Apple TV+ has released a full trailer for the documentary film, Fathom, in honor of Earth Day. The Apple Original film explores the way humpback whales communicate and was directed and photographed by Drew Xanthopoulos (The Sensitives).
Fathom was produced by Emmy Award winner Megan Gilbride (Tower) with Emmy Award winners Andrea Meditch (Grizzly Man) & Josh Braun (Wild Wild Country), Emmy Award nominee Jessica Harrop (Follow This), and Greg Boustead (Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds) executive producing. The documentary is a Sandbox Films, Impact Partners, Walking Upstream Pictures, BackAllie Entertainment and Hidden Candy production.
Apple TV+ has set a June 25, 2021 global premiere date.
Poster for the Apple Original documentary film, ‘Fathom’
The Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
Fathom follows Dr. Ellen Garland and Dr. Michelle Fournet, two scientists focused on the study of humpback whale songs and social communication. As they embark on parallel research journeys on opposite sides of the world, they seek to better understand whale culture and communication. The documentary film uniquely reveals a deep commitment and reverence to the scientific process and the universal human need to seek answers about the world around us.
From hypothesis to groundbreaking experiences in the field, Fathom showcases the passion, curiosity, collaboration, perseverance and work it takes for leading scientists to make scientific discoveries.
The CW’s Walker returns from a three week break with season one episode 10, “Encore,” an episode that finds Stella making a difficult decision. Directed by Stacey K. Black from a script by Blythe Ann Johnson, episode 10 will air on May 6, 2021.
In addition to Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker, the season one cast includes Kale Culley (Me, Myself and I) as August, Violet Brinson (Sharp Objects) as Stella, Keegan Allen (Pretty Little Liars) as Liam, Molly Hagan (Herman’s Head) as Abeline, and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) as Bonham. Coby Bell (The Gifted) plays Captain Larry James, Lindsey Morgan is Micki, and Jeff Pierre (Once Upon a Time) plays Trey Barnett.
“Encore” Plot: STELLA CONFRONTS CLINT – With the Sidestep now in their name, Walker (Padalecki), Stella (Brinson) and August (Culley) put their stamp on the place. Liam (Allen) turns to Bonham (Pileggi) for advice on a career move, while Micki (Morgan) and Trey (Pierre) work through the aftermath of his injuries after the hurricane.
Stella confronts Clint (guest star Austin Nichols) about Trevor (guest star Gavin Casalegno) and his response prompts Stella to make a dangerous decision that will leave a permanent mark on the Walker family.
The Plot, Courtesy of The CW:
Walker stars Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there’s harder work to be done at home. He’ll attempt to reconnect with his creative and thoughtful son (Culley) and his headstrong, somewhat rebellious teenaged daughter (Brinson) and navigate clashes with his family – an ADA brother (Allen) who stepped in during Walker’s absence, his perceptive mother (Hagen) and his traditional rancher father (Pileggi).
Walker’s former colleague is now his Ranger Captain (Bell). Walker finds unexpected common ground with his new partner (one of the first women in Texas Rangers’ history) played by Lindsey Morgan, while growing increasingly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death.
Violet Brinson as Stella Walker, Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker and Kale Culley as August Walker in ‘Walker’ season 1 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Rebecca Brenneman – 2021 The CW Network. LLC)Mitch Pileggi as Bonham Walker in season 1 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Rebecca Brenneman – 2021 The CW Network. LLC)Violet Brinson as Stella Walker in season 1 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Rebecca Brenneman – 2021 The CW Network. LLC)Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker, Violet Brinson as Stella Walker, Kale Culley as August Walker, Lindsey Morgan as Micki Ramirez, Jeff Pierre as Trey Barnett, Matthew Barr as Hoyt and Mitch Pileggi as Bonham Walker in season 1 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Rebecca Brenneman – 2021 The CW Network. LLC)Jeff Pierre as Trey Barnett and Lindsey Morgan as Micki Ramirez in season 1 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Rebecca Brenneman – 2021 The CW Network. LLC)Jeff Pierre as Trey Barnett and Lindsey Morgan as Micki Ramirez in season 1 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Rebecca Brenneman – 2021 The CW Network. LLC)
Reynolds discovers the story of how a young girl got shot doesn’t add up on NBC’s New Amsterdam season three episode nine. “Disconnected” will air on Tuesday, April 27, 2021.
Ryan Eggold leads the cast as Dr. Max Goodwin. Janet Montgomery plays Dr. Lauren Bloom, Jocko Sims is Dr. Floyd Reynolds, Freema Agyeman is Dr. Helen Sharpe, Tyler Labine is Dr. Iggy Frome, Anupam Kher is Dr. Vijay Kapoor, and Daniel Dae Kim plays Dr. Cassian Shin.
“Disconnected” Plot: Max is on a mission to deliver free broadband access. Reynolds treats a young girl with a gunshot wound. Sharpe gives difficult news to a long-time patient. Iggy is immensely proud of his patient’s success but worries that he may be getting too close.
When Dr. Max Goodwin took over New Amsterdam, he asked a simple, revolutionary question: “How can I help?” In season three, Max and his team face the daunting task of sustaining that optimism while dealing with a pandemic that exposed the gaping inequities in our health care. Max is no longer content to fix a broken system. He’s determined to tear it down and build something better.
Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in ‘New Amsterdam’ season 3 episode 9 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Freema Agyeman as Dr. Helen Sharpe, Willie C Carpenter as Thom, and Priscilla Lopez as Juanita in season 3 episode 9 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in season 3 episode 9 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom in season 3 episode 9 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom in season 3 episode 9 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Tyler Labine as Dr. Iggy Frome and Luke Slattery as Chance Becker in season 3 episode 9 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds in the “Disconnected” episode (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)
A tornado threatens the hospital on Fox’s The Resident season four episode 11. Episode 11, “After the Storm,” will air on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 8pm ET/PT.
Season four stars Matt Czuchry as Dr. Conrad Hawkins, Emily VanCamp as Nurse Practitioner Nicolette Nevin, Manish Dayal as Dr. Devon Pravesh, and Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell. Shaunette Renee Wilson plays Dr. Mina Okafor, Jane Leeves is Dr. Kit Voss, Malcolm-Jamal Warner is Dr. AJ Austin, and Morris Chestnut is R. Barrett Cain.
How to Get Away with Murder‘s Conrad Ricamora continues his guest-starring run as Dr. Jake Wong.
“After the Storm” Plot: When a tornado touches down in Atlanta with Chastain directly in its path, the entire staff goes into crisis mode. Conrad and Nic work on an injured EMT and Devon and Leela (guest star Anuja Joshi) become trapped with a man who has severe head trauma, causing them to operate with limited medical supplies.
Meanwhile, Bell pulls The Raptor and Dr. Wong (Ricamora) onto a case involving a young cancer patient in need of a very risky surgery and Cain gets assigned a new resident.
The Official Season 4 Description, Courtesy of Fox:
Entering its fourth season, The Resident will shine a light on the daily heroism of our health care workers. The provocative medical drama follows the doctors and nurses at Chastain Memorial Hospital, as they face personal and professional challenges and fight for their patients’ health.
This season, a glimpse at the harrowing nightmare that was COVID-19’s relentless grip on urban hospitals will give way, as the series jumps forward to sunnier days. With black-hearted Red Rock Mountain Medical figurehead Logan Kim ousted, the rudderless hospital finds its new CEO in star orthopedic surgeon Dr. Kit Voss, when she spearheads Chastain’s transition from private to public hospital. Now, after three seasons of bucking the system, the doctors have a seat at the table – and will fight to fix the broken machine from the inside.
Reeling from an earth-shattering loss, Dr. Devon Pravesh begins suffering from an identity crisis, as he blames the flawed public hospital model, of which he is now a part. After their challenging year, Dr. Conrad Hawkins and Nurse Practioner Nicolette Nevin tie the knot in an intimate and beautiful wedding, strengthening their already powerful bond. But shortly thereafter, Nic suffers a horrifying experience, the fallout of which will plague her for years. With support from both Conrad and Nic’s oldest friend, the unpredictable, sharp-tongued nurse Billie Ramos, Nic battles her trauma head-on to get back in the ring for her patients.
When Chastain’s public status and slashed payroll budget costs them their top surgeons, Dr. Randolph Bell finds himself mining his own past to find his estranged former stepson, elite plastic surgeon Dr. Jake Wong (guest star Conrad Ricamora). Bell attempts to bring Dr. Wong to Chastain to increase the number of world-class surgeries at the hospital and to repair their complicated past.
Overqualified Surgical Resident Dr. Mina Okafor world is upended when she discovers her immigration status has been threatened in a way that even her brilliant, braggadocious mentor, Dr. AJ Austin may not be able to help her with. Dr. Barrett Cain is blindsided by karma and a colleague, in a cataclysmic event that costs him nearly everything. Upon recovery, he chooses vengeance, the ramifications of which threaten to tear the heart out of his colleagues and Chastain itself.
Sundance Film Festival standout CODA will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV+ on August 13, 2021. Writer/director Siân Heder’s film entered the Sundance Film Festival history books this year as the only movie to score four top prizes in the US Dramatic Competition category: U.S. Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, Directing Award, and Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble.
Apple picked up CODA (an acronym for Child of Deaf Adults) following its Sundance Film Festival premiere in January 2021. The drama currently sits at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Harper’s Bazaar declaring it “tenderly captures the unique beats of familial love with startling specificity and, ultimately, universality.”
The cast of the critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama includes Emilia Jones (Locke & Key), Eugenio Derbez (The Casagrandes), Troy Kotsur (The Number 23), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Vikings), and Daniel Durant (Switched at Birth). Amy Forsyth (Beautiful Boy), Kevin Chapman (City on a Hill), and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God) also star.
Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger, and Jérôme Seydoux produced, with Ardavan Safaee and Sarah Borch-Jacobsen serving as executive producers. The film’s a Vendome Pictures and Pathé production.
The Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Matlin, Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Walsh-Peelo).
Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
Hilary Duff will star in the Hulu Originals comedy series, ‘How I Met Your Father’ (Photo courtesy of Hulu)
The How I Met Your Mother sequel – How I Met Your Father – has been given a straight-to-series order from Hulu. The Hulu Originals comedy series will star Hilary Duff (Younger) and has How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas on board as executive producers.
Season one will consist of 10 episodes and will be shot using the same techniques as HIMYM, shooting both multi-camera and single-camera. The sequel comes from executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger (This Is Us, Love, Victor), and is a 20th Television production.
“How I Met Your Mother continues to be one of the most innovative and beloved comedies on television,” stated Craig Erwich, president, Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment. “Isaac and Elizabeth have an inspired take on this new version that honors what Carter and Craig created with the original and moves the franchise forward. Isaac and Elizabeth have proven to be rich storytellers and great partners to us at Hulu Originals and across The Walt Disney Company family. Coupled with the passion and infectious energy Hilary brings to every role she takes on, we can’t wait to suit up and bring audiences How I Met Your Father.”
“Kids, I’m going to tell you an incredible story: It’s the story of how two writers got lucky enough to make their dream TV show for nine seasons and now get to pass the torch to an inspired new creative team with their own incredible story to tell, the story of How I Met Your Father,” stated original series creators Bays and Thomas. “We are honored by their passion and vision and look forward to helping them tell a legendary new story. (Thanks to all the HIMYM fans out there who waited for it.)”
Hilary Duff will star as Sophie and will also serve as a producer.
“I’ve been incredibly lucky in my career to play some wonderful characters, and I’m looking forward to taking on the role of Sophie,” said Duff. “As a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother, I’m honored and even a little nervous that Carter and Craig would trust me with the sequel of their baby. Isaac and Elizabeth are brilliant, and I can’t wait to work alongside them and all of their genius. Just fangirling over here getting to join the Hulu Originals and 20th families. I realize these are big shoes to fill, and I’m excited to slip my 6 ½’s in there!”
“We are beyond excited to be bringing How I Met Your Father to Hulu. Carter and Craig’s iconic original series revolutionized the half-hour comedy, and we are so honored to be carrying the torch forward for the next generation – and with Hilary Duff no less! We can’t wait for audiences to meet Sophie and her crew, and watch them come into their own and find love in modern-day New York City. And we hope nobody thinks it’s weird that Bob Saget will be playing old Hilary Duff’s voice,” said the sequel’s creators/writers Aptaker and Berger.
The Plot, Courtesy of Hulu:
In the near future, Sophie (Duff) is telling her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.
The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow returns to the network’s primetime lineup on May 2, 2021 with season six episode one. “Ground Control to Sara Lance” was directed by Kevin Mock from a script James Eagan and Mark Bruner.
Season six’s cast is led by Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/White Canary and includes Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory/Heat Wave, Nick Zano as Dr. Nate Heyood/Steel, Tala Ashe as Zari Tarazi, Jes Macallan as Ava Sharpe, and Matt Ryan as John Constantine. Adam Tsekhman plays Gary Green, Olivia Swann is Astra Logue, Shayan Sobhian is Behrad Tarazi, and Lisseth Chavez is Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz.
“Ground Control to Sara Lance” Plot: A MISSING CAPTAIN – After a night of celebrating their beating the Fates, the Legends quickly discover that Sara (Lotz) is missing. Trying to keep it together, the Legends are shocked to discover that she was taken by Aliens. Ava (Macallan) sends Rory (Purcell) and Behrad (Sobhian) to follow a lead on who can possibly help them find Sara, while Constantine (Ryan) tries to work his magic.
Meanwhile, Sara does all she can to try to escape, which includes releasing Aliens into the timeline, but is shocked to learn who one of her kidnappers turns out to be.
The Season Six Description, Courtesy of The CW:
Having spent last season trying to track down the Loom of Fate in order to bring back their slain comrades and save the world from mind control, the Legends must now save history from a foe like none they’ve encountered in the past or future. Co-captains of the time-ship Waverider Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe have dealt with monsters, time anomalies, and most recently, villains from Hell, but this season they will face something even more challenging and bizarre … space aliens!
After one of their own is abducted by a ruthless alien, this new mission becomes personal. Fighting against aliens in the timeline while also working to bring back their missing teammate, it will take more than the combined powers of a dark magician, John Constantine; a semi-reformed arsonist and Waverider O.G., Mick Rory; a historian who transforms into steel, Nate Heywood; a fresh out of Hell Astra Logue; and a brother-sister air-totem-wielding duo, Zara Tarazi and Behrad Tarazi to save the world (and beyond) for a sixth time.
They must recruit a new Legend, a gun-totin’ Texan named Spooner who was abducted by aliens when she was a child and imbued with powers that will help the team defeat their intergalactic foes. Either that or she’s just crazy.
Neon’s just released a full trailer and new poster for the thriller New Order, written, directed, produced, and edited by Michel Franco (Chronic, Las Hijas de Abril). The trailer reveals a high society wedding that’s interrupted by the appearance of uninvited guests who aren’t there just to drink some champagne and snag a piece of wedding cake.
The cast includes Naian González Norvind, Diego Boneta, Mónica Del Carmen, Fernando Cuautle, Eligio Melendez, Dario Yazbek, Roberto Medina, Lisa Owen, and Gustavo Sánchez Parra.
Writer/director Michel Franco’s behind the scenes team includes director of photography Yves Cape, co-editor Oscar Figueroa Jara, production designer Claudio Ramirez Castelli, and costume designer Gabriela Fernandez.
Neon has set a May 21, 2021 theatrical release date.
The Plot:
Conceived six years ago, Michel Franco’s near-future dystopia feels ripped from headlines that haven’t yet been written. While protests rage in the streets, Marianne’s high society family prepares for her wedding. At first, only splatters of green paint andthe appearance of Rolando, a former employee seeking emergency medical funds, intrude on the festivities. But soon the party is unable to keep the reckoning at bay, and what follows is a swift disintegration of law and order defined first by class lines, then by disastrous government recapitulation.
Clayton Cardenas as Angel Reyes and Vincent Rocco Vargas as Gilberto “Gilly” Lopez in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 3 episode 7 Photo Credit: Prashant Gupta/FX)
FX’s Mayans M.C. season three episode six ended with Angel shooting Flaco and then texting EZ alerting him Santo Padre’s going to war with Stockton. Episode seven, “What Comes of Handlin’ Snakeskin,” dives right into the newly declared war, with Angel (Clayton Cardenas) and Gilly (Vincent Vargas) attacking a Stockton guy and demanding the whereabouts of Stockton’s president, Ramos.
Bishop (Michael Irby), Creeper (Joseph Raymond Lucero), and Hank (Frankie Loyal) are the next to launch an attack, pounding on two guys and destroying a tattoo parlor Stockton runs.
EZ (JD Pardo) makes it into town, arriving at Myra’s Motor Inn which is apparently Santo Padre’s makeshift Stockton hideout. (EZ dropped Gaby at her family’s place in Lodi before joining the club.) He claims he’s feeling good and Gilly fills him on Angel “going yard” on someone’s head.
Gilly walks away to take a call and Angel realizes his little bro just had sex. The smile on EZ’s face is a dead giveaway. “I bet it was so romantic,” teases Angel. “I bet there were birds chirping and all kinds of sh*t.” (Treasure these lighter moments – this episode’s going to get really dark fairly quickly.)
More club members arrive and Bishop and Taza (Raoul Max Trujillo) welcome EZ back. Gilly informs Bishop that Tucson’s Lobo just called and said there’s no movement at Ramos’ house. Bishop tells Gilly to call Tucson in so they can regroup. At this point it should be obvious to Stockton that Santo Padre’s coming for them.
While the club gets some rest, Hank yells at Steve the prospect (Momo Rodriguez) for trying to follow them into the hotel. He needs to stay outside and guard the van. But first, Hank demands Steve lose weight immediately by doing burpees.
EZ witnessed the exchange and checks on Steve, advising him not to give up. EZ gets philosophical and says, “Being a prospect is about destroying the ego, learning to exist for the greater good of the group.”
Steve explains being part of the club is all he wants. He’s always been just a punchline and he’s done laughing along. Steve’s in a much better place mentally when EZ walks away.
Meanwhile, Coco (Richard Cabral) returns home and his daughter, Leticia (Emily Tosta), gives him a hug before punching him in the chest. She’s pissed he disappeared and when he asks for something for the pain – he’s obviously in sorry shape – she searches for something to give him. By the time she locates expired Excedrin, he’s passed out on the couch. She gently covers him with a blanket.
Coco eventually awakens to find Leticia sitting on the couch with him. She hands him Mountain Dew and explains that’s all they have. Leticia wants her dad to get clean but Coco claims he’s not on drugs. He looks like he’s dying as he lies and says he’s good. Coco’s ruthless as he tells her he didn’t ask for her help or for her at all.
Leticia calls him out, tells him she hopes he dies, and takes off.
Adelita (Carla Baratta) is also giving comfort to someone in dire need. She embraces Mini while Mini reveals what she’s been through. Apparently, Adelita’s right-hand man, Pablo, made the young girls prostitute themselves. Mini finally ran, realizing there was no reason to stay without Adelita to protect her.
After listening to Mini, Adelita shows up at the group’s new warehouse. She spots a pregnant girl and then shakes her head in warning as Pablo (Salvador Chacon) says they’ve missed her and were worried. Mini joins Adelita and Pablo claims whatever Mini told her is a lie. People were abandoning the cause and he needed to do whatever it took to keep the rebellion going.
Adelita listens but doesn’t say anything until Pablo’s done offering excuses. She caresses his face as she stabs him in the stomach. Pablo falls against her and she stabs him again.
Adelita’s back in charge.
JD Pardo as EZ Reyes in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 3 episode 7 (Photo Credit: Prashant Gupta/FX)
EZ’s hanging out outside when the Oakland chapter rolls up. Bishop, Taza, and Hank quickly back EZ up as Oakland’s President, Diaz, suggests Santo Padre go home. They don’t, and instead they have a sit-down inside the hotel. Diaz points out EZ looks better than Flaco and Chepe, and Angel points out Chepe’s kids won’t have to grow up knowing their dad was a piece of sh*t.
Diaz asks Bishop how many dead Mayans it will take to end this. Bishop says just one – Ramos.
Diaz reveals Ramos asked for his backing but he wants to hear Bishop’s side. He recalls the club’s history and how Marcus used to put Bishop up on his bike when his feet were too short to reach the pegs.
Bishop doesn’t have the time nor the patience for this walk down memory lane, claiming he’s always done what’s best for the club. Santo Padre didn’t fire the first shot, but they will not back down. Diaz doesn’t agree and believes Santo Padre did start it by killing the Vatos Malditos. That destroyed the gun deal and Diaz thinks the VM murders were done to keep Santo Padre as the gatekeeper. (The Galindo cartel’s drugs remain their main source of income.)
Bishop lays his cards on the table. He tells Diaz the three kings leadership isn’t working and he wants the club to stop being dependent on Galindo’s drugs. Asked if he’s really willing to go against his cousin, Bishop reminds them Marcus Alvarez is no longer a Mayan.
Bishop asks Diaz to join him and help reclaim who the Mayans really are…”motherf*cking outlaws.”
Diaz wants to know about Stockton and Bishop remains firm in the need for payback after Ramos put a target on EZ. “I want to bring this M.C. back to its glory. But first, there’s got to be a reckoning,” says Bishop.
Diaz takes this all in and then advises his VP to call Stockton and tell them he needs a face-to-face with Ramos. He informs Bishop that Oakland will stick around and then they’ll all ride out together once Ramos’ location is confirmed.
“We’ll see about that reckoning,” says Diaz.
Hours later the Oakland chapter’s getting high and hanging out, while the Santo Padre crew are getting antsy. When Bishop tells Diaz everything’s packed and ready to go, Diaz claims they’re still waiting for Ramos’ exact location.
Outside, Creeper’s in charge of loading the weapons into the van. Steve reminds the club his record’s clean so he can carry a gun while they’re on the road.
EZ checks in with Gaby (Sulem Calderon) during the downtime and she asks if he’s been changing his dressing. He says he has but she giggles, admitting she doesn’t believe him.
Angel and the guys watch EZ on the phone and Gilly notes EZ only knows two people outside the club. Since EZ’s smiling, he must be talking to Gaby.
After he hangs up, Angel checks in to make sure his brother’s head is in the game.
EZ’s claim that he’s ready is challenged as the Stockton club shows up out of nowhere. Oakland played Santo Padre and Bishop for fools.
Before Stockton guys even exit their van, the Oakland guys begin throwing punches. A bunch of Stockton dudes jump Steve and ruthlessly beat him.
Ramos (Ivo Nandi) announces his presence and EZ’s on his way to grab him when he’s attacked. Although he’s still recovering from being shot, EZ proves he’s a badass by delivering more brutal punches than he receives.
Inside the hotel, Diaz and a few of his men get into it with Taza and Bishop.
More Stockton members arrive and Santo Padre’s outnumbered. Fortunately, they have the Reyes brothers on their side.
Angel, Gilly, and a few others who weren’t outside and are unaware of what’s going on are ambushed walking through the hotel. At one point three guys are beating on Angel with their fists and a baseball bat at the same time, yet he’s able to remain in the fight as are Hank, Gilly, and other Santo Padre club members.
Ramos is among the group beating on Steve who’s down on the ground and hasn’t managed to stand since the attack began.
Taza whips out a blade and stabs two of the Oakland guys and then rips another off Bishop’s back. Bishop has Diaz pinned on the floor and uses his forehead to bash in Diaz’s face.
Everyone’s still engaged in the fight as sirens are heard drawing closer. Steve begs for his life as half a dozen guys continue to kick him. A gunshot’s heard and one of Steve’s attackers goes down hard, hitting his head on a cement parking block. If the bullet didn’t kill him, the hard landing did.
EZ’s still beating someone up as Bishop and Taza try to round their guys up to escape before the cops arrive.
Hank checks on Steve who’s in shock and wondering if the man he shot will be okay. Creeper looks around for Pavia, doesn’t see him, and opts to remain behind so Pavia isn’t the only Santo Padre member locked up with a bunch of Stockton and Oakland guys.
The Santo Padre guys get away, driving away from the cops and trouble before finally stopping to figure out their next step. They realize Creeper and Pavia are basically sitting ducks and that Ramos will be posting bail soon. Hank believes the word will spread quickly to other charters and they’ll have to choose sides.
Taza thinks after tonight’s attack more charters will side with Stockton than Santo Padre.
Bishop has no idea what to do next, but EZ says he knows their next move.
Back at the hotel, tons of cops have the bikers who couldn’t escape in handcuffs and kneeling in the parking lot. Creeper asks for a hospital for Pavia and the cops only tell him to shut up. Ramos assures Creeper he and Pavia will soon need a morgue.
Crooked Stockton PD Detective O’Grady arrives and casually pulls Ramos from the lineup, offering the briefest of explanations to the officers present that Ramos needs to be brought in for questioning. As he walks away, one of the Stockton guys brags to Creeper that they own this town.
O’Grady keeps up a running monologue about a song on the radio, recalling his time in a band when he was younger. Ramos is tired of being in his presence and tells O’Grady to pull over and cut him loose. Ramos also orders O’Grady to go back and let his guys out, and O’Grady says he will.
O’Grady pulls over but doesn’t get out. Instead, he continues commenting on the song that’s playing. Ramos is still seated in the car when EZ comes out of nowhere and shoots him in the head.
O’Grady’s pissed EZ shot him in the car instead of pulling him out and then killing him. EZ pumps two more rounds into Ramos as O’Grady says, “Dude, you can’t make someone more dead.”
EZ instructs O’Grady to keep Creeper and Pavia separate and make sure they’re released by tomorrow morning. When O’Grady doesn’t instantly respond yes, EZ aims his gun at the cop forcing him to agree.
As EZ’s walking away, O’Grady wants to know if his debt’s now been paid. He asks if he’s free and EZ replies, “Are any of us?”
O’Grady labels that response existential biker bullsh*t.
In Mexico, Adelita shaves the heads of her young followers as they pledge her their allegiance.
EZ attempts to put the fight and murder of Ramos out of his head as much as possible while seated at the dinner table with Gaby’s family. He’s late but Gaby saved him a plate and the family remains at the table as he enjoys dinner. EZ wipes his face after a bite and there’s blood on the napkin, ripping this peaceful moment out from under him.
Fortunately, no one else seems to notice.
While all this is going down, Coco’s still at home when Hope shows up. She’s upset he left without saying anything and Coco’s more interested in the drugs Hope brought than actually being reunited with his new girlfriend. Hope points this out and Coco claims he wants to see her but he’s hurting and needs relief.
A short while later they’re passed out after getting high when Leticia returns. Leticia immediately attempts to rouse Coco but pounding on his chest and screaming his name don’t elicit any response.
Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick in ‘Big Sky’ season 1 episode 12 (ABC/Darko Sikman)
Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick) fell into a pit of dead cows at the end of ABC’s Big Sky season one episode 11, and episode 12 begins with Jenny still in that pit confronting Blake’s brother, Rand Kleinsasser (Ryan Dorsey). She caught him cooking meth in a trailer on his family’s ranch, and it’s because of Rand that Jenny fell into this disgusting pit.
Jenny demands Rand put down the ax he’s casually carrying, firing a shot at his feet when he refuses. He finally puts it down as she attempts to crawl out. Unfortunately, the pit’s so slippery she falls back into it, dragging Rand with her. John Wayne (Kyle Schmid) picks that moment to show up and he sends his brother away, allowing Jenny to try and make her way to solid ground once again.
Jenny claims Rand attacked her but J.W. points out she’s trespassing again. She explains she’s just there to visit the caretaker’s cabin in order to check on Blake’s story. Surprisingly, J.W. offers to show it to her.
J.W. claims he didn’t see Rosie or Blake that night and has no idea where Rosie is now.
They arrive at the caretaker’s house and Jenny heads in alone. She looks around and pulls a gun when she hears a noise. J.W. followed her in, even though he claimed he was going to wait outside, and points out where they found Rosie. Jenny sees the mattress is covered in blood. She looks under the bed and finds a nearly full bottle of alcohol.
Just as she’s pulling it out, J.W. takes off in his truck leaving her to walk back to her car in the pitch-black night.
Meanwhile, Cassie (Kylie Bunbury) is able to call her office and leave the phone on while handcuffed in the backseat of Deputy Al Gregor’s (Paul Piaskowski) squad car. She describes where she is and how they got there as another car approaches. Gregor demands she shut up as the other car flashes its headlights.
Cassie continues to narrate what’s happening as Gregor opens the back door. She makes a run for it but is knocked out before she gets very far.
Jerrie (Jesse James Keitel) has U.S. Marshall Mark Lindor (Omar Metwally) listen to the recording Cassie left on their answering machine. Jerrie confirms Cassie’s not answering her phone and is sure she wanted them to hear what was happening.
As Cassie’s being dragged through the dirt, her phone falls off to the side and her abductors realize she was recording what was happening.
Jerrie takes the stage at a karaoke bar and is getting into her song when she begins scanning the crowd. She spots Ronald (Brian Geraghty) lurking in the audience and flees the stage. As she’s about to leave the bar, Jerrie tells her friend she saw Ronald.
Morning arrives and Jenny’s heading home from the Kleinsasser ranch when she spots Cassie’s truck burned to a crisp on the side of the road. She looks inside and then runs back to her own vehicle.
Blake (Michael Raymond-James) joins his sister, Cheyenne (Britt Robertson), in the barn and is happy to note she’s speaking to him. (He’s on the outs with the rest of his family.) She’s still angry he left but admits she doesn’t think he attacked Rosie. Cheyenne claims she’s not like the rest of their family and confesses she still loves him.
Blake suggests she should leave town before it’s too late. If she doesn’t take off soon, she’ll never escape.
Cheyenne fills her oldest brother in on Rand and J.W.’s plans for the ranch’s mineral rights. She also reveals their brothers were with Rosie the night Blake was accused of beating her. Cheyenne recalls the next day they “made a big show” about locating her.
Before she can say much more, J.W. arrives and interrupts their chat. Cheyenne breaks the tension by giving J.W. a hug as he informs them dad wants to see them now.
Mark shows up at the station to speak with Lochsa County Sheriff Wagy (Sebastian Roché), introducing himself to the clerk as a U.S. Marshall.
Cassie comes to in a cell and overhears Sheriff Wagy asking Deputy Gregor why he brought her back to the station. Wagy calls Gregor an amateur.
Mark gets his meeting with Sheriff Wagy who acts as if he’s calm, cool, and collected. Wagy claims Cassie was drunk and resisted arrest. Mark demands they let her go and Wagy wonders if Mark’s about to “fedsplain” the law to him. Mark, who doesn’t need to act to be calm, cool, and collected, tells Wagy he should answer the phone (which isn’t ringing). However, within seconds it does and it’s obvious Mark called in some heavy-duty backup.
The governor tells Sheriff Wagy to do what Mark says.
Over at the ranch, the Kleinsasser family sits down for an uncomfortable meal together. Horst demands coffee as he tells Blake he always has a place in the family. Cheyenne and J.W. get into a punching match, and Horst makes her apologize to her brother.
Margaret (Michelle Forbes) listens to this with her back turned to the table and adds a little spit to Horst’s coffee before serving it to her husband. (Margaret’s my favorite Kleinsasser.)
Margaret smiles as Horst compliments her coffee but criticizes her skill at cooking bacon. He orders Margaret to take a seat and then announces John Wayne will take over the ranch since Blake violated the ranch’s moral turpitude covenant.
Blake claims not to want the ranch as Horst informs them the lawyer’s drawing up his new will. J.W. promises not to let Horst down, but Horst doesn’t believe that.
Blake leaves the table without permission.
Michael Raymond-James and Ted Levine in ‘Big Sky’ season 1 episode 12 (ABC/Darko Sikman)
Later, he and his dad ride the fence line while discussing funeral plans. Blake swears he didn’t attack Rosie but Horst’s sure he’s lying. Horst claims to not know why Blake left in the first place, and Blake brings up Cole Danvers’ name, causing Horst to bristle. Horst reminds Blake he was supposed to forget about that and that he only did “it” to protect Rand.
Blake confesses he thinks about what his dad made him do every single day. Blake knows Rand’s not right in the head and believes Horst knows that too.
Mark drives Cassie home and makes small talk about Hall & Oates. Cassie manages to smile for the first time since being picked up by Deputy Gregor, and Mark explains he has news on Ronald when she’s ready to hear it. She indicates she’s ready and Mark reveals they caught Ronald sleeping on his mother’s grave. He adds that he left Ronald a note and that he’s put in for round-the-clock surveillance, but it will take a while to get that in place.
Mark promises they’ll get Ronald because he has urges he can’t control. He also reassures Cassie he’ll help her any way he can. She asks if he can try and help them find Rosie, and Mark says he’ll get his techs on it.
Mark drops her at the hotel and Jenny’s already there. She tells Cassie she’s there for her if she wants to talk about what happened. She doesn’t.
Jenny shows Cassie the nearly full bottle of whiskey she found under the bed in the caretaker’s cavern. Jenny’s going to get it tested since Blake felt like something was off that night and can normally hold his liquor.
Elsewhere, Ronald’s girlfriend, Scarlet, finds the note Mark wrote – the one in which he acted like he was Ronald’s dead mom – in Ronald’s jean’s pocket while doing laundry. Ronald’s playing dolls with her daughter when Scarlet joins them, kissing one of the dolls and reciting the contents of the note.
The smile immediately fades from Ronald’s face.
Later, the new couple gets into an argument over Willy Wonka and Ronald’s not sure why Scarlet’s angry at him. She pulls out the note along with the taser. If he lies, she’ll zap him. (Scarlet is nearly as crazy as Ronald, but hopefully not as homicidal.)
His first lie is about a musical. He earns a zap. His second lie is about a woman with red hair. Once again, he’s zapped. He then claims he found the note and thought it was sad. It might have meant something to somebody so he kept it. Ronald believes he was meant to find the note and that it could actually be about them.
“I think this note found me just like I found you,” says Ronald.
Scarlet confesses she’s falling in love.
Jenny meets with Blake and tells him Cassie was abducted. Plus, Rand chased her with an ax last night. Blake’s confused, unaware any of this took place. Jenny’s convinced nothing makes sense about the night Rosie was attacked, and Blake tells her she needs to walk away from this investigation before she gets hurt.
Jenny doesn’t want to quit but Blake claims this is his problem to fix.
Over at the Kleinsasser ranch, Cheyenne’s only able to convince her mom to engage in an important conversation if she supplies her with pills. She asks why her mom allows Horst to treat her so horribly and why she’s not saying anything about J.W. getting the ranch when Horst dies.
Margaret tells Cheyenne she needs to leave; there’s nothing for her there. (That echoes Blake’s sentiment.) Cheyenne refuses and reveals she’s seen the trucks in the back pasture. Margaret attempts to shut her down, reminding her she needs to know her place. Cheyenne’s done with everything and attempts to pour all her mom’s pills down the sink. That finally elicits a passionate reaction from Margaret and Cheyenne cheers her on.
Blake’s forced into a meeting with his dad, J.W., and Rand. When Horst threatens to harm Jenny, Blake warns him he’ll tell the town what’s really going on at the ranch.
After Blake leaves, Horst instructs J.W. to follow him to make sure he cools down. J.W. offers to take a ride to cool off but Blake turns him down and takes off in an off-road vehicle.
That night, Jenny and Cassie show up uninvited at Rosie’s secluded cabin in the woods. Rosie gets the drop on them outside and holds both at gunpoint. She demands to know what they’re doing there.
Their answer must have satisfied Rosie because the next scene is the threesome inside the cabin seated in front of the fire. Rosie understands the town doesn’t like Jenny and Cassie snooping around, and she’s aware everyone’s looking for her. She thinks Blake’s family is bad news and admits the night she was attacked doesn’t make any sense.
Rosie believes she was drugged and doesn’t remember that night. All she knows is she was injured and that she had been having fun with Blake before she passed out. They were drinking as they looked for an old saddle of her father’s, a saddle they never found.
Rosie’s known Blake for years and she doesn’t think hitting her is something he’d ever do. She confesses she’s been having flashes of Rand. She’s sure Rand was there that night.
It’s pitch black when we catch up with Blake as he digs a deep hole and screams when he can’t find what he’s looking for.
A little later he finds a belt buckle belonging to Cole Danvers and Cole’s body. J.W. joins him and Blake explains Cole was just a kid who showed up looking for work. J.W. recalls Cole stole a truck and left, but Blake says that’s not what happened. Blake explains their dad woke him up and showed him Cole’s dead body. Blake claims Rand killed Cole and even confessed to doing so after Blake found a bloody shirt in his room.
Blake says Rand got mad and threw a shovel at Cole, killing him. He believes Cole’s family deserves to know what happened, but J.W. thinks they should cover the body up again and not mention this. Blake doesn’t want to and tries to stop J.W. from throwing dirt back in the hole, knowing full well they need to come clean about what Rand did.
Little do the brothers know their sister is lurking in the shadows, listening to this conversation. She watches and nearly screams when she sees J.W. hit Blake with the shovel and Blake fall into Cole’s grave.
