When a man falls to his death shortly after making love to a beautiful woman (Jaime Ray Newman) Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) are on the case, but the further they delve into the victim’s life the more elusive the truth becomes.
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After Nate’s father (Tom Skerritt) takes a job from Latimer (Leon Rippy) and becomes trapped in the United States Patent Office, Nate (Timothy Hutton) and the team have no choice but to go in to get him out. But the team has to think on their feet when they discover the entire job is a set-up and the building is surrounded by Federal agents.
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Smiley. George Smiley. Reinterpreting John le Carré’s novel for the big screen director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriters Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan drop the audience into the middle of a Cold War British spy tale centered around five senior intelligence officers under suspicion of being a Soviet mole.
Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley, the right hand of the former Head of the Service (John Hurt) who was pushed out the door with his friend. Smiley is coaxed out of retirement by Oliver Lancum (Simon McBurney) after an operation in Hungary ends in disaster when an agent (Mark Strong) is shot while trying to buy intelligence from a Hungarian informant.
Smiley is charged with discovering the truth of the rumor that there is a high-ranking Soviet mole inside the “Circus” (what those who work for MI6 and the SIS call home). To do so he will have to work outside the bounds of the Circus, hiding the fact that any investigation is in progress to some of the smartest and most paranoid men in the entire country.
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Feeling underappreciated and ready to run his own con, Hardison (Aldis Hodge) convinces Nate (Timothy Hutton) to let him run the show to take down an brother (Todd Stashwick) and sister (Sasha Barrese) team scamming customers by buying their gold at only a fraction of its actual worth.
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Issue #4 gives us a pretty well thought-out explanation as to how Barry Allen survived the sequence of events from last month’s comic, but most of this month’s story is focused on explaining the history of Mob Rule.
Even if we don’t get much of the Flash here, the backstory of Mob Rule (though gruemsome) is explains quite a bit. Manuel Lago was a super-spy who had been given regenerative abilities as part of a top secret government project (think Deadpool, without the tumors). However, when one of his mission went horribly wrong he was tortured for hours with limbs being cut-off his body as they regenerated. Eventually the various limbs grew into copies of him, and Mob Rule was born.
It bothers me that everyone is referring to Mob Rule by the same name when the group hasn’t publicly ever used that name, but it’s a comic book conceit I’m willing to let slide. Once again I’m impressed by how well-planned the story elements are from Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato are every month. And the art is gorgeous. Best of the week.
[DC, $2.99]
