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MacGyver – The Gauntlet

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  • Title: MacGyver – The Gauntlet
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With “The Gauntlet,” MacGyver Monday sends our intrepid science-adventurer MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) to Central America to extract a photojournalist (Robin Curtis) obsessed with taking down the corrupt regime. Curtis is your typical guest-star, at first fighting Mac until the danger of the situation, which also involves an old adversary (John Vernon) of MacGyver hellbent on revenge, becomes much too real. Although initially captured, the pair escape, but to get to freedom they’ll need to travel 100 kilometers to the Mexican border with the country’s army standing in their way.

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The Thomas Crown Affair

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  • Title: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
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1999’s remake of the 1968 film about a multi-million dollar heist is certain an improvement on the original trading in a lackluster bank heist for stylish museum thefts of fine art. Casting Pierce Brosnan is the middle of his James Bond run as the bored rich man who steals art for his own amusement, the film never hits the Ocean’s 11 level of cool but it certainly has some cachet. Opposite our thief we get Rene Russo as the insurance investigator suspicious of Thomas Crown who also starts dating him (first for access but later feelings do develop as the pair consistently trade barbs).

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Black Cat #3

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As news of Black Cat‘s rendezvous with Daredevil hits the Internet leading to speculation and enhanced scrutiny, Felicia takes a job hijacking a semi-truck driven by a giraffe (yeah, a giraffe) which it turns out is part of larger smuggling operation moving hallucinogenic plants from the planet Rigel. It also leads Felicia to a run-in with Ms. Marvel who swoops in and takes the collar away from our thief struggling with playing hero.

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Thunderball

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  • Title: Thunderball
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Released 60 years ago, Thunderball was the fourth movie starring Sean Connery as James Bond and remains one of the most successful films of the entire Bond franchise earning back more than 15 times its budget at the box office. Featuring large underwater sequences, the film is notable for the deaths of several key members of SPECTRE (including one at his own funeral in the opening sequence).

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Murder in a Small Town – Strangers Among Us

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  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – Strangers Among Us
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Although the mystery of the week is relatively simple in “Strangers Among Us,” surrounding a shooting, there are quite a few pieces at play in the episode including a bullied teenager (Jaden Rain) who winds up with the murder weapon leading to child (Roman Kinsella) in a standoff with the police, an unsolved homicide, relationship drama for Laila (Bethany Brown), the resources of the department being stretched thin, and Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) uncovering a possible connection that might reveal a larger mystery to be delved into later in the season.

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