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Managed to fit in just one more to fill up a space. If it seems rushed... durr.

 

Vinland Saga

Director: Travis Creed (made-up)
Genre: Medieval Action/Drama
Date: June 21-13
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen (Askeladd), Kare Hedebrant (Thorfinn), Hafbor Julius Bjornsson (Thorkell), rest unknowns.

Plot:

The film takes place in 11

th century England. We open on a large army besieging a Fortress. However, the defence is too strong and the attackers are unable to break through. From a distance a Viking named Askeladd watches with his band and comments on the sloppy work of the attackers. He then sends a young man named Thorfinn to go and negotiate with the nobles leading the attackers. Thorfinn is brought before the lead noble and explains he’s there to offer the aid of the Viking Askeladd and his troops who will help the noble take the fortress in exchange for a share in treasure looted. The noble agrees, intending to doublecross Askeladd once the fortress is taken. The Fortress is built against a great lake. However, said lake is nearly impossible to reach via boat due to the shallow rivers leading to it and the large distance needed to carry the boats to reach sailable waters. However, Askeladd’s Vikings manage to carry their boats there anyway and use them to attack the undefended fortress ports. The Viking attack is brutal and bloody with plenty of people being cut down and the fortress set alight. Thorfinn himself is part of the attack and, upon finding the Viking commander, decapitates him and brings his head back to Askeladd. Askeladd agrees on ‘the usual reward’ for him. Meanwhile, the Vikings finish raiding the fortress and load everything of value onto their boats before sailing away, much to the dismay of the nobles.

 

Once the Vikings are a safe distance away, they make camp and begin counting up their goods. Thorfinn confronts Askeladd claiming he wants his ‘reward’. Askeladd sighs and draws his sword. A newcomer to the Vikings asks what’s going on. Bjorn, Askeladd’s second in command, explains that Thorfinn has challenged Askeladd to a duel and has been doing so pretty much every chance he can get since joining the band. The fight begins with Thorfinn relying on quick movements while Askeladd is more of a traditional fighter. In the background, Bjorn explains that Thorfinn’s grudge comes from the day Askeladd murdered his father, Thors. However, Thorfinn is too honourable a fighter to simply murder Askeladd in his sleep, instead choosing to challenge him to a duel. Bjorn points out that this is also the reason Thorfinn keeps losing. Just at that moment, Askeladd throws a handful of sand in Thorfinn’s face, before casually disarming him and knocking him to the ground. After getting Thorfinn to submit, Askeladd casually walks away telling him to try better next time. Just at that moment, a messenger arrives at the camp with a message to Askeladd from the King of the Danes, Sweyn, who orders him to assist Viking troops in capturing London.

 

London has been under siege for several months. While at first it was believed the city could be taken easily, things changed when the famed Viking Thorkell the Tall and his men switched sides to help the English. Another Viking, Jors, sails a ship up the Thames and attempts to negotiate with him, asking why he fights for the English. Thorkell explains that beating the poorly organised Londoners would be incredibly easy, especially for a powerful army of vikings. Thus, Thorkell came to the conclusion that it would be more fun to fight the Vikings instead. He then drops a boulder on Jors’s ship. Askeladd, believing that without Thorkell’s leadership, his Vikings will quickly surrender, plans for Thorfinn, their best fighter, to sneak onto the London battlements and murder Thorkell. Thorkell and Thorfinn meet and, while Thorfinn is able to sever two of Thorkell’s fingers, the difference in strength between the two is too great and Thorfinn gets flung over the battlements into the river. However, Thorkell is visibly impressed by the fight Thorfinn offered.

 

Considering London a lost cause, King Sweyn leaves, placing his son Prince Canute in charge. Askeladd, agreeing the fight is unwinnable, also has his band retreat. However, not long after they leave, Thorkell goes on the offensive and manages to wipe out the attacking Danes causing Prince Canute to flee. Hearing of this, despite the advice of his men, Askeladd chooses to help rescue the Prince, believing he can manipulate and turn the prince into an ideal ruler and valuable tool. They retrieve the Prince and his closest advisor Ragnar. The Prince is a shy young man who looks very feminine and is only ever comfortable around the kind, mothering Ragnar who has looked after him much of his life. This deeply disappoints Askeladd who considers him too weak to ever make a competent king and doesn’t have enough clout to be a useful tool to manipulate. Instead, Askeladd plans to ransom him back to his father. Thorfinn is invited to share a meal with Ragnar and Canute and, despite his generally cold demeanour, Canute takes a shine to Thorfinn. Ragnar, already understanding how his motherly attitude has worked against Canute, asks Thorfinn to take care of him if something happens. A sudden attack from Thorkell’s brigade, who have decided to pursue the Prince, changes Askeladd’s plans. Rather than abandon the Prince to Thorkell (who will probably chase Askeladd anyway for the hell of it), Askeladd has Ragnar murdered, passing it off as an attack by Thorkell, in an attempt to force the young prince to come out of his shell and grow more. He then orders his men to march across a wintery England, pillaging as they go, and hoping that the cold will stop or slow Thorkell’s army. It doesn’t.

 

In his grief, Canute turns to Thorfinn who convinces him to grow and become more confident, much to Askeladd’s pleasure. However, Thorkell’s men are catching up and there is discontent among Askeladd’s men about how Askeladd’s plans have been failing recently, signifying that his ‘luck has run out’. Many of them believe that turning over Canute and surrendering to Thorkell is their best option. Askeladd overhears these whispers and, one morning, enacts a plan to escape by sled with Canute, Bjorn and Thorfinn. However, Askeladd’s men spot them and give chase. Bjorn is killed buying time for the rest to escape. Suddenly, when Askeladd’s group seems cornered, Thorkell and his men arrive. They slaughter Askeladd’s traitorous men, ignoring their pleas for mercy and attempts to bargain. Thorkell explains that he’s only there because he wants to fight Thorfinn again. A one-on-one duel is set up between the two. Thanks to Askeladd’s advice, Thorfinn is able to win by using Thorkell’s own size against him and slicing out one of his eyes. However, Canute convinces Thorfinn to spare Thorkell on the condition that Thorkell aid their group. Thorkell agrees.

 

Meanwhile, King Sweyn has a council meeting that Canute is to attend. To reach it, the Vikings must first rest and resupply in Wales. However, they are surrounded by Welsh warriors. Askeladd manages to talk the Welsh down though and goes to talk with their leader. It is revealed that, not only do Askeladd and the Welsh leader know each other but Askeladd is the last remaining heir of an infamous Welsh noble family. Askeladd’s mother was kidnapped by his father, a Viking, and raped. When he turned old enough, Askeladd murdered his father and tried to escape with his mother. However, she had been driven into madness by her ordeals. The Welsh asks Askeladd where his loyalties lie and he makes it clear that he secretly despises the Vikings. Meanwhile, Thorkell talks with Thorfinn and learns, to his great surprise, that Thorfinn is the son of Thors, a famous battlethirsty Viking Thorkell regularly fought alongside with and greatly admired. However, one day, Thors chose to abandon the Viking life for reasons Thorkell never understood. Thorfinn is surprised at this since his father always seemed the gentle sort. However Thors is dead. Thors and Thorfinn had been on a fishing boat with a friend of theirs, Leif, when they were attacked by Askeladd’s Vikings. Thors challenged  Askeladd to single combat to save the life of his son and his friend. Askeladd accepted. However, it quickly became clear that Thors was the far superior fighter and Askeladd ordered his archers to shoot him instead. However, in respect to Thors’s ability, Askeladd agreed to spare Thorfinn and Leinf. But Thorfinn snuck aboard Askeladd’s boat intent on taking his revenge.

 

The Vikings arrive at Sweyn’s council meetings and Canute impresses the nobles so much with his improved confidence and oratorical skills that they agree to give him some valuable land for him and his men to look after, much to Askeladd’s glee. However, Sweyn, unhappy with this and realising Askeladd is responsible for his son’s change, then outlines his plans to invade Wales. Realising he cannot allow this invasion of his homeland, Askeladd draws his sword and decapitates Sweyn and several important nobles. No-one is able to bring Askeladd down until Canute manages to get ‘lucky’ and fatally stabs him (in actuality, Askeladd decided to let him kill him in the hopes of giving him greater standing among the nobles.) Thorfinn, having heard of the fight, arrives a few minutes too late and only manages to see Askeladd die. Enraged that he’s lost his chance for revenge, he attacks Canute but is held down by guards. Realising he cannot spare Thorfinn for the attempt on his life without appearing weak, Canute sentences a screaming Thorfinn, his only remaining friend, to a life in slavery before being crowned the new King of the Danes.

Theaters: 3285
MPAA Rating: R
Budget: $45mil

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Here's one big film that will go against the big April 19th crowd, and one filler.

 

The 5th Wave

Director: Brad Peyton

Composer: Alexandre Desplat

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Thriller

Date: April 19

Studio: Alpha Pictures

Format: Live-action, 2D and 3D

Budget: $75 million

Theaters: 3,430

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence and disturbing thematic elements

Running Time: 126 minutes

Tagline: The Wave Is Coming / Survival Is A Natural Instinct

 

Cast:

Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie Sullivan

August Maturo as "Nugget"

Kodi Smit-McPhee as "Zombie"

Luke Benward as Evan Walker

Hugh Jackman as Colonel Vosch

 

Plot:

Cassie, short for Cassiopeia, is a sixteen-year-old girl living alone in a tent in the Ohio woods. She is a survivor of the alien apocalypse that has swept Earth, killing most humans and turning those who are still alive against one another. Cassie calls them the Others, and tells us that this malevolent alien race has the power to look and sound exactly like a human, and therefore can trick you into believing they are human. Cassie’s father died because he trusted some of the Others since they appeared to be human. Currently, Cassie says that humanity is in the 4th Wave of the alien invasion, which “forces us into solitude, where there’s no strength in numbers, where we slowly go crazy from the isolation and fear and terrible anticipation of the inevitable.” Rule Number One, according to Cassie, is: Trust no one. Rule Number Two is: “the only way to stay alive is to stay alone.”

 

One day, Cassie encounters a young man, a soldier, in an abandoned gas station. He is bleeding to death and clutching his stomach. He orders her to drop her weapon, an M16 she keeps with her constantly, but she refuses. She suspects that he’s really human and not one of the Others, but she knows that it means death to trust anyone. The soldier drops his own gun, and Cassie orders him to show her what’s in his other hand, the hand clutching his wounded stomach. When he pulls his hand away from the wound, Cassie sees something metallic. She shoots and kills him before realizing that the object in his hand is only a crucifix. Cassie tells us that this is the last person she has seen.

 

A little while later, Cassie realizes that she has to pack up and leave her familiar patch of land because winter is coming. As the leaves fall off the trees, Cassie’s campsite is no longer concealed from the Others’ drones that regularly sweep the sky looking for humans to kill. She also has an unspecified promise to keep.

 

Cassie remembers the beginning of the alien invasion, which she calls the 1st Wave. The 1st Wave killed half a million people with an electromagnetic pulse that knocked out the power grid. Before that, the alien mother ship hovered silently over Earth for several days. Its silence was ominous. People either “fled” to places like Disneyworld, or “nested.” Cassie’s family were nesters. They stayed at home and watched the news. Her father, raised on Star Trek and Star Wars, optimistically believed that the mysterious aliens would be friendly and would help humanity rather than harm it. Less than four months after making this statement, Cassie tells us, her father was dead. The aliens had come for no other reason than to kill every human on Earth.

 

One day during calculus class, the 1st Wave hits. The power goes out and everyone’s cell phone stops working. Cassie and her best friend, Lizbeth, are ushered to the school gym along with the other students to wait for their parents to come and get them. Lizbeth tries to convince Cassie to tell Ben Parish, the boy she’s had a crush on since third grade, about her feelings, but Cassie doesn’t. 

 

The narration returns to the present, with Cassie making her way toward Cincinatti. She comes across three freshly killed people and is on her guard for the Others. She is soon shot by an invisible enemy. She lies underneath a Buick, bleeding. Finally, she makes herself come out in the open because of a promise she made to her young brother, Sammy.

 

In flashbacks, Cassie describes the 2nd and 3rd Waves of the invasion. In the 2nd Wave, tsunamis sweep the Earth and decimate all of its coastal populations within a day. In the 3rd Wave, the Others use viral warfare. The Earth’s birds carry a plague called the Pestilence or the Red Death. Cassie’s mother dies of it, but Cassie, her father, and her five-year-old brother are part of the small percentage of the population with a natural immunity to the virus. The 3rd Wave leaves only about 3% of the Earth’s population alive. After Mrs. Sullivan’s death, Cassie’s father announces that they’re going to head for the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base a hundred miles away. Although Mr. Sullivan isn’t sure there will be anything there, it is preferable to staying in their home, where they are now vulnerable to roving gangs of rapists and pillagers, or “Twigs”—thugs with guns.

 

The Sullivans make it as far as a refugee camp twenty miles from their home, which Cassie calls Camp Ashpit because of the large area there used for burning the plague-infected bodies. There, they are admitted by a retired marine named Hutchfield, the unofficial leader of the camp.

 

Cassie recalls life at the refugee camp. She is unusually lucky: nobody else there has any family left. The survivors at the camp, says Cassie, talk longingly of the days before “the Arrival,” grieving openly for their lost loved ones and former lives. No one knows what to do next or what to expect next from the Others. They are “like the Japanese who survived the initial blast of the Hiroshima bomb. We didn’t understand why we were still here, and we weren’t completely sure we wanted to be.”

 

On the sixth day at Camp Ashpit, Cassie sees her first drone in the sky. At first, the refugees think it is a U.S. military drone and become optimistic about rescue. Hutchfield dismisses this possibility. They realize that it must be an alien drone and pass the night in terror, wondering what new horror is about to be released. That night, Cassie’s father gives her a semiautomatic Luger, her first gun. The drones begin sweeping through the sky more regularly, but nothing happens. One morning, Cassie wakes up to celebration. A U.S. Black Hawk has arrived at the camp; the refugees are being rescued—or so they think—by “The People in Charge.” The helicopter leaves without stopping, though. After this, Cassie’s father gives her an M16 rifle, the rifle that will eventually become her best friend. Mr. Sullivan is grim and serious. Cassie knows that worse things are yet to come, and senses that her father thinks their luck is about to run out.

 

A few days later, a convoy of soldiers from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base arrives, along with three yellow school buses full of children. The refugees rejoice, believing they are finally being rescued. The soldiers load all the young children onto the school buses, saying they will be taken to safety and then the adults will follow along shortly. Cassie’s instincts scream against letting her brother Sammy get on the bus by himself, but Mr. Sullivan insists. Cassie reflects that her father was foolishly ignoring his own instincts, too, wanting to trust in authority, and that he thought he was doing the best thing to save his children. After the buses leave, military personnel orders all the civilian weapons to be gathered. The refugees hand over their guns without protest, completely trusting the soldiers. Mr. Sullivan finally begins to become suspicious. He sends Cassie out on an errand, knowing that she has an M16 hidden in the woods. Cassie finds her friend Crisco digging through the ash pit, looking for treasures. Suddenly, Crisco is shot to death by one of the soldiers and then the soldier turns his gun on Cassie. Quickly, she pulls the Luger out of her pocket and kills the soldier. “That was the beginning of the 4th Wave,” Cassie tells us.

 

Cassie runs back toward the compound, wanting to be with her father again. As she approaches, she sees him crawling in the dirt, injured and bleeding. A man in boots walks over to Mr. Sullivan and calmly shoots him dead. Cassie manages to evade capture and hide out in the woods long enough to see “the Eye,” a blinking orb of a bomb that the soldiers leave behind. When it explodes, it annihilates the camp completely. Cassie dives into a ravine and survives.

 

The narrative switches to Ben Parish’s point of view. Ben is in a refugee camp, dying of the Pestilence. He is visited briefly by a young man named Chris, who has befriended Ben at the camp. Chris treats Ben compassionately before leaving, promising to visit Ben again the next day. As Ben lies dying, he is haunted by memories of the night his family was killed. Twigs invaded their home, and they couldn’t defend themselves. He remembers his five-year-old sister, Sissy, being grabbed and taken from him and how he couldn’t get her back. He had promised to keep her safe, but she was killed and all he has left of her is a silver locket. Ben is not only dying of the plague but is also racked with guilt, grief, and rage about what happened to his family, especially Sissy.

 

Outside Ben’s tent, he begins to hear gunshots and explosions. Suddenly, a bleeding soldier staggers into the tent, a look of horror on his face. He says to Ben, “We had it wrong… They’re already here… right here… the whole time—inside us.” Two more soldiers come in and drag the first one away. Then they scan Ben’s forehead with a metal disc and pronounce him “clean.” Ben is then taken to the “Zombie Ward” of the military hospital, a clean and well-supplied ward where plague victims are cared for. He is tended by a doctor he calls Dr. Pam. Miraculously, Ben recovers from the virus.

 

Once Ben has physically recovered, Dr. Pam explains that the military has gained access to a piece of the aliens’ technology called Wonderland. The Wonderland program allows her to “download” Ben’s personality, his memories and experiences. She explains that she has to do this in order to determine whether or not he is one of the “infested”—that is, a human being infested with and controlled by the Others. Dr. Pam explains that approximately one in three of Earth’s surviving humans is actually one of the aliens. After Ben’s tragic memories are downloaded—revealing his entire life to Dr. Pam—she expresses sympathy for his suffering and treats him kindly. She also injects a small electronic chip into the back of his neck. She explains that this will allow the military to keep track of him, to keep him safe and keep him from being confused as an “infested.”

 

Dr. Pam asks Ben if he would like to see one of the infested. She takes him to a room with a two-way mirror. On the other side of the mirror is his friend Chris, strapped to a chair with electrodes on his head. Dr. Pam tells Ben that Chris is infested and shows an X-ray of his brain: there is a pulsing egg-like thing in the prefrontal cortex, with arms extending throughout his brain. The only way to kill the infestation is to kill the host. Reminding Ben of what the aliens did to his sister, Dr. Pam gets Ben to push a button marked “execute,” killing his former friend.

 

Over the next days, Ben rests in the recovery wing of the hospital. He is haunted by guilt over running away when his sister needed him to save her. He begins sinking into a lethargic depression, feeling hopeless and worthless. One day, Colonel Vosch comes into his room. Ben is impressed by Vosch’s commanding presence. The Colonel speaks passionately to Ben about getting revenge on the aliens who have devastated the planet. Ben is going to be trained as a soldier. Vosch tells Ben he has been chosen by God for a special purpose, saying exactly the right things to pull Ben out of his miserable state and appeal to his anger instead. By the end of the interview, Ben has gone from self-pity and depression to a state of eagerness for revenge.

 

The narrative switches again to the point of view of one of the Others. He is a Silencer, though he says they actually call themselves “finishers.” He’s been observing Cassie for months, unable to kill her even though that is his job. He is impressed with her courage and spirit; he even reads her diary when she goes away from the tent. At this moment, he’s watching Cassie bleed from his gunshot wound to the knee. He’s obviously in love with her and is struggling between the human and alien parts of himself. When Cassie pulls herself out from under the car and turns to face him, he can’t bring himself to kill her. Instead, he runs away.

 

The narrative returns to Cassie. She’s slowly freezing to death inside a car. Unable to travel on her wounded leg, she’s been stuck inside a Ford Explorer in the middle of a blizzard. She slowly loses consciousness, apologizing mentally to Sammy because she knows she won’t be able to keep her promise to come for him. When Cassie wakes up again, she is warm and clean in a bed in an Ohio farmhouse. She has been rescued by a nineteen-year-old boy named Evan Walker, and she’s sleeping in his youngest sister’s bedroom and wearing her clothes. Evan tells Cassie that all seven of his siblings and his parents are dead, as well as his fiancée, Lauren. He’s been living alone for months. The house is well-supplied with preserved foods, candles, and firewood, and Evan goes hunting every night for meat. Cassie is immediately attracted to Evan, who is kind and handsome. He’s obviously been nursing her very carefully. She thinks she can trust him because, obviously, he’s trying to save her rather than kill her, but Cassie remains on her guard nonetheless.

 

Cassie tells Evan about what she saw at Camp Ashpit—about the soldiers being the Others and about the big bomb she calls the Eye. Evan seems skeptical about Cassie’s theory, but he is totally devoted to her. She tells him about her brother, and he says he wants to come with her to rescue Sammy. Over the next weeks, Evan helps Cassie rehabilitate her injured leg with physical therapy. He also teaches her how to shoot better. Meanwhile, Cassie’s attraction to Evan grows. At the end of this section, they begin kissing. Evan tells Cassie that she “saved [him].”

 

The narrative switches to another point of view, Sammy. He is on the bus, waving good-bye to Cassie and his father. He feels alone for the first time in his young life and regrets giving Cassie his teddy bear (Bear) because he has never slept without it. Soon a soldier comes by and gives Sammy gummy bears and fruit juice. The soldier, Parker, reassures Sammy by telling him that he and the other children are being taken to a place called Camp Haven, where they will be “perfectly safe.”

 

Sammy begins talking to a girl named Megan seated across from him. She is thin, sick, and scared-looking. Megan is jealous that Sammy has members of his family still alive, since all of hers are dead. Sammy and Parker try to comfort Megan, but she is obviously scared and keeps denying that she feels ill. Parker takes her temperature with a metal disc; it glows green, indicating that she has a fever. Sammy’s temperature glows red, meaning healthy, uninfected. Each child is given either a red or green hand stamp. When the bus arrives at Camp Haven, the children are instructed to divide up based on their colors; those with green hand stamps are to be taken directly to the hospital—or so they are told. The frightened Megan wants to stay with Sammy, but Parker grabs her and sends her off with the green group. She is screaming and crying.

 

Sammy is now processed at Camp Haven. He’s deloused, showered, and taken to a waiting room outside of Dr. Pam’s office. Throughout the process, voices over the loudspeaker repeatedly announce to the children that they are “perfectly safe.” Although Sammy can’t quite figure out what’s going on, he wants to trust the authority figures. Dr. Pam, in particular, is especially soothing and trustworthy. Sammy receives the same treatment as Ben Parish: a tracking chip is implanted in his neck, and his memories are downloaded into the Wonderland program. Then Dr. Pam explains that the Others have been “under our noses” this whole time, and asks him if he would like to see one of the infested.

 

The narrative returns to Ben’s point of view. Ben is a soldier now, and his name is Zombie. Ben feels that the old Ben Parish is dead; the new one, Zombie, is a “badass.” He owes this transformation to his sadistic basic training drill sergeant, Reznik, whom he fantasizes about killing every night. Ben describes the other members of Squad 53, who are all equally abused by Reznik. Flintstone and Tank are about Ben’s own age, and both are rather quick-tempered. Dumbo, easygoing and sweet, and Oompa, quiet and chubby, are both about twelve years old. Poundcake is eight years old and the best shot in the squad. The youngest member, Teacup, is an aggressive seven-year-old girl eager for revenge on the Others.

 

Sammy, now called Nugget, becomes the new youngest member of the squad one day. Although Ben does not recognize Sammy (he never noticed Cassie at school, either), he takes pity on the frightened young child who is being forced to train as a soldier. In standing up for Nugget against Reznik, Ben gets himself (accidentally) appointed squad leader, which causes some jealousy on the side of Flintstone, who has just been demoted.

 

Ben describes life in basic training. Every squad is in competition with the others, since it takes a certain number of points to graduate. Every soldier-in-training is eager to graduate so that he or she can be deployed and get busy wreaking vengeance on the aliens. Basic training is hellish, including hours each day of sorting and incinerating dead bodies—supposedly the bodies of plague victims who were “winnowed” out from the healthy future soldiers. The whole reality of life at Camp Haven is incredibly harsh, and people often “go Dorothy,” or snap. This happens to Tank in this section. He begins questioning what is really happening at Camp Haven and suggests, hysterically, that it doesn’t matter because they’re all going to die no matter what. Tank is taken out of the squad and turns up in the corpse processing room soon afterward, dead. Dumbo and Ben assume he committed suicide.

 

To replace Tank, a beautiful, serious girl named Ringer is assigned to Ben’s squad. She is a notoriously brilliant marksman, so the rest of the squad is thrilled to have her on the team since she will surely help them graduate. Ben is a terrible shot, but with Ringer’s help, his marksmanship begins to improve. Ben develops a close relationship with Sammy, treating him like a baby brother. He and Ringer also develop something of a friendship, though she is very reserved and never smiles. With her help, however, Ben’s squad gets enough points to graduate. Ben is named sergeant of the squad, and they are told they will soon be deployed into real combat.

 

After graduation, Ben meets privately with Vosch, who gives him a speech about the difficulties of command. He tells Ben that he recently made a mistake that he has to live with: blowing up the refugee camp because he thought that everyone there was infested and he couldn’t take the chance of letting them live. Vosch tells Ben that he will have to make similar hard choices as a leader.

 

The narrative returns to Cassie, at Evan’s farmhouse. Throughout this section, they become closer romantically but Cassie cannot help feeling suspicious about Evan’s nightly hunting trips. One night while he’s out, she goes into the barn and finds her old M16 concealed under some hay. She is filled with horror, suddenly suspecting that Evan knows more than he has admitted. She doesn’t understand why he would be trying so hard to save her if it is really his intention to kill her. When she confronts him about it later, Evan says he found the gun out in the woods just a few days ago. Evan encourages Cassie to trust him, and she desperately wants to do so because otherwise she fears that she will “lose the part of [her] that makes [her] human.”

 

Ben and his squad are sent on their first mission. They are brought by helicopter into a combat zone, equipped with special glasses that fit over one eye. When wearing the glasses, they are able to see whether or not an individual is one of the infested (or “Ted,” in their slang). If the person is infested, they glow green through the glasses. If not, no green light. They land in a blizzard. Through the sheets of snow, they immediately see three glowing green lights, though they can’t make out the people attached to them. In spite of their best strategizing, they are soon being shot at by an invisible, expert sniper. Ben throws a grenade into a gasoline tank in order to blind their enemies, who are wearing night vision goggles. Subsequently, Oompa is hit through the side by a huge piece of shrapnel.

 

Flintsone threatens to mutiny because he thinks Ben is a poor leader. In spite of Dumbo’s best efforts (he is the medic), Oompa bleeds to death, whispering that his real name is Kenny just before he dies. Ringer and Ben resolve to take out the sniper. In the process, Ringer begins to ask Ben some disturbing questions about what they are really doing there and who they are really working for. Ben is afraid that Ringer is “going Dorothy,” but in fact she is finally seeing the truth. She digs the microchip out of her neck and asks Ben to look at her through his Ted-identifying goggles. Now, she glows green: infested.

 

With the horrible realization that everyone they are shooting is human—just humans without microchips—Ringer and Ben now see how thoroughly they have been brainwashed. The officials at Camp Haven clearly are the Others, and they have been training a children’s army to turn humanity against itself. Humans killing humans is the 5th Wave.

 

Ben cuts out his microchip as well, and they find the sniper who’s been shooting at them on the top of a building. It is Reznik. He’s holding in his hand a device that looks like a cell phone. After killing Reznik, they examine the device and realize that it has a kill switch attached to the microchip implants. If Ben and Ringer had not cut out their microchips, Reznik could have killed them with the simple push of a button. When they try to explain their realizations to the rest of the squad, Flintstone becomes hysterical. He grabs the kill switch device and hits the button for the number that represents his own microchip, trying to prove that nothing will happen. His head snaps violently, breaking his neck. Flintstone’s death is the final proof the squad needs.

 

Poundcake, Dumbo, and Teacup all have their microchips removed, and have no intention of returning to Camp Haven. Ben insists on returning to Camp Haven to rescue Sammy. He is determined not to run away again. Ringer says that if he hasn’t returned to within 48 hours, she’ll come after him. Ben has Ringer give him a non-fatal shot in the side, and then goes to meet the helicopter.

 

When Ben wakes up in the hospital wing at Camp Haven, Colonel Vosch is sitting next to him. Ben delivers his preplanned, elaborate lie: that the rest of his unit went Dorothy and cut out his microchip, that he killed Flintstone in defense of Reznik, and that Ringer shot him while he was running toward the evacuation point. Vosch seems somewhat skeptical, pointing out that it is almost “inhuman” of Ben to be able to resist the group mentality and not go along with the rest of his unit. Ben manages to convince Vosch, however, that he is a loyal soldier, for the moment. An orderly enters with a new microchip, and Vosch announces that Ben is going to be plugged into Wonderland so they can see his true memories.

 

Evan insists on going back to Camp Haven with Cassie to rescue her brother. After spending weeks in careful preparation, they leave the farmhouse and burn it down behind them. Within a day, they arrive at the remains of Camp Ashpit. Cassie continues to have doubts about Evan, but her doubts compete with her feelings for him and her desire to trust him. Suddenly, they are being shot at. Cassie sees someone wearing soldiers’ fatigues. A grenade goes off. Evan disappears. She continues shooting from the ravine, but isn’t sure if she hits anyone. While Evan is gone, it occurs to Cassie finally that he must be one of the Others.

 

Cassie confronts him with her rifle when he returns. Bit by bit, Evan explains that he is Other but he is also human. He has always been Evan Walker, but the Others implanted certain human beings before birth. The mothers of the human babies never even knew about it. Evan didn’t know he was alien until the Awakening, when the mothership started hovering over Earth. Now, however, he has all the knowledge and history of the Others, and it coexists with his human self. Evan explains that his people are from a dying planet. They are beings without bodies, beings of pure consciousness. They need the Earth to survive, but in order to take over, they have to eradicate humans—which they call “the cleansing”—without damaging the planet. Hence, their diabolical 5 Waves. Evan explains that there are two factions of thinking among the beings of his planet. Some, like Evan, believe that they could simply insert themselves into humans and live among them peacefully, without ever having to reveal what or who they are. Others, like Vosch, believe that because humans are inferior, this would be a degradation. For them, humans must be entirely wiped out. Currently, Vosch’s side is winning.

 

Cassie is nauseated and horrified by these revelations. She is torn between her need to trust Evan—and her belief that he actually does love her and has turned against his own species for her sake—and the memory of what his people have done to hers. Finally, Evan performs a kind of mind-meld with her, and she experiences what he is: a beautiful, warm being of light. She weeps when the connection is broken, and says that he must feel “trapped” inside his human body. On the contrary, Evan says that having a body has “freed” him, and that his love for Cassie has made him “fully human.” Evan says that, even though his people have been observing humans for centuries, they do not understand the human capacity for love. Therefore, Cassie’s love for her brother will be her greatest weapon in infiltrating the camp.

 

Evan helps Cassie plan her infiltration. Because he knows exactly what will happen once she’s inside, he’s able to prepare her for almost everything. Clutching her brother’s teddy bear, and with her hair cut off, Cassie is able to pass for a younger girl. She gets onto a bus bound for Camp Haven. Just as Dr. Pam is about to plug her into Wonderland, she knocks her out. She cuts the microchip out of her neck and puts it in Dr. Pam’s nose; thus, Dr. Pam accidentally executes herself later. Cassie climbs into the ventilation system. Making her way through the building, she overhears Colonel Vosch. He believes that Camp Haven has been compromised; therefore, he plans to blow up the entire compound with the Eye.

 

The narrative returns to Ben, who has to get out of his hospital room before he is plugged back into Wonderland. He knocks out the orderly, Kistner, but decides not to kill him because he knows he’s just a brainwashed human. Ben dresses himself as a doctor and makes his way through the compound, looking for Sammy. He’s bleeding from his gunshot wound and from his neck where he had to cut out the microchip for the second time. Ben thinks back to the fact that he chose not to kill Kistner, and regrets it. He promises himself that if anyone comes between him and Sammy, he will kill them without hesitation. Suddenly, Ben sees a golf cart wheeling by down a hallway. On it is a blinking green orb: the Eye.

 

The narrative switches back to Cassie, who is trying to figure out how to get out of Camp Haven. From Evan’s words, she knows that they have to find the escape pods—probably somewhere near Vosch’s quarters. These are preprogrammed rockets set to deliver the occupants to an unspecified distant location. Sammy says that the children are supposed to be evacuated on a plane, but Cassie doesn’t want to be taken to another Camp Haven. She grabs Sammy and heads back down the tunnel.

 

At this point, she and Ben meet face to face, both determined to kill each other. However, Sammy intervenes and makes the necessary introductions, and disaster is averted. Ben doesn’t remember Cassie, but of course she remembers him. Because of Sam, they decide they can trust each other. Ben says he knows the way to the escape pods, and they take off together. Ben cuts the chip out of Sammy’s head. Moments later, they run right into Vosch and a Silencer takes Sammy away.

 

Sammy is put into the room with the two-way mirror: the execution room. Vosch tells Cassie he’ll let Sammy live if she tells him who helped her infiltrate the base. He knows it is one of his own people. Cassie refuses to betray Evan. Vosch pushes the button to execute Sammy, but it doesn’t work because Evan has managed to hack into the main computer. Vosch exits the room to investigate, leaving them guarded by two Silencers. Cassie sees a cockroach fall through the grating and knows that Evan is nearby. She shoves their Silencer beneath the grate, and Evan kills him. Cassie takes his gun and shoots the Silencer who’s guarding Sammy.

 

Evan leads them through a collapsed corridor to an exit stairwell and tells them to wait for the evacuation plane to take off and then run north. He promises Cassie that he’ll find her later, but she feels like he is actually saying good-bye. After a long, painful upward crawl through the rubble, with Ben bleeding profusely the whole time, they reach the open air.

 

The evacuation plane is taking off so close by that it knocks them over. Cassie gets the wind knocked out of her and is hit by some shrapnel. Her determination is fierce, however, and with Sam on her back she forces herself to get up and keep running. Ringer suddenly shows up in a Humvee, along with Dumbo, Poundcake, and Teacup. Ben, Cassie and Sam manage to scramble on board and race away from Camp Haven. Looking back, Cassie sees a glowing object descend into the rubble, dropped from the mother ship. The mother ship sails across the sky.

 

Safe in the Humvee with their friends, Cassie, Ben and Sammy sit with their arms around each other, watching the sun rise.

 

THE END

 

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And for the filler...

 

1,843 Miles and 28 Hours on I-75 S

 

Director: Noah Baumbach

Composer: James Murphy

Genre: Road-Trip Comedy

Date: June 21st

Studio: Alpha Pictures

Format: Live-action, 2D

Theaters: 2,994

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some brief sexual content and language

Running Time: 106 minutes

Tagline: The Road Trip of a Lifetime

 

Cast:

Unknowns

 

Plot: Five video game players must travel down to Miami from their home in Copper Harbor, Michigan, in order to claim $100,000 at the Button Mashing Olympics, the biggest gaming competition in the world.

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Things That Are

 

Director: Andrew Clements (writer of the book)

Genre: Teen/Drama/Sci-Fi
Date: May 3

Studio: Blankments Productions

Cast: Emma Watson as Alicia Van Dorn, David Henrie as Bobby Phillips, Bryan Cranston as Mr. Phillips, Kyra Sedgwick as Mrs. Phillips, Julliane Moore as Mrs. Van Dorn, and Damian Lewis as Mr. Van Dorn, Keke Palmer as Gwen, Keke Palmer as Gwen, and Michael Sheen as William.

Music by: Danny Elfman.
Runtime: 76 min
Tagline: Life

 

PlotAlicia is thrilled that her maybe-boyfriend Bobby is back from his trip to New York. But William has followed him back. Like Bobby was once, William is invisible, and he knows that Bobby has the secret to controlling the invisibility. But the FBI is also following Bobby to get to William, whom they consider a threat. Their fathers, it turns out, have also been experimenting with invisibility. And Alicia, still struggling with her blindness, doesn't know whom to trust.

 

Theaters: 2,269

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and sensuality

Budget: $10 million

Previous Films Gross: (OW/DOM/WW)
Things Not Seen: 11.9/39.6/55.7

Things Hoped For: 11.2/30.5/38.1

 

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3:40 AM

Director: David Henrie

Genre: Found-Footage Horror

Date: June 28
Studio: Blankments Productions
Cast: David Henrie as David Henrie
Runtime: 106 min
Tagline: Tick tock to the 70s.

 

Plot: David Henrie wakes up in the middle of the night, and he looks at the clock, seeing it is 3:40 AM. He then hears a creek outside of his apartment. He gets up, and begins thinking about whether he should check it out. He eventually decides to check it out. He leaves her apartment, and sees the apartment next to his is door open. He goes inside, and finds that the hippie girl living there is stalking him. Out of nowhere, an hippie girl comes and chokes him while gagging him. He wakes up in his bed, and looks at the clock, and it is still 3:40 AM. He gets up, and goes into his closet and pulls out a baseball bat. He goes next door, and sees the girl who previously gagged him sleeping. He hits her with the baseball bat, and she wakes up, looking at him in terror. He grabs a gun sitting on her nightstand and shoots her. He then wakes up in his bed again, and sees that it is still 3:40 AM. He tries to call the police, but is put on hold. When the police finally pick up, he explains the situation. The police come over and arrest the girl. The man smiles, but then wakes up in bed again, and the time is still 3:40 AM. He then goes next door, where the door is still open. He goes inside, and finds the apartment completely vacant, until he hears screaming. He jumps out the window and jumps into a car, which flies to the moon. Cut to the clock, still showing 3:40 AM turn to 3:41 AM.

Theaters: 3,207
Rating: R for some violence, language, and disturbing images.
Budget: $2 million

 

Previous Film Gross: (OW/DOM/WW)

3:37 AM: 0.3/35.6/48.6

3:38 AM: 9.2/24.9/39.2

3:39 AM: 8.5/17.0/30.2

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Epicer Chase

 

Director: Michael Bay

Genre: Action
Rating: R(for Violence & Language)

Date: May 17th

Studio: Public Pictures

Cast:

Dwayne "The Rock" - Mark Washington

John Cena - Luke Davis

Dave Baustista - Jeff Rays

Stanley Tucci - Rick Regalds

Sam Claflin - Tommy Carls

Rosie Huntington-Whitley - Suzie Carls

Jason Statham - Don

Dane DeHaan - Businessman(the one they are driving to)

TJ Miller(Cameo) - No Name

Megan Fox(Cameo) - No Name

Pitbull(Cameo) - Himself

Chris Bosh(Cameo) - Himself

Dwayne Wade(Came) - Himelf

Score by: Trevor Rabin

Cinematography: John Schwatrzman

Budget: 85M

Previous Films Gross: $60,682,490 Domestic/$112,374,983 Worldwide

Theater Count: 3,645

Runtime: 145 min
Tagline: You thought the chase was epic last time....Just wait until you see this one!

 

The movie opens with a big wide shot of the Los Angeles prison. It then does a quick zoom through a window into a jail cell where Luke Davis is seen sitting with his cellmate Don. Luke is telling him how he only has 2 months until he finishes his seven year sentence. As Don is telling him how lucky he is, a big explosion occurs. It blows up half the prison.  As the smoke clears, Don and Luke walk out of the rubble and are greeted by four men. The lead man tells Luke that his name is Jeff and that he needs to come with them, but Jeff refuses. Jeff then tells the men he is with to get him and make him come with them. This causes a fight between Luke and Don vs. the three men to occur. It last fifteen minutes and lots of crazy hand-to-hand fighting takes place with tons of close-ups of the fighting. Prison guards finally show up, so Jeff decides to end it, so he pulls out a gun, shoots Don and then tells Luke to come with him or he will shoot him too. Luke reluctantly agrees to go with him. It shifts to an air strip after this where Luke & Jeff are getting onto a plane. They get on and the plane takes off and as it shows them flying in the air over the prison Luke was just in with all the rubble seen on the ground below.

 

*After this the title Epicer Chase appears on the screen*

 

Once the title goes away, Mark Washington is seen at the prison where he is getting briefed on what went down. After they tell him they guy who was broken out was Luke Davis, he says that he vows to personally go chase him down and bring him in again. They tell him that they have info that the plane is on its way to Miami and that if he wants to go after him, he will have to work on the case with the local Miami Police Department. He agrees and says he will be on the next flight possible to Miami. It then fads to the Miami airport where Mark is seen leaving it and getting in a car to head to the Miami Police Department.

 

It then goes back to Luke and he is sitting in an office building at a table across from a unknown man. The guy introduces himself as Rick Regals and explains that they need him to take a valuable item and drive it to Atlanta, GA and deliver it to a business partner of his. He tells him that he chose him because he heard he is an expert driver. Luke responds telling them that they have the wrong man and that it was his cellmate, who that guy (he points to Jeff) killed, that was the expert driver. Rick is furious and starts screaming at Jeff and he tells him that he will now have to go with him to make sure he doesn’t fuck it up since they have nobody else to deliver it except them. Luke doesn’t want to do it, but he has no choice in the matter. Luke ask what it is they are delivering, but Rick says it is none of his business. He hands Jeff the briefcase and they go to get the car they will be driving.

 

Now it shifts to a scene of a man getting ready for work. It does a close-up of his badge once he is finished getting dressed, a close-up of his badge is shown and it shows he a Miami Police Officer named Tommy Carls. As he is eating breakfast with his wife Suzie he talks about how his job is not as exciting as he thought it would be. She tells him that he hasn’t even been a cop for a year and he better watch what he ask for as he might regret it if it comes true and his job gets less boring. He finishes eating, gives his wife a kiss goodbye, leaves the house, and gets in his car to head to work.

 

A big wide shot of the Miami Police department is shown and then it quickly zooms in on a man getting out of a car and it is Tommy arriving at work. He goes inside and sees the police captain talking to a man and he motions to Tommy to come over. He tells introduces Tommy to Mark Washington and lets them know that they will be working together on tracking down Luke Davis. Tommy asks who that is and Mark explains who he is and tells him about their previous chase. While he is telling him a quick flashback recap of it is shown. As the recap ends, it fads to Mark and Tommy getting in a car to go see if they can find Luke. They have no leads on where he is, so they just decide to drive around Miami to see if they can find him.

 

As they are driving Mark ask Tommy about his life. He tells him about his wife of eighteen months and how he hasn’t even been a police officer for a year yet. While he is talking they get to a stop light, Mark looks over to the car on his right, and things he sees a familiar person driving it. The driver turns, looks at him, and it is none other than Luke Davis himself. They lock eyes and both are incredibly shocked to see each other. Right after this the light turns green and Luke speeds up to 80 MPH to try and out run Mark, but he is able to keep up with him. Mark tells Tommy that they won’t stop until they chase him down and bring him in. In the other car, Jeff yells at Luke that he better find a way to lose them or they are fucked. Luke responds saying that he will do whatever it takes to make sure they make it to Atlanta.

 

It is rush hour so they have to dodge in and out of cars like crazy and both are barely missing hitting them. Jeff keeps yelling at Luke to lose him, but he can’t seem to. As they are driving, Tommy calls his wife, she doesn’t pick up though, so he leaves a message telling her what is going on and to give him a call. While they are driving they see an outdoor Pitbull concert going on, so to try and lose them, they park their car and run into a huge crowd. Mark and Tommy notice this and do the same. Now they are chasing on foot through the crowd with loud Pitbull music in the air. The chase goes all the way to the stage. Luke and Jeff get on the stage, Pitbull turns to them and tells them to get off as they will ruin his concert. Jeff says I always liked your music, but I don’t like you because nobody tells me what to do. After saying this he shoots Pitbull in the chest and Pitbulls falls to the crowd uttering only one last word….dale. The crowd screams in horror. Mark and Tommy came up just in time to see this go down. Jeff sees them and starts shooting at them. Mark pulls out a gun and fires back. They jump off the stage and the chase continues on foot with them firing shots at each other. Somehow they make their way back to the cars, get back in, and the chase continues back on the road again.

 

As the chase continues, the home of the Miami Heat, American Airlines Arena, can be seen in the distance. Luke has finally had enough of Jeff yelling at him, so he turns, and yells at him to stop fucking yelling at me. However, at the same time a man walked onto the road in from of them, and since Luke wasn’t looking, he runs right into him. He hit him so hard he flipped in the air, flies over their car towards Mark’s car bouncing off the top of it, and then the man smashed on the road behind them. The camera zooms in on the man and it was none other than Chris Bosh. Luke can’t believe what he just did, but this doesn’t stop him from driving. As they drive off, in the background Dwayne Wade can be seen holding Bosh’s mangled body and crying. It focuses in on him and he yells out no really loud. It quickly shifts back to the cars and after a little more time driving they finally turn onto the interstate towards Atlanta leaving Miami in their rearview mirror.

 

Now on the interstate both cars are going near 100MPH. Jeff is furious and wants to end this chase now. So, to try and end it, he pulls out three grenades he brought with him, rolls his window down, and then throws them one after the other at Mark’s car. Mark notices them just in time to be able to dodge all of them. This causes them to instead hit three random cars causing them to explode like crazy flying high into the air. The destruction gets even worse as this cause like a dozen cars to crash into the mess of explosion.

 

As they drive off from the carnage, Tommy gets a call from his wife. She ask if he is okay and he quickly says yes and tells her he can’t talk right now and will call her back later. Mark tells him to get his gun out and try to shoot their tires to try and stop them. He does this and the chase continues with him shooting and them and Jeff doing the same to them after he notices they were being shot at. They are both driving so fast and furious that neither can get a good shot off. The chase has now gone on for hours and both are almost out of gas, so something will have to give soon. They continue to chase on the busy interstate until Luke decides to try and lose them by turning onto the exit for Orlando, but it doesn’t work as Mark is still right behind them.

 

As they are driving through Orlando, they both look down and notice their low gas light has come one which makes both of the drivers nervous. Luckily, it just so happens that they are by Universal Studios, so they pull into the parking garage and park right as both cars run out of gas. Luke & Jeff quickly get out of their car and start to look for a new car, but can’t find any cars with keys in them. They see Mark & Tommy running up on them, so they decide to run towards the theme park and hide out in there for a bit before looking for another car again. This whole time, Jeff still has the briefcase in his hands. Mark sees them running towards the parks in the distance, so they go after them. Luke & Jeff get to the entrance, but the guy (TJ Miller) running it won’t let them in because they don’t have a ticket. Jeff says fuck this, pulls out a gun, and sticks it in the guy’s face. This causes him to freak out, piss his pant, and then let them in. Mark and Tommy show up at the entrance about two minutes after this and if he saw anybody with a gun. He says yes and that he think they went towards the new Transformers Ride. They show him their badges, he lets them in, and they head towards the Transformers Ride.

 

Mark and Tommy are running through the park, but don’t know where the Transformers Ride is, so they grab a park map. After they locate where it is on the map, they head towards the ride. It then shifts to Luke and Jeff standing by the Transformers Ride and the camera zooms in close on the ride sign so that you can clearly see it is the Transformers Ride. They see Mark and Tommy running up, so they both pull out guns and start shooting at them. Mark and Tommy quickly pull their guns out and shoot back. This starts a knockdown, drag out shootout in from of the ride. After about fifteen minutes have passed, Jeff is the only one left with a bullet now. He goes to shoot Mark, but an unsuspecting Universal employee (Megan Fox) walked out of the ride into the middle of the gun fire and it shot. Mark and Tommy run over to help her and at the same time Luke and Jeff head back towards the parking garage to find a car. She is dying and they ask if she has any last wishes. Her response is that she wants them to go killer that fucker who shot her dead. After she passes, they get up and run fast towards to parking garage to try and catch up with them. They get to it and see them throw a guy out of a car, get in it, and drive off. Thankfully, a man has just parked, so they ask him to use his car. After they show him their badges, he agrees to let them. They leave the garage and finally catch up to them after driving through Orlando for a bit thanks to them getting stuck in traffic. They then enter the interstate again soon after this. Mark knows now he can’t stop their car unless he wants to hurt more innocent people which he doesn’t want to do, so he is now on a mission to stop them once they get to Atlanta. Luke sees now that they won’t give up, so he knows they are a course to a showdown once they get to Atlanta.

 

After a time lapse of a few hours is shown on the screen, they have finally made it to Atlanta. Jeff tells Luke the address of the office building they are going to, so he heads there. Mark follows closely right after them. As a last ditch effort though, Jeff pulls out a rocket launcher, that just happened to be in the backseat of the car, gets up out of the sun roof and gets ready to shoot at them. However, when he shoots it, they hit a bump in the road causing it to go off in the wrong direction. Instead of hitting their car, it flies into a McDonald’s instead which makes it explode like crazy into the air really huge. The camera zooms in on Tommy’s face and he has a look of disbelief on it.

 

A few blocks later they finally get pull into the parking lot of the business where they are delivering the briefcase. They all four get out and run into the building with Mark and Tommy chasing after Luke and Jeff. Jeff throws Luke the briefcase and tells him to go deliver it and then challenges Mark to a one-on-one, hand-to-hand fight. Mark nods in agreement and they start fighting throwing punches and slamming each other like two wrestlers would in a match. While this is going on Tommy goes after Luke up the stairs. Luke was going to take an elevator, but they were roped off with a maintenance sign on them. The fight keeps going with no end in sight as neither are looking tired at all. Eventually though, Jeff smashes Mark in the back of the head with a lamp, and he thinks he has knocked him out. So, he decides to go see if Luke has delivered the briefcase yet.

 

Luke and Tommy are face-to-face now outside the door leading to the man they are bringing the briefcase to. Tommy pleads to Luke to give up and hand him the briefcase telling him that his sentence will be shorter if he does this. Luke is not buying it though, so he doesn’t do it. While they are talking, Jeff shows up and tells Tommy to shut up, and then punches him in the face knocking him out. Now, Luke and Jeff inter the room to deliver the briefcase to the man (Dan Dehane). Luke hands it to him and then ask him what is in it? The man responds…….Isn’t that the question of the day? After he says this, Mark enters the room to stop them. The businessman hands Luke a gun and tells him to shot Mark, and Jeff tells him to do it, so they can be done with this. After thinking about it, Luke pulls the trigger and shots Jeff in the kneecaps instead and then points the gun at the businessman.

 

Time passes and the movie raps up with Jeff being taken away in an ambulance and the business man being driven away in a cop car. Mark walks up to Luke as he is about to be put in a cop car and tells him he did the right thing. At the same time Tommy is seen calling his wife and telling her all about his day and that he is fine. It shifts back to Mark and Luke and Mark decides to let Luke open the briefcase so they can find out what is in it. Luke is about to open it, but then something weird happens…….a UFO appears out of nowhere in the sky and it sucks up Luke along with the briefcase up into it. Everyone just stands there with shocked looks on their faces. It shows Tommy dropping his phone and then shifts back to Mark who says, I guess I will have to find a way to go chase after him....in space. The movie ends and fads to the credits right after he says this. 

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Clear and Present Danger

 

Genre: Thriller Starring: Chris Pine (Jack Ryan), Eric Bana (John Clark), Pedro Pascal (Felix Cortez), Edgar Ramirez (Sergeant Domingo Chavez), Noah Emmerich (Bob Ritter), Sam Shepard (Admiral Cutter), Bruce Greenwood (Judge Arthur Moore), with Demián Bichir (Ernesto Escobedo), with Andre Braugher (Admiral James Greer), and Kelsey Grammar (The President) Co-Starring: Michael Peña (Captain Ramirez), Matt Czuchry (Dan Murray), Mireille Enos (Moira Wolfe), Christopher Meloni (Emil Jacobs), Lance Reddick (Shaw), Manuel Uriza (Larson) Directed By: James Mangold Written By: Mark Boal Release Date: 7/26 Theater Count: 3405 Theaters Budget: $94 million Running Time: 155 minutes MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense scenes of violence and brief strong language Previous Films: Red Rabbit (Year 3): 63.02 OW/218.44 DOM/400.53 WW, 6 Oscar Nominations, 1 Oscar Win [impact inflated this film like Blank did to Numbers Theory] The Cardinal in the Kremlin (Year 6): 50.24 OW/178.06 DOM/414.86 WW, 8 Oscar Nominations (including Best Picture), 2 Oscar Wins Plot Summary: The film is set in 1988, two years following the events of The Cardinal in the Kremlin. All dialogue between Hispanic characters is in Spanish. All other dialogue is in English unless otherwise specified.

The film opens in the Gulf of Mexico. A Coast Guard cutter investigating reports of a missing yacht finds it adrift. The crew launches a boarding party. Onboard they find two men of Hispanic descent and the aftermath of a grisly murder of the family onboard the yacht. The crew barely keeps itself from losing its stomach as well as going vigilante. They arrest the men and alert their port of what happened. It turns out that the father in the family killed was a prominent Southern businessman, which results in major news media coverage about the growing failure of the war on drugs announced by the President. The President (Grammar) summons his National Security Adviser, Admiral Cutter (Shepard), to complain about how his promise to reduce drug use and violence has gone nowhere, which makes things dangerous as it is an election year and the presumptive opposing party nominee is gaining momentum. Cutter tells the President he is working with the CIA to craft a strategy to deal with the problem. We cut to Langley, where we are re-introduced to Jack Ryan (Pine), who is now the chief deputy to Admiral Greer (Braugher), the CIA’s Deputy Director, Intelligence Division (DDI). Greer is suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, so he is hospitalized while Ryan takes over his duties on an acting basis. Ryan meets with Judge Arthur Moore (Greenwood), the CIA Director, and Bob Ritter (Emmerich), the CIA’s Deputy Director, Operations Division (DDO). It is mentioned that Ryan will be attending a conference in Europe. Ritter is still not friendly with Ryan, but respects him, and Moore says it’s Ryan’s time to prove he can handle Greer’s job. After the meeting ends Ryan leaves. Moore asks Ritter how long before they can begin and Ritter says he’s sending their best man down to give things a look, and he is assembling unit rosters for the teams. Moore tells Ritter to handle Cutter, since his time in the White House has made him “politically sensitive.” Moore also wonders whether it was right to not bring in Greer or Ryan in on this, but Ritter says Greer is dying and Ryan’s “not ready” for something like this. Ryan briefly visits Greer in the hospital. Greer is in good spirits, but is physically weak. They talk about Ryan’s duties and Greer assures Ryan that he’s more than proven himself capable over the years. A man (Eric Bana) arrives in Colombia under a European passport. He meets with a local contact, Larson (Uriza), and the two travel to Larson’s piloting school. Larson flies the plane on a circuit of the Colombian highlands while the man, Clark, takes pictures and notes of the area while discussing local affairs. Larson informs Clark about the ease of getting blueprints for the homes of the local druglords and also tells him the general location of the drug refineries and procedures. In a military base at California, a promising sergeant, Domingo Chavez (Ramirez) is recruited to join a special military unit running out of Fort Benning. All Chavez is told is that his ability to speak Spanish fluently is a major reason for his selection. He gets on a plane with a couple other Spanish-speaking NCOs and learns that while his paperwork is for Fort Benning, he and the others are going to a training camp in the Rockies. A senior agent with the FBI, Dan Murray (Czuchry), arrives in Mobile, Alabama to collect all evidence of interest from the adrift yacht. This includes a handful of computer discs owned by the yacht’s owner. Clark arrives at a CIA-owned estate on a Caribbean island where he meets Ritter and debriefs him. He asks about Admiral Greer’s condition and is saddened by the prognosis. Clark tells Ritter that his assessment is the teams being assembled can operate if they keep a low profile. He asks if the cartels have anyone skilled running security and Ritter says they have hired Felix Cortez, a Cuban intelligence agent who abandoned Cuba. We’re now introduced to Felix Cortez (Pascal) as he enters the estate of Ernesto Escobedo (Bichir), the cartel kingpin he works for. Cortez is a charismatic, insightful man, whereas Escobedo is serious and dour, prone to bursts of anger. Cortez tells Escobedo that killing the American and his family was an error, since it has made waves in the media. Escobedo says it was necessary to send a message to those tempted to steal from him. Cortez doesn’t look convinced and says he will be traveling to the U.S. to investigate prospective moles. Chavez arrives at the training camp in the Rockies, where about three dozen men have been assembled, all experienced soldiers who speak Spanish. The men are divided into three squads. Chavez’s squad is led by Captain Ramirez (Pena). The unit begins training for high-altitude conditions. Chavez makes friends with some of the unit members and interacts with Ramirez. Ritter meets with Cutter to update him on the CIA operation, code-named SHOWBOAT. The meeting goes smoothly at first, though Cutter and Ritter don’t like one another. Ryan is settled into Greer’s office and is shown the necessary things by Greer’s secretary. As this goes on the two briefly talk about how Greer is doing. One of the things Ryan is shown is that Greer has the combination for all senior CIA officials’ safes, in case of needing emergency access. Cortez arrives in the D.C. metro area and meets a contact who gives him files on prospective people who can be blackmailed, manipulated, or tricked into giving up sensitive information. Cortez reviews them and chooses Moira Wolfe (Enos), a widower in her mid-forties who is the personal assistant for the FBI Director. Ritter talks with Moore. They agree that Cutter is someone who knows enough about how operations work to be dangerous in potentially screwing them up. Ritter says Cutter told him SHOWBOAT will begin once FBI Director Jacobs (Meloni) goes to Colombia to talk with the Colombian Attorney General. Once Jacobs sells the Colombians on the idea, they can proceed. The two complain about Cutter wanting to rush the operation so there can be results before the final weeks of the election campaign. Chavez and his unit are briefed as to their mission: They will be inserted into the Colombian highlands where they will take up recon positions around drug airfields and radio when flights leave. Those planes will be intercepted by a covert Air Force unit. We see a scene where Cortez follows Moira to a support group for widows who lost spouses to cancer and poses as a new arrival. After the meeting the two strike up a conversation, sharing their backstories, Cortez’s being an elaborate cover of a widower from Venezuela. They go out for coffee and afterwards Moira suggests they meet again. Murray is contacted by the computer technicians in his unit who have inspected all of the computer discs from the yacht. They contain evidence of hundreds of millions of dollars invested by the cartels in American businesses to help launder their drug money. Murray has Moira set up an appointment with Director Jacobs, to whom he shows the evidence. Ritter meets with Clark on a military airfield in the South. Ritter says the operation is almost ready to kick off and he would like Clark to coordinate things from a forward station in Colombia. Clark agrees to do it. The three special military squads are flown to Panama where they are to spend a few days acclimatizing to the weather before moving in. Chavez tries to pass the time with his squad buddies but is a bit antsy. Cortez has a dinner date with Moira and the two have a great time, after which they go to Cortez’s hotel room. Later, they talk and Moira unintentionally lets slip that Director Jacobs is unhappy about things going on in Washington and will be travelling to Colombia. Cortez suggests she call him before Jacobs leaves so he can take her on a short vacation while he is gone. Later when alone we see he does feel some remorse for taking advantage of her. The following day he returns to Colombia, via Venezuela. Ryan meets with Moore and Ritter to update them. They tell him that given James’ prognosis, they’re going to make him acting DDI. Ryan is reluctant, but Moore says James personally told him that it was time for Ryan to step into his shoes. Moore adds that Ryan is respected and assuming the President is re-elected, the acting position will become permanent. Ritter says that some things will remain need-to-know, which Ryan understands. Ryan then departs to prepare for the upcoming NATO conference. Moore and Ritter talk about when to bring Ryan into the operation. In any case, they can wait to talk to Ryan until after he returns. We also learn that the President has signed an executive order labeling drug smuggling operations a “clear and present danger to U.S. national security.” This gives some political cover, but Moore and Ritter agree it’s still best to keep the operation dark. We follow Ryan briefly as he prepares for going to Europe. He goes to visit Admiral Greer in the hospital again and the two reminisce about Ryan’s early days in the CIA. We see that Greer’s mind is starting to get a bit foggy due to his worsening condition. We see Ryan as he goes home after a day of work. He talks with his wife Cathy (cameo by Alison Brie reprising her role from Red Rabbit) Greer’s health decline. The two have a warm moment talking about this and Ryan confesses he doesn’t know if he’s up to Greer’s job. They talk about having a get-together with the Murrays, who the Ryans met while living in London, before Jack leaves. Cortez meets with Escobedo and tells him he suspects the Americans may be planning something. He mentions Director Jacobs coming to Colombia. When Escobedo tells him more details about what the murdered yacht owner did for the cartel, Cortez is angry, saying that if he knew this he could have given Escobedo valuable advice. He advises Escobedo to pull his money from American investments as soon as he can. Cutter and Moore speak with the President. FBI Director Jacobs is also there. Jacobs remains uneasy about the plan, saying that it is a legal gray zone. He reveals the FBI’s plans regarding imminent massive drug money seizures from banks in the U.S. and Europe of nearly $600 million. The President and Cutter are both pleased by the news, since it’ll be a boost for the President’s momentum. Jacobs continues, saying that while this will allow him to easier convince the Colombian government when he visits, he disagrees with SHOWBOAT in principle and says he can accomplish more domestically within the law if he had the necessary funding and manpower. The President gently declines, saying he can’t get Congress to double spending for the FBI and DEA. Based on the meeting, Cutter tells Moore and Ritter to send the teams in early. The American squads are airlifted one at a time from Panama into the Colombian foothills. Upon landing in Colombia, they make contact via a secure satellite channel with their handler, who is in a van rigged with tons of communications gear on one side and a large map with dozens of pinpoints and labels for checkpoints and targets. Clark is in the van, monitoring everything. The drug money seizures happen simultaneously, with dozens of bank accounts frozen and investment properties seized. The President makes a national address hailing a major victory in the war on drugs. Down in Colombia, Escobedo is upset, as he hadn’t finished withdrawing all of his money from the investments. Cortez says this is why Escobedo hired him, to give him warning of things like this. After Cortez leaves, Escobedo says to himself that the Americans will pay. Jacobs informs Murray and other senior FBI officials of the timetable for his trip to Colombia: The coming weekend. As Moira also knows, she makes plans for a weekend vacation. She calls Cortez at his cover and lets him know about this. Cortez then talks to Escobedo and informs him about Director Jacobs’ trip and his plan to speak to his source to try and learn more. Escobedo wishes Cortez luck. He then calls other cartel leaders to organize an emergency meeting. Chavez’s unit arrives at their destination and Ramirez sends him as a scout. Chavez does a perimeter check on the drug airfield. They then observe a courier plane take off. Ramirez then sends a coded satellite message to Clark, who relays it onward. We see the result: An F-15 fighter intercepts the plane over the Gulf of Mexico and shoots it down. Clark and his fellow operatives catch word of the massive seizures in the U.S. Clark is a bit restrained, as he remarks to Larson as they have some drinks that when the Cartel has suffered public humiliation, they are prone to lash out. Cortez arrives in the D.C. area and meets Moira. They get into a car and drive off. Jacobs arrives in Bogota and is met at a military airfield by the US ambassador to Colombia. The two chat as they are driven back to the US embassy, the ambassador a bit annoyed he is in the dark. Jacobs says once the Colombians okay things, he can be brought into the loop. As they near the embassy, a man on a roof observes the convoy and uses a walkie-talkie to say it is time. When the limo stops at a red light, three RPGs are fired from nearby roofs and rip the limo to pieces. Murray and his wife visit the Ryans at their home. Murray and Ryan talk a bit about how life is going when Murray gets a notice from his beeper. He uses Ryan’s phone to call back and learns about the double assassination. He tells Ryan and says he has to get to DC immediately. As he goes to get his wife, Ryan’s secure phone in his office also rings. Ryan picks it up and after a few seconds tells the voice he’ll come in immediately. The President receives the news in his living quarters and tells an orderly he wants Cutter, Moore, and Ritter in the Oval Office ASAP. Then alone, he looks utterly pissed and comments “so you bastards want to play.” Ryan arrives at Langley to find that Moore and Ritter have been summoned to meet the President. As acting DDI, he is confused that he hasn’t been summoned as well. One of Greer’s longtime aides comments that it was rare for Greer to be out of the loop, but when he was it was because something had already started. Jack uneasily considers this. Cutter, Moore, and Ritter meet the President, who is furious. The President says that if the Cartel wants to assassinate high-ranking government officials, then the gloves come off. He then says “Mr. Ritter, you have your hunting license.” Clark is in a safe house and gets a message to return to Langley immediately. The message also says the soldiers are to be extracted from the initial assignments. He tells the communication unit to let the teams know this. Cortez and Moira have spent the night together when the front desk calls to tell Moira someone from home left a message. She calls home and is told that her work has been looking for her about some emergency. She calls in and is hit with the news of Jacobs’ murder and she becomes distraught. Cortez comforts her and she says she will have to leave immediately. Later Cortez goes to the bathroom and punches the wall, softly cursing Escobedo for his idiocy. Murray meets with acting FBI director Shaw (Reddick) and is put in charge of investigating Jacobs’ death. He notices that Moira has come in looking distraught. Ramirez gets word of the extraction, which includes an order to eliminate all enemies on the airfield. He orders Chavez to lead half the squad in to take out all inhabitants. The airfield is barely staffed, so Chavez and the others kill the guards quickly. They booby-trap the buildings and are extracted via helicopter back to Panama. Clark arrives at Langley and meets with Ritter, who briefs him. Ritter says Clark is their best hitter and wants him to carry out the CIA’s retribution. Clark says he wants to run his operation his way. Ritter agrees. Clark asks about the military teams and Ritter says that they’re being redeployed. Instead of scouting Cartel airfields, they are going to be hitting drug refineries in the mountains. Clark comments that’ll be significantly more dangerous and Ritter agrees, but says the President is out for blood. Clark says he has an idea he thinks Ritter and the brass will love. Ryan visits Greer and they talk about Jacobs’ assassination. Ryan mentions that he thinks he is being left out of the loop, which makes Greer a bit angry. Straining while weak from chemo, Greer tells Ryan that division chiefs are supposed to have clearance for everything, since as DDI it is Ryan’s job to brief Congress on operations and information. Cortez meets with Escobedo and is furious, calling Escobedo petty and stupid. Escobedo says the Yankees insulted his honor, so he took it back. He says several airfields were attacked in response, but that was just a minor sting. Cortez also says Escobedo ruined any chances of getting any further info from his source, since her boss is dead. Escobedo is dismissive, which angers Cortez more. Murray goes over the information he has and based on it realizes that someone in the U.S. leaked word of Jacobs’ travel. He has deputies go over phone records while he leaves for Jacobs’ funeral. The following day, a CIA agent arrives in San Diego and visits a docked aircraft carrier. He visits a fighter squadron commander and gives him an envelope of orders. The commander reads them and asks if they’re for real. The agent nods and says the carrier commander has already been given orders to deploy a couple hundred miles off the coast of Panama for “battle exercises.” The agent adds that the special ordinance will be painted blue. He also says that only the squadron commander will know the whole truth. Chavez and his unit learn of what happened. They are suitably psyched up about going back in and learn they’ll be going higher into the mountains. Chavez talks with Ramirez about the mission and while they are both a bit concerned about acting so quickly, they also want to get some payback for their country. Ryan leaves for the NATO conference. Meanwhile Jacobs’ funeral is held in Chicago, with Murray, Moira, and many others present, including the President. Afterwards Murray is at the wake when an agent gives him a fax from D.C. It indicates that Moira had called a number in Venezuela from her office phone a day before Jacobs left. Murray looks at her from across the room sadly and gives Shaw a call and explains what he has learned. They agree to talk with Moira once they return to D.C. Chavez’s unit is airlifted back into Colombia, being dropped in a mountainous region. They have their destination labeled on maps and Ramirez gives the order to move out. Back in D.C. Moira is asked to meet with Shaw and Murray. Before they can talk explains about the man she started a relationship with. Murray quietly says that the phone number she used goes elsewhere than what she thought. Moira instantly realizes that she had been used to get information and breaks down. Murray says he knows she didn’t mean any harm and they will need a complete description of the man.. Ritter gets a call and goes immediately to see Moore and tells him what the FBI just informed him. They agree that it was Cortez who likely got the information from Moira. Moira is at home, despondent. Wracked with guilt, she finds a mostly empty bottle of pills and downs the rest. The following morning Murray arrives to pick Moira up to find an ambulance out front and quickly learns that one of her children found her unconscious with a pill bottle and called 911. Murray explains to her kids he works with their mom and stays with them as they go to the hospital. The doctor tells Murray it’s a 50/50 chance but Murray relays more hopeful news to the kids. Another agent comes in to stand watch so Murray returns to his office where his deputies bring him their overnight investigation. Based on the info Moira provided, they were able to track the movements of Cortez (under his cover’s fake name) from when he landed in the U.S. to when he left, though he avoided cameras. Chavez and his unit arrive at their target, a drug processing station for cocaine. Their orders are to eliminate all hostiles. The unit carries it off without a hitch. Unfortunately they cannot destroy the facility or the contents itself, since doing so would give away their position. At their first rest stop, Chavez talks with Ramirez. Ramirez admits he is beginning to have concerns about the wisdom of these operations. Word reaches the Cartel leaders that three processing plants have been raided with over thirty men killed between them. Uncertain about the matter, the leaders, including Escobedo, agree via phone conversations they should organize a meeting. Several of these calls are intercepted by a CIA listening unit, which reports to Moore and Ritter. Ritter sends out several messages initiating an operation. Clark, who has just returned to Colombia, is one such recipient. He immediately gets in touch with Larson and arranges to travel to a ridge a couple miles from the meeting location, one of the estates of a cartel leader. As they travel, Larson shows Clark blueprints of the estate. Ritter goes to talk to Cutter and says four of the fourteen Cartel lords are confirmed to be at a meeting and they’ll be arranging a flyby. Moira has pulled through and is awake. Murray visits her to say that she didn’t do anything wrong. She thought she was in a real relationship and she didn’t break any laws. Moira still says she is ashamed. Murray says it’s not her fault, she was played by an elite professional who knew exactly how to manipulate people. He says she’s going to have to be transferred, but the FBI won’t forget her. Cortez is phoned by Escobedo and told the “committee” wants to hear his opinion on the recent raids. Cortez looks at the time and says he’ll be late. He gets into his car. On the U.S. aircraft carrier near Panama, a training exercise begins. One of the planes is loaded with the blue bombs. As the exercise goes on, it flies towards Colombia. Clark and Larson arrive at the ridge a few miles away from the meeting estate. Larson asks what they do now. Clark pulls out a laser targeting system, looks at his watch, and says they wait. Cortez is stuck in some local traffic. He grumbles to himself about being even later and how the four bosses will blame him for it. Clark and Larson watch a small convoy of vehicles arrive at the estate, three leaders emerging. Larson scopes out with binoculars the nearest vehicle to the estate walls, a large pickup truck. Clark activates the laser targeting system and aims it at the truck. Larson asks why the house isn’t being targeted. Clark replies they want it to look like a car bomb. The fighter plane is over land and the laser targeting guides him in. He begins his bombing run. Cortez nears the hill the estate is on and drives up the driveway. The fighter releases the bomb from a high altitude. It impacts the truck dead-on and the explosion is tremendous, obliterating much of the main estate building. Cortez’s car is a couple hundred yards down the driveway and is flipped over by the shockwave. Cortez is bruised but otherwise ok. Clark and Larson are silent as they watch the explosion. Clark confirms a hit over the radio and the two quietly pack their things and go. Cortez crawls out of his vehicle and runs towards the estate to find it a total ruin. He looks around, processing everything he sees. He returns to his car, takes out a primitive cell phone, and calls Escobedo to inform him of the explosion, which he assumes to be a car bomb. He says it is uncertain who arranged it. Ritter gets news of the successful bombing and brings it to Cutter. Ritter says they got four major Cartel leaders, alongside unavoidable collateral damage, which would include family and staff in the house. Cutter pales killing innocents. Ritter says he was told to hit the Cartel, well when you hit them with bombs there’s going to be people who wind up getting hurt. Cutter is afraid the media will get ahold of this but Ritter says they’ll assume it was a car bomb by someone in Colombia. Cutter says neither he nor the President bargained for this and Ritter says the President told them to treat this as a war, and in war you can’t avoid the deaths of innocents. Ryan is at his hotel in Europe and catches word of the bombing from the television. He chats with a couple associates from other NATO intelligence services about the news and comment about whether it was a car bomb and who planted it. They ask Ryan if his people got some revenge. Ryan honestly says to the best of his knowledge that wasn’t the case, but his face has a slight bit of uncertainty. Cutter and the President watch news coverage and the President is upset about the collateral damage, though he’s more worried about political fallout if the media learns who was responsible. Cutter says Moore and Ritter don’t have to inform select members of Congress of the operation until 48 hours after it begins, which is in a day-and-a-half. The President says Congress is going to be kept in the dark on this one and asks if they can fool the media. Cutter says they can make it look like internal Cartel troubles, which gives them a chance for a second bombing. The President sighs and asks about the army units and Cutter says they are successfully raiding drug facilities. It will provide a slowdown of the drug trade that will be noticeable election, which will look good to voters. Meanwhile, Chavez’s unit makes another raid on a drug refinery. One of the squad is killed in the return fire, and two of the peasant workers are able to flee in the confusion. Chavez and the others briefly mourn the loss of their comrade and then Ramirez orders for them to take the body for hiding and depart. Cortez returns to the bombing site to watch the police going over the scene. The officer in charge says they’re certain it was a carbomb and Cortez agrees, but asks for a full workup of the explosive agents as well as all forensics. A satellite controlled by the CIA had been observing the bombing area and its camera feed has been downloaded into VCR tapes. They are delivered to Ritter who watches them. He notices the one car that arrives late and the man who gets out. He pauses, zooms in on the man, and gets a decent look. “Cortez” he says. Cortez assures Escobedo he is uncovering the truth of the attack when the two peasants who escaped the American attack are brought in. They say they didn’t see anything, just heard lots of gunfire and men shouting in Spanish before running. They say they know the weapons the guards use and the weapons of the attackers sounded different. Cortez nods and the wheels in his mind begin to turn. Clark and Larson sit in a Bogota safehouse and wait. They talk and we learn that Clark has a history with drug gangs from over a decade earlier that had gotten people he cared about killed, so he’s of the mindset that if the orders are legit, that’s all the justification he needs. They also talk about the next step of the plan. Clark says the key is to make the Cartel leaders believe someone in their organization is making a power grab. Cortez sifts through the ruins of the drug refinery the peasants had fled from, inspecting things. A lackey talks to him about whether it was the Colombian army or M-19 and Cortez says he thinks it was the Americans. He says they would have needed to be airlifted in, so probably by helicopter from Panama. And since multiple places have been hit, there’s 3 or 4 teams in the mountains. The lackey says that’s a lot of assumptions and Cortez replies that he was trained by the KGB. A little evidence is all he needs. Murray is given by Shaw a printout showing the person Ritter believes to be Cortez. He takes it with him when he visits Moira at the hospital. The doctor says she will make a full physical recovery, and mentally too, just a bit more time. Murray shows Moira the photo and she recognizes Cortez. She tells Murray to get him. Murray promises he will. The NATO conference ends and Ryan gets on the plane that’ll take him back to the D.C. area. He tries to rest, but is a bit uneasy about what is going on in Colombia. Chavez and his unit have been stationed in the same spot for a few days with no new orders. He and the other men are getting restless, but Ramirez says that after losing one of the men, they should be thankful for a breather. Cortez is in his home office when he hears from the police officer investigating the bombing. Residue from the site indicates the explosive agent mostly consisted of Octol, a substance principally made in the U.S. We see him research aircraft weapons and learns that major developments have been made in making bombs with casings out of hardened cellulose, which when reinforced is as hard as steel. There would be no casing fragments and the bomb would be almost impossible to pick up on radar. He also watches American news reports which speculate about a possible civil war within the Cartel. Cortez smiles as if he’s figuring it out. Cortez then meets with Escobedo. He tells Escobedo that the Americans are funding military teams in the mountains to raid facilities. He also says that the explosion was a car bomb, but done by someone in the Cartel, based on who had physical access to the truck. Escobedo accepts this and wonders who is selling the other leaders out. He decides to arrange a meeting with a leader he trusts. Escobedo’s call to the other leader is intercepted by the CIA communication unit. Its information is immediately forwarded to Ritter. Cortez makes a call of his own, arranging for a fake assassination attempt on Escobedo on the way to the meeting. Ryan’s plane lands at Andrews Air Force Base near D.C. and he gets driven home. He calls Moore to let him know he’s back in the States. Moore tells Ryan they can talk more when he comes in in the morning. Ryan arrives at Langley and catches up on work before going to meet with Moore. Moore says he heard good things about the NATO conference and says Ryan made a good first impression. Ryan starts to mention something else but decides against it. Escobedo and Cortez are in a limo in a small convoy traveling on the way to the meeting place when the front cars are attacked with machine guns. As Escobedo’s men fire back, Cortez orders the driver to do evasive maneuvers. One machine gunner as instructed shoots at the limo, though intentionally missing. The limo gets away and Cortez directs it to a ridge where they can wait things out. As they do, the estate they were going to suddenly explodes. Cortez comments that’s one less suspect. Escobedo is aghast that he was close to being blown up as well. Cortez nods and says they were lucky. “Now, jefe, we are going to handle this my way.” Clark and Larson are on another hill with the targeting gear. Larson comments that Escobedo never showed up. As they drive away they catch on a police scanner reports of a shootout in a nearby town with a couple Cartel cars riddled with bullets. Clark says it seems the overall plan might be working out. Ryan sees news of a second bombing of a Cartel lord’s home. It’s becoming apparent to him that something big is going on that he’s not being told about. He talks to Moore and asks what he should do if someone from Congress asks him about Colombia. Moore admits that he’s kept Ryan out of the loop, since Ryan has only just taken over for Greer. He tells Ryan that the CIA has an operation in Colombia, but they’re not behind any car bombs. Ryan departs. As he does, he has an unsatisfied look. Shortly after this Ritter and Moore talk. They’re pleased and believe that Clark’s plan may be working after all. Moore says that Ryan is starting to warm up to what’s going on and Ritter says their operational phase is close to an end. Soon, the drug lords will be tearing themselves apart. Cortez travels to a village in the foothills where a large amount of trucks wait. They are a couple hundred men drawn from the security forces of the remaining lords. Cortez splits them into several groups and assigns them patrol paths. The lackey he spoke to earlier asks whether they’ll find the soldiers. Cortez says he hopes they do, since he needs the Americans to kill off the Cartel’s men as much as he needs them to kill the Americans. Chavez is scouting along a hillside when he sees several trucks a few miles away climb up a road on a nearby hill and drop off over 40 men. He reports this back to Ramirez, who gives the order to withdraw. Chavez says the druggies are finally trying to hit back and wonders if any of the other teams know this. Ramirez says all they can do is get to a designated safe zone and call the news in. Ryan goes to visit Greer, who has taken a serious turn for the worse. Though lucid, he’s very weak. They talk a little about Europe and how Ryan is handling the job, but then it turns to Colombia. Greer knows something is going on, since he says Moore wouldn’t look him in the eye when he visited a few days ago. Ryan says he thinks Moore has lied to him and he wants guidance. Greer says Ryan knows people in the right places, and he’s always done the right thing, so he knows what to do. He drifts off to sleep and Ryan leaves, teary, especially when a doctor confirms that Greer is likely to die any day now. Clark meets Larson, who has important news of Cartel gunmen lowering noticeably in the cities they control, and he’s heard rumors of them going “hunting” in the mountains. Clark realizes they’re after the army units. He tells Larson that they’re going to take a trip to scope things out. We cut to a distant part of Colombia where one of the other American soldier teams is preparing to ambush a platoon of the Cartel gunmen. They’re almost set up when one of the soldiers gives his position away, sparking a short but bloody firefight. The result is that a bunch of Cartel minions are killed, but so are half of the Americans, including their captain. The remaining six hightail it while the Cartel men regroup. Cortez is thinking as he watches news reports. After one report mentions the upcoming election and another shows a brief interview with Cutter where Cutter talks up the “civil war” in the Cartel, Cortez smiles. He makes a couple calls. Ryan is working late, almost all the executive staff gone home. Looking troubled, he pulls out the sheet of paper from Greer’s desk that has the codes to Ritter’s safe. After some thought, he calls the security desk for this wing and asks them to get him some documents from the file chamber. After confirming they’re gone, Ryan walks across the hall into Ritter’s office. Ryan uses the codes to open Ritter’s safe and goes through the document files. He scans the operation summaries and pulls the ones that detail the Colombia operations. Ryan takes those files to his office and is scanning them nonchalantly when the security guys come by to drop what he ordered on his desk. After they leave, Ryan immediately begins to Xerox the files. When done, he puts the originals back, stacks the copies into his briefcase, and leaves. Clark and Larson drive into the foothills to check things out. Clark is angry and says if he had the frequency to the teams’ short-range radios, with the lack of road security he could set up meeting points, pick them up in a truck, and drive them to an airport. They come across a Cartel truck where a couple men are standing guard. Clark has Larson stop and he gets out to take a look. The Cartel men order him to stop but Clark bluffs he is a prospector, waving a map around. His waving distracts their eyes, so they never see him pull out a pistol. Afterwards, Clark has Larson help search the truck and they find in the back a couple dozen bodies in trash bags, including Americans. Clark tells Larson he is to fly Clark to the Panamanian airbase so Clark can get back to D.C. He then rigs the truck to set on fire and the two drive off. Cutter meets with the President and informs him that one of the teams has suffered losses, half dead. The President begins losing his cool. Cutter tries to say they’re winning, but the President says no one is noticing to give him an edge in the polls, but they sure as hell will notice if word leaks of what has gone on. He tells Cutter to shut the operation down ASAP. Cutter sighs and leaves. When he returns to his office he finds a fax waiting for him. It looks official and has a message asking for a clandestine meeting in Panama. Ryan arranges a meeting with Murray at the FBI headquarters. He goes into Murray’s office and says he needs help in handling what could be illegal operations that involve murder. Murray realizes it has to do with Colombia. Ryan nods and says since the operation is being controlled from the White House, they can’t go to the Attorney General, so he needs someone Murray trusts absolutely. Chavez and his unit are slowly evading pursuit and come across the survivors of the unit from the earlier failed ambush. He brings them to Ramirez who is growing more uncertain about what to do. Ramirez decides they should continue to their extraction zone, rebuffing Chavez who says if they lay a proper ambush and hit the Cartel gunmen hard, it will buy them time. Murray brings Ryan’s information to Shaw’s attention, who immediately begins making calls to field agents to start shadowing certain people, such as Cutter. Shaw learns that Cutter went to Andrews Air Force Base and his flight plan is for Panama. Shaw contacts the FBI legal attaché in Panama to organize a surveillance operation. Ritter returns to Langley to find Clark waiting. Clark tells him they need to shut down SHOWBOAT and get their men out of Colombia. Ritter tries to be delicate on the issue, but Clark tells him it needs to be done now, he’s not going to let more men die. Ritter says he’ll arrange it. He tells Clark that they now have an ID on what Cortez looks like. Clark tells Ritter to hand him the details and he’s returning to Colombia tomorrow, but he has one visit to make first. Cutter lands in Panama and travels to a hotel. When he leaves he is followed by a pair of cars containing the FBI agent and some Panamanian cops. They follow Cutter to a rich estate on the outskirts of Panama City and take up visual surveillance positions and wait. Cutter goes into the estate and finds Cortez waiting for him and mostly hides his surprise. Cutter asks what Cortez wants and Cortez says they should talk outside to avoid any recording devices. Outside, Cortez says he knows about the Colombia operations. Cutter tries to deny it but Cortez says he knows enough to expose it. Cutter sighs and says the intent was to start a Cartel civil war. Cortez says it is working and he wants to help. Cortez says he will assist in eliminating more Cartel leaders, putting himself in a senior position. Then, he would be in place to “restructure” the drug trade to make it less violent and disruptive. This would be the political victory the President needs. Cutter asks what Cortez wants in return. Cortez says aside from not being a target, he needs to bolster his reputation. To do that, he needs to eliminate the US military teams in Colombia. Cutter looks troubled but then replies “Done.” The two shake hands. The entire meeting has been photographed. Chavez’s unit arrives at their safe zone. Ramirez calls on the secure line for extraction and is told there is no confirmed time for their evac. Ryan arrives in a hurry at the hospital where Greer is but is too late, finding Greer’s body covered in a sheet. Sitting in the room is Clark, who asks if he is Dr. Ryan. Ryan nods and Clark introduces himself, saying Greer recruited him nearly 15 years ago. Clark says they to talk. We cut to Ryan and Clark in the empty hospital cafeteria, Ryan digesting what Clark has told him. Clark says Greer gave him the okay to tell Ryan everything. Ryan says there’s some big legal and political issues here and Clark says that’s not his concern, his only focus is to get the guys in Colombia home. Cutter arrives at the Panamanian airbase. He tells the flight crews that their orders have been changed and they’re to return to the U.S. as soon as possible. Cutter then goes to his waiting jet. The FBI guy in Panama has the surveillance film flown into D.C. The film is developed and the photos given to Murray, who recognizes Cortez. He shows the photos to Shaw and also calls in Ryan. The three talk and Ryan is told that the photos are suspicious, but them alone aren’t evidence of a crime. Cutter goes to Langley and meets with Ritter to tell him he has shut the operation down. Ritter is furious, but Cutter says Ritter would have to destroy his career, Moore’s career, and possibly the President’s career in order to take Cutter down for this. We see a scene with Ritter breaking the news to Moore and the two shred all of their documents. Cutter meanwhile makes a call to shut down all satellite communication for the Colombia operation. He then takes computer discs he has with operation info on them and wipes them with a fridge magnet to erase the data. Cortez is back in Colombia and redeploys his assault teams in the foothills to go after extraction zones one at a time. Meanwhile Clark gets back to Colombia and finds that the CIA communications van is gone. He finds the unit at a safehouse packing up and learns about the termination. Clark calls Ryan and informs him about this. Ryan asks Clark to give him a few hours and he’ll be in touch. Ryan then calls Murray to say they need a meeting ASAP. Ryan meets with Murray and Shaw to relay Clark’s info. Shaw says withdrawing support for the soldiers is a potential crime (conspiracy to commit murder). Ryan says that the way the laws are structured it would be a nightmare in a courtroom, so their focus should be to get the soldiers out. Ryan sets up a call with Clark. Clark says he is taking care of getting the frequencies for the soldiers’ radios, but transport home they’ll have to set up. An FBI agent walks by Cutter’s home at night and steals his trash bags to take for examination. Chavez’s unit makes another attempt to contact for extraction but this time there is no contact at all on the satellite channel. Ramirez is shaky and says they wait one more day. If there is still no contact by then, they trash everything heavy and make their way out of the hills and get to the nearest U.S. consulate or embassy. One soldier says that violates a lot of orders, but Chavez says screw the orders, their concern is getting out alive. Ryan goes into work and talks to Moore and Ritter. He says he doesn’t think he is a good fit for the DDI job if Moore and Ritter won’t involve him. Moore and Ritter are unable to hide discomfort and guilt. Ryan says he is taking leave for a few days, starting immediately. Moore reminds Ryan of Greer’s funeral and Ryan says he will be there. Ryan departs and Moore tells Ritter that Ryan knows about everything. Ritter sighs and wonders where everything went wrong. Ryan drives home and makes a call to a friend in the military. Then he makes a call to Murray. Cut to him and Murray at a local airbase where Ryan’s friend arranges for covert transit via fighter jet to a military airfield in Florida. Ryan and Murray arrive at the Florida airbase and talk with the leader of the helicopter unit Cutter ordered out of Panama. They explain that Cutter’s orders are possibly illegal and the soldiers left behind are in great danger. The unit commander says he didn’t like having to leave and asks how he can help. Ryan says they need to get down to Panama. An FBI tech reports to Shaw that they found computer discs in Cutter’s trash with his fingerprints on them. The discs show signs of magnetic interference, but there is a decent chance they can recover some of the data. Ryan, Murray, and the helicopter unit arrive in Panama to find Clark and Larson waiting. Clark updates them on the plan, having obtained the frequencies for the radios used by the teams. The plan is for Clark to locate each team and direct them to a new extraction zone for evac. Chavez is out scouting and detects a large Cartel force heading the way of their unit. He radios it in to Ramirez, who is nervous and orders his men into defensive posture. The Cartel gunmen advance and are met with withering gunfire. As the Cartel forces stagger, Chavez’s unit pulls back to a second defense line. The Cartel gunmen press forward but take heavy losses. Again Ramirez has his men fall back successfully, but they have lost a couple men. They’re running out of defenses to use, so Ramirez says it’s time to play their last card: their explosives. Then they will retreat. Clark and Larson are in Larson’s small plane, flying over the hills. They have contacted the first U.S. unit and directed it to a new landing zone. They then swing south to go towards the next unit, which is Chavez’s team. On the hilltop, Ramirez orders the trap when the gunmen attack. The result is an explosion of mines and grenades that wipes out a lot of the enemy, but there are simply too many and when Ramirez orders retreat, several of his men are shot down. In the confusion the unit is split up, with Ramirez and a few men rushing one way while Chavez and a few others taking a side path into the heavy brush. From their point, they see Ramirez and the others in a last stand before being cut down. Clark and Larson have seen the gunfire flashes and explosions and fly near the area and attempt contact. Chavez answers on the radio. Clark briefly explains who he is and gives them an extraction plan. Chavez acknowledges and says it’s only him and a few others left. Clark says he is going to make they get home. The contact ends and Clark looks at Larson and says he’s going to make sure people answer for this. Clark and Larson land in Panama and meet with Ryan, Murray, and the helicopter commander. Clark explains what he and Larson did and says the first team can be picked up by helicopter, while he will pick up the survivors of the remaining ones on the ground. Cortez gets the news of the assault and relays it to Escobedo, who is dismayed by how many losses the Cartel took. Cortez says the men they were hunting are trained soldiers. He proposes a meeting with Escobedo and another Cartel leader. The call ends and Cortez then calls another Cartel leader, LaTorres, to confirm LaTorres is going and then to say they should meet earlier first, since Cortez has some info he wants to share. Greer’s funeral happens in Arlington. Among those present are the President, Cutter, Moore, and Ritter. Moore and Ritter notice Ryan is missing and they talk about it on the drive back. Ritter calls Cathy and learns from her that Ryan told her he had to go out of town but didn’t say where. Afterwards Ritter tells Moore that Ryan must be doing something about Colombia. They make a couple calls and figure out Ryan went down to Panama. Ritter asks what they do now. Moore says “the right thing.” Ritter nods and says there’ll be consequences. “Fuck’em” Moore replies. Ryan and Murray are still at the airbase with the helicopter unit when the CIA station chief for Panama arrives with a briefcase, saying it’s for Ryan from the Judge. Ryan opens it, reads a note, and sees a large pile of documents that are intercepted phone communications from the past 24 hours. Ryan reads through them and goes “oh shit.” He tells Murray to get him in contact with Clark. Cutter meets with the President, who asks about Colombia. Cutter tells him that the operation has been shut down and has been a success, and will pay future dividends for the re-election campaign. The President asks if everything was done legally. Cutter artfully avoids lying. Clark and Larson drive to the area where he told Chavez to go and contacts him on the radio. Chavez comes down with his few survivors. One is wounded so Larson gives him first aid while Clark talks with Chavez. Chavez explains how he led the men to evade patrols and Clark is impressed. Chavez asks what next and Clark says he can drive Chavez and the others to the Bogota airport and they’d be in the U.S. six hours from now. Larson calls Clark over, saying Ryan’s on the radio. Clark comes back a minute later and says there is “Option Number 2.” He asks Chavez if he’d like to get the guys who got the rest of his unit killed. Ryan goes to the helicopter commander and says there’s a change of plans: They’ll be picking up the first team, but not exfiltrating them, instead traveling to an area for a final mission. Ryan is coming along. Back in D.C., an FBI tech reports to Shaw that they did a partial recovery of the computer disc and found out it contained information for establishing a secure satellite communications link. After some examination, it’s clear to Shaw that attempting to erase the data is a crime. Clark sends Larson to get his plane fueled while he drives Chavez and the others. Chavez asks why the satellite went out and the helicopter never came and Clark says the same guy screwed them on both. They arrive outside a farmhouse estate and do some recon, spotting about a dozen guards. Chavez says it’s too many, to which Clark replies they have backup coming. He contacts Ryan on the radio and Ryan tells him that they just picked up the other team and are. At that farmhouse, Cortez waits as he sees cars for Escobedo and LaTorres arrive. He greets Escobedo and brings him in, giving LaTorres a knowing nod. Clark is contacted by Ryan who says they’ve dropped off the other team, which is going to the positions Clark indicated. Clark contacts the captain of that team and gives him orders on what to do on his signal. He takes Chavez ahead and the two silently take out a couple guards in the driveway area and proceed to rig a booby-trap. Inside the house, Cortez talks to Escobedo and LaTorres about the success in hunting the American soldiers, but says there is a loose end: the Cartel leader who assisted the Americans in the bombings. LaTorres pulls out a gun and points it at Escobedo, accusing him. Escobedo angrily denies it at which point Cortez says that the ambush was a clever ruse, but he’s figured out what Escobedo is up to, as he pulls out his own weapon. Escobedo realizes he’s been set up. Clark activates the booby-trap to take out a couple guards, which is his signal. All at once the other soldiers open fire on the Cartel guards. Clark and Chavez rush to a doorway to the house and kick it open, shooting one guard in the antechamber. They then go to the next major room and Clark tosses a flashbang in. After it detonates, Clark and Chavez rush in. LaTorres swings to fire but Chavez shoots him in the leg. Cortez tries to orient himself, but Clark knocks him out while Chavez tackles Escobedo. As this goes on, the helicopter is landing in a nearby field and Ryan radios that they’re here. Clark and Chavez drag Cortez and Escobedo with them as they and the other soldiers get onto the helicopter. In-flight, the helicopter commander asks what they do next. Ryan says they take the soldiers to Panama, and then they figure out what to do with their prisoners. They get back to Panama and offload the soldiers and go talk with Murray. Murray says he can set up travel arrangements to get the soldiers home by passenger jet and is told about grabbing Cortez and Escobedo. Ryan, Clark, and Murray talk about what to do with them. They want Cortez, but have no use for Escobedo since they don’t have anything to prove his crimes. Clark says Larson is about to land and he’ll take care of Escobedo. Ryan says they can’t murder him. Clark says he won’t. He walks to get Escobedo and Ryan says to Murray that Cortez is an information gold mine, but they would have to offer him a deal to get the info. Chavez and the surviving soldiers are in civilian clothes and are traveling onto several planes that will take them home to the U.S., where arrangements to return them to their units are underway. As the plane takes off from Panama, Chavez’s demeanor breaks and he starts to cry for the comrades he lost. Larson is flying back to Colombia with Clark and Escobedo, who has his hands bound. Escobedo alternates between threatening the two and offering them bribes to let him go. Clark says they are letting him go free. In fact, they are being met at the airport by some of his friends. Escobedo is suddenly fearful and begs them to take him elsewhere, promising a fortune. Instead the plane lands and Clark takes Escobedo out onto the tarmac, where a couple cars and several men are waiting. One is LaTorres. LaTorres says everything is agreed on and a man hands Clark a suitcase. As Clark walks back to the plane, we hear LaTorres tell Escobedo he should have known better than betray his friends. Clark and Larson take off as Escobedo is thrown into a car. Larson asks about the money in the suitcase and Clark says it’ll go help the families of the dead. Larson nods and asks where to and Clark replies Washington D.C. He has one final stop. Ryan and Murray talk with Cortez, who says he had nothing to do with the assassination of Jacobs, that was all Escobedo. Ryan says it makes sense, since killing Jacobs ruined Cortez’s intel source. Cortez says he will talk with them, so long as he isn’t prosecuted for any crimes. Ryan agrees and tells Cortez to start talking. Cut to Murray talking to Shaw over the phone and updating him on everything. He says he has to make a couple arrangements on his way to D.C. Cutter is relaxing at home the following morning when it is time for his daily intelligence briefing. The officer who arrives is Clark. Clark starts the briefing by showing Cutter photos of a captured Cortez and Escobedo. Cutter is shocked and tries to explain everything, but Clark says it’s over. He says the FBI has decided to arrest him later today and it’s up to Cutter to decide what to do about it. Moore and Ritter receive a phone call from Ryan, who says that everything has been settled, just a couple loose ends. They tell Ryan to get back to D.C. so they can handle them. Ryan says he will, he just needs to arrange for a couple flights to Guantanamo Bay. Ryan says he’ll explain after he lands. Later in that morning, Cutter goes out to jog, tailed by a couple FBI agents. At a street intersection, Cutter sees a bus coming, and jogs out in front of it. The President gets word of Cutter’s death and is shocked, but keeps his suddenly-scheduled meeting with the CIA leadership. Ryan enters, along with the leaders of the Congressional Intelligence Oversight Committee. Ryan says according to law, it is his job to report to Congress on completed CIA intelligence activities, but he wanted to notify the President first. He passes a folder to the President and the President skims it, seeing pictures of Cortez and Cutter meeting, the soldiers after their rescue, etc. The President says he didn’t know about this and Ryan says that’s true, the President was kept in the dark about the illegal aspects of the operation, but those happened because the President allowed it to happen. The President says everything he ordered was done to protect the people and Ryan says that’s why they have laws to follow. The President asks what they are going to do. The congressmen say that they will agree to cover it all up, to prevent a scandal that would engulf the country, but in return, the President will throw his re-election campaign for a loss and quietly retire, to close the circle. After a minute, the President sadly nods. Later, Ryan, Moore, and Ritter are in Moore’s office. Moore says that the new President come January will want his own CIA Director, and Ritter says he will retire as well, since a lot of what went wrong is on him. Ryan says they did the right thing, but they say they should have done it sooner. Ryan expects he’ll be replaced as well, but Moore says Ryan shouldn’t be to sure of that. He’s going to have good recommendations for staying on. Ritter says there is one final wild card: Cortez. Ryan says he talked with the FBI and since none of the information Cortez got was classified, his only crime is illegal entry into the country. Moore and Ritter say they would need a nice deal to keep him from talking. Ryan says he promised Cortez no prosecution and he is keeping that promise, but not in the way Cortez thinks. Ritter mutters “Guantanamo” and says “You’re sending him home.” Ryan nods and says the Cubans will be happy to have their defected agent back. We cut to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay. Cortez, handcuffed and displeased, is taken towards a gate in the fence between the base and Cuba. On the other side several soldiers and a few men in suits wait for him. Before he crosses a voice calls his name. He turns and sees Murray a fair distance off, along with a woman he recognizes as Moira. Moira stares down Cortez and Cortez sadly nods recognition, guilty. He then turns away and regains his composure as he walks to the men waiting to take him away. Murray and Moira watch Cortez be put into a car and driven off. Murray says he wanted Moira to see this, so she’d know it’s all over. Moira thanks him for that. He asks her if she’s okay and she replies “I will be.” The two walk away. Ryan arrives at Arlington Cemetery and visits Greer’s grave. Clark is there and the two relax. Clark says Greer would have proud of how Ryan handled things. Ryan nods and says stuff like Colombia makes him question whether he can do this job. Clark says it’s hard, but people like Ryan know how to protect the country the right way. Ryan asks Clark what he’ll do now. Clark says he’s still on the CIA books, so he’ll probably stay around for those who him. He adds that Chavez was good, so he may recruit him. Clark and Ryan shake hands and Clark leaves. Ryan lingers a bit by Greer’s grave before leaving as well, the film holding that shot before fading to black.

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The TABLETOP Catastrophe

 

From the director of The Eccentric Minds of Belmond Lane

 

The Details:

Genre: Comedy/Drama/Thriller

Budget: $30 million

Rating: PG-13 for some violence, brief strong language, smoking and alcohol use, and sexual content

Runtime: 104 Minutes

Dates (Theaters): 8/2 (4), 8/9 (52), 8/16 (220), 8/23 (946), 8/30 (1703), 9/6 (2075)

 

The Creators:

Directed by WES ANDERSON

Written by WES ANDERSON and NOAH BAUMBACH

Cinematography by ROBERT YEOMAN (On 35mm Film)

Original Score by MARK MOTHERSBAUGH

 

The Players:

NATALIE PORTMAN as Karen Hofflet

PAUL DANO as Maxwell Hofflet 

GEORGE CLOONEY as Detective Angus

WILLIEM DEFOE as Francis Parlone  

ISLA FISHER as Michelle Goute

JOSH GAD as Finnegan McBryster

KARA HAYWARD as Anne Celestel

RHYS IFANS as Sir Carter

RINKO KIKUCHI as Akemi

FRANCES MCDORMAND as Mrs. Eleanor

BILL MURRAY as Samuel Taymor

EDWARD NORTON as Chester Ashby

AUBREY PLAZA as Judith Pye

HIROYUKI SONADA as Shuichi Matoza

JASON SCHWARTZMAN as Oliver Goute

TILDA SWINTON as Laura Parlone

 

COMING SOON

 

 

 

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Parallels

Genre: Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure/Drama

Director: Josh Trank

Cast: Eva Green (Kayla Hett), Tom Hardy (Bryan Koritz), Vincent Karthaiser (Tony Branzel), Emily Browning (Idelle), Noomi Rapace (Victoria Kozetski), Cate Blanchett (Madam Sylvia), Ed Harris (Gary Koritz), Jennifer Connelly (Amy Pearce), Matt Bomer (Jude Hett), Kevin Bacon (Trevor Kayne)

Date: July 19th

Theaters: 3,755

Budget: $145 million

Runtime: TBD

Rating: PG-13 for intesne sequences of action, some disturbing images, language, and brief nudity

Composer: Marco Beltrami

 

COMING SOON

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Metal Heads
Action/Comedy
Cast: Ryan Reynolds (Dylan/Hardcore), Scarlett Johansson (Becky/Silver Bullet), Bradley Cooper (Jason/Heavy Metal), Mila Kunis (Audrey), Jason Bateman (Kevin), Miley Cyrus (cameo), and Oprah (Cameo)

Directed By: Matthew Vaughn
Release Date:August 2nd 
Budget: 125 Million
Rating: R
Theaters: 3,621
 

Plot: Coming Soon 

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Sam’s Town

Musical/Drama

Director: John Carney 

Cast: Zooey Dechanel, Jim Sturgess, Andrew Rannells, Michelle Pfeifer, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Groff, John Trovolta, Ewan McGregor and Brandon Flowers

Release Date: July 19

Theaters:  3,250

Budget: 55 Million 

Rating: R 

 

Plot: Coming Soon 

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Candle Cove: Tales of the Laughing StockMystery/ThrillerDirected by Ernest DicksonBased on the Online Stories "Candle Cove" & "Candle Cove: Tales of the Laughing Stock" Cast: Ryan KwantenBrenton ThwaitesThomas DekkerTom HulceLaura DernRelease Date: August 16Theaters: 2,857Budget: $25 millionRating: R for scenes of intense violence and harsh languageRuntime: 95 min.Plot: A young man sets out to interview surviving members of an old 70's Tv kids show named Candle Cove and records them in the hopes of making a book based on the interviews. As he keeps digging deeper into the mystery, he finds out more and more about the dark events that took place on the set of the show and tries to put the experiences together. Meanwhile, a government agent is tracking the man's moves as he goes from interview to interview.

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The Disappearance of Ashley, Kansas (The Best Kansas movie of this year, Alpha :P)MysteryDirected by Hideo NakataCast: UnknownsRelease date: August 30Theaters: 2,818Budget: $20 millionRating: PG-13 for intense scenes, language, and use of alcohol and tobacco.Runtime: 85 min.Plot:

Sometime during the night of August 16, 1952, the small town of Ashley, Kansas ceased to exist. At 3:28am on August 17, 1952, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake was measured by the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake itself was felt throughout the state and most of the midwest. The epicenter was determined to be directly under Ashley, Kansas.When state law enforcement arrived at what should have been the outskirts of the farming community, they found a smoldering, burning fissure in the earth measuring 1,000 yards in length and approximately 500 yards in width. The depth of the fissure was never determined.After twelve days, the state-wide and local search for the missing 679 residents of Ashley, Kansas, was called off by the Kansas State Government at 9:15pm on the night of August 29, 1952. All 679 residents were assumed to be dead. At 2:27am on August 30, 1952, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake was measured by the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter was situated under what used to be the location of Ashley, Kansas. When law enforcement investigated at 5:32am, they reported that the fissure in the Earth had closed.In the eight days leading up to the disappearance of the town and its 679 residents, bizarre and unexplainable events were reported by dozens of residents in Ashley, Kansas and law enforcement from the surrounding area.On the evening of August 8, 1952, at 7:13pm, a resident by the name of Gabriel Johnathan reported a strange sight in the sky above Ashley. The town itself, having no official branch of law enforcement, called into the police station of the neighboring town of Hays. Gabriel reported what appeared to be a "small, black opening in the sky." Within the next fifteen minutes, the Hays police station became overwhelmed with dozens of phone calls all reporting the same phenomenon. The phenomenon was never reported by any neighboring communities. A decision was made to send of a trooper to Ashley to investigate the matter the following morning.At 7:54 am on the morning of August 9, 1952, Hays Police Officer Allan Mace radioed the Hays Police Station. He reported that, despite following the one way road leading into Ashley, he had become lost. According to his report, the road "continued along its normal path, but somehow ended up back in Hays." Officer Mace went on to add that the road never curved, or bent in any direction. At 9:15am, seven of the town's 10 police cars were sent to investigate the situation, and all members of the team came to the same conclusion. The only road leading into Ashley stopped leading into Ashley, but instead led back to Hays. Phone calls continued to pour into the Hays Police Station, all reporting that the black opening in the sky continued to grow in size. All callers were advised to remain inside, and to not travel outside unless absolutely necessary. At 8:17pm, Mrs. Elaine Kantor reported her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Milton, and their two children, Jeffery and Brooke, missing. According to Mrs. Kantor's phone call, the Miltons attempted to leave town in their family car earlier in the evening. They never returned. Law enforcement officals from Hays never reported the car, or individuals, coming up the one way road.At 7:38am on the morning of August 10, 1952, phone calls from Ashley into the Hays Police Station reported that the town was in total darkness. The sun had never risen. At 10:15am, at the request of Hays Law Enforcement, a helicopter from Topeka, Kansas flew over the region in which Ashley, Kansas stood. The town was never observed from air.At 12:43pm on the afternoon of August 11, 1952, Ms. Phoebe Danielewski called into the Hays Police Station. She reported that her daugter Erica had begun to have conversations with her father, who died three years prior in a drunk driving accident. To add to her concern, Ms. Danielewski reported that Erica was attempting to go outside into the dark, to "join them." Over the course of the next twelve hours, a reported 329 phone calls were placed into the Hays Police Station all describing similar phenomenon with the children of the town.The following morning of August 12, 1952, the situation became dire. During the middle of the night, all 217 children in the town of Ashley, Kansas disappeared. A reported 421 phone calls were placed into the Hays Police Department. Unable to be of any useful assistance, Hays Law Enforcement instructed all callers to remain inside and to avoid any and all attempts at finding the missing children.At 5:19pm on the evening August 13, 1952, Ashley elderly man Scott Luntz reported a growing, distant fire to the south. According to his description, the fire seemed to turn the distant black into "bright red and orange [that] seemed to extend high into the sky." Throughout the rest of the day, calls continued in, stating that the fire, in addition to moving north, now seemed to "come out of the black sky." No fire was ever witnessed by any of the neighboring communities or law enforcement officials.The reports continued until 12:09am on the morning of August 14, 1952. The last phone call, placed by a Mr. Benjamin Endicott, reported that the fire in the sky had grown so intense that it began to appear as daytime over the town. The phone call ended abruptly:(FROM THE PHONECALL PLACED BY BENJAMIN SHERMAN ENDICOOT)Benjamin:Just hold on....wait...(continued silence)Benjamin (cont.):Yeah, yeah I see something. It's to the south. It looks like-[END PHONECALL]The next phone call wouldn't be placed until the following evening.The following is the entire transcript of the final phonecall to be received by the Hays Police Department out of the town of Ashley, Kansas. It was placed at 9:46pm on the evening of August 15, 1952. In this recorded phonecall, the officer on duty is Officer Peter Welsch. The caller has been identified as Ms. April Foster.[bEGIN PHONECALL]Officer Welsch:Hays Police Department.(muffled static)Officer Welsch:Hello?Foster:YES...yes, hello?Officer Welsch:Ma'am, who am I speaking with.Foster:My name is April, April Foster. (coughs) Please, sir. Please help me.Officer Welsch:What is happening, ma'am?Foster:Last night....last night they came back.Officer Welsch:Ma'am, I'm going to need you to -Foster:LAST NIGHT THEY CAME BACK! (cries)Officer Welsch:Ma'am, I'm going to need you to calm down, and speak clearly. What happened? Who came back?Foster:(sobbing) Everyone.Officer Welsch:Everyone?Foster:They all came in the fire.Officer Welsch:What do you mean everyone?Foster:My son.....I saw my son last night. He was walking... he was walking down the street. He was burned. Jesus Christ HE WAS BURNED.Officer Welsch:Ma'am I -Foster:He died last year. I raised him since he was a baby....it was just me and him. I told him to watch for cars when he rode his bike. But he never wanted to listen.Officer Welsch:Ma'am, what you're saying isn't making any sense. You said everyone came back?Foster:ARE YOU FUCKING LISTENING TO ME? EVERYONE. Everyone came back. Everyone who died, or went missing, they're back. And they're looking for US! (cries)He...he said: "Mommy, I'm okay now! See, I can walk again! Where are you, Mommy? I want to see you!" (sobs)Officer Welsch:...Ma'am, where are you now? Are you safe?Foster:I'm hiding. Just like everyone else. We saw them coming through the fields....and....some people opened their doors for them. God, the SCREAMING. (pause) I don't know what happened to them. But their houses caught fire and they....caved in. I have my curtains drawn. I'm hiding in the closet right now and- (silence)Officer Welsch:Ma'am, is everything alright, are you okay?Foster:(silence)Officer Welsh:Ma'am?Foster:(glass breaking)Oh...Oh my God.Officer Welsh:Ma'am?Foster:Something just came in. (muffled cries)Officer Welsch:Ma'am, stay as quiet as you can. Don't make a sound.Foster:(Muffled: "Mommy.....mommy?")(sobbing) He came inside.Officer Welsch:Stay absolutely still. Don't leave.Foster:(Sound of muffled footsteps)(Muffled: "Mommy? Mommy, where are you hiding?")Officer Welsch:Stay quiet.Foster:(Sound of heavy footsteps. Laughter. Muffled: "I found you, MOMMY!")(Indiscernable screaming and noise)Officer Welsch:Ma'am? MA'AM??[END PHONECALL]The following morning, at 6:55am, the law enforcement officals of the Hays Police Department arrived at the location of Ashley, Kansas. A smoldering, burning fissure in the Earth was all that remained.

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The Little Mermaid 3D: The Family Edition

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy/Family/Musical
Date: August 30
Theaters: 2,475
Format: 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Emma Watson – Ariel

Liam Hemsworth – Eric

Queen Latifah – Ursula

Liam Neeson – King Triton

Alexandra Daddario – Vanessa

Simon Pegg – Flotsam (voice)

Nick Frost – Jetsam (Voice)

Unknown – Sebastian (Voice)

Unknown – Scuttle (Voice)

Unknown – Flounder (Voice)

Unknown – Carlotta

Unknown – Seahorse (Voice)

Unknown – Grimsby
Rating: PG for sequences of action and scary images, and brief mild language
Runtime: 122 min
Budget: $250 million

 

Tagline: "Relive the magic in 3D" | "Limited engagement - 2 weeks only!"

 

Relive the magic of the movie phenomenon that did 1B WW last Christmas like never before, which 12 minutes of never before seen footage, that includes a new musical number. Sing and dance with your favorite characters. Get your family and see the movie event of a generation!

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Banned

Genre: Post Apocalypse Comedy

Studio: Millennium Films

Release Date: 6th September

Rating: R

Theatres: 2,750

Budget: 30M

Director: Edgar Wright

Co-Producers: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost

Cast: Box Office Forums members

Scott- Unknown

 

Plot:

[Voice-over by Pegg talking over a space background]. In 2015, there was a massive event that changed the world. The world pretty much ended apart from the members of a Box Office Forums who survived this and created their own small land to survive. Under this new land, a leader was selected and was known as Shawn MR. He gave some rules but the biggest one was shooting people up into space that were spammers or members who had broken the law and were now banned. Tonight everything is going to change[voice-over done]

 

[The film goes into a post apocalypse dessert style setting]

All the members are gathered together at a campfire where they are getting ready for their annual burning dvd's event. Panda burns Zack Synder's live action movies, Rukaio burns Man Of Steel, Baumer burns Citizen Kane, Films burns A Monster In Paris, Gopher burns Alice In Wonderland, Iceroll burns I Know Who Killed Me, Sam burns Green Lantern, Squaremaster, Ed and Mr Pink burn anything not directed by Christopher Nolan, Telemachos burns Battlefield Earth, The Moveiman burns Batman And Robin and other members burn movies they hate. A new member called Scott joins at the campfire and tells everyone at the campfire that they are all sad fuckers which Shawn gives him a warning for. Scott gets really annoyed at this so he hacks into the computer system and starts posting threads with links to illegally watching films. Shawn has had enough of Scott's behaviour so he bans him.

 

Plot not finished yet and will be completed at a later date

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