The team’s tasked with protecting an informant on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season two episode 14. Directed by John Polson from a script by Wendy West and Spindrift Beck, episode 14 – “Hustler” – will air on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 10pm ET/PT.
Julian McMahon stars as Supervisory Special Agent Jess LaCroix, Kellan Lutz plays Special Agent Kenny Crosby, Roxy Sternberg is Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes is Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Nathaniel Arcand plays Special Agent Clinton Skye.
The guest cast includes Georgina Reilly, Adam Aalderks, Joe Urla, Adam Heller, and Sorika Wolf.
“Hustler” Plot: The team heads to D.C. to protect Ortiz’s former informant after a hitman tries to kill her. Also, Sarah helps Jess’ family prepares for Byron and Marie’s last-minute wedding on Jess’ farm.
The Season 2 Plot, Courtesy of CBS:
From Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and the team behind FBI and the Law & Order brand, FBI: Most Wanted is a high-stakes drama that focuses on the Fugitive Task Force, an elite unit that relentlessly pursues and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Led by Supervisory Special Agent Jess LaCroix, an expert tracker and profiler with a complicated past, the team includes: Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, a former NYPD detective and forensics expert who is raising a child with her new wife; Special Agent Clinton Skye, the spiritual glue of the team and surveillance guru who was recruited by his brother-in-law, Jess; Special Agent Hana Gibson, a gifted millennial computer whiz with a sharp wit and mad hacking skills; and Special Agent Kenny Crosby, a young Army vet and brash Oklahoma farm boy who specializes in weapons and tactics.
Always in the field and always on the run, FBI: Most Wanted is a weekly adrenaline shot about the thrill of the chase.
The official trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s Panic season one introduces a town in which graduating teens participate in a Hunger Games-like competition in order to better their lives. The new trailer features the never before released song, “Not Going Home,” by Tones and I.
Season one stars Olivia Welch as Heather Nill, Mike Faist as Dodge Mason, Jessica Sula as Natalie Williams, Camron Jones as Bishop Mason, Ray Nicholson as Ray Hall, and Enrique Murciano as Sheriff Cortez.
The one-hour drama’s based on Lauren Oliver’s bestselling novel and was created, executive produced, and written by Oliver. The Amazon Studios production also has Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Adam Schroeder on board as executive producers.
Amazon Prime Video will release all 10 episodes of Panic on Friday, May 28, 2021.
Ray Nicholson and Olivia Welch in ‘Panic’ (Photo Credit: Amazon Studios)
The Plot, Courtesy of Amazon:
Panic takes place in a small Texas town, where every summer the graduating seniors compete in a series of challenges, winner takes all, which they believe is their one and only chance to escape their circumstances and make their lives better. But this year, the rules have changed – the pot of money is larger than ever and the game has become even more dangerous. The players will come face to face with their deepest, darkest fears and be forced to decide how much they are willing to risk in order to win.
The team deals with a mass casualty event on CBS’s FBI season three episode 14. Directed by Monica Raymund from a script by Andy Callahan, Tamara Jaron, and Kristy Lowrey, episode 14 will air on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 9pm ET/PT.
Missy Peregrym and Zeeko Zaki lead the cast as Special Agent Maggie Bell and Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan. Jeremy Sisto stars as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, Alana De La Garza is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, and John Boyd plays Special Agent Stuart Scola.
Episode 14 guest stars include Alexander Chaplin, Zach Appelman, Matt DeAngelis, Elisha Lawson, Flora Diaz, and Christa Scott-Reed. Mark David Watson, Alexis Molnar, Hassiem Muhammad, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Josh Riley, and Jenny Porrata also guest star.
“Trigger Effect” Plot: While investigating a mass casualty incident at a New York City restaurant, the team scrambles to determine if it was racially motivated and if there was more than one gunman. Also, Maggie starts to notice troubling behavior from her co-worker, Elise (Vedette Lim).
FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This elite unit brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe.
Born into a multigenerational law enforcement family, Special Agent Maggie Bell commits deeply to the people she works with as well as those she protects. Her partner is Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan, a West Point graduate via Bushwick who spent two years undercover for the DEA before being cherry-picked by the FBI. Overseeing them is Special Agent in Charge, Isobel Castille, who operates under intense pressure and has undeniable command authority.
The team also includes Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, the nerve center of the office whose ability to easily relate to and engage with both superiors and subordinates makes him a master motivator. Newest to the team – and the FBI – is smart and outspoken Special Agent Tiffany Wallace, who spent six years with the NYPD and is now partner to Special Agent Stuart Scola, an Ivy League-educated Wall Streeter-turned-FBI agent. These first-class agents tenaciously investigate cases of tremendous magnitude, including terrorism, organized crime, and counterintelligence.
Oscar-winning writer/director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad to life in a limited series premiering on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021. Jenkins was a big admirer of Whitehead’s novel and felt the material would translate well as a 10-episode series rather than a feature film.
“I think when you go into a movie theater, it’s a very captive experience. You kind of have to surrender yourself. You’re in the middle of a 30-seat aisle. You turn your phone off. I think some of the images in the show due to the subject matter, I wanted the audience to have the opportunity [to] pause. You can play. You can skip. You can choose whom you want to watch this with, or whether you want to watch it alone. So that was part of the reason why I felt like it had to be a series,” explained Jenkins during a Zoom press conference hosted by Amazon.
“I think, secondly, some of these images are rooted in fact or in truth of the actual lived experience. I think in a shorter timeframe, those images can be so loud that they overwhelm what I call the softer images. And so, I felt like giving Cora the full space to encounter all these beautiful people [indicating the cast members participating in the Zoom conference], giving her the full space to do that over the course of 10 episodes versus one feature I felt was like the best way to capture the full spectrum of her experience.”
Jenkins’ adaptation of The Underground Railroad utilizes surreal imagery, most notably with an actual train running below ground. When asked about that choice, Jenkins recalled that as a child he pictured “the underground railroad” as a real train that ran on tracks underground.
“I saw Black people on trains underground in a very grounded way,” said Jenkins. “I just knew it was real because as a child, you know, you grow up no matter – and I grew up in a very hard way – but you just don’t have those filters that, ‘Oh, this thing isn’t possible. These people can’t, or that thing didn’t.’ There’s just none of it, and so I heard it and I thought, ‘Oh, yeah, of course we built trains underground.’
So, when I first read Colson’s book, I got this feeling again. And even in the book, there’s no trains levitating. The trains aren’t flying in the sky. It’s just that Black folks built them underground, and I thought, ‘Oh, this is kind of dope.’ And so, right away, I wanted to lean into this feeling – this uncorrupted feeling, I like to describe it – that I had as a child. As we went through the process of making the show, the symbolism that the question refers to, the surrealism, all those things came out of these very grounded symbols.
I remember my grandma used to keep a penny in a jar under her bed. You know, it was these rituals that are passed down, and if those rituals can inspire a real belief, they have power. And I thought, ‘Oh, how can we, in telling Cora’s story, how can we through this journey take some of these other things, these very grounded things that our ancestors had from the detritus, you know, of the harsh life they were living, and they repossessed those things and gave them a new meaning?’
It felt like an opportunity to do that on the scale of the story that Colson Whitehead gifted to me. It came part and parcel with the piece.”
Jenkins wanted everything about the railroad to fill real and authentic. He wanted to avoid the use of blue screen and CGI, and instead have real trains on actual tracks pass through real tunnels. “We found a private rail network and we built our tunnels above them. And so much of this project was trying to contextualize what it would’ve been like to be my ancestors, which is a very difficult thing to do, and just because of some of this history has been lost, the historical record. I think that’s why we’re creating these images in our image now.
I remember when Thuso [Mbedu, “Cora”] first comes down off the tracks. I said to her…and she must’ve thought I was crazy…I was like, ‘I think you need to get on the ground and you have to touch it. And not only do you have to touch it, you have to like bang on it just because this is like if aliens came down, walked to your front door, and handed you a pepperoni pizza, that’s how strange this would be.’
And when we did it, because it was early in the shoot, I just remember just seeing her get down on her knees and bang on this actual track. I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s kind of what it felt like as a kid.’”
One of the challenges of adapting Colson Whitehead’s gripping novel for the series was in translating the characters’ internal thoughts and feelings without excessive voiceovers. Jenkins credits his superb cast with making the adaptation work.
“You know, it’s all casting,” explained Jenkins. “When you read a book, you can’t see anything. Because we can see things, I thought, ‘Oh, there’s interiority in the things the characters are choosing to take with them. There’s interiority in the way the characters are choosing to present themselves, choosing to literally carry themselves.’”
“This was a long process. We optioned this book before Moonlight finished awards season, and then we made a whole film in-between and released it, so there was a long gestation process. I kind of had it in my head of where the adaption was going to really flourish in this medium,” said Jenkins.
Jenkins added, “And then as we were making it, it was just one of the things that was really cool about doing this. It’s 116 days. I’ve only ever done 34 days. After about the 24th day, the cast and crew was just cooking. Now, for Thuso and Joel [Edgerton], that was great because they’re there the whole time. Everyone else had to come in at these intervals and just kind of like slip into Thuso’s wavelength.
But what was really great was watching the actors create story, generate story, with their performance and then being able to go, ‘Okay, cool. I thought I adapted the book into these scripts and built all these sets. And now the actors are adapting my adaptation to the thing that’s actually real. They’re actualizing it.’”
“And that was when everything just… I mean, so much sh*t just opened up. There were so many things in the show that I can’t personally take credit for and I’ll only mention one because we’re talking about symbols. The okra seeds, you know, Matt Marks my prop master who worked with me on Beale Street walked into my office in Savannah one day and said, ‘This is a pod of okra, Barry.’ I go, ‘All right, cool. Why are you showing me a pod of okra?’ And then we had to build Mabel’s plot and figure out what’s actually going in it,” recalled Jenkins. “He shows me this okra pod and I go, ‘It looks dead.’ He goes, ‘It is. You know, we’ve been in drought for six months.’
He goes, ‘But I wanted to show you this,’ and he wrung it out over my desk. And all these seeds just landed on my desk. They made a sound, and then he picked one up and he put it right in front of me. He said, ‘No matter how dry this gets if you plant it, it will grow.’
And if you’ve seen the show, you know exactly what happened just from the prop master walking into my office and showing me this thing. I think that’s where the adaptation really came alive and where everyone from these beautiful people on [the Zoom conference] to the prop master being, like, ‘I want to contribute.’ I think this is something very interesting. This is how we take this from page to screen.”
“You know, for me, [it’s] the most satisfying creative experience of my life,” said Jenkins.
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The cast of the Amazon Prime Video limited series includes Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, and Amber Gray. Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “MJ” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter, and Peter Mullan also star.
The Underground Railroad premieres only on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 14, 2021.
Ready for a good chuckle? Check out the new trailer for Universal’s new chapter in The Purge saga, The Forever Purge. The latest Purge film finds one day of killing at will is just not enough, with a group opting to not obey the rules and continue wreaking havoc.
Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Cassidy Freeman, Leven Rambin, Alejandro Edda, and Will Patton star in the July 2, 2021 theatrical release.
The Purge creator James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay and Everardo Gout (Days of Grace) directs. Producers include Jason Blum for his Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller. Man in a Tree’s DeMonaco and Sébastien K. Lemercier also produce. Gout, Marcei A. Brown, and Jeanette Volturno executive produce.
The Plot, Courtesy of Universal Pictures:
This summer, all the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end in The Forever Purge.
Vaulting from the record-shattering success of 2018’s The First Purge, Blumhouse’s infamous terror franchise hurtles into innovative new territory as members of an underground movement, no longer satisfied with one annual night of anarchy and murder, decide to overtake America through an unending campaign of mayhem and massacre. No one is safe.
Adela (de la Reguera) and her husband Juan (Huerta) live in Texas, where Juan is working as a ranch hand for the wealthy Tucker family. Juan impresses the Tucker patriarch, Caleb (Patton), but that fuels the jealous anger of Caleb’s son, Dylan (Lucas).
On the morning after The Purge, a masked gang of killers attacks the Tucker family—including Dylan’s wife (Freeman), and his sister (Rambin), forcing both families to band together and fight back as the country spirals into chaos and the United States begins to disintegrate around them.
JD Pardo as EZ Reyes and Clayton Cardenas as Angel Reyes in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 3 episode 10 (Photo by Prashant Gupta/FX)
It’s a damn good thing FX already announced Mayans M.C. has been renewed for a fourth season. Season three episode 10 has a misleading title – “Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write” – as the episode’s ending makes it obvious there’s a lot more story left to tell. The season finale ends with the series’ biggest cliffhanger to date, one that’s going to keep Mayans fans guessing the fate of the Mayans M.C. Santo Padre charter.
Episode 10 opens with EZ (JD Pardo) and Gaby (Sulem Calderon) in bed. Their relationship appears to have grown stronger overnight following EZ’s declaration that he’s leaving the club and going with her to Lodi. He promises that after he ties up loose ends he’s all hers.
Angel (Clayton Cardenas) is also in bed with his girlfriend/baby mama, Nails (Justina Adorno), although he’s definitely not as into his relationship as his brother is into his.
Miguel’s (Danny Pino) world is rocked when he scans the headline revealing Governor Sederica Palomo was assassinated.
Emily (Sarah Bolger) wakes up alone in bed, confused about the preceding evening’s events. She notices fresh bruising under her lower lip and is out of it as she looks at herself in the mirror. Her shirt’s on inside out and her medication’s in a different place than where she normally keeps it. Opening the bottle, she discovers there are a lot fewer pills than there should be.
Emily glances at the bathtub and retrieves her wine glass. She looks at the small amount of liquid remaining and notices remnants of the pills clinging to the nearly empty glass. As she adds up the clues, she realizes Miguel drugged her.
Marcus (Emilio Rivera) solemnly prepares for his day. Nestor (Gino Vento) greets him outside, acting on Miguel’s orders to join him to ensure he kills EZ.
EZ, Angel, and Gilly (Vincent Vargas) wait outside an auto repair shop as Bishop’s plan is set in motion. A woman drops off her car and secretly arms a bomb in the trunk before leaving the shop. She calls EZ to inform him it’s done but Canche wasn’t inside the shop when she left.
Angel complains about stakeout duty and suddenly has to urinate after Gilly mentions he hopes no one has to pee. EZ hands his bro a bottle to take care of things since they’re stuck in the car.
Back at the Mayans’ clubhouse, Creeper (Joseph Raymond Lucero) can’t figure out why Steve committed suicide. Hank (Frankie Loyal) doesn’t want to talk about it and, uncharacteristically, he loses his patience with Creeper and storms off. (Steve’s death plus Nails’ return to Angel has him in a foul mood.)
Bishop (Michael Irby) and Taza (Raoul Max Trujillo) can only sit at the table and wait for EZ to call in with updates. While they’re waiting, Taza receives a call from Palo’s sister, Laura (Natalia Cordova-Buckley), revealing Palo paid her a visit. She asks for a gun, fearing Palo will return. Taza apologizes for putting her in this position and reluctantly agrees to get her a gun.
Elsewhere, Adelita (Carla Baratta) takes a seat opposite Anna Linares (Efrat Dor) at a restaurant, shocking Potter’s former assistant. Anna admits they all believed Adelita was going to be killed as soon as she was released in Mexico. She also confesses she turned into a whistleblower and that caused the powers that be to exile her to a crappy post.
Anna confirms they accidentally killed Adelita’s baby.
Anna asks to be allowed to make a call to say goodbye, and Adelita says no. Anna apologizes again for not doing more while Potter was abusing her in custody.
Adelita asks if Anna’s a mother and Anna says she is. Adelita reveals she’s not going to kill Anna, but instead demands to know Potter’s location.
While waiting for Canche to arrive at the auto repair shop, Gilly tries to get EZ to explain what Steve meant by not being able to “put it away” before he killed himself. EZ texts Gaby to meet him at the butcher shop later and doesn’t really offer much in the way of a reply to Gilly.
Their conversation about Steve’s cut short when Canche shows up. Unfortunately, he has his young son with him and Angel’s adamant they wait until the kid’s gone. “I ain’t killing a kid today!” says Angel.
EZ doesn’t think they can delay the attack and leaves the car to go look in the shop’s windows. He takes the phone that will trigger the bomb with him, and Angel chases after him. Gilly can’t believe what the “f*cking Reyes brothers” are up to.
EZ approaches the shop and peers in a window. He’s spotted by Canche and forced to activate the bomb. (The kid’s not next to the car as it explodes.)
The shop explodes, setting off car/motorcycle alarms as flames burst through the windows.
Angel retrieves his brother and pushes him into the backseat of the getaway car.
EZ, Angel, and Gilly receive congratulatory hugs back at the clubhouse. There were multiple casualties and Hank says Canche is dead.
Ibarra (Mike Beltran) explains he’s going to call a meeting with the other presidents and get Tucson reinstated.
EZ slips out as the rest raise their glasses and toast the one king – Bishop.
Angel joins him outside on the steps and EZ finally reveals he’s going to head up north with Gaby. EZ takes the blame for almost everything that’s happened in Angel’s life over the past couple of years. He hopes he’s made everything up to both Angel and the club now, and confesses he’s worried if he stays he knows there will be more killings in his future.
“Nails is your second chance. I’m afraid Gaby is my only chance,” says EZ.
Angel says he understands but EZ clears up any misconceptions. EZ confesses the club fits him too well; killing isn’t hard for him but it should be. He even admits he would have blown the kid up if he had to.
“This club is my family, but I only have one real brother,” replies Angel. He tells EZ when they’re together, everything is right. That said, he understands why EZ has to make this decision to leave.
“I don’t think this is what would have made mom proud of you – even if you were her favorite,” admits Angel.
EZ believes Angel was their mom’s favorite, and that she saw too much of Felipe in him. He thinks Angel got their mother’s heart.
Angel doesn’t want anyone from the club trying to talk EZ out of his decision, so he volunteers to tell Bishop and the guys after EZ’s gone.
Leticia (Emily Tosta) rushes up to Gilly as he’s getting ready to take off on his bike. She explains she’s worried about Coco and since Gilly’s his best friend, she wants him to help retrieve her dad from “meth mountain.” Gilly refuses to become involved in Coco’s junkie life and suggests Leticia just accept that Coco’s gone.
EZ’s packing up his trailer when Emily shows up out of the blue. She’s agitated and upset, mentally still working her way through the previous night’s events. Emily believes Miguel did something to her but she’s not positive about what happened. She stops talking about what might have gone down long enough to ask why EZ’s packing. EZ explains he’s going to leave with Gaby, and Emily can’t believe he would leave without saying goodbye to her. She quickly apologizes for making it about herself and then confesses she feels like the girl in the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez he used to read to her.
EZ remembers the story and Emily believes it fits their relationship. She thinks they were supposed to have a family and grow old together.
As she’s talking EZ finally gets a good look at the bruises on her neck. Emily tries to play it off, claiming it was an accident. She apologizes for showing up and then gives him a gentle kiss on the lips. She hopes he has a family and dies of old age in Gaby’s arms, acknowledging it’s too late for them to be together.
“We missed our shot,” says Emily, quietly, before leaving.
Gaby arrives at Felipe’s shop before EZ and he hands her her final paycheck. He also gives her a necklace that belonged to his wife and features her favorite saint. Felipe (Edward James Olmos) believes Gaby’s made the right choice to leave, but then he realizes she’s got a secret.
Even though she’s supposed to wait for EZ to break the news, Gaby can’t help herself and tells Felipe EZ’s leaving with her. Gaby thinks his reaction means he’s upset EZ’s leaving, but Felipe quickly reveals he doesn’t think Gaby’s making the right decision. She can’t save EZ and will be pulled down just for trying.
Gaby doubts that’s true and Felipe responds, “I know my son and I know what’s inside of him – and I know what’s inside of you. You’re so much like his mother.”
Felipe says his family is broken – EZ is broken – and she needs to leave him behind to make a real life for herself. He admits he’d be devastated if anything happened to her.
“Please, save yourself,” begs Felipe.
Ibarra meets with the other charter presidents, explaining Bishop only wants peace now. Those gathered at the table appear to agree to move forward with forgiveness, with Oakland’s president, Diaz (Alex Fernandez), shaking his head yes.
Before Ibarra can call Bishop, Diaz leaves his seat to give him back his jacket. Ibarra turns around as Diaz places it on his shoulders and doesn’t see Canche enter the room and stand in the doorway.
Diaz says, “F*ck your trespasses and f*ck your king,” as he shoots Ibarra in the back of the head.
Miguel’s crappy day gets worse when he receives a call from Potter (Ray McKinnon). After a rambling monologue, Potter – who’s seated on a beach catching some rays – explains Adelita’s rebels who were captured after Palomo was assassinated are pointing the finger at the Galindo cartel. They claim to be working for the cartel and were taking orders from Miguel.
Potter happily announces they’ve seized all of Miguel’s property and there’s a murder warrant out for his arrest. He also warns federal agents will be at Miguel’s door in 45 minutes. Miguel wonders why Potter’s telling him this and Potter actually doesn’t have a good reason. He suggests Miguel get busy as the clock is ticking.
Emily’s at a restaurant with Cristobal and ignores Miguel’s call. Miguel’s forced to call one of his wife’s bodyguards who passes the phone to Emily. Miguel fills her in on what’s happening, explaining she needs to follow the plan and leave now. He wants her to go to the safe deposit box immediately.
Emily hangs up and rushes out of the restaurant.
Nestor and Marcus park outside Felipe’s butcher shop and wait for EZ. Nestor speaks to Miguel by phone and admits he’s not sure Marcus is up for killing a Mayan. He confirms he knows what to do if Miguel doesn’t shoot EZ.
EZ eventually pulls up outside the butcher shop. Marcus says they’re going to wait until he leaves to do the hit since Felipe’s been through enough.
Inside the shop, EZ’s shocked to learn Gaby has decided to move away without him. It takes a while for this to sink in and, ultimately, he realizes his dad sent her away.
EZ’s upset as he leaves Felipe’s shop and calling Gaby only leads to her voicemail. Marcus, in the driver’s seat, chambers a round and then takes off after EZ.
Nestor thinks EZ’s trying to ditch them and also chambers a round.
EZ stops at a stoplight and Nestor wants Marcus to pull up alongside him. He’ll shoot him once the light changes. Marcus doesn’t react and instead just sits at the light, cars honking behind him. Marcus puts the car in park as Nestor places a gun to his head. Marcus’s loyalties are to the Mayans while Nestor’s loyalties are with Miguel.
Marcus aims his gun at Nestor and suggests Nestor choose between being an errand boy or his own man.
EZ arrives at Gaby’s house and finds a piece of paper addressed to him stuck in the screen door. He sits a spell and then reads its contents: “When summer returns and the roses bloom.”
EZ leaves the note behind as he rides off.
Taza arrives at Laura’s place and hands her the gun, warning her it’s loaded. He wants her to come with him in order to keep her safe…but it’s too late. Palo (Gregory Cruz) has been there all day holding Laura and her son hostage while waiting for Taza to show up. Taza’s disgusted Palo’s patched over to the Mayans M.C., but Palo insists they won’t be brothers for long.
Palo hints at a big surprise coming to Santo Padre and then moves Taza into the living room where a plastic sheet’s been laid out on the floor. When Taza declares his love for Palo’s brother, David, Palo moves in for the kill. He gets on top of Taza and is about to shoot him when Laura shoots her brother. He looks up in shock and she shoots him again.
Laura screams at Taza to leave, blaming him for all the death caused by his desire to keep his bisexuality a secret.
Before Taza goes he strips Palo’s dead body of his Mayans jacket.
Potter’s girlfriend is cutting up meat as his young son does his homework at the kitchen table. She sends him off to get more avocados and wine, and he quotes Romeo & Juliet as he leaves.
Potter returns home and discovers his girlfriend and son are gone. Adelita appears in the kitchen wearing a blood-stained shirt and holding a knife behind her back. He demands to know what she did with his family and she explains she knows what it’s like to lose a child but she also knows mercy. She’d never make a child live through what she had to live through when she was young – watching a parent get butchered.
Potter claims she’s mistaken; her baby is alive. He’d have had no reason to kill her son. He figures out she spoke to Linares and assures Adelita her son didn’t die. It would have been stupid of him to have eliminated the only leverage he has over her.
Adelita appears confused. She wants to believe her baby is alive but she’s equally aware she can’t trust Potter.
Marcus and Nestor have come to a truce and watch news reports of the raid on Miguel Galindo’s estate. They don’t answer the phone when Miguel calls.
Miguel’s waiting by his helicopter, refusing to leave until Emily and Cristobal arrive. He’s certain they’re almost there.
Emily’s bodyguard arrives with a message from Emily. He hands Miguel a few pills and her wedding ring. Emily and Cristobal are not joining Miguel as he flees the country! Instead, Emily heads over to her sister’s place. Erin (Holland Roden) answers the door and Emily confesses she needs her.
The helicopter lifts off with just Miguel on board as a passenger.
And now with 15-ish minutes left to go in season three we finally check in on Coco (Richard Cabral). He’s tied up and suspended from the ceiling as one of the series’ most bizarre characters – Isaac (JR Bourne) – dances to heavy metal around his body. Isaac pounds his own chest as he prepares to take Coco’s life.
Isaac’s hand shakes as he takes inspiration from the song. He appears ready to shoot Coco in the face when suddenly there’s an explosion outside. Isaac leaves Coco to check on it as Gilly sneaks into the trailer and frees his friend. Coco’s barely alive but still too concerned about finding Hope to want to leave.
The meth mountain cult members try and put out the fire just as another trailer explodes. Isaac realizes he’s been lured outside so that Coco can escape.
Coco calls out to Hope in her trailer but she’s not there. They step outside and Isaac, Butterfly (Spenser Granese), and the rest of the gang assemble in front of them. Gilly’s ready to fire his high-powered weapon if they make a move, warning “Crystal Meth Jesus” he’ll kill him if he doesn’t back off.
Coco wants Hope to go with them and Isaac teases that it’s her choice. She whispers to Coco that they’ll never let her leave and returns to Isaac’s side. Coco and Gilly start to walk away as Isaac says he loves Hope and is going to hate watching her burn.
Coco runs back and as Isaac’s spouting off again Coco shoots him along with another of his followers. All hell’s about to break loose when Butterfly yells at his people to stop, declaring it’s over.
Coco grabs Hope and leaves. No one attempts to stop them.
Butterfly cradles Isaac as he gasps out his last bloody breaths.
Michael Irby as Obispo “Bishop” Losa in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 3 episode 10 (Photo by Prashant Gupta/FX)
Taza returns to the clubhouse and has a one-on-one with Bishop. Before he opens up, he hands Bishop his gun and warns that he may want to use it on him. He confesses everything he’s done, including murdering Riz, and says Palo’s set something big in motion.
After leaving Gaby’s place, EZ shows up at the clubhouse and Angel pulls him in for a brotherly hug. EZ’s the one to break the embrace. “This is who I am. This is where I belong,” says EZ.
Felipe visits the border, places his hand through an opening in the wall, and releases his wife’s ashes. He believes it’s time for her to go home.
Bishop can’t believe Taza killed their brother, Riz, to cover up that he was in love with a man. Taza says he’s not ashamed of being in love or anything he’s done. He’s sorry so many got hurt and confesses he’s worried it’s not over yet.
Bishop picks up the gun as Taza says, “I love you, brother.” Taza closes his eyes and adds, “Do what you have to do.”
The scene cuts to EZ sitting on the steps outside the clubhouse. A gunshot from inside makes him jump but he doesn’t have time to consider its source before Molotov cocktails are launched from outside the fence. EZ rises and watches as something big outside crashes into the gate.
The camera pans up and over the gate to reveal dozens of Mayans ready to fight. A vehicle’s ramming the gate as Mayans from assorted charters scream and prepare to attack.
Katheryn Winnick and Kylie Bunbury in ‘Big Sky’ season 1 episode 15 (ABC/Darko Sikman)
ABC’s Big Sky season one episode 15 begins seconds after episode 14 ends, with Phoebe questioning Ronald (Brian Geraghty) about his nighttime activities. Ronald lies and says the body he’s burying in the middle of the night in a remote location is that of a deer. He beckons Phoebe to come closer, explaining this deer burial needs to remain a secret.
Phoebe’s full of questions and asks why she can’t tell her mom. Ronald makes up a cockamamie story about things not going to heaven if anyone discloses their burial spot. (So, Ronald, cemeteries are a big no-no?) Ronald suggests she say a prayer over the “dead deer,” telling her to shut her eyes or it won’t come true.
Phoebe’s this/close to winding up in the grave with deer, but Ronald reconsiders at the last second.
Ronald and Phoebe walk back to camp in the middle of the night and find Scarlet (Anja Savcic) in a panic. She had no idea where her young daughter or Ronald wandered off to. Phoebe sticks with Ronald’s story that they were just looking around, even embellishing his tale by adding that they saw shooting stars.
Episode 15 also left off with Cassie (Kylie Bunbury), Jenny (Katheryn Winnick), and Gil (Carlos Gomez) caught examining the dump barrels in the Kleinsassers’ back pasture the night of Blake’s funeral. Gil tells Cassie and Jenny to run, realizing being caught working together will be worse for him than taking the blame alone.
Horst (Ted Levine) pulls up next to Gil and instructs him to get in. Gil has no choice but to do as Horst says, and Horst asks what he was doing on the ranch. Gil lies and says he was checking to see if any of the barrels were leaking. Horst reminds him it’s really none of his business.
Horst claims taking these toxic barrels onto his land was actually done as a favor to the county.
Gil reveals John Wayne and Rand beat Rosie; Blake never hit her. They pinned the blame on Blake to get him out of the way. Horst laughs, certain Gil’s lying. Gil sticks to his story.
Cheyenne (Britt Robertson) tells her mom it’s just going to be the two of them when this is all over. She reminds her mom they both want to be free of the men. Margaret (Michelle Forbes) appears to be losing her grip on reality as she talks about seeing a dark spot on the ceiling that’s expanding. Soon it will swallow her whole.
Cheyenne declares she’s done being a good girl. Margaret’s sure the Kleinsasser men will kill Cheyenne, but Cheyenne assures her mom that won’t happen if she kills them first.
Cassie and Jenny flee the back pasture at the Kleinsasser ranch and ultimately split up. Jenny’s sure she’s being followed by J.W. (Kyle Schmid), drawing her weapon and waiting for him to approach. She hears whistling but isn’t able to fight off her attacker and is knocked unconscious.
Cassie hears a car coming and Rand (Ryan Dorsey) speeds up as she runs down the road, attempting to evade capture. Rand’s closing in and Cassie decides her only option is to turn and shoot. A bullet strikes the cab and then takes out a tire. The car hits Cassie before veering off the road and crashing.
Rosie (Michelle Veintimilla) discovers Cassie the following morning, still knocked out on the side of the road. Cassie’s injured and remembers Rand hit her. Rosie asks about her dad and Cassie explains he left with Horst.
They search for Rand’s truck and find it rolled over and severely damaged. There’s blood on the driver’s seat but Rand’s nowhere to be found. Cassie thinks they need to deal with him first and then look for Gil and Jenny.
Cassie and Rosie follow the blood trail and come upon an area where it tapers off. They pause when a tree branch snaps, and then Rosie spots Rand’s house nearby.
Back at the main ranch house, Margaret tells Cheyenne that Rand still hasn’t come home. Cheyenne explains they caught Gil and Jenny on the ranch, and Margaret believes they should call the sheriff. Cheyenne’s certain they have to fix this themselves. She’s sure they can get Horst to turn on J.W. and Rand.
Jenny’s locked up inside a cattle trailer, screaming and kicking the sides until Horst and J.W. finally let her out. Jenny wants to leave but Horst insists she stay for breakfast. He’s decided they need to come to an understanding and Jenny lays it on the line. He needs to pay for what the Kleinsassers have done. She also admits she saw a dead body in one of the barrels and is sure there are more out there.
Horst isn’t easily intimidated. This is his land and he threatens to stick her in one of those barrels where she’ll never be found. Horst’s sure he can get by with it easily by claiming he’s never seen her.
Cheyenne joins them and Horst yells at his daughter to leave. She won’t and insists Jenny’s going to get up and leave with her. Jenny knows Horst won’t allow her to walk out alive so she hits him over the head with a glass. J.W. stops her as she’s about to walk out the door, thwarting her attempted escape with a rifle pointed at her face.
Anja Savcic and Brian Geraghty in ‘Big Sky’ season 1 episode 15 (ABC/Darko Sikman)
Ronald’s shocked when Scarlet’s phone rings as they’re walking in the woods. He assumed cell service was completely unavailable in the area. Jerrie (Jesse James Keitel), Denise (Dedee Pfeiffer), and Mark Lindor (Omar Metwally) are at the detective agency, and it’s Mark who speaks with Scarlet when she answers. Mark asks when she last spoke with her sister, Mary, and then reveals she’s missing. He’d like her to come in to answer some questions, but Scarlet doesn’t reply. Instead, she just hangs up the phone.
Mark and Jerrie try to ping Scarlet’s phone but it doesn’t work. Wherever she is, the signal strength must be really weak. A signal finally comes through and Mark heads out to the remote location. He doesn’t want Denise to call Sheriff Tubb fearing sirens will scare off Ronald. He promises he’ll have backup in the area.
Jerrie demands to be allowed to join him, but Mark doesn’t want to risk her getting injured.
Scarlet begins hurriedly packing up the camp and initially refuses to tell Ronald who called her. She finally gives in and reveals it was law enforcement with news that her sister’s missing. Scarlet wants to leave now and head over to Mary’s place. Ronald assures her the police will have already checked it out.
Scarlet makes Ronald swear he loves her. After he does, she confesses there’s something at Mary’s place the police can’t be allowed to find.
Scarlet and Ronald drop Phoebe off at Scarlet’s co-worker’s house while they head over to Mary’s.
Horst, J.W., and Cheyenne debate their next move. Cheyenne’s sure all of the family’s secrets will be unburied. J.W.’s equally sure their problems will be over if they get rid of Jenny and Gil. Cheyenne is done playing nice and informs their father J.W. killed Blake by cracking his head open with a shovel.
Horst takes Cheyenne’s side. He tells J.W. he’s no longer going to be in charge of the ranch when he dies. Horst believes they’ll be lucky if the Feds don’t come in and take everything away.
Horst motions J.W. to come closer and whispers instructions in his ear. J.W. leaves and Horst tells Cheyenne he has a job for her. He passes her a gun and says he needs to see if she’s got what it takes.
Rosie and Cassie approach Rand’s place, guns drawn. There’s blood on the door frame as they barge in and find Rand in horrible shape on the floor. Despite the fact he’s obviously dying, it takes all of Rosie’s self-control to not shoot Rand again. Cassie talks her out of it just as Margaret joins them.
Margaret comforts her dying son and blames Horst for what’s happening. Rand passes away in her arms.
Jenny’s back in the cattle trailer when J.W. fetches her, claiming he’s going to let her go. Jenny knows that’s a lie.
Meanwhile, Jerrie and Mark stay in contact while Mark’s driving to Scarlet’s location. He asks Jerrie to ping Scarlet’s phone again and she warns him he needs to call in backup soon. Mark’s not quite ready to, wanting to know what they’re heading into first.
Jerrie pings the phone and it indicates Scarlet’s heading back into town. She’s correct to assume they’re heading to Mary’s.
Jerrie grabs car keys and takes off.
It turns out Horst handed Cheyenne the gun so that she could take care of Gil. She finds Gil tied up and apologizes as she raises her weapon and takes aim. However, she can’t pull the trigger and warns Gil to run before J.W. and Rand show up.
She’s still pointing the gun at Gil when Cassie and Rosie rush up. Cheyenne explains they can trust her but Cassie’s not buying it. Cheyenne says Cassie will have to trust her if she wants to save Jenny’s life.
Scarlet tells Ronald that Steve was Phoebe’s father and he used to do “dirty things” to her. Ronald doesn’t want to hear this story, but Scarlet doesn’t stop. She claims she fixed the situation by stabbing him in the head with a screwdriver. She laughs as she admits to killing Steve and Ronald can’t believe this turn of events.
Scarlet claims Mary has held Steve’s death over her and is a bully. She then reveals she knows who he is, calling him Ronald and assuring him he can share all his secrets.
Ronald slams on the brakes, suddenly speechless. She asks him to tell the truth, claiming they shouldn’t have any secrets. Scarlet knows what he’s done and says she loves him anyway.
Scarlet confesses she has animalistic urges, just like he does. She demands to be kissed and Ronald complies.
Scarlet lets Ronald decide if they should keep pretending or just be who they are. Ronald chooses to stop pretending. (Truly a match made in hell!)
Scarlet needs to make sure the police don’t find Steve and Phoebe never learns the truth about her dad.
Margaret returns to the house to inform Horst that Rand’s dead. She stares at the black spot on the ceiling that only she can see and claims it came out of Horst.
J.W. takes Jenny out to the field of barrels and holds her down. His gun is pressed against her head as she asks why he’s doing this. Jenny doesn’t believe this is who he is and before he can pull the trigger, she tosses him off and grabs his gun.
Jenny demands he confess he and Rand beat on Rosie so that Blake wouldn’t inherit the ranch. She also tells him to confess to killing Blake. J.W. breaks down and screams an admission of guilt.
Jenny shoots him in the thigh just as Cassie and Cheyenne rush up.
J.W. blames everything on Cheyenne, tackling her and then pinning her to the ground as he grabs her throat. Cassie and Jenny are attempting to get J.W. off Cheyenne when a shot rings out. Instead of shooting Gil, Cheyenne shoots her brother in the middle of his chest.
Jenny thinks Horst will kill Cheyenne, but she knows he won’t. She’s his only remaining child and sole heir.
Jenny and Cassie have one last thing to take care of and leave Cheyenne in the barrel field with her dead brother.
Ronald and Scarlet pull up outside Mary’s house and discuss their plan. They’re going to go in quickly, retrieve the body, and get out.
Ronald’s sure he now knows what love is. Scarlet believes what they have is actually stronger than love.
Jenny and Cassie are standing at the entrance to Kleinsasser Ranch when Sheriff Wagy and Deputy Al Gregor pull up. Cassie warns the officers it’s no longer easy to make a Black woman simply disappear with no questions asked. “It’s that kind of world that made you two who you are…what you are. Word of caution: you mess with one of us and the rest will rise up and bring you to your knees,” says Cassie.
Cassie confirms she’s going to tell everyone about this, and Gregor finally speaks up. He says he was actually just trying to save Cassie’s life by kidnapping her. Wagy had given him orders to kill her and he disobeyed.
Wagy puts a nail in his own coffin by threatening Gregor. He demands Gregor get back in his squad car and adds, “You should have put her down when I told you to.”
Cassie stands aside as they drive through the gate. Jenny gets Wagy’s attention by playing a clip of the recording she just made of him confessing he ordered Cassie’s murder.
Jenny forwards the audio file and confirms Sheriff Tubb is on his way. Not only did she get the full confession, but she also held onto a sample from the back pasture.
Ronald and Scarlet discuss Mary’s creepy doll collection as they make their way through her house to the basement. The freezer’s gone and Scarlet realizes her past is catching up to her. She wonders why they were looking for Mary in the first place and Ronald doesn’t say anything.
Mark’s outside Mary’s house as Jerrie pulls up.
Inside, Ronald and Scarlet hear her car in the driveway.
Mark wants Jerrie to leave but she’s adamant she needs to finish this. He has no choice but to allow her to follow him in, warning her to keep her distance.
Ronald holds out his taser and gestures for Scarlet to be quiet.
Episode 15, the season’s penultimate episode, ends with Mark breaking through the front door and screaming Ronald’s name.
When we last checked in with Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen) on Fox’s Prodigal Son season two episode 11, he was trapped in Dr. Vivian Capshaw’s trunk. He’s still there as episode 12 opens, but first we touch base with Malcolm (Tom Payne) who’s busy trashing his dad’s cell out of frustration. Malcolm’s sure everyone’s talking about him being a failed criminal profiler since he can’t find his own dad. Dani (Aurora Perrineau) assures him no one cares about that but Malcolm’s pretty much inconsolable.
“I can’t live like this, knowing he’s out there somewhere. He could come for me at any time,” says Malcolm. Dani understands what really scares Malcolm is the thought of never seeing his father again.
Even in his depressed state, Malcolm begins putting the pieces together. He figures out Malcolm had another ally and puts the clues (hoarded butterscotch wrappers under Martin’s bed) together and comes up with Dr. Capshaw.
And speaking of the psycho doctor, she’s pulled over by an officer because one of her taillights is out. Vivian (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is momentarily spooked when he asks to look in her trunk. After a little flirting, she turns down his offer and gets back on the road.
Malcolm makes it into the station and declares his dad and Vivian were having sex. Gil (Lou Diamond Phillips) is skeptical but Malcolm describes visiting his dad while Martin was experiencing an erotic fantasy. (JT’s sure that’s TMI.) Malcolm explains the candy wrappers were mementos of his time with Vivian. He thinks Vivian might have been involved in breaking out his dad.
U.S. Marshal Emily Ruiz (April Hernandez-Castillo) doesn’t believe candy wrappers and erotic fantasies are proof of Vivian’s involvement. She boots Malcolm from her case and Gil backs her play. He sends Malcolm home for some much-needed rest.
Ainsley (Halston Sage) and Jessica (Bellamy Young) are sympathetic to Malcolm’s plight, but only Ainsley supports Malcolm’s wish to continue as part of the investigation. Jessica warns Malcolm he needs to stop being so consumed with trying to get inside his father’s twisted mind. She loves her kids and wants them both to let the police do the work.
Ainsley, however, wants to hear Malcolm’s assessment of the current situation. Malcolm explains why he believes Vivian’s working with Martin. Jessica’s sure if Martin worked his way into Vivian’s mind, then she’s a victim – even if she did help him escape.
Vivian’s missing but Malcolm’s certain no one’s looking for her. Jessica flip flops and wants Malcolm to find Martin so that Vivian doesn’t become The Surgeon’s 24th victim.
Vivian’s drinking and listening to classical music when Martin comes to in a wheelchair. The large estate where they’re holed up is in the middle of nowhere and they appear to be its only occupants. Martin reveals he can’t feel his legs and Vivian explains she administered a lidocaine spinal block.
Martin has a flashback to when he first breathed in the fresh air outside Claremont’s doors. He remembers running through the parking lot and then being knocked out by a shot with a needle in the neck administered by Vivian.
Vivian and Malcolm pay a surprise visit to a doctor who’s shunned them since Martin’s arrest. They need him to supply them with all the details of Dr. Capshaw’s employment history. He’s apparently very well connected and has friends on multiple hospital boards. This particular doctor also happens to be the man responsible for introducing Jessica to Martin, so he owes her one.
Vivian’s file leads Malcolm to Logan Zeiger, one of Capshaw’s final patients at St. Sebastian’s. Ainsley joins him on a visit to Logan under the pretense she’s working on a segment on Dr. Capshaw. Logan’s paralyzed from a high-level cervical spinal cord injury.
Logan reveals he’d seen dozens of doctors, but Vivian is the one who actually helped him when no other doctor would. (It seems Vivian is also the one who paralyzed him.) Logan becomes upset when Malcolm explains they believe Vivian helped Martin Whitly escape. He claims Vivian’s his hero and warns Malcolm and Ainsley to stay away from her.
As they’re leaving Malcolm says, “I don’t think Vivian is the victim here. I think our father is.”
Vivian is most definitely not the victim. She’s sure everyone believes that and isn’t happy about women being confined to their expected roles. Although in this case, gender stereotyping is working in her favor.
Vivian leaves the room to pour another drink and Martin acts as quickly as he’s physically able, slowly making his way to a nearby telephone. He calls Jessica and manages to get out that Vivian’s a monster before Vivian rips the phone from his hands. She continues the conversation with Jessica, assuring her she’ll take care of Martin. Vivian asks her to keep this call between the two of them and she’ll make sure Martin never hurts anyone again.
Ainsley walks in just as Jessica’s getting off the phone. Jessica lies and says it was a wrong number.
Vivian’s done playing nice and Martin comes to tied to a bed. She screams at him for calling Jessica, certain Jessica’s not his equal. She reminds Martin that Jessica didn’t understand why he killed but she does. Vivian claims she has a brilliant medical mind like Martin and that’s why she accepts him for what he is.
After declaring she needs to prove herself worthy, she asks Martin to choose a drug to be injected with. Martin finally seems to realize just how crazy Vivian is, and also finally pieces together that her missteps in surgery at the hospital were deliberate. She wanted to be able to save patients after nearly killing them.
Vivian injects Martin and watches as he struggles to live. The drug stops his heart but before he dies, she promises she’ll bring him back.
Meanwhile, Malcolm returns to the station and informs Gil, Dani, JT, and Ruiz that Vivian’s psychology is closer to his dad’s than anyone realized. Gil still doesn’t believe Vivian kidnapped Martin, and JT and Dani concur. Vivian’s record is clean.
Malcolm claims Vivian suffers from malignant hero syndrome and hurts patients so she can take credit for saving them. Gil thinks Malcolm’s jumping through mental hoops to land on Vivian being the aggressor.
Malcolm reveals he has the address of a storage facility rented to Vivian. Dani suggests that wouldn’t be a bad place to keep Martin – if she did kidnap him. She believes they should check it out and that either way, it will answer key questions.
Vivian brings Martin back to life but it’s a painful process. He screams and she calmly says, “Breathe, darling.” He demands to be untied and is able to knock the next drug (Fentanyl) out of her hand while he’s thrashing around. Vivian’s angry at his disobedience and warns that she’ll break him if she has to.
Malcolm and Dani investigate Vivian’s storage unit and Malcolm finds dozens of vials of various drugs. Dani says that’s not proof of anything, but Malcolm’s adamant that he’s right. He thinks they’re running out of time to save his dad and he’s sure no one cares if Martin’s killed.
Dani suggests if Martin dies, Malcolm would be free. However, Malcolm thinks it’s possible his dad makes him who he is. “Martin Whitly is a cruel and violent man. You are none of those things. Let him go, Malcolm, I’m begging you,” says Dani.
And they kiss! And not just a light peck…a passionate, fiery kiss that ends all too soon because Dani’s phone rings.
She steps out of the unit to speak with Gil as a noise gets Malcolm’s attention. He chases after whoever is making the hallway lights flip on, stopping only to answer a call from Ainsley. When the person runs by again, he doesn’t hang up and instead follows this person into the parking lot.
Vivian is waiting by her car as he exits the building. She admits she was there to pick up more drugs from her storage unit, and Malcolm demands to know what she’s done with his father. Vivian taunts Malcolm, assuring him if he arrests her, he won’t find his father.
Malcolm volunteers to surrender to her if she’ll take him to Martin. Vivian considers his offer and then gives him two pills to knock him out.
Dani returns to the storage unit and Malcolm’s gone.
Gil checks in on Jessica and they discuss Malcolm’s take on Martin’s escape. He tells Jessica it’s okay if she hopes Martin dies and admits he wants him dead, too. If Martin died, maybe things could be different between them.
Jessica’s on the verge of telling him about the phone call but ultimately decides not to.
Ainsley finds Dani at the station and tells her Malcolm’s in trouble. Dani thought Malcolm went rogue, but Ainsley taped their call. They listen to the recording of Malcolm confronting Vivian and Vivian admitting she has Martin.
Malcolm’s taken over Martin’s place in the bed, hooked to machines and unable to move. Martin insists they can’t have a life together until she releases Malcolm. Malcolm explains he’s there because, yes, Martin’s a psychopath and a killer, but he’s also his dad.
Vivian reveals she wants what Malcolm has – all of Martin.
Martin secretly lets Malcolm know he’s got something sharp in his hand and is trying to free himself. (He’s taped into a wheelchair.) Malcolm wonders if this is Logan Zeiger’s place and Vivian confesses that Logan understands her.
Malcolm continues to try to get through to Vivian, explaining his dad is a malignant narcissist who can’t love her.
Vivian reveals she’s going to cause Malcolm to have an embolism and bringing him back will prove her skill matches Martin’s. She believes what happens today will bind them together.
Vivian’s in the process of reviving Malcolm when the doorbell rings. She spots Dani and Ainsley outside and uses her cell to fake a call to 911 claiming she’s been abducted and stabbed by The Surgeon.
While she’s gone, Martin works himself free from his bindings as Malcolm flatlines. He’s able to bring his son back as Vivian returns with news that they’ve been found. After declaring she’ll always love Martin, Vivian stabs herself in the upper chest. It’s enough to cause pain and bleeding but isn’t a fatal injury.
Vivian claims everyone will believe she’s the victim and Martin’s the aggressor. She screams as Dani knocks and announces she’s with the NYPD. Malcolm tells his dad to run, realizing Vivian’s right.
Dani and Ainsley bust into the house and rush to find Malcolm and Martin. They encounter a screaming Vivian and Ainsley remains with her as Dani continues her search. By the time she finds the room where they were kept, Martin and Malcolm are gone.
The final scene of the episode, which finds a gleeful Martin steering a boat with Malcolm asleep on a passenger seat, seems like a natural fit for the season finale. However, it’s not; there’s still one episode remaining in season two. And as we just learned on May 10th, season two’s finale will also be the series’ finale.
Eric Stoltz returns to direct his second episode of Bull with season five episode 16, the season finale. Pamela Wechsler and Travis Donnelly wrote the script and episode 16 – “A Friend in Need” – will air on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 10pm ET/PT.
The season five cast is led by Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull. Freddy Rodriguez plays Benny Colón, Yara Martinez stars as Isabella “Izzy” Colón, Geneva Carr is Marissa Morgan, Jamie Lee Kirchner is Danny James, Christopher Jackson plays Chunk Palmer, and MacKenzie Meehan stars as Taylor Rentzel.
The season finale guest stars include David Wilson Barnes, Christopher Braden, Michelle Wilson, Donovan Christie, Jr., and Joe Grifasi.
“A Friend in Need” Plot: Izzy puts the brakes on her wedding to Bull after he jeopardizes Benny’s election campaign by handling the defense in the corruption trial of the former District Attorney that Benny hopes to replace, on the fifth season finale of Bull.
Bull stars Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial-consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick. This season, Bull finds it harder than ever to navigate his personal life, as he balances fatherhood and his renewed relationship with Isabella “Izzy” Colón, his ex-wife. Izzy’s brother is Benny Colón, Bull’s trusted associate, a quick-witted lawyer who acts as defense attorney in the company’s mock trials.
Bull’s enviable group of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation shape successful narratives down to the last detail. In addition to Benny, his team includes Marissa Morgan, a neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security who monitors shifting jury reactions in real-time for Bull; former NYPD detective Danny James, the firm’s tough but relatable investigator; Taylor Rentzel, a working mother and former colleague of Marissa’s who is an expert at coding and computer hacking; and Chunk Palmer, a former all-American lineman and stylist-turned-lawyer, who helps clients prepare their look and testimony for trial.
In high-stakes trials, Bull’s combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three Ph.D.’s and a top-notch staff creates winning strategies that tip the scales of justice in his clients’ favor.
Amy Acker and Ian Anthony Dale reprise their guest-starring roles on CBS’s All Rise season two episode 16. Directed by Denitria Harris-Lawrence from a script by Harris-Lawrence and Lucy Luna, episode 16 – “Leap of Faith” – will air on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 9pm ET/PT.
Simone Missick leads the cast as Judge Lola Carmichael, Wilson Bethel plays Mark Callan, Marg Helgenberger is Lisa Benner, and Jessica Camacho stars as Emily Lopez. J. Alex Brinson plays Luke Watkins, Lindsay Mendez is Sara Castillo, Ruthie Ann Miles is Sherri Kansky, Lindsey Gort plays Amy Quinn, and Audrey Corsa is Samantha Powell. Peter MacNicol recurs as Judge Albert Campbell.
Episode 16 guest stars include Andy Buckley, Zayne Emory, Derek Luh, Kayla Carlson, Eric Urbiztondo, and Joe Adler.
“Leap of Faith” Plot: Lola is tested like never before during a high-profile murder case when the women of Audubon and Associates — Rachel and Amy — combine forces with Public Defender Emily to represent the co-defendants. Also, David Sanders (Nicholas Christopher) helps Lola court donations and endorsements to prepare for her upcoming re-election campaign.
All Rise is a courthouse drama that follows the chaotic, hopeful and sometimes absurd lives of its judges, prosecutors and public defenders, as they work with bailiffs, clerks and cops to get justice for the people of Los Angeles amidst a flawed legal process. Among them is newly appointed Judge Lola Carmichael, a highly regarded and impressive deputy district attorney who doesn’t intend to sit back on the bench in her new role, but instead leans in, immediately pushing the boundaries and challenging the expectations of what a judge can be.
