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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Entombed

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Entombed
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After discovering a compass Omega (Michelle Ang) found in a junk yard might be a map to treasure, she and Phee (Wanda Sykes) convince the Bad Batch to go in search of whatever might at the end of the map. “Entombed” offers the expected moments of the Bad Batch working their way through the quest from finding the hidden tomb, to deciphering riddles, to avoiding boobytraps, and eventually reaching their prize. “Entombed” is one of those episodes that will work find for viewers as long as they don’t start asking some rather obvious questions (particularly in what happens after the twist).

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Shields Up

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Shields Up
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NCIS investigates the death of a Marine Captain on a beach where signs point to him being killed before an attempted suicide. The tightlipped unit isn’t offering any help, although NCIS uncovers two different suspects including a former Marine turned monk (Wes Chatham) who Jesse (Noah Mills) befriends. The episode introduces Juani Feliz as U.S. Marine CID Summer Westmore from Guantanamo Bay who helps with the investigation by delivering crucial information about the unit. Also notable, Tennant (Vanessa Lachey)’s son Alex (Kian Talan) being sick and Tennant discover his girlfriend (Sierra Swartz) cheating on him closing out that subplot.

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Will Trent – Don’t Let It Happen Again

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  • Title: Will Trent – Don’t Let It Happen Again
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The third episode of Will Trent takes some unexpected turns as a pair of recent killings tie back to the murder of a family decades before. Although the episode tips its hand a bit as to who the killer is, the reveal still works especially in how the climax affects Faith (Iantha Richardson). We get a little more bonding between Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) and Faith, a quick look at how Trent has grown attached to Betty, and in the subplot an old mistake comes back to bite Angie (Erika Christensen) leading her back to Trent for comfort. More murder of the week than the first two episodes, “Don’t Let It Happen Again” is a solid episode even if the show still hasn’t gotten me sold on its subplots yet.

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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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