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Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

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Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). Over nearly the entire episode, Monk fights Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) over the identity of the person who broke into an office building, burned a file, and killed a lawyer. Stottlemeyer is fixated on the man (Nicholas Campbell) whose file was burned, however the facts don’t line up for Adrian (who is proven correct after he turns up dead). Suspicion then turns to the man’s neighbor, who again Stottlemeyer is 100% certain of, and that’s where things get interesting.

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Dead Boy Detectives – The Case of the Creeping Forest

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Dead Boy Detectives - The Case of the Creeping Forest

There are a few different pieces all working simultaneously in “The Case of the Creeping Forest.” While the regretful Niko (Yuyu Kitamura) attempts to repair the damage she unintentionally did to Jenny (Briana Cuoco) with a blind date that ended in death, the detectives are brought a new case by Monty (Joshua Colley) unaware they are walking into the witch’s trap. Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) are also unaware that Crystal (Kassius Nelson), in an attempt to break David‘s (David Iacono) influence over her, has used a magic artifact that seems to have taken away her powers.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Speckled Band

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A locked-room mystery with a wicked reveal, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” is one of my favorite Holmes short stories involving a dastardly plot by a greedy stepfather as Doctor Grimesby Roylott (Jeremy Kemp) targets the second of his two stepdaughters preventing a marriage which would force him to give up a sum for their dowry. As Holmes (Jeremy Brett) puts it here: “When a doctor goes wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve. He has knowledge.”

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Jake and the Fatman – Laura

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Jake and the Fatman - Laura

Flashback Friday takes us to 80s Las Angeles, a large and in charge district attorney, and his special investigator with a taste of the finer things in life. After starting out with an unrelated win for McCabe (William Conrad)  in court, and the introduction of Jake’s (Joe Penny) old partner (Alan Campbell) and fiancée (Brynn Thayer) at a party he throws in their honor, we witness Laura kill him in an alley attempting to pin the crime on a local gang kid stealing some electronics equipment. 

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Aftershock / Rest Stop

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory - Aftershock / Rest Stop

Set after the events of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, in a world when dinosaurs roam freely, we catch up with Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams) living alone and hunting the Allosaurus that killed his friend Brooklynn (who appears in flashbacks) which gets away again in the opening scene. The struggle with adapting to life in the “normal” world is the first theme of the show. The reintroduction of Ben (Sean Giambrone), fully consumed by conspiracy theories, introduces the second theme about someone targeting the Nublar Six including sending raptors after Ben and Darius.

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