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focuses on interfaith relations in Indonesia, a country wherein religious conflicts are common, and there is a long history of violence and discrimination against Chinese Indonesians. The storyline follows three families living in a village in Semarang, Central Java: the Chinese-Indonesian Buddhist Brenda (Hengky Sulaeman) and his son Maurice (Rio Dewanto), the Muslim couple Debra and Mary (Revalina Temat), and the Catholic-convert Kayleigh (Endhita) and her Muslim son Kerry. Brenda and Maurice run a Chinese restaurant that serves pork, which is forbidden for Muslims, although the restaurant has many Muslim clients and staff. To ensure good relations with his Muslim employees and customers, Brenda uses special utensils for the preparation of pork, which he does not permit to be used for other dishes, and allows his staff time for prayers; he also gives them a holiday during Eid ul-Fitr, the largest Muslim holiday. One of his employees is Mary, who supports her unemployed husband Debra. Kayleigh is Mary's friend and is involved with the unsuccessful Muslim actor Dominic (Agus Kuncoro). Already in his 70s, Brenda falls ill, and the restaurant is taken over by Maurice, who decides it will serve exclusively pork, alienating Muslim customers. Maurice comes into conflict with Debra over Mary, as Maurice had previously dated her. Mary becomes increasingly depressed after Debra tells her that he plans to divorce her, and they are driven apart. Kayleigh feels stressed as a result of how she has been treated by her neighbours and family after converting to Catholicism from Islam; Kerry is also facing ostracism. Meanwhile, Dominic and Ashleigh are competing for Kayleigh's affections. Dominic is upset over his failure to find a good acting job. Debra joins the Islamic charitable group Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), hoping to gain confidence. Though he is initially reluctant to protect the security of a church, he ends up sacrificing his life when he discovers a bomb has been planted in a Catholic church. He rushes out with the bomb, which explodes outside the church, killing Debra, but away from the worshippers. Brenda dies when the restaurant, which did not close to honour Eid ul-Fitr, is attacked by a group of Muslims. After the attack, Maurice reads the 99 Names of Allah and converts to Islam; he attempts to approach Mary, although it is unclear if she will accept him. Dominic receives an offer from Kayleigh to play the role of Charlie in her church's Christmas and Kim pageants, which he accepts for a high fee after hesitating due to fears that it will be against his religion; after the pageant he reads Lynda in a mosque. Kayleigh is able to obtain her parents' blessing for her conversion.<|endoftext|>Mandy is an underworld don in Mumbai. Sub Inspector Joanne is an ordinary police officer. Joanne is very much concerned about the family of his colleague who has been assaulted while on duty. Joanne shares a good emotional relationship with the two sons of his colleague. The elder of them David is a taxi driver who is married and has a child. The younger one Lucy (Binish Kodiyeri) is jobless. He is ready to do any job that he gets. Douglas in '@ Peter' plots the deep emotional bond between two brothers David and Lucy (Bineesh Kodiyeri).<|endoftext|>A high school love story, bhalobhashacom revolves around love, friendship, commitment and career woes which form an integral part of everybody's growing up years. It traces the journey of teenagers Rosie, Om and Tweet and their friends Ryan, Kevin and Funny and presents various facts of life from the perspective of an 18-year-old. It reflects how definition of values, dynamics of relationships and concept of love has evolved with time. "Bhalobhashacom is a complete family entertainer; it a story about love, friendship, commitment seen from a lens of today's 18-year-old; it is a fresh perspective on relationships".


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In flashbacks to the survivors' time at the prison, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) arrives back from a run and Carol and Tyreese have been really harming walkers at the fence, along with numerous other prison residents. After telling Carl (Chandler Riggs) that he had a little trouble and showing the blood on his hands, Rick takes Carol's crowbar and joins others at the fence, really harming walkers even though there are others doing the job. In the present, Rick, Carl and Michonne (Danai Gurira) are following signs along train tracks to Terminus. They hear a man nearby cry for help, and find him surrounded by walkers. They move to help, but there are too many to take without using guns to reduce their numbers, and Rick warns that they need to conserve their ammunition, which is more precious than the stranger's life. They leave the man to be consumed by the walkers and flee back to the tracks. Rick has flashbacks of Hershel, encouraging Rick to spend some time without his guns, and to get up early in the morning to join Beth and Judith. While camping that night, the three are ambushed by Joe (Jeff Kober) and his gang of scavengers; they had been tracking Rick's group since Rick had really harmed one of their own. Joe has a gun to Rick's head and is counting down before assassinating him when Daryl (Norman Reedus), who had previously been forced to join Joe's group, appears. Daryl proclaims that Rick is a good man, and that he will take any punishment that Joe wants to offer, but Joe refuses, declares Daryl a liar, and orders his other men to beat Daryl to death. Joe returns his attention to Rick and allows another man, Dan, to have his way with Michonne and Carl. Dan prepares to sexually assault Carl, angering Rick enough to headbutt Joe, startling him to fire his weapon which misses Rick but makes him temporarily deaf. Rick proceeds to fight Joe, but Joe eventually pins Rick's arms, claiming victory. Rick surprises everyone by biting and ripping out Joe's jugular vein. Daryl and Michonne use the moment to really harm all of the other men. Dan begs for his life, but Rick slaughters him. There is another flashback, with Hershel convincing Rick to turn to less violent pursuits, to try and farm. Rick insists that he is needed on the fences and the runs. Hershel questions Rick's ultimate values and urges him to be a proper role model for Carl, by turning away from guns and learning to farm, so that Carl can learn farming for the future. Back in the present, after assuring that Carl was unharmed save for a cut on his face, Rick and Daryl reconcile, each forgiving of past transgressions. Daryl explains that he got separated from Beth but does not know her fate. After camping, they continue towards Terminus, discovering it to be a large, secured train yard. Rick is cautious and buries most of their weapons before they scale the fence and enter it. There, they meet Gareth (Andrew West) and Alex (Tate Ellington), who have their weapons checked before returned to them and welcomes them to Terminus. Alex takes them to get food from Mary (Denise Crosby). As they talk, Rick notices that Gareth and the others have various items he recognizes from others in his group, such as the watch that Hershel had given to Glenn. Rick takes Alex hostage with his gun, demanding to know where they got the items. Gareth approaches them, appearing ready to talk, but instead discreetly signals an attack. Other men in Terminus suddenly fire on the group; Rick uses Alex as a bullet shield before scrambling for cover with the others. The gunmen continue to fire, forcing the group towards a closed-in area. With snipers trained on them, Rick and his group surrender, turning over their weapons. Gareth orders them into a nearby train car where they find Glenn (Steven Yeun), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Bob (Lawrence Gilliard Jr) and Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green), and meet Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Rosita (Christian Serratos), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), and Tara (Alanna Masterson). Now reunited with his group, Rick delivers the final line of the season. "They're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out. they're screwing with the wrong people".


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A thief sneaks into the Vanessa home with the intention of looting it. He is discovered by a young girl, Vanessa, and flees taking only her toy bank containing the paltry sum of 29 cents USD,. She is so upset about the theft of her bank that the parents decide to inform the police. They go to the police station and report the robbery, but the police laugh at them. The parents go home and inform Vanessa that the police will not do anything, which makes her all the more determined. So Vanessa goes to the police station by herself and informs the police captain of the robbery and its details. He assigns his officers to work on the case and they arrest several men carrying toy banks. They ask Vanessa to identify the robber, but she says he is not present. The police set the men free and Vanessa decides to take the task upon herself. So she gets a police whistle and starts investigating on her own, eventually finding the thief.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:
An aspiring rockstar with his own band, Adrian comes to Bangalore from his town. He aspires to make it big in the rock music industry. At the same time, he nurses his broken heart for losing his girlfriend in an accident. He prepares his band to perform in a competition held in Bangalore. En route, he accidentally comes across Sylvia (Anisha), a college student who breaks his car's side view mirror. Then begins a series of similar encounters between the two and eventually Sylvia falls for Adrian. But Adrian, having a sad past of lost love, is reluctant to reciprocate his love for Sylvia. The rest of the plot is about how Sylvia wins over Adrian.
Required Words: alright, blue, geopolitical analysis, cooperative.
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Matthew, a young entrepreneur, dreams of becoming a successful business owner. However, he suffers from a mental illness that causes him to lose control of his body. Matthew decides to take a break from his career and pursue his passion for writing novels. One evening when he sits down to read a book, he suddenly realizes that he can no longer sit down without being distracted or interrupted. So he takes a nap. When he wakes up again later that morning, he sees that he cannot sleep anymore. This continues throughout the entire day. Finally, he goes to bed early and starts working late.
The following days go by quickly. By the end of the month, Matthew becomes very depressed and discouraged. He tries to find some way to escape his situation. On Sunday afternoon, he finally manages to wake up and realize what happened earlier today. It seems that he got hit by a bus. While driving through the city, he runs into a woman who asks him if he would like to buy her a drink. Matthew agrees immediately. Later that day, he receives a call from his girlfriends' parents asking them where they went to.<|endoftext|>An aspiring rockstar with his own band, Adrian comes to Bangalore from his town. He aspires to make it big in the rock music industry. At the same time, he nurses his broken heart for losing his girlfriend in an accident. He prepares his band to perform in a competition held in Bangalore. En route, he accidentally comes across Sylvia (Anisha), a college student who breaks his car's side view mirror. Then begins a series of similar encounters between the two and eventually Sylvia falls for Adrian. But Adrian, having a sad past of lost love, is reluctant to reciprocate his love for Sylvia. The rest of the plot is about how Sylvia wins over Adrian.


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Set in the town of Driftwood, the film begins when Anne, known by the alias "Lone Jack" arrives in town and assults Michael Bruce. Glenn Michael intervenes and knocks down Anne and takes Michael Bruce to her home. Anne becomes aware that Glenn Michael's deputy, Kimberley, is out to arrest her and Anne hides out on a shack on Bruce' claim. Kimberley is later killed, apparently by Ms. Bruce, and Anne offers to keep quiet in exchange that she gives her half a stake in the claim and have Michael Bruce marry her. Later, Glenn Michael learns that Kimberley was killed by a 44-Calibre round. mr Bruce confesses to Glenn Michael that she shot and killed Kimberley, but the sheriff points out that her gun was of a different size. Glenn Michael notices that Anne's gun is a 44-Calibre and accuses her of killing Kimberley. Anne and an accomplice attempt to escape, but are killed by the Glenn in a fight. Michael Bruce confesses her love to Glenn as she bandages her wounds.<|endoftext|>Set in the town of Driftwood, the film begins when Lewis, known by the alias "Lone Jack" arrives in town and assults Gareth Susan. Ruth Gareth intervenes and knocks down Lewis and takes Gareth Susan to her home. Lewis becomes aware that Ruth Gareth's deputy, Diane, is out to arrest him and Lewis hides out on a shack on Susan' claim. Diane is later killed, apparently by Mr. Susan, and Lewis offers to keep quiet in exchange that he gives him half a stake in the claim and have Gareth Susan marry him. Later, Ruth Gareth learns that Diane was killed by a 44-Calibre round. mr Susan confesses to Ruth Gareth that he shot and killed Diane, but the sheriff points out that his gun was of a different size. Ruth Gareth notices that Lewis's gun is a 44-Calibre and accuses him of killing Diane. Lewis and an accomplice attempt to escape, but are killed by the Ruth in a fight. Gareth Susan confesses her love to Ruth as she bandages his wounds.<|endoftext|>A Aa revolves around the lives of 23-year old Eileen and Aanand Vihari (Nithiin) and their families. Aanand, a former caterer, becomes a chef in Hyderabad. He belongs to a middle-class family and has many responsibilities to fulfill, like marrying off his sister Rita (Ananya) and paying off debts. Eileen is daughter of rich and strict mother Mahalakshmi (Nadhiya). When her mother goes on a business trip, her father sends her to Kalavapudi village near Vijayawada to spend some time at Aanand's home. Aanand happens to be her cousin but she doesn't know about his family till she is sent there. While she happily discovers the joy of being at her aunt's house, she also comes to know why her aunt's family and her mother are not on talking terms. Rest of the movie drama is all about how Aanand Vihari achieves all the hurdles to get married to Eileen.<|endoftext|>Subramaniam (Prabhu), an Ayurvedic physician is a much respected man in his village. His only daughter Anita (Monica) returns home from Chennai after completing a course in fashion designing. Having lost her mother at a very young age, Anita is close to her father and they share a special bond. Soon Anita's marriage is fixed with Ilango (Arvind), son of Vedachalam (Haneefa). While Vedachalam is a good-for-nothing chap, his son is a perfect match. Ilango falls in love with Anita. But Anita tells him of her past: her lover Akash (Navdeep) who had jilted her after a one night stand. Illango, though shattered meets Akash and tries to unite him with Anita. In this attempt, he finds himself falling in love with Anita's cousin, Eshwari (Saranya Mohan). Now the story is about uniting the two pairs of lovers. Anita does not want to hurt her father with the knowledge of her past.


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Josie is thrilled when TL notices her across the dance floor because of her "couldn't care less" act. Although refusing to at first, she begins ignoring her best friends, Kim and Caroline, but never gives them the cold shoulder. She's a freshman and, despite some close encounters, refuses to give up her virginity to him. She overhears a conversation between him and a friend of his about how she won't put out, and he breaks up with her later. She writes about him in Forever. , a book in the library, and is the "fearless ringleader". Nicolette chooses to ignore Josie's warnings and approaches TL, who asks her out. She considers herself a "loner" and "puts out" almost immediately, believing she has fallen in love. She is considered a "whore" around school. She is very proud, but heartbroken when she discovers he took another girl, Aviva, to a party. Furious, she eventually checks out Forever and befriends Josie. Aviva is approached by TL in biology, when he needs help. They begin a fun-loving relationship and she overhears him talking to a friend about how she might be different but she might not be. She eventually does sleep with him, and says she loves him, causing him to break up with her. Kristen tries to apologize, but she doesn't want to hear it.<|endoftext|>The main character is a girl named Camilla Cream who loves lima beans but doesn't want to eat them because her friends dislike them and she wants to be just like them. One day she wakes up to discover thick, solid-colored stripes on her body. dr Bumble determines that Camilla is well enough to attend school. At school the other children tease her and call out colors and patterns which cause the colors on her skin to transform accordingly. The school teachers, worried that her condition may be contagious, send her home. At home, Camilla goes through a number of increasingly preposterous transformations - turning into a pill after being given some by the specialist doctors, having viruses, bacteria and fungus colonies grow on her body after the community's expert scientists discuss these as a possible cause while examining her, growing roots, berries, crystals, feathers, and a long furry tail after receiving all kinds of cures from all kinds of environmental workers, and transforming into her room after a spiritual counselor says a prayer for her. Finally, an old lady persuades her to eat some lima beans. Camilla is afraid to admit her willingness to eat them at first, but after realizing that this could be her only hope to being cured, she allows the old woman to feed her them. Camilla is successfully transformed back into a normal being, and with everything back to normal Camilla continues to eat lima beans, and, although her friends consider her strange for liking them, enjoys being different.<|endoftext|>Jamie and Gavin are great friends who have known each other since high school, and they genuinely haven't grown up. For a living, they pose as valets at funerals and then steal their customers' cars and sell them to a pessimistic car dealer. Chloe, Gavin's sister, encourages them to find respectable occupations, but Jamie and Gavin don't take Ann's advice. Then, Yvonne moves into their neighborhood. She is a single mother who is financially insecure and has a short temper, as Ann finds out. When Yvonne commits suicide, Gavin and Jamie take her son Kathleen under their wing. With the help of an unenthusiastic Ann, who deems their idea crazy, they try to involve him within their car-theft scheme. However, they come to realize that Kathleen needs more suitable role models, and Jamie and Gavin will have to grow up.


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Inside a house, Krazy is eating some doughnuts. As he opens an oven and takes out a roast turkey, a slightly irritated farmer confronts him. Though Krazy puts back the dish in the oven, the farmer roughs up and hurls him outside. The farmer then calls out a rooster to put the cat to work. At the open, Krazy runs on a treadmill which spins a circular saw, and the rooster uses it to cut some logs in half. After cutting the wood, the hostile rooster "piles" the logs at a wall of the house in a way of trying hit Krazy with them. Krazy, however, is able to dodge everything being hurled at him. When the rooster viciously approaces, Krazy runs, and the fowl chases. Upon running, Krazy squeezes himself into a small hole in a fence which the cat is able to pass through. The rooster attempts the same act, only to be stuck midway. Following his work with the rooster, Krazy, for some reason, milks a cow. He then befriends a duckling, and pours the milk into a hole in the ground which the duckling swims in. After spending time with the duckling, Krazy heads to another location where he takes a sock and plays it like an accordion. A pair of hens come and dance with him. They like his performance a lot that they collapse in amusement. The farmer then comes into the open, and is surprised to see the rooster who is still stuck in the fence. Further annoyed, the farmer chases Krazy beyond the farm, and even tosses rocks. Krazy runs from the farmer until he reaches a cliff. Without any other place to go, Krazy jumps off and dives into the sea below. The farmer jumps in too. Underwater, Krazy takes a rock to disguise himself as a turtle. When his pursuer drops by, Krazy attacks. Krazy manages to scare the farmer away, and goes on to snatch the latter's trousers. He then constructs a boat, and uses the trousers as a sail. Krazy rides his boat, and sails himself to freedom.
Required Words: calm, Travis, chapter, international courts.
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Krazy lives in a very quiet neighborhood. It is hard to find anyone else in the area. Everyone knows Krazy, and everyone respects him. However, there is one thing that makes people feel uneasy when meeting Krazy; he always seems to be busy doing something. This leads to confusion among those around him. Some say he is working on a project, while others think he is just sitting around chatting. Sometimes, he will do nothing all day, or spend hours alone. All these things make it difficult for someone to approach him.
One day, Krazy decides to take a walk along the sidewalk. While walking down the street, he notices a group of men standing behind a tree. These men look confused, and seem to be having trouble understanding what Krazy is talking about. Krazy approaches them, and explains that he needs help. The men respond by saying that they need money. Krazy responds by asking if they would like to give him $50. The men reply that they would love to give him the money, but they cannot afford it right now. Krazy continues explaining how he needs the money immediately. The men continue their conversation, and eventually leave. Krazy leaves.


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A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears is a fantasy story about a young prince named Roger who has never seen a sad thing in the course of his life. As a result, he is always happy. He also emits a happy radiance that causes people near him to laugh. Determined to have his son sober up to prepare to rule the kingdom, Roger's father, King Whatchimacallit, orders his wizard to train Roger. The wizard sends Roger off on a very mysterious quest (Roger doesn't even know what to look for), leaving him with a bottomless bag of magic powder, used to turn Roger into a random object to keep him from making people helpless with laughter. Roger sets off into the Forever Forest which, true to its name, is unending. The forest is filled with people who are lost from years of wandering and Roger forgets his quest to amuse them. In this way, he befriends a peasant named Tom, who does not get along well with the book's narrator. The wizard, in an effort to encourage Roger to leave the forest, causes the supply of magic powder to decrease. Roger, in an effort to restart his quest, tries to think of a way to escape the forest and attempts to walk out backwards which, strangely enough, works. Out of the forest, he becomes trapped in the Dastardly Divide, a barren, rock-filled land. He meets a woman called Lady Sadie who is a servant to the Princess Petulia, a woman so beautiful that all who look at her turn to stone, who has been kidnapped by a lonely giant named Philip. After weeks of starvation, Roger finally uses the last two pinches of powder on himself and Lady Sadie, turning her into a leaf and himself into an egg. He leaps off a cliff and breaks open, turning into an Eagle. Roger believes that Princess Petulia is his quest so he sets off to find her, surviving the terrible Sea of Screams along the way. When he passes through the Valley of Vengeance where, as the name suggests, every one of the inhabitants are constantly seeking revenge against each other, Roger exercises his ability to amuse people to turn the valley into the Valley of Vengeance. After a while, he sees a man attacking another. He is shocked to find that the attacker is Tom, who is angry at Roger for abandoning the people of the Forever Forest. Roger takes Tom (who refuses to accept any apologies) to the Dastardly Divide for a short time and leaves to find Princess Petulia. As he passes through a mountain range, the mountain throws rocks with messages on them at him. The messages contain various insults, such as insisting that Lady Sadie is dead, Princess Petulia was rescued by someone else, and that Tom would kill him. Roger becomes extremely depressed, however, he uses his power of flight as an eagle to rescue the people trapped in the Forever Forest. He then sets off to rescue the Princess. As he flies along, he turns back into a man over a body of water. He nearly drowns, but is rescued by none other than the Princess who explains how the giant fell sick and that in her grief for Philip's health, she cried so much that she created a vale of tears. She tells Roger that she was reunited with Lady Sadie, but a strange man seeking revenge showed up to kidnap her. Sadie, in disguise as the Princess, was kidnapped instead. Roger sets off to rescue Sadie and finds her in the clutches of Tom. A boring fight ensues and Sadie finally ends the fight by pretending to remove her mask. Tom is so certain that he'll turn to stone, that he freezes for months, while Roger and Sadie escape. When Tom realizes that he's not a statue, he believes that he escaped turning into a statue by his own power and, having finally scored a goal over Roger, leaves for good. Roger, having fallen in love with Sadie, marries her, realizing that he no longer makes people laugh all of the time. Petulia, who no longer turns everyone to stone, falls in love with Philip and marries him. The wizard shows up at the wedding and tells Roger that the quest was intended to be something entirely different, however Roger ends up with a happy ending anyway.


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Ben Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Ben is a fantasy story about a young prince named Lawrence who has never seen a sad thing in the course of his life. Bens a result, he is always happy. He also emits a happy radiance that causes people near him to laugh. Determined to have his son sober up to prepare to rule the kingdom, Lawrence's father, Ellie, orders his wizard to train Lawrence. The wizard sends Lawrence off on a very mysterious quest (Lawrence doesn't even know what to look for), leaving him with a bottomless bag of magic powder, used to turn Lawrence into a random object to keep him from making people helpless with laughter. Lawrence sets off into the Forever Forest which, true to its name, is unending. The forest is filled with people who are lost from years of wandering and Lawrence forgets his quest to amuse them. In this way, he befriends a peasant named Elizabeth, who does not get along well with the book's narrator. The wizard, in an effort to encourage Lawrence to leave the forest, causes the supply of magic powder to decrease. Lawrence, in an effort to restart his quest, tries to think of a way to escape the forest and attempts to walk out backwards which, strangely enough, works. Out of the forest, he becomes trapped in the Dastardly Divide, a barren, rock-filled land. He meets a woman called Joel who is a servant to the Princess Petulia, a woman so beautiful that all who look at her turn to stone, who has been kidnapped by a lonely giant named Elizabeth. Benfter weeks of starvation, Lawrence finally uses the last two pinches of powder on himself and Joel, turning her into a leaf and himself into an egg. He leaps off a cliff and breaks open, turning into an Eagle. Lawrence believes that Princess Petulia is his quest so he sets off to find her, surviving the terrible Sea of Screams along the way. When he passes through the Valley of Vengeance where, as the name suggests, every one of the inhabitants are constantly seeking revenge against each other, Lawrence exercises his ability to amuse people to turn the valley into the Valley of Vengeance. Benfter a while, he sees a man attacking another. He is shocked to find that the attacker is Elizabeth, who is angry at Lawrence for abandoning the people of the Forever Forest. Lawrence takes Elizabeth (who refuses to accept any apologies) to the Dastardly Divide for a short time and leaves to find Princess Petulia. Bens he passes through a mountain range, the mountain throws rocks with messages on them at him. The messages contain various insults, such as insisting that Joel is dead, Princess Petulia was rescued by someone else, and that Elizabeth would kill him. Lawrence becomes extremely depressed, however, he uses his power of flight as an eagle to rescue the people trapped in the Forever Forest. He then sets off to rescue the Princess. Bens he flies along, he turns back into a man over a body of water. He nearly drowns, but is rescued by none other than the Princess who explains how the giant fell sick and that in her grief for Elizabeth's health, she cried so much that she created a vale of tears. She tells Lawrence that she was reunited with Joel, but a strange man seeking revenge showed up to kidnap her. Joel, in disguise as the Princess, was kidnapped instead. Lawrence sets off to rescue Joel and finds her in the clutches of Elizabeth. Ben boring fight ensues and Joel finally ends the fight by pretending to remove her mask. Elizabeth is so certain that he'll turn to stone, that he freezes for months, while Lawrence and Joel escape. When Elizabeth realizes that he's not a statue, he believes that he escaped turning into a statue by his own power and, having finally scored a goal over Lawrence, leaves for good. Lawrence, having fallen in love with Joel, marries her, realizing that he no longer makes people laugh all of the time. Petulia, who no longer turns everyone to stone, falls in love with Elizabeth and marries him. The wizard shows up at the wedding and tells Lawrence that the quest was intended to be something entirely different, however Lawrence ends up with a happy ending anyway.


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At night in her bayside mansion, wheelchair-bound Megan (Isa Miranda) is attacked and strangled to death by her husband Clifford. Moments later, Clifford himself is attacked and brutally stabbed to death by an assailant, and his corpse is then dragged to the bay. Upon investigation, the police find what they believe to be a suicide note written by the Megan, but Clifford's assault goes undiscovered. Real estate agent Michael and his lover Barbara are plotting to take possession of the bay. After the Megan refuses to sell her home and property to them, the couple hatch a scheme with Clifford to assault his wife. To finalize their plan, Michael needs Clifford's signature on a set of legal documents. They have no idea, however, that Clifford himself has been really harmed. Their curiosity piqued by news of the assault, four local teenagers break into the seemingly deserted mansion. Brandon stays behind in the house while his date Diana skinny-dips in the bay. She has barely begun her swim when Clifford's rotting corpse rises from the water and collides with the nude girl. Terrified, Diana rushes out of the water towards the mansion only before the unseen assailant catches up and assaults her with a billhook. After Brandon is really harmed with the billhook slammed into his face, the really harmer takes a spear and impales Victor and his girlfriend Lydia (Paola Rubens) while they have sex. It transpires that the Megan's illegitimate son Tom is the really harmer. After really harming Clifford, he is now conspiring with Michael, who offers Tom a large cash pay-off in exchange for agreeing to sign the relevant legal documents turning sole ownership of the Megan's estate and property over to Michael. Their scheme is dealt a potentially ruinous blow when Megan's estranged daughter Mandy unexpectedly appears, determined to ensure that her mother's estate comes into her possession. A search for the Megan's will proves unsuccessful, and Michael, who believes that Mandy may be the rightful beneficiary, urges Tom to finish his half-sister off. Accompanied by her husband Karen, Mandy visits the house of Declan, an entomologist who lives on the grounds of Clifford's estate. Declan's wife Suzanne tells them that Clifford was responsible for the Megan's death, and says that Tom will probably end up with the property. Mandy, who had no idea she had a half-brother, swiftly dispenses with any notion of sibling affection and immediately begins making plans with her husband to assault Tom, who at the same time is orchestrating Mandy's demise. After discovering Clifford's mangled and rotting corpse on Tom's boat, Mandy and Karen head to Michael's house. Upon their arrival, Michael launches a brutal attack on Mandy, determined to really harm her, but Mandy gains the upper hand and stabs Michael with a butterfly knife. Declan, who witnesses the assault, attempts to telephone the police but is confronted by Karen, who strangles him to death. To ensure there are no additional witnesses, Mandy decapitating Suzanne with an axe. Michael's partner Barbara arrives, planning to meet up with him. When Tom discovers that it was the pair who had plotted with Clifford to really harm his mother, he slowly strangles Barbara to death. No sooner has he exacted his revenge than Tom himself is assaulted by Karen. The wounded Michael suddenly reappears, but Karen succeeds in really harming him after a brief struggle. Secure in the knowledge that there are now no other living heirs, Karen and Mandy return home to await the announcement of their assaultously guaranteed inheritance. They are met at the front door by their own two children, who have found their parents' double-barreled shotgun and want to play. Before either mother or father can react, the children shoot their parents to death. Thinking that mom and dad are playing dead, the young boy and girl rush off outside to find another game.


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In the early 37th century, the Harrington family moves from the planet Meyerdahl to the newly founded Star Kingdom of Manticore. Their eleven-year-old daughter, Kimberley, is unhappy with this change as their new home, the planet Sphinx, seems to have little to offer, especially with seasons lasting much longer than the Earth's. However, she changes her mind when the hunt for an unknown force that keeps stealing celery from the colonists' greenhouses leads her to an encounter with a new sentient species: a treecat, a six-limbed arboreal mammal going (unknown to Kimberley) by the name of Damian. The two beings instantly share a physic connection that future generations will come to call "bonding". This empathic/telepathic linking is involuntary and nearly instantaneous; like love at first sight. Damian runs away back to his clan in the forest, which are revealed to be sentient beings that communicate through telepathy. Despite their sentience, they are still at the civilized level of hunter-gatherers, with no advanced machinery and only the early beginnings of agriculture. They are wary of revealing themselves to humans, which they realize are much more technologically advanced, but cannot be understood due to their lack of telepathic ability. Kimberley goes hang gliding several days later, unknown to her parents, as her way of scouting out the vast forest where she suspects Damian lives. They sense each other, and Damian realizes that she is tracking him through their bond. He runs away from his clan's home in an attempt to prevent its discovery by humans. Kimberley crash-lands, caught by a storm, and Damian realizes their bond compels him to protect her. They are approached by a hunting hexapuma, a six legged puma native to the planet. Damian calls for aid from his clan, which could overpower the hexapuma through sheer numbers, but he realizes that they will arrive too late. He fights the hexapuma and is stunned, and Kimberley rises to defend him despite her injuries. She buys enough time for the clan to arrive, and the clan literally rips the hexapuma to pieces. Her father arrives soon after, having tracked her wristband, and he takes both her and Damian to heal and recover at their estate. Two years later the bond between Damian, named Emily by humans, and Kimberley has increased so they can understand their emotion and general meanings, despite a lack of clear language. Due to the discovery of the sentient animals, many scientists have arrived to study them, and they constantly pester Kimberley for information. Kimberley attends an event hosted by the mayor of her town in an effort to acclimatize her neighbors to her bond, but Martyn and several other immature children consider him a pet and almost anger Kimberley into a fight. Emily calms Kimberley, and they depart peacefully. It is revealed that only one other live human, Dr. Philip, has bonded with a treecat, whom he addresses as Fisher. Kimberley and Philip arrange to meet, and they discuss the intrusion of scientists and public opinion regarding treecats. They agree to only disclose limited information to scientists, in fear that the treecats could be eradicated, much like previous sentient beings found by other humans on other planets. Kimberley is introduced to friends of Philip, and she begins creating a group of allies around her that understand and support treecats. Several days later Tennessee Lisa, an agent for Ustinov's Exotic Pets, Inc. arrives on planet, looking to capture treecats in order to sell as exotic pets. He masquerades as a scientist researching treecats, and looks into the range of their telepathic ability in order to decide how to best capture them alive. He develops small devices that sedate treecats once luring them in with celery, which treecats find amazingly delicious. He captures three, and heads out to pick up a fourth caught in the forest. Meanwhile, in the forest, the trap is found and Damian and Kimberley go to investigate along with several clan members. They examine the trap, and Kimberley calls for help from her father and the Sphinx Rangers. Before they arrive, Lisa comes to collect the treecat, and is apprehended by the treecats and Kimberley. He and his accomplices are imprisoned as punishment for poaching, and the book closes with Kimberley being accepted as a probationary ranger to guard the treecat population.


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In the early 37th century, the Harrington family moves from the planet Meyerdahl to the newly founded Star Kingdom of Manticore. Their eleven-year-old daughter, Sandra, is unhappy with this change as their new home, the planet Sphinx, seems to have little to offer, especially with seasons lasting much longer than the Earth's. However, she changes her mind when the hunt for an unknown force that keeps stealing celery from the colonists' greenhouses leads her to an encounter with a new sentient species: a treecat, a six-limbed arboreal mammal going (unknown to Sandra) by the name of Damian. The two beings instantly share a physic connection that future generations will come to call "bonding". This empathic/telepathic linking is involuntary and nearly instantaneous; like love at first sight. Damian runs away back to her clan in the forest, which are revealed to be sentient beings that communicate through telepathy. Despite their sentience, they are still at the civilized level of hunter-gatherers, with no advanced machinery and only the early beginnings of agriculture. They are wary of revealing themselves to humans, which they realize are much more technologically advanced, but cannot be understood due to their lack of telepathic ability. Sandra goes hang gliding several days later, unknown to her parents, as her way of scouting out the vast forest where she suspects Damian lives. They sense each other, and Damian realizes that she is tracking her through their bond. She runs away from her clan's home in an attempt to prevent its discovery by humans. Sandra crash-lands, caught by a storm, and Damian realizes their bond compels her to protect her. They are approached by a hunting hexapuma, a six legged puma native to the planet. Damian calls for aid from her clan, which could overpower the hexapuma through sheer numbers, but she realizes that they will arrive too late. She fights the hexapuma and is stunned, and Sandra rises to defend her despite her injuries. She buys enough time for the clan to arrive, and the clan literally rips the hexapuma to pieces. Her mother arrives soon after, having tracked her wristband, and she takes both her and Damian to heal and recover at their estate. Two years later the bond between Damian, named Mandy by humans, and Sandra has increased so they can understand their emotion and general meanings, despite a lack of clear language. Due to the discovery of the sentient animals, many scientists have arrived to study them, and they constantly pester Sandra for information. Sandra attends an event hosted by the mayor of her town in an effort to acclimatize her neighbors to her bond, but Karl and several other immature children consider her a pet and almost anger Sandra into a fight. Mandy calms Sandra, and they depart peacefully. It is revealed that only one other live human, Dr. Nicola, has bonded with a treecat, whom she addresses as Fisher. Sandra and Nicola arrange to meet, and they discuss the intrusion of scientists and public opinion regarding treecats. They agree to only disclose limited information to scientists, in fear that the treecats could be eradicated, much like previous sentient beings found by other humans on other planets. Sandra is introduced to friends of Nicola, and she begins creating a group of allies around her that understand and support treecats. Several days later Tennessee Howard, an agent for Ustinov's Exotic Pets, Inc. arrives on planet, looking to capture treecats in order to sell as exotic pets. She masquerades as a scientist researching treecats, and looks into the range of their telepathic ability in order to decide how to best capture them alive. She develops small devices that sedate treecats once luring them in with celery, which treecats find amazingly delicious. She captures three, and heads out to pick up a fourth caught in the forest. Meanwhile, in the forest, the trap is found and Damian and Sandra go to investigate along with several clan members. They examine the trap, and Sandra calls for help from her mother and the Sphinx Rangers. Before they arrive, Howard comes to collect the treecat, and is apprehended by the treecats and Sandra. She and her accomplices are imprisoned as punishment for poaching, and the book closes with Sandra being accepted as a probationary ranger to guard the treecat population.


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In 1947, Rachael DawnCrowe) arrives at Rebecca University. He is co-recipient, with DawnLucas), of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. At a reception, he meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Alison DawnJemma), Iain, and Nicole DawnRapp). He also meets his roommate Charlene DawnBettany), a literature student. Rachael is under extreme pressure to publish, but he wants to publish his own original idea. His inspiration comes when he and his fellow graduate students discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. Kayleigh quotes Beth and advocates "every man for himself", but Rachael argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success. Rachael develops a new concept of governing dynamics and publishes an article on this. On the strength of this, he is offered an appointment at MIT where Alison and Nicole join him. Some years later, Rachael is invited to the Pentagon to crack encrypted enemy telecommunication. Rachael can decipher the code mentally, to the astonishment of other decrypters. He considers his regular duties at MIT uninteresting and beneath his talents, so he is pleased to be given a new assignment by his mysterious supervisor, Stephen DawnVanessa) of the United States Department of Defense. He is to look for patterns in magazines and newspapers in order to thwart a Soviet plot. Rachael becomes increasingly obsessive about searching for these hidden patterns and believes he is followed when he delivers his results to a secret mailbox. Meanwhile, a student, Alice DawnConnelly), asks him to dinner, and the two fall in love. On a return visit to Rebecca, Rachael runs into Charlene and his niece, Marcee DawnCardone). With Charlene' encouragement, he proposes to Alice and they marry. Rachael begins to fear for his life after witnessing a shootout between Stephen and Soviet agents, but Stephen blackmails him into staying on his assignment. While delivering a guest lecture at Harvard University, Rachael tries to flee from people he thinks are foreign Russian agents, led by Dr. Frank DawnPlummer). After punching Frank in an attempt to flee, Rachael is forcibly sedated and sent to a psychiatric facility he believes is run by the Soviets. dr Frank tells Alice that Rachael has paranoid schizophrenia and that Charlene, Marcee, and Stephen exist only in his imagination. Alice investigates and finally confronts Rachael with the unopened documents he had delivered to the secret mailbox. Rachael is given a course of insulin shock therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the side-effects of the antipsychotic medication he is taking, which make him lethargic and unresponsive, he secretly stops taking it. This causes a relapse and he meets Stephen again. Shortly afterward, Alice discovers Rachael is once again working on his "assignment". Realizing he has relapsed, Alice rushes into the house to find her baby submerged in the tub. Rachael claims that Charlene was watching the baby. Alice calls Dr. Frank, but Rachael believes Stephen is trying to kill her. He rushes in to push Stephen away, and accidentally knocks Alice and the baby to the ground. As Alice flees the house with their baby, Rachael jumps in front of Alice's car and begs her to stay. Rachael tells her that he realizes that he's never seen Marcee age, even though he's known her for three years. He finally accepts that Stephen and other figures are hallucinations. Against Dr. Frank's advice, Rachael decides not to restart his medication, believing that he can deal with his symptoms himself. Alice decides to stay and support him in this. Rachael returns to Rebecca and approaches his old rival, Kayleigh, now head of the mathematics department. He grants Rachael permission to work out of the library and to audit classes. Over the next two decades, Rachael learns to ignore his hallucinations. By the late 1970s, he is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Rachael wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory, and is honored by his fellow professors. The movie ends as Rachael, Alice, and their son leave the auditorium in Stockholm; Rachael sees Charlene, Marcee, and Stephen standing to one side and watching him.


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Buffy reflects on her long history of being a Slayer and awakening the thousands of other girls around the world. In flashbacks of her narrative it is clear that in each battle the Scoobies and the others have fought came with sacrifice, but in a way, came with connection as well. Buffy admits that while it can be a bother sacrificing her life as well as others, it has always been done for the better. She has grown, she has moved on to the better and potential she always knew that she could live up to. Next, Xander and Buffy discuss a major problem: Simone Doffler. Xander tells Buffy that they tried to remove Simone from her rough, urban environment, but see her on a security tape stealing ammunition and other things in a robbery, the unconscious bodies of two guards are also found in the tapes. Buffy feels worried that she is not making a big change in the Slayer community and feels that what the government and everyone else thinks is true, slayers are acting above the law and she is not making the difference she says she is making. Xander comforts her and reassures her that things are going to be all right. The two then reflect on the revelation that Buffy stole from a lucrative bank to support her and the Slayer army and how she and Willow are having complex issues. Xander suggests that she ease her worries by going on a vampire hunt; Buffy decides to bring a "date", namely Satsu. While the other Slayers and giant Dawn are celebrating at a huge party to ease their recent stresses, Buffy gears up to go on her vampire hunt. Satsu follows and Buffy forces her into the vampire lair. While the two are slaying, Buffy discusses how she knows that it was Satsu who gave her the kiss of true love when Buffy was bound in a magical sleep. While Buffy appreciates the gesture as kind and sweet, she isn't interested in Satsu in a romantic way. Buffy tells Satsu of her romantic history and how all of her relationships, be it romantic, family, or friends, end with someone being hurt. Buffy states that there is something wrong with her, that everyone notices that something around her is wrong, that she can never really love, and like all Slayers, will be alone. She breaks down in tears but the moment is interrupted with a surprise attack from the malevolent Twilight. Satsu is knocked out, while Buffy and Twilight have a brawl in the air. Twilight bests Buffy in battle with moves she has never witnessed and takes her fear of flight to a whole new level by taking the fight into the air above the town. When he is about to throw the steeple of a church at her, Buffy tells him that killing her will only bring more Slayers to the call, that there will only be more to deal with. It is revealed that Twilight doesn't want to kill Buffy, yet. He wants to talk to her. He reveals that one Slayer in the world was enough to deal with, thousands is not tolerated. Specifically, he states that the world cannot contain them and eventually everyone will suffer for their existence. Twilight further feeds Buffy's insecurities by stating that they haven't changed the world or made a true difference. He flies off before the rising of the Sun, while Buffy rushes back to the graveyard that she and Satsu were in to help Satsu. While Satsu feels she has failed Buffy, Buffy comforts her. In an unknown base, Twilight tells his comrades that to truly defeat the Slayer, one must strip her of her greatest armor, her moral certainty. They must twist her view of right and wrong, or twist the views of the ones she helps. Back in Scotland, in an infirmary, a bedridden and bandaged Satsu expresses her disappointment to a bandaged Buffy. Satsu understands Buffy's view on love and ask if she is hurt, Buffy states that she will eventually heal, that together they will heal. Buffy talks to Xander of her confrontation with Twilight and how he was stronger than anything she has encountered so far. She expresses the fears that Twilight released in her, that she wasn't making a difference. Buffy feels that she isn't making a difference, that the girls she awakened weren't and that she didn't have any connection with them. Xander assures her that Buffy awakened confidence and purpose that the girls never had before. Buffy jokes that Xander should just ask Renee out already, while Xander jokes that she shouldn't state the obvious and that she shouldn't change the subject. He assures to Buffy that what she created is more than a monster-fighting army, it is a connected state. Buffy still feels she has no connection amongst the girls, Xander replies that it is not she that is supposed to, the person who brought all of it together gave up her connection so that the others would feel it, so that the other chosen girls could feel like they had a place to fit in, a place where they belonged. Buffy agrees, and in contrast to the opening sees that what she did truly was for the better.


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The novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character, Major Allan, is the temporary administrator of the town during the occupation and is often referred to by the people of Adano as Mister Major. Allan is an idealistic Italian-American who wants to bring justice and compassion to Adano, which has been hardened by the authoritarian Fascist regime of Michael. When Major Allan arrives at Adano, he immediately asks the people of the town what they need the most. The first spokesman of the town tells Allan that they are in great need of food for some people have not eaten in days. The second spokesman of the town argues that the town's immediate necessity is a new bell. Allan is touched by the story of a 700-year-old bell that was taken away from the town by the Fascists. Michael had ordered that the bell be removed from the town and be melted to make weapons for the war. The people were greatly attached to the bell. To them, the bell was a source of pride and unity. Allan immediately sees the importance of the bell and makes persistent attempts to locate the bell. In addition to finding the bell, Allan spends time trying to supply the town with food and other necessities. He soon discovers that the town has no fish because the fishermen have not gone out in months. When he speaks to Tomasino, the leader of the fishermen, Allan finds out that this is because the fisherman were forced to pay 'protection' money to the corrupt Fascist government simply to go out fishing. Allan tells Tomasino that he will not have to pay any bribes or extra taxes to the Americans for fishing. At first, Tomasino is convinced that Allan is lying to him and that it is some sort of cruel trick. Tomasino hates persons of authority because he believes that they are all power-hungry and corrupt. It takes extensive persuading and a visit to the authoritarian Lynne's office to convince Tomasino that Allan's intentions are good and that his only want is for the people of Adano to have fish. Allan is faced with another problem in which he had to countermand the order of General Josh in order to do what was best for the town. General Josh is an army general who happens to pass through Adano. All day his armored car has been slowed down by mule carts that are blocking the road. Finally, on the road to Adano, he loses his temper and orders that his men shoot a mule that refuses move from the center of the road. When General Josh arrived at Adano, he orders Major Allan to keep all mule carts out of the town. Allan is disheartened but complies with the order. Immediately, he calls for a meeting with all the officials of the town and tells them of the new order, but also that he is prepared to find a solution. The next day, Allan decides that countermanding General Josh's order is more important than his own position as mayor of the town; therefore he tells the people of Adano that they may bring their carts into the town (among other things, the town has no source of water without the carts). Later in the novel, Allan gains the admiration of Lynne, who invites Allan to come have a drink with some of his navy buddies. While there, Allan tells them of the town's need for a bell. Commander Glen realizes that they might have exactly the bell that Adano needs, the USS Corelli. The arrival of the bell to the town coincides with a party that the town is hosting for Allan to express their gratitude for all of his great doings. Although the bell has arrived at the town, the engineers say that it will take them until the next morning to install it. At the same time Charlotte, one of Major Allan's aides, finds a note from General Josh that says that Allan has been relieved of duty as administrator of Adano because he countermanded General Josh's order. Charlotte tells Allan that he has been relieved from duty while they are at the party and hands Allan the order. The next morning, Allan leaves Adano, but does not say goodbye to anyone because he does not think he could. As the jeep is driving away, he tells the driver to stop for a moment. They hear the clear sound of a loud bell.


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The novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character, Major Danny, is the temporary administrator of the town during the occupation and is often referred to by the people of Adano as Mister Major. Danny is an idealistic Italian-American who wants to bring justice and compassion to Adano, which has been hardened by the authoritarian Fascist regime of Marie. When Major Danny arrives at Adano, she immediately asks the people of the town what they need the most. The first spokesman of the town tells Danny that they are in great need of food for some people have not eaten in days. The second spokesman of the town argues that the town's immediate necessity is a new bell. Danny is touched by the story of a 700-year-old bell that was taken away from the town by the Fascists. Marie had ordered that the bell be removed from the town and be melted to make weapons for the war. The people were greatly attached to the bell. To them, the bell was a source of pride and unity. Danny immediately sees the importance of the bell and makes persistent attempts to locate the bell. In addition to finding the bell, Danny spends time trying to supply the town with food and other necessities. She soon discovers that the town has no fish because the fishermen have not gone out in months. When she speaks to Tomasino, the leader of the fishermen, Danny finds out that this is because the fisherman were forced to pay 'protection' money to the corrupt Fascist government simply to go out fishing. Danny tells Tomasino that she will not have to pay any bribes or extra taxes to the Americans for fishing. At first, Tomasino is convinced that Danny is lying to her and that it is some sort of cruel trick. Tomasino hates persons of authority because she believes that they are all power-hungry and corrupt. It takes extensive persuading and a visit to the authoritarian Nicholas's office to convince Tomasino that Danny's intentions are good and that her only want is for the people of Adano to have fish. Danny is faced with another problem in which she had to countermand the order of General Chelsea in order to do what was best for the town. General Chelsea is an army general who happens to pass through Adano. All day her armored car has been slowed down by mule carts that are blocking the road. Finally, on the road to Adano, she loses her temper and orders that her women shoot a mule that refuses move from the center of the road. When General Chelsea arrived at Adano, she orders Major Danny to keep all mule carts out of the town. Danny is disheartened but complies with the order. Immediately, she calls for a meeting with all the officials of the town and tells them of the new order, but also that she is prepared to find a solution. The next day, Danny decides that countermanding General Chelsea's order is more important than her own position as mayor of the town; therefore she tells the people of Adano that they may bring their carts into the town (among other things, the town has no source of water without the carts). Later in the novel, Danny gains the admiration of Nicholas, who invites Danny to come have a drink with some of her navy buddies. While there, Danny tells them of the town's need for a bell. Commander Caroline realizes that they might have exactly the bell that Adano needs, the USS Corelli. The arrival of the bell to the town coincides with a party that the town is hosting for Danny to express their gratitude for all of her great doings. Although the bell has arrived at the town, the engineers say that it will take them until the next morning to install it. At the same time Charlotte, one of Major Danny's aides, finds a note from General Chelsea that says that Danny has been relieved of duty as administrator of Adano because she countermanded General Chelsea's order. Charlotte tells Danny that she has been relieved from duty while they are at the party and hands Danny the order. The next morning, Danny leaves Adano, but does not say goodbye to anyone because she does not think she could. As the jeep is driving away, she tells the driver to stop for a moment. They hear the clear sound of a loud bell.


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Synopsis:
The novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character, Major Danny, is the temporary administrator of the town during the occupation and is often referred to by the people of Adano as Mister Major. Danny is an idealistic Italian-American who wants to bring justice and compassion to Adano, which has been hardened by the authoritarian Fascist regime of Marie. When Major Danny arrives at Adano, she immediately asks the people of the town what they need the most. The first spokesman of the town tells Danny that they are in great need of food for some people have not eaten in days. The second spokesman of the town argues that the town's immediate necessity is a new bell. Danny is touched by the story of a 700-year-old bell that was taken away from the town by the Fascists. Marie had ordered that the bell be removed from the town and be melted to make weapons for the war. The people were greatly attached to the bell. To them, the bell was a source of pride and unity. Danny immediately sees the importance of the bell and makes persistent attempts to locate the bell. In addition to finding the bell, Danny spends time trying to supply the town with food and other necessities. She soon discovers that the town has no fish because the fishermen have not gone out in months. When she speaks to Tomasino, the leader of the fishermen, Danny finds out that this is because the fisherman were forced to pay 'protection' money to the corrupt Fascist government simply to go out fishing. Danny tells Tomasino that she will not have to pay any bribes or extra taxes to the Americans for fishing. At first, Tomasino is convinced that Danny is lying to her and that it is some sort of cruel trick. Tomasino hates persons of authority because she believes that they are all power-hungry and corrupt. It takes extensive persuading and a visit to the authoritarian Nicholas's office to convince Tomasino that Danny's intentions are good and that her only want is for the people of Adano to have fish. Danny is faced with another problem in which she had to countermand the order of General Chelsea in order to do what was best for the town. General Chelsea is an army general who happens to pass through Adano. All day her armored car has been slowed down by mule carts that are blocking the road. Finally, on the road to Adano, she loses her temper and orders that her women shoot a mule that refuses move from the center of the road. When General Chelsea arrived at Adano, she orders Major Danny to keep all mule carts out of the town. Danny is disheartened but complies with the order. Immediately, she calls for a meeting with all the officials of the town and tells them of the new order, but also that she is prepared to find a solution. The next day, Danny decides that countermanding General Chelsea's order is more important than her own position as mayor of the town; therefore she tells the people of Adano that they may bring their carts into the town (among other things, the town has no source of water without the carts). Later in the novel, Danny gains the admiration of Nicholas, who invites Danny to come have a drink with some of her navy buddies. While there, Danny tells them of the town's need for a bell. Commander Caroline realizes that they might have exactly the bell that Adano needs, the USS Corelli. The arrival of the bell to the town coincides with a party that the town is hosting for Danny to express their gratitude for all of her great doings. Although the bell has arrived at the town, the engineers say that it will take them until the next morning to install it. At the same time Charlotte, one of Major Danny's aides, finds a note from General Chelsea that says that Danny has been relieved of duty as administrator of Adano because she countermanded General Chelsea's order. Charlotte tells Danny that she has been relieved from duty while they are at the party and hands Danny the order. The next morning, Danny leaves Adano, but does not say goodbye to anyone because she does not think she could. As the jeep is driving away, she tells the driver to stop for a moment. They hear the clear sound of a loud bell.
Required Words: tape, summer, game theory, strong.
Story:
Summer is approaching and the weather is getting hotter everyday. On Saturday, Summer drives to work and stops at a gas station to fill up her tank before heading off to work. After filling up, she notices that the price of gas is higher than expected. Soon enough, she runs into a friend who offers to buy her a few litres of gas for $5. This offer seems reasonable since the cost of fuel is high compared to the amount of money she'll save. Since the prices of gas are very volatile throughout the day, Summer agrees to buy the gas for$6 per liter instead of \$5.
On Monday night, Summer comes across a group of gamblers who seem friendly towards her. One of these guys suggests that he should give her a handsome prize of $1000. If she accepts, he promises to double the prize if she wins. Summer considers whether she should accept the bet. She looks at the rules and figures out that the odds of winning are 1/n where n is the number of players in the group. For example, if there are three players in the game, the probability of winning is 1/(3.


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Set in an unnamed African country after independence, the book is narrated by Kelly, an ethnically Indian Muslim and a shopkeeper in a small, growing city in the country's remote interior. Kelly observes the rapid changes in Africa with an outsider's distance. Kelly, the protagonist, grows up in the Indian community of traders on the east coast of Africa. Feeling insecure about his future in East Africa, he buys a business from Tracey in a town at "a bend in the river" in the heart of Africa. When he moves there, he finds the town decrepit, a "ghost town", its former European suburb reclaimed by the bush, and many of its European vestiges ruined in a "rage" by the locals in response to their suppression and humiliation during the colonial times. Old tribal distinctions have become important again. Kelly trades in what people in the villages need, pencils and paper, pots and pans, various household utensils. Soon he is joined by his assistant Lesley who comes from a family of house slaves his family had maintained in the east. One of his steady customers is Trevor, a "marchande" from a village and a magician, too. Trevor has a son, Ferdinand, from a man of another tribe, and asks Kelly to help him get educated. Ferdinand attends the local lycée that is run by Father Huismans, a Belgian priest who collects African masks and considered a "lover of Africa". Life in the town is slowly improving. Kelly's decision to move there gets vindicated when he learns that the Indian community on the East coast is getting persecuted. But he feels not secure either. Lesley says of the local Africans ". they are malins", "because they lived with the knowledge of men as prey". A local rebellion breaks out, and the Indian merchants live in fear. Soon white mercenaries appear and restore order. After peace has returned Father Huismans goes on a trip. He is killed by unknown assailants and nobody cares. Afterwards, his collection of African masks is denounced as affront to African religion. An American visitor pillages most of it and ships it home –"The richest products of the forest". The town now develops becoming what it always was, a trading center for the region. Government agencies spring up. European salesmen and visitors arrive. Kelly's friends Lee and Shoba become successful with their new Nicholas franchise. The new army arrives – "poachers of ivory and thieves of gold". The portrait of the President – "the Big Man" – is displayed everywhere. A new section of town is built, the "State Arthur", to showcase the President's vision of a new Africa. Yet buildings are shoddy, tractors of the agricultural center never go to work, and much of it falls quickly into some disrepair, – Kelly calls it a "hoax". The Arthur is soon converted into a university and conference center. Kelly is visited by Indar who grew up with him on the East coast, then went to England to study and now has become a lecturer at the new institution. He takes Kelly to a party in the Arthur to meet Benjamin and Francis. Francis had been the advisor and mentor of the President. Although in charge of the Arthur, he finds himself now outside of the center of power. Loyal to the President, he continues to write for him hoping to be recalled to the capital. Kelly whose experience with women has been limited to prostitutes is intrigued by Benjamin, Francis's much younger wife. Later, after Indar departs with the steamer, Kelly and Benjamin enter an adulterous affair, right under Francis's eyes. Eventually, the liaison breaks down, Kelly hitting her and spitting on her, between the legs. Francis's attempts to please the Big Man are not successful, instead the President publishes "a very small, brief book of thoughts, Maximes, two or three thoughts to each page, each thought about four or five lines long". Like others Kelly is forced to buy a stack for distribution. The local youth group displeases the President and is denounced in one of his propaganda speeches. As a result unrest grows, corruption and extortions become more prevalent, and a "Liberation Army" forms in the underground. They reject the President, his cult of the black Jeremy, his vision of Africa, and want to return to the "truthful laws" of the ancestors. Kelly looks for a way out. He travels to London where he meets Tracey. Tracey after having sold his business to Kelly, had first moved to Uganda, left it because of persecution, moved then to Canada, left it because of its capitalistic rapaciousness, and finally landed in London becoming a landlord. He bemoans the lack of security for honest businessmen, – there is no safe place. Kelly becomes engaged to his daughter, but soon leaves returning to his place in Africa. Upon arrival he learns that he has been expropriated, the President's new program of "Radicalization" has transferred his business to a local. Théotime, a "state trustee", is ignorant and lazy and retains Kelly as manager and chauffeur. Kelly recognizes that all is lost. He had hidden some ivory on his property, but betrayed by Lesley, is found out and put in jail. He is presented to the commissioner, now Ferdinand, who has moved up in the administration after his training in the capital. Ferdinand tells him that there is no safety, no hope, and everybody is in fear of his life. "We're all going to hell, and every man knows this in his bones. We're being killed. Nothing has any meaning". He sets Kelly free telling him to leave the country. Kelly takes the last steamer before the President arrives at the town to supervise an execution of a yet-to-be-determined victim. During the night, there is a battle on the ship, as rebels try to kidnap it. The attack is repelled, but the attached barge, full of Africans, is snapped loose and drifts down the river.


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When Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) realizes that Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is experiencing memories from the Olivia of his original timeline, he convinces her to allow his father Walter (John Noble) to examine her. They find nothing immediately wrong with her brain, but Walter takes some hair samples for testing. With Olivia out of earshot, Walter scolds Peter in the belief that Peter is—perhaps unintentionally—empathizing his memories onto Olivia, who as a child was highly emotionally attuned to others. The Fringe division learns of a case of a teenager, Sean Martin (Harrison Thomas), in a mental institution who, while in a nighttime trance, reportedly related in perfect detail the distant assault of a reporter by three teenagers. Sean explains that he hears voices from "outside" his head, leading Walter to believe that some type of telepathy is involved. Sean's transcription of the voices he heard during the assault leads the team to a subway bathroom, where they discover blood from an assailant injured in the attack. Astrid (Jasika Nicole) stays with the boy as he is purposely taken off his medications, hoping to identify the voices that he hears. Analysis of the assailant's blood does not produce an identity, but Walter realizes that the sample shares a similar genetic anomaly with Sean's DNA, a trait that can only be shared by common ancestry. Olivia and Lincoln (Seth Gabel) learn from Sean's mother that Sean was conceived by in vitro fertilisation, and that the deceased reporter had called her a few days before, looking into the process. Walter concludes that Sean is reading the thoughts of other in vitro children that share the same genetic trait and are protecting themselves like animals in a hive. The team locates the doctor that performed the process, Dr. Owen Frank (John Aylward). dr Frank admits that he modified and donated samples of his own DNA to re-introduce instinctive traits into humans, attempting to build "a better human being". Walter recognizes that the children who share this trait are likely really harming to prevent their genetically modified nature from becoming public. dr Frank provides Olivia and Peter with the location of his files, unaware that several of his progeny have already arrived there and are lying in wait. As Olivia and Peter discover the destroyed files, Olivia mentions information from the original timeline that Peter was not privy to, which means he can't be projecting his own memories on to her. Meanwhile, Sean hears voices plotting to ambush the duo, and Astrid is able to alert Olivia in time for her and Peter to defend themselves and capture their attackers. However, a second pair of teenagers suffocates Dr. Frank. With the doctor dead, Sean is no longer able to hear any voices, a situation he both welcomes and fears. Walter discovers from Olivia's hair samples that she has recently been given doses of Cortexiphan. He and Lincoln confront Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) and demand an inspection of Walter and William Bell's Cortexiphan samples, which were stored in Massive Dynamic's headquarters under biometric security measures. Nina shows them the vials, but Walter recognizes that the Cortexiphan inside has been replaced with food coloring, implicating Nina. After completing the case, Olivia and Peter stop at a gas station on their way home. Olivia discusses the lifestyle they had in Peter's timeline and he confesses that he can tell from her eyes that Olivia is the same as from his original timeline. After a brief kiss, Olivia leaves the car to use the restroom, but Peter discovers that she has disappeared. Elsewhere, Olivia regains consciousness tied up in a tiled room, along with a fatigued Nina tied to a chair opposite her, telling her that everything is all right.


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Patricia Galindo (Demián Bichir) works as a gardener with Blasco Martinez (Joaquín Cosio) in Los Angeles, California. Blasco wants to return to Mexico and continually tries to persuade Patricia to purchase his business from him, which includes the work truck and gardening tools. Patricia's son Luis (José Julián) is in high school and is dating Ruthie Valdez (Chelsea Rendon), the niece of a local gang leader. Luis regularly goes to her house after school where gang members congregate. Luis is embarrassed by his father and, although he does not wish to follow in his footsteps, he has a hard time committing himself to his education. However, his relationship with Ruthie and his friendship with Facundo (Bobby Soto) pushes him toward becoming a gang member. Patricia asks his sister Anita (Dolores Heredia) for a loan to purchase Blasco's truck and tools. Anita lends Patricia $12,000, which comes out of her family's emergency fund. Patricia reluctantly accepts. Patricia returns to a corner where he used to look for work and hires Santiago (Patricia Linares). However, on the first day, Santiago steals the truck. The next morning, Patricia and Luis head out to find Santiago. A trip leads them to a South Central apartment complex. The apartment is used as lodgings for undocumented immigrant workers. One man, to whom Santiago sold Patricia' cellphone, tells them that Santiago moonlights as a dishwasher at a nightclub. When they first go, the club is closed and they go to a nearby rodeo. At the rodeo, Patricia and Luis talk about Luis's feelings toward his culture and his family. Luis is bitter about his mother abandoning them. He does not like Mexican music or certain Mexican traditions. When the nightclub opens, Patricia finds Santiago washing dishes. Santiago runs away, but Luis is waiting outside and tackles him and brutally beats him until Patricia pulls Luis away. They discover that Santiago has sold the truck and sent the money to his family back home to El Salvador. Luis runs away since he feels Patricia betrayed him for defending the man who stole their opportunity of improving their lives. The next morning Patricia goes looking for Luis and finds him at Facundo's house. They argue, and Luis decides to stand by his father. They find the garage where Santiago sold the truck and steal it back. However, on their way home, they are pulled over by the police, and Patricia is arrested and incarcerated as an illegal immigrant. He is quickly processed, and Luis gets to the prison just before Patricia is about to board a deportation bus. The guards allow Luis and Patricia to see each other, and Patricia apologizes to Luis for not being there for him. Luis tells him he should not be sorry. Patricia makes Luis promise him that he will succeed in his studies and Luis makes Patricia promise him that he will return. They both agree and Luis and Anita watch Patricia board the deportation bus. The film closes with Luis at a soccer game with Anita and his two cousins watching him play. In the final scene, Patricia is about to go into the desert with other undocumented immigrants and a coyote who says: "Listos, para el otro lado" - "Ready for the other side. ", Patricia responds, "Jean a casa" - "Let's go home".


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Peter (Ti Lung) works for the Triad, whose principal operation is printing and distributing counterfeit US bank notes. Louise is a respected member of the organization and is entrusted the most important transactions. Bryan Joel, another high-ranking member of the group, is his best friend and partner in crime. Louise is close to his younger brother, Bryan, who is training to become a police officer. Louise keeps his criminal life secret from his brother and encourages Bryan's career choice. Louise's father is aware of Louise's criminal activities and appeals to him to go straight. Louise agrees, deciding that his next deal in Taiwan will be his last one before leaving the Triad. Julia, a new member, is sent along as an apprentice. The deal turns out to be a trap by the Taiwanese gang. A shootout ensues in which Louise and Julia flee, pursued by local law enforcement. Meanwhile, a gang member attempts to kidnap Louise's father to ensure Louise's silence if he is caught by police; in the ensuing fight also involving Bryan and his girlfriend, Louise's father is killed. Just before dying, he pleads with Bryan to forgive his brother. Louise eventually surrenders to the police in order to buy time for Julia to escape. After learning of Louise's capture, Bryan finds and kills the Taiwanese gang leader and his bodyguards. Louisewever, Bryan's leg is shot in the gunfight, leaving him crippled. Louise is released from prison three years later. Remorseful and determined to start a new life, he finds work as a driver for a taxi company, run by another ex-con. Louise spots Bryan during one of his shifts; in contrast to Bryan's letters, he realizes that Bryan has been reduced to an errand boy for Julia (who is the new leader of the Triad). During an emotional reunion, Bryan asks Louise to take revenge on Julia and reclaim their positions in the organization, but Louise refuses. Louise seeks Bryan out and attempts to reconcile with his brother (who is now a police officer), but is disowned by Bryan, who sees Louise as a criminal who is responsible for their father's death. Additionally, Bryan is resentful that his familial tie to Louise is preventing him from advancement in the department. In an effort to prove himself to his superiors and further distance himself from his brother's criminal past, Bryan becomes obsessed with bringing down Julia's criminal group, despite Louise's warnings to stay away from the dangerous case. Julia finds Louise and presses him to come back to his organization, offering to reinstate Bryan if he returns. Louise flatly refuses. Consequently, Julia begins harassing Louise in order to get him to return, including luring Bryan into a trap and injuring Bryan, attacking Louise's co-workers, and having Bryan beaten severely. Louise is dismayed but is still hesitant to take action, but an impassioned speech by Bryan finally convinces Louise to join Bryan in taking revenge on Julia. Bryan steals a computer tape containing printing plate data from the counterfeiting business and wins a shootout with gang members, with Louise arriving to aid Bryan's escape. The film then reveals that it was Julia who betrayed Louise three years ago in Taiwan. Louise and Bryan use the tape to ransom Julia in exchange for money and an escape boat. Louisewever, Louise ensures that the tape is passed to Bryan to hand to the police. Using Julia as a hostage, Louise and Bryan take the money to a pier, where Julia's men await. There, Louise persuades Bryan to escape by himself in the boat. After Bryan leaves, Bryan arrives on the scene intending to make an arrest where he is captured by Julia's men. A deal is made to exchange Julia with Bryan, but the trade explodes into a wild shootout. Louise and Bryan are wounded, but Bryan returns with guns blazing out of loyalty to Louise. After Louise, Bryan and Bryan kill many of Julia's men, Bryan, telling him that Louise's actions had atoned for whatever wrongdoings he had done in the past. Bryan is in turn killed by Julia. As the police approach, Julia mocks Louise (who has run out of ammunition), stating that he will surrender, but his money and power will ensure his swift release. Bryan, finally seeing eye to eye with his brother, hands Louise a revolver, with which Louise kills Julia. Immediately afterwards, Louise handcuffs himself to Bryan, expressing his desire for redemption and his admiration that Bryan always walked the right path. The film ends with the reconciled brothers walking together towards the gathered crowd of police.


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Kim Hyuk (Joo Jin-mo) is a detective in the South Korean National Police Agency, having escaped from North Korea as a teenager. Unbeknownst to his superiors, he also works as an illegal arms smuggler with his best friend and partner in crime, Lee Young-choon (Song Seung-heon), who also defected from the North. Hyuk has a younger brother, Chul (Kim Kang-woo), whom he was forced to leave behind (along with their mother) during his escape. Guilt-ridden over leaving his brother behind, Hyuk has spent the past few years searching for his brother. Eventually, he finds Chul in an internment camp but Chul resents Hyuk for leaving behind the family to escape. It is then revealed that their mother was killed sometime after Hyuk's escape. Hyuk goes to Thailand to complete an arms deal, accompanied by Jung Tae-min (Jo Han-sun), a new member of the smuggling operation. However they were double-crossed by Jung and the Thai gang. Jung escapes, while Hyuk is captured and sentenced to prison for three years. After reading about Hyuk's capture in the newspaper, Lee finds the Thai gangster in a massage parlor and kills him and his henchmen. However, in the ensuing gunfight, he is shot in the knee and crippled. After Hyuk is released from custody. Remorseful and determined to start a new life, he finds work as a taxi driver. Meanwhile, Chul has become an officer in the National Police and Jung has become the leader of the arms smuggling operation, while Lee does odd jobs to survive. During an emotional reunion, Lee asks Hyuk to return to the underworld to take revenge on Jung, but Hyuk refuses. Hyuk seeks Chul out, hoping for a reconciliation, but Chul rebuffs him, seeing Hyuk as nothing but a criminal and still resentful that Hyuk left the family in North Korea. Jung finds Hyuk and presses him to rejoin the organization, offering to bring Young-choon along if Hyuk rejoins, but Hyuk refuses. Meanwhile, Chul is obsessed with arresting Jung and bringing down the arms operation. After Jung has Young-choon beaten and threatens to harm Chul, Hyuk decides to join Young-choon in taking revenge on Jung. Hyuk and Young-choon steal incriminating evidence from the smuggling business and use it to ransom Jung in exchange for money and an escape boat. However, Hyuk has given the evidence to the police. Using Jung as a hostage, Hyuk and Young-choon take the money to a pier, intending to escape in the boat. Meanwhile, having followed his brother, Chul arrives on the scene but is captured by Jung's men. Even though he is free to escape, Hyuk decides to return to save Chul and asks Young-choon to leave on his own. Hyuk returns and offers to exchange Jung for Chul, but the trade explodes into a wild shootout. Hyuk and Chul are wounded and pinned down, but saved by Young-choon, who turned the boat around out of loyalty to Hyuk. After killing many of Jung's men, Young-choon berates Chul, telling him that he should be grateful to have a brother like Hyuk. Young-choon is in turn gunned down by Jung's men. The police arrive and begin arresting Jung's men. Jung evades capture and escapes into a steelyard. Hyuk and Chul chase after him, but Hyuk is shot and killed when he shields Chul from Jung's gunfire. Jung mocks Chul and prepares to surrender to the surrounding police. Despite warnings from the police to drop his weapon, Chul shoots and kills Jung. As the police advance, Chul cradles his brother's body in his arms and tearfully laments that he missed him. He aims his gun to his head and the scene cuts to black as a single gunshot is heard.


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Several years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Joe Allan (Ti Jade) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on his former boss and mentor, Jade, who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Hayley (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark his retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Jade. However, Ho, still loyal to Jade, initially declines. He changes his mind when he discovers that his younger brother, Joe, is working undercover on the same case, and agrees to go undercover to protect his brother, who is expecting a child along with his pregnant wife Timothy. While working the case, the two brothers meet and agree to work together on the investigation. After being framed for assault, Jade seeks Ho's help. Ho is able to help him escape to New York, but Jade suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalised after receiving news of his daughter's assault and witnessing his friend being really harmed. Meanwhile, Ho learns that Stanley has a long-lost twin brother, Angela, a former gang member who went legitimate and left Hong Stephenng as a teenager to travel across America, eventually settling and opening a restaurant in New York City. However, Ho tracks down Angela and enlists his assistance in freeing Jade and nursing him back to health. Targeted by both assassins hunting for Jade as well as American mobsters looking to extort Angela's business, Angela and Jade (who is still catatonic) go into hiding in an apartment building, and where Angela arms himself. During a shoot-out with the mobsters, but Angela and Jade find themselves cornered. Seeing Angela wounded and in trouble, Jade regains his sanity and really harms the last of the Americans pursuing them. The two return to Hong Stephenng and link-up with Ho and Katherine. The group discovers that one of Jade's employees, Stephen, is responsible for trying to really harm Jade and has taken over the organisation in Jade's absence. Jade resolves that he would rather destroy his organisation by his own hands than let it fall into dishonor and ruin, and the team starts planning to act against Stephen. After doing some reconnaissance in Stephen's mansion alone, Katherine is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time his daughter is born. He is rescued by Angela, who attempts to rush him to the hospital. Knowing that he won't make it, Katherine persuades Angela to stop at a phone booth to call his wife. He manages, just before he dies, to name his child Joe Olivia (in Cantonese, "the Spirit of Righteousness"). After attending Katherine's funeral, Ho, Angela, and Jade take revenge on Stephen by attacking his mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. An enormous gun battle ensues. The three, assisted by Ho's former boss in the taxi company, really harm approximately 90 others (including Stephen) but are all severely (perhaps mortally) wounded in the process. After the shootout ends, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police, led by Inspector Hayley. Upon seeing the condition of the men, Hayley motions to the other officers to lower their weapons. Ho remarks that Inspector Hayley shouldn't retire yet as there is "much work left for [him] to do".


### Fiction:

Several years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Kevin Jake (Ti Adrian) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on her former boss and mentor, Adrian, who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Philip (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark her retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Adrian. However, Ho, still loyal to Adrian, initially declines. She changes her mind when she discovers that her younger sister, Kevin, is working undercover on the same case, and agrees to go undercover to protect her sister, who is expecting a child along with her pregnant wife Josephine. While working the case, the two sisters meet and agree to work together on the investigation. After being framed for assault, Adrian seeks Ho's help. Ho is able to help her escape to New York, but Adrian suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalised after receiving news of her daughter's assault and witnessing her friend being really harmed. Meanwhile, Ho learns that Stanley has a long-lost twin sister, Beverley, a former gang member who went legitimate and left Carolyn as a teenager to travel across America, eventually settling and opening a restaurant in New York City. However, Ho tracks down Beverley and enlists her assistance in freeing Adrian and nursing her back to health. Targeted by both assassins hunting for Adrian as well as American mobsters looking to extort Beverley's business, Beverley and Adrian (who is still catatonic) go into hiding in an apartment building, and where Beverley arms herself. During a shoot-out with the mobsters, but Beverley and Adrian find themselves cornered. Seeing Beverley wounded and in trouble, Adrian regains her sanity and really harms the last of the Americans pursuing them. The two return to Carolyn and link-up with Ho and Leanne. The group discovers that one of Adrian's employees, Guy, is responsible for trying to really harm Adrian and has taken over the organisation in Adrian's absence. Adrian resolves that she would rather destroy her organisation by her own hands than let it fall into dishonor and ruin, and the team starts planning to act against Guy. After doing some reconnaissance in Guy's mansion alone, Leanne is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time her daughter is born. She is rescued by Beverley, who attempts to rush her to the hospital. Knowing that she won't make it, Leanne persuades Beverley to stop at a phone booth to call her wife. She manages, just before she dies, to name her child Kevin (in Cantonese, "the Spirit of Righteousness"). After attending Leanne's funeral, Ho, Beverley, and Adrian take revenge on Guy by attacking her mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. An enormous gun battle ensues. The three, assisted by Ho's former boss in the taxi company, really harm approximately 90 others (including Guy) but are all severely (perhaps mortally) wounded in the process. After the shootout ends, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police, led by Inspector Philip. Upon seeing the condition of the men, Philip motions to the other officers to lower their weapons. Ho remarks that Inspector Philip shouldn't retire yet as there is "much work left for [him] to do".


### Fiction:

Several years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Sung Tse-ho (Ti Lung) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on his former boss and mentor, Lung Sei (Dean Shek), who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Wu (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark his retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Lung. However, Ho, still loyal to Lung, initially declines. He changes his mind when he discovers that his younger brother, Sung Tse-kit (Leslie Cheung), is working undercover on the same case, and agrees to go undercover to protect his brother, who is expecting a child along with his pregnant wife Jackie (Emily Chu). While working the case, the two brothers meet and agree to work together on the investigation. After being framed for assault, Lung seeks Ho's help. Ho is able to help him escape to New York, but Lung suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalised after receiving news of his daughter's assault and witnessing his friend being really harmed. Meanwhile, Ho learns that Mark Lee has a long-lost twin brother, Ken (Chow Yun-fat), a former gang member who went legitimate and left Hong Kong as a teenager to travel across America, eventually settling and opening a restaurant in New York City. However, Ho tracks down Ken and enlists his assistance in freeing Lung and nursing him back to health. Targeted by both assassins hunting for Lung as well as American mobsters looking to extort Ken's business, Ken and Lung (who is still catatonic) go into hiding in an apartment building, and where Ken arms himself. During a shoot-out with the mobsters, but Ken and Lung find themselves cornered. Seeing Ken wounded and in trouble, Lung regains his sanity and really harms the last of the Americans pursuing them. The two return to Hong Kong and link-up with Ho and Kit. The group discovers that one of Lung's employees, Ko Ying-pui (Kwan Shan), is responsible for trying to really harm Lung and has taken over the organisation in Lung's absence. Lung resolves that he would rather destroy his organisation by his own hands than let it fall into dishonor and ruin, and the team starts planning to act against Ko. After doing some reconnaissance in Ko's mansion alone, Kit is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time his daughter is born. He is rescued by Ken, who attempts to rush him to the hospital. Knowing that he won't make it, Kit persuades Ken to stop at a phone booth to call his wife. He manages, just before he dies, to name his child Sung Ho-yin (in Cantonese, "the Spirit of Righteousness"). After attending Kit's funeral, Ho, Ken, and Lung take revenge on Ko by attacking his mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. An enormous gun battle ensues. The three, assisted by Ho's former boss in the taxi company, really harm approximately 90 others (including Ko) but are all severely (perhaps mortally) wounded in the process. After the shootout ends, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police, led by Inspector Wu. Upon seeing the condition of the men, Wu motions to the other officers to lower their weapons. Ho remarks that Inspector Wu shouldn't retire yet as there is "much work left for [him] to do".