Star Trek: The Next Generation 1.08

The Battle

Captain Picard starts to experience headaches just before an encounter with a Ferengi vessel. Dr. Ceusher checks him out but can't figure out what is wrong with him.

DaiMon Bok plus his first and second officers beam over to the bridge of the Enterprise. Bok explains that they have something for Picard, the USS Stargazer, his old ship. The ship was believed lost after a battle nine years earlier in which the Stargazer blew up a Ferengi ship that opened fire on it. The Ferengi want Picard to accept it as a gift and ask for nothing in return.

Fled (1996)

Fled (1996)

starring Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Will Patton

written by Preston A. Whitmore II

directed by Kevin Hooks

98 minutes

Two convicts, Piper (Laurence Fishburne) and Dodge (Stephen Baldwin), escape from a prison road work gang and make their way to Atlanta, GA. They are pursued by a US Marshall Pat Schiller and local or state police detective Matthew Gibson (Will Patton). 

Dodge has just 9 months to go on his prison sentence. He convinces Piper to stick with him (after they get free from the handcuffs that keep them shackled together) by offering him a piece of the money he stole. They don't know it but quickly discover that the Cuban mafia has sent Rico Santiago, a hitman after Dodge.

The Apothecary Diaries 1.03

The Unsettling Matter of the Spirit

Maomao diagnoses the case of Lady Fuyou, who was rejected by the emperor. Fuyou sleepwalks at night. Both Lady Gokuyou and Jinshi wonder what is wrong with her. The episode ends with Fuyou being sold to a military officer who was her childhood friend.

Jinshi continues to try to charm Maomao but she continues to find him repulsive. Gaoshun, one of Jinshi's assistants, warns her about making faces when she looks at Jinshi.

Thoughts

Maomao didn't actually interact with Fuyou. She only observed her from a distance. It might be inferred from the way this story unfolds that Lady Fuyou engineered her fate. It isn't clear that's the case but the thought did occur to me.

Doctor Who (1963) 13.01.03

Terror of the Zygons - Part Three

Harry gets free from grip that the Zygons have over him. He rushes into their control room and throws himself on the controls. His efforts disrupt their efforts to kill the Doctor using the Skarasen. The signaling device no longer works and the Zygons no longer have a visual on the Doctor. They assume that he must be dead.

Sergeant Benton and some of the other UNIT soldiers search the inn for hidden cameras or microphones. They don't find any but the Zygons catch on to what they are doing thanks to one of the devices in the main room of the inn. Angus, the inn keeper, after Benton and the others have left finds one of the devices but one of the Zygons finds him and kills him before he can tell anyone about it.

Crash Landing on You 1.09

Episode 9

Se-ri is forced to call Jeong-hyuk and tell him that she won't be returning. He tries to reason with her but the call is cut off. He goes home only to find that Cheol-gang and his men are searching the place. Jeong-hyuk attacks Cheol-gang and gets locked up. He calls Seo-dan to see what she had to do with his arrest. She tells him that their wedding is still on and that he will have to remain locked up until the day of the ceremony.

Jeong-hyuk tells his men, when they come to visit him in prison, to let word get out about the identity of his father. They do just that. It isn't long before word spreads to the man who runs the prison. He releases his Jeong-hyuk and gives him a car.

Star Trek (1966) 2.04

Mirror, Mirror

A landing party consisting of Captain Kirk, Lieutenant Commander Scott, Doctor McCoy, and Lieutenant Uhura returns to the Enterprise from the surface of the Halkan homeworld only to find themselves aboard a version of the Enterprise that they don't recognize. Their uniforms have changed. Spock has a beard. Corporal punishment is used to enforce discipline.

Kirk and the rest of the landing party play along until they can get their bearings. They are in a mirror version of the universe they know. Kirk receives orders to wipe out a Halkan city after they refuse to allow the Empire, the mirror version of the Federation, to mine dilithium on the Halkan homeworld. He decides to give the Halkans more time, 12 more hours, to change their minds. Spock and Sulu question the decision but Kirk insists that's how it will be.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.21

Safe Conduct

starring Claire Trevor

written by Andrew Solt

directed by Justus Addiss

American journalist Mary Prescott (Claire Trevor) is returning by train from a country that is behind the Iron Curtain when she meets professional soccer player Jan Gubak. He convinces her to sneak a watch across the border for hum. His sister is in Munich and in need of an operation. The watch is a family heirloom that he hopes to sell once the train gets to Munich in the hopes that the sale will raise enough money to pay for the operation. 

Gubak pulls a fast one and calls her out for trying to smuggle the watch. They are both held by the authorities until it is determined that the watch isn't valuable. They are both released at that point and allowed to get back on the train. Jan stops by to see her again. This time with another item that he wants her to smuggle out. This time it is really something of value, the memoirs of the organizer of an anti-communist group who recently died in prison.