to find that they are desperately holding their own against a much larger rebel force, having been instructed by "the inquisitor" to keep guard while the inquisitor was investigating something in the undercity. Cain acts quickly, igniting a promethium stockpile that starts to collapse the rebels' fort on them, before receiving an urgent call for extraction from the Inquisitor's party over the vox. Given the choice between charging into a burning building and taking the blame for an Inquisitor's death, Cain chooses the former without much thought. With a borrowed Chimera, he and Jurgen extract the Inquisitor's party under heavy fire from the rebels... only to be stupefied when the Inquisitor introduces herself – Amberley Vail.

 

Meanwhile, Sulla manages to break the back of the rebel position with a reckless, albeit effective, charge, led by herself and her Command Squad.

 

No longer hiding her real identity, Inquisitor Vail meets in private with Cain and Zyvan, and fills them in on the strategic situation: by itself, Gravalax is not worth fighting a protracted, bloody war with the Tau, especially when the Imperium's military resources may be needed elsewhere. On the other hand, simply letting the Tau annex the planet would invite them to do the same to other Imperial worlds. Vail concludes that the cleanest way to resolve the situation is to find and destroy the third party hoping to provoke war between the two sides. That will mean leading another team down to the undercity, which she was investigating when they were attacked. Since her original team was killed or injured, she needs Cain to supply her with another. With a sinking feeling, Cain realizes that she is "inviting" him along.

 

To Cain's further dismay, the escorts she selects to accompany them are the five condemned troopers from the Righteous Wrath, promising a pardon to any who come back alive – and the terrible, patient vengeance of the Inquisition on any of them who get treacherous ideas. The one bright spot is that Jurgen volunteers to come along and watch Cain's back. But just as they are descending into the undercity, they receive word that the PDF has rebelled, attacking Guard and Tau alike. The Governor has panicked and ordered the Guard to mobilize, and the Tau are doing the same. War has broken out across Gravalax, and the Guard and Tau forces are only a hairsbreadth from opening fire on each other.

 

Under the city, they come upon a Tau scouting party on the same errand, which fortunately includes Gorok (the Kroot Cain encountered earlier). The two parties are able to broker a temporary alliance, and continue on together. Coming upon the bodies of some humans killed by their mysterious enemy, Gorok samples their flesh, and declares it "tainted" – which gives them the first idea of their true enemy: Genestealers, infiltrating the population and trying to throw it into anarchy and make the planet easy pickings for an incoming Hive Fleet.

 

Aboveground, General Zyvan orders the 597th to place the Governor under arrest, seeing it as the best way to pacify the Tau. However, when they reach the governor's palace, they are opposed by a force larger, better-armed, and more vicious than any of them expected. Stumbling onto a genestealer, nest, Cain and Vail's party is all but wiped out, and the two of them are separated from Jurgen when a wall collapses on him, apparently killing him. Cain and Vail have to find their way back to the surface, relying on Cain's innate sense of direction in an underground environment. For a moment they argue over whether he really knows where he's going, putting him in mind of "a couple of juvies on a disappointing date" – an image so incongruous with their situation that both of them burst into hysterical laughter.

 

After this release of tension, they are able to focus on finding their way back to the surface – and neither of them can muster much surprise when a route from the genestealers' nest takes them to a secret cellar beneath the Governor's palace. Just then they are rushed by a brood of purestrains, and have to fight their way through. To Cain's surprise and delight, Jurgen appears in the tunnel behind them, along with the last remaining trooper from their party. Then the trooper goes down, shot in the head by the Genestealer Patriarch: Governor Grice. Seeing the third arm extending from Grice's chest, Cain swiftly realizes where the shot that killed the Tau ambassador came from.

 

Outside the Palace, the Valhallans are alarmed when the Tau appear in force - Hammerheads, Battlesuits, the works - and almost equally surprised when the xenos open fire on the traitor forces. Though it goes against the grain, the Guard forms up behind the Tau to fight their common enemy together. Inside the palace, Grice drops Jurgen with a bolt pistol round to the head, though it ricochets off his helmet and the wound is not fatal. Amberley is narrowly saved from taking his next shot by her displacer field. While Cain tries to aim Jurgen's dropped hellgun at the Governor, Amberley drops him with a poisoned dart from a digital needler concealed in her ring. The Governor dies after a few seconds of agony which go a long way towards relieving Cain's feelings.

 

Cain, Vail, and the wounded Jurgen are escorted out of the Palace by the recently-arrived Valhallans, and it seems war has been averted. Further good news comes when two of the troopers from their party appear at the tunnel entrance, miraculously alive. Suspicious, Cain questions them about what happened, and they say they don't remember clearly. Without further explanation, Cain draws his laspistol and shoots them both in the head. Kasteen and Broklaw are outraged, until Cain points to an identical wound in each of their sides, revealing that they were both infected by the genestealers. Understanding swiftly, Kasteen orders the bodies incinerated. At the same time, two Pathfinders from the Tau party likewise miraculously appear, and are reunited with their own people. Cain is alarmed, but Amberley quells him with a look, and a secret smirk – if the Pathfinders are similarly infected, she has no intention of warning the Tau. With Grice's death, the war comes to an end, though the genestealer infestation remains a carefully guarded secret.

 

Cain and Vail dine at an exclusive restaurant, where she asks after Jurgen and is pleased to hear that he is recovering steadily.

As for the Tau, to general surprise, they are abandoning Gravalax. As Donali explains, they concluded that, if the Imperium was so determined to fight a protracted, bloody war to hold on to the planet, it would not "advance the Greater Good" for the Tau to give them the opportunity. The two toast each other for a job well done and Vail adds that she'll know where to find him if she needs him. Cain is inwardly terrified at the idea of being recruited to any more Inquisitorial errands, but joins her in toasting "the beginning of a beautiful friendship."


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The Dresden Files: Fool Moon

Director: Shane Black
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Date: June 5th
Cast: Robert Downey Jr (Harry Dresden), Jessica Chastain (Murphy), Alan Tudyk (Bob), Guy Peace (Johnny Marcone), Thomas Gibson (Agent Denton), Rose Leslie (Tera West)

Plot:

A young woman is nervously walking down an abandoned alley at night. She hears a garbage can being knocked down behind her and swerves around to find the alley empty. As she stares nervously, we can see from a low angle shot that a dark, wolf-like creature has climbed onto the roof of the building beside her and is slowly moving to her blind spot to strike. We get a close up of its yellow eyes and it begins to growl quietly. It leaps at the woman but, suddenly, a powerful invisible force catches in midair and smashes it into a pile of garbage. The woman and the camera turn to see a figure standing at the mouth of the alley carrying a large wooden staff. It’s Harry Dresden. We begin to hear Harry’s narration.

 

Harry (narrating): "My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure it at your own risk. As far as I know, I’m the only openly practising professional wizard in the country. You can even find me in the yellow pages, under “Wizards.” Not a magician, mind you, I don't do kids parties. No matter how many times you call. And no, I don’t care how much you need someone for little Timmy’s Birthday Party, the last I tried a job like that everything ended up on fire. Everything. Me, I'm a real wizard. You know, of great patience and wisdom. Well… great wisdom at least. Sometimes. But there is one thing I’m very good at. And that’s beating the crap out of monsters.”

 

While Harry is narrating, two more wolf like creatures burst from the shadows and leaps at him. He casually steps out of their way, letting them collide in midair in a tangle of wolfy limbs. While they’re trying to get out of their dogpile, Harry casually raises his hand and sends them flying with a burst of wind. Several more wolves have appeared from the alley surrounding Harry and the woman. Harry motions to the woman to keep close before drawing his blasting rod and raises it at the wolves just as they begin to charge. A sea of flames bursts out from it and engulfs the alley. Although none of the wolf monsters are killed, they all run in terror. Finally safe, Harry turns to the young woman.

 

Harry: “Well, ma’am, you’re lucky I was- Oh shit!“

 

We see the woman’s face has suddenly turned monstrously vampiric. She leaps at Harry as he, surprised, fumbles with his blasting rod.

 

We flash cut to Harry entering his study looking like he’s been dragged through a burning bush backwards. Bob, his talking spirit-trapped-in-a-skull Skull is lying on his desk.

 

Bob: “Sooo…”

Harry: “Not. One. Word.”

 

THE DRESDEN FILES: FOOL MOON

 

We cut to several weeks later where Harry is enjoying a drink and awaiting a steak dinner at his favourite pub, Mc’Annaly’s. He is approached by Kim Delaney, a young woman with mild talents in magic that Harry has been on-and-off coaching for a while. She wants to ask Harry about an odd magic circle she claims she came across in a book while researching. Harry is a little iffy about explaining since the circles are extremely advanced, even for him, and could easily go seriously wrong if misdrawn. However, Kim vows she has no intention of drawing them and that she only wants to know for curiosity’s sake. Plus she’ll pay for his meal. Harry, having recently been short on jobs, agrees and explains that the circle is actually made up three overlapping magical circles, each with different effects. One blocks spiritual phenomena, like ghosts or magic. Another blocks physical phenomena, like people or bricks or whatever. And the third keeps out phenomena that is neither fully spiritual or fully human. Kim asks what kinds of things could be like that. Harry lies and says he doesn’t know. He does actually know but he can’t tell her since that information is highly dangerous. Kim, however, sees through his deception and is about to leave in a huff. Before she goes, Harry gives her his card and tells her to call him if anything goes wrong.

 

Harry’s steak dinner finally arrives and he’s about to tuck in when his phone rings. It’s Detective Murphy asking if he can come immediately look at a crime scene. Harry is a little bit peeved since Murphy has been giving him the cold shoulder for the last few months and asks why he should come when there’s a perfectly nice steak dinner he could be eating. (Murphy: “Because I know you’re so short on jobs that you’re mooching off friends to pay for meals.” Harry: *pause* “This wasn’t mooching. I gave advice.”) But when Murphy tells him it’s serious, Harry agrees to take a look. Before she hangs up, Murphy advices Harry to leave off the steak dinner for the moment, for his own sake. This crime scene is a bad one. Harry sighs and asks for his steak dinner to be boxed up.

 

We cut to Harry arriving at the crime scene, an abandoned warehouse. Murphy and Carmichael are waiting for him outside and quickly hurry Harry in. Harry is confused and asks what all the rush is for. (Harry: “Seriously, Carmichael, aren’t you even going to do your grouchy ‘you shouldn’t trust this sharlatan’ schtick? That was our thing.”) Murphy says she’ll explain later but for now it’s important they get him to look over the scene as quickly as possible. The victim is an adult male who has been savaged and torn apart as if attacked by some kind of wild animal. He has a gun in his hands. Harry thinks he looks familiar but can’t quite place him. Murphy explains that the attacker leapt through a broken window, dodged the bullets before biting out his throat and savaging the body. There have been several similar murders of seemingly random people over the last few months. The autopsies all concluded they had been killed some sort of large wild animal, like a wolf. In addition, all the murders happened either on or near a night where there was a full moon. In this most recent crim scene, a bloody footprint has been found near the body that looks like a very large wolf. Harry naturally flashes back to the wolf creatures he fought the previous night as Murphy asks what he know about Werewolves.

 

Before Harry can answer, Carmichael shouts a warning that ‘they’ve arrived’. Before Murphy can get Harry out of a back exit, 4 FBI agents arrive, Agents Benn, Harris, Wilson and their boss, Agent Denton. Denton isn’t happy to see Harry on the scene and orders him removed. Murphy objects. When Agent Benn tries to force her from the scene as well, the two nearly get into a scuffle, only to be separated by Denton. However, while this distraction is happening, Harry sneaks a piece of blood-stained glass into his pocket. Harry and Murphy are both ejected from the scene and talk outside. Murphy explains to Harry that she’s currently being investigated by Internal Affairs, which is why the FBI are here to take over the investigation of the serial killings. Harry guesses that it’s also why she’s been avoiding him, since bringing on a man many people consider a phony isn’t going to do her any favours. Murphy nods, but hints that isn’t all there is to it. Harry asks why she’s being investigated in the first place. Murphy tells him she legally can’t say without making things more difficult for the both of them, but that they both need to tread carefully for this case. Harry agrees since he’s just realised who the victim was. The dead man was a gangster named Spike who also happened to be a bodyguard for ‘Gentleman’ Johnny Marcone, the biggest mob boss in Chicago and the person Harry ended up tangling with on his case last year.

 

The topic turns back to the case. Harry admits he knows very little out of hand about werewolves, other than that they exist, but agrees to do some research and deliver her a full report. He also offers to go out by himself and help in tracking/taking them down. Murphy thanks him, but tells him not to do anything without telling her first, since she’s really sticking her neck out just getting him involved. Harry asks why she got him involved in the first place then. Murphy explains that she doesn’t think she can stop/catch the killer without his help. And besides, she trusts him. (Harry: “Didn’t you try to arrest me last year?” Murphy: “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”) As Harry goes to leave though, he spots an odd  brown-haired woman watching him from across the street. When he looks away, she’s gone.

 

Harry arrives back at his house only to find the door unlocked and ajar. Drawing his gun, he enters to find Marcone and one of his bodyguards, Hendricks, helping themselves to tea. Pissed off, Harry tells them to leave. However, Marcone wants to make a new job offer to Harry, offering him a very high pay if he agrees to work for Marcone full time as a consultant. Harry realises Marcone is nervous and correctly guesses it has to do with Spike’s death. Marcone explains that several of his associates have been caught up in the wolf murders, far too many to be simple coincidence. Indeed, he believes himself to be in danger. Harry basically laughs in his face and tells him once more to leave. Marcone is annoyed, especially considering how merciful he has been to Harry in the past. Harry asks what he means. Marcone brings up Harry’s attack on one of his hideouts (from Storm Front). Normally, Marcone, to keep his power/respect, would be forced to have Harry killed on principle for defying him so openly. However, Marcone instead spread a rumour claiming that Harry was acting on his behalf to assassinate a rogue drug dealer (Gimpy) and the two have connections, also keeping Harry safe from any revenge killings. He also explains that this combined with Harry’s close ties with Murphy are why she’s currently under investigation from the FBI and Internal Affairs. He tells Harry that he has enough clout to get Internal Affairs to back off Murphy, but only if Harry agrees to help him. Irritated, Harry tells him again to leave. He is going to find the person behind the wolf attacks but he’s going to do it for his own reasons and his own way. Marcone accepts this and leaves with Hendricks, warning Harry that the next three nights are all going to be full moons and to watch his back.

 

Once he’s certain Marcone is gone, Harry makes sure to spray the area he was sitting with plenty of cleaning fluid. He also notices Hendricks has forced open one of his draws containing an old necklace that belonged to his mother (who died in child birth) Harry looks at it wistfully before putting it on. He then heads down his basement where Bob the Skull is and pulls out the shard of glass with blood on. He figured, since Spike’s corpse was nowhere near the window when it was broken that the blood must’ve come from the attacker and, since it’s still fresh, he can use it for a tracking spell. While he’s setting up the spell, he asks Bob what he knows about Werewolves. Bob asks him what kind. Harry, surprised there are more than one kind, asks for the rundown on all of them. Bob explains there are 4 kinds of werewolves.

 

1)      Regular Werewolves. A person who has been transformed into a wolf by a spell. It can be a spell they cast on themselves or one cast by another wizard. However, they aren’t as effective as regular wolves since their minds and instincts remain unchanged. And wolves aren’t the only animal this can be done with. There are werejaguars, werebears, werebuffalo (Harry: “Seriously?”) They can still be killed in normal ways though and the bite won’t turn you into a werewolf.

2)      Lycanthropes. These are people born with the mentality/instincts/savage nature of a wolf but are naturally human and cannot transform. They can also still be killed in normal ways thought and their bite doesn’t infect either.

3)      Hexenwulfs. These are normal people transformed by a magical item, usually a belt that turns them into a werewolf. Hexenwulfs are usually much stronger than regular werewolves and inherit part of a wolf’s instincts but have a habit of being corrupted by the magic’s savage influence. While a lot more difficult to do so, they can also still be killed by normal ways and etc etc.

4)      Loup Garou. The closest to the typical werewolves of legend and by far the most dangerous. A person cursed by an immensely powerful being (like a saint, demon lord or faerie queen) to transform into a mindless, savage beast when the full moon strikes. As well as being far stronger than any other kind of werewolf, it also can’t be killed by anything except inherited silver. Its bite still doesn’t infect you though. (Harry: “So wait, which werewolves do infect you with a bite?” Bob: “None of them. They stole that bit from vampires.”)

 

Meanwhile, Harry’s tracking spell has finished and leads him to another abandoned warehouse across town. It’s dark when he arrives and, inside, he sees several high-school age kids meeting. Two of them, Billy and Georgia, start squabbling about ‘the woman’ not being in time and begin to fight, transforming into two of the wolf creatures Harry fought in the intro. They are interrupted by the brown-haired woman who was spying on Harry at the crime scene. She scolds them for being headstrong, reveals that she knows Harry is there and switches of the warehouse lights, plunging the place into total darkness. (Harry: “Huh. Shit.”) The wolf creatures chase a half-blind Harry through the warehouse until he makes it out a back alley where he coincidentally runs into Murphy (who was tracking down a car supposedly seen at the crime scene). Murphy is naturally pissed that Harry came here without telling her. Harry lies, telling her it was a hot lead that he had to follow up immediately so he didn’t have time to tell her. However, when the two re-enter the warehouse, the woman and the kids are all gone. Harry, in an attempt to quell the furious Murphy, promises to write her up a full report on werewolves and deliver it to her desk the next morning.

 

Harry returns home and to work on the report. Also, realising how outmatched he was at the warehouse, he decides to work on a potion to make him invisible to a wolf’s senses. While a potion to make him fully invisible is too difficult/expensive, he manages to make one that effectively allows him to blend in with a crowd/surroundings and make him difficult to spot in the first place. The next morning, he arrives at the police station and runs into Agent Denton. Denton tells him Murphy is currently in a meeting with Internal Affairs but offers to deliver the report himself, admitting he doesn’t think Murphy or Harry are particularly bad people. Harry thanks him. On his way out, Harry is approached by one of the younger FBI agents, Harris, who gives him a tip about a gang called the Streetwolves who have apparently been active recently. Realising that Denton’s telling him this through Harris because the FBI don’t have a warrant to investigate the Streetwolves and they want him to do their dirty work, Harry agrees to check it out.

 

Harry arrives at the Streetwolves’s hideout, an abandoned service station. While he attempts to have a friendly chat with the Streetwolves’s leader, Parker, he realises that the gang themselves are made up of lycanthropes. While denying responsibility for the murders, several of the Streetwolves want to kill Harry to make sure he doesn’t bring the wrath of the White Council upon them. Parker objects, but quickly finds himself overruled. Harry realises that Parker’s position as head of the pack is a tenuous one and that Parker may feel forced to kill Harry to keep up his standing. As such, Harry decides to take the diplomatic option by punching Parker in the face and legging it, narrowly escaping the group by car. He does get one useful piece of information, however. The Streetwolves are investigating (and are terrified by) a man named Harley MacFinn.

 

Arriving home, Harry decides to do some research on MacFinn, with Bob’s help. He quickly that MacFinn is an industrialist who is currently attempting to buy up land for what he calls the Northwest Passage Project, a huge nature preserve for America’s wildlife. He also discovers that two of MacFinn’s biggest obstacles to creating this were Jonathan Costigan (one of the murder victims) and Johnny Marcone. He also discovers that supposedly MacFinn’s ancestor was cursed by Mab, the Faerie Queen of Winter, to transform into a loup garou and that this curse was passed down his descendants. At this point, Bob is convinced MacFinn is the killer and willing to simply call it a day, but Harry isn’t sure. After all, while its true most of the murders happened on the full moon, not all of them did. And that means there must be someone else going around killing as well. Suddenly, Harry is interrupted by a phone call from Murphy. There was another murder the previous night. Murphy gives Harry the address and Harry realises it’s MacFinn’s current address. Murphy also tells him that the victim was Kim Delaney.

 

Harry arrives at the scene in a trance over Kim’s death. The place has been ripped apart and in the basement there is a magic circle like the one Kim showed Harry in the bar. Harry notices that it’s been deliberately damaged and that someone else has tried to repair it. However, before he can investigate further, Agent Denton arrives and arrests Harry. Harry’s card has been found among Kim’s belongings and Denton is reluctantly arresting him for his connection to the case and MacFinn (the presumed murderer). Harry protests since he’s the only one who can track down MacFinn and appeals to Murphy. However, Murphy believes that Harry has been deliberately withholding things from her (despite her putting her trust in him) again and coldly turns away, saying they’ll track MacFinn down themselves. Harry is about to be driven back to the station in a police car when there is a loud disturbance across the street. While the police/FBI go to check it out, Harry is broken out of the car by the brown-haired woman who introduces herself as Tera West. She can, like the children, also transform into a wolf and takes Harry to a secluded wooded area to meet MacFinn, who she’s been working with. MacFinn explains that he hasn’t been meaning to hurt anybody as a loup garou, since he can’t control the transformation. Until recently he used the magic circle in his basement to imprison himself during his transformation. However, recently, somebody broke into his house and destroyed part of the circle. He hired Kim Delaney in an attempt to fix it before the next moon, but she failed and was killed when he transformed. Afterwards, he got Tera to rescue Harry so Harry could find a way to contain him instead, since there’s another full moon tonight.  Harry is frustrated that Kim didn’t simply tell him what was going on, but recognises how important containing MacFinn is and agrees to help. However, what he doesn’t understand is why Tera was meeting with all those kids. MacFinn doesn’t know anything about this and asks Tera what he’s talking about.

 

Tera, a little on the backfoot, is about to answer when she and MacFinn sense a hostile presence approaching. It’s the police/FBI who have tracked MacFinn down to this location and surrounded him. While Tera and Harry are able to escape the containment, with the help of Harry’s magic, MacFinn is captured and arrested. Realising that, if MacFinn is left in the city jail overnight he’ll transform and go on a rampage, Harry realises he has to break into the police station and contain him. However, the sun is already starting to set and Tera is nowhere to be seen. Luckily Harry still has the ‘kinda sorta invisiblity’ potion from earlier so he uses it to sneak into the station and make it to the jail. However, he’s discovered when he bumps into Carmichael before he can reach MacFinn’s cell. Carmichael handcuffs him and chews him out for letting down Murphy. However, when Harry explains to him what’s going on, Carmichael (after some coaxing) agrees to help him out. However, they reach the cell too late, MacFinn has already started to transform, first slaughtering all the prisoners inside the jail before smashing his way into the main station and attacking the cops.

 

Realising it’s too late to contain him, Harry switches priority to fighting MacFinn and begins blasting him through walls with spells. However the loup garou is able to shrug off nearly all of Harry’s attacks (along with the police bullets) and nearly kill him, slamming him across the room. However, before it can finish the job, Murphy shows up just in time and manages to hurt it with a gun of her own. When Harry asks how, Murphy explains that, after seeing Harry’s werewolf report, she had some silver jewellery that her aunt left her melted down and made into bullets to hurt the loup garou. Unfortunately, she only had enough to make small calibre bullets, thus they’re not enough to kill it unless she lands a head shot. The loup garou takes advantage of her stopping to reload and charges. However, Carmichael pushes her to safety and is killed as a result. Realising that they can’t subdue the loup garou without more people being killed, Harry decides to change tack. While Murphy is still distracting the beast, he mops up some of the werewolf blood from the floor and, with the help of a younger cop, sets up a spell whereby he can bind the creature’s spirit to a Snoopy doll and blind/muzzle it. (Harry: “It’s kinda like Voodoo. Except with Snoopy. So Snoodoo. Or Voosnoo.” Young Cop: “Did… you hit your head back there?” Harry: “Possibly.”) The spell is successful and, with a particularly powerful fire blast from Harry, the loup garou is blasted through the roof and out of the police station.

 

While the loup garou is still blinded and muzzled it is dangerous, so Harry immediately leaves to give chase to it. However, he is knocked unconscious in the parking lot and dragged into a truck by Parker and the Streetwolves. He wakes up taped to a bed. There he learns, over the phone, that the Streetwolves are working for Marcone, who is becoming increasingly paranoid as more of his men turn up dead. Since Internal Affairs have tied his hands and Harry refuses to work for him, he is forced to resort to using the more expendable Streetwolves instead, using their keen animal instincts to hunt down clues. Unfortunately, the Streetwolves have become embroiled in an internal struggle caused by Harry embarrassing Parker and are unable to concentrate on the case. Thus Marcone has given them permission to kill Harry to get them back on track. (Marcone: “I do hope there’s no hard feelings between us, Mr Dresden.” Harry: “You c-“)

 

Suddenly, he is saved last minute by Tera West leaping in in her wolf form along with several of the smaller wolf creatures Harry saw the high-school students change into. They kill Parker and the other Streetwolves in the room. Harry is pleased to see them, but Tera says they need to leave immediately or they will die. Harry agrees since the other Streetwolves will likely have heard the noise. Tera explains that the Streetwolves aren’t the important part and that ‘they’ followed them there. Suddenly, a huge wolf monster, just a step down from the loup garou bursts in. (Harry: “Oh… This is gonna be one of those days isn’t it?”)

 

The wolf monster attacks the group, overpowering Tera and the smaller wolves and flinging them away. However, this leaves him open for a shot from Harry who blasts him through the wall. Around them, they can hear the screams of the other Streetwolves and wolf howls and Harry realises there’s more than one assailant. Realising that the wolf is too powerful to be a lycanthrope or regular werewolf, but not powerful enough to be a loup garou, Harry has a flash of insight. He changes tack trying to blast the wolf monster and instead tells Billy to try and bite around his waist. Billy does so and pulls off a belt, revealing the wolf monster as a Hexenwulf. Without the magic item to sustain it, the wolf monster transforms back into its true form, Agent Harris, who is quickly taken captive. From a distance, one of the wolf monsters transforms back into its human form, Agent Denton, who watches as their van drives off.

 

In the van, Harry interrogates Agent Harris. Harris tries to keep quiet, but Harry doesn’t need him to talk, having worked out most of the mystery himself. The four FBI agents are the murderers, Hexenwulfs on a murder spree. They were intending to use MacFinn as their scapegoat, hence why they broke into his manor and erased his protective magic circle. They initially considered Harry just another fraud psychic but, when he gave Agent Denton the report on werewolves, meant for Murphy, the four realised he was legit and a threat. They send him off to the Streetwolves, not to try and get him to investigate, but to try and get him killed. When that didn’t work, they tried to get him arrested alongside MacFinn in the hope that, when MacFinn went on his rampage in the prison, Harry would be killed alongside the rest. The only thing Harry can’t figure out is their endgame and why they were attacking people in the first place. However, Harris keeps his mouth shut. Suddenly, Harris’s phone rings and Harry answers. It’s Denton. Harry asks why he’s doing all this. Denton explains that he’s doing it to take down Marcone. He wasn’t pretending when he said he liked Harry, since he has a strong sense of justice. But the two of them both know that their justice system is too corrupt and Marcone too powerful for him to ever be brought down. Or at least by normal means. Hence why he and his team did what needed to be done to bring him down the other way. Harry asks how he can then justify the casualties caused by MacFinn on his rampages, along with some of the innocents they killed in the initial murders. Denton calls it a necessary sacrifice and Harry realises he’s been driven to madness by the Hexenwulf belts. Denton also reveals that he’s captured MacFinn (in his human form) and intends to let him loose in Marcone’s manor when the full moon rises in a few hours. He then hangs up. (Harry: “…..Yup. One of those days.”)

 

Harry decides he has to go and rescue Marcone since, even though he’s a massive prick, this may be his only chance to catch the rogue FBI Agents in the act and take them down. However, he tells Tera that there’s one piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit. Specifically her and her band of ‘I was a Teenage Werewolf’’s. Billy and Georgia explain that they’re all regular werewolves who (while too weak to be counted as a Harry-class wizard) were powerful enough to figure out the wolf transformation skill. However, they were all fairly pathetic at it so Tera, who ran into them, offered to teach them some tips in moving like a wolf. They created a gang to hunt down a fight minor supernatural menaces on the Chicago streets (like the vampire Harry inadvertently saved from them). Tera kept it a secret from MacFinn because she thought he’d tell her to abandon them. However, she was using them to try and track down the Hexenwulf’s and stop their attacks, hence why blood from one of them (Billy) was found at Spike’s crime scene. Harry is a bit questionable as to how Tera got so good at being a wolf in the first place, but she refuses to say anything more. Harry also isn’t at all happy with tasking high-school kids to help him take down the FBI agents but he needs every bit of help he can get. He also leaves a message on Murphy’s answerphone saying, explaining what’s going on and admittedly while he’s know she’s not certain if she can trust him (and he’s not entirely certain that unjustified) he needs her help.

 

The sun is beginning to set and, outside of Marcone’s private country manor (which has a huge grounds to play around in) Harry sets out the plan for the group. Since he’s going to be unable to go up to Marcone’s face to warn him (since Marcone will assume he’s simply trying to get revenge for the Streetwolves thing), Harry instead intends to have the group sneak onto the grounds, find the FBI Agents and MacFinn and call for the rest, allowing Harry to arrive, take out the FBI’s and hopefully draw a magic circle in time to contain MacFinn. They break and begin to sneak in over the walls. However, as soon as they begin, someone with a tranquilizer gun starts picking off the wolves one by one. Harry spies Marcone up on the hill with the FBI Agents and, flashing back to Marcone mentioning he had ‘clout in Internal Affairs’, realises that the FBI Agents are pretending to be Corrupt Cops so they can doublecross Marcone. He heads for the forest, since it’ll be easier to take cover. There, in a tense sequence, he is hunted by Marcone and the FBI Agents. However, when he tries to get Marcone on his own and explain what’s going on to him the two are both hit by tranq darts and pass out.

 

When Harry wakes up, he finds himself with Tera and the rest of the teen werewolves in a huge pit, too deep to climb out of. Above them, Marcone has been tied up and suspended dangling above the air. Denton arrives, having freed Harris from the van, and explains that MacFinn is about to transform and will rampage across the grounds. When he sees Marcone dangling above, it will lure him into the pit where he’ll be trapped (and tear Harry and co to shreds). Harris, however, wants to know what Harry did with his Hexenwulf belt, desperately pleading for it back. Harry, being the bastion of maturity that he is, sticks out his tongue.  Suddenly, a loud wolf’s howl is heard and Denton figures out that MacFinn has transformed so the FBI agents leg it. Harry tries to figure out a method to escape, with no luck. However, a rope is dropped over the edge of the pit and Murphy turns up, having received Harry’s text. Harry insists the kids and Tera go first, while he and Murphy debate simply leaving Marcone there. (Marcone: “What happened to preserving the sanctity of life, no matter how rotten?” Harry: “Well… this is the second I’ve nearly gotten killed being caught in the crossfire of someone else wanting you dead so…”) Murphy eventually agrees to rescue him simply to prove that she’s not like the rogue FBI agents. Unfortunately, while Harry is still climbing up the rope, the loup garou arrives. Murphy is able to shoot it as it leaps for Marcone, sparing him but causing it to fall into the pit anyway, causing Harry to nearly get mauled as he desperately tries to climb up. Unfortunately, the pit wasn’t dug deep enough and the loup garou is able to climb out under its own power.

 

Tera, in her wolf form, leaps at the loup garou and lures it away from the group, telling Harry to get the teens and Marcone to safety. Marcone is untied and the group start making their way to the exit. However, they are hunted by the FBI Hexenwulfs, who are tracking them fast through the forest area. Realising his spells and Murphy’s bullets won’t be enough to fight them, Harry tells Murphy to get the kids to safety and pulls out the Hexenwulf belt he stole from Harris and secretly hid on himself. He puts it on and transforms into a Hexenwulf himself, ambushing and killing Agents Benn and Wilson and engaging in an epic brawl with Agent Denton. He wounds Denton, tears off his belt and sets him fleeing, however Harry is fully enveloped in the bloodlust of the Hexenwulf belt. He only manages to stop himself when Murphy returns and brings him back to his senses. He pulls off the belt and returns to his normal self. However, they can hear the loup garou has returned and is head back towards them. Suddenly, Murphy notices a silver sheen from Harry’s necklace. In the brawl with Denton, it was damaged and some of the outer layer was torn off revealing silver beneath. Realising the necklace counts as inherited silver, Harry has a plan to kill the loup garou. Tell Murphy to leave, he starts spinning the necklace like a sling, muttering a spell to increase its speed. However, as he does so, Denton emerges from the woods behind with a knife and charges at him. Just as the loup garou bursts onto the scene, Harry lets loose with the necklace which pierces straight through the beast. At the same time, Murphy shoots and kills Denton before he can harm Harry. The loup garou, dying, transforms back into MacFinn who thanks Harry for freeing him from the curse, before he passes on.

 

The next few days are largely clean-up. Tera is nowhere to be found after luring off MacFinn. Using his police connections, Marcone has the Streetwolves are blamed for the attack on the police station and the murder of MacFinn and the 4 FBI agents, before they internally turned on each other and slaughtered themselves. As thanks and apologies to Harry and Murphy, Marcone also has Internal Affairs call off their investigation of her. The two are irritated at having to rely on Marcone for that, but accepting. Harry and Murphy make up for their bitterness earlier. Murphy admits that, while she’s disappointed that she can’t trust Harry to tell her everything, she’s not too angry since she knows he’ll always do the good thing. Harry also agrees to act as a defacto mentor for the teen werewolves since Tera’s gone. One night, Harry hears a knock at the door. He opens it to find Tera, who lets herself in. She reveals that, with MacFinn’s death, she’s going to return to her home in the mountain range that MacFinn was going to preserve with his Northwest Passage Project. She also reveals that she’s not so much a werewolf as a wereman, being a wolf who learned how to turn into human rather than the other way round (hence why she was so much more experienced than the teens). As she leaves, she transforms into her wolf form and gives Harry a respectful nod. Harry watches her go before closing the door, muttering to himself “This is why I’m a cat person…”



Theaters: 3452
MPAA Rating: PG13
Budget: $95m
Previous Film Gross: The Dresden Files: Stormfront- $43,623,119 million/$139,140,285 million/$336,120,111 million

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The Raven Boys

Studio: Hunt Productions

Director: Matt Reeves

Composer: Michael Giacchino

Genre: Fantasy

Release date: May 15

Runtime: 138 minute

Theatres: 3415

Rating: pg-13

Budget: 40M

Cast:

Shailene Woodley - Blue

Miles Teller - Gansey

Masam Holden - Adam

Austin Abrams- Noah

Christian Madsen - Ronan

Vera Farmiga- Maura

Plot:

We see a shot of the outside of 300 Fox Way, its not a big house but it sits back on a bit of a hill. Inside the house we see two women (Jimi and Orla) fighting over the telephone, then our focus shifts to Maura cooking something in the kitchen and yelling “Where is Neeve at!?" The camera moves throughout the house showing various location. The house is far from tidy but its occupants seem to feel comfortable with it. The five women (Maura , Jimi, Orla, Persephone, and Cala)run a business telling people vague facts about their future (fortune telling.) Neeve also possesses similar abilities to the other three but she is only living at the house momentarily (and also seems like she has a few screws lose.) Finally the camera brings us into Blue's room which is nice and tidy not looking like the rest of the house. Blue herself is sitting over on her bed.

Narration (from Blue) is audible. “I had always been told that I would kill my true love, that I would kiss them and then their life

would end. Now no one was very specific about how long after the kiss he would live or where the kiss had to be. I had decided that I was going to avoid love for as long as I could." A voice from the other room calls “Blue! Its time to go."

Neeve and Blue appeared at an abandoned church. It was Saint Mark's Eve, the night when all the souls of the people who were going to die within the next year (365 days) walked through this area along the ley line. Neeve mutters “Tonight is a night" putting a specific emphasis on the word night. The two waited silently. Suddenly Neeve put her hands up and made eye contact with Blue and began listing names. Blue grabbed up her paper and began to write down as many names that Neeve listed as she could. Blue could not actually see the souls that walked through on this night but Nerve/Maura claimed that Blue worked as a battery making there powers stronger to easier to use. Neeve continues listing names of the dead souls that ( supposedly) walk by her as Blue notices a confused looking boy moving in her direction. As he came closer she realized that he seemed almost transparent. Blue screams to Neeve “I see him!" “Well go ask him his name" Neeve replies.

Blue slowly makes her way towards the boy. He is dressed nice but he has a look of bewilderment on his face and is stumbling across the field. Blue can feel his soul feeding in her energy. “Can... Can I have your name?" She asks. The boy looks at her mesmerized for a moment and says in a monotone voice “Gansey." Gansey walks off past the church. Blue walks back towards Neeve and they continue to collect a few more names before Blue asks “Why could I see him?"

Unphased Nerve replies “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Day, Blue, either you're his true love or you killed him."

We see Gansey step out of his bright orange Camaro ( 1970s, pretty beat up) which he always refers to as Pig. Standing along the road and surveying the vehicle. Gansey notes that Pig has a flat tire. Gansey checks his watch before taking out his phone and calling Roman

Ronan: You missed World History. I thought you were dead in a ditch

Gansey: Did you get notes for me

Ronan: No, I thought you were dead in a ditch

Gansey: The Pig stopped come get me... Its not like you're going back to class anyway

After a long silence Ronan asks “Where are you?" To which Gansey replies “ Next to the Henrietta sign in 64. Bring me a burger and a couple gallons of gas. Ronan responds “OK" Gansey adds “Bring Adam." Before hanging up.

We see Gansey, Adam, and Ronan enter Monmouth where Gansey lived. Adam looks out of place with the other two boys. Gansey and Ronan both come from rich families and it shows. Gansey has a certain naive swagger about him, while Ronan was big, muscular, and seemed to give no fucks about the world around him. Adam on the other hand came from a family with very little money and was stubborn as a mule with a strong sense of pride. They walk into the building which is very open with a high ceiling, Its in a bit of a clutter with many books sitting around. Ronan walks over a flips through one of the books before walking back over to an old ugly looking chair and sitting down. Adam stands back near the entrance admiring the way that Gansey just seems to fit in this room. There is a knock in the door. Gansey turns around and says “Can you answer that Adam?" Adam returns with Declan (Roman's older brother) and his pretty new girlfriend who honestly isn't very distinguishable from his last few. Adam awkwardly introduces himself to the her. Neither one of the Lynch brothers makes any kind of acknowledgement of the other. Declan nods and says “Gansey... What are you up to over there." Without looking up from his notes Gansey says “The usual." Declan's girlfriend asks “What's the usual?" Declan dismissively says “Gasey has some strange hobbies." Ronan snorts from the other side of the room and Gansey stands up making his way towards Declan's girlfriend. Adam just took another step back to watch these events go down. Adam was both amazed and jealous o Gansey's ability to be so cool and charming while being quite obsessive and condescending. Gansey asks “How much do you know about Welsh kings?" She shakes her head are responds “Very little." Gansey begins to pace “Have you hears of the legend of the sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but instead are sleeping in their tombs waiting to be woken up." Gansey was insanely passionate in this matter that when he got going like this it was hard not to find yourself becoming invested in it yourself. Declan's girlfriend muses “it sounds like a metaphor." Gansey says “This may be true..." He walks towards a map “... But we think that Glendower was brought here, more specifically Virginia, I want to find where he is buried."

She asks “Why do you think he's here?" Gansey, Adam, and Roman all share a look trying to decide how to avoid answering this question. Thankfully at that time Noah walks in the room. Declan also wanting to avoid having the boys answer that question says to his girlfriend “ That's Noah" Noah approaches her and they shake hands. She says “Your hands are cold." Noah just shrugs. Declan feeling awkward decides to make a smartass comment about Ronan not being very verbal while he was around. Ronan gets up and gets in Declan's face and says “ At least I ain't bringing a different girl home every damn night." The two continue to have a verbal altercation and threaten to take out to the parking lot and have a physical fight but with prying from Gansey and Adam Ronan finally backs down. Declan and his girlfriend leave. Gansey looks around at the group around him (Noah, Adam Ronan)

Blue was getting when ready to go leave for work when Maura knocked on the door and came in before receiving a response. Blue looks at her mother quizzically “Guess who just called to schedule a fortune telling appointment tomorrow afternoon?" Blue responds “Probably not someone who is gonna donate a million dollars to us so you can do fortune telling on a larger scale." Maura laughs uneasily before saying “ Blue, honey, it was Gansey. It was Gansey who scheduled an appointment for tomorrow afternoon." Blue's head begins to whirl. She could not believe that she was going to meat the boy who would either lover or be killed by her tomorrow. All of this excitement lessened Blue's already low desire to go to work

Blue worked as a waitress at a Nino's a restaurant down by the Aglionby campus. Blue hated working at the restaurant because it was always loud, the Aglionby boys were typically rude, rich. And snobby. Blue continued to work the job simply because her family needed the money. This particular night it was especially frustrating to have to be working because all she wanted to do was sit up against a wall and fantasize different scenarios for how tomorrow could possibly go. One moment when Blue was not busy with work but a preoccupied with day dreaming she feels a hand tap her shoulder she whirls around and says furiously “ Can I help you?" The person she looks upon (whom is Gansey but she doesn't recognize him as he looks far better than he did when she saw his spirit in St. Mark's Eve) appears to be a typical top of the line Raven boy ( a boy that attends Aglionby Everything about him looked expensive. Blue instantly hated him

Gansey: I certainly hope so. My socially inhibited friend Adam thinks you're cute, but he's unwilling to make a move. Over there. Not the smudgy one. Not the Sulky one.

Blue: So?

Gansey: So would you do me a favor and go talk to him?

Blue: What exactly is it you think I'm going to talk to him about?

Gansey: We'll think of something, we're interesting people.

Blue looks over at the table and noticing that the specific boy does look different from the normal Raven boy and she thinks about it for a second before she turns back

Blue: Do you see how I'm wearing this apron? It means I'm working. For a living.

Gansey: I'll take care of it

Blue: Take care of it?

Gansey: Yeah. How much do you make by the hour? I'll take care of it and I'll talk to your manager.

Blue: I am not a prostitute!

Gansey: Oh, that was not how I meant it. That is not what I said."

Blue: That is what you said! You think you can just pay most of your female companions by the hour and don't know how it works in the real world but most girls when they're interested in a guy will sit with them for free.

Gansey: You said you were working for a living. I thought it would be rude not to take that into account. I'm sorry you're insulted. I see where you're coming from but I feel its a little unfair that you're not doing the same for me.

Blue: I feel you're being condescending

Gansey: Dear God... I don't know what else to say

Blue: Sorry?

Gansey: I already said that.

Blue: then how about bye?

Gansey walks back to the table and pulls out s journal and starts talking about something in it. Blur can't help but stare at the one looks different- elegant almost. He notices her but she looks away shyly.

Blue stepped outside of Nino's after work. The air was cold and brisk, Blue took a moment to stare up in wonder at the stars. She began to unchain her bike when she hears a voice say “Excuse me, um,...hi" Blue turned around to see the elegant boy standing in the parking lot with his own bike. Blue noted that none of ehis other friends from earlier were there. Blue asked “Adam it is?" Adam gives Blue a slight little nod, he seems nervous.

Adam said “I was on my way home and I thought I recognized you, I wanted to say sorry about earlier." It struck Blue that he seemed oh so very different form all the other Raven Boys she had ever known. He didn't seem to have the same radiating self importance or the same flashy appearance.

Blue: Well that's nice of you, but it's not you that needs to apologize

Adam: I can't let him take all the blame, I mean I did want to talk to you... But I didn't want to just like pick you up

Blue: And what is it you wanted to do?

Adam: Talk

Blue: ... It wasn't about what he was saying about you... He offered me money

Adam: He doesn't know, he's stupid about money.

Blue: and you aren't?

Adam doesn't need to answer Blue's question because she already knows the answer

Blue: Are you coming back to Nino's?

Adam: am I invited?

Blue just smiles in reply. She pulls a napkin out of her pocket and writes down the phone number for 300 Fox Way and hands it to Adam. They share one last look at each other before Adam says “Well... I'll talk to you later." And bikes off. Blue stands there in the parking lot somewhat awe stricken by the events that had just occurred. Then one of her managers walks out the door towards her with a leather bound book and asks Blue “Do you happen to know who left this? Is it yours?" Blue asks “Mine?" The manager replies “Well I saw that it had... Well stuff about magic." Blue was a bit taken a back. Suddenly she remembered Adam's friend ( the one that had talked to her) had had it in his hand. “Actually I know who's that is. I'll take it." He hands her the book and walks back inside

Gansey was back at Monmouth where he Ronan, And Noah lived. Gansey had offered many times for Adam to stay there as well but Adam being Adam wouldn't live some place that he didn't feel like he had earned on his own. Gansey was looking through some of his books when he noticed something that he thought might be important. Assuming that (insomniac) Ronan would be awake he went and knocked in the door to his room. Gansey didn't get any response. He knocked again. After waiting patiently a little longer Gansey pushed the door open only to find that it was empty and Ronan wasn't there.

Gansey made his way to Noah's room and knocked on the door, as he was pulling out his phone and dialing Ronan. It went straight to voicemail. It wasn't that Ronan had disappeared that bothered Gansey its that he disappeared on a night after he had gotten in a fight with Declan. Ronan was such an unpredictable person who knew what kind of trouble he could get into. Gansey pulled out his phone again preparing to call Adam but he hesitated before dialing. He knew leaving the Parish house hold in the middle of the night would be punishable and he felt really bad for asking him to do this but Gansey called him anyways. While Gansey was explaining to Adam what had happened and asking Adam to try and look for him Noah came out to over hear the conversation. Gansey hung up the phone making a frustrated groan and looked at Noah “Has he talked to you since we came back here?" Noah shakes his head but after a few moments he adds uncertainly “I would look for him at the church." Noah wouldn't go with Gansey to look because last time this happened Noah was the one who found Ronan Laying in a puddle of his own blood and Noah was still haunted by that night. Gansey checked numerous closer locations on his way to the church but eventually he made his way there and he saw Ronan's black BMW sitting outside. Gansey could feel a panic begin to rise inside him. He rushed into the church and yelled “Ronan!" Gansey saw the outline of Ronan's limp body against one of the pews. Gansey rushed over and shook him “Ronan!" He screamed again. Ronan slowly opens his eyes. Gansey took a sigh of relief “You bastard. When I said don't get drunk at Monmouth I didn't mean get drunk somewhere else." A raven came up and flew landing on Ronan's arm startling Ganey. Gansey tried to shoo it away but Ronan stopped him. Gansey asked “ Where did that come from?" Ronan replies “I found him... I think I'm gonna name her Chainsaw." Gansey says both confused and frustrated “ People find pennies, or car keys, or four leaf clovers..." Ronan interrupts “Or Ravens... You're just jealous you didn't find one too." Gansey gathers up the drunken Ronan and says “You do realize there is a no pet policy?" Ronan shoots back “You can't just throw Noah out like that."

The next day at school Adam didn't show up. This made feel Gansey feel horrible about himself because he knew it was his fault.

Blue was in her bedroom doing nothing in particular when she heard the doorbell ring. Blue looked at the clock on the dresser and realized that it must be Gansey so she headed out to the other room to watch interestedly. As Blue entered the room Maura opens the door and three boys came walking in. Blue instantly recognized Gansey as the boy she had gotten in the fight with at Nino's the other night. They locked eyes both obviously shocked to see each other. Adam came in behind Gansey and the more muscular scary looking boy from the other night followed him. Maura introduced herself to the three boys and they each gaver her their names (Gansey, Adam , Ronan) Maura turned and said “This is my daughter Blue she well he present in your reading today." Gansey gave a slight smile and said “This well be awkward." Although he didn't look as if he felt awkward at all, in fact he looked just as confident as ever. Maura questioned Blue and Gansey “You've met?" Gansey was the first to reply “ We had a discussion about alternative professions for women." Maura asked the group to follow her into the room where they would to the telling. Blue quietly asks Adam “ What happens to your face?" Adam just shrugs and says “Do you think it makes me look tougher?" Blue looked at him she didn't think it made him look tougher she actually thought it made him look more fragile. Ronan showing excellent hearing ability added his two cents “I think it makes you look like a loser." Gansey shoots Ronan a forceful glare.

The three boys sat down on one side of a table where Maura, Calla, and Persephone sat on the other side. Blue just kind of stood of in one of the corner of the room. Adam and Gansey seem to sit somewhat calmly but Ronan seems to sit anxiously surveying the women across the table as if they could bite his head off at any moment. They let Adam pull a card.

Persephone: You have a difficult choice to make. Some kind of conflict with someone close to you, possibly a brother. You think you only have two choices but there is a third one, you should go with that one.

Adam looks at Gansey but he says “I don't have a brother.

Ronan: Prove that isn't BS

Calla: Excuse me young man.

Ronan: Say something that can be proven. Anyone can have a fight with their brother say something we know to be true!

Calla: That's not exactly how it...

Persephone: A secret killed your father and you know what it is.

The fiery anger that fueled Ronan a moment ago was gone. Ronan says “I'm just gonna go wait in the car." Gansey looks a bit taken aback by everything nth at just occurred. But he says “We didn't come here to look at out features anyways. I actually wanted to ask you about energy, more specifically ley lines." All three women stopped in their tracks. “I think its best you go" Maura said. Calla and Persephone both nodded in agreement. Gansey seemed a bit disappointed but shook it off. He stood up quickly and said “How much would that be?" Maura shrugged and said “ Twenty dollars." Gansey opens up his wallet and began to thumb through before Blue added venomously “Each" Gansey looked up and smiled at her before throwing sixty dollars on the table. After Gansey and Adam had left the house Maura said to Blue “ I don't want you to ever see those boys again."

A women comes up to the door band rings the door bell. Blue answers it. "Are you Blue Sargent?" The woman asks. “Yes I am" Blue replies. The woman hands Blue a flowers arrangement and says “This is for you." Blue looks over the flowers and sees there is a note attached to the flowers reading: I hope you still want me to call- Adam

Adam rode his bike into the parking lot of Monmouth to see Ronan and Noah messing around. It turns out that Ronan was building a ramp in the parking lot. Adam gave Ronan some crap about his ramp before Ronan asked Adam “What's your problem anyway?" Adam replies “I'm trying to decide when I should call Blue." Ronan makes a rude comment about the psychics.

Adam: you're a Neanderthal

Ronan: Sometimes you sound like Gansey

Adam: Sometimes you don't

Adam: Give me your phone

Ronan pull out his phone and hands it to Adam. Adam dials the number that Blue gave him

Persephone: Adam?

Adam: Blue?

Persephone: No Persephone... *background * ten dollars Orla... No the caller ID does not say anything. *not background * you're the coke shirt one , right? Wonderful I'll go get Blue.

Blue: I didn't think you'd call

Adam: I said I would

Blue: thanks for the flowers. They were pretty

Adam: it seems busy there

Blue: Its always busy here, what are you doing today?

Adam: Exploring do you wanna come with

Blue: What sort of exploring?

Adam: Mountains. How do you feel about helicopters

Blue: Ethically?

Adam: As a mode of transportation

Blue: Faster than camels, but less sustainable, Is there going to be a helicopter in your future today?

Adam: yeah Gansey wanted to go looking for key lines and they're easier to spot from the air

Blue: And naturally he for a helicopter...

Adam: that's Ganesy for you

Blue joined Adam, Gansey, Ronan and Adam in the Pig. Blue was nervous but the boys didn't seem to have a problem with her. Ronan could care less that she was there, Gansey seemed mostly amused by her coming along but Blue found comfort with Adam and Noah. While Adam was quite and gracious, Noah was funny and outgoing. When they arrived at the place, they loaded on to the helicopter “I've never flown before." Blue confessed to Adam. Adam replies “I've flown once." As he takes her hand. The helicopter took off into the sky. After a few moments Adam screamed over the noise “I hate this!" Gasey gracefully calls back “I know you do."

The pilot says to Gansey “Aren't you going to introduce us, Dick?" Gansey makes a face but says “Blue, I'd like you to meet my sister Helen. The group flew out into the distance. Most of the conversation really ended up being split into three groups: Adam and Blue, Noah and Ronan , and Gansey and Helen.

Eventually Gansey says “I do believe that a lay line runs through this area” he looks to Blue for reassurance. Blue nods though she doesn't seem overly confident. Gansey gives Helen instructions to land the helicopter which she does. They land at the outskirts of what appears to be a large forest. Before Blue walks into forest she asks “What exactly are we looking for?" Gansey says “Glendower the sleeping Welsh king. We believe that he is buried along the lay line so that he wouldn't die and that when we can find him we can wake him up." Gansey turns around and continues walking before Ronan adds “And when we do wake him up, we get a wish." Gansey yells joyously “Are you listening Glendower! I'm coming to find you!"

The group continues to walk forward. Gansey rambled on about rituals that could possibly wake the line but one of his scholarly friends from Scotland had told them that the ritual could probably only be performed in the heart of the lay line where it had the most energy while Adam and Blue half listen to him half discuss despite the incidental condescendingness of Gansey that he is actually a good person, Ronan and Noah kind of walk behind aimlessly studying the forest around them. Adam pauses clearly taking consideration onto something which Gansey said

Adam: what about your energy, you said that you made things louder for the other physics

Blue: yeah, I guess you could say I'm like a walking battery

Gansey: You're the table at Starbucks that everyone wants.

Blue: What

Gansey: the table next to the wall plug.

They came to a clearing in the forest that was truly beautiful. The trees all looked so perfect and there was a little pond with fish in it over the boys and Blue took time to admire the beauty that was in front of them. Gansey noted that his watch was not working properly and that Helen would be furious if they can back to the helicopter st an unreasonable time. Well as it turns out when they got back Helen was already furious about what time it was and the mood on the way back was very dower. Helen dropped them off back by the Pig. Gansey was about to say something to Blue when he lauded for a moment to think

Gansey: Is Blue a nickname

Blue raises her eyebrows

Gansey: Not that its not a cool name... Its just unusual.

Ronan: Weird-ass

Blue: Unfortunately its nothing normal like Gansey

Gansey: I've always liked the name Jane

Blue: Ja-What? You can't go around naming people other things because you don't like their real names

Gansey: I like Blue just fine, some of my favorite shirts are Blue, however I also like Jane

Blue: I'm not answering to that

Gansey: I didn't ask you to.

After this brief conversation Gansey stooped down inside of the door of the car and the rest followed his lead. When asked where they were going Gansey said “We're going to get some gelato and to pick Blue's brain about energy and lay lines."

That was not exactly how it happened. The group did stop at a local place and get gelato but the group didn't spend timing searching for any possible answers from Blue. Instead they just ate their gelato and hung out.

Blue began to start spending a lot of time with the boys over the next week. They continued to search for information on Glendower and Ley Lines (though they did not feel prepared to return to the strange forest). Blue felt more a part of something than she ever had in her life, these boys were becoming her friends

One day after school had ended Blue headed over to Monmouth. As she started into the parking lot she saw Ronan and Adam stepping out of Ronan's BMW, while Noah and Gansey were talking quietly a few parking spaces away.

Ronan: For the love of... Parrish, take some care this isn't your mom's 1971 Honda Civic

Adam: They didn't start making the Civic until '73

Gansey: Jane! I thought you would never shoe up. Ronan is tutoring Adam in the ways of manual transmission

During the time Noah had walked over to greet Blue by petting her hair, which would seem strange if it were anyone else, but it was Noah so he could get away with it.

Gansey says suddenly and enthusiastically “Okay, let's go." The other four give him a blank look and Adam finally asks him the question that is on everyone else's mind “Where to today?" Gansey grins wildly and says “The wood... Time is wasting."

Blue looks at Adam and says quietly “Did you know this?" Adam replies quickly and nervously “I didn't know anything." Adam starts to add to his comment before he is interrupted by Ronan on the other side of the parking lot yelling “We'all have to be back in three hours! I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again!" Gansey glances at Ronan and says in a jocking manner seemingly to think that bit was funnier than it actually was “ This is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you."

The five of them hop in The Pig and drive out to the strange forest. When they got there and they walked to the magical opening from the other day they all looked tense in and uncertain except for Noah who appeared just as awkwardly charming as usual. Blue says “I feel like I'm being watched." Gansey dismissively says “High EMF readings can do that."

The group difficult time deciding how to continue the search and finally it was Noah who began walking down a path and the rest of them followed. Adam and Blue (but mostly Adam) seemed a little nervous continuing into the mysterious forest. Blue takes Adam's hand as they continue to walk. As they were going Blue noted and pointed out to Adam that it was as if they were walking through the seasons. The farther in they went the farther into Fall they got and eventually they reached where it was winter and there was light snow on the ground.

Noah: Gansey! There's writing over here

Blue: What language is that?

Adam and Ronan: Latin

Gansey: What does it say

Ronan: its a joke, this first part. The Latin is pretty crappy

Gansey: A joke? About what?

Ronan: You wouldn't find it funny

Adam: Why is there a joke written in a random stone?

Ronan looked over the rock again moment before turning pale

Ronan: There's a joke, in case I didn't recognize my own handwriting... I don't understand

Gansey: We saw before how the ley line played with time. We can see it right now. It's flexible. You haven't been here before but that doesn't mean you didn't come here later

Blue: What does it say after the joke?

Ronan: The trees speak Latin

Gansey: And that last line? That last word doesn't look like Latin

Ronan: Call it by name Cabeswater.

Blue: Well... Say something to the trees in Latin

Ronan: Like what?

Blue: say hi, that's polite.

Ronan does as he is told. Blue then says “Ask them if they'll speak with us." Ronan again follows Blue's request. “Nothing" Ronan exclaims. Gansey puts his hands up and says “Wait! Ronan ask them to say that again." Suddenly they all heard it the rustle of the leaves, it didn't exactly sound like voiced but phonetically what they were saying

Gansey turned around to see if Ronan heard it but he, Blue, and Adam all looked clueless. Noah on the other hand appeared to be hearing the same thing as Gansey. Noah and Gansey repeated what the trees said to Romans and Ronan and Ronan translated it to the whole group

Ronan: We've been speaking the whole time, you just haven't been listening.

Ronan: they say they are happy to see the daughter of the psychic.

Blue: Me!

Gansey: Amazing! The trees ? Amazing!

Adam: Ask why only Gansey and Noah can hear them.

Ronan: They say the road isn't awake... It says that if we wake up the line it'll owe us a favor

Adam: That doesn't explain why only Gansey and Adam can hear them.

The group heads back to the car. On the way back they discuss how they could possibly go about waking the line, what use it would be to them and how much they could trust the trees. They all agreed that they should do more research before they could make any choices

One day when the other tree were all busy (Adam had work and Ronan and Noah were at church.) Gansey and Blue decided to go to a not too far out of town that they thought was on the ley line. Gansey came by Blue's house to pick her up

Gansey: Thanks for coming Jane

Blue: You're welcome Dick

Gansey: I really do have to thank you, I've spent years looking for these ley lines. You're like a blessing from above. I could kiss you

Gansey was obviously joking but his comment still put Blue in edge

Gansey: What was that for

Blue: Do you still believe psychics

Gansey: Yeah, Why?

Blue: since I was young my mother has told me that if I kissed my true love he would die... Don't you dare laugh you...

Gansey: that just sounds like some precautionary thing to me

Blue: Its not just my mom, its every psychic I've ever met

Gansey: sorry... So do you know how sir prince charming is going to die

*Blue Shrugs *

Gansey: I'm not gonna lie Jane, that's some grim shit.

Blue: Don't tell Adam

Gansey: It's like that is it.

Blue: no..no..no, I just... Don't know

Gansey: Well if you killed Adam, I'd be quite upset

*A few moments of silence go by*

Blue: Why are you looking for Glendower

Gansey: To tell that story you must know that I am deathly allergic to bees

Blue: okay?

Gansey: I was about ten years old and I was at a party, I think because one of my dad's friends had gotten the Patty nomination for Congress. Anyways it was boring as hell so I went outside to play his and seek with some of the other kids when I stepped on a nest. They were everywhere Blue...

Blue: What'd you do?

Gansey: I died... This is then difficult part... I heard a voice in my head after my heart had stopped besting and it said “You will live because Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not."

Blue: Oh

Gansey: I told Helen... She tried to tell me it was just a hallucination... It wasn't just a hallucination

Blue: And that was enough for you to dedicate your life to searching for Glendower

Gansey: I have to

The rest of the car ride is spent in silence. When they reached the church they got out of the cat and searched around the building. They didn't find much so they he added back in the wood behind the church. They happens in what appeared to be a dead body that had probably been there for a good long while. Blue was about to call the authorities

Gansey: No...no ...no... Fucking no no no!

Blue: What

Gansey: Come look at this

Blue came over and took the wallet out of Gansey's hand and saw that it had a driver's Licence that belonged to Noah. Blue looked at the body questioningly and Gansey nodded

Gansey drove down the the rode most certainly breaking the speed limit by at least twenty miles per hour. Clumsily he picked up his phone and called Adam ( who was at work.) Quickly Gansey stammered “ I'm coming to get you." And then hung up. Adam had never heard Gansey like this before he seemed panicked. Momentarily Gansey arrived, and Adam climbed into the shot gun seat. Gansey did indeed seem nervous to Adam. Gansey said “I'll explain when we get there." Adam wasn't sure where they were going or what had happened to put Gansey this on edge but he wasn't overly eager yo find out.

Gansey pulled the car in the parking lot of Monmouth at was surely a dangerous speed, slamming the breaks right in front of the building. Gansey sprinted out of the car and into the building.

* throughout this next bit of dialogue Gansey is very intense *

Gansey: Noah!! ... We need to talk! Noah!

Ronan: Man you're back late. Parrish? I thought you were working

Adam: I was

Gansey: Where's Noah?

Ronan: He's out.

Gansey: No... He is not. Noah! I know you're here Noah!

Ronan: Dude, you're flipped

Gansey: open his door. Tell me what's in there.

*Ronan follows Gansey's instructions *

Ronan: It looks like a nunnery as usual. All the personality of a mental facility. What am I looking for, drugs? Girls? Guns

Gansey: Tell me which classes you share with Noah

Roman: none

Gansey: Me either

Adam: Nope

Gansey: When does he eat? Have you ever seen him eat!

Ronan: I don't really care... Dude you've gone off the reservation

Gansey: I spent the afternoon with the police. I went out with Blue to the Church and...

Adam: You did what!?

Gansey: Don't look at me like that the point is we found a body, rotted to bones. Do you know who's it was?

Just then Noah appeared in the door way of his room looking awfully pale

Noah: mine

Ronan: Your room was empty... I just looked in it.

Gansey looked slightly more under control now

Gansey: He's dead... You're really dead aren't you.

Noah: yes.

*silence*

Ronan: shit...

Adam: How did you die?

Gansey: that's not the question is it? The question is who killed you.

Noah turned away from them obviously feeling uncomfortable with entire conversation. Gansey pleaded “ If you can tell me I'll find a way to put the police on their trail." Noah began to curl up in a little ball. Gansey was just about to ask him again when Adam placed a hand on Gansey's shoulder, silently advising Gansey not to push him.

Chainsaw began to scream. Ronan put his hand over the birds mouth while cursing adamantly.

Noah: I don't want to talk about it

Gansey: Okay. Okay. What would you like to do?

Noah: I'd like..

Suddenly Noah's physical appearance faded away... The three boys looked at each other.

Over the next couple of weeks Noah didn't show up much. He was only visible for short periods of time. Gansey chalked this up to his body being removed from the ley line. Him not having the energy. It was easier for him to show up while Blue was around, she worked as a battery for him similarly ton the way she did for the psychics.

One day Blue walked up to Monmouth and knocked on the door. Ronan answered the door “You guys weren't waiting outside. I thought maybe you weren't here." Ronan replied “ Gansey's partying with his mother and Noah is fucking dead but Parrish is here." Adam appeared behind Roman “Let her in."

As Ronan allowed Blue to enter she looked in awe at the building around her. “What's the downstairs look like?" She asked. “Dust and concrete and more dust. And dirt." Adam retorted. Blue laughed at Adam's joke. From a ways back Roman added to the conversation “Also more dust." Ronan then exclaimed that he needed to feed Chainsaw and left the other two alone.

Adam: We're not doing anything today obviously. Do you just wanna hang out?

Blue: Has Noah...?

Adam: No

Blue: Is he here?

Adam: It feels like it. I don't know

Blue: You can use my energy, Noah. If that's what you need

Adam: That's brave of you

Blue: I like to be useful... So do you live here too?

Adam: Gansey would like me to. He likes all of his things in one place. I shouldn't say it like that, hr doesn't mean it badly and we're... It's just this place belongs to Gansey, everything in it belongs to Gansey. I need to be an equal and I can't be living here.

Blue: Where do you live

Adam: A place made for leaving

Blue: That's not really an answer

Adam: Its not really a place

Blue: And it would be terrible to live here?

Adam: yes, When I get out on my own, it well be to someplace I made myself

Blue: And that's why you go to Aglionby.

Adam: That's why I go to Aglionby

Blue: Even though you're not rich.

Adam looks away briefly

Blue: Adam I don't care, I know other people do but I don't

Adam: Even though I'm not rich

Blue: *laughs * We both know I'm not rich

Adam gathered up his confidence. He took Blue over to look a collection of random old things which Gansey had. Blue was looking over a seawater stone.

Adam: You sure are pretty

Blue: Its the stone... Its very flattering

Adam: My mother used to say Don't throw compliments always as long as they are free. That wasn't meant to cost you a thing, Blue

Blue: I don't know what to say when you say things like that

Adam: You can tell me if you want me to keep saying them

Blue: I like when you say things like that...

Adam: But?

Blue: I didn't say but.

Adam: You meant to. I heard it.

Blue: I like it when you say things like that but... I'm afraid you'll kiss me... We've just met and I...I'm... I'm very young.

Adam: That seems... Very sensible

Suddenly there was a loud knocking at the door. Adam mutters “shit, that's probably Declan" before he heads up stairs quickly, leaving Blue very confused. Only a few moments later though Noah appears out of thin air.

Blue: Noah!

Noah: Hey...

Blue: How long have you been here?

Noah: since before you got here

Blue: so... You saw all that with me and Adam?

Noah... Ummm...ahhhh... Yeah.

Blue appears to have gone mellow glancing around the room thinking about what just went down between her and Adam. The clear screaming voice from Ronan and another person (who Blue assumed was Declan) became audible from upstairs, something about Roman's grades.

Noah: What was that anyways

Blue: What was what?

Noah: Ummm... The whole being scared of kissing Adam thing.

Blue sighs and explains to Noah the details of why she is not only afraid to kiss Adam but just falling in love in general. Noah looks on silently but with a very understanding look in his eyes. Blue hadn't really ever seen Noah be dead serious before, he was always the charming, silly one, but now Noah was dead serious. Blue appreciated the way he handled it

Noah: I don't mean to bring myself into this whole thing but you do realize you're the only girl I've talked to over the past seven years.

Blue: Oh...

Noah: It's fine

Blue: So have you ever kissed a girl

Noah shakes his head

There Is a sense of complete openness and honesty between the two as their eyes meet.

Noah says in a way that is very melancholy “If I'm already dead then I suppose you couldn't kill me." Blue looks up and Noah adds “Of course if you wanted to that is... I mean as a first and probably last time experience for both of us." Blue laughs nervously but she nods her head. She says “Where are we going to do it." Noah looks around and says “Over on the couch?"

They both walk over to the old looking, tattered, burgundy couch. After they sit down they look at each other nervously for a few moments. Then it happens, the two kiss. It isn't very long before they pull away. They start looking around the room sheepishly. Blue says before realizing how silly and a bit obnoxious it sounds “ Its too bad you're dead." Noah doesn't seem offended though. They kiss again but for longer this time

They here footsteps coming down the stairs and they separate, moving to opposite ends of the couch. Adam appears looking a bit out of breath “Blue we're going yo your house right now" he says.

When Blue, Adam, Ronan, and Noah arrive in Blue's kitchen they discover that the women of the house are already standing around the countertop (not surprising) what was a tad bit surprising (at least to Blue) was That Gansey stood facing her. He wore glasses and his hair seemed less fixed than usual. It was almost comforting to see Gansey appear a little sloppy for once. The women and Gansey seemed to have already had a large discussion and apparently mends had been made to their relationships.

Gansey: Noah, I was doing some research on the rituals that are used to wake up the ley line and I found reason to believe that someone was trying to use you as a sacrifice when you died.

Noah nods solemnly.

Gansey: So that means that this ritual... Can be rather dangerous.

Maura: We can't have just anyone waking up the ley line.

Calla: no definitely not.

Neeve: I think we should wake it, I mean it well have positive benefits on the flow of energy through out the entire country.

Neeve: Whoever wakes the line, both the sacrificer and the sacrificed will be favored by the line.

Gansey: Favored how?

Maura: No one can really be certain

The group comes to the conclusion that they well all meet up again within the next few weeks to come up with a better plan.

Ronan drove his Black BMW down the long street of double wide trailers before he stopped to the side in front of one of them. “Home, shit, home." Ronan says to Adam (the only other occupant of the vehicle.) Adam looks out the window at the nearest trailer. “Thanks for the ride." Adam says halfheartedly. Ronan turns and looks Adam in the eye “You don't have to get out here."

Adam didn't acknowledge Roman's statement but he added “Don't you have homework to do. Ronan gives a ruthless smile “Yes Parrish. I believe I do." Adam just said “Thanks again" as he pushed open the car door and stated walking up to the trailer.

Suddenly A large man, Robert Parrish , came out the door of the trailer and Adam's body tensed immediately.

Adam: Hi dad

Robert: Don't hi dad me. Come home at midnight trying to hide from your lies.

Adam: What?

Robert: Your mother was in your took today and she found something, care to guess?

Adam couldn't meet his father's gaze

Robert: Look at me when I talk to you! She found your pay stub from the factory.

Adam: I don't understand why you're angry

Robert: You lied to your mother about how much you made

Adam: I didn't lie

Robert: Do not look in my face and lie to me!!!

Adam knew what was coming but still he couldn't move fast enough. Adam felt the force of his father's hand as it came across his face. Adam tried to gain his balance but he stepped back over a stair and fell hitting Hus head on the railing Adam's father shouted at him “Oh, come on. Get up really!" Adam slowly (and clearly in a lot of pain) regathered his barrings and tried to stand up but his knees collapsed back down where he had been. His father continued to yell at him about where the extra money was going. Adam's vision kinda starts blurring out. He sees flashes of Ronan appearing and beating the crap out of Robert, he sees a glimpse of his mother standing at the door waving a phone threatening

to call the cops. And finally he here sirens.

Adam stands up as an officer approaches him. The officer asks “Son, are you okay." Adam mumbles “Yeah, I'm okay." The officer looks over Adam and says “Boy you're not okay, Have you been drinking?" Ronan (who is being escorted in handcuffs by another officer) overhears the questioning and yells something at the officer but Adam's ear us ringing so he can't make it out.

Adam looks at Ronan getting out in the back of the police car and then up at his mom crying up by the trailer. Adam struggles to say something mostly he is not sure what to say either way he looses. Finally Adam says hoarsely “Ronan was defending me... From my father. All this... Is from him My face my..." Adam could see his mother stating at him obviously upset over the choice that he had made, Adam continued “... Can I press charges?"

Adam sits in a chair in the lobby if a hospital shortly after being told that he was allowed to leave. Adam saw the unmistakable orange Camaro pull up in the pickup loop. Adam stood up made his way outside. Gansey rolled down the window and spoke cautiously

Gansey: They said you didn't have insurance...I umm... I took care of it.

Adam: You win.. Take me to get my stuff

Gansey: I didn't win anything. Do you think this is how I wanted it.

Adam: Yes, yes I do.

Gansey: Don't be shitty

Adam: I'm telling you that you can say I told you so.

Gansey: Did I say that before? You don't have to act like its the end of the world

Adam: It is the end of the world

Gansey: Moving out of your Dad's is the end of the world?

Adam: You know what I wanted. You know this wasn't it

Gansey: you act like this is my fault

Adam: Tell me you're unhappy about how this is going down.

Gansey looks up at Adam in concern searching for a way to right bathe situation

Gansey: I'm unhappy about how it turned out.

Adam: Whatever

Gansey: Not like this... At least you have a place to go. Is there something too repugnant about my place for you to imagine living there. Why is everything kind I do pity? Why is everything charity? Why can't it just be kindness? I'm sick of tiptoeing around your principles.

Adam: repugnant? Who whips out repugnant? Are you trying to make me feel stupid

Gansey: This is the way I talk. I'm sorry your father never thought you the meaning of repugnant. He was too busy smashing your head against the wall of your trailer while you apologized for being alive!"

Adam's face changes. All the furry that was apparent a moment ago turned into something more subtle but equally negative. Adam just began walking. Gansey yelled after him but Adam kept walking. Adam was headed straight out to the highway. Gansey pulled up nest to him. “Where are you going!? Where do you have to go!?” Adam didn't pay any attention to Gansey.“Adam. Just tell me not back there. " Still nothing from Adam. Gansey tried one last time “ It doesn't have to Monmouth, but let me take you wherever you're going." Gansey stops the car. Looking very defeated about the events Adam opens the door and slides into the car

Blue had gotten brief word of Adam's situation via a brief phone conversation with Gansey. She was of course upset by the information. Two days later Adam stopped by 300 Fox Way to give Blue a visit. They stood out in the back yard almost silently.

Blue: Your hair looks the color of dirt

Adam: It knows where it comes from.

Blue: Well then mine should be that color too.

Adam:

sometimes I'm afraid he'll never really understand me

Blue: I'm only gonna say this once and then be done with it; but I think you're awfully brave

Adam: I'd like to kiss you now Blue, young or not.

Blue: I don't want to hurt you

Adam: I'm already pretty hurt

Blue looks Adam and sees pain covering his face. She thinks it has always been there, its just coming to the surface now.

Adam: Blue, I'm living with Gansey... But I feel homeless

Adam starts walking back towards the house and Blue exclaims to him “ Keep being brave Adam"

We see Adam laying awake in his new bad at Monmouth, starring at the ceiling

Eventually he gets ups and walks out the door

Gansey is sleeping when he hears a voice. Gansey sits up and looks around but there isn't anyone there. The voice speaks again and this time Gansey notices the voice. “Say that again Noah" Gansey requests. Noah's quite voice speaks again “Adam"

Gansey goes to check the room where Adam had been. All of Adam's stuff was still there but Adam was not. “shit!" Gansey exclaims. At this time Ronan comes stumbling out of his room saying “What is it? Where the hell is Parish?" Gansey looks up at Ronan and says “He went to wake the ley line."

Adam is standing up in the center of an opening in the trees at Cabeswatet. Adam is looking around hesitantly. He takes a large bowl that he had brought with him over to the lake and uses it to scoop water. He brings it back to the center of the opening and sets it down carefully. Adam looks up at the trees around him. He closes his eyes, takes one final Brest and then submerges his head into the bowl.

We see Blue tiredly climbing into the back of Roman's BMW and asking what's going on. All three of the cars occupants are clearly on edge as they drive to Cabeswater. When they arrive they sprint to the opening to see Adam's body lying there motionlessly. Blue and Ronan stop in there tracks but Gansey keeps going. After checking Gansey screams to them “He's breathing, He's alive!" Adam begins to hold his hands over his head and curl up in the fetal position. “Sensory overload?" Blue asks. Ronan nods while Gansey tries to communicate with Adam. Eventually they get him to get up and walk to the car.

After these events Adam had heightened senses, which were overwhelming st first but he got used to it. A fee weeks later the entire group got to go to a burial of Noah's body. The whole group is in the parking lot after the event just talking. Ronan is stroking Chainsaw. Gansey asks “Really, where did you get that bird?" Ronan just gives an intimidating smile.

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Previously, in A Love To Die For...

Brad Dennison has a good life. He maintains a job as an IT guy for a strong Financial firm, Meridian, and he enjoys spending time with a group of friends, most notably a man named Charlie. They often go out and spend time at clubs, among other things. One day, a much anticipated basketball game comes to town, and there's a huge rush to buy tickets. Dennison and his buddies want to get some, but they sold out too fast. Instead, Brad turns to Craig's List to see if anything comes up, and an offcer for tickets, with some minor fine print that gets overlook, strikes Dennison, and he takes it. The game is epic, as it had been promised, but once everything seems to be over, Dennison is knocked out and thrown into a van without the knowledge of any of his friends.

Dennison soon wakes up when a bag is pulled off his head, and he's tied to a chair with three men observing him. One of which is Don Mariato, the leader of one of the most prominent crime families in the area. Dennison is soon told that the fine print he merely glanced over on the Craig's List add had some other stipulations. In exchange for the seats, Dennison would have to win the affections of the daughter of Mariato, Gloria. She comes in wearing a red dress and smoking a cigarette. He would have one month to get Gloria to love her, and if her daughter was still unsatisfied with her man, they would kill him. Dennison quickly becomes nervous, soon moving to ask Gloria how she's been doing. "So...you're just kind of a fucker, ain't ya?" Gloria snaps back. Dennison gulps, and Mariato mouths to him, "Good luck."

Indeed, the relationship begins rather shakily. The two go to Dennison's apartment, where Gloria is completely bored, saying that Brad seems like an a#@hole. The next two weeks continue with more conventional bonding tactics that go awry, such as a romantic dinner ruined by food poisoning. However, Brad constantly seeks help from Charlie on what to do, saying that the movies made it seem a lot easier, and this isn't going to end with one of them running at the airport to catch the other. Speaking of Charlie, though, it seems that Gloria enjoys less off the generic 'love' feeding and prefers the more chill activities that they tend to do. Gloria and Brad soon begin to bond over the next week, and Brad becomes relieved that he might not bite the dust at all. Perhaps all would be well in the world.

Unfortunately, the Mariato family learns about the financial firm that Dennison works for, and they plan a heist for the ages. One day, as he is working at IT, he receives a phone call that Gloria is with the family again, not at his apartment where she had been staying for much of the last month. The network soon goes haywire and is overtaken by the crime family. Some armed thugs for the crime family enter the building, creating a hostage situation. Gloria asks her father to stop what he is doing, even if all of this crime is pretty badass, when Mariato reveals that this was all just a ploy to get into a major financial firm to do a robbery, stealing the information of an employee. Gloria soon goes to the firm, but her father prevents her from leaving, and he forces her onto a plane headed to New York.

The police arrive and try to stop the situation, while Dennison tries to make an escape to find Gloria, soon realizing her current situation. He desperately calls for a taxi to the airport to try and stop her before the flight takes off, soon realizing how wrong he was about not ending up in this situation. He soon arrives, and Gloria is still at the security checkpoint, so he has time. Gloria finds him, but an aggravated Don Mariato threatens to kill him then and there, no doubt creating a crazy situation. Two TSA agents quickly topple him, though, just at the sheer mention of the world "kill" and his beginning to pull out a pistol. The police soon contain the situation at the back and the Mariato family becomes increasingly in trouble with the law. "So, sorry my family tried to kill you," Gloria says to Dennison, who forgives him. The two end up staying together and drive away, unaware that there was still a body in the car they were using.

A Love Worth Killing For

"Til death do they part."

Genre: Romance/Dark Comedy/Action/Thriller

Director: Greg Mottola

Writers: Chris McKenna and Megan Ganz

Date: June 19th

Theaters: 3,514

Rating: R for pervasive language, violence, sexual content including crude humor, and drug use

Runtime: 113min (1hr, 53min)

Budget: $80 million

Cast: Channing Tatum (Brad Dennison), Jennifer Lawrence (Gloria Mariato), Bradley Cooper (Dom Jacinto), Meryl Streep (The Golden Goddess), Lupita Nyong'o (Deputy Wendy Ozuba), Rashida Jones (Elena), Gil Birmingham (Petey), Steve Buscemi (Don Mariato)

Cameos (In White): Sam Elliott, Weird Al Yankovic, Amy Adams, Jared Leto, Ellen DeGeneres Fall Out Boy, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Fall Out Boy, Peter Nyong'o Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts Chris Pratt

Predecessor Gross: $42m/$137m (Plus many CC points)

Plot: After the incidents of the first film, Brad and Gloria have escaped the city and are trying to survive. Too bad their troubles have just begin, from dealing with a psychotic bounty hunter to a drug queenpin, and that's the tip of the iceberg.

NOTE: This plot summary contains profanity (hence the R-rating), so do be careful where you read it.

The movie begins with a shot of the searing desert sun, eventually panning out into a long, desolate road on the desert. A bearded dragon climbs up onto a rock right next to a road, right after a car zooms by it. We eventually move to the inside of the car, where two familiar faces are on the road: Brad Dennison and Gloria Mariato. Gloria is driving, while Brad is just looking out of the window. “Slow down, Gloria, you might hit one of those little guys. Didn’t you say you wanted to study herpetology at some point?” Gloria nodded that she’ll keep an eye out, but considering all of the shit that’s been happening, hitting a poor little animal would be the least of her problems. By the way, she actually did win the science fair in 5

th grade for her project on Chinese Water Dragons. Granted, her dad may have given a few threats to the judges.

Suddenly, Brad asks what the smell is in the car, and Gloria says she noticed it too. They decide to pull over and look around the car, seeing if they hit anything. Eventually, Gloria moves towards the trunk and opens it up. The camera, now inside the truck and facing the outside, shows Gloria disgusted, yelling at Brad. “Jesus fucking Christ, I told you to get rid of the body!” (The body from the end of the first film) “There was nowhere to put it! We’re in a flat fucking desert, you know, a really shitty place to hide a dead body! There’s like no hills or places to bury him!” “First off, we came here from the fucking city. Why the hell didn’t you do it then? Secondly, are you shitting me? Ever heard of this little thing called SAND?!” “....oh, fuck me, I’m an idiot.” They proceed to bury the body outside right outside the car, but when a few other cars pass by, they pretend to be having sex so as to look non-conspicuous. Eventually, the body is buried, and they return to the car. Suddenly, Gloria sees a lizard behind the trunk, crushed under the wheel. “FUCK!”

A LOVE WORTH KILLING FOR

A FEW WEEKS EARLIER: The movie opens with Don Mariato walking in prison, with the guards saying that he gets to make one phone call. Don says he knows just who to make it to, taking a number written down on a pad and ringing the tone. “Hello, Jessica?”

Eventually, Brad and Gloria arrive in a fairly shitty small town, Aldrich Valley, NV, but it’s a place where they can lie low. They’ve been told to visit Brad’s cousin, Elena, who runs a toy store, Sweet Dream Toys (with sections for adults and kids – sometimes the inventory gets mixed up). Eventually, they arrive in the store, where Elena is running across sections to satisfy customers in both sections. Elena shouts out, “There’s shi-stuff to do all over this town, Brad, come back here when we close!” Brad and Gloria decide to head out, while Gloria checks the time. “Ugh, it’s only 11:30am. Place doesn’t close until eight, and we have nowhere to stay,” “I don’t know, maybe there are fun things to do in this town. I’ve got Yelp, and pretty much the whole internet, we’ll find something.” A montage ensues of them being bored out of their minds in the town, staring at souvenirs on a shelf in the gift shop, eating greasy and generally unappetizing burgers, but they eventually make fun of a local theater showing an animatonic show, “Wild West Critter Cabaret.” “You know,” Brad says, “That should would probably be pretty tight with the proper amount of drugs.” “You’d need some potent supply. Believe me, I’d know. Daddy let me try a bit of the goods when I was young.” “Geez, I wish I had your childhood.” Gloria glares at Brad, but laughs partially, “You don’t, trust me, fucker.” to which replies it was only a joke.

Eventually, the store closes, and Brad and Gloria come to meet Elena outside. “Your town is relentlessly boring. I was hoping it was worth the wait.” Elena, as it turns out, had been texting Brad a while that she was already ready around 5, back when they were just taking a nap in their car. Whoops. Elena then gives the two a guest bedroom at her house, saying that the business does surprisingly well, although sometimes she worries that she may be contributing to local pedophiles. “Whatever pays the bills, I guess.” That night, Brad and Gloria are talking in their room. “I hate to say it, Brad, but I’m glad you brought us out here. I have a bad feeling that my dad may still be coming for us. Then it’ll all hit the fan. Pfft, and you were scared of dying when my dad tried to get you in my panties.” “Gloria, this town has one of the lowest crime rates in the region. Hell, the police are probably incompetent as hell. I don’t think we have an awful lot to worry about. Honestly, just living in this town for a while is gonna suck, maybe we should get jobs somewhere.” “Hopefully it doesn’t come to that. Living leisurely in this town is bad enough. I just hope we don’t get caught. We’re already wanted all over the city, let’s hope nothing crosses over here.”

Meanwhile, at the Nevada State Police Department, we see a man wearing denim, with a bushy mustache, a huge cigar, and jet black hair: Dom Hacinto, one of Nevada’s sheriffs. He walks up to one of his supervisors (a cameo from Sam Elliott, noticeably without his trademark mustache) and asks why he came in for a meeting. It was a long-ass drive and it gets annoying as hell where he’s from. “First, off, what the fuck, Dom. You look like a porn star.” “What the hell?” “Seriously, the mustache makes you look like a fucking creep. It’s like a sign that says, let me fuck somebody next to shitty funk music. But that’s beside the point.” The supervisor tells Dom that he noted a witness that saw two people buying a body along the road yesterday, and they seemed to be covering it up by having some kind of necrophilia three-way.” Dom nods, giving a disgusted but slightly impressed expression. “Point is, I’ll need you to investigate the nearby cities, make sure everything is in control.” Dom throws his gun up on the table, adding that there’s a reason he’s the best in the county. He walks out of the office, twirling his gun around and accidentally pulling the trigger, hitting the headlights of one of the police cars. Dom slowly walks away.

The next morning, Brad and Gloria are lying in bed together. Elena walks up to both of them and sprays the two with a water bottle. “Wake up, bitches. If I’m letting you stay here rent free, I’m gonna get something out of it. There’s a list of shit I want you to do on the fridge. I’d rather not deal with the morality issues of kicking you out, so just do it. You never really did anything for me, might as well get something out of you. Thanks, bye.” Elena says as she heads to work. Honestly, to Gloria, household chores seem like a fun relief. Too bad that, living in a fairly pampered home, she didn’t really have to do anything, and she’s honestly a bit clueless. Brad also doesn’t know much about it, saying that he knows how to do a few things, but not too much. He’s used to living with other people who had dignified chores. “Well, at least we’re not perpetuating gender stereotypes.” The two begin looking up instructions online of how to do the chores, while Dom Jacinto closes in on the city, getting into several speeding and driving issues along the way, each drive shot like a car chase with only one real party. Turns out that it actually gets the attention of local Deputy Wendy Ozuba. “Oh, shit, it’s the county sheriff. Fuck me now and get it over with.”

Eventually, Brad and Gloria finish their chores with plenty of time to spare, Brad turns on the TV to unwind. Nothing really good is on, until a police report comes on. Gloria gets nervous for a moment, until it turns out that the suspect was a man who was caught with marijuana possession downtown. They sigh in relief. Nothing really eventful on the news happens for a while, but Elena eventually gets home, decently impressed with the work they put in. “Watching TV, I’d call you lazy bums, but I’m impressed. Best news I’ve had all day.” Brad turns off the TV, and the three go out to drink at a local pub, The Drunken Uncle. They meet a local bartender and one of Elena’s trusted friends, Petey. “Jeez, the guy who got had pot, got a 10 year sentence.” Gloria laughs hysterically, claiming that she’s tried worse shit. Elena and Brad give her a confused look, with Brad waving his hand on his neck, motioning for Gloria to stop talking. “I meant that as a joke, of course.” They continue to talk about funny stories that night, eventually leading up to Petey wanting to close the bar (“It’s 3:27am. Even I need some sleep.”)

When they get home, Elena checks her phone and gets a police report. Two suspects are wanted in the area, one blond twentysomething woman and one slightly older male who kind of looks like a thumb. They are being potentially charged with murder and necrophilia. “What the fuck, Brad?! I knew you kinda sucked in bed, I didn’t want everyone else to notice!” “Then why was that the first idea of a distraction you thought up?” “Look, it doesn’t matter, when did the report go out?” “Looks like it was about two and a half hours ago.” “Shit, right when we left for the bar. Why can’t anything relevant to us be on the news? It’s not like the movies at all.” Elena then gets an idea: She used to have the toy store be a costume shop before all of the families moved into this “super safe” neighborhood, but she still has some supply. She decides to create fake identities and resumes for the two.

Brad Dennison is now Danny Eagle, a handsome rancher coming into town looking to find love, whereas Gloria Mariato is now Tammy Stelzik, an awkward 23-year old with curly brown hair, braces, and fresh out of a nearby community college. “I fucking hate you, Elena.” Gloria reacts. Elena also recommends a job for Gloria in the town, and the one opening? Working as an Emcee for the “Wild West Critter Cabaret”. “Hey, Gloria, there’s a gator in the band!” “Go fuck yourself, Brad.” She does a little speech at the beginning of each show, and then uses her odd-sounding whistle to kick off the production. The show is just as cringe-inducing as she imagined, and a lot of the animatronics are faulty. The animatronics are in part voiced by cameos of Weird Al Yankovic, Jared Leto, and Amy Adams. It’s just as boring a job as she imagined, and she has to listen to those songs over and over again. Brad, on the other hand, gets to hang out at bars and ranches, hitting on women, but secretly trying to get some information on the local police. At Petey’s bar one night, and after plenty of instigation, Brad, still in disguise, gets into a drunken fight with a mysterious stranger. It seems like he’s winning, until the man whips out a taser and shocks Brad. It turns out that the man is Dom Jacinto. Dom nods to Petey, thanking him for softening up the opening with the milk from the tat of our rugged world. Petey adds, “You’re welcome, but I just need to add, White people have such fucking braindead metaphors.”

Brad wakes up after being unconscious and is met by Wendy Ozuba. “Wakey wakey. And may I add, your disguise was fucking trash, thumb boy.” “Jesus, can you come up with any other insults?” “Absolutely. Chauvinist. Foolishly insolent shithead. Conjurer of terrible ideas.” Brad points out that it wasn’t his idea. Wendy apologizes, saying that she’s had a rough few days, and that she’s usually way more chill than this. Wendy explains that he has been arrested on account of suspicion with the dead body they had buried earlier. Brad explains that they were just two crazy youngsters having sex on the side of the road, but Wendy won’t buy it. “Only meth addicts decide to get out of the road in a hot ass desert and decide to proceed with biology. You have no idea how much I’m judging you right now. It’s bad enough I have to deal with The Golden Goddess, but now I’ve got some crazy necrophiliac.” Wendy eventually asks a question about the woman’s whereabouts, but Brad says that they got into a fight and she left town. The two bicker for a moment, then Wendy straight up yells, holding up a DNA sample and ID Brad has, “Just tell me where the fuck Gloria Mariato is.” Brad’s expression turns to that of “Oh shit!”

“You may not act like it, but you’re the most bat shit insane couple the police have seen in so long, and honestly, we kind of like that. You managed to somehow escape a crazy family and make it out alive. We’re not gonna arrest you, but we might just need your help.” Wendy proceeds to tell her (in a montage) about a woman named The Golden Goddess, a ruthless drug dealer who operates in the area, one who is heard to make her crimes so indefectible, the crime rates stay so low. Brad asks why they don’t just send Dom after them, until she reveals that Dom is actually probably the worst sheriff in western half of the country. The only time he goes into his insane mode is when someone is speeding or shoplifting. He probably went after Brad and Gloria simply because the whole necrophilia thing was interesting to him. Dom suddenly bursts in, saying that he heard someone talk stuff about him, yelling at Wendy, almost in laughable tears, for making him sound lame. Dom insists that he’ll get something big right, and that he didn’t just get the job because he promised to marry his supervisor’s daughter. Wendy, looking a bit awkward, turns back to Brad, “Well, the question is, are you and Gloria in or out?”

Back at the Cabaret, Gloria is doing her typical emcee routine, but as the show progresses, she notices something in the background, presumably a drug deal. Knowing that intervening will probably get herself killed, especially in her fake style, but she pretends that nothing is going on. That night, once she is closing up from the theater, she goes on stage to adjust one animatronic, a banjo wielding coyote. She accidentally knocks off its head, running to get it back on. She takes a look inside, however, and finds several small bags. Gloria takes one and cuts it open, smelling what’s inside. She looks around and keeps speaking in the higher voice she’s been using under her disguise. “Whore Dust, the sweetest mix of Angel Dust and Cocaine. Remember when daddy loved this stuff back in ’03.” she says to herself. “It’s making a comeback,” a man says, pointing a gun at her. The man, with another, larger man, tells her that she’s a sweet little girl, but she should back away slowly from the supply and go on her way. Gloria tries to pass off her Tammy impersonation and walk away rather daintily. However, upon leaving, she notices one of the men drawing a gun on her. She soon pulls out a firearm from under her shirt and opens fire on the two men as they get the drugs. A small gunfight occurs, with the men by the animatronics, but Gloria hiding in the seats. Gloria is able to take them out, with the larger man getting impaled by the coyote’s bango, and the smaller man getting his hand caught into a rotating gear. “Shit, that was Brutal,” Gloria says returning her investigation.

Suddenly, a phone rings from one of the criminals, and Gloria, taking her wig off and grinding her teeth to get off the fake braces, walks up to it. It seems to be from a woman (based on her voice), named GG. We hear her voice becoming increasingly furious. “What the fuck happened, I heard gunshots! Sweet Baby? Sweet Baby?” Gloria picks up the phone and mimics the guard’s voice. “Just checking on the supply, man I love Whore Dust.” “Are you shitting me? That’s the shittiest impersonation I’ve seen since an Elvis at any county fair.” Gloria, getting angry, raises her voice, saying that she just wants to stay out of it. GG won’t take any of it, and their insults become increasing insane, with Gloria eventually hanging up, sure to keep the recording of the number. The number is similar to that called earlier in the film, but Gloria doesn’t know that. She also catches Gloria muttering. Gloria, noting the stage covered in broken animatronics, a gator and possum covered in blood, and an armadillo broken into bits, decides to write up a quick sign announcing the closure of the theater.

The two regroup at Elena’s place to share big news. They both seem excited about it. “Gloria, the local police aren’t after us! They need our help in taking down a local drug dealer. Her name is the Golden Goddess.” “GG? OH SHIT! GG was the initials of that woman who was trying to call one of the guys I murdered at the theater and—“ Brad interrupts her, exclaiming his shock. Gloria explains everything, instantly connecting the two. “Imagine if it took us til the very end to find that out. Point is, I’m game. This might be a way to assure we’re back on a decently good side of the law.” Elena chimes in, saying how she thought the two came here just to stay out of shit like this, to get back into their comfort zone. Gloria soon decided, “you know what? This whole time, this was my comfort zone,” picking up a gun. Brad looks at her, asking if she wants to catch some drug dealers together. A few moments later, Brad bangs his head on his bed, saying what a stupid idea this is, as Gloria checks her phone. “It’ll be fun,” Gloria remarks. “Besides, we’ve already established that fighting off criminals worse than us beats dinner and a movie.” Brad looks at her a smiles, as dramatic music plays again. Cut to them lying in bed, and Brad in screaming into a pillow, “Why did I think that fucking Craigslist ad was a good idea! They’re just basketball tickets! Fuck you, Charlie!” “Seriously, Brad? You’ll be fine in the morning. Goodnight.” Gloria says, turning out the light.

The next morning, we hear that there have been a lot of police activity in the morning, and the town seems to be in a state of panic. Elena is particularly pissed off, as it means that with all the safety the town bragged about gone, she’ll lose half her clients, and she’ll be stuck with a ton of plastic shit and then just plastic shit you can fuck. She’d love to be a Good Samaritan and donate all of it, but she needs to make some profit at the end of the day. Meanwhile, “Wendy” calls up Brad and demands her to come to the police office immediately, and Brad realizes that she doesn’t know Gloria is with her. Brad tells her to come along just in case. They were nice to him, so maybe they’ll be pretty cool too. Cut to Wendy slapping Gloria straight across the face. “It was you, wasn’t it? You caused that shoot-up at the theater?” “I sure did. Brad was telling me about how you wanted those guys gone, didn’t you?” Wendy tells Gloria that the key word they needed was subtlety, and she completely lacked any of it. “The Golden Goddess knows we’re onto her because of your fucking dipshit stunt.” Dom, for the record, admits that it was cool. “Fuck off, Dom,” Wendy adds.

However, there may be another chance. GG is supposedly holding a party at a mansion near town two weeks from now. They’ll create new disguises for the two (and hire a voice coach – cameo by Ellen DeGeneres) to send them to the party. Dom will also attend in disguise, as a man named Harry Fallon, an employee at Adobe. A montage occurs of them getting ready, with Brad and Gloria becoming a more high class couple, each with beautiful black hair (and a thin mustache for Brad), and with Gloria’s voice becoming more convincingly different thanks to the voice coach. Unfortunately, GG calls several associates warning them to provide extra guards for this party. “This is war, fuckwit, and I’ll be fucking pissed if it’s not my victory.” Hours before the party, when a limo will come to pick up Brad and Gloria at their house, Gloria remarks how good it feels that Elena isn’t picking out her disguise, flipping her off as they get into the limo. Elena laughs, saying though the laughter “Those two are going to fucking die.”

The party is fairly insane, complete with Fall Out Boy performing just for her. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (as themselves) are also in attendance. Brad and Gloria take in the beautiful settings, taking some time to enjoy themselves and not look conspicuous. Dom, on the other hand, complains that he misses his stache, but is shushed by Brad. “Really, I shouldn’t have to tell a Sherriff how to do his job....oh, shit. Sorry.” Despite that incident, the evening starts out pretty promising, they are infiltrate the back area of the house, trying to be as stealthy as possible, and going over a few traps, such as nails that pop out of the floor, lasers, and a jar of hornets that can be unleased on one false step. It is actually quite a romantic moment for the two, as both are quite impressed by the ability of the other. Dom, on the other hand, is more susceptible to getting caught, but he is able to hustle though the traps just as easily. It is in part thanks, of course, to Wendy’s helpful maneuvering. Eventually, they are blocked off by a password, but Gloria remembers hearing Sweet Baby. She enters it into the console, but it doesn’t work at all. Dom, however, asks the two to remember who they are talking to, and he uses a laser gun to disable the system and get inside. “New technology. Secretly tested. Just the perks of being a Sherrif. We all get shit like this.” The door opens, and the three can see two stashes of drugs and money. Dom proudly prounces that all they have to do now is just – POW. A shot shoots straight past Brad and Gloria and hits Dom in the face, killing him instantly in an explosion of blood. (We don’t see the explosion, just Brad and Gloria becoming covered in blood and his body (with a blown off brain stump) hitting the floor.) Both are mortified, but Gloria is not quite as remorseful. Suddenly, a series of guards come running in, and Brad and Gloria try to fight them, using the traps before as ways to kill them. They eventually make it into the loot room and survive, thankfully. Wendy is trying to gauge what happened, but Gloria soon sees a woman come up to them. It’s the Golden Goddess.

“Look at these two sons of bitches,” she proclaims, pointing two guns at each of them. “Can you even hold them like that?” Brad asks. “Hell yeah.” GG explains that she is mainly just the face of her business, but there’s someone else more involved in the processes. “Come on out here, Donny!” Don Mariato, Gloria’s father comes out of the shadows, saying hello to his daughter, and the guy who fucked his daughter. “What the hell man, that’s literally what you wanted me to do! Besides, we thought you went to jail!” Don explains that GG, who just so happens to be one of Don’s best clients, made enough on her trades to easily get him out of there. The city police certainly weren’t complaining. However, release wasn’t enough for Don. Brad and his own daughter had betrayed him, and he wanted revenge. It was conjured up from the very beginning, from blackmailing Elena into getting the two into this town (if she didn’t, they’d reveal a list of local pedophiles who shop at Sweet Dream Toys.) They suddenly see Elena walk up to them, escorted by two gun-weilding guards. “You fucking twat!” Gloria yells out, “What? Brad never visited me, even on my Birthday! We never had time to develop an actual bond, one strong enough to give me an awful lot of remorse. I’d do anything to keep this business alive.” Don, tired of this exposition BS, just wants GG to kill them already. “Do the honors, Jessica.” “With pleasure.” She fires a shot at each of them, and they fall to the ground.

The two, in shock, wake up to find themselves alive, but in a somewhat large, deep pit, with an area covered in sand. They seem happy to be alive, but the circumfrence of the pit opens up a bit more. There is water under the floor, and that water is full of gators. Jessica announces over a PA system that she wanted to kill you then and there, but Don wanted a bit more irony to your death. So we’re letting the talking thumb and little Miss Herpes die right here and now. Toodles.” Gloria angrily asks how stupid it is that herpes fits into herpetologist, but the two begin freaking out either way. The gators will be unleashed any minute now. Brad tells Gloria that now would be a fairly decent time to share any regrets, and that he doesn’t want to die with anything between them. Gloria rolls her eyes, but gives an expression of “Yeah, sure, whatever.” Brad admits that the time he spent with Gloria was some of the best of his life, because he finally felt that he could do something more than boring IT maintenance at some Fortune 500 company, but Gloria becomes more annoyed. “Seriously? I wanted to get out of all of this! I know it sounds shitty, it sounds boring, but a normal life actually sounds pretty great! Oh my fucking god, we both have what the other wants. I can’t believe we’re having this conversation now. I just want to not die right now, not expunge my fucking feelings! I don't give a shit! I'm happy when I'm not dying!” The gators, now unleashed, now begin climbing up to get Brad and Gloria. Suddenly, Gloria gets an idea. She takes the whistle she had for the WWCC show, and she blows it. It’s just as annoying a sound as it was then, but it amazingly causes the gators to run off. Both are ecstatic, but have no way out. Suddenly, a ladder comes out of the ceiling of the pit.

The two climb up it and get off into desert land. Elena and Petey are there waiting for them. Gloria is about to attack Elena for her betrayal, but Elena wants to speak, “So, pedophile exposure is bad for business, but so is getting involved in a conspiracy to kill my cousin and his boyfriend. I decided I would make it work. You have no fucking idea how grateful you should be, Brad.” Elena also has information that Jessica and Don are driving to the Las Vegas Airport to continue the deal, and they need to be stopped. They regroup at the police station, with Wendy waiting for them. (Apparently Dom Jacinto’s funeral session was a modest success. He may have been a bit of a sociopath, but he had his heart in the right place.) They get a slew of awesome vehicles and weapons, from a machine gun to a flamethrower. Brad and Gloria, with the support of Elena, Petey, and Wendy, set out to catch them right on the road.

Meanwhile, Don and Jessica are driving down the highway at sunset, talking about how awesome this deal is going to be, and that they’ll be better off than ever, especially now with Brad and Gloria dead. Elena told us she got the job done just like that, but the poor girl had to close her eyes a bit. She’ll get used to it, I see a future for her in the crime world. Suddenly, we see a large, van-like car speeding up to them rapidly, Brad driving and Gloria at the passenger seat. Cut to Wendy calling county officers saying that if you see that car speeding, let it. It has direct police authority. A madcap highway brawl occurs, especially when a few cars on the side of Don and Jessica are being driven by their guards. They try to crash the couple of the road, but Gloria, climbing out of the window and onto the side, shoots the driver, causing and explosive crash. There is still one guard left, and he is ramming them from behind. He is able to shoot out the back window of the car, hitting the car’s dashboard and causing a seeming malfunction in the car. However, Jessica sneaks behind and gets something from the trunk. She waits for the car to come closer to them, and once he’s pretty much tailgating the two, she busts out the gun and fires at him, causing him to crash and swerve into a fairly large drop. However, the malfunction he caused on the dashboard made Brad’s car spin out of control, crashing onto the edge of a canyon just on the side of the road. Dom and Jessica pull over and have Brad and Gloria at death’s edge. Brad and Gloria are still stuck in their car, teetering on the edge of the cliff, both still terrified. The gas tank also springs open in the crash.

Brad and Gloria, knowing that they can’t easily get out of this, looks to Gloria, who nods at him. Both step out of the car, while Gloria says that she surrenders. Dom slaps her, claiming that he knew Elena would be a fucking pussy, and that he’d have to kill her himself. Gloria lifts her hands up in the air, but Brad comes out from behind the car, yelling, “TASTE THIS FLAMETHROWER YOU MOTHERFUCKER!” Gloria ducks out of the way, to avoid the one bullet Don can fire before becoming engulfed in flames. Don screams, proceeding to bump into the car and accidentally dip his hand into the open gas tank, causing a huge explosion. “Watch where you point that thing, you twat! Almost made me 127 hours with a vagina!” They proceed to point the thrower at Jessica, as Brad says he hopes that she’s been keeping up with Orange Is The New Black. The police (one officer played by Peter Nyong'o) eventually arrive and arrest Jessica. Wendy thanks Brad and Gloria for all the work that they had done in subduing the two, and both will recieve a stipend and no changes (Normally they would have broken so many laws. The stipend is small enough that people won't ask questions. Read, it's two $25 gift cards to Panera Bread) Eventually, the two look at one another, reminiscing over all of the crazy times they had been together. Brad ultimately confesses his love for Gloria, and he asks to propose to her. Suddenly, both of them burst out into laughter, realizing how crazy the idea of them getting married is. Gloria even admits that while she wants something more simple, it feels good to fight with him.

Elena also arrives on the scene, mentioning how Brad and Gloria look like shit. “Well no shit, our car just exploded in front of us, and we have blood on our hands.” Elena nods in approval. When asked where Petey is, Elena said he’s just at the bar, still a bit shocked at how crazy white people are. Gloria then realizes how close they were to Las Vegas, and they decide that, even in their messy situation, they’ve earned a night on the town. “The only way to celebrate all these laws broken is to break a few more, what do you say?” All three get every excited, and the drive past the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, while Brad asks to stop and check for a body in the trunk.

THE END

Post Credits Scene #1 (After Animated End Title Sequence): Gloria wakes up one morning to find a half-naked Brad lying next to him. Gloria finds that they had been sleeping in a church, Gloria looks at the scene, becoming terrified. She mutters the f-word repeatedly under her breath, loud when she realizes she was at a 24-hour cheap wedding Chapel, (Love It Up), and finally finds a certificate of the wedding between Brad and Gloria. The desk clerk, in a cameo by Laverne Cox, is proud to announce their engagement. Gloria proceeds to scream, “God damnit!”

Post Credits Scene #2 (At The Very End of the Film): We see an 80s commercial for the Wild West Critter Cabaret, emphasizing its cheesiness and absolutely touristy value with hand drawn animated characters. Kevin Spacey and Julia Roberts also appear as parents taking their kids to see the show. (Totally not a front to sell drugs!) – Charlie was then revealed to be the one watching the commercial, he looks towards the camera sadly. “Seriously, this is all I got to do here?”

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Shia LaBeouf: The Movie

Studio: Hunt Productions

Director: Shia LaBeouf

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: May 22

Runtime: 79 minute

Theatre Count: 3870

Budget: 7M

Rating: PG-13

Cast:

Shia Labeouf and a bunch of other famous people

*note the entire film takes place in front of a white background

Plot: Shia Labeouf goes through an series of gags where he and a bunch of other famous people (Including Michale Bay, Adam Sandler/Kevin James, Taylor Swift, Tom Brady, Liam Neeson, ect.) Parody the way that the public views them. The film also takes time to make fun of things such as the MPAA and the fact that sequels are always longer and lower quality than the original film.

Edited by Ethan Hunt
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