Mystery

Scarpetta – Bridge of Time, Part One

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  • Title: Scarpetta – Bridge of Time, Part One
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Focused on stories nearly three decades apart, both Rosy McEwen and Nicole Kidman play Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta based on the character introduced in Patricia Cornwell’s novels. While Kidman plays the character returning to the job after being forced out years before, McEwen plays the younger version of the character tackling her first big case (which made her career but also appears to be linked to a new murder that calls the old investigation into question).

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R.J. Decker – Pilot

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  • Title: R.J. Decker – Pilot
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The “Pilot” episode of R.J. Decker feels every bit a mid-season replacement that was taken out of the oven a bit too soon. A bit overstuffed, the episode introduces us to former news photographer R.J. Decker (a scruffy Scott Speedman) who is sent to jail after attacking an influential rich man’s son attempting to rob him. His trip to the big house is hastened by the the man’s sister Emi (Jaina Lee Ortiz) whose perjury seals the deal. Although all of this is referred to, the only pieces we see on-screen are RJ’s last day in court, sleeping with Emi, and seeing her testimony send him off to prison.

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Murder in the Himalayas

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another classic radio adventure featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Set between the events of “The Final Problem” and “The Empty House,” this episode of the The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio program provides an opportunity for Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) to recount an overseas adventure retold to him during the years the world believed Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) was dead when the detective uncovers murder in an isolated Tibetan monastery deep in the Himalayan Mountains.

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NCIS: Origins – Fools Rush In

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Fools Rush In
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NCIS: Origins returns from mid-season hiatus, as “Fools Rush In” forces chaaracters to deal with the fallout of decisions and actions made the first-half of the show’s Second Season. For Wheeler (Patrick Fischler) that means dealing with the departure of his secret lover to greener pastures, for Gibbs (Austin Stowell) that means waking up hungover to the reality of a new marriage, and, following the discovery of the identity of the man who bombed the theater, Franks (Kyle Schmid) must deal with the decision he made to introduce his brother to the commune which now puts him under the crosshairs of Oakley’s replacement (Hannah Barefoot) who riles Franks up for the entire episode.

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Will Trent – We’re Looking for a Vampire

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  • Title: Will Trent – We’re Looking for a Vampire
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After having his car break down while visiting Caleb (Yul Vazquez), Will (Ramón Rodríguez) insinuates himself into an odd case where the victim was exsanguinated, with a pair of marks on her neck, and left in the middle of a giant pentagram with the leading suspect being her coworker who happens to identify as a vampire (Devin Druid). Certain the young man is being set up, Will sets out to find out who really killed the young woman.

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