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Arrow – Unthinkable

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Arrow - Unthinkable

Arrow‘s Second Season, along with the long-brewing battle between Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett), comes to an end with Deathstoke’s super-strong army tearing apart Starling City and Amanda Waller‘s (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) A.R.G.U.S. drones ready to turn the city into sinkhole rather than allow any one of Deathstroke’s men to escape. Thankfully there is some good news. Star Labs’ cure works on restoring Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) to normal, and Ollie and company receive some much needed back-up by Diggle‘s (David Ramsey) friend Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) as well as Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) and the League of Assassins brought back to Starling by Sara (Caity Lotz) promise to return to the League should they survive the night.

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Person of Interest – Dues Ex Machina

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Person of Interest - Dues Ex Machina

While Shaw (Sarah Shahi) races to back-up Root (Amy Acker) who readies her kamikaze run at Samaritan‘s secret facility, Peter Collier (Leslie Odom, Jr.) begins his trial against those who he holds responsible for The Machine and the government stealing the privacy of its citizens. Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Hersh (Boris McGiver) work frantically to find the courtroom from which Vigilance is broadcasting its own distorted version of justice and whose defendants include Control (Camryn Manheim) and Finch (Michael Emerson).

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Beginning of the End

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Beginning of the End

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. concludes its First Season with an increasingly erratic John Garrett (Bill Paxton) surviving the infusion of the single does of Raina‘s (Ruth Negga) replicated drug while Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team survive the arrival of the Centipede warriors long enough for Skye (Chloe Bennet) to implant her Trojan Horse inside HYDRA‘s network and follow them back to the head of the snake. By the end of the episode Garrett will be defeated although its unclear how many other heads the secret organization may have had which means we might see some form of it resurface next season.

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The Blacklist – Berlin: Conclusion

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“He cut his hand off.”

The Blacklist - Berlin: Conclusion

With Reddington (James Spader) on his way to a new black site from which he will likely never emerge (at least while still breathing), Cooper‘s (Harry Lennix) team performs their final task before being decommissioned by investigating the plane crash and locating a handful of escaped prisoners all of whom were placed on the plane by the mysterious Berlin. With the help of Fitch (Alan Alda), and the power broker’s inside man (Jason Butler Harner), Reddington manages to make his escape and begin searching for answers (partly procured by attacking a Russian ambassador).

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Castle – For Better or Worse

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Castle - For Better or Worse

With only 72 hours before they are scheduled to walk down the aisle Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett‘s (Stana Katic) wedding plans hit a snag when Kate discovers she’s already married to a college boyfriend (Eddie McClintock), and two-time loser with an impressive rap sheet, much to the amusement of Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Esposito (Jon Huertas). Leaving Castle in Manhattan to finalize the plans, Beckett heads upstate to find Rogen and get a quickie divorce.

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