3.5 Razors

Fairly Legal – Ripple of Hope

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Ben (Ryan Johnson) and Kate (Sarah Shahi) work together to mediate a non-violent mediation at a women’s prison where several of the inmates have gone on a hunger strike to dispute living conditions. While trying to come to a compromise between the prisoners and the warden (Wendy Crewson), Kate gets distracted by a prisoner (Agnes Bruckner) who may have been wrongfully imprisoned but won’t get patrolled until she admits and apologizes for her crime.

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Scandal – Crash and Burn

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Olivia (Kerry Washington) takes the case of a pilot whose husband (Darren Pettie) doesn’t want to see the airline is scapegoat for a commercial plane crash that killed everyone on board. After watching the airline throw the woman under the bus in the initial press conference Olivia & Associates start their own investigation. Finch (Henry Ian Cusick) discovers the recent inspection report for the plane was forged from an earlier report and Abby (Darby Stanchfield) is able to find a witness (Amanda Fuller) to contradict reports that the 20-year sober alcoholic was drinking the night of the flight in an airport bar.

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Avengers vs. X-Men #3

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x-men-vs-avengers-3-coverRound 3 finds Hope on the run, the X-Men surrendering to the Avengers, and a big throwdown between two old friends. Cyclops and the X-Men’s surrender is a feint that allows the group to escape and begin a search for Hope. Meanwhile the Avengers split into five groups to find the young girl before the Phoenix Force finds her.

Although we get very little of Hope in this issue (she makes little more than a token appearance hiding on the streets of San Fransisco) we do get Cyclops outsmarting the Avengers and Captain America and Wolverine coming to blows over Logan’s plan to murder Hope before the Phoenix Force can claim her. We get far less story progression than I’d like, but the fight between Wolverine and Cap makes up for it.

By the end of the issue we now have three distinct groups. Cyclops and the X-Men who want to keep Hope away from the Avengers, the Avengers who want to keep Hope away from becoming the new Phoenix, and Wolverine who just wants her dead. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Community – Course Listing Unavailable

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Although Jeff (Joel McHale), who is far more concerned about having to make up a credit over the summer when a professor leaves Greendale unexpectedly, takes the news in stride the rest of the study group struggles to deal with the unexpected death of Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos) whose final wish was for Abed (Danny Pudi) to create a video tribute of his life (which we see during the closing  credits). Britta (Gillian Jacobs) elects herself the group’s grief counselor, with mixed results.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Pa Make Loa / NCIS: Los Angeles – Touch of Death

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With McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) still off on his own mission to find Shelburn and Joe White (Terry O’Quinn), Five-0 is called in to investigate a man who apparently died of smallpox. To help them in the  investigation a NCIS task force from Los Angeles (Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J) arrives on the island tracking a terrorist (Craig Robert Young) who may be responsible for infecting the victim and putting the entire island at danger from an epidemic.

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