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Doctor Who – Lux

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  • Title: Doctor Who – Lux
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Unable to return to her time, The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) takes Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) back to the 50s where they discover odd goings on at a local movie theater which is now haunted by Lux Imperator (Alan Cumming), another member of the Pantheon of Discord, who has taken the form of a cartoon character on the screen and has pulled the audience into the film. The Doctor and Belinda meet a similar fate, although they are able to break out of the film and find a way to defeat Lux… by giving it exactly what it wants?

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Reacher – L.A. Story / Unfinished Business

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  • Title: Reacher – L.A. Story| Unfinished Business
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After a (bit too prolonged) trip to Los Angeles to set up the gun buy and trap the bad guys, the final two episodes of the series push Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) to bring the case to the ATF over  Reacher‘s (Alan Ritchson) objections. They quickly bench the group, set up a sting for the gun sale, and walk right into a trap set by Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee). Reacher manages to survive the blood bath, but the ATF is going to need some new guys. With the guard rails off again, Reacher turns his attention back on the family compound and revenge.

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NCIS: Origins – Bugs / Darlin’, Don’t Refrain

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Bugs / Darlin’, Don’t Refrain
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The two episodes bring attention back the Sandman case which the team starts to take another look at once Jamison Boyd (Jared Bankens) tells Vera (Diany Rodriguez) he isn’t the sniper responsible for the murders and the real culprit shoots  him dead in the prison yard. “Bugs” spends quite a bit of time with Vera and her theories, which then bring in the rest of the team, while “Darlin’, Don’t Refrain” brings in the FBI to work alongside NIS to find the real Sandman who it turns out Gibbs (Austin Stowell) has already met.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Digital Frankenstein Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Digital Frankenstein Job
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Trading out Hardison (Aldis Hodge) for Breanna (Aleyse Shannon), the season’s second episode starts with Harry (Noah Wyle) smelling something fishy in court as the team targets an unscrupulous ghost gun manufacturer (Andy Cohen) and the judge (Rachael Harris) he has in his pocket. Running cons on each, there’s some goofy cons including Eliot (Christian Kane) playing two different roles to each of the marks as both a survivalist and the owner of what the judge is looking for to legitimize her family business.

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Will Trent – A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine

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  • Title: Will Trent – A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine
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The death of Ms. Pearl (Marla Gibbs) in “A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine” is the precipitating event for Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and the team to wrap up the Rafael Wexford (Antwayn Hopper) case in an episode that devotes multiple segments to giving us a young Rafael (Yannick Haynes) and Will (Andres Velez) highlighting the ebbs and flows of their relationship including their first meeting. The segments provide a bit more backstory but lacks any shocking revelations. Despite their turmoil, the pair come together to honor the woman they both loved and plan a funeral together (which Will uses to spy on Rafael and Rafael uses for money laundering purposes) before getting caught in a shoot-out at the funeral.

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