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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Aftershock / Rest Stop

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory - Aftershock / Rest Stop

Set after the events of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, in a world when dinosaurs roam freely, we catch up with Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams) living alone and hunting the Allosaurus that killed his friend Brooklynn (who appears in flashbacks) which gets away again in the opening scene. The struggle with adapting to life in the “normal” world is the first theme of the show. The reintroduction of Ben (Sean Giambrone), fully consumed by conspiracy theories, introduces the second theme about someone targeting the Nublar Six including sending raptors after Ben and Darius.

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Delicious in Dungeon – Shapeshifter

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Delicious in Dungeon - Shapeshifter

As the party moves downward, further into the dungeon, “Shapeshifter” presents a different challenge for them to overcome when a shapeshifter creates different versions of each of member of the party based on the others’ view of them. While some are immediately ruled out, including all the alternates of Laios (Damien C. Haas), it falls on the paladin to determine which of the remaining pairs are his friends and which are illusions.

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Doctor Who – The Legend of Ruby Sunday

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Doctor Who - The Legend of Ruby Sunday

Setting up the season finale, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” tackles two mysteries as The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) return to Earth and enlist the help of U.N.I.T. The episode allows for the return of several characters including Mel (Bonnie Langford), Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), Rose Noble (Yasmin Finney), and the mysterious woman who The Doctor has seen throughout time now revealed to be entrepreneur Susan Triad (Susan Twist) on the verge of releasing her life’s work. Working as a bit of a red herring, the possibility that Susan Triad my be The Doctor’s granddaughter distracts him from the truth as does tackling two mysteries at once attempting to discern the identity of Ruby’s mother.

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Doctor Who – Pyramids of Mars

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Doctor Who - Pyramids of Mars

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a classic adventure through space and time with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). Set in 1911, the adventure begins with the the opening of an Egyptian artifact on the spot U.N.I.T. will be constructed on decades later. Arriving after being thrown off-course by an entity powerful enough to project itself into the TARDIS, The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) encounter a scarred butler (Michael Bilton) who soon meets his demise, an irate English physician (Peter Copley), a walking mummy, and the murderous Egyptian Ibrahim Namin (Peter Mayock) spouting about destiny and fate as he works to summon a Servant of Sutekh to Earth.

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Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger

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Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). A couple of subplots weave into the story of “Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger” involving Monk struggling to pay Sharona (Bitty Schram), who ends up quitting and working in a lamp store for a brief time, and a police officer who flees the scene of the crime and becomes known as “Fraidy Cop” (Jonathan Rannells) by the local media. These two threads each cross over into the main mystery involving a billionaire philanthropist (J.C. MacKenzie) attempting to mug an ex-cop (Peter Onorati) and his date in a parking lot.

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