Leverage: Redemption – The Grand Complication Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Grand Complication Job
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The return of the reboot’s first villain, Alexandra Bligh (Lucy Taylor), offers the opportunity for an all-girls episode with the team stretched across the globe. The fact that the team is never stretched this thin, with everyone working separately, is simply a conceit you’ll have to allow in order for events to play out. After kidnapping Sophie (Gina Bellman), Bligh pits nemeses Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Astrid (Alexandra Park) against each other commanding one to steal a priceless treasure on display and the other to prevent the theft. The costume ball, in honor of the displays of Marie Antoinette, prevents the pair from running into each other for most of the episode until they finally do in the vault leading to the confrontation Bligh has been hoping for.

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Batgirl #7

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Following the apparent death of Shiva in the last issue, Batgirl #7 kicks off a new arc diving into the origins of Cassandra Cain‘s mother as we launch into the first chapter of “The Book of Shiva” when Cassandra receives both a memoir and recording. If this issue is going to be the template we’ll likely get little of Cassandra, who we really only see at the beginning of the issue then stepping away as Shiva’s story is told to her through flashbacks.

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Lilo & Stich

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  • Title: Lilo & Stitch
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While its themes fit quite easily into the Disney canon, from a story perspective Lilo & Stitch was a major departure from your typical Disney film during the studio’s more experimental period of the early 2000s. The film focuses on an escaped alien creation of mass destruction who finds acceptance and family on Earth. Renamed Stitch (Chris Sanders) by a lonely young Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase) who mistakes him for a dog, the concept by co-writer/co-director Chris Sanders explores friendship and family through their unlikely pairing.

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Will Trent – Why Hello, Sheriff

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  • Title: Will Trent – Why Hello, Sheriff
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A double-homicide in a rural county leads to Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Faith (Iantha Richardson) butting heads with the local Sheriff (Yul Vazquez) and the discovery that one of the victims was a member of a domestic terrorist cell who was attempting to prevent the group’s next attack. It’s also an episode for bombshells as the aftermath of Angie’s (Erika Christensen) drunken night leads to Seth (Scott Foley) learning about Angie’s tumble off the wagon and both discovering she’s pregnant. As for Will, he gets a shot in the gut as well when a blood test confirms the territorial Sheriff Caleb Broussard is his biological father.

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