Yojimbo (1961)

Yojimbo (1961)

starring Toshirō Mifune, Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuya Nakadai

directed by Akira Kurosawa

110 minutes

A rōnin (Toshirō Mifune), in 1860,  arrives by chance in a small town that would be in in the midst of a gang war if it weren't for the fact that both gang leaders are hesitant to brake the stalemate that currently exists. The rōnin sees an opportunity and, rather than leave town, plays both sides in the gang war off against one another. Eventually they get wise to what he is doing after he pushes his luck by helping a couple and their young son escape town.

Ballard 1.02

Haystacks

Ballard looks into the death of the cleaning woman from the motel, unofficially. Naylin, the detective working the case, gets prickly about her poking her nose around. She gets a picture of a possible suspect and tracks him down to a crack house. She captures him with some help from Parker and Rawls but he's got mental problems and not very helpful.

A tip from Councilman Pearlman combined with some DNA evidence leads Ballard to believe that Brian Richmond didn't kill Sarah Pearlman or Laura Wilson, a case that Bosch worked years before.

Ballard has a date with Aaron, her lifeguard friend. He sleeps over but the next morning she leaves before he gets up. She was called into a meeting with LAPD Captain Berchem and Detective Naylin. Berchem gives her a hard time for stepping on Naylin's toes but then hands the case over to her because she made some progress on it while Naylin did little to nothing with it.

The Twilight Zone 1.22

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

starring Claude Akins, Barry Atwater, Jack Weston

written by Rod Serling

directed by Ron Winston

The power goes out suddenly on Maple Street after an unknown object passes overhead. Nothing works including things that aren't plugged in like portable radios and cars. The residents don't suspect anything strange until really strange things start happening: cars starting by themselves, lights coming on in just one house. The residents of Maple Street grow increasingly paranoid as to whom they can trust.

The tension turns to hysteria when someone is spotted walking down the darkened street. One man brings out his shotgun. Another man takes it and shoots the approaching man, killing him. It turns out to be someone they all knew. Things get progressively worse as more weird things happen.

Bleach 45 / 3.04

Overcome Your Limits!

Ichicgo starts his training, under the supervision of Yoruichi, for his next bout with Byakuya Kuchiki. Zangetsu presents Ichigo with a field of swords. Ichgo must find the right one, while fighting Zangetsu, if he is to learn Bankai.

Uryū Ishida is taken to 4th Division's headquarters so that he can heal. There he meets Sado and Ganju who are alo recovering from they had. All three of them are kept in a jail cell. They start to compare notes.

Maki Maki runs into Yachiru Kusajishi, 11th Division's lieutenant. She wants to know why he is carrying Orihime over his shoulder. They return to 11th Division's headquarters where he tries to explain what's going on.

Star Trek (1966) 2.06

The Doomsday Machine

The Enterprise finds the USS Constellation badly damaged in L-370 a star system in which most of the planets have been destroyed. Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, Mister Scott and three other officers beam aboard the Constellation to try and figure out what happened. They only find one survivor aboard the Constellation, its captain, Commodore Matt Decker.

Decker is in shock and can tell them nothing at first. Once he regains his faculties he explains that he beamed the rest of the crew of the Constellation down to the third planet and stayed aboard by himself to deal with the thing that ravaged the Constellation and most of the rest of the L-370. The third planet was destroyed and the Constellation was damaged extensively by a device that Kirk says must be like a Doomsday device of old.

The American President (1995)

The American President (1995)

starring Michael Douglas, Anette Benning

written by Aaron Sorkin

directed by Rob Reiner

President of the United States, widower, and single father Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is in the midst of his third year in office when he asks lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Benning) to be his date for a state dinner at the White House. She accepts his offer and before long they are working the same end of a battle to get the votes to pass a piece of legislation through Congress and dating. One of the President's political rivals uses Andy and Sydney's relationship and rumors about her past to score points with the public. The President brushes it off until he realizes that he's about to lose Sydney because he won't stand up for himself. 

Four Star Playhouse 1.18

To Whom It May Concern

starring David Niven

written by Oliver Crawford, Wally Kline, Jack Hannum

directed by Robert Florey

Bingham (David Niven) has made plans to kill himself. He writes a letter explaining his reasons. He embezzled money from the bank where he works. He used it to buy some stock in but the value of the stock has dropped precipitously. He mails the stock certificates along with the letter but then sees a headline indicating that the company and it's stock price has rebounded.

Bingham rushes around desperately trying to intercept the letter. He makes numerous attempts. All seems lost and at the last minute he almost gets it back but he is oblivious to the fact that the letter is coming back to him due to insufficient postage and kills himself.