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.