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Jack Ryan – Our Death’s Keeper

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  • Title: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Our Death’s Keeper
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While the other plots mainly spin their wheels (except for the end scene of the episode involving the kidnapping of an important figure), “Our Death’s Keeper” is most notable for Jack (John Krasinski) and Mike (Michael Kelly) gaslighting an arm’s dealer in Budapest in order to push him into revealing where the exchange of the Sokol device will take place. There are several fun segments along the way with the pair slowly turning the heat on the man until finally springing their trap. Elsewhere, Greer’s  (Wendell Pierce) digging leads to suspicions about Petr Kovac (Peter Guinness) and Wright (Betty Gabriel) is put in an uncomfortable position of how far she can stick her neck out to protect Jack.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Turkish Prisoner Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Turkish Prisoner Job
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Letting Harry (Noah Wyle) take the lead, the team goes up against a couple of crooked local cops (Alanna Masterson and Derek Theler) jailing honest people for real estate kickbacks after their homes get foreclosed. The transition from taking down the cops to saving the life of their latest victim is a little more clumsy than usual with Harry in charge, but the team manages to pull off a classic con sending the pair of marks after hidden treasure allowing their greed to blind them temporarily. 

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Night Court – Pilot / The Nighthawks

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  • Title: Night Court – Pilot / The Nighthawks
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Hollywood’s love affair with reboots continues with this modern take on the 80s sitcom Night Court. The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch stars as Judge Abbie Stone, the daughter of Harry, who in the “Pilot” episode takes over her dad’s old stomping grounds. The only character brought back from the original show is John Larroquette as Dan Fielding who is lured back to the courtroom by the spunky younger Stone as the court’s new public defender. Both the first two episodes are about Abby and Dan struggling to fit into their new roles as the show itself attempts to find its footing.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Faster

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Faster
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I’m all for one-off episodes of The Bad Batch. Saying that, they aren’t all going to be winners. “Faster” isn’t a bad episode, but there’s not much more to it than a racing episode as Omega (Michelle Ang), Tech (Dee Bradley Baker), and Wrecker (Baker) head off with Cid (Rhea Perlman) to the races where they are forced to get her out of a tough jam when she makes a bet with an old rival she can’t pay. The episode does allow Tech to get a little more time, becoming the hero of the episode by flying the winning speeder. The episode ends with a warning about Cid from a less-than-reliable source that doesn’t really tell the clones anything they didn’t already know about their partner of convince.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Rising Sun

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Rising Sun
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“Rising Sun” offers the return of CGSI Neil Pike (Mark Gessner) whose undercover mission to recover smuggled guns ends in bloodshed when put between various sides of the local Yakuza when the upstart son of one of the most powerful families starts up an old rivalry for his own gain. Pike seems to get passed around to someone in every episode and this time he’s Ernie‘s (Jason Antoon) problem (although the pair do manage to forge a bond by the end). Other than Team Nernie, the episode is notable for Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Whistler (Tori Anderson) having each other’s backs and for stirring up the ongoing B-story involving Kai‘s (Alex Tarrant).

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