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Fallout – The Trap / The Radio

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Fallout - The Trap / The Radio

Setting up the season finale, “The Trap” and “The Radio” look both to the past and to the future. Flashbacks show us more of Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) steering even stronger into his promotions for Vault-Tec, despite his discomfort at being their spokesman, in order to please his wife (Frances Turner). A conversation with a friend, his wife letting comments slip about the “good” vaults and why no dogs will be allowed, and a conversation with the woman who would become Lee Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) force Cooper to begin questioning whether or not Vault-Tec is a good thing and even spying on his wife where he will eventually discover, to his horror, the lengths the company will go to in order to make their product a success.

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Mr. Monk and the Candidate

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Mr. Monk and the Candidate

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). Premiering in July of 2002, the double-sized opener introduced us not only to former police detective Adrian Monk, whose OCD and neuroses kicked into overdrive following the murder of his wife Trudy, but also his long-suffering nurse and assistant Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), his psychiatrist Dr. Kroger (Stanley Kamel), and both Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and Lieutenant Randy Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford). Part Sherlock Holmes, part Columbo, and part something very different, for the better part of the next decade Mr. Monk put his unique skills to the test against his demons and phobias and always came out on top.

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Will Trent – Why Is Jack’s Arm Bleeding?

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Will Trent - Why Is Jack's Arm Bleeding?

In an episode that deals with the murder of a young girl whose remains are found 13 years after her disappearance, “Why is Jack’s Arm Bleeding?” also wraps up the flashbacks and hallucinations of Will’s (Ramón Rodríguez) younger self as the new case has just enough similarities to shake loose some repressed memories and reveal a guilt Will has been carrying around with him for half of his life. The sequences have been effective over the first-half of the season, but won’t mind them fading away. After a couple of red herrings in young men who fancied the victim, Will discovers the true motive and method of murder.

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Tales of the Empire – Devoted

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Tales of the Empire - Devoted

While the first three episodes of Tales of the Empire deal with the backstory of Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto), the final three turn their attention to former Jedi Barriss Offee (Meredith Salenger) whose fall to the Dark Side was chronicled in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Tales of the Empire picks up that thread with Barriss being approached in prison by after Order 66 and the fall of the Jedi. In “Devoted” former Jedi Lyn Rakish (Rya Kihlstedt) offers Barriss a new path bringing her into the Empire’s new training program for Force wielders which is revealed to be the formation of the Inquisitors.

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