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Hawaii Five-0 – Ka ‘oia’i’o ma loko

  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Ka ‘oia’i’o ma loko
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Hawaii Five-0 - Ka 'oia'i'o ma loko

When the investigation into a double robbery-homicide that left an infant girl without parents leads to the discovery of a secret society, Chin Ho (Daniel Dae Kim) introduces McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danny (Scott Caan) to a conspiracy theorist (Jorge Garcia) who specializes in both the arcane and ridiculous. Jerry informs the group that only item stolen from the victims’ home might actually be the key to unlocking a 700 year-old priceless treasure Chin Ho’s friend believes may have been smuggled to the island years ago inside a statue of King Kamehameha. Despite Danny’s skepticism, the longer Five-0 investigates the more Jerry is proven correct.

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Scandal – It’s Handled / Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  • Title: Scandal – It’s Handled / Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
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“What did you expect Cy? It’s Olivia.”

Scandal - It's Handled / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Picking up directly from last season’s finale, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) refuses her father’s insistence to help her disappear and returns to work despite being the head story in every news outlet in Washington thanks to someone outing her as President Grant‘s (Tony Goldwyn) mistress. Returning to work she finds a dwindling client list as well and a group of associates who have no plans on letting the White House bury their boss, despite Cyrus‘ (Jeff Perry)’ assurances that he will not let that happen, without doing what they can to save her.

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The Crazy Ones – Bad Dad

  • Title: The Crazy Ones – Bad Dad
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“I’m creative and successful because I never knew a normal day until I left home.”

The Crazy Ones - Bad Dad

The test group data for an Allstate commercial based on Sydney’s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) real-life driving experiences with her father reveals Simon’s (Robin Williams) unusual parenting habits have at times left his daughter traumatized. Upset by both the fact that others viewed the father in the commercial as a bad dad and the fact that his daughter has never learned to properly drive a car, Simon decides to rectify the situation by offering Sydney a far calmer driving lesson.

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Elementary – We Are Everyone

  • Title: Elementary – We Are Everyone
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“I weep for the whole desperate lot of you.”

Elementary - We Are Everyone

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu) are hired to find a civil contractor (Christian Campbell) who has become national news after leaking classified information to the media, even though Holmes suspects the man (Ronald Guttman) who hired them, under an assumed name and questionable story, wishes the contractor nothing but ill will. While shadowing the reporter (Laura Osnes) who printed the man’s story, Holmes stumbles onto a collective of cyber-terrorists protecting the missing man, one of whom turns up dead.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Down the Rabbit Hole

  • Title: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Down the Rabbit Hole
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - Down the Rabbit Hole

After an opening featuring a young Alice returning home from Wonderland to a disbelieving father, the Once Upon a Time spin-off begins in earnest years later with a teenage Alice (Sophie Lowe) locked away in an insane asylum and a storm which brings a pair of old friends, the White Rabbit (John Lithgow) and the Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha), to her rescue. But before her friends can reach her, the imprisoned Alice is called before the disbelieving Dr. Lydgate (Jonny Coyne) and his committee to admit that all her tales, including her tragic love for the genie Cyrus (Peter Gadiot) as shown in flashbacks, were nothing more than the fabricated delusions of a troubled young girl.

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