TV Show: The White Lotus Season 1 (Caution Spoiler Alerts)

 

The White Lotus

Season 1

Came out; 2021

Episodes: 6

Where to Watch: Max

Rated: TV-MA

Rating 8/10

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Cast

Murray Bartlett as Armond

Connie Britton as Nicole Mossbacher

Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya McQuoid

Alexandra Daddario as Rachel

Fred Hechinger as Quinn Mossbacher

Jake Lacy as Shane Patton

Brittany O'Grady as Paula

Natasha Rothwell as Belinda Lindsey

Sydney Sweeney as Olivia Mossbacher

Steve Zahn as Mark Mossbacher

Molly Shannon as Kitty

Lukas Gage as Dillon

Kekoa Scott Kekumano as Kai

Jon Gries as Gret

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Story Line:

A week in the life of vacationers unravels as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise; with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel's cheerful employees, and the idyllic locale itself

Thoughts:

This season is set in Hawaii.

We have Armond the eccentric head of the White Lotus, watching him unravel was probably the most fun I've had with a TV show in a long time. It's funny, because in real life I would feel differently but on screen it's crazy to watch.

The Mossbacher family is quite dysfunctional and added in the “friend” Paula. The question I kept asking is, Will they come together in the end?

Tanya, there's a lot to unwrap with this one and Jennifer Coolidge plays the character to a T. Someone who has mother issues, but also money who is also just moving through life at a pace that shocks everyone. How the character got to the age she is in this show is beyond me. Again, in real life there would be so many questions

Rachel and Shane. On their honeymoon, put in the wrong room brings Shane into a tailspin throughout the whole show. Obsessed with “We didn't get what we paid for” he actually calls his mother, Kitty who shows up un-announced to surprise the couple. This sets Rachel down a path she didn't know was possible. Seemingly happy when the first arrived, it starts to spiral down.

Every single actor plays their part to perfection. It starts off slower but gains speed quickly and is just so fun to watch, just when you think it's weird, it gets weirder and I love every second of it

Episode Guide

Episode 1

Shane Patton watches as a box containing human remains is loaded onto an airplane. Seven days earlier, wealthy patrons arrive at the White Lotus resort on Maui. They are greeted by manager Armond and his pregnant employee, Lani. Shane and his new wife, Rachel, arrive for their honeymoon. He becomes fixated on a booking error, causing Rachel to question their relationship. Tanya McQuoid, who came to spread her mother's ashes, wants to schedule a massage, but it is fully booked. Belinda Lindsey, the spa's manager, instead guides her in a ceremonial chant. Tech CFO Nicole Mossbacher argues with her husband Mark about his potential cancer diagnosis; Mark decides to spend time with their son Quinn. Their daughter Olivia and her friend Paula lounge by the pool and make snide remarks about Rachel, a professional listicle writer. Lani's water breaks, but Armond does not notice. She begins to give birth as the guests dine. Mark receives a call from his doctor, but is disconnected before he learns his diagnosis. Rachel and Shane agree to put the day's conflict behind them and resume their earlier tryst.

Episode 2

Mark is elated when his cancer diagnosis is negative, but learns from his uncle that his father died of AIDS, having been a gay man. Shane calls his mother to have their travel agent reprimand Armond over the booking error. Rachel considers accepting a new writing assignment, but Shane insists she does not have to. Rachel meets Nicole, advising her to maintain her independence. However, Nicole begins to criticize Rachel's reporting upon realizing she wrote a listicle mentioning her, causing Rachel to doubt her career. After Shane's insistence, Rachel abandons the job. Olivia and Paula use ketamine on the beach, but are approached by Tanya and leave, forgetting Paula's bag of drugs. The bag is turned over to Armond, who keeps it and uses them to manage his stress despite being a recovering addict. Olivia becomes jealous when she sees Paula flirting with Kai, a hotel employee. Tanya invites Belinda to dinner and offers to fund a possible wellness business, which Belinda considers. When Quinn is kicked out of the hotel room by Olivia, he decides to go to the beach, where he is fascinated by watching a group of whales jumping in the ocean.

Episode 3

As the guests of the White Lotus wake for the day, Paula hesitates about her tryst due to Olivia's increased suspicions, while Quinn's electronics are washed away as he sleeps on the beach. Shane and Rachel have sex, but Rachel worries whether their marriage is predicated on Shane's sexual attraction to her. To console her, Shane plans a romantic dinner. Armond, displeased with Shane's incessant complaining, recommends for it to be a sunset boat ride, withholding the fact that Tanya chartered it to spread her mother's ashes in the ocean. Tanya believes the honeymooners are supporting her, and the ensuing discomfort enrages Shane. Mark remains distraught regarding his discovery regarding his father, and gets drunk while proceeding through awkward encounters with his son, Rachel, and other women at the bar. It culminates in a tepid speech when he joins his family for dinner and is rebuffed when attempting to initiate sex with Nicole. Armond also spirals after relapsing from his five-year sobriety, drinking and taking Paula's prescription medication. He flirts with hotel staffer Dillon, and reveals to Mark that he is gay, even propositioning Mark when he expresses his curiosity about anal sex. As the guests return to bed, Olivia follows Paula and sees her and Kai have sex.

Episode 4

Quinn wakes on the beach again to see Hawaiians singing and bringing their canoe ashore. He introduces himself later that afternoon. Tanya informs the girls that the staff does have Paula's backpack, and when they confront Armond, he decides to give it back, drugs and all; however, after Shane angrily demands to speak with Armond's boss, a livid Armond takes the drugs and returns the backpack without them. Tanya and Belinda plan to have dinner together to discuss the wellness center, but the former cancels when she is asked out by Greg, a sport fisherman staying in the room next to hers. Kitty, Shane's mother, arrives at their honeymoon hotel, much to Rachel's chagrin. Mark reveals to Quinn that he cheated on Nicole. However, at dinner, Quinn unwittingly reveals knowledge of Mark's affair in front of Nicole. Armond invites Dillon to his office to take drugs and have sex, in exchange for preferred work shifts. When Shane learns that Armond gave him a fake number for his boss, he storms into the manager's office and comes upon Armond performing anilingus on Dillon

Episode 5

After getting caught having sex with Dillon by Shane, Armond is forced to move Shane and Rachel into the Pineapple Suite free of charge to avoid repercussions. Rachel begins to worry that she has become a trophy wife after talking with Kitty and second-guesses marrying Shane. Belinda tries to get Tanya to look at her business proposal, but Tanya is more concerned about Greg's interest in her. Tanya admits to Greg that she is an emotional wreck, but Greg is undeterred. Quinn enjoys paddling with a group of locals. Paula gives Kai the code to the Mossbachers' safe and convinces him to steal a pair of expensive bracelets to pay for a lawsuit against the hotel. Nicole rebukes Mark for confessing his affair to Quinn. As the Mossbachers prepare to go scuba diving in the ocean, Nicole breaks down over the pressure of having to provide for her family and receiving no respect for it and goes back to the hotel, with Mark following her. Unbeknownst to them, Kai is in their hotel room trying to steal the bracelets. Mark saves Nicole, but is beaten by Kai, who escapes. The hotel comps their stay and Mark finally gets respect from Nicole and their children, but Olivia is suspicious that Paula is involved with the robbery.

Episode 6

Rachel tells Shane that she regrets marrying him. Tanya decides to stay with Greg despite his terminal illness and tells Belinda she wants to end her dependency on transactional relationships, leaving her a large sum of cash instead. Dejected, Belinda discards her business plan. Kai gets arrested and the Mossbachers' stolen jewelry is recovered, confirming Olivia's suspicions about Paula. Paula admits her involvement in the robbery, but accuses Olivia of being as privileged as the rest of her family. The two later reconcile when Paula expresses her regret. Quinn tells his parents he wants to stay on the island to join the local paddlers, which they dismiss outright. Shane hears of the robbery while talking to the Mossbachers and calls his travel agent, who informs Armond's superior. This in turn gets Armond fired from the White Lotus. Armond spends his last workday getting heavily intoxicated on Olivia and Paula's remaining drugs. That night, after serving dinner, Armond sneaks into Shane's suite and defecates in his suitcase. However, Shane returns before Armond can leave. Sensing an intruder, Shane arms himself with a pineapple knife and inadvertently stabs Armond, killing him. Armond's body is loaded onto the guests' return flight. Rachel arrives at the airport and decides to stay with Shane. Quinn leaves the airport to join the Hawaiian paddlers after the rest of his family boards the plane.

Movie: Redemption (AKA Hummingbird) (2013) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

Redemption AKA Hummingbird

Came out; 2013

Time; 1 hour 40 Minutes

Watched: Prime

Rated: R for language throughout, some violence, drug use and sexual content

IMDB Rating; 6.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 49%

Popcorn Meter 38%

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Staring;

Jason Statham as Joey

Agata Buzek as Cristina

Vicky McClure as Dawn

Benedict Wong as Mr Choy

Story Line;

Nothing can prepare a man for the horrors of war--and as Joey Smith, a damaged Special Forces deserter and now a homeless drug addict, wanders London's bustling streets in complete anonymity--an unexpected discovery will soon help him get back on his feet. Little by little, as Smith struggles to rebuild his shattered life in a stolen identity as an unstoppable Chinese Mafia enforcer, the brutal death of a dear friend will, inevitably, force him to avenge her murder, dragging him deeper and deeper into a dark world of pain, guilt, and suffering. In the end, do God's plans for redemption include "Crazy" Joey, too?

Thoughts:

I love Jason Statham as an actor but this movie wasn't it. It was slow, boring and didn't make a ton of sense.

I get that this was a movie about redemption but it also didn't flow good.

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Joseph Smith (Jason Statham) is an ex-Special Forces veteran who went AWOL from his unit in Afghanistan, and now lives as a homeless drunk in London. While fleeing thugs, he breaks into an apartment and discovers the owner is traveling for months. He begins to assume the life of the owner Damon, calling himself Joey Jones, and spends his time looking for Isabel (Victoria Bewick), who he was separated from in the streets. He finds a credit card in the apartment mail, and starts to improve himself.

Joey makes friends with Cristina (Agata Buzek), a nun who runs the soup kitchen, and she helps him with medicine and messages to Isabel. Joey demonstrates his fighting ability to the owner of a Chinese restaurant, and is hired by Mr. Choy (Benedict Wong) as a driver/thug, collecting extortion payments and delivering drugs. He saves some of the money he receives and begins to do charitable work, ordering pizzas for the soup kitchen and buying things for Cristina. The homeless begin calling him "Crazy Joe". He finds Dawn (Vicky McClure), his ex, and starts giving her money. He tells the neighbors that he is Damon's boyfriend.

Joey invites Cristina to dinner, a barbeque in the street behind the Chinese restaurant, and Cristina shows him a police photo of Isabel, dead. Joey is enraged, but Cristina is able to calm him, and encourages him to start an honest life. He finds the men who chased him away from Isabel and beats them, interrogating them about Isabel's murder. Joey meets Cristina at an art gallery, saying he has information about Isabel's killer. She gets a bit tipsy, and they start a relationship. She tells him about a ballet ticket she has for the same date as when Damon is due to return - October 1st.

The police learn of Joey's activities, and begin questioning Cristina. Joey finds her later, and they share life stories. She was raped by her gymnastics instructor in Warsaw and killed him. Cristina is ashamed of her relationship with him, and asks her mother superior (Ger Ryan) to be transferred to another mission in Sierra Leone. Joey continues his search for Isabel's killer, trading services with Mr. Choy's boss. He is given the keys to a truck with boxes containing refugees/slaves to be delivered.

Meanwhile, Isabel's killer, Max Forrester (Christian Brassington) is beating a hooker. A neighbor finds his invitation to a rooftop cocktail party, and the invitation finds its way to Joey. The party is on October 1st.

Joey meets Cristina on October 1st. He asks her to take photos of him for his daughter, and he hints that he won't be the same for long (Damon is returning soon). She tells him she's leaving for Africa, and that she wants to be with him before she leaves. Damon returns, and they escape through the back. She invites him to the ballet, and Joey must now decide whether to be with the woman he loves or to avenge Isabel. He delivers the photos and a bag full of cash to his ex-wife and daughter.

Cristina waits for Joey, but he goes to the cocktail party instead. He finds Max Forrester and throws him off the roof. Cristina leaves the ballet, still looking for Joey. She finds him drunk and sleeping on the curb. He's remorseful, and tells her why he left his unit.

The next day, Cristina is leaving for Africa, and receives a note from Joey...he paid his debts with everyone and is homeless again. As he walks the streets, the police are closing in.

Movie: Villains (2019) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

Villains

Came out; 2019

Time; 1 hour 30 Minutes

Watched: Prime

Rated: R for language throughout, some violence, drug use and sexual content

IMDB Rating; 6.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 84%

Popcorn Meter 77%

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Staring;

Bill Skarshard as Mickey

Maika Monroe as Jules

Blake Baumgartner as Sweetiepie

Jeffrey Donovan as George

Kyra Sedwick as Gloria

Story Line;

After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out.

Thoughts:

This was not what I was expecting and everything I needed.

This movie was the classic twist of bad people meeting even worse people.

It was fun, campy and somewhat predictable at times but totally awesome

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

The film opens with to young criminal lovers Mickey (Bill Skarsgard) and Jules (Maika Monroe) robbing a gas station. Mickey can't get the register open since he caused the cashier to faint. Jules hands him a snack to buy so they can open the register and make off with the money...and the snack.

The two are heading to Florida to get away from the police and their worthless lives. Jules gets excited and tries to have fun with Mickey on the road, but their car quickly runs out of gas, and the irony of having just robbed a gas station hits them. They decide to walk until they can find another solution to keep moving. They leave the car stranded until they come across a nice house. They start to break in until Mickey sees that the front door is dead-bolted shut. Jules hands him a crowbar and they break in.

Mickey and Jules start to make themselves comfortable as they try to figure out their next move. They snort cocaine, which gives Mickey the idea to siphon gas from the homeowners' car and carry it with them to their car. They run to the basement to look for a hose, but they end up discovering a little girl (Blake Baumgartner) chained to the floor. Jules wants to help her, but Mickey thinks it's a bad idea. He relents and decides to help get the girl out.

The two run back up to the kitchen and are found by the homeowners, a seemingly friendly couple named George (Jeffrey Donovan) and Gloria (Kyra Sedgwick). Mickey aims his gun at them, but George calmly attempts to diffuse the situation once he realizes they are trying to break the girl (whom the couple calls "Sweetiepie") out. George suggests that Mickey and Jules take what they want and get out of there so that the police aren't involved, but Mickey makes it clear they are not leaving without the girl. The couple relents and brings the crooks back down to the basement. George unchains Sweetiepie, but when Mickey tries to take her with him, she bites his wrist, and George headbutts Mickey to knock him out.

Mickey wakes up tied to a bed. Gloria attempts to seduce him, though she creeps him out by playing up a mommy fetish. She also shows him pictures of her supposed son that she calls "Ethan." Meanwhile, Jules is stuck in the basement tied to the support beam. She tried talking to Sweetiepie, but she remains unresponsive. This goes on for about two days. Jules admits to the girl that her parents abandoned her when she was a child. Mickey appears to give into Gloria's seduction, but when he asks to touch her, she uncuffs him and gives him an opportunity to throw her off of him. Mickey makes a run for the door but is stopped by George with his gun. He forces Mickey to go to the basement and stay tied up with Jules.

Mickey and Jules plan their escape. He remembers her tongue stud and tried to convince her to take it out so that he can use it to pick the locks. Jules is hesitant since she knows it will hurt, but with Mickey's help, they are able to pull it out. He manages to uncuff Jules, but when she tries to get his cuffs, the stud breaks inside. Thinking quickly, Jules runs for it to try and find another way to help Mickey. George comes down and sees that Jules is gone, and he threatens to cut Mickey's ear off to get him to talk. He quickly says that Jules went somewhere to meet Mickey, and if he isn't there at a certain time, the cops will come. George believes him and uncuffs him to take him outside.

As they head for the front door with Mickey at gunpoint, Jules emerges with "Ethan", who is just a porcelain doll that Gloria has a deep attachment to. Jules threatens to drop Ethan unless George lets Mickey go. Gloria instead grabs George's gun and shoots at Jules, but she missed and causes her to drop Ethan, and his head shatters. Gloria tearfully tries to piece the doll back together. George keeps Mickey and Jules hostage.

George and Gloria strap Mickey and Jules to chairs as they are seated for dinner, with Gloria preparing a shepherd's pie. Mickey and Jules eat the food and ask what the whole deal with Sweetiepie is. George explains that she was kidnapped by them since Gloria is barren and couldn't have have kids. However, she couldn't see Sweetiepie as her own child, so she ordered George to get rid of her. He views her being captive in the basement as a form of mercy. Mickey and Jules then start to feel dizzy, and George reveals that they were just fed an excess amount of pills to knock them out before George plans to overdose them with heroin and make it look like they are just two junkies who broke in and went on a bender before dying.

The plan is interrupted when a cop comes to the door, as Mickey and Jules's car was found abandoned near the scene of the gas station robbery. George assures the cop that everything is fine, but he becomes suspicious when he sees the broken door. George reluctantly lets the cop inside. Gloria has stashed Mickey and Jules away in their gym to keep them hidden from the cops. The officer then goes down to the basement. George prepares to shoot him before he discovers Sweetiepie, but he is called back outside by the other officers.

Jules manages to wake up and get cocaine for herself and Mickey to get them back on their feet. They trick George and Gloria into thinking they ran away, and they emerge after the older couple heads out to find them. While walking in the woods, Gloria says she has had enough of George insulting her out of frustrations, and she admits she would rather forget about Mickey and Jules and just carry on with their lives by going on a trip. Meanwhile, Mickey and Jules prepare to take George and Gloria's car, but they end up agreeing to free Sweetiepie. She only goes after Mickey apologizes for yelling at her after she bit him.

The young couple makes it to the garage but can't find the garage door remote. George and Gloria have returned home to find that their keys are gone, and so is Sweetiepie. George heads the garage door opening, and he makes it to the front before Mickey and Jules can get away. He holds his gun at them and orders them to step out of the car. Mickey tells Jules he loves her right before he hits the gas and runs George over. Unfortunately, Mickey has been shot in the chest. He has a brief final moment with Jules before he dies. Jules cries over Mickey's body before a now horribly disfigured George pulls her out and tries to strangle her. He is stopped when Sweetiepie steps out the car and grabs his gun. He tried to sweet-talk her into giving him the gun, but she instead shoots him in the head. Gloria comes outside with luggage for a trip before she sees George's corpse. She is now fully delusional and tries to "wake" George, and Jules cannot being herself to kill Gloria. Sweetiepie finally talks and says she will go with Jules. The girls walk until they are picked up by a kind woman, and she takes them to Florida.

The last scene is a home movie style video of Jules and Sweetiepie (now actually looking like a cheerful child) enjoying a day at the beach in Florida, with them also having a small knick-knacks shop named after Mickey.

Movie; Black Panther Wakanda Forever (2022) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Came out; 2022

Time; 2 hour 41 Minutes

Watched: Disney Plus

Rated: PG 13 for sequences of strong violence, action and some language

IMDB Rating; 6.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 84%

Popcorn Meter 94%

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Staring;

Letitia Wright as Shuri

Lupita Nyong'O as Nakia

Danai Gurira as Okoye

Winston Duke as M'Baku

Angela Bassett as Ramonda

Tenoch Huerta as Namor

Martin Freeman as Everett Ross

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Dominique Thorne as Riri

Florence Kasumba as Ayo

Story Line;

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect the kingdom of Wakanda from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for their nation

Thoughts:

Honestly not at all what I was expecting. The acting was great, the story line not so much.

It went so back and forth and was hard to follow. I know they had to make changes when Chadwick Bosman died but this was too much.

I love the Marvel movies, but this one wasn't it

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), king of Wakanda, is dying from an unspecified terminal illness which his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) (The princess of Wakanda who designs new technology for the nation) believes can be cured by the "heart-shaped herb". Shuri attempts to synthetically recreate the herb after it was destroyed by Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), but fails to do so before T'Challa dies.

One year later, Wakanda is under pressure from other nations to share their Vibranium, with some parties attempting to steal it by force. Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) (The Sovereign Queen regnant of Wakanda who is grieving the death of her son T'Challa) implores Shuri to continue her research on the herb, hoping to create a new Black Panther that will defend Wakanda, but she refuses due to her belief that the Black Panther is a figure of the past. In the Atlantic Ocean, the CIA and U.S. Navy SEALs utilize a Vibranium detector to locate a potential Vibranium deposit underwater. The expedition is killed by a group of blue-skinned, water-breathing super-humans led by Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) (The king of Talokan, an ancient civilization of underwater dwelling people. Namor decides to get involved in the surface world after T'Challa publicly reveals the truth of Wakanda at the end of the first film, which consequently puts Talokan in "jeopardy", leading Namor and his people to "take action to protect themselves"), with the CIA believing Wakanda to be responsible. Namor confronts Ramonda and Shuri, easily bypassing Wakanda's advanced security. Blaming Wakanda for the Vibranium race, he gives them an ultimatum: deliver him the scientist responsible for the Vibranium detector, or he will attack Wakanda. Namor claims to have a massive army with incomparable strength.

Shuri and Okoye (Danai Gurira) (The general of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda's all-female special forces) learn from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) that the scientist in question is MIT student Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) (An MIT student and genius inventor from Chicago who creates a suit of armor that rivals the one built by Tony Stark / Iron Man) and arrive at the university to confront her. Shuri tells Everett that Wakanda had nothing to do with the attack on the mining expedition. The group is pursued by the FBI and then by Namor's warriors, who defeat Okoye before taking Shuri and Williams underwater to meet Namor. Angered by Okoye's failure to protect Shuri, Ramonda strips her of her title as general of the Dora Milaje (and for siding with the KillMonger when he took over the throne of Wakanda) and seeks out Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) (A former War Dog, an undercover spy for Wakanda, from the River Tribe), who has been living in Haiti since The Blip

Ramonda contacts Everett, but refuses to divulge that it was Namor who abducted Riri. Everett and the CIA believes that it was the Wakandans again.

Namor shows Shuri his Vibranium-rich underwater kingdom of Talokan, which he has protected for centuries from discovery by the world. Namor says that he comes from the Yucatan peninsula. In 1571 AD, the Spanish conquistadors brought disease and war. Their shaman was given a vision of a different world, and led to a blue plant growing in a rock. The shaman takes the plant and grinds it into a paste, that is taken by all natives, including Namor's mother who was pregnant at the time. The plant took away their ability to breathe air, but gave them the ability to draw oxygen from water. Namor was born in the water and the plant gave him wings on his ankles and ears that pointed to the clouds. He was a mutant. Namor returned to bury his mother in her homeland and killed the European settlers. The Christian priest calls him a demon, a child without love, or Namor. Nakia tracks down Shuri to the same spot where the shaman entered the water world for the first time.

Bitter at the surface world for enslaving the Maya, Namor proposes an alliance with Wakanda against the rest of the world but threatens to destroy Wakanda if they refuse. Nakia helps Shuri and Williams escape, killing a Talokanil guard in the process, and Namor retaliates with an attack against Wakanda, during which Ramonda drowns while saving Williams. Namor vows to return with his full army in one week's time, and the citizens of Wakanda relocate to the Jabari mountains for their safety. Meanwhile, Ross is arrested by his ex-wife, CIA director Valentina Allegra De Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), for secretly exchanging classified intelligence with the Wakandans.

After Ramonda's funeral, Shuri uses a remnant of the herb that gave Namor's people their superhuman abilities to reconstruct the heart-shaped herb. She was able to do this with the bracelet that Namor gifted her, which contained the remnant of the plant that their Shaman had found in 1571 AD. Together Riri and Shuri figure out that Namor derives his strength from the water. He can be weakened if dried out. She ingests it, gaining superhuman abilities (but going into cardiac arrest in the process) and meeting Killmonger in the Ancestral Plane, who urges her to seek revenge. Shuri dons a new Black Panther suit and is accepted by the other Wakandan tribes as the Black Panther. Despite M'Baku's (Winston Duke) (A powerful warrior and leader of Wakanda's mountain tribe, the Jabari) urges for peace, Shuri is determined to exact vengeance on Namor for Ramonda's death and orders an immediate counterattack on Talokan. Preparing for battle, with Ayo assuming the position of general of the Dora Milaje, Shuri bestows the Midnight Angel armor upon Okoye, who in turn recruits Dora Milaje member Aneka (Michaela Coel) (A Wakandan warrior and member of the Dora Milaje) to join her. Williams creates an Iron Man like powered exoskeleton to aid the Wakandans.

Using a seafaring vessel, the Wakandans lure Namor and his warriors to the surface with another Vibranium detector as a battle ensues. Shuri traps Namor in a fighter aircraft, intending to dry him out and weaken him. The pair crash on a desert beach and fight. Shuri gains the upper hand, but has a vision of Ramonda and implores Namor to yield, offering him a peaceful alliance. Namor accepts, and the battle ends. Namor's cousin, Namora (Mabel Cadena), is upset at Namor's surrender, but he assures her that the new alliance will allow them to conquer the surface world one day. Williams returns to MIT, leaving her suit behind, while Okoye rescues Ross from captivity. Shuri plants more heart-shaped herbs to ensure the future of the Black Panther mantle. In Shuri's absence, M'Baku steps forward to challenge for the throne. Shuri visits Nakia in Haiti where she burns her funeral robe in accordance with Ramonda's wishes, allowing herself to finally grieve for T'Challa.

In a mid-credits scene, Shuri learns that Nakia and T'Challa had a son named Toussaint, whom Nakia has been raising in secret. Toussaint reveals his Wakandan name is T'Challa.

Movie: Kraven the Hunter (2024) Caution Spoiler Alert

 Kraven the Hunter

Came out; 2024

Time; 2 hour 7 Minutes

Watched: Amazon

Rated: R for strong bloody violence and language

IMDB Rating; 5.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 16%

Popcorn Meter 74%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven

Fred Hechinger as Dmitri Kravinoff

Ariana DeBose as Calypso Ezili

Alessandro Nivola as Aleksei Sytsevich

Christopher Abbot as The Foreigner

Russell Crowe as Nikolai Kravinoff

Story Line;

In Siberia, the prisoner Sergei Kravinoff kills the drug lord Semyon Chorney in a maximum-security prison and flees to meet his partner that is waiting for him in an airplane. While traveling back home, Sergei recalls his saga sixteen years ago, when his father Nikolai Kravinoff travels with his brother Dmitri "Dima" to Tanzania for a hunting trip to prepare them to take over his drug trafficking business in the future. When Nikolai hits a lion, the wounded animal will attack Dima, but Serge protects him. Seriously injured, a girl named Calypso finds him, gives a potion to him and calls assistance, saving his life. She leaves a tarot card with him, and Sergei is miraculously healed. When his father shows the head of the lion as a trophy, Sergei leaves him and goes to the sanctuary that belonged to his mother in Russia. Nowadays, Sergei is a vigilante and urban legend known as Kraven, the Hunter, who hunts criminals. During Dmitri's birthday, Kraven travels to London to celebrate with his brother. But Dmitri is kidnapped and Nikolai refuses to pay the 20 million-dollar-ransom. Now Kraven has to find the man behind the abduction. Aleksei "Rhino" Sytsevich is a powerful competitor of Nikolai that participated in an experiment that gave him the power and strength of a rhinoceros. He hired mercenaries and the Foreigner-who uses hypnotism to defeat his enemies. He has plans to destroy Kraven by using his brother as a bait however Kraven teams up with Calypso (who is now a lawyer in London) to help him in his quest to release Dmitri from his captors.

Thoughts:

I like Aaron Taylor-Johnson, I always forget he was Kick Ass. He's a great actor

however this movie wasn't it.

The acting was fine, I didn't care much for Russell Crowe as the dad with his Russian accent BUT the CGI was bad, the story line was mediocre and the script seemed to be all over the place

It really had potential, it had a great start but it didn't keep up

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

After his mother dies, Sergei Kravinoff and his half-brother Dmitri are abducted by their father Nikolai so that they can be ready to take over his drug trafficking business.

After saving his brother from a lion while hunting in Africa, Sergei suffers a fatal wound.

When he is on the verge of death, a girl named Calypso finds him.

She calls for help and gives him a serum, leaving a tarot card behind.

Her grandmother had warned her that she would step in during an accident and grant its victim great power.

After learning that his physical characteristics have turned animistic, Sergei becomes disgusted by Nikolai's actions and runs away to a secret sanctuary his mother owned in Russia after he tells him that he killed the lion to teach his sons a lesson.

After several years, Sergei-who goes by Kraven now-works as a vigilante, eradicating criminals.

Following his murder of an arms trafficker in a Russian jail, Kraven visits Dmitri's birthday in London.

He goes for a walk that night because he can not sleep, which results in Dmitri being taken prisoner by mercenaries.

After Nikolai declines to pay the ransom, Kraven finds Calypso, who is now a lawyer, and persuades her to assist in locating his brother's abductors.

Aleksei Sytsevich, the leader of his kidnappers and a mercenary who participated in an experiment that gave him the strength and appearance of a rhinoceros, approaches Dmitri and offers to form an alliance to topple Nikolai.

Aleksei lures Dmitri to an abandoned monastery in Turkey after learning of Kraven's relationship with him, but Kraven escapes the ambush.

The Foreigner, an assassin who has spent years studying Kraven's attack patterns and uses ocular hypnosis to confuse his targets, then approaches him and offers to kill him.

Aleksei and the Foreigner track Kraven and Calypso to his sanctuary, use Dmitri as bait, and ambush Kraven when he tries to kill them.

The Foreigner attacks him after giving him a neurotics drug, but Calypso uses a crossbow to kill him and bring Kraven back to life.

He then traps Aleksei with a stampede of buffaloes, and although he transforms into the Rhino and momentarily defeats Kraven, he is speared to death.

After realizing that Nikolai was the one who told Aleksei about him, Kraven follows his father to a forest in Siberia to get answers.

Nikolai admits that he knew Aleksei was after him and used his sons to get rid of him.

Kraven steals his father's ammunition so that a bear will kill him instead of killing him.

When Dmitri learns that Kraven has acquired shape shifting skills from the doctor who experimented on Aleksei, he disowns Kraven, claiming that despite his moral superiority claims, he and Nikolai were just big game hunters looking for their next big trophy.

Kraven accepts his brother's claims when he finds a note from Nikolai at home and a vest made from the skin of a long-dead lion, which he puts on.

Movie; Faster (2010) Caution Spoiler Alert

 Faster

Came out; 2010

Time; 1 hour 38 Minutes

Watched: Netflix

Rated: R for strong violence, some drug use and language

IMDB Rating; 6.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 41%

Popcorn Meter 52%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Dwayne Johnson as Driver

Billy Bob Thornton as Cop

Maggie Grace as Lily

Tom Berenger as Warden

Carla Gugino as Cicero

Story Line;

A lone man, recently released from prison, seeks out the people from his past who he believes betrayed him. While he forces each to atone for their sins, he must also face what meting out vengeance will do to his immortal soul. Meanwhile, he's not the only one looking to settle old scores: hired by the man responsible for the events which led him to prison, an eccentric contract killer follows his every move. Scenes of them crossing paths, sometimes violently, are interspersed with the assassin's self-realizations of how to deal with struggles within his own life. As if old enemies and hired guns aren't enough, a young female detective begrudgingly works alongside a veteran investigator looking to simply survive his last two weeks on the force before retirement, as they seek out the brazen ex-con who has been blazing a path of gasoline-powered destruction in his vintage Chevelle.

Thoughts:

This was a random, we have nothing better to do movie watch. We'd never heard of it from 2010 and had both the Rock and Billy Bob, both decent actors.

There's a lot to take in here. This movie starts from the jump, and you don't get much backstory until a little way in by way of flashbacks.

It was decent, I kept trying to figure it out. Its so action packed it goes from here to there during each scene.

It wasn't bad and I certainly didn't feel like I wasted my time

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

On leaving prison James "Jimmy" Cullen (Dwayne Johnson) retrieves his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, a gun, and a list of names before heading to an telemarketing office in Bakersfield, California and killing a man named Prescott Ashton (Courtney Gains). He then visits Roy Grone (Mike Epps), who gave him the car and gun, and forces him to give him more names. Meanwhile, Cullen is tracked by detectives Cicero (Carla Gugino) and Humphries (Billy Bob Thornton); a hit-man known as "Killer" (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is also hired to kill Cullen. Humphries is shown to be a desperate heroin addict, who doesn't even have the money to cover a single hit. Humphries is just a couple of weeks away from retirement. Cicero is a competent officer and hates Humphries. Retirement means full pension and benefits for Humphries and his family. Cicero figures out from the office CCTV video that Prescott knew the man who killed him.

Cullen locates the second person on his list, Kenneth Tyson (John Cirigliano), who films his own personal snuff films. After finding and killing Tyson, Cullen gets into a gunfight with Killer in the hallway but manages to escape. This affects Killer philosophically, and, after proposing marriage to his girlfriend, Lily (Maggie Grace), begins to take the task personally. Killer is shown to be a perfectionist. He has polio as a kid, but then took control of his life, got surgery in his legs, and conquered every physical challenge thrown at him. He has never failed at anything that he has set his mind to. The killer is obsessed that Cullen was faster than him and he had no fear.

Humphries and Cicero investigate Cullen's past and discover he was double-crossed during a robbery. Cullen was the driver, and Gary was in the crew. Cullen was great at driving and is able to escape with the crew. But then the bank robbery crew was ambushed by another crew. It was a setup, and the snuff event was filmed on camera. Cicero remembers him from a video of his older half-brother Gary's (Matt Gerald) death filmed by Tyson, which depicts an unidentified man shooting Cullen in the head; he narrowly survives, and has a metal plate surgically implanted in his skull. The killer's faces were never seen in the video and hence the case was closed. Cicero deduces that Cullen is going after everyone in that video.

Cullen visits his former girlfriend, Nan Porterman (Jennifer Carpenter) who knows he is killing those involved from the video of Gary's death. After revealing that she aborted their unborn child and has begun a new life by having a family, she wishes him well. At a strip club in Nevada, Cullen stabs bouncer Hovis Nixon (Lester Speight) for his role in Gary's death, but he manages to survive. Soon, both Humphries and Killer get word that Nixon is in the hospital. Knowing Cullen will go back to finish him off, they converge there.

Cullen enters the hospital and kills Nixon while he is in surgery. Humphries attempts to unsuccessfully bring down Cullen but is spared when the latter sees his badge. While driving away from the hospital, Cullen encounters Killer where they get into a high-speed chase on the freeway, culminating in Killer shooting Cullen in the neck. Killer receives a call from his handler that the client wants to pull the job, but Killer refuses to relent.

Cullen goes to his mother to get his neck wound stitched. Eventually Cullen comes to believe that his father arranged to have him, and Gary killed after they refused to share the money that they stole in that bank robbery. However, Cullen finds out that his father died 3-4 years before. Mrs. Cullen (Annie Corley) says that Cullen's father was not capable of killing his own son Gary. Mr Cullen was cruel to Cullen, as he knew that Cullen was born out of wedlock, when Mrs Cullen cheated on him. Cullen sees a family photo that focuses on Gary's girlfriend, and it is shown that Gary's girlfriend is now Humphries' wife.

The last man on his list is a traveling evangelist named Alexander Jerrod (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje); after concluding his service, he is confronted by Cullen, but is spared after revealing that he has turned his life around and begging for forgiveness. Cullen is then confronted by Killer. Killer says that Cullen is not done, as there is still the one who hired him.

Cicero eventually learns the true identity of the man who shot Cullen. She finds all the victims were police informants who never did any serious prison time. Their cases were dealt by Humphries.

She hurries to the church where Humphries is already on the scene. As Killer and Cullen confront each other, Humphries walks in and shoots Cullen in the head, revealing it was he who shot him in the video. He offers Killer the money for completing the job, but Killer declines, telling Humphries to never contact him again.

Humphries calls his wife, Marina (Moon Bloodgood), who is revealed to have been his informant, while she was still Gary's girlfriend. Suddenly, he is shot and killed by Cullen, who survived due to his metal plate. Cicero arrives on the scene after Cullen leaves, and she covers up Humphries' involvement.

Cullen scatters Gary's ashes in the sea and drives off into the sunset, while Killer returns home to Lily; simultaneously, Jerrod begins a sermon on forgiveness.

Movie: Borderlands (2024) Caution: Spoiler Alert

 

Borderlands

Came out; 2024

Time; 1 hour 41 Minutes

Watched: Amazon

Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and some suggestive material

IMDB Rating; 4.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 10%

Popcorn Meter 50%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Cate Blanchett

Kevin Hart as Roland

Edgar Ramirez as Atlas

Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis

Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina

Florian Munteanu as Krieg

Janina Gavankar as Knoxx

Jack Black as Claptrap (Voice)

Benjamin Byron Davis as Marcus

Olivier Richters as Krom

Gina Gershon as Moxxi

Ryann Redmond as Ellie

Bobby Lee as Larry

Story Line.

Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Ramírez), the universe's most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits - Roland (Hart), a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral preteen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina's musclebound protector; Tannis (Curtis), the oddball scientist who's seen it all; and Claptrap (Black), a wiseass robot. Together, these unlikely heroes must battle an alien species and dangerous bandits to uncover one of Pandora's most explosive secrets. The fate of the universe could be in their hands - but they'll be fighting for something more: each other

Thoughts:

It's important to know that I've never played the game. I am unfamiliar with the characters, story line or set details.

I saw the preview for this before another movie in the theater. It looked decent and had an all-star cast. I had herd once this came out how terrible it was, and the ratings reflect the gamers thoughts on this one.

I personally didn't think it was bad. I thought it had a decent story line, action and comedy. I thought it was a fun little movie that didn't take itself too seriously.

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

On the planet of Pandora, Roland, a mercenary soldier apparently gone rogue, kidnaps teenager Tiny Tina with the help of Krieg, a "Psycho" who was institutionalized in the same facility.

Meanwhile, on another planet, bounty hunter Lilith is contacted by Atlas, a powerful corporate magnate. He convinces her to rescue Tina, his daughter. Lilith returns to Pandora, her home planet, for the first time since she was a child. With the help of Claptrap, a robot that was mysteriously programmed to wait for her on Pandora, she locates Tina.

After realizing that Atlas wants his daughter back against her will, Lilith teams up with Roland and Krieg when they are attacked by the Crimson Lance, the private army of Atlas. Lilith is informed that Tina was genetically engineered with biological material from the Eridians, the ancient race that once inhabited Pandora, and that Atlas believes only she can open the Vault where the secrets of the lost civilization's advanced technology are kept.

With the help of Lilith's estranged foster mother, Dr. Patricia Tannis, they locate the key to open the Vault in an underground maze occupied by a tribe of Psychos. They manage to take the key to the surface. Lilith destroys the device Atlas entrusted her with to signal when she had rescued Tina, and he immediately communicates with her via robotic drone, explaining that he still wants the girl. Tina overhears the end of the conversation and assumes Lilith has betrayed her. She throws a grenade at Lilith, leaving her unconscious. When Lilith recovers, Claptrap unknowingly plays a holographic message for her, recorded by her mother.

The next day, without Lilith and Claptrap, the team find the Vault only to realize Atlas is waiting for them, and they fight off his men. However, Tina is unable to open the Vault. Lilith appears and explains that she is the one who can do it, being an Eridian known as the Firehawk. Atlas threatens to kill Tina if Lilith does not open the Vault. She obeys but, with Tina's help, traps Atlas inside, where a creature drags him away. The group celebrates their survival.

Movie; Back in Action (2025) Caution: Spoiler Alert

 

Back in Action

Came out; 2025

Time; 1 hour 54 Minutes

Watched: Netflix

Rated: PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, some suggestive references and strong language and brief teen partying

IMDB Rating; 5.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 28%

Popcorn Meter 58%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Jamie Foxx as Matt

Cameron Diaz as Emily

McKenna Roberts as Alice

Rylan Jackson as Leo

Kyle Chandler as Chuck

Glenn Close as Ginny

Jamie Demetriou as Nigel

Andrew Scott as Baron

Story Line.

Former CIA spies Emily and Matt are pulled back into espionage after their secret identities are exposed

Thoughts:

This started out as your typical “We're spy's but we can walk away and be with each other” type movie but it turned into more than that.

The paring of Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz was perfect. They had great chemistry and made a believable couple.

It was everything I like in a movie, comedy, action and fun.

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

CIA agents Matt (Jamie Foxx) and Emily (Cameron Diaz) prep for an upcoming mission. The two have been secretly seeing each other and Emily has recently become pregnant but hasn't told Matt yet.

Two are to infiltrate the birthday party of the young son of Balthazar Gor (Robert Besta), a major European arms dealer and the terrorist leader of Volka. The mission is being oversaw by Chuck (Kyle Chandler), another CIA agent. Emily successfully retrieves Balthazar's fingerprint and a sample of his voice and the two use it to break into his safe and steal The Key. The Key is an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) device that can control any electronic system, including nuclear reactors. Shortly after taking possession of the Key an alarm is set off and Emily and Matt fight their way out of the Gor's estate.

They are provided a plane by MI6 and their contact Baron (Andrew Scott), who Emily had a previous fling with. While on the plane trip home Emily reveals her pregnancy to Matt who is joyful and wants to be with Emily.

The two spies become suspicious after the flight's steward Dylan (Tom Brittney) informs them that the bathroom is out of order. However, before they can act on it, Dylan takes Emily captive at gunpoint requesting the Key. Matt causes a distraction allowing Emily to escape from Dylan and the two fight their way through the flight crew.

Dylan accidentally shoots the pilot while aiming at Emily causing the plane to plummet into the mountains. Dylan takes possession of the Key, but the plane clips a peak and his ripped in half ejecting Dylan from the plane with the Key.

Matt gives Emily the sole parachute, but she grabs hold of him and the two land safely in the mountains. Realizing that they have been compromised, and their line of work is too dangerous with a child on the way, they decide to fake their deaths in the plane crash and restart life.

15 years later, Emily and Matt are living a quiet suburban life with their two teenaged children, Alice (McKenna Roberts) and Leo (Rylan Jackson). Alice suspects her parents are lying about their past, which they claim they meet in the Colombia while serving in the peace corp. While loving parents, the two struggle to truly connect with either child.

Paranoid over Alice's new relationship with James (Cruz Hadley) and the growing distance between them, Emily hacks into Alice's computer and reads through her text messages through Matt warns against it. The parents track her to a club where they get into a fight with a few club goers after one of them grabs Alice. The fight is caught on video, but Matt deletes the video off one of the phones. Alice is grounded though she calls out their hypocrisy on hacking her computer and their clear lies about their past.

The fight has awakened in Emily nostalgia for their past and she wants to return to the feelings of being needed. The next day Chuck, their former supervisor at the CIA, arrives at their house revealing he found them through a posted video of them fighting. He warns them that they are still in danger. The Key was never found in the wreckage and the Belarussians, who were behind the attack, are still seeking them. He also mentions that Baron doubled-crossed them and was working with the Belarussians. Chuck tells them they must go into hiding as even the CIA would arrest them if they were found. They start to refuse but Chuck is then shot and killed, and a group of mercenaries begin firing on the house. The two are able to flee the house and the attackers, racing to their children's school to grab them. Matt admits that he took the Key before the plane crash, hiding it at Emily's estranged mother's home as an insurance policy in case their cover was ever broken. After gathering Alice and Leo, they decide to fly to England where Emily's mother lives, using the Key as leverage with the CIA for protection.

They tell the children they have finally decided for them to meet their grandmother, who had they claimed was dead. Alice once again calls them out for their hypocrisy. Emily wants to tell the children the truth, but Matt is against the idea.

The family arrive at Heathrow in London and their arrival is spotted by Baron. While stopping for breakfast and gas, Alice and Leo discover that they have fake identities on their passports. Matt and Emily are ambushed by a group of Volka mercenaries while fueling up, though they easily dispatch the attackers much to the shock of the children.

The four flee the station but are spotted by Baron who gives chase in his own car and the two cars get into a chase though Emily is able to lose their tail. After escaping Matt and Emily come clean about their true identities. Baron continues his search for the family while is deputy Wendy (Fola Evans-Akingbola) starts to become suspicious of Baron's obsession with Emily and the sources of his information.

The family arrives at Emily's mother's house and the kids are surprised to find her living on a large, lavish estate. Emily's mother, Ginny Curtis (Glenn Close), is a well-known and renowned former MI6 agent. She lives there with her lover and protégé, Nigel (Jamie Demetriou). Meanwhile, Baron uses property records to track the family to Ginny's estate.

Matt and Emily tell Ginny about the Key and Ginny and Emily argue over Ginny's absence and lack of love and support while Emily was a child, while Ginny criticizes Emily for giving up her career for her family and Alice still is rebelling and hateful towards Emily. Alice overhears this conversation. Matt and Emily go to find the Key while Alice spends time with Ginny and Leo with Nigel.

After retrieving the Key, Matt and Emily notice a helicopter on the lawn and find Ginny and Nigel tied up. They free them before finding the children held captive surrounded by mercenaries. Emily calls for Baron to reveal himself to negotiate but instead Chuck reveals himself as betrayer. He faked his death and followed Matt and Emily knowing they'd led him to the Key. He also reveals that Baron is clean and has been tracking Volka, not working with them. After the Key was lost and Matt and Emily were presumed dead Chuck was fired from the CIA and lost everything. He is now seeking money and revenge. Matt gives Chuck the Key who then takes Alice and Leo hostage until he can sell the Key, promising to return them in one day.

Looking through security footage to find any information about the helicopter, Matt notices Leo signaling that he still has his thumb ring on that tracks his health data. The group uses that to track Leo to a black-tie gala being held at the Tate Modern venue.

Chuck speaks with potential buyers though Gor is not able to attend and sends his some of his mercenaries to take it. Chuck's associate Daphne demonstrates the power of the Key but completely shutting down the power grid of London. He then has Daphne take control of the Thames River dam, opening it and potentially flooding London.

Emily and Matt recognize that if Chuck is demoing the Key is going to be doing it with the best view. They fight their way up to the penthouse suite where the bidding is taking place. Chuck sells the Key for $250 million while Emily and Matt are stopped by Baron who chooses not to arrest them after determining they were not here to sell the key and acknowledging they thought he was a double agent. Baron and Wendy fight Chuck's guards while Matt and Emily chase after Chuck.

Matt and Emily continue the chase but are stopped by Gor's mercenaries. However, Ginny has taken up a sniper's position atop the Tate Modern which forces the mercenaries to let the two leave. Matt and Emily continue the chase using Gor's men's motorbikes. Baron and Wendy work to close the Thames dam.

Nigel, who is waiting in a van parked in an alley, notices Daphne sneakily getting into a hidden van with a computer and bag. He crashes into the van knocking Daphne unconscious and retrieves the Key. Nigel tells Ginny who informs Matt and Emily, who are on a boat in the river chasing Chuck.

Nigel races to close the dam while Emily and Matt catch up to Chuck's boat and begin to fight off his mercenaries with help from Leo. Nigel is able to get the dam closed before Chuck's boat is able to reach the barrier. Matt, Emily, Leo, and Alice jump off the boat shortly before it crashes into the now raised barrier killing Chuck.

Emily reconciles with Alice and then with Ginny while Matt tells Leo how impressed he is with Leo's quick thinking during his captivity.

A few weeks later Matt is coaching Alice's soccer team while Emily, Leo, Ginny, and Nigel cheer on from the crowd. She scores the game winning the goal and celebrates with the family, who are all now much closer.

Alice leaves to study with James and her friend Annalise while Ginny and Nigel take Leo for the night. Matt and Emily get into their car only to find Baron in the backseat. He tells Emily there is another mission they need help on and they need her to recruit another family member- her dad.