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Night and Day

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Throwback Tuesday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and its sheriff, Jesse Stone. The second-to-last of the Jesse Stone series to be written by Robert B. Parker, Night and Day makes use of a device Parker employed before in both Crimson Joy and Thin Air in which we see small snippets interspaced throughout the novel from another character’s perspective. In the case of Night and Day that character is the sexually-frustrated Seth Ralston whose voyeuristic peeping gets increasingly more aggressive with the armed invasion of women’s’ homes, romanticizing the encounters by calling himself the Night Hawk and sending letters to Stone and the Paradise Police Department.

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The Irrational – Lost Souls

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  • Title: The Irrational – Lost Souls
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With Alec (Jesse L. Martin) stuck in the hospital after emergency surgery, Rose (Karen David) and Marisa (Maahra Hill) head into a national forest searching for a missing tennis player (Davida Williams). The pairing of current and ex proves to be an interesting one. Meanwhile Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones), Owen (Arash DeMaxi), and Phoebe (Molly Kunz) work an experiment to discover how the missing woman might react to getting lost in the woods which proves helpful in finding the missing young woman. However, dangers continue to rise with the addition of a forest fire and the discovery that someone has followed the tennis star into the woods with the intention of doing her harm.

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Will Trent – I’m a Guest Here

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Months after the end of Season Two, the retiring , who has relocated to Tennessee taking odd private investigator jobs, Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) is pulled back into the department to help investigate the shooting of a cop whose prime suspect demands Trent’s involvement in the case. There’s a lot of Trent struggling to fit into his old life while yearning to return to his new one here, getting the cold shoulder from the friends he disappeared on and the cops who blame him for Angie (Erika Christensen). Even Nico (Cora Lu Tran) is less than inviting.

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Interior Chinatown – Chinatown Expert

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Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) continues down the rabbit hole looking further into his uncle (Archie Kao) who he now suspects knows something about his brother’s disappearance. Looking to get into his uncle’s office leads to Willis and Lana (Chloe Bennet) attending family dinner as something more than friends and an ill-conceived night out afterwards with Fatty (Ronny Chieng) whose ill-tempered waiting continues to draw in large audiences. The episode is notable for a nice moment between Lana and Lily Wu (Diana Lin), which continues to suggest a personal connection to the case for Lana that hasn’t yet been revealed, and the ripples of Willis’ tampering with the natural order which lead Turner (Sullivan Jones) to question the nature of his reality and his true place in the world.

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Black Doves – Go Bang Time

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  • Title: Black Doves – Go Bang Time
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While suggesting there’s something more keeping Sam (Ben Whishaw) from killing Hector (Luther Ford), who he lets go again, the raid does snag the missing Kai-Ming (Isabella Wei) who sadly can shed no light on who killed her father or Helen’s (Keira Knightley) lover Jason (Andrew Koji). There’s plenty of carnage in the shoot-out, but its the maneuverings and the bits of info that begin to trickle out in the rest of the episode where things start to pick up. Given a new assignment, in getting the CIA Agent (Finn Bennett) out of the American Embassy for Mrs. Reed (Sarah Lancashire), Helen also hopes to get the answers she seeks. However, very little goes according to plan.

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