Hawaii Five-0 – The Complete Third Season

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Season Three
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Hawaii Five-0 - The Complete Third SeasonMuch of the Third Season of Hawaii Five-0 centers around the return of Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) super-secretive former CIA agent mother (Christine Lahti) from the grave and the series of lies and half-truths between mother and son that keep the truth about both her past and current pursuits a mystery from her son. Other ongoing stories include Michelle Borth becoming a full member of the cast and the continued relationship between Kono (Grace Park) and Adam (Ian Anthony Dale) which is complicated by the return of his brother Michael (Daniel Henney) from prison.

Highlights from the season include the return of Doris to Hawaii, McGarrett and Danny (Scott Caan) getting shanghaied on the high seas, a look back into one of Danny’s cases in New Jersey, Kono being framed for murder, and a series of murders McGarrett is positive were committed by a therapist (Vanessa Marcil).

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Covert Affairs – Dead

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  • Title: Covert Affairs – Dead
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Covert Affairs - Dead

After faking her death to go off the grid, Annie (Piper Perabo) heads to Switzerland with a new passport, a new hairdo, and a new deep cover mission which begins with getting close to Jai’s mother (Seeta Indrani), Henry Wilcox‘s (Gregory Itzin) ex-wife. First starting a friendship with the woman at a support group for those who have tragically lost loved ones and then getting a job in her husband’s (Mike Dopud) firm Annie works her way into the woman’s life. Things do get a little complicated when the man Henry hired to destroy the helicopter and frame Teo (Manolo Cardona) for the crime shows up on the other side of a conference table.

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The Shadow #18

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The Shadow #18The Shadow‘s battle of wills with The Light comes to a close high above the city on rooftops and the top of the bridge as Lamont Cranston fights the crazed nun believing she is doing God’s work killing the sinful and purifying the world of the evil they represent.

Although I think this story arc is at least one issue too long, I can’t argue with the fact that it’s gotten stronger as it has gone on. The conclusion, with the two vigilantes both of whom equally believe their version of justice is righteous and the other’s is tainted, offers a physical battle as well as a battle of words and a debate on each of the vigilante’s actions set to some great panels by artist Giovanni Timpano.

The issue comes to a close with The Shadow victorious, but the inability of the police to discover a body in the river suggests we may not have seen the last of The Light nor her mission. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Elementary – Poison Pen

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  • Title: Elementary – Poison Pen
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“First time in my career someone’s alibi for murder has been that they were busy planning the same murder.”

Elementary - Poison Pen

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu) investigate the murder of a CEO who was poisoned and then dressed up in S&M gear and found by a dominatrix (Keesha Sharp) to add further insult to injury by a killer who wanted the victim’s name drug through the mud after his body was found. Although Homles tracks down the man (Paul Fitzgerald) who dressed his dead employer in bondage gear, but despite having motive he isn’t their murderer. While investigating the crime Holmes crosses paths with the family’s nanny (Laura Benanti) who changed her name and disappeared 15 years ago after being accused and acquitted of murdering her father in a method nearly identical to the current crime.

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Escape Plan

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  • Title: Escape Plan
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Escape PlanSylvester Stallone thrown into prison at the whims of a madman is hardly a new story (the plots of both Tango & Cash and Lock-Up include these themes). In Escape Plan, Stallone stars as expert prison escape artist Joe Bresslin who has been working for the last several years to find holes in various prison systems, 14 of which he’s successfully escaped.

After a brief introduction involving Breslin’s escape from his latest job, he and his associates (Amy Ryan, 50 Cent, Vincent D’Onofrio) are approached by a CIA agent (Caitriona Balfe) offering $5,000,000 to Breslin to test out the government’s top secret, and privately run, new rendition facility for those criminals too dangerous to house on U.S. soil once Guantanamo Bay is closed down for good.

Breslin accepts the job, despite the fact that his location will be kept completely secret from his team, meaning he will be going in blind without back-up (breaking all of his usual rules). Of course, it doesn’t take long before things go wrong.

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