3 Body Problem – Countdown

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3 Body Problem - Countdown

The opening episode of 3 Body Problem introduces us to a world where the laws of science appear to be broken (although this is more told to use, over and over again, that properly shown or explained). Along with the unexplained phenomena of all particle colliders malfunctioning, the suicide rate in scientists, physicists in particular, has skyrocketed. Many are being haunted by a ticking clock which only they can see. And, somehow, what is currently happening appears to have something to do with secret experiments in China during the 1960s. Rosalind Chao and Zine Tseng both star as Chinese scientist Ye Wenjie in the present and the turbulent past, who is the character most likely to have answers for what’s happening.

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The Rubber Band

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The Rubber Band

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a New York City brownstone. In only the third of the Nero Wolfe mysteries, author Rex Stout is in top form. It’s a complicated case Nero Wolfe accepts in The Rubber Band. First, it involves a female client (notably not his preference). Second, it’s not one situation for which she needs Wolfe’s help, it’s several. One involves a debt owed to Clara Fox and others by the Marquis of Clivers which she hopes Wolfe to be able to help successfully obtain. The second involves a theft of a large sum of money where all evidence points to her as the thief (including the money later being discovered in her car). And the third involves a pair of murders of the people Clara represents owed an equal share of the Marquis’ debt.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Serve and Protect

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NCIS: Hawai'i - Serve and Protect

While Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) is assigned to protect one of the daughter (Masha Mashkova) of a Russian oligarch, and one of the visitors for a peace summit, Hanna (LL Cool J) reads Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) in to one of of his super-secret squad’s assignments, this one involving Alexi Volkoff (David Meunier). Tennant quickly  finds the right lever to get Hanna the information his team needs leaving the majority of the episode to focus on the Lucy storyline. We also get Kai (Alex Tarrant) running into an old friend in a Canadian reporter (Peyton List) he was involved with during his time in Afghanistan who in turns out might be able to help NCIS learn Tatyana’s true purpose on the island.

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Green Lantern #9

Green Lantern #9

Hal Jordan‘s isolation on Earth comes to an end with a discovery of a hidden Power Battery on the planet. Hal’s journey, the discovery of the battery, and trading in for a new ring (charging it with a familiar oath), is helped by the appearance of Tom Kalmaku (whose role with the New Guardians is referenced). Breaking out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Hal returns to Oa where we also get an appearance by Jo Mullein who appears to be the one behind the Lanterns’ rebellion of the United Planets.

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