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Daredevil – Straight to Hell

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – Straight to Hell
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“Straight to Hell” ends rather than concludes the first season revival of Daredevil. Using both Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) being at large and Matt Murdock‘s (Charlie Cox) heroically saving his life as an excuse, Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) cracks down on the city giving him a chance to silent his detractors and impose his order on the city. Murdock escapes the hospital before the assassin (Arty Froushan) comes for him, and joins a (suddenly motivated) Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) on the streets. We also get the return of Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) which, like the Punisher’s involvement, feels more like a setup to Season Two than a big moment in and of itself (although the pair’s snooping does lead to a revelation concerning the motive for Foggy‘s death).

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Will Trent – The Most Beautiful, Fierce, Smart, Powerful Creature in the Entire World

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  • Title: Will Trent – The Most Beautiful, Fierce, Smart, Powerful Creature in the Entire World
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With Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Angie (Erika Christensen) both busy with their separate stories, Faith (Iantha Richardson) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) travel to an island resort to investigate a murder Evelyn (LisaGay Hamilton) and Amanda (Sonja Sohn) discover while on vacation. Things take a turn with the discovery of a second when Mandy’s first romp (Jason Alan Carvell) in an awfully long time turns out to have a stash of diamonds, just like those stolen. However, the real murderer (Lacy Hartselle) is a thief hiding in plain sight. The episode makes the most out of the locale adding some stylish transitions which are also used to connect to both of the B-stories.

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NCIS: Origins – Bugs / Darlin’, Don’t Refrain

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Bugs / Darlin’, Don’t Refrain
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The two episodes bring attention back the Sandman case which the team starts to take another look at once Jamison Boyd (Jared Bankens) tells Vera (Diany Rodriguez) he isn’t the sniper responsible for the murders and the real culprit shoots  him dead in the prison yard. “Bugs” spends quite a bit of time with Vera and her theories, which then bring in the rest of the team, while “Darlin’, Don’t Refrain” brings in the FBI to work alongside NIS to find the real Sandman who it turns out Gibbs (Austin Stowell) has already met.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Digital Frankenstein Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Digital Frankenstein Job
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Trading out Hardison (Aldis Hodge) for Breanna (Aleyse Shannon), the season’s second episode starts with Harry (Noah Wyle) smelling something fishy in court as the team targets an unscrupulous ghost gun manufacturer (Andy Cohen) and the judge (Rachael Harris) he has in his pocket. Running cons on each, there’s some goofy cons including Eliot (Christian Kane) playing two different roles to each of the marks as both a survivalist and the owner of what the judge is looking for to legitimize her family business.

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Will Trent – A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine

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  • Title: Will Trent – A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine
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The death of Ms. Pearl (Marla Gibbs) in “A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine” is the precipitating event for Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and the team to wrap up the Rafael Wexford (Antwayn Hopper) case in an episode that devotes multiple segments to giving us a young Rafael (Yannick Haynes) and Will (Andres Velez) highlighting the ebbs and flows of their relationship including their first meeting. The segments provide a bit more backstory but lacks any shocking revelations. Despite their turmoil, the pair come together to honor the woman they both loved and plan a funeral together (which Will uses to spy on Rafael and Rafael uses for money laundering purposes) before getting caught in a shoot-out at the funeral.

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