Netflix just unveiled new details on Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a CG animated series executive produced by three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg. The streaming service confirmed the season one voice cast and released a teaser trailer along with photos as well as the series’ poster.
Joining Spielberg (director of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park) as executive producers are Colin Trevorrow (director of Jurassic World), Frank Marshall (Jurassic World producer), Scott Kreamer, Aaron Hammersley, and Lane Lueras. Kreamer and Hammersley are the first season showrunners.
Season one will consist of eight 22 minute episodes and is set to premiere on September 18, 2020.
The voice cast includes Paul-Mikél Williams as Darius, Jenna Ortega as Brooklynn, Ryan Potter as Kenji, Raini Rodriguez as Sammy, Sean Giambrone as Ben, Kausar Mohammed as Yaz, Jameela Jamil as Roxie, and Glen Powell as Dave.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Set against the timeline of the blockbuster film Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous follows a group of six teenagers trapped at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. When the events of the film unfold and dinosaurs are unleashed across the island, each kid realizes their very survival rests on the shoulders of themselves and their fellow campers.
Unable to reach the outside world, our six teens will go from strangers to friends to family as they band together to survive the dinosaurs and uncover hidden secrets so deep they threaten the world itself.
A scene from ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix)Poster for season one of the CG animated adventure series, ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix)
Ed and Lorraine Warren are seen outside Superior court in Danbury, Oct. 28, 1981 (Photo by Bob Child/AP/Shutterstock)
The Conjuring investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren as well as the Amityville Horror house are among the topics covered on Travel Channel’s upcoming series of specials, Shock Docs. The series debuts on Monday, September 7, 2020 at 9pm ET/PT with new installments arriving throughout the fall.
“Travel Channel fans have an insatiable appetite for the classic cases that even the paranormal investigators revere,” stated Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel. “In these ‘shockumentaries,’ we start at the beginning and explore why these places and cases remain the most famous – and the most haunted – in the country.”
Each two hour special will cover one of America’s most documented paranormal encounters. The first special focuses on Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Details on Episode 1, “Devil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren:”
“Over the course of their 50-year career, Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated thousands of hauntings. They documented some of the most famous cases ever recorded, including the Amityville Horror house, the real-life Rhode Island home behind The Conjuring films and the Bridgeport Poltergeist. Ed, a demonologist, and Lorraine, a clairvoyant, were an unassuming couple who devoted their lives to battling demonic forces inhabiting families or homes.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Warrens made numerous appearances on television talking about their cases and spreading the word about the paranormal and preternatural worlds that exist all around us. Their life’s mission: to prove the existence of good and evil; God and the devil. Along the way, they pioneered many techniques still used in the field today, including audio and visual recording devices, advanced electromagnetic devices and even produced their own television show.
This two-hour special features interviews with their daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Tony Spera, who share never-before-broadcast audio of Ed conducting interviews for the Bridgeport, Connecticut, poltergeist case, and rare video of the Warrens helping a young woman coming under demonic possession. Tony also has granted the production access to his catalog of footage from his television series, Seekers of the Supernatural. It includes many hours of Ed and Lorraine discussing their work with Tony.”
Season three of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on October 15, 2020. The third season will drop new episodes on Thursdays to subscribers of CBS’s video on-demand and digital streaming service.
The cast of the sci-fi drama is led by Sonequa Martin-Green as Commander Michael Burnham. Doug Jones plays Commander Saru, Anthony Rapp is Lt. Commander Paul Stamets, Mary Wiseman is Ensign Sylvia Tilly, Wilson Cruz is Dr. Hugh Culber, David Ajala is Cleveland “Book” Booker, and Michelle Yeoh plays Philippa Georgiou.
The series is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin, James Duff, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth.
Season one premiered in September 2017 followed by season two in January 2019. Season one consisted of 15 episodes, season two had 14, and season three will offer up 13 one-hour episodes.
The Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of CBS All Access:
After following Commander Burnham into the wormhole in the second season finale, season three of Star Trek: Discovery finds the U.S.S. Discovery crew landing into an unknown future far from the home they once knew. Now living in a time filled with uncertainty, the U.S.S. Discovery crew, along with the help of some new friends, must work together to restore hope to the Federation.
A Look Back at Season 2:
After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, season two of Star Trek: Discovery finds the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joining forces with Captain Christopher Pike on a new mission to investigate seven mysterious red signals and the appearance of an unknown being called the Red Angel. While the crew must work together to unravel their meaning and origin, Michael Burnham is forced to face her past with the return of her estranged brother, Spock.
Starting off right where the first episode ended, The CW’s Nancy Drew season one episode two opens with Nancy (Kennedy McMann) holding the bloody dress and questioning why a dead girl’s dress is in her attic. Her dad (Scott Wolf) comes home and talks to her about how sorry he is for keeping things from her. Nancy’s lost in thought, wondering if her dad could lie about his relationship with Karen, what else could he be lying about?
As if reading her mind, her dad asks if there’s anything she wants to ask him. Narrator Nancy says, “Yeah, are you the reason why she is known as Dead Lucy?” Instead, she tells him nope.
Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith) and George (Leah Lewis) are getting hot and heavy when he receives a call. He takes it and leaves the room, but George hears him say, “What do you mean they want to do an autopsy?” and “We need to get ahead of this thing now.”
Nancy shows up at the police station and sees they have a board listing suspects in the Tiffany Hudson case. The chief of police stops her from entering any further and wants to know what she’s doing there. She asks to see the cold case file for Lucy Sable. Chief McGinnis (Adam Beach) accuses her of interfering with his work yet again. He wants to know why she’s interested in Lucy Sable.
Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August) interrupts them to announce Ryan Hudson wants his wife’s body moved to the district morgue in New Hampshire. Ryan claims he wants a more reliable source. After Nancy says, “They are railroading your investigation,” the chief tells her suspects don’t get to hang around the police station and escorts her out.
Narrator Nancy is going over the suspects and why they couldn’t have done it, starting with Ace and then Bess. She questions whether Bess really lives with a rich aunt and if so why she is working at the local diner. She turns to George next. George claims to be some tough girl but she’s not so sure. But, then again, George is good at keeping secrets, like who’s the older man she was caught hooking up with during her senior year.
Nancy doesn’t think any of them have a motive except the one she’s sleeping with – Nick. Tiffany’s the one who put him away.
After putting things in her locker, she turns around to find Nick standing there. That scares her, but then he asks her out on a date to the beach that night. After first declining the invitation, she agrees to meet him.
George makes jokes about Tiffany not being the only dead thing around there, referring to the diner. (Too soon!) It appears no one wants to eat there since someone wound up dead in the parking lot. Bess (Maddison Jaizani) asks Nancy what the police said about the video of Tiffany. Nancy admits she didn’t show them because they would lock her phone up as evidence. She informs them Ryan’s having the body moved and believes that’s what someone would do if they were trying to cover up a murder. George gets defensive over that (gee, wonder why) and tells Nancy she’s looking in the wrong place.
Nancy thinks they should get their own autopsy and the rest of the gang wonders how that could possibly happen. Apparently, a scientist owes Nancy one because she solved a crime when she was 14. She explains all she needs is a sample of Tiffany’s blood.
Nancy stakes out the morgue and it appears she’s going to break into the building. She’s looking through the window when she catches a reflection behind her. Of course, when she turns around whoever it was is gone. When she goes to investigate a branch from a tree scares her and she has to have a pep talk with herself to get it together. Nancy reminds herself she doesn’t believe in ghosts.
Later, Ace (Alex Saxon) warns them they can’t go to the morgue after dark because it’s haunted by Lucy. The gang, of course, groans at that but Ace continues and says, “They say she wanders in after dark and searches for a long-lost body.” Nancy says they aren’t going to let ghost stories stop them. They’re going to go to the morgue at night. George wants to know why they have to help and Nancy points out that as a fellow suspect she should want to try to solve this.
Nancy goes over her plan and thinks she can get the coroner’s keycard. He’ll most likely be at the ceremony tonight and they can break in then. Bess points out that the van to transport Tiffany’s body is supposed to be there at 8:00pm and Nancy suggests they get it canceled. Ryan’s the one who arranged the pick-up and they could steal his phone to get the morgue’s number to call it off. Nancy asks George to get the phone.
Nancy heads to Nick’s shop and spots her mom’s car covered up. When she begins to lift the cover, Nick stops her by claiming it isn’t ready yet. He asks what she’s doing there and she confesses she needs something to break into a car because she’s trying to figure out how Tiffany died. Nick wonders how he can help and asks her to tell him more. She won’t, claiming she doesn’t want to get him in trouble.
George finds Ryan’s car parked with the window down. After reaching in and stealing his phone, Ryan appears and spots her. Fortunately, he didn’t see her take his phone. Right off she asks why he’s having Tiffany’s body moved. He acknowledges word travels fast around this town and says people like to go after families like his. He reveals Tiffany was heavily medicated. He doesn’t need that showing up on Page Six. He’s thinking of his family’s privacy and wants to protect that.
George believes his story and has a change of heart. She lies and says he dropped his phone and hands it back. Little do they know Nancy Drew, in full detective mode, is there and watches the whole exchange.
Ryan Hudson spots Carson Drew and tries to engage in a little small talk. Carson is visibly annoyed and asks, “If you came to see me about your image problem, you might start by not calling them ‘townies’,” referring to what Ryan just called the locals. He asks Carson to be his lawyer and Carson declines. Ryan is done with the nice approach and tells Carson he knows his parents have him on retainer. Carson gives him advice to stop treating the town as if it’s just someplace he summers in because if he ever does go on trial for his wife’s death, these people are going to be his jurors.
Carson also informs him he promised his wife that he would never work for another Hudson again.
George returns to the diner and lies to Nancy saying it was a no-go; she could not get his phone. George stops in her tracks when Nancy calls her out. Nancy admits she saw her take it out of his bag. George accuses Nancy of spying on her, and Nancy reveals she believes there are two scenarios. One, she’s covering for the killer. Or two, she is the killer.
George points out that Nancy is the one who handed Tiffany her food and Nancy counters with George is the one who handed her the food to bring to Tiffany. Nancy also points out, “But I’m not the one sleeping with her husband.” George brings up high school and how Nancy’s friends were mean and would constantly slut shame her. Not stopping there, she hits her with a low blow when Nancy reminds her that was her friends; she never did it. George asks where all her friends are now. “Oh, wait, they don’t want to be friends with a girl with a dead mother,” says George, answering her own question.
Ace and Bess interrupt and want to know why they’re fighting. Nancy changes the subject and Ace asks her about the cell phone. She covers for George and says Ryan took it with him when he was jogging. The new plan is to delay the van by cutting it off. They make plans to meet up later.
The town gathers for its annual tradition of going to the beach, getting a bucket of seawater, putting it on their doorsteps, and then kicking it over when the church bells strike midnight. (It’s a really bizarre tradition.) If there’s just seawater that spills out, you live. If it turns to blood, you’re marked to die within the year.
Nancy and Nick are at the beach to collect a bucket of water when he confesses he knows she’s planning something. He says he’ll sit this one out but warns her to be careful. Carson’s also there with Karen and spots Nancy with Nick. Karen catches Carson’s attention, stating, “Someone got lost on their way to the Yacht Club,” referring to Ryan. The police are there, including the chief, as well.
Nick wonders who would ever trust a manipulated psycho like Ryan and Nancy replies, “You’d be surprised.” George overhears this and walks off.
George tries to tell Ryan something but he blows her off because they’re in public.
Nancy spots the coroner and breaks into his car to get his keycard. After closing the car door, she suddenly sees a pool of blood mixed with water coming out from under the car. After bending over to inspect it, she catches a reflection in the door’s window that isn’t hers – it’s a ghost. Clearly, that startles her and she jumps back.
When Nancy looks back down the blood is gone.
On the way back to the beach she considers she might be losing her mind. Bess interrupts her train of thought and asks what’s wrong. Nancy opens up that she may have seen something. Bess encourages her to tell her what she saw. Nancy confesses she thinks she saw a vision of a drowned corpse. Bess worries it’s Dead Lucy and she doesn’t want them to go to the morgue.
Just then Ace walks up and Bess tells him Nancy received a warning from Dead Lucy that she does not want them doing this. Nancy jumps in and says, “That’s definitely not what I said so forget I said anything.”
Yet in her mind she admits either she is going crazy or she’s being haunted.
Nancy stands in front of the morgue at night in her trusted black beanie and sends Ace a text letting him know she’s going in. She avoids the cameras as she sneaks in.
Bess and Ace are waiting for the coroner’s van and when they spot it, they flag it down. The driver’s a woman who happens to know all about cars. Not so lucky for them…
Nancy’s trying to figure out which body is Tiffany’s when she finds her.
Back to Ace, Bess, and the lady driving the van, Lisbeth (Katie Findlay). Lisbeth says she’s almost done fixing their car and they panic. Bess does something to the car to make it smoke and asks if that’s normal.
Nancy goes to move a sheet off a body, but to her surprise when she rips it off there isn’t any body. She then turns around and sees a door moving.
Lisbeth asks Bess to assist her and it appears Lisbeth is flirting with Beth. Ace picks up on that.
Nancy heads into the room with the moving door and discovers it’s the tissue sample room. She spots a file box on Lucy Sable and finds a sample of blood taken from the rocks she fell on. The box also contains a broken crown where strands of Lucy’s hair were found. That’s all that’s left.
Suddenly the alarm goes off. Nancy tries to use the keycard but it won’t work. George suddenly appears on the other side of the door and insists she’s there to help her. After breaking a small rectangular window on the door, she tells Nancy to give her the blood. If Nancy gets arrested at least she won’t have the blood on her.
After George runs off, Nancy is caught.
Bess and Ace get back to the diner and wonder where Nancy is. Bess thinks something must have gone wrong. Ace brings up Lisbeth and how he saw Bess give Lisbeth her number. Bess tries to tell him she doesn’t really date anyone – not boys or girls. She explains she’s been on her own for so long she hasn’t really dropped an anchor anywhere. He offers to be her anchor and she asks if he means in a friend way. He says yes.
George bursts in and says, “Nancy got arrested! I got a bunch of dead people’s parts.” Ace seems intrigued while Bess focuses on Nancy being arrested. George warns them she’s putting what she has in the refrigerator and that nobody can touch it.
Karen questions Nancy, advising her this makes her look guilty. Nancy reminds her trespassing doesn’t make her a murderer. Karen warns she can’t help her if Nancy doesn’t trust her. Nancy says she can’t do this “with the one woman who completely broke my trust.”
Nancy sees something and asks Karen for a cup of coffee. When Karen gets up to get it, Nancy hops on her computer and starts going through messages Tiffany had on her phone – a phone that’s now logged as evidence. She finds the last text she sent to an unnamed contact and quickly writes down the number on her shirt before Karen returns.
Carson joins his daughter and tells Nancy what she’s being charged with. He confirms he’ll do everything in his power to get these charges dropped. He reminds her she’s not a kid and this detective stuff isn’t cute anymore. He reveals he also knows she broke into his filing cabinet at home.
Although he can’t say much, he says what he can tell her is, “I can imagine a scenario where they might be worried about Ned Nickerson’s connection to Tiffany Hudson. They might even speculate that he’d have a motive to kill her, but what I can also tell you is that a high-profile witness like Tiffany would have testified behind a screen to make sure the defendant never knew her identity.”
Carson tries to tell his daughter that as her attorney he has questions to ask her. She cuts him off saying she has questions first. She reveals she found a dress – a pink, bloodstained dress – in a trunk in the attic. He claims it was a prop he got to scare her mom. She brings up seeing him and her mom when she was little digging up that very trunk. He then claims the trunk belonged to a relative and after the relative died, they heard she buried valuables in it. He says it held China cups and steak knives.
Carson pays Nancy’s bail and she wonders where he got the money. He reveals he took on a new client – none other than Ryan Hudson himself. “So, you sold your soul to the devil, huh?” says Nancy.
Nancy shows up at the diner and attempts to thank George, but George ignores her. Nancy apologizes to her for what she did to George in high school, explaining that although she didn’t spread those rumors, she didn’t try to stop them. She’s sorry for being a part of what hurt her. George takes this opportunity to talk about Ryan. He told her he has nothing to hide but he does…and it’s her. She realizes he’d rather keep her hidden.
Bess and Ace come walking up with boxes and Bess explains she thought they might need their help. Ace randomly says, “As friends.” Bess tells him not to make it weird. Bess says the boxes are so she can mail her friend the body parts.
While Nancy is filling out the address, she’s thinking about how she’s starting to believe the town’s superstitions. She decides she’s going to figure out who killed Lucy as well.
Nancy goes to see Nick and he has a surprise for her. Her mom’s car is finished.
Narrator Nancy muses, “As midnight approaches and with it another year, who will live and who will die? Only the buckets will tell.”
Bess kicks over her bucket and then types out a text to Lisbeth suggesting they get together for dinner sometime. However, she changes her mind before sending it. Next up is Ace who kicks over his bucket. Nick stops his make-out session with Nancy to kick over his bucket. Meanwhile, Carson’s at the beach burning the dress with blood on it.
George kicks over her bucket and blood comes spilling out.
Nancy dials the number Tiffany texted (remember, she wrote it on her shirt while in custody) as she waits for Nick to knock over his bucket. Unfortunately, he comes back and she hangs up. However, before the show ends the cameras pan to a cell phone in Nick’s shop that now shows one missed call.
A scene from ‘The Witcher’ season 1 (Courtesy of Netflix)
Netflix is delving into The Witcher‘s backstory with The Witcher: Blood Origin limited series. The limited series will a six-part live-action prequel to The Witcher.
“As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story The Witcher: Blood Origin,” said executive producer and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. “A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books – What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans? I’ve always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization’s true story behind.
The Witcher: Blood Origin will tell the tale of the Elven civilization before its fall, and most importantly reveal the forgotten history of the very first Witcher.”
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, Jason Brown, Sean Daniel, Tomek Baginski, and Jarek Sawko will executive produce. Author Andrzej Sapkowski is on board as a creative consultant.
“I am so thrilled to collaborate with Declan and the Netflix team on The Witcher: Blood Origin. It’s an exciting challenge to explore and expand The Witcher universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski, and we can’t wait to introduce fans to new characters and an original story that will enrich our magical, mythical world even more,” said executive producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich.
“It is exciting that the world of Witcher – as planned in the very beginning – is expanding. I hope it will bring more fans to the world of my books,” stated Andrzej Sapkowski.
Netflix’s The Witcher cast is led by Henry Cavill (Mission Impossible – Fallout, Man of Steel) as Geralt of Rivia. Anya Chalotra (The ABC Murders, Wanderlust) is sorceress Yennefer, Freya Allan (Third Day, Gunpowder Milkshake) is Ciri, and Joey Batey (Knightfall, Strike) plays Jaskier. No official casting announcements have been made for the prequel.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
The final season of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. continues with season seven episode 10, “Stolen.” Directed by Garry A. Brown from a script by George Kitson and Mark Leitner, episode 10 airs on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 10pm ET/PT.
The season seven cast includes Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Iain De Caestecker plays Agent Leopold Fitz, Henry Simmons is Director Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie, Natalia Cordova-Buckley is Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, and Jeff Ward plays Deke Shaw.
Episode 10 guest stars include Enver Gjokaj, Dichen Lachman, Thomas E. Sullivan, James Paxton, Dianne Doan, Tipper Newton, and Byron Mann.
“Stolen” Plot: After Enoch’s sacrifice propelled them out of the time storm, the team arrives back in 1983 where Nathanial and Kora are hard at work building an army of hand-selected anarchist Inhumans at Afterlife. When the agents split up to cover more ground, Daisy is tasked with protecting Jiaying and is compelled to confront her mother for the first time since her death while the others quickly learn they’ll need to face yet another supercharged former enemy in order to stop Malick.
Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are thrust backward in time and stranded in 1931 New York City. With the all-new Zephyr set to time-jump at any moment, the team must hurry to find out exactly what happened. If they fail, it would mean disaster for the past, present and future of the world.
Clark Gregg and Henry Simmons in ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ season 7 episode 10 (ABC/Jessica Brooks)Elizabeth Henstridge in season 7 episode 10 (ABC/Jessica Brooks)Natalia Cordova-Buckley in season 7 episode 10 (ABC/Jessica Brooks)Fin Argus, Clark Gregg and Henry Simmons in season 7 episode 10 (ABC/Jessica Brooks)Thomas E. Sullivan in season 7 episode 10 (ABC/Jessica Brooks)
Luke Grimes in ‘Yellowstone’ season 3 episode 6 (Photo Credit: Paramount Network)
A normal morning routine of making breakfast for her kids suddenly takes a dramatic turn for a mother who realizes her daughter never came home the previous night as Paramount Network’s Yellowstone season three episode six begins. The girl’s bed is made and the mother begins calling around to see if her daughter might have spent the night with friends.
Hours tick by and no one has heard from the missing girl. As night begins to fall, her concerned brother spends time calling out into the surrounding wilderness with no luck. The mom finally calls 9-11 after trying her best to locate her missing daughter.
Later, officers locate an empty car abandoned on the road. They search the nearby area without any luck.
Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo (Mo Brings Plenty) arrive at the house which is now full of concerned friends and family members. Tribal police officer Ben Waters (Atticus Todd) informs Thomas the car found abandoned 10 miles away was the missing girl’s. It had apparently run out of gas.
They believe she must have hitched a ride or attempted to walk home. They’re not sure which option is most likely. Officer Waters admits they don’t have the manpower for the search, and Thomas assures him he’ll make some calls.
Unfortunately, they both realize they’re most likely looking for a dead body at this point.
Meanwhile, John (Kevin Costner) joins Rip (Cole Hauser) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) at the spot Rip ran into the men with the buffaloes. John, wearing his Livestock Agent vest (as are Kayce and Ryan), describes the man in charge as a horse trader who’s half a criminal. John gives an order to move the cattle to another field and Rip instructs the wranglers to ignore anything the strangers say.
“Cool heads, understood? This bastard will try and test you,” warns John.
John, Ryan (Ian Bohen), Kayce, and an officer ride up to the fence where John immediately breaks his own “cool heads” rule. John asks about the buffalo and Wade Morrow says he’s babysitting them for the resort which is charging people $600 to come out to the field and have pictures taken with the animals. Kayce asks if the buffalo have been tested for a specific disease and the men verify they have.
Kayce’s the next to stomp on the idea of cool heads prevailing. In a tense exchange, he assures the men that if they don’t keep the buffalo on their side of the fence, he’ll do it – and they definitely won’t like his solution to the problem.
Back at the ranch, Beth (Kelly Reilly) is working on her laptop while eating breakfast as Jamie (Wes Bentley) walks in wearing a suit. Of course, Beth immediately puts him down, reminding him he’d never work for the family on Saturdays yet he’ll do it for himself.
Jamie wants to cut to the chase and address the real problem between them. Beth doesn’t want to right now but does describe her brother as never acknowledging the carnage his “help” brings with it. She calls him a broken man but says it’s not his fault.
“There’s just no right or wrong with you. Just his approval – that’s all that matters to you,” says Beth, acknowledging their father made him into something he never should have been. She knows just how much Jamie fears their dad’s disapproval and believes that’s what makes him truly evil.
Jamie has been standing there silently but finally speaks up for himself. He believes he’s always acted to protect this family from itself.
Beth warns her big brother, “The more you become what he wanted you to become, the more he’ll hate you for it. And he does hate you for it. We all do.”
And finally they get to the heart of the matter. Jamie thinks he should have said no to helping her all those years ago and only did what she asked him to do. Beth, tears in her eyes but in control, reminds him she never asked for a hysterectomy. Beth again tells her brother he’s evil since he can’t take responsibility for his own actions and blames her for the pain she continues to feel.
Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) and Jimmy (Jefferson White) relax and watch Mia (Eden Brolin) and Laramie (Hassie Harrison) practice their barrel racing skills. Laramie calls Lloyd “Babe” and “Sugar” and he can’t believe after just two dances he’s a “buckle bunny.” He doesn’t need a barrel racer in his life, especially one who’s not even 25 years old.
Lloyd warns Jimmy that Mia will want more than a boyfriend who lives in a bunkhouse. Jimmy agrees and confesses he thought rodeoing would be his way out. Lloyd reveals John also told him years ago to give up rodeoing after an accident and after John paid his hospital bills. He knows only Jimmy can decide to give up rodeoing for himself – not because John has ordered him to do so.
Kayce returns Thomas’ phone call after making it back to his office. Thomas explains they have a missing person and Kayce offers to help by sending three agents. He also offers to make calls to round up more volunteers to assist with the search.
Meanwhile in town, Roarke (Josh Holloway) introduces Jamie to Marketing Equities CEO Willa Hays (Karen Pittman) who’s just flown in to sort out all the problems Roarke’s encountered. The meeting begins contentiously with Roarke revealing Beth has been shorting Market Equities stock. Willa believes Jamie’s going to be heavily involved in a conflict of interest moving forward when the state buys his family’s property. Jamie disagrees, reminding her the state hasn’t approved any such purchase.
Any purchase by the state needs to be approved by the assembly and then by voters if it moves forward and is placed on the fall ballot. Willa believes the development will bring in thousands of jobs, and Jamie fights back stating those will all be low-paying positions. Plus, those workers will be priced out of actually buying a home.
Willa thinks the community is already priced out of housing. She wants this deal done and makes Jamie an offer: $10,000 for 50,000 acres. That’s a whopping $500 million. Jamie doesn’t immediately respond and Willa suggests he let it sink in. She wants to discuss it further during their meeting with Governor Petty.
Kayce and his officers arrive to help Thomas’ men out with the search. Monica (Kelsey Asbille) has managed to wrangle a bunch of volunteers to also help out.
The volunteers are given instructions to stay 10’ apart as they search. They need to be looking for not just the missing girl but also anything that could be connected to her such as clothing, a cell phone, or even footprints.
Hours pass as they carefully and methodically search the area. Mo whistles for the search to briefly pause as a coyote clears the area. Thomas walks toward where the coyote disappeared and then warns everyone to stay away. He’s spotted a dead body at the bottom of a ravine.
Thomas turns the site over to Officer Waters and his men to investigate.
After work hours the wranglers sit around the bunkhouse and watch this weird video called “Guy on a Buffalo” which is, literally, about a guy riding a buffalo. Everyone loves it but Jimmy who thinks it’s ridiculous. (I’m with Jimmy on this.) Lloyd explains buffalo can’t buck but can roll over on you and Teeter (Jennifer Landon) suggests they try riding the buffalo in the adjoining field.
When Ryan and Colby (Denim Richards) reveal the mean old dude watching those buffalo is named Wade Morrow, Lloyd is suddenly all in on riding one. Ryan won’t, Jimmy physically can’t, and Colby claims he’s not supposed to drink and ride one. “It’s a whole thing,” jokes Colby.
Mia, Laramie, and Teeter are totally into it. The wranglers head out in the darkness and Lloyd reveals in order to rope a buffalo, you have to catch them around their horns. (Who thinks this is not going to end well?)
The buffalo flee the wranglers but they still manage to get ropes around a few. Laramie hops on one and goes for a ride. She falls off fairly quickly but loves it, calling the experience “f*cking awesome.”
It appears they lucked out and pulled off this little stunt without any injuries.
Back at the main house, Monica and Kayce talk about the dead girl. Kayce believes there are monsters everywhere and you have to kill them when you find them. Monica feels guilty and wants to try to stop the world from being so dangerous.
Kelly Reilly and Kevin Costner in ‘Yellowstone’ season 3 episode 6 (Photo Credit: Paramount Network)
The following morning Beth joins John outside while he drinks coffee. She wonders how he found this new inner peace and he doesn’t respond. She describes the current challenge the ranch is facing as a shift in values. “The world doesn’t value your way of life anymore, dad,” says Beth. John confirms he’s aware of that. She also warns him he can’t delegate the fight to Jamie and Kayce doesn’t have the skills.
Beth confesses she can’t do it alone. John believes she needs to teach Kayce and learn to trust Jamie. Beth is instantly angry and storms off while advising her dad he doesn’t know Jamie. John asks the right question: what is it she knows they don’t? John honestly and earnestly wants to know what Jamie did.
Beth finally turns toward her dad and appears ready to reveal exactly why she hates her brother.
Monica returns to the field and continues a search for clues. Thomas and Mo are driving by and Thomas spots her and stops to talk. She explains she’s trying to help and Thomas advises her she won’t find anything out there. Monica doesn’t think it’s fair and Thomas agrees. He believes they weren’t supposed to be there and reservations were supposed to be temporary. But they didn’t learn to be “white” and so here they are. He knows the government wants them to die because it wants the land. He wants the land back to build lives the government can’t take away.
Monica wants to help with that and Thomas explains he’s forming a council to take their story public and help combat violence against women on reservations. Thomas asks if Monica’s interested in leading that fight and she says yes.
John returns to the house and Jamie’s at the table with his laptop. Jamie attempts to discuss the Market Equities proposal but John cuts him off. John’s barely able to control his rage as he asks Jamie, “Who the f*ck do you think you were to take that from her?”
Jamie stumbles on his words as he tries to explain she asked for his help and he was just a kid, too.
Kayce hears the argument and interrupts, asking what’s going on. John strides out of the room while telling Kayce to ask his brother. Jamie kicks a chair and then punches the glass in the front door. He completely loses control and while Jamie cries, Kayce wraps him up in a bear hug to keep him from following John.
“All I do is give! I hate him! I f**king hate him. I f**king hate you!” he screams as Kayce holds onto him.
Beth listens in secret as Jamie sobs uncontrollably in Kayce’s arms.
John leaves the house and angrily stalks toward the fence. He holds onto it as he says to himself, “It’s all for nothing. Everything I’ve done is all for nothing.”
Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness’ episode 2 (Photo by Kata Vermes / TNT)
TNT’s The Alienist season two episode two starts off in what appears to be a meat locker. We see a man hacking away at what we think is a pig since there are so many hanging nearby on hooks. Another man comes in and hands him a saw for the bones. The second man says, “Those boys won’t be telling any secrets where they’re are going.”
It becomes obvious the first man was actually cutting up a corpse when he stands up, holding a severed finger. He removes a ring while his friend snorts drugs. Body parts are then tossed to a very hungry dog.
John Moore (Luke Evans) meets with his boss Bernie Peterson (Demetri Goritsas), and Bernie believes another missing baby doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t care what Crazy Kreizler thinks. (It seems that is the nickname people have given Laszlo Kreizler.)
Bernie asks if he really thinks Dr. Markoe is kidnapping babies and killing them. John admits he doesn’t, but he wants to accompany Sara and see if the two are connected. The boss doesn’t see how they could be, given one baby came from a poor woman and the other from a rich diplomat. John points out that not only could they vindicate Martha Napp, but quite possibly have the scoop of the century.
John heads over to Sara’s office and goes over his conversation with his boss. He admits his boss is sure the two cases aren’t connected. Nevertheless, Bernie gave him permission to investigate.
Sara (Dakota Fanning) informs John that Laszlo will be accompanying her to the Spanish consulate to interview their servants. Laszlo (Daniel Bruhl) walks in as John’s asking if she thinks the servants are lying. Laszlo claims it’s easy to tell when one is lying by their face. John doesn’t buy it and Laszlo decides to demonstrate on John, asking him how he feels about small dogs. (John’s fiancée has a small dog.) John proves Laszlo’s point by getting upset and telling him to stop it.
Sara changes the subject and wants to know what Laszlo’s holding in his hand. It’s a flyer for a public lecture by D. Markoe. Laszlo plans to attend and ask him publicly about what’s happened. John offers to also attend and ask questions as a New York Times reporter.
The Isaacson brothers test different poisons on rabbits. There’s a line of dead rabbits on the table as a result of the injections.
While Sara and Laszlo are on their way to the Linares house, Laszlo wonders if he can get Señora Linares to agree to be hypnotized. Sara’s completely against this idea and doesn’t want him to even ask her about that.
Sara and Laszlo begin to interview the servants one by one, asking basic questions including how long they’ve worked for the Linares family and if there are poisons kept in the house. Laszlo jumps in and asks if they think Señora Linares is a good mother. Sara glares at him. He then asks the nanny if she ever brought the child to the department store. The nanny’s unable to answer because she’s crying. He then asks if Señor and Señora Linares seem happy together. Sara quickly whispers Laszlo’s name in warning.
Narciso Linares (Diego Martin) asks if they spoke with everyone and Sara says she believes so. Laszlo asks if he can speak to his wife and Narciso informs him his wife is resting. Laszlo’s insistent that he speak with her and Narciso says more firmly, “Not today.”
As they’re leaving Laszlo admits he thought the interviews would yield more information. Sara says their only two avenues right now are the doll from the department store and the body of the Napp baby.
Dr. Markoe (Michael McElhatton) is delivering his lecture when Laszlo comes in late, drawing attention to himself. The lecture ends and Laszlo begins to loudly ask questions. John’s there and jumps in, stating the body of Martha Napp’s baby was found in a department store. Dr. Markoe questions if it’s really Martha’s baby at all. Laszlo confirms he examined it himself. Dr. Markoe makes jokes and Laszlo questions if this is funny to him that he had a mother executed for being a murderer when she, in fact, was not one.
Dr. Markoe calls it an outlandish claim.
The room clears out and Dr. Markoe’s cleaning up when Thomas Byrnes (Ted Levine) arrives. Dr. Markoe informs him Laszlo Kreizler showed up there tonight and accosted him. And Kriezler was with a man from the New York Times. Thomas informs him the reporter is John Moore and that Sara Howard is also a part of their team. Thomas calls Laszlo a nuisance and Dr. Markoe admits Laszlo could ruin all of them. Thomas assures him they’ll take care of not only Kreizler but his friends as well.
Douglas Smith and Matthew Shear in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness episode 2 (Photograph by Kata Vermes / TNT)
Marcus (Douglas Smith) and Lucius (Matthew Shear) Isaacson go to see Sara and find Laszlo and John are there as well. Sara asks if there are any results from the autopsy. Marcus reveals they’re still analyzing the poison, but it appears one component is nightshade. It’s a calming agent but lethal in too big of a dose. Only someone with medical expertise would know the correct dose to administer.
The Isaacsons were shocked to find the black substance they thought was just blood in the infant’s mouth was actually powdered carbon. Laszlo seems confused by this because powdered carbon is used as an antidote for poison. That’s true, but the amount of poison swallowed was only enough to render the baby unconscious. Which begs the question, how did the baby die? John asks this and the Isaacsons believe the baby died from asphyxiation.
John sums up the current theory: someone poisoned the baby, changed their mind, and then provided the baby with powdered carbon. Sara adds, “He then decides to smother the child.”
As the brothers leave Sara’s building, Thomas is across the street watching through a window.
John and Sara head over to the Siegel Cooper Department Store to speak with the manager, Sterling Hessler (Oliver Maltman). After exchanging pleasantries, Sara gets to the point. She lets Sterling, who she seems to know well, in on the fact there’s another missing child. They think the doll can help.
Marcus heads out to pick up supplies and Thomas suddenly shows up, catching Lucius off guard. He informs Thomas that Marcus isn’t there, but Thomas explains he wants to see him and not Marcus. Lucius seems taken aback by that. Thomas assures him it’s a sensitive matter involving the brothers, Laszlo, Sara, and John. Thomas tells Lucius he knows he’s loyal and does not fault him for that. He won’t go after him and instead he’ll go after his brother. Lucius asks him what he wants. Thomas simply says, “Information. That’s all.”
Back at the department store, Sterling says the doll found at the Linares place is called Ruby Red. The store keeps a record of everyone who bought items there. As he goes through the book, he finds it odd that someone that goes by E.H. bought the doll. They did not leave an address.
As he continues to go through the book, it appears this E.H. purchased the doll at least four times! Upon looking further he spots a fifth purchase of the doll. On that occasion, E.H. did leave an address.
Sara and John make a plan to visit that address, which is in a bad neighborhood, that evening.
William Randolph Hearst (Matt Letscher) and Violet chat about whether John Moore will be joining them for dinner that evening. Hearst believes John and Violet will make a good match, and notes John has an excellent pedigree. He hands her a check which he describes as being large enough to cover the running of a small nation.
As Violet leaves, Thomas arrives to inform Hearst another child is missing. This time it’s the daughter of the Spanish Consulate General. They’re keeping it hush-hush and Hearst compliments him for doing a nice job of digging up the news.
It appears wealthy men take their mistresses to Dr. Markoe to “take care” of unwanted pregnancies to avoid scandals. The latest man to go to him wants to know what will happen to the child. Dr. Markoe tells him that will be of no concern. He assures him there won’t be any scandal.
John attends a dinner with a group of people that includes Violet and William Hearst. William seems to be watching Violet and John closely during dinner when John suddenly gets up to leave. William questions whether his duty lies with his fiancée. John admits it does, but he really must leave for work. William insists when Violet and John get married, he must come work for The Journal where the hours are more social. John politely says goodnight and with that he leaves.
Sara and John show up at the address listed in the department store’s register. They find the building has long since been abandoned. From the sign hanging outside, it appears it once housed transient people. John suggests they can still find out who once occupied it from the landlord.
Some younger men appear and begin to walk toward Sara and John. The two quickly walk down the street and observe they’re being followed. They duck into an alleyway and lose the men stalking them.
Sara and John enter a saloon, still in the slums, to speak with whoever is in charge. Sara asks if the man, Cyrus (Robert Wisdom), if he ever heard of any of their patrons kidnapping children for ransom. Cyrus admits he wouldn’t put it past them.
John wants to know who’s in charge of the criminal group currently populating the bar. Cyrus says Goo Goo isn’t there but he’ll introduce them to some of the men who are. Cyrus says they’re all bad but compared to Goo Goo Knox they are altar boys. John asks about the old boarding house on Hudson Street. He said Goo Goo used to own the place and it burned down last year. John asks him if he can introduce them to someone from Goo Goo’s gang and Cyrus doesn’t think that’s a good idea.
Cyrus realizes Sara and John won’t take no for an answer and brings Ding Dong (Peter Coonan) over to speak with them. Ding Dong asks what Sara and John want with Goo Goo, assuming they’re cops. John introduces himself and informs him he works for the New York Times and would like to speak with Goo Goo about 247 Hudson Street. That elicits a shocked look from Ding Dong who was cocky just a few seconds ago. Sara chimes in saying it’s about a missing baby. Ding Dong says, “I ain’t seen him in months” and ends the conversation.
Laszlo goes to see Señora Linares by himself. He explains he was hoping to see her husband and she says her husband is busy. War is a possibility between their two countries and even with their unimaginable situation, her husband still must attend to his duties.
Señora Linares would like to know why he’s there and Laszlo explains he believes he can help access her deepest memories through hypnosis. Señora Linares is visibly upset by this suggestion, just as Sara had assumed she’d be. He says he understands her reservation but thinks it will help find her child. She declines and dismisses him, saying someone will escort him to the door.
A body is pulled from the water at the docks. Most of it is missing and it appears what’s recovered is just a torso. The Isaacson brothers are there to examine the body and determine if someone used a scalpel to remove identifying marks, such as tattoos.
Thomas Byrnes is also on the scene and speaks with Captain Doyle (Martin McCreadie) who thinks it’s hoodlums that did this. Thomas plants the idea that it was the Spanish who did this to a Cuban. He thinks it would be most helpful for the headlines if the Spanish were blamed. He also tells Doyle there have been nefarious goings-on over at the Spanish consulate. He reveals one of their children has vanished and not one word about it was spoken to the authorities.
John is typing away on his typewriter when a woman comes running in to inform him that word is two men Goo Goo Knox was feuding with wound up dead in the Hudson River by the pier. He asks the woman to put in a call to Sara and to have her meet him down there.
John overhears Thomas say the police are saying the dead men are Cubans. John spots someone he once knew and that man tells him word has it that Goo Goo Knox had an altercation with two fellas. John hands the man some money and tells him he needs to talk to Goo Goo about something important.
The man assures John he’ll take care of it.
Shortly thereafter, John’s walking down an alleyway when he finds himself surrounded by men. Goo Goo Knox (Frederick Schmidt) appears and puts a knife to John’s throat, revealing he’s aware John’s been asking a lot of questions about him. Sara suddenly appears and points a gun at Goo Goo Knox. He lets go of John as Sara asks him what he knows about 247 Hudson Street. Goo Goo claims he knows nothing about it. John informs him they heard he was the owner and he suddenly remembers the place.
Sara asks if he knows anything about a missing child. He claims not to know what they’re talking about. She asks who lived at 247 Hudson Street and he says it was mainly pimps and whores. Maybe one of them has the baby because he definitely doesn’t.
The baby is shown sleeping and then suddenly wakes up, crying. We see different vials including one with nightshade.
Sara shows up at work and is informed she received a call from Señora Linares and she isn’t happy. Cut to Sara showing up at the restaurant Laszlo frequents and now she’s the one who’s unhappy. Without greeting Laszlo, she says, “I explicitly told you not to contact the Linareses and yet you did.”
Laszlo acknowledges Sara’s angry and she claims what he did was a violation of not only her trust but of their friendship as well. He invites her to join him at his table for a meal, even though she’s obviously mad at him. She asks for a glass of Bourbon but refuses any of the food he ordered for her.
Sara takes a seat and calms down a little. She questions whether he really thinks Señora Linares would benefit from hypnosis. He explains why he thinks she will. Laszlo then changes the subject and reveals he saw something rather curious during his visit to the Spanish consulate. He reveals they did not interview the staff member who let him in and she seemed to be a close confidante of Señora Linares’. Sara is shocked by the news and says they must speak to her immediately.
When they show up the police are there arresting Señora Linares. Laszlo and Sara demand to know what’s going on and Captain Doyle tells them Señora Linares is being questioned about the disappearance of her baby. Sara, thinking quickly, tells Captain Doyle she applauds his bravery. That confuses Doyle. Sara insists because the Linareses have diplomatic immunity, if they arrest Señora Linares it will be a diplomatic incident of the highest degree. It could even hasten a war with Spain.
After first protesting it wasn’t his call, Captain Doyle lets her go rather than cause a diplomatic incident.
Inside the consulate after Señora Linares is released, the woman they didn’t get to interview is standing next to Señora Linares. Sara informs her they need to talk to the woman whose name is Eva. For some reason, Señora Linares doesn’t want them to speak with her, and they insist they must.
After Eva leaves, Señora Linares tearfully recalls an incident that happened with the baby. While she was drawing a bath, the baby fell. She asked Eva not to tell her husband. She took the baby to the hospital and the doctor there insisted the baby stay for a few days and so she had Eva stay with the baby. Sara asks what hospital they visited.
Back at her office, Sara meets with Laszlo, John, and the Isaacson brothers to go over what they’ve learned so far. They don’t think Goo Goo is stealing babies unless he’s doing it for money. Lucius says the child had three different poisons in it and two of them are easy to get while the other isn’t. The other is a sedative most commonly used in a maternity ward.
The episode ends with Dr. Markoe helping a woman give birth. The woman passes out after her final push. The doctor says there’s one final thing that needs to be done as he grabs a scalpel. The baby is very much alive and crying when the matron asks what she should tell the woman when she awakens. He replies, “Tell her the child did not survive.”
Global superstars BTS are coming out with a new single on August 21, 2020. The group took to Vlive to announce the release of their upcoming single, stating, “We think this single can give energy to ARMYs. We felt helpless due to the COVID-19 pandemic and we believe ARMYs also feel the same.”
Jimin said since the group has so many international fans and because of this situation, he thinks it’s good to add an English song. (That’s a rough translation of his explanation; official translations will be released soon.) The 7-member group also said their next album will be released in the last half of 2020. However, no confirmed date was announced.
BTS, who sing predominantly in Korean, have dabbled in English songs before on features for other artists but never for their own songs. The closest they came was on their 2017 hit “Mic Drop ft. Steve Aoki.”
BTS also revealed to their fans what they’ve been doing during the Covid-19 pandemic. They’ve been filling their downtime by spending private time with their families and working on their new album. Member V says he has been working on his mixtape and Suga and Jin have been practicing musical instruments – Suga the guitar and piano (Suga has played the piano since childhood) and Jin on the piano.
2020 has been a rough year for the music industry due to many artists relying heavily on tour ticket bundles to help boost album sales. Their tour was postponed due to COVID-19, but BTS has still managed to snag a number one album in the US on the Billboard 200 chart for Map of the Soul: 7 and most recently a number one album in Japan for the Japanese release, Map of the Soul: The Journey. Their impressive album sales also earned them the current top spot in the United States (pure sales) for selling 528,000 units to date.
BTS also smashed the record this year in Japan, selling 500,000 copies in just two days. More impressively, they have the bestselling album in the world. Map of the Soul: 7 sold 4.02 million copies immediately upon release with pre-orders and first-week sales.
So, what can fans look forward to next from the group besides the new single coming in August? They’ll be headlining the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 18 & 19. As we previously reported, the two-night event will be streamed online this year. This is the first time the music festival’s gone virtual, a decision necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival wanted to make sure fans would be entertained with great music while still doing their part to keep both artists and fans safe during this difficult time.
Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, and Luke Evans in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness’ (Photo Courtesy of TNT)
Season two of TNT’s critically-acclaimed psychological thriller The Alienist kicked off with back-to-back episodes on July 19, 2020. The Alienist: Angel of Darkness features the same three main characters from season one: The Alienist himself, Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Bruhl); John Moore (Luke Evans), now a New York Times reporter; and Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) who’s opened her own detective agency after working for Roosevelt and becoming the first woman employed by the NYPD. Season one focused on finding a serial killer who targeted younger male prostitutes in 1896. Season two centers on the hunt for a kidnapped infant, a search that leads the trio down a dangerous path as they search for another killer.
Season two begins in New York in 1897. A woman awakens in what appears to be a hospital to find her baby is missing. She begins to check other cribs, desperately searching for her baby. When a nurse comes in to check to see what’s going on, the woman is frantically screaming, “Where is my baby!”
As nurses grab ahold of her, she spots Dr. Markoe (Michael McElhatton) and asks him where her baby is. She warns him she knows what’s going on and threatens to call the police. The nurses immediately sedate her.
Laszlo’s at the prison visiting the woman whose baby went missing. She’s been charged with murdering her own child, although there isn’t any proof or a body. She wonders what people are calling her and Laszlo assures her it’s the world that’s monstrous, not her.
Sara Howard races through the streets in a horse and carriage, hustling to her office where a client demands to know how her case is going. However, Sara’s not interested in her missing silverware when there’s a woman about to be put to death.
Sara and her team gather banners they’ve made in support of the woman who’s being put to death.
John Moore gets on the phone with Teddy Roosevelt to ask for his help in any way since a woman’s life is at stake. He hangs up and returns to his fiancée at a restaurant. John explains he has to leave and she brings up wanting him to work for her godfather at The Journal so he would have better hours. Right now, he’s a journalist working for the New York Times.
Sara shows up at the restaurant to meet John and they head off to Sing Sing prison. They arrive to find protesters demanding the release of Martha Napp. Former Chief Thomas Byrnes (Ted Levine) is there giving his statement on the new electric chair, dubbing it a more humane way to put someone to death.
While the former chief was let into the prison with ease, when Sara tries to enter with her badge from the NYPD the guard notices it’s out of date and attempts to prevent her from going in. John points out they just let a former chief in without any issues but he’s denying Sara entry. Sara stands firm and claims she’s under orders from Teddy Roosevelt. They believe her and let her in.
Martha (Hebe Beardsall) admits she doesn’t mind dying but she does mind dying and not knowing what happened to her baby girl. She makes Laszlo promise he’ll find her missing infant. He promises her that.
As she’s being led to her death, women protesters are being beaten outside. Martha hands Dr. Kreizler her baby’s blanket in hopes that will somehow help him find her.
Martha’s placed in the electric chair and asked if she has any last words. Sara yells out, “Stop!” and calls this an outrage and an abomination. Thomas isn’t surprised one bit by her outburst. Laszlo tries to stop Sara, saying they’ve lost the battle. However, Sara isn’t finished. “I ask you all as you sit here silently spectating, where is the body of the murdered child? Where? Shame on you! Shame on you all!”
After her speech we see the woman being put to death by electrocution.
Laszlo and John ride back to the Kreizler Institute and Laszlo tells John his man will take him back to his work. John gets out and tries to talk to him, but Laszlo doesn’t want his pity. John wonders what kind of friend he would be if he left him alone like this. Laszlo admits Martha put her faith in him, and John vows he’ll write about her and let all of New York know the injustice that was done to her. Laszlo believes whoever stole her baby killed her. They might as well have pulled the lever themselves.
Sara is in her office late at night when she sees a silhouette pass by. Grabbing a gun she goes to inspect who it is and discovers it’s Laszlo. Lowering her gun, she admits she could have killed him. Ignoring her comment, he confesses he can’t seem to get the smell of burning flesh out of his nostrils. It’s no longer a physical sensation but in his memory of what happened today.
She offers him a drink and he asks how her new adventures as a detective are going. She says it seems her clients are rich old women who think their servants are stealing from them. He begins to psychoanalyze her just based on what she has surrounded herself with in her office. She reminds him it’s late and doesn’t need him to do that right now. They move on and agree what happened today was monstrous. He reveals he promised Martha he would find her missing child. Sara confirms her agency is at his full disposal. He wants to go over all his notes he took while speaking to Martha first.
Thomas Byrnes shows up at the New York Journal to see William Randolph Hearst (Matt Letscher). Byrnes brought with him a rather unusual “present” – Martha’s hair. William looks disgusted and wonders why he brought her hair. Byrnes figures the newspaper can give it away. William passes on that.
Thomas leaves when William calls in his assistant. He wants one of the writers to write something about Spanish spies coming to their shores and bringing their war with them.
Spanish Ambassador-General Narciso Linares (Diego Martin) says goodbye to his wife (Bruna Cusí) and infant daughter. He has to attend to his duties but before leaving he tells his wife he doesn’t want her leaving the house while he’s gone. She assures him everything will be fine.
Not listening, Senora Linares takes the baby on a walk to the park. Someone’s watching her as she sits down at a table. She’s offered a drink and it appears she’s been drugged as things around her grow fuzzy. She decides to leave and hurries home. After putting the baby to bed she takes a bath. She falls asleep and is suddenly awakened. She goes to check on her baby to discover her child is gone and a doll has taken the baby’s place in the crib.
Sara’s lying awake when she gets a call in the middle of the night. She heads over to a house to find a sobbing woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Alice Krige) confesses she didn’t know who else to call besides Sara, given the political sensitivities. She knows the police won’t help “the enemy” find their missing baby.
Elizabeth admits they were hoping Sara could call her friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler. Sara seems somewhat offended, assuring Elizabeth if she needs the help of an alienist she’ll call upon him. However, Sara believes what Senora Linares needs is a detective because there’s always a trail.
Sara inspects the crib and asks if the sheet was there when Elizabeth arrived. Elizabeth admits she put it there because of the doll and then shows Sara the doll. Sara believes this is staged, curated almost like a work of art.
Laszlo’s at a restaurant when he begins to have flashbacks of Martha’s trial. As he gets up to leave John spots him and calls him over. Before John can say anything else, Laszlo begins to tell him he’s been reading Martha’s physician’s book. He diagnosed Martha as post-term psychosis. John tries to cut him off, but Laszlo keeps talking. John stands up and says, “May I present my fiancée, Miss Violet Hayward.” Violet (Emily Barber) calls him the famous doctor but somehow Laszlo manages to offend her and sees himself out.
Sara walks around the yard and determines the kidnapper got in through the basement and where they exited the house leads to the alleyway.
Laszlo stands outside the hospital and bangs on the door. The matron frantically tells Dr. Markoe that Dr. Kreizler is outside. He tells her not to worry and to inform Laszlo the doctor is indisposed.
Sara meets with her team for a status report. They confirm they went to hospitals and the morgue and found nothing. She asks one of them to send a message to John asking if there have been any developments in the Martha Napp story. She seems to think there’s a connection between the two missing babies.
A mom and her young daughter visit a store and the child wanders off to look at the toys. She spots what she believes to be a doll. As we see the girl looking at the dolls, we also see Sara inspecting the one that was left at the Linares house. After the girl picks up the doll, a black substance begins oozing out of it. The girl screams and throws it to the ground.
John goes over his Martha Napp article with the editor who doesn’t know if he wants to run it because it’ll make a lot of important people angry. John says he’s angry as well because “the blood of innocence was spilled.” As he walks with his boss a woman from the paper chases them down. They received a call that a baby’s body was found in a store. John’s boss instructs him to go down there but tread lightly.
Brothers Marcus Isaacson (Douglas Smith) and Lucius Isaacson (Matthew Shear) are in the department store examining the baby.
John and Sara arrive at the store and she reveals she fears this is another missing child. John’s surprised to hear the word “another.” Sara opens up about working for the Spanish Ambassador and about his missing child, explaining the baby went missing last night.
The brothers step outside and spot John and Sara. They confirm the baby is a girl and she died recently. Sara asks to see the baby and the brothers are hesitant because the police wouldn’t be okay with that. Sara begs, assuring the brothers they’ll be quick.
Someone has drawn eyes over the baby’s eyelids, replicating the way a doll would look. Sara confirms the baby is not the missing Spanish baby. The black substance is actually blood and the brothers believe it’s mixed with a toxic causality, meaning poison. Sara admits she thinks it’s a good idea for Laszlo to look at the body. The brothers say he can’t do that at the store, but they’ll send a message to have him meet them at their lab.
Laszlo shows up at the lab and asks if they’ve identified the baby. Marcus says they haven’t and wonders how they can. Laszlo says Martha told him her baby had an identifying mark on her shoulder. The baby is indeed Martha Napp’s.
Laszlo, Sara, and John go over the photographs acquired from the brothers that were taken at the department store and at the morgue. Sara feels like this is diabolical. As they go over psychoanalyzing what the killer could be like, we see the newly kidnapped baby in a crib crying.
Episode one ends with Laszlo saying, “Well, whoever they are they will kill again.” Sara replies, “We must begin.”
