Moonlighting 2.08

Portrait of Maddie

An artist named Philip Wright paints a portrait of Maddie and then kills himself. The police want to know what Maddie knows about Philip Wright. She doesn't know anything and tells the police detective investigating the apparent suicide just that.

Maddie decides to buy the portait with the little bit of profit that Blue Moon has made recently. Charlie Wright, Philip's brother, shows up the next day. He expresses regret at the loss of his brother. He seems sincere to Maddie and she decides to give him the portrait.

Charlie takes the picture to his brother's apartment and kills himself. Once again the detective investigating the case has Maddie come in for questioning. Maddie insists that she doesn't know anything.

David and Maddie go back to her place after the interrogation. They find her living room has been torn to shreds and there is a man there waiting for them. He tells them a story about a different painting, a stolen painting called the Duchess. He forces them at gun point to go to Philip's apartment and take the picture with them.

The man ties them up, after he finds a clue as to where the Duchess might be, and leaves. Maddie figures out where the painting might really be while she is tied up. She and David manage to get themselves untied and then go across the street to a car painting business. They find the painting but then someone else shows up.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.34

Bilko's Insurance Company

Bilko decides to start an insurance company, Bilko of Baxter. He insures every soldier he can find. He is forced to scramble when he discovers that Wally Gunther and Sally Fisher, both of whom bought policies, have fallen in love. She is one of three triplets and he has a twin brother. The insurance policy pays out large amounts to insured families that have twins, triplets, or more.

Thoughts

Orson Bean played the part of Wally Gunther. Rain Winslow played the part of Sally Fisher. Bean and Winslow were married from 1956 to 1962. This episode first aired in 1958.

This was pretty good even though it is a little short on details about how the insurance policies work or how Bilko got the company set up as quickly as he did.

Stella Dallas (1937)

Stella Dallas (1937)

starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley

directed by King Vidor

106 minutes

Stella (Barbara Stanwyck) is desperate to get away from the poor family life into which she was born. She finds a man, Stephen Dallas (John Boles), who grew up fairly well off. They get married but he isn't very exciting. They have a daughter together, Laurel (Anne Shirley). Stella dotes on Laurel but she also starts hanging out with Ed Munn, a gambler.

Stephen moves from Massachusetts, where Stella grew up and where they currently live, to New York, to work. More than a decade passes, Laurel grows up. Stella tries to give her daughter what she thinks she needs. Stella is very focused on the material things.

Justice League Action 1.17

Luthor in Paradise

Lex Luthor invades Paradise Island, with some help from Circe. They are there for Queen Hippolyta's staff which can lead the to the Oculus of Argo, an ancient artifact which will give them the power of Zeus. Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman try to stop the supervillains.

Luthor and Circe get the staff and make their way to the Fallen Realm, the dimension where the artifact can be found. Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman (with some help from Queen Hippolyta) follow the supervillains to the Fallen Realm but don't arrive in time to prevent Luthor and Circe from getting their hands on the Oculus of Argo.

Dark Winds 1.01

Monster Slayer

1971 - Fallstaff, AZ - An audacious daylight robbery of an armored car takes place. The guards are shot and killed. The robbers get away in a helicopter.

Present - Navajo Reservation - Anna Atcitty, a 19-year-old woman, and Hosteen Tso, an old man, are found dead in a motel room. She was in the bathroom. There is no apparent cause of her death. He was on the floor of the bedroom. His eyes are missing and his throat was cut. The only other person in the room was an old, blind woman. The old man had come to her for help because he was having pain in his back.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn returns the old woman to her daughter. The 19-year-old was the old woman's granddaughter. The father doesn't want to talk. He is angry about something and is holding a grudge against Leaphorn due to some past transgression, perceived or otherwise.

The Outsiders (1983)

The Outsiders (1983)

starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio

directed by Francis Ford Coppola

91 minutes

Greasers Johnny (Ralph Macchio) and Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) get into a conversation with a couple of their classmates from high school, girls from the other side of town, at the drive-in one night. The girls’ boyfriends get jealous and take out their frustrations on Johnny and Ponyboy, whom they almost drown in a fountain. Johnny saves Ponyboy’s life but kills one of the Socs, the gang that hunted them down.

Johnny and Ponyboy turn to Dallas (Matt Dillon), an older kid who has spent time in prison or reform school. Dallas helps them find a place to lay low for a few days, outside of town. He comes to get them once things have cooled down a bit. They are still trying to figure out their next move when they become local heroes for rescuing several school children from a burning building.

Ponyboy isn’t badly injured but Johnny and Dallas are in bad enough shape that they wind up spending time in the hospital. Johnny is badly burned and paralyzed from at least the waist down. Ponyboy is torn between concern for his friend's health and what happens next.

Batman: Caped Crusader 1.09

The Killer Inside Me

Harvey Dent has trouble dealing with the aftermath of getting acid thrown in his face. He drops out of the mayoral race and stays home drinking until Bruce Wayne comes by and insists on taking him to dinner. Harvey's face is still bandaged up. He doesn't enjoy going out with Bruce. He leaves the restaurant, alone, halfway through the meal. 

Batman goes looking for Harvey. He finds him assaulting a mugger. Batman is after the men who assaulted Harvey. He doesn't try to stop Harvey from shooting the mugger in the knee.

Doctor Who (1963) 12.02.X

A New Frontier: Making of The Ark in Space (2013)

30 minutes

People interviewed

• Philip Hinchcliffe, producer
• Roger Murray-Leach, designer
• Wendy Williams, Vira
• Kenton Moore, Noah

Topics discussed

• the history of the development of the story that became The Ark in Space
• the design of the Wirrn in their various forms
• the scene that was deleted from the story in which Noah asked Vira to kill him
• the reaction to the Ark in Space from viewers

Moonlighting 2.07

Somewhere Under the Rainbow

Kathleen Kilpatrick hires the Blue Moon Detective Agency to catch a man who is pursuing her. She doesn't know who the man is but she claims that he's after her pot of gold, and that she's a leprechaun. Maddie doesn't want to take the case. David does. Maddie washes her hands of the case and lets David take it.

David and Kathleen go out to dinner. She starts to get nervous after dinner. She's convinced that they are being followed by a man even though there doesn't seem to be anyone following them. She tells David she killed a man the night before. He thinks she's acting crazy but then a man shows up and knocks David over the head.

The police show up and the man runs off. David and Kathleen go to see Maddie. Kathleen falls asleep on Maddie's couch while David tells Maddie what Kathleen told him about killing a man. They go to the morgue, the next day, and take a look at the body of the man she claimed to have killed.

Justice League Action 1.16

Field Trip

Superman gives Firestorm, Blue Beetle, and Star Girl a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. The trio of young heroes inadvertently and simultaneously release the trio of criminals from the Phantom Zone and trap Superman in the Phantom. Zone. The trio of young heroes recapture the Phantom Zone criminals without any assistance or advice from Superman, although it takes numerous efforts before they are able to get the job done.

Thoughts

I guess that the titular field trip was to the Fortress of Solitude although the episode starts there. They don't show the trip to the Fortress of Solitude. Superman, in a sense, takes a field trip to the Phantom Zone but they don't show that trip.

This was a decent episode. Not great but decent.

Orange Is the New Black 7.10

The Thirteenth

Morello is found in  the chicken coop with a dead chicken. She is sedated and held in the infirmary for a day or two and is then returned to gen pop.

Red cuts her hand and has to go to the infirnary. Nichols tells the doctor that there is something wrong with Red. The doctor exmines her and determines that she is in the early stage of dementia. Red asks that Nichols be trusted with caring for her.

The GED teacher is replaced by Luschek. He is more than willing to help Daya smuggle drugs into Litchfield.

Aleida tries to flex some muscle but gets nowhere.

Caputo has a breakthrough in his restorative justice class but then comes to terms with what he did to Susan Fischer. He tells Ward about it and offers to quite. Ward agrees that he needs to quit.

Batman: Caped Crusader 1.08

Nocturne

Leslie Thompkins brings a group of children from the orphanage to the carnival. One by one they start disappearing. Harvey Dent is also at the carnival, fundraising for his mayoral campaign. The election is just around the corner. Bruce Wayne is at the carnival on a date with Julie Madison.

Schitt's Creek 3.13

Grad Night

Alexis is graduating and tells her parents not to attend the ceremony. It is David's birthday and it looks like he is going to wind up spending it alone. All the rooms at the motel are booked for the first time since the Rose family arrived in town.

Thoughts

This was a funny and sentimental episode of the show which I really enjoyed. It was an excellent way to end the season. There are hints of things to come in the next season for David and Alexis.

Doctor Who (1963) 12.02.04

The Ark in Space - Part Four

The Doctor escapes from the Wirrn that used to be Noah thanks to Vira. Noah tells them that they should leave the Ark in the shuttle. They refuse because it would mean leaving all the cryogenically frozen humans.

The Doctor and the others make their way to a control room and come up with a plan. They will run a cable from the shuttle to the cryogenic sleep chamber. Sarah volunteers to lay the cable down even though it means crawling a hundred or so meters through narrow tunnel.

Sarah gets through the tunnel. The Doctor and the others use the cable and the power from the shuttle to electrify the door to the cryogenic chamber. Wirrn Noah tries talking the Doctor and the others into leaving the Ark in the shuttle, once again. They refuse, once again.

Within Our Gates (1920)

Within Our Gates (1920)

starring Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements,  

written, directed, and produced by Oscar Micheaux

74 minutes

Sylvia (Evelyn Preer), a young southern school teacher of color, seeks to escape her horrific past. Her life, since losing her parents to a lynching, has gotten better but she is still plagued by ne'er do wells from the Black community, and racism from Whites.

Thoughts

This is the earliest film made by an African-American director that has survived, mostly intact. There is one scene that is missing. The film was thought to be lost until a copy was found in Spain. The intertext cards had to be translated back into English.

87th Precinct 1.21

King's Ransom

Douglas King, the manager of a shoe factory, is told that his son has been kidnapped. It turns out that his son is okay but his chauffeur's son has been kidnapped. The criminals demand he pay $250,000 for the return of his chauffeur's son.

King has just taken out a mortgage on his family's home in an attempt to buy the shoe company. If he uses the money to pay the ransom then not only will he not be able to buy the company but he will very likely lose his job and his home.

The detectives of the 87th precinct step in to help King recover his chauffeur's son.

Thoughts

This is the first time I have watched an episode of this show. I found it on YouTube. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ed McBain. I watched it because I was curious to see how it would compare to High and Low (1963) which I watched yesterday and was also based on the novel. The television version of the story predated the movie by about a year. The novel was first published in 1959.

The setup of this episode was very much like High and Low, with one major exception. The kidnapper is not seen until halfway thought the movie but the kidnappers are in the first scene in the television version of the story. The kidnappers continue to play a major part in the televised version of the story.

The TV version of King's Ransom had a compelling opening act but it also had a much more upbeat ending than the film did. It is considerably less interesting or nuanced than High and Low (1963). It felt like they rushed to wrap things up after the first act.

High and Low (1963)

High and Low (1963)

starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai

directed by Akira Kurosawa

143 minutes

Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) one of the directors of a shoe manufacturing company is getting ready to execute a hostile takeover of the shoe company when he gets a phone call telling him that his son has been kidnapped. It turns that his son is safe and that the kidnapper grabbed the son of Aoki, Gondo's chauffeur, by mistake. The kidnapper discovers the mistake but still insists that Gondo pay a very large ransom, most of which he was about to use to buy the remaining stock he needed for the hostile takeover.

Justice League Action 1.15

Hat Trick

Felix Faust steals Zatanna's top hat. He uses it to summon a giant insect-like creature from another dimension. The beast grants Felix his wish and makes him young again. The beast then leaves. Batman and the Demon follow the beast and try to prevent it from harming anyone while Zatanna stays put and duels with Felix Faust.

Thoughts

Zatanna proves to be very athletic and acrobatic as she ducks and dodges Faust's attacks. The Demon and Batman aren't given quite as much to do.

I like this episode very much. It features the same three members of the team as in the last episode but this one is head and shoulders above that one.

Shaft (1971)

Shaft (1971)

starring Richard Roundtree

directed by Gordon Parks

100 minutes

Private Investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) searches for the daughter of Harlem kingpin Bumpy Jonas after she goes missing. 

Thoughts

This was my first time watching Shaft, although I have seen the 2000 film of the same name. 

The movie is part spectacle and part action thriller.

Batman: Caped Crusader 1.07

Moving Target

Someone orders a hit a on Commissioner Gordon. The first hit man who comes after the commissioner is stopped by Corrigan, but more hit men follow. Commissioner Gordon doesn't want to change his routine even though his daughter Barbara and Renee Montoya try to talk him into laying low for a while. They finally get him to concede when they point out that he's putting his neighbors in danger by staying put.

Batman investigates the case and finds out that a prisoner named Muller at Blackgate Prison is the one who ordered the hit. Batman passes along what he knows to Barbara Gordon.

Schitt's Creek 3.12

Friends and Family

Moira recovers a very large portrait of the family. It isn't long before she regrets bringing it back into their lives.

Alexis and Ted share a spontaneous kiss after she learns that she passed her high school exams. They try to rationalize it after the fact.

David opens Rose Apothecary. He wants it to be a soft opening but word spreads and it turns into a big opening day.

Thoughts

This was a pretty good episode. I really enjoyed all three storylines.

Arabesque (1966)

Arabesque (1966)

starring Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren

directed by Stanley Donen

105 minutes

Professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) meets Yasmin Azir (Sophia Loren) while he is in the process of doing a favor for the prime minister of an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Both find themselves targeted for death by at least two different factions as they attempt to decrypt a coded message written in hieroglyphics.

Thoughts

The dialogue sounded very much like it was dubbed in. I think that this wasn't uncommon in this era but it was jarring to my ears.

This movie was more style than substance. I didn't care for most of the stylistic choices. It was very hard to make sense of it all or even the majority of it. This was very much a hard pass for me. I don't feel as if I got much of anything worthwhile by watching this movie.

Doctor Who (1963) 12.02.03

The Ark in Space - Part Three

Noah reaches out to Vira from the control room. He instructs her to accelerate the revivification process. He struggles to maintain control as the alien part of his body starts to assert control. Vira is ready to follow the orders but the Doctor says, no. They won't have enough time to wake everybody up.

Harry takes over where Vira left off and wakes up the two remaining Med Techs, Rogin and Lycett. The Doctor and Harry dissect part of the dead alien that lurched out of the closet at Harry. The Doctor gets a piece of its brain and hooks it up to a video monitor. Nothing happens when they turn on the power.

The Doctor hooks himself up to the video monitor and the piece to alien brain. This time it shows them part of what happened to the dead alien, a Wirrn. A live Wirrn pupa starts to break in to the room where everyone, other than Noah, is located. Lycett is killed by the Wirrin that is still in pupa stage.

Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.13

Angel Infiltration

Nerv is in the process of running some tests when an angel infiltrates Nerv HQ. It comes in through the computer system like a virus. It spreads and spreads. Everything they attempt seems to have no effect on it but in the end they figure out what needs to be done.

Thoughts

I found this episode to be hard to follow. It felt very technical. I understood the basic idea of what was happening but there were lots of descriptions and terms that went right over my head. Accordingly, I wasn't crazy about this episode. I fail to see how it expands the world in which this story takes place.

This might be a good place to pause my viewing of this series. I haven't decided yet.

The Tick (2016) 2.10

Choose Love!

Agent Doctor Hobbes is appointed Acting Director of AEGIS. He orders Arthur and the Tick to find Dot. They agree to but Arthur tells the Tick, after leaving Hobbes' office. that he has reason to believe that Hobbes is hiding something from them. 

Arthur and the Tick get some help from Sage who takes them back to Danger Boat. Overkill calls Danger Boat and talks to Athur, Dot, and the Tick. He tells them that he's going to kill himself so that Hobbes can't force him to do anything else. He asks them not to come looking for him, but they do.

Lobstercules is forced by Hobbes to attack the Tick. Overkill, also still controlled by Hobbes, attempts to kill Dot and Arthur from a distance with his sniper rifle. Dot distracts him. Arthur destroys the remote control, thus freeing Lobstercules and Overkill from Hobbes control.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.33

Bilko's Vacation

Bilko wants to go on vacation but doesn't have enough money. He tricks Colonel Hall into giving his entire platoon two weeks of leave. He next tricks his entire platoon to go to the same vacation spot after making a deal with the manager of the vacation spot.

Thoughts

This was a bit messy and surprisingly ended with Colonel Hall fooling Bilko.

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

starring Fred Astaire, Lucile Bremer, Frank Morgan

directed by Vincente Minnelli

108 minutes

Yolanda Acquaviva (Lucille Bremer) returns from the convent where she has lived and attended school for several years. She is now old enough to take control of the assets she inherited from her parents. She fears the responsibility and winds up signing over control of all her money to con man Johnny Riggs (Fred Astaire). He has fooled her into thinking that he is her guardian angel. Johnny starts to have second thoughts after it looks like he and Victor Trout (Frank Morgan), his partner in crime, are going to successfully get away with Yolanda's family fortune.

Havoc (2005)

Havoc (2005)

starring Anne Hathaway

directed by Barbara Kopple

85 minutes

High school student Allison Lang (Anne Hathaway) gets interested in Hector after he embarrasses her poser boyfriend. She seeks out Hector who deals drugs and comes from a poorer section of Los Angeles than she and her boyfriend do. Everything seems fairly low key until Allison and her friend Emily decide that they want to join Hector's gang. 

Allison and Emily agree to go along with the initiation ritual which involves having sex with (potentially) multiple members of the gang. It gets to be a bit too intense for both of them and the two teens leave before it gets any worse.

Emily reports the incident to the police and accuses Hector of raping her. Allison doesn’t back up her friend’s account of the incident when she is questioned by the police. This creates a rift between the two friends although it is only a temporary one.

Justice League Action 1.14

Speed Demon

Batman angers Brother Night who retaliates by turning the Batmobile into a demonic car. It takes the combined efforts of Batman, Zatanna, and the Demon to set things right again.

Thoughts

This is another episode that is lacking in subtlety. Its all action with little to nothing in the way of character moments. The Demon's rhyming was the biggest plus in my book.

On the Beach (1959)

On the Beach (1959)

starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire

directed and produced by Stanley Kramer

Commander Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) and the crew of the of the USS Sawfish, a submarine, survive a nuclear war (Wordle War III) and pull into port in Melbourne, Australia. It doesn't look good for what's left of humanity in the southern hemisphere.

Towers gets involved romantically with Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner). He was married and had two children. They were killed in the nuclear war but he has trouble coming to terms with that fact or opening up to Moira.

Towers and the Sawfish crew travel to Alaska and California in the hopes of finding some survivors but come up empty handed. Radiation from the nuclear war eventually reaches Australia and spreads across the country until overwhelms even Melbourne, the southeastern most major city in the country.

Towers would be content to stay there with Moira but he puts it to a vote and the crew of the Sawfish elect to return to the United States despite knowing what awaits them there.

Orange Is the New Black 7.09

The Hidey Hole

Piper comes clean with her coworkers. She starts to feel much better. She has a talk with her father, who isn't happy (about her telling her coworkers about her past) but accepts it.

Monica, Cindy's daughter, gets the letter that Tastyee sent. She confronts Cindy and her grandmother, who she thought was her mother, about it. They don't know how to respond. Cindy had just talked her way into a job at an old folks home. Cindy can't take it. She packs her things and leaves.

Morello goes around the bend. Her web page for the baby pictures (that were not of Sterling, her baby who died of pneumonia) gets deleted. She later finds out that it was Vinnie who did it. Morello also gets the backstory spotlight. She had problems back then, too. 

Batman: Caped Crusader 1.06

Night Ride

A ghostly figure on horseback robs poor people and charities. Batman is at a loss. He gets some help from a kindly librarian who helps him identify the family from which the ghost came, the Craddocks. The ghost is Jim Craddock who was executed for treason in the late 18th century.

Batman turns to an expert on ghosts, Linton Midnite, who gives Batman the information he needs to defeat Gentleman Jim Craddock. Alfred helps Batman with the ritual that needs to be conducted. They are successful in dealing with Craddock but he doesn't make it easy for them.

Schitt's Creek 3.11

Stop Saying Lice!

Alexis gets lice. Moira gets angry at Johnny for having a garden dedicated to her. David talks Stevie into letting him sleep over because he wants to distance himself from Alexis and the lice.

Thoughts

This was decent. I loved the ending.

Doctor Who (1963) 12.02.02

The Ark in Space - Part Two

The creature that lurches forth from the closet is dead. The Doctor and Harry turn back to trying to revive Sarah. Vira, one the of sleepers, wakes up. She demands to know what the Doctor and his companions are doing on the space station.

The Doctor and Harry try to explain. They ask about reviving Sarah. The power starts to fail. The Doctor rushes to the power room to see what can be done. There he finds a larva like creature inside the solar stack. He rushes back to find the others.

Noah, the leader of the station's crew is the next sleeper to wake up. He is very suspicious of the Doctor and his companions. He goes to check on a couple things. He finds the Doctor in the station's control room and shoots him with a stun blast from his pistol.

Vira helps the Doctor and Harry to revive Sarah. Noah goes to check out the solar stack. The creature that the Doctor saw breaks out of the solar stack and infects Noah by touching him.

Vira wakes up Libri, another of the sleepers. He freaks out when he looks at Noah. It isn't clear why at the moment but later Noah shoots Libri. The episode ends with Noah pulling his hand out of his pocket. It has turned green and no longer looks like a human appendage.

Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.12

A Miracle's Worth

The episode opens up with a flashback to Katsuragi's youth, fifteen years earlier, when her father sacrificed himself and made sure that she survived a very large (possibly nuclear) explosion.

In the present, Captain Katsuragi was recently promoted to the rank of major. Shinji and Asuka throw a small party for her. They invite Rei but she doesn't come.

Katsuragi is left in charge of Nerv HQ when Shinji's father leaves for a trip to Antarctica. An angel attacks Tokyo-3. Katsuragi takes the initiative and uses Special Declaration D-17 to order the evacuation of Tokyo-3.

The Angel drops from the sky like a bomb. The three pilots in their EVA units have to catch it and use their force fields to keep it from causing too much damage.

They are successful and for the first time Shinji's father congratulates him. Katsuragi takes the pilots out for ramen to celebrate the successful mission.

Kiss of Death (1947)

Kiss of Death (1947)

starring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray

directed by Henry Hathaway

99 minutes

Nick Bianco (Victor Mature) gets nabbed by the police while trying to escape after robbing a jewelry store. He had partners in the job but the cops only catch Nick. Louis DeAngelo (Brian Donlevy), the assistant district attorney, tries to talk Nick into squealing on his accomplices but Nick would rather go to prison.

Three years into his prison term in Sing Sing, Nick changes his mind about giving the assistant DA what he wants after he finds out that his wife has committed suicide and that his two young daughters are in an orphanage. The ADA does what he can for Nick after he provides testimony.

Nick marries again, this time to Nettie (Coleen Gray), who used to babysit for him and his wife. Things are looking up until DeAngelo insists that Nick helps put away a hired gun, Tommy Udo. Nick provides testimony in court but Udo is not found guilty of the murder.

Udo knows that Nick testified against him which leaves Nick in a very precarious situation. DeAngelo tries to insist that they deal with Udo in his way but Nick can't go for that and comes up with his own plan.

George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)

George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)

written, directed, produced and narrated by George Stevens, Jr.

46 minutes

This documentary follows film director George Stevens and the men who served with him as they served in the US Army and traveled from the beaches of Normandy, France in early June 1944 to Berlin, Germany in May 1945.

The footage for this documentary is mostly in color and all silent. It was shot by Stevens and the men who served with him. There are audio clips from interviews with a few of the men who served with Steven including Dick Kent, Ken Marthey, Ivan Moffat, Mullinghouse Morse, Jack Muth, and Irwin Shaw. The only footage from the time that the documentary was assembled was of George Stevens, Jr. first introducing and then closing out the film.

The Tick (2016) 2.09

In the Woods

Arthur and the Tick receive a call informing them that they have been selected to be part of the new Flag Five. Bronze Star, Sage, and Joan of Arc fill out the rest of the roster. Arthur and the Tick meet with Flexon, after their first Flag Five team meeting, and help him to convince Lobsterucles that they need to introduce her children to the judge in order to get her released.

Joan of Arc meets with Frank and explains what has changed now that she is part of the Flag Five. He decides that He's had enough and leaves. Arthur and the Rick return to Danger Boat where they find Dot and Walter waiting for them. Walter explains that his real name isn't Walter and convinces Arthur that he needs to contact Tyrannorsaurus Rathbone and arrange a special meeting so that they can explain what they have found, away from AEGIS HQ.

Arthur, the Tick, Dot and Walter meet with Rathbone. Walter finds Joan after the meeting and explains what he's been hiding from her. Rathbone returns to his office where he has a meeting with Agent Doctor Hobbes. Overkill observes the meeting from a distance, through the scope of his sniper rifle before pulling the trigger and killing Rathbone.

All the King's Men (1949)

All the King's Men (1949)

starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland

written and directed by Robert Rossen

110 minutes

Reporter Jack Burden (John Ireland) takes an interest in Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford), a wanna be small town lawyer, after writing a few stories about Stark who is running for county treasurer. Stark loses that election, and the next one when he aims higher and runs for governor.

Jack quits his job after the newspaper bends to pressure and stops backing Stark. Jack takes a job working for Stark and is part of the team when Stark wins the governorship four years later.