Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) 1.27

Help Wanted

starring John Qualen, Lorne Greene

written by Stanley Ellin, 

directed by James Neilson

Mr. Crabtree (John Qualen) accepts a job working for a mysterious man (Lorne Greene) who hires him to work in an office by himself and write reports. The mysterious employer visits Mr. Crabtree in his office one day and explains to him that he has a new assignment for him. He wants him to kill a man.

Mr. Crabtree doesn't know what to say. He really needs the money he's been making. His wife is sick and needs an operation. The employer has it all figured out. He explains to Mr. Crabtree how it will work. It's foolproof according to his employer but Mr. Crabtree has his doubts.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.19

Blood Oath

Three Klingons come to Deep Space Nine, old friends of Dax, Curzon Dax. Together Kor , Koloth, and Kang (along with Curzon) swore a blood oath to get vengeance on the Albino, a criminal who killed the sons of the three Klingons. Curzon was the godfather to Kang's son who was named Dax in his honor.

The Klingons have some doubts about Jadzia Dax accompanying them on this mission. She proves herself to them while sparring with Koloth in a holo-suite. Together the four friends use their skills and the intelligence they have gathered to complete their mission although is costs two of them their lives.

Doctor Who (1963) 13.02.03

Planet of Evil - Part Three

The Doctor survives the fall into the pit and makes it back out alive. Sarah sneaks out of the spaceship and is there to greet the Doctor when he climbs out of the pit. He collapses and has to be carried back to the Morestran spaceship on a stretcher. Salamar orders the anti-matter removed from the spaceship over Professor Sorenson's objections.

Sorenson manages to keep some of the anti-matter without letting anyone know about it. The antimatter infects Sorenson. His eyes start glowing but after drinking some brew he gets is under control and his eyes stop glowing. Sorenson attacks and kills Morelli who was taking some antimatter that the Doctor still had on him to the ejection port. Later he kills De Haan.

Bleach 49 / 3.08

Rukia's Nightmare

Rukia lies in her jail cell awaiting execution and thinks about Kaien Shiba, the lieutenant of 13th Squad. He went out of his way to make her feel welcome in 13th Squad. He lost his wife, Miyako, also a member of 13th Squad when she was killed by a Hollow. He went after the Hollow which took over Miyako and used her to kill other Shinigami who didn't suspect what had happened to her. Kaien and the Hollow were killed by Rukia when they was impaled on her Zanpakutō.

Thoughts

Kaien was Ganju's older brother. Ganju does not appear in this episode.

This is a grim episode. Most of it is flashback.

Amazing Stories (1985) 1.11

Santa '85

starring Douglas Seale, Pat Hingle, Gabriel Damon

written by Joshua Brand, John Falsey, Steven Spielberg

directed by Phil Joanou

Santa (Douglas Seale) goes out on Christmas Eve 1985 to deliver presents. He trips the silent alarm in one house. The owners call the police who come and arrest the old man. He winds up in jail with three other men dressed as Santa Claus.

Sheriff Horace Smyvie (Pat Hingle) is a bit of a curmudgeon and refuses to believe that he has actually arrested Santa Claus.

Bobby (Gabriel Damon), the young boy whose house Santa was visiting when he was arrested, finds Santa's sleigh and reindeer behind his house. He makes his way to the police station in Santa's sleigh and uses it to break him out.

Ballard 1.06

Beneath the Surface

Ballard and her team seem to have found trinkets from 14 victims in the storage unit. They are given 72 hours by Captain Berchem to make some progress. They work around the clock on the case. Some DNA from the evidence recovered leads them to a body in another case that dates back to 1997. The victim was Mike Garrison, the owner of the blue Van that was junked years ago.

Laffont keeps tabs on Driscoll's home. Ballard and Laffont tail Driscoll after he returns home and then leaves again. They see him meet with a uniformed police officer but they don't get close enough to identify the police officer or see the license plate of the vehicle that the uniformed cop was driving. 

Fumo Chitai 1.01

aka The Waste Land

Episode 1

Lieutenant Colonel Tadashi Iki an officer in the Japanese Army during the Second World War, returns home after spending 11 years in a Russian prison camp in Siberia. He was captured by the Russians while he was in Manchuria. He had the opportunity to return to Japan but chose to stay as the Russians closed in and captured the Japanese Army.

Iki was pressured to  testify by the Russians who wanted to prove that the Japanese Emperor was personally responsible for the way the Japanese Army conducted the war. Iki and two other high ranking officers agreed to testify.