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Person of Interest – Search and Destroy

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Person of Interest - Search and Destroy

Unable to locate The Machine, Samaritan destroys the life of the creator of the world’s most prolific anitvirus software in order to use his program for its own ends. Destroying his reputation, work, and marriage before assigning him for deletion Sulaiman Khan (Aasif Mandvi) becomes Reese‘s (Jim Caviezel) latest number. But to keep the man alive they’ll need the help of Root (Amy Acker) and answers for what Samaritan is using the stolen software to search for.

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iZombie – Liv and Let Clive

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“You got your ass kicked by a girl. Get over it.”

iZombie - Liv and Let Clive

After eating the brains of an Asian gang member Liv (Rose McIver) becomes paranoid, partly because of the dead man’s personality and partly due to the dead man’s flashbacks which suggest Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin) may be a dirty cop. Liv’s new paranoid state also goes into overdrive fearing Major (Robert Buckley) may be contemplating letting the sexy coed (Elise Gatien) he’s being seeing become his new roommate whereas Liv has someone else in mind for the position.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ike Hanau

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Hawaii Five-0 - Ike Hanau

Although other characters appear throughout the episode, including a B-story involving Danny (Scott Caan) and Mindy (Amanda Setton) stuck in an elevator which works as a callback to his claustrophobia introduced earlier in the series, “Ike Hanau” is mainly a Grover (Chi McBride) episode as the newest member of Five-0 is forced to question his oldest friend (Mykelti Williamson) whose wife (Kim Wayans) dies in an apparent accident while the pair were visiting the islands during their 20th wedding anniversary. Despite not having a single piece of evidence that points to a homicide rather than an accidental death Grover can’t help the nagging suspicion that his old partner pushed his wife off a cliff.

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Elementary – The View from Olympus

  • Title: Elementary – The View from Olympus
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Elementary - The View from Olympus

While Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) ponders over the issue of fathering a child for a longtime paramour (Anastasia Griffith), whose motives Sherlock is immeadiately suspicious of, the detective and Watson (Lucy Liu) are called in on a case involving the intentional hit-and-run that left a rideshare driver dead. Although at first all evidence points to a local cab driver as the most likely killer, Holmes quickly eliminates that possibility and begins investigating a Big Brother program known as Zoos whose users gladly allow the company to track their whereabouts not realizing how such information could be put to use in the wrong hands.

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Backstrom – Inescapable Truth

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Backstrom - Inescapable Truth

Noticing an unexpected physical resemblance with Valentine (Thomas Dekker), along with an offhand comment from Niedermayer (Kristoffer Polaha), sends Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) down a rabbit hole wondering if Val might be his son. As such thoughts continue to fester, leading Backstrom to make a trip to see a former prostitute (Lolita Davidovich) he frequented in his youth (who is roomie’s mother), the squad is called in to investigate a missing musician who disappeared after escaping rehab.

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