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Alex Rider – Mirror

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Mirror
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Alex (Otto Farrant) gets the attention of the hacker Smoking Mirror (Tom Mothersdale) who he unwittingly helped escape from Department of Special Operations. The hacker arranges a meet with the boy, leaving the security of his hacker collective not aware has already been compromised as Gregorvich (Thomas Levin) is hot on his trail. Smoking Mirror mistakenly believes Alex can bring him in, not aware he’s on the outs with the Department, but Gregorvich shows up and kills him, and nearly kills Alex as well until he recognizes him.

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Hit-Monkey – Legend of the Drunken Monkey

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  • Title: Hit-Monkey – Legend of the Drunken Monkey
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Here’s the episode where Hit-Monkey discovers the highs and lows of both casinos, which Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) correctly defines as both the happiest and saddest place on Earth, and alcohol as the trail from General Kato leads to an underground casino, bad decisions, too much alcohol, and another trail of bodies. While there’s not much in terms of story development, there is some crazy drunken monkey and some trademark late bloody action.

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The Flash – Armageddon, Part 3

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  • Title: The Flash – Armageddon, Part 3
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While Flash (Grant Gustin) attempts to avoid the future by having guest-star Black Lightning (Cress Williams) remove his speed powers, the rest of Team Flash fractures as Iris (Candice Patton) begins following the assumption that her husband is right and someone has been messing with them since the beginning. Believing in himself once more, and retreating to the future for answers to avoid Despero’s (Tony Curran) latest attack, the Flash comes face-to-face with an altered timeline and the man responsible.

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Legacies – Someplace Far Away From All This Violence

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  • Title: Legacies – Someplace Far Away From All This Violence
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The western theme of the episode comes from Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) taking a trip into the therapy box where she becomes the daughter of a schoolteacher to be hung at dawn for the violence caused by a murderous outlaw Hope (Danielle Rose Russell). Back the real world, Hope returns to the school not for comfort on confrontation but to acquire weapons to go after Triad. Her friends attempt to remind Hope of her humanity, and Josie (Kaylee Bryant) manages to finally get under her skin at one point, but in the end Hope leaves with what she came for. 

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The Big Leap – Swan Song

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  • Title: The Big Leap – Swan Song
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The penultimate episode of The Big Leaps gives us the final two days leading up to the live performance of Swan Lake. For Mike (Jon Rudnitsky) that means struggling on after the death of Paula (Piper Perabo), for Nick (Scott Foley) that means standing up to his boss’ crazy last idea, and for Gabby (Simone Recasner) that means putting some more of creativity to work in helping to choreograph a new ending to the show before returning to her old life. Perabo, who only appears in recorded messages from an iPad after the initial pre-credit scenes, is terrific here as Paula provides Mike with the encouragement needed to finish the show for both of them and reminds us how how lucky the two of them were to find each other (even for so short a time).

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