Outlaw Star 1.05

The Beast Girl, Ready to Pounce!

Gene, Jim, and Melfina return to Blue Heaven in the Outlaw Star. They talk Swanzo, Hilda's friend, and Mikey, his assistant, into helping them outfit the Outlaw Star. Swanzo warns them that a Ctarl-Ctarl woman was looking for them. It isn't long before Aisha Clan-Clan finds them. She is disappointed to learn that Hilda is dead. She wants to know the coordinates of the Galactic Leyline. She doesn't believe Gene when he says he doesn't know.

Aisha Clan-Clan attempts to change into beast form but she is low on energy and there is no moon nearby to help her. They lose her for a time after they split up. Jim goes to look for ammunition for Gene's pistol. Gene and Melfina find a quiet spot and talk about her past and how little she knows about it. Aisha Clan-Clan eventually catches up to them.

Gene talks her into having a bite to eat with them when they see how hungry and low on energy she is. She eats considerably more than they could have imagined. She isn't grateful. Gene uses one of the special rounds (#12) that Jim procured. She is knocked out by the round. Gene, Jim, and Melfina beat a hasty retreat. They tell the manager of the restaurant that Aisha will pay for the meal.

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

starring Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturron

written and directed by Spike Lee

Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is a jazz trumpeter who is juggling two women and trying to keep the musicians in his quartet happy. Giant (Spike Lee), his manager, has a gambling habit and doesn't do a very good job negotiating a good deal for Bleek's quartet at the jazz club at which they are currently performing. The most vocal member of the quartet is Shadow (Wesley Snipes) who also has his eye on Clarke, one of Bleek's women, who is also a singer.

Things start off good but go downhill from there. The pressure gets to be a little too much for Bleek. Giant gets beat up more than once by enforcers who are there to collect money. Bleek wants to help Giant but he's got problems of his own. Things go from bad to worse for Bleek and Giant.

Atypical 4.10

Dessert at Olive Garden

Sam mopes about not getting to go to Antarctica. He packs up all his stuff with penguins on them and gets rid of them. He tries to forget about Antarctica but he can't. Abby recommends that he draw until he forgets about it. He does just that but then Sam gets an idea.

Casey goes to see Izzy. She's angry but Izzy apologizes. They kiss and make up.

Doug keeps having a dream about Chuck playing tennis. The dream bothers him. He doesn't know what it means and he keeps having it.

Zahid has fully recovered from his surgery. Paige gets a job offer from the head office of Habitat for Humanity.

Elsa tricks Casey into meeting with a scout from UCLA. Sam decides to go to Antarctica even though there is no school trip. Doug decides to go with him.

Samurai Jack 5.05

XCVI

The Scotsman, now an old man in a wheelchair, is accompanied by his daughters and other armies. Together they attack the stronghold of Aku. The villain is bored but he annihilates the other armies and then turns on the Scotsman. The Scotsman is killed but his ghost lives on. His daughters and his ghost go looking for Jack.

Jack and Ashi leave the island on the back of a giant sea serpent. The night before, while Jack slept, she saw visions of her teacher telling her to kill Jack while he slept, but she refused. Ashi now wants proof of all that Jack has told her. He refuses at first but he eventually relents. 

They travel on and find a decimated village. A survivor tells him that someone evil took their children. Jack and Ashi go after the children. The evil robot-like creature has hypnotized the children. They attack Jack on command. Ashi goes after the device that is controlling the children.

She eventually finds it and defeats the villain. Jack thinks the children are dead. He sees the ghost warrior. It tells him that it is time. Jack leaves with the ghost warrior, before Ashi finds him.

Doctor Who (1963) 14.03.03

The Deadly Assassin - Part 3

The Master sends first an airplane and then a man after the Doctor while he is still in the Matrix. The Doctor attempts to deny the reality of the Matrix but he is on the Master's turf. He has no choice. The man is armed with a rifle. He takes multiple shots at the Doctor.

The Master gets impatient. He sends one of Chancellor Goth's personal guards, whom he has hypnotized, to kill the Doctor's body. The guard tells Castellan Spandrell and Coordinator Engin that he is there to take the Doctor to Chancellor Goth. They tell him he will have to wait. The guard attempts to mess with the controls of the machine to which the Doctor is connected. The Castellan tells the guard to get back and when the guard does not the Castellan shoots him.

The Doctor draws fist blood. He injures the man with a grenade. The Doctor makes a blow gun and injures the man again, this time with a poison tipped thorn. The man, who is wearing a mask eventually catches up to the Doctor. It is Chancellor Goth. The two men fight They are in a swampy area. Goth gets the upper hand and starts to drown the Doctor by holding him under the water.

District 13: Ultimatum (2009)

Original Title: Banlieue 13: Ultimatum
French with English subtitles

starring Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle

directed by Patrick Alessandrin

Walter Gassman, the leader of the Department of Internal State Security (DISS), makes a deal with some foreign business men to destroy District 13 in Paris. His plan is to wipe it off the face of the Earth and then rebuild. Police captain Danien Tommasso (Cyril Raffaelli) and District 13 resident Leito (David Belle) team up once again to save the neighborhood.

Thoughts

Elodie Yung plays Tao, the leader of one of the gangs in District 13. I know her best from Season 2 of Daredevil where she played Elektra.

This movie had some of the trappings of the first District 13 movie but it only had a glimmer of the acrobatics that were seen in the first installment.

Monk 1.02

Mr. Monk and the Psychic

A police commissioner murders his wife. A psychic finds the body. It looks like the commissioner's wife drove off the road by accident. Monk suspects foul play. He does not believe in psychic abilities. Sharona is impressed by the psychic.

Monk discovers evidence that links the psychic to the police commissioner. He thinks the psychic is working with the police commissioner, at first, but later decides that is not the case. He works with the psychic to fool the police commissioner into confessing.

Thoughts

The part of the psychic was played by Linda Kash. She had a small role in Season 3 of Fargo.