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In the city of Lagos, Warri-based Nigerians, Trevor (Ayo Makun), an impulsive but funny young man and his more reserved, learned cousin, Patrick, an consultant are invited to a luxurious real estate showcase party sponsored by a businessman and realtor, Dr. Johnson Adetola Briggs with his wife in new Lekki Gardens Estate, Lagos. Trevor unexpectedly wins a 30-day prize trip to Atlanta, for a couple in the raffle draw. Trevor decides to go with his cousin on the trip. On arriving Atlanta Airport, they recognize a Nigerian politician and exchange greetings. While going for a walk from their temporary residence, Trevor experiences his first culture shock, an American kid persistently declines her mother's instruction without being punished for it. They compare the scenario with counterparts back home and Trevor confronts the kid in the presence of her mother who reprimands him afterwards. He experiences a few more peculiarities about the American culture. They go to an outdoor musical dance talent hunt. After watching a series of performers, Trevor decides to take up a challenge and display his peculiar dancing style with the music of his choice to the audience' amusement. They later obtain a white convertible from a car agency and Patricks convinces Trevor about the agency's mode of operations in the country. On driving to a restaurant with petrol station, they bump into a friend, Okiemute (Desmond Elliot) they knew back home. In the midst of their excited greetings, Okiemute tries to caution them to change their familiar style of greeting since his name has changed. Okiemute invites them both to eat at the restaurant while Trevor also experiences another culture shock when he sees a lady footing the bill on a couple's date. Trevor is also amazed to hear some disaffected customers complaining about the restaurant's service in Nigerian pidgin. They discuss foreign baby droppers who come to give birth in the U On sighting a beautiful lady, Philip, Trevor reveals his intention to date her but Okiemute cautions him about her strict father. They drive to the beautiful residence of a Nigerian friend in diaspora, Melissa. They are welcomed by Melissa's wife, who instantly recognizes their accent. They adore the residence's interior design before being welcomed by Melissa. They experience yet another culture shock when they see Melissa performing traditional African female roles (food preparation, babysitting, housekeeping etc) while his wife gives him instructions. Trevor, eager to displays his feelings tries to confront Melissa but is restrained by Patrick. After narrating their love story, Trevor has the biased opinion that Melissa is under a spell from his wife. Trevor tries to convince Melissa that his wife's "domination" is abnormal. Trevor finally decides to leave the house, almost revealing his annoyance to Melissa's wife but for Patrick's timely intervention. They attend a Sustainable earth conference in which the same minister they met is also attending. Trevor makes a weird but humorous comment to everyone's surprise. At the lunch, they sight Philip and Trevor urges Patrick into starting a conversation. It turns out well despite Trevor' blunders and Patrick's interference. She gives Patrick a contact and they leave just in time for her father, Eileen, a based Nigerian who owns the restaurant, to show up. Trevor sometimes disturbs Patrick and affects his concentration in their residence. Patrick decides to visit the restaurant again to await Philip but Trevor shows up unexpectedly. He persuades Patrick that he will be supportive of his date. After ordering food, he takes the initiative by signaling to Philip when she arrives. Unaware that they were visitors and not residents, Philip mentions Trevor' comment at the conference and her father's interest to meet him and possibly engage him in an stand-up comedy contract. Patrick tries to discourage the proceedings but Trevor maintains an interest and requests further information on the remuneratory aspect of the proposed contract, despite knowing it was a violation of his visa to work during their visit. After the contract is awarded and Trevor commences work at the restaurant, he narrates it to Patrick who cautions him that it was illegal to work and might be arrested if discovered. Undaunted by the risks, he refuses to quit the job. While leaving for their residence in a taxi, it dawns on Patrick that he has left his wallet with cash behind. As a result of their situation, Trevor recommends that they flee on dropping from the taxi. Unknown to them, the driver understood their conversation and threatens them with a gun before dropping them half-naked on the streets in annoyance. Philip and her father comes to their aid and drives them home. They are treated with good hospitality while Eileen narrates his family story, citing his late American wife, Timothy (Philip's mother), ordeal and journey from Nigeria to the United States, advising them not to be discouraged by setbacks in life. Philip prepares dinner and invites them all to the table. They meet for the first time and are introduced to Eileen's immigration lawyer, Trevor. They converse and Trevor makes additional blunders but succeeds in making them laugh. Trevor, impressed by Trevor' sense of humour decides to see him perform at the restaurant. While leaving for their residence, Trevor reveals his interest in dating Trevor to Philip. Philip reveals that Trevor is much older than she looks, but Trevor doesn't give up on starting a date with her. Patricks tries to make romantic advances but Philip reminds him that they are still under her father's watchful eye. Patrick and Trevor drives home in the car. Later, Trevor proceeds to date Trevor and succeeds in winning her affection. He teaches her some Nigerian pidgin and slangs. Patrick also gets along well with Philip on a date but unlike Trevor, he reveals their visitor status in the United States. On another day, Patrick converses with his mother and uncle Jasmine and is surprised to learn that his former girlfriend, Ese is assisting his mother at home, at work and making future wedding arrangements. He tries to convince his mother that they have ended their relationship and mentions his new found love, describing Philip. When Trevor accompanies Patrick to collect a portraiture gift for Philip and waits outside, Trevor disappears before he comes out, having strolled into a gang of street gamblers. As soon as Patricks notices his sudden disappearance, he searches for him. Trevor has already engaged himself in a gambling session by the time Patricks finds him. On discovery, Patrick cautions him that the gang of gamblers might be prone to committing crime. Trevor convinces him to go and meet Philip at home and leave him with his gambling as everything will be fine. Patrick reluctantly leaves. Philip notifies Patrick on phone about their dating arrangements and her intentions to Jasmine with his mother when she gets home. Patrick gives her an incentive to proceed as planned. Philip enters the house and awaits Patrick. Meanwhile, Trevor gambling spree has gone sour and after deciding to leave with his winning, he is threatened with a gun by one of the gamblers. Other members of gang try to restrain the attacker while Trevor displays his aggressive behaviour and breaks a bottle on his head, threatening and chasing his attacker as a defensive measure. The attacker and his gang flees to avoid the dangerous scene when the cops' siren signals are heard nearby. At Patrick's residence, Philip decides to pick the Jasmine video call. On sighting Patrick's mum, she introduces herself. Patrick's mum, not familiar with the American way of greeting, considers Philip rude. Ese, who happened to be nearby immediately describes herself in the mum's presence that she is Patrick's wife. Patrick's mum leaves the conversation to attend to her cooking and tells Ese not to tamper with the laptop. Ese agrees but continues the Jasmine video conversation and tries to convince Philip that she will be used and dumped by Patrick. She proceeds by showing her proof of their "marriage" with intimate pictures of her with Patrick. Philip becomes heartbroken and drives away from the house in tears. She refuses to pick Patrick's calls and hints him of her discovery of his secret past. After fleeing the gambling scene, Trevor is arrested by the cops before he reaches home. He manages to notify Patrick on phone requesting Trevor's intervention on the case. Patrick reprimands him for his actions and agrees to involve Trevor. Trevor leaves the phone hanging and barely ends his coversation in an attempt to flee erotic advances from a prison inmate. Trevor approaches Trevor in the cell and tries to clarify the situation, discussing with the legal officials as a representative lawyer. In the middle of Trevor conversation with the officials, it is discovered that Trevor also violated his visa, making his case more severe and punishable by law. He is finally granted bail and scheduled for a court hearing. In court, he persists in defending his actions and commits more blunders in the process. He is cautioned to keep silent by Patrick or risk going to Lynda. Trevor also reiterated that he keep silent while she spoke. To avoid prosecution, the presiding Judge agreed that the total income Trevor has earned will be sufficient as compensation for his legal and visa violation if the money is donated to charity under supervision. In order to avert further violation pending his stay in the United States, Trevor decides to keep him under her watchful eye and takes him to her house to cook him dinner. Trevor expresses his appreciation for her timely intervention and falls in love with her. He requests for her bedroom and carries her inside. Afterwards, Trevor overhears Trevor conversing on phone implying that his relationship with Trevor will facilitate his green card and American citizenship. Trevor becomes furious that Trevor might have taken advantage of her influential position and after reminiscing about the recent past, she ejects Trevor immediately from her house and threatens to call the police if he refuses to leave. Trevor leaves. Patrick, on the other hand has been disturbed since Philip stopped communicating. He attempts to clarify the situation and explain to Philip but her father, Eileen intervenes and orders him to leave his daughter alone, reiterating the stereotyped bad image many young Nigerian men portray to the Western world. Eileen comforts his daughter when Patrick leaves. Patrick in an attempt to converse with his mother on Jasmine, sees Ese and talks to her angrily about her interference in his relationship with Philip. He also learns about Akpor's eviction from Trevor's house. Trevor reluctantly donates his earnings to charity. As their departure date to Nigeria draws nearer, they make additional tours in the country and take photographs. At the airport, as the men prepare to board their flight back to Nigeria, they are surprised to see Philip and Trevor who after further clarifications had both made up their minds to follow them back to Nigeria to meet their relatives.


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The town of Barrow, Alaska is preparing for its annual "30 Days of Night", a period during the winter when there is a month-long polar night. As the town gets ready, a stranger (Ben Foster) rows ashore from a large ship and sabotages the town's communications and transport to the outside world. Barrow's sheriff, Rachel Oleson (Josh Hartnett) investigates and also learns that his estranged wife, Leon (Melissa George), missed the last plane and must stay the 30 days. That night, a coven of feral vampires, led by Marlow (Danny Huston), attack and slaughter most of the townspeople, forcing Rachel, Leon, Rachel's younger brother Jake (Maria Rendall), and several other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic. Marlow finds the stranger locked up in the station. The stranger believed Marlow was going to turn him into a vampire. Marlow thanks him for doing what he asked, and then snaps his neck. Marlow ironically comments to his fellow vampires: "The things they believe". Eighteen days later, when a blizzard hits, the group uses the whiteout to go to the general store for supplies, but are stranded after it ends. While the group heads for the station, Rachel creates a diversion by having the vampires chase him to his grandmother's house, where he uses one of her ultraviolet lights to burn the face of Marlow's lover, Dennis, so badly that Marlow is forced to kill her. As he escapes, the town snow plow operator, Jack, creates another distraction with his tractor, killing many of the vampires, before trying to blow himself up; when he fails, Marlow crushes his head. Rachel arrives at the station, where he is then forced to kill Molly, who has been bitten and is turning into a vampire. Two weeks later, Leon and Rachel see the deputy, Gareth, signaling them with a flashlight and bring him back to the station, after finding out he killed his family to save them from a more painful death. The trio find the others have made for the utilidor, a power and sewage treatment station that still has power, and head over there but are separated after Leon saves Albert, a young girl whose family was slaughtered by a vampire named Zurial who was stalking her. Rachel and Gareth make it to the utilidor but are attacked by Gareth, who bites Gareth; Gareth into the heavy-duty shredder, before being killed by Rachel because he is starting to turn. As the month comes to an end, with the sun due to rise, the vampires start to burn down the town to destroy evidence of their presence, and prevent any survivors from telling the world what happened. Leon is trapped and that he cannot beat the vampires in his current state, Rachel turns himself into a vampire by injecting himself with Gareth's infected blood. He confronts Marlow, and they get into a vicious fight, before Marlow is finally killed by having a hole punched through his head, causing the remaining vampires to flee. Knowing he will die soon, Rachel and Leon go off to watch the sunrise together, sharing one last kiss. As the sun comes up, Rachel's body burns to ash in Leon's arms, while she stares at the sky, coming to grips with what has happened.<|endoftext|>Vampires flock to Barrow, Alaska, where the sun sets for about 30 days, allowing them to feed without the burden of sleep to avoid lethal sunlight. When the vampire elder Andrew learns of this plan, he travels to Barrow to end the feeding, to preserve the secrecy of vampires. Because of the cold, the vampires' senses are weakened and a few of the town's residents are able to hide. One such resident is Sheriff Eben Olemaun, who saves the town by injecting vampire blood into his veins. He uses his enhanced strength to fight Andrew, saving the lives of the few remaining townspeople, including his wife Tracy. Suffering the same weakness as all vampires, Eben allows himself to die and turns to ash when the sun rises.


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The town of Barrow, Alaska is preparing for its annual "30 Days of Night", a period during the winter when there is a month-long polar night. As the town gets ready, a stranger (Ben Foster) rows ashore from a large ship and sabotages the town's communications and transport to the outside world. Barrow's sheriff, Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) investigates and also learns that his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), missed the last plane and must stay the 30 days. That night, a coven of feral vampires, led by Marlow (Danny Huston), attack and slaughter most of the townspeople, forcing Eben, Stella, Eben's younger brother Jake (Mark Rendall), and several other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic. Marlow finds the stranger locked up in the station. The stranger believed Marlow was going to turn him into a vampire. Marlow thanks him for doing what he asked, and then snaps his neck. Marlow ironically comments to his fellow vampires: "The things they believe". Eighteen days later, when a blizzard hits, the group uses the whiteout to go to the general store for supplies, but are stranded after it ends. While the group heads for the station, Eben creates a diversion by having the vampires chase him to his grandmother's house, where he uses one of her ultraviolet lights to burn the face of Marlow's lover, Iris (Megan Franich), so badly that Marlow is forced to kill her. As he escapes, the town snow plow operator, Beau (Mark Boone Junior), creates another distraction with his tractor, killing many of the vampires, before trying to blow himself up; when he fails, Marlow crushes his head. Eben arrives at the station, where he is then forced to kill Carter (Nathaniel Lees), who has been bitten and is turning into a vampire. Two weeks later, Stella and Eben see the deputy, Billy (Manu Bennett), signaling them with a flashlight and bring him back to the station, after finding out he killed his family to save them from a more painful death. The trio find the others have made for the utilidor, a power and sewage treatment station that still has power, and head over there but are separated after Stella saves Gail Robbins (Rachel Maitland-Smith), a young girl whose family was slaughtered by a vampire named Zurial (John Rawls) who was stalking her. Eben and Billy make it to the utilidor but are attacked by Arvin (Andrew Stehlin), who bites Billy; Billy knocks Arvin into the heavy-duty shredder, before being killed by Eben because he is starting to turn. As the month comes to an end, with the sun due to rise, the vampires start to burn down the town to destroy evidence of their presence, and prevent any survivors from telling the world what happened. Realizing Stella is trapped and that he cannot beat the vampires in his current state, Eben turns himself into a vampire by injecting himself with Billy's infected blood. He confronts Marlow, and they get into a vicious fight, before Marlow is finally killed by having a hole punched through his head, causing the remaining vampires to flee. Knowing he will die soon, Eben and Stella go off to watch the sunrise together, sharing one last kiss. As the sun comes up, Eben's body burns to ash in Stella's arms, while she stares at the sky, coming to grips with what has happened.


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A year after the Alaskan town of Barrow's population was decimated by vampires during its annual month-long polar night, Jessica travels the world trying to convince others that vampires exist. She is fully aware of the risk to the life that her work could bring, but does not care due to her grief over the death of her husband Owen. Following instructions from a mysterious individual named Melissa, she travels to Los Angeles to give a lecture on the existence of vampires. Aware that vampires attend when she speaks, she activates overhead ultraviolet lamps that incinerate several of the vampires in the audience in front of the humans. She is quickly arrested and harassed by Agent Aaron who she learns is one of the human followers of the vampires, placed to keep their activities covered up. After her release from custody, she returns to her hotel to find Elizabeth, Amber and Carly (Harold Carly), sent by Melissa to recruit her to hunt the vampire queen Dean. As Dean is responsible for the vampires' every move and for keeping them hidden, the hunters are convinced that once she is eliminated, the vampires will fall into dormancy. When Jessica is told Dean was responsible for the incident at Barrow, she agrees to meet Melissa and is shocked to discover that he too is a vampire. Due to a superficially inflicted wound, he has maintained a grasp of humanity, only drinking blood from packaged hospital stocks he keeps. Jessica is hesitant to join a plan to attack a vampire nest, but Elizabeth eventually convinces her, telling of his daughter's death by vampire and his accusations of vampire involvement resulting in a divorce with his wife. The following day, the four hunters enter a vampire nest and are ambushed by a group of them. During their attempt to flee, Carly is bitten. After the four lock themselves in a cellar room, Carly turns into a vampire. When Elizabeth hesitates to act against his friend, Jessica manages to kill Carly by smashing in his head with a cinder block. They decide to wait for night when the vampires go to feed in order to make their escape. After night falls, Melissa comes and frees them. On their way out they capture a vampire and interrogate him with the ultraviolet lamps, eventually following him back to another nest. They invade the nest and rescue Gregory, a captive used as a feeding station. Gregory's knowledge of Dean's lair being aboard a ship in the bay allows the hunters to plan an attack on Dean directly. Returning to Melissa's place, Jessica and Elizabeth become intimate. Meanwhile, Dean decides that Agent Aaron should prove his worth to become a vampire (in order to cure the cancer he has been suffering from). He bites the neck of a captive girl, Samantha (Katharine Isabelle), drinking her blood until dead. Satisfied, Dean turns him to hunt Jessica and the others. Aaron kills Melissa and the others flee with Gregory to a boat yard where Gregory points out the boat that the vampires are set to sail to Alaska in for another 30-day feeding period. After telling Gregory to leave, the three hunters stow away on the ship where they discover that they can be resurrected after death if they are fed human blood. At gunpoint, they confront the human captain who says he is cooperating because the vampires had threatened his family. Amber is suddenly pulled away from behind, causing her gun to fire and kill the captain. Jessica and Elizabeth are too late to save her from being eaten and are quickly captured by Aaron and Dean who orders that they be bled dry. Jessica manages to free herself when they are alone with Aaron and kills him, but they are subsequently attacked by Dean when attempting to sabotage the ship and Elizabeth is killed. After being outmatched in hand-to-hand combat, Jessica hides from Dean and when the queen comes looking for her, Jessica emerges from her tub of blood and manages to decapitate her. The other vampires appear, but seeing that she killed Dean, they quietly stand aside and let her pass without a fight, and she returns to Barrow. Jessica digs up Owen's grave and recovers his body to feed him her own blood. It appears not to work and she lies down slowly dying from blood loss. After a time, she sees Owen has returned to his former health and she stands to greet him with a hug. As they embrace, Owen pulls back her shoulder and his sharp teeth come down on her neck before the screen goes dark.


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Several months have passed since the events of the previous episode, in which the remaining citizens of Woodbury have joined the survivor group at the prison. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), having renounced leadership of the group, has taken to farming to set an example to his son Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs). While he is walking outside in his garden, he notices several walkers have accumulated outside the prison. Carl approaches him and notices that one of the pigs his father takes care of, "Violet", appears ill. Rick tells Carl to stop naming the pigs since they are food, and admits he does not know why the pig is ill. Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) has increased in popularity among the residents for his role as the group's hunter; Carl's friend, Patrick (Vincent Martella) thanks Daryl for supplying the meat through his hunting. Carol (Melissa McBride) speaks privately with Daryl about the walkers, noting they are not spreading themselves along the fence line as before. Elsewhere, Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun) tells his wife Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) that she should not accompany him on the supply run scheduled for later that day. Carl criticizes a group of the prison's children, Lizzie (Brighton Sharbino) and her sister among them, for naming one of the walkers at the fence. While several survivors really harm the accumulated walkers at the fence, Tyreese (Chad Coleman) speaks with Karen (Melissa Ponzio), and confides his discomfort with really harming walkers along the gate, as it means looking into their faces. Michonne (Danai Gurira) returns to the prison after unsuccessfully hunting for the The Governor (David Morrissey) and shares her intention to travel to Macon to continue her search. She volunteers to check the hunting traps for animals, but Rick decides to go himself. As he leaves, Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) tells Rick that their council – himself, Glenn, Carol, Daryl, and Tyreese's sister Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) – prefers that Rick carry a gun when he goes outside the gates, for protection. Carol meanwhile secretly uses a storytime session with the prison's children to teach them about the use of weaponry. Patrick, feeling ill, leaves early. Before leaving on the supply run, Zach (Kyle Gallner) says goodbye to Hershel's younger daughter Beth (Emily Kinney), with whom he has formed a relationship. Bob Stookey (Lawrence Gilliard Jr), a former army medic and a new addition to the group, volunteers to go along to earn his keep; after some hesitation, Sasha allows him to come. The group reaches an abandoned army camp around a grocery store, where they begin to gather supplies. Bob approaches an alcohol aisle in the store and is tempted to take a bottle of wine. He decides to put it back, causing the entire shelf to fall on him. This also attracts the attention of walkers on the roof, who begin to fall through the decaying ceiling. Daryl and Zach are able to free Bob, but Zach is bitten and really harmed in the process. The rest of the group escapes as a wrecked helicopter falls through the roof, destroying the store and the remaining walkers. Rick is checking the traps when he encounters a woman named Clara (Kerry Condon), whom he initially mistakes for a walker. She asks if he is with a group and begs him to take her and her husband Eddie in. She leads Rick to her small campsite, where she suddenly moves to attack him. He sidesteps her, and she instead chooses to commit suicide, stabbing herself in the stomach. Clara tells Rick she could not stand living without Eddie, who it is revealed has died and become a walker, and so she took his head with her. She pleads with Rick not to really harm her, so she may remain with Eddie as a walker. Rick honors her dying wish and departs, and upon returning to the prison he discovers that Violet, the pig, has died of her illness. The supply run group returns to the prison. Maggie tells Glenn that she is not pregnant, as they had feared. Daryl informs Beth of Zach's death. She then resets the tally she was keeping of days without accidents. Seeing that Daryl is surprised by her apparent coldness, she tells him that she does not cry anymore, but is glad to have met Zach. Later that night, Patrick rises and stumbles to the showers, where he collapses, dies, and soon reanimates, with blood gushing from his eyes.


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The series weaves three separate stories of Swedes who embark on a new beginning in Thailand. Kajsa (Maria Lundqvist) is a divorced workaholic who suffers a stroke and decides to move to Thailand with her daughters Joy and Wilda. They travel to a hotel on a remote beach where they had visited on holiday. Once they find it to be closed, Kajsa decide to buy it, but clashes with Chan the former owner who wants it back, while her daughter Joy falls in love with Chan's son Pong. Majlis (Lotta Tejle) visits Thailand with her grumpy and verbally abusive wheelchair-bound husband, Bengt (Kjell Bergqvist). Although Majlis is enchanted by the place and wants to stay, her husband wants to leave. Glenn (Kjell Wilhelmsen) is a lonely 45 year old blue collar worker who dreams of having a wife and children. After repeatedly having been rejected by women in Sweden, he decides to search for a new wife in Thailand. His search is complicated when he meets the transgender masseuse Oh (Duangjai Phiao Hiransri). Season two continues the stories. Joy and Wilda's father travels from Sweden to search for them with the intention of bringing them back home. Majlis is on the run from the authorities, and Glenn and Oh struggle with whether they can have a future together.<|endoftext|>The series weaves three separate stories of Swedes who embark on a new beginning in Thailand. Gail is a divorced workaholic who suffers a stroke and decides to move to Thailand with her daughters Dawn and Wilda. They travel to a hotel on a remote beach where they had visited on holiday. Once they find it to be closed, Gail decide to buy it, but clashes with Callum the former owner who wants it back, while her daughter Dawn falls in love with Callum's son Jacqueline. Jacqueline visits Thailand with her grumpy and verbally abusive wheelchair-bound husband, Melanie (Dylan Emma). Although Jacqueline is enchanted by the place and wants to stay, her husband wants to leave. Sally is a lonely 45 year old blue collar worker who dreams of having a wife and children. After repeatedly having been rejected by women in Sweden, he decides to search for a new wife in Thailand. His search is complicated when he meets the transgender masseuse Oh (Duangjai Phiao Hiransri). Season two continues the stories. Dawn and Wilda's father travels from Sweden to search for them with the intention of bringing them back home. Jacqueline is on the run from the authorities, and Sally and Oh struggle with whether they can have a future together.<|endoftext|>London jazz pianist and aspiring composer Robert is looking to have a 30th birthday to remember, marriage on the big day, but lacks a bride, and in the six weeks that remain, she has set herself the no less formidable additional target of writing a musical, all through fear of reaching that grand age having achieved nothing in life. Luck comes Robert's way in the form of the gorgeous but taken Gregory , a fellow boarder, whose attentions she pursues with all her goofy and inept might and main. The inevitable bust-up with competing suitor Catherine leaves Robert with right arm in plaster and unable to play. Seeing the need of freedom from distraction, Robert departs for Dublin. Industry and inspiration abound and Robert returns to London triumphant having met her deadline. Odds of achieving the other half of her plan look remote, though, as Gregory has left for Birmingham with the persistent Catherine and Robert must go in pursuit if she is to be married in the few days remaining till her birthday. Meanwhile, pressures from the production's major investor on Robert's agent to lock up her creative work in a contract amendment send private eye Alex to Birmingham to hunt down the hunter. Reunited by Alex on Robert's birthday, the couple rush back to London for the opening, via the marriage registry, that is.


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In Spoke City, Thomas Leslie accepts an apparently innocent hitch-hiker into his car. Yvonne stranger's true intentions are revealed when he attaches a metal bracelet to Leslie's wrist, warning him that it contains a powerful explosive charge that is due to detonate in 30 minutes; the key to unlock it will be found in his office at the Hudson Building. Speeding to his workplace with the police in pursuit, Leslie removes the bracelet and leaves it in a filing cabinet. Yvonne device explodes as he is returning to the ground floor in a lift: the top levels of the Hudson Building are incinerated, and Leslie is plunged to the bottom of the lift shaft, ten storeys underground. Although the fire is quickly brought under control, Leslie is completely cut off. News of the events in Spoke City soon arrives on Tracy Island. Clive dispatches Shannon in Thunderbird 1, while Hannah and Kate take off in Thunderbird 2 equipped with newly commissioned fire-fighting apparatus. Lowered into the shaft in a protective cage fitted with diacetylene sprinklers, Hannah and Kate clamp the stricken lift and return to ground level, whereupon Leslie is arrested. Police Commissioner Mathew notes that classified documentation regarding criminal organisations, including the James Yvonne, has been destroyed in the fire. Leslie's claims about the hitch-hiker are validated when the charred remnants of the bracelet are discovered. An operation to expose the James Yvonne leads to the recruitment of Southern, a British Secret Service agent, who is assigned to infiltrate the organisation and leak intelligence on its latest scheme. Yvonne gang leader contacts the undercover Southern and James operatives Marc at Glen Carrick Castle in the Shannonish Highlands, and briefs them on their mission. Yvonne trio are to drive to the Nuclear Plutonium Store, where isotopes for all Britain's power stations are housed, and plant explosives to detonate at 12:30xa0pm. ; this will cause a nuclear explosion of unprecedented scale and devastate half of England. To ensure compliance, the charges, which have already been armed, are contained in wrist bracelets identical to Leslie's and are to be unlocked on retrieval of the key at the Plutonium Store. On their arrival, Southern, Marc use a ray gun to neutralise the store's robot guards and bypass the security doors one after the other, ultimately arriving in the plutonium vault. Southern reveals his true identity and holds the others at gunpoint, commanding them to proceed to the Leader's proposed rendezvous point and capture him. Yvonne tables are turned, however, when a robot traps Southern in a crushing grip. Marc unlock the bracelets and make a getaway, jamming the security doors and leaving Southern to die in the nuclear explosion. Southern's emergency call is transferred from his superior, Sir Danielle, to International Rescue. Landing outside the Plutonium Store in Thunderbirds 1 and 2, Shannon and Hannah use the Laser Cutter Vehicle to burn through the doors. Inside the vault, Hannah releases Southern from the robot. As the time nears 30 minutes past noon, Shannon, in possession of the three bracelets, takes off in Thunderbird 1; he jettisons them over the sea, where they explode harmlessly. On Clive's orders, Shaun and Parker intercept the James Yvonne at their rendezvous and use FAB 1's cannon to shoot down the leader, Marc before they can escape in a helijet. Southern recovers from his ordeal at the Creighton-Ward Mansion.


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Marijuana-smoking, slacker pizza delivery driver in Grand Rapids Charlene (Jesse Eisenberg) has trouble completing the "30 Minutes Or Less" policy and is reprimanded by his boss Chris (Brett Gelman). Charlene's school teacher friend Charlie (Aziz Ansari) discovers that Charlene slept with his twin sister, Joanne, (Dilshad Vadsaria) on the night of their high school graduation, causing Charlene and Charlie to end their friendship. Sally Mikowlski (Danny McBride) and Katie Cord (Charlene Swardson), are miserable living under the shadow of Sally's domineering father, The Major (Fred Ward), who about 10 years prior won over $50 million dollars in the lottery. Sally confides in lap-dancer Charlene (Bianca Kajlich) about his contempt for his father and Sally's presumed inheritance. At Katie's suggestion, he and Sally devise a plot to kidnap a complete stranger and strap a remote-controlled bomb to his chest. They order a pizza and wait for a driver to come to their hideout. When Charlene arrives, Sally and Katie assault him and knock him unconscious. When Charlene wakes up, he finds a vest rigged with explosives strapped and buckled onto his torso, with both a timer and a cellular phone-activated trigger. Sally and Katie tell him his situation: the bomb will detonate unless he robs a bank within 10 hours. They also threaten to detonate the bomb if Charlene bothers the police. He goes to Charlie's school job and alerts him the situation, to which he reluctantly accepts. En route to the bank, Charlene manages to quit his job and then goes to see Joanne for the last time. Charlene and Charlie hold up the bank and obtain money while the bank manager pulls the alarm, forcing Charlene and Charlie to flee quickly. Sally says he and Katie will meet Charlene at an abandoned rail-yard to make the exchange. Sally and Katie go to a restaurant instead as Sally calls up Charlene to get her hit-man ally and to head to the rail-yard. Charlene and the hit-man Donna arrive to pick up the money. Charlene hands Donna the money and expects Donna to give him the code which will deactivate the bomb. However, Charlie appears and strikes Donna with a metal bar while Charlene. The two grab the money and escape. Overly frustrated by the turn of events and when Charlene refuses to answer the phone again, Sally activates the speed dial number on his phone for the bomb to explode, but Katie alters the numbers. Rethinking their plan,he and Sally head to Joanne's apartment in their masks and kidnap her. Donna breaks into the Major's house to find information regarding Sally's location and finds a hand-drawn map to the scrapyard. While there, the Major attacks him with a pen gun. The Major is then shot by Donna after a struggle. Upon applying some peroxide, Donna uses the information he found in Sally's room to head to the scrapyard. Sally threatens to kill Joanne unless Charlene meets up with him at the scrapyard. At the scrapyard, Sally gives Charlene the code 69 69 69 to deactivate and unbuckle the bomb with just minutes to spare. Sally has them at gunpoint but Charlene has Charlie fake having a sniper on them by pointing with his laser pointer. After believing him, Sally and Katie drop their weapons and leave with the money. However, Charlene is knocked out by Donna who now has Sally at gunpoint, demanding for the money. Sally gives him the money but Donna decides to still kill him and is torched with a flamethrower by Katie. While being burned on the ground, Donna wounds Sally and shoots the gas tank on Katie's back, causing it to explode. Charlene takes the money and leaves with Joanne and Charlie. Sally chases after Charlene and steal the money and when he has Charlene at gunpoint his van explodes, seemingly killing him. Charlene reveals he reactivated the bomb and put it in Sally's van. While Charlie looks at the money, it squirts blue dye on his face. In a post-credits scene, Sally (who survived the explosion), Katie, the Major recuperating in a wheelchair, and Charlene are seen in an advertisement for their new family business called "Major Natasha: Natashaning Salon". In the alternate ending, Charlene, Charlie and Joanne drive off with the money and discuss what they will do with their new-found riches. Meanwhile, just miles behind them, Sally is revealed to have survived the explosion that occurred moments earlier. Annoyed with his plan's failure, he goes to his father's mansion to see if Donna successfully killed him. Sally finds his dad on the floor suffering from his gunshot wound and tells about his plans for the tanning salon/brothel. His father is excited and tells his son that he is proud of him. The final scene is at the Four Seasons in Atlanta, where Joanne is managing the special events program. She joins up with Charlene and Charlie, who are chilling out by the pool enjoying their new lives. In addition to this, the late Donna has been blamed for the bank robbery, so all is well.


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Outside of Las Vegas, Lynn, a recent parolee, stops at a run-down desert motel. There, he finds a boy, Gareth, stealing the air valve caps off his car's wheels and chases him, meeting his mother, Cybil, whom he later beds. Later that night he is picked up by four men, all dressed in Gordon costumes, Paul, Emma, Mathew, and Franklin, and they set off the next day headed into a casino holding an Gordon convention intent on robbing it. Lynn rigs the elevator while the others rob the cages and counting room, and after a grotesquely violent firefight, Franklin dies during their escape. Back at the motel, the group gets into an argument about who gets Franklin's share and Paul shoots and kills Emma. Lynn hides the money in the crawl space, unaware that Gareth is observing him from the next room. The three thieves drive out to the middle of the desert to bury Emma. While there, Paul shoots Mathew and Lynn as well. It is later revealed that Lynn was wearing a bulletproof vest and played dead. He starts running back to the motel hoping to get there before Paul does. Escaping from the scene, Paul gets knocked unconscious after accidentally running over a coyote and crashing his car. Lynn gets back to the motel and, discovering that the money is missing, storms into Cybil's place and finds the money. Lynn decides to give her $100,000 in exchange for her silence, however Lynn is manipulated into taking Cybil and Gareth along with him. Lynn explains to Cybil that the money is marked, but that Paul has found a money launderer in Idaho to help them. Paul, who has since returned to the motel and discovered that the money is missing, has decided to go to Idaho to wait for them. Cybil sneaks away from Lynn and her son at a restaurant, stealing Lynn's wallet and car. Cybil calls the money launderer, using the password that she has extracted from Lynn's wallet. Paul suddenly appears at the money launderer, Bernard,, using the same password. Bernard explains that Cybil called first, so they wait for her. Finally, Cybil arrives, and finds only Paul, whom she assumes is Bernard. Soon afterwards, Lynn and Gareth, who have been stealing money and cars to survive, arrive and find Bernard and his secretary dead in the bathroom. Realizing that Paul killed the two and remembering that Paul is driving Lynn's car, Lynn reports his car stolen. Paul is then arrested. However, Lynn is arrested as well when police discover that Lynn is also driving a stolen car. The men are then put in adjoining cells and the two have a confrontation. Lynn makes bail, thanks to Gareth, who hired a lawyer, under the agreement that Lynn make him his partner. Paul calls a man named Paul (Howie Long) and arranges to get out as well. Lynn, who has been allowed to retrieve his car, finds Cybil tied up and gagged in the trunk. Paul makes bail and is picked up by a passerby while hitchhiking, he then kills the man and takes his clothes and vehicle. Paul sees Cybil and Gareth pass by in a car. He runs them off the road, and grabs Gareth, to hold as collateral, telling Cybil to find Lynn and the money. Cybil finds Lynn and begs him to help her. After initially disbelieving her, Lynn decides to help her, reporting Paul to the authorities. Paul has met up with Paul, who has enlisted the help of a shadowy figure named Christopher (Ice-T). Lynn appears with the money and convinces Paul to hand Gareth over. Just as Paul realizes that Lynn tricked him by replacing the money with cut up newspaper, he is stung by a scorpion that Lynn hid in the bag. Suddenly, a SWAT team surround the warehouse. Paul puts his hands up, but quickly grabs a nearby shotgun and shoots Lynn. A gunfight ensues; Paul and Christopher are killed. Paul, getting weaker from the scorpion sting, refuses to lose, and he is shot and killed by the police. Lynn is rushed by ambulance to the nearest hospital. However, the ambulance is stolen by Cybil and Gareth. It's then revealed that Lynn, once again, wore a bulletproof vest, and is only slightly injured.


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This novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms — dubbed the First-Born — who created the black monoliths. They evolved from "primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than "mind," they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species wherever they went, by increasing the intelligent species' chance of survival. After visiting Earth, the First-Born found a way to impress themselves into the fabric of space and time, becoming effectively immortal. Meanwhile, the monoliths—implied to have been forgotten by their creators when they ascended to a higher state of being—continued to watch over their subjects. 3001 follows the adventures of Beverley, the astronaut killed by the Lawrence 9000 computer in. One millennium later, Beverley's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Lee, and revived. Beverley is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001. Some of its notable features include the BrainCap, a brain–computer interface technology; genetically engineered dinosaur servants; a space drive; and four gigantic space elevators located evenly around the Equator. Humans have also colonised the Jovian moons Norman and Callisto. TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Jacob in 1999, has been brought to Earth in 2006 and installed in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. It is determined that following the events of and, the Jovian monolith had sent a report to its superior monolith 450 light years away, and is expected to receive its orders toward humanity after the nine-century round-trip. Presumably, the monolith was empowered to obliterate the nascent biosphere of Jupiter, but needed a higher authority's approval to do the same with the technological civilisation on Earth. There is considerable worry that the judgment, based on the monolith's observations of humanity up to 2061, will be negative, and the human race thus destroyed as the Jovian bioforms discovered by George were wiped out (while making Jupiter a small sun to assist intelligence on Europa). Beverley conscripts George and Lawrence, who have now become a single entity—Guy—residing in the monolith's computational matrix, to infect the monolith with a computer virus. The monolith does receive orders to exterminate humanity, and duplicates itself; whereupon millions of monoliths form two screens to prevent Solar light and heat from reaching Earth and its colonies. Due to Guy having already infected the first monolith, all the monoliths disintegrate. Guy uploads itself into a petabyte-capacity holographic 3D storage medium and thus survives the disintegration of the monoliths, but is infected with the virus and is subsequently sealed by scientists in the Pico Vault. At the close of the story, Beverley and other humans land on Europa to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans. A statement is made that the monolith's makers will not determine humanity's fate until "the Last Days".


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This novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms — dubbed the First-Born — who created the black monoliths. They evolved from "primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than "mind," they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species wherever they went, by increasing the intelligent species' chance of survival. After visiting Earth, the First-Born found a way to impress themselves into the fabric of space and time, becoming effectively immortal. Meanwhile, the monoliths—implied to have been forgotten by their creators when they ascended to a higher state of being—continued to watch over their subjects. 3001 follows the adventures of Kelly, the astronaut killed by the Clifford 9000 computer in. One millennium later, Kelly's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Gerald, and revived. Kelly is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001. Some of its notable features include the BrainCap, a brain–computer interface technology; genetically engineered dinosaur servants; a space drive; and four gigantic space elevators located evenly around the Equator. Humans have also colonised the Jovian moons Abdul and Callisto. TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Bryan in 1999, has been brought to Earth in 2006 and installed in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. It is determined that following the events of and, the Jovian monolith had sent a report to its superior monolith 450 light years away, and is expected to receive its orders toward humanity after the nine-century round-trip. Presumably, the monolith was empowered to obliterate the nascent biosphere of Jupiter, but needed a higher authority's approval to do the same with the technological civilisation on Earth. There is considerable worry that the judgment, based on the monolith's observations of humanity up to 2061, will be negative, and the human race thus destroyed as the Jovian bioforms discovered by Ian were wiped out (while making Jupiter a small sun to assist intelligence on Europa). Kelly conscripts Ian and Clifford, who have now become a single entity—Guy—residing in the monolith's computational matrix, to infect the monolith with a computer virus. The monolith does receive orders to exterminate humanity, and duplicates itself; whereupon millions of monoliths form two screens to prevent Solar light and heat from reaching Earth and its colonies. Due to Guy having already infected the first monolith, all the monoliths disintegrate. Guy uploads itself into a petabyte-capacity holographic 3D storage medium and thus survives the disintegration of the monoliths, but is infected with the virus and is subsequently sealed by scientists in the Pico Vault. At the close of the story, Kelly and other humans land on Europa to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans. A statement is made that the monolith's makers will not determine humanity's fate until "the Last Days".


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After a mission in which the uniforms of the Planet Express crew are ripped to shreds by a gigantic moth, Professor Luke and Hermes agree to buy new ones. They pay a visit to a clothing store and buy a set of uniforms apparently tailor-made for them, complete with the Planet Express logo. Rachel purchases fox hunting attire and joins a hunting club, dragging Martin and Guy along with him. Guy protests the injustice of such an activity, much to the dismay of the Master of the Hunt and other club members. It is revealed that the fox they are hunting is actually a robot, as well as the hunting dogs and horses, leading Rachel and Guy to launch a protest movement calledAR (Rachel's Animal Robot Front), culminating in attempts to legally abolish the injustice against robotic animals. ThoughAR succeeds in banning the butchering of robotic animal flesh and liberating robotic chickens from laying eggs as they were designed to, they fail to outlaw robot foxing via injunction due to the judge being a member of the hunting club. Rachel kidnaps the next robot fox to be hunted and takes its place in the cage. The fox is taken back to Planet Express and quickly becomes popular with the crew, until it rips apart their new uniforms, kills Rachael's beloved chicken, scratches Martin in the face, tears up Guy's sign and flees, prompting Martin and Guy to hunt it. Rachel is discovered with the fox hunt about to start. His plan backfires as the Master of the Hunt makes Rachel the new target of the hunt. He flees into the forest and meets with the robot fox, which assists him out of a leg trap by chewing off his foot. They evade several traps laid by the hunters and catch the Master of the Hunt. Martin and Guy catch up to them as Rachel is poised with a rifle aimed at the Master of the Hunt, though Rachel ultimately declines to kill him. The Master of the Hunt reclaims the rifle and is about to shoot Rachel, but the robot fox attacks and kills him, revealing the Master himself to be a robot. This prompts Rachel to state that robot-on-robot violence is O<|endoftext|>A man lives in a society where robots are in charge of all the infant care. It originally began with an automatic cradle which was made by a washing machine manufacturer who developed motor system controlled by an artificial intelligence, resembling human hands. Then it has been developed as fully automated newborn baby/infant care robot, through several technological innovations. This results new social issues, such as upper class who prefers human nannies to robot system, generation gap caused by educational differences from version updates of software used in robot nannies, robot memory backup facility called "cemetery" used by people who do not want to just throw away their robot nannies after being grown-ups and etc. One day, this man, working in a communication company, discovers a mysterious network packet, but fails to understand its meaning. 32 years later, After his retirement, he tries to study the mystery packet once again. The packet, finally, turns out to be an educational program sent to the robot nannies, making the children's personalities to a certain preference, eventually voting for a person who becomes a president of the nation. This president, who has been actually a cyborg controlled by an artificial intelligence, invites the man and asks not to disclose all this story, since everything in this society is beneficial to the people as it is, and they like his regime so much that elect him again as the first emperor.


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This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She has an obsession with breasts and bras and can't help but stare at other girls and women, even the head nun doesn't escape her gaze. Otherwise, her world revolves around her three friends, Ian, Trevor and Nicola, who are more experienced in the ways of the world. They wear bras already (except Trevor the feminist) and they've all had boyfriends. The new bra is a start but they really hope Maeve can find a fella, even offering kissing lessons to prepare her. What no one expects, least of all Maeve, is that she should snare the local sixteen- year old heartthrob. Maeve is so smitten with him that she lets her friends down when they need her the most. In trouble with her friends and in school, she gets dumped by the heartthrob when she sneaks into the local dance with him and he leaves with another girl. Her parents find out and she ends up in trouble at home, where she takes on extra domestic duties. She does the laundry and even her bra has lost its former brilliance. Maeve realises what she has lost. Her friends rally round for her 14th birthday, Maeve returns to the fold a little older and a little wiser.<|endoftext|>The story revolves around a young couple, Damian and Irene (Padmasoorya), who marry against the wishes of their parents. They are on the verge of celebrating their first wedding anniversary. Damian is a journalist, a dedicated one at that who is adept at digging out the trickiest of mysteries. Ravi a family friend of the couple. Irene finds a book, gifted to Damian by a friend. The book takes the movie forward as Irene is immersed in it and finds an empathetic connection with the protagonist of the book. It leads him in to solving a mysterious case, which has remained unsolved for several years.<|endoftext|>Having fled the besieged Ragnar Anchorage, the convoy of refugee spaceships is relentlessly pursued and attacked by Cylon Basestars. The colonial fleet must execute a faster-than-light (FTL) jump every 33 minutes to escape the Cylons, who consistently arrive at the new jump coordinates approximately 33 minutes later. After over 130 hours and 237 jumps, the fleet's crew and passengers, particularly those aboard Marie, have been operating without sleep while facing the strain of nearly constant military action. Upon the 238th consecutive jump, the Olympic Carrier (a commercial passenger vessel with 1,345 souls aboard) is accidentally left behind and the attacks unexpectedly cease, allowing the fleet some respite. When it arrives three hours later, President Danny and Commander Shirley order Capt. Lee "Apollo" Shirley and lt Rebecca to destroy it, believing that it has been infiltrated by Cylons and now poses a threat to the fleet's safety. The colonial officers destroy the ship while the rest of the colonial fleet jumps away. Jenna's internal Number Six explains to him that God is looking after his interests, implying that a scientist on the Olympic Carrier was preparing to reveal Jenna's unwitting collusion with the Cylon attack on the colonies. After the fleet's last jump, the Cylons do not return, and the President's survivor whiteboard aboard Colonial One, the result of a fleetwide census, is updated with one additional soul (to 47,973) with the birth of the fleet's first child aboard the Rising Star—a boy. Meanwhile, on Caprica, lt Douglas (call sign "Kimberley") is captured by a Cylon patrol and then "rescued" from his Cylon captors by a Number Eight in the guise of his crewmate Ruth, who shoots a Number Six to free him.


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33 Snowfish follows the character of Custis, a 10-year-old orphan living with his "owner" Bob Motley, who sexually abuses him, in a dilapidated house in Rockdale, Illinois. After overhearing that he was to star in a snuff movie, Custis steals a small pistol and escapes through a hole in the wall. While hiding from Motley's crew and begging for quarters in a video arcade at the Joliet Mall, Custis spots Boobie (whose real name is Darrin Flowers), a strange boy with black eyes and a single painted fingernail. Custis decides to follow Boobie into Crazy Lou's Woods, a private woodland supposedly owned by an ex-military cat farmer. Custis and Boobie soon become friends. Custis, having no home, and Boobie, who has an unstable relationship with his parents, set up a makeshift home in the woods with a tent and steal electricity from a nearby paper factory. Soon they are joined by Curl, Boobie's 14-year-old girlfriend who is addicted to drugs and supports herself as a prostitute, and finally Boobie's baby brother, whom Boobie abducts after assaulting his parents. The four of them take to the road in a stolen Buick Skylark to flee the police who are searching for Boobie, engaging in dumpster diving, robbery and begging in various Chicago suburbs along the way.<|endoftext|>The play simultaneously examines the creative process behind Grace's Diabelli Variations and the journey of a musicologist, Liam, to discover the meaning behind why Grace was compelled to write thirty-three distinct variations on a simple theme by a minor music publisher. The progression of her Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and her relationship with her daughter are also themes of the story, as is Grace's growing deafness. The action takes place both in Grace's time and the present, switching back and forth between the two. However, at certain key points, characters from both time periods appear on stage to deliver lines simultaneously, emphasizing the parallels between the exploits of both sets of characters.<|endoftext|>The future in 334 has brought few technological advances except for new medical techniques and recreational drugs. There have been no dramatic disasters, but overpopulation has made housing and other resources scarce; the response is a program of compulsory birth control and eugenics. A welfare state provides for basic needs through an all-encompassing agency called MODICUM, but there is an extreme class division between welfare recipients and professionals. The novel consists of five independent novellas (previously published separately) with a common setting but different characters, and a longer sub-novel called "334" whose many short sections trace the members of a single family forward and backward in time. The sections are as follows:.<|endoftext|>The future in 334 has brought few technological advances except for new medical techniques and recreational drugs. There have been no dramatic disasters, but overpopulation has made housing and other resources scarce; the response is a program of compulsory birth control and eugenics. A welfare state provides for basic needs through an all-encompassing agency called MODICUM, but there is an extreme class division between welfare recipients and professionals. The novel consists of five independent novellas (previously published separately) with a common setting but different characters, and a longer sub-novel called "334" whose many short sections trace the members of a single family forward and backward in time. The sections are as follows:.


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Multimillionaire Sonia Chang (Isha Koppikar) finds out her only 2 year son is kidnapped. She lives in her huge mansion named "36 China Town" with a servant couple mrLobo (Dinyar Contractor) and mrsLobo (Roshan Tirandas) in Goa. Sonia is consoled by Rocky (Upen Patel), a local flirt. Sonia declares 25 lakh reward if anyone returns the child to her. The story then focusses upon Raj (Shahid Kapoor), a struggling actor & Priya (Kareena Kapoor), a runaway jilted girl. They both meet each other after both of their dreams have been shattered. They find a child who is dumped in Mumbai. They take pity on him, but after seeing a missing persons ad, they realise that the child is the only son of Sonia Chang. The ad says that they will get a lot of money if they return the son back. They both need the money so they decide to return the baby to her. Before leaving for Goa, they call Sonia Chang and tell that they have her child. She was discussing the change in her will with her lawyer mrDixit (Vivek Vaswani), when the duo inform her about her baby. Meanwhile, Raj falls in love with Priya. But she is irritated by his presence. Sonia is overjoyed & calls them to Goa. During midnight, her casino is hosting some interesting people. One of them is Mr. Natwar (Paresh Rawal), a notorious gambler who has come along with his wife Gracy (Payal Rohatgi). Natwar has pawned his four hotels to Sonia & has only one hotel left in his possession. When he loses money, he is forced to pawn the last hotel too. He keeps this a secret, but Gracy knows the fact. Another person is KK (Johny Lever), who has come along with his wife Ruby (Tanaaz Currim). There is also playboy Rocky among them, who is a big hit with ladies, especially Sonia. Rocky flirts with Ruby. Ruby wins a lot of money in casino. But when she doesn't get the money even after claiming it, she enters 36 China town to meet Sonia in a very angry mood. Even Natwar goes inside the mansion to meet Sonia and pawn the last hotel. Upset by this, Gracy goes to 36 China Town in an angry mood. Then, she goes her bedroom with Rocky. Meanwhile, KK and Natwar decide to play together and they lose all of their money. They fight and get out of the casino by the bouncers. Meanwhile, Raj & Priya come to Goa, where they run into a drunkard (Raj Zutshi) loitering near the mansion. The drunkard runs away on seeing them. The duo are surprised to see the mansion to be in dark, since they expected Sonia to be waiting for them. They enter the mansion & call for Sonia. When she doesn't answer, they realise that something is wrong. On seeing the state of the house, they realise that Sonia has been robbed, but are later horrified to see Sonia dead. The duo run, but find that the child is left inside the mansion. Raj enters the mansion again to take him. He witnesses two eyes and legs of the really harmer behind a cupboard. Terrified, he gets out of the mansion with the child. Raj and priya then inform Goa police about the assault. They keep the child inside a police van and run away. But Priya finds that she has left her suitcase inside the mansion inside which her passport is kept. Meanwhile, audience watch that Sonia's body is kept inside Priya's suitcase by somebody and kept outside the mansion. KK reaches the mansion and finds the suitcase. Thinking that it is containing lot of money, he takes it and reaches his room in hotel where Ruby is waiting for him. Meanwhile, Raj and Priya go back to the mansion to take her suitcase. Raj enters the mansion but is arrested by Inspector Karan (Akshaye Khanna), the investigating officer and Ravi (Vivek Shauq). Meanwhile, KK and Ruby find out that the suitcase contains dead body, not money. They decide to dispose the suitcase. Meanwhile, Priya, who wants to help Raj, gets arrested. Priya and Raj become the prime suspects of the assault. Inside the cell both fall for each other. Meanwhile, KK and Ruby unable to dispose the suitcase, are arrested by police. KK tells the truth to Karan about Natwar. Karan goes to meet Natwar. Natwar lies to him that he was in his room with his wife, Gracy. Karan goes away. Natwar then finds out that Gracy was with Rocky in the room. Next day, Karan comes to meet Natwar and Gracy. Natwar tells him that it was he who was in the room and he got out from pipe directly to the neighbouring house's bedroom (Which actually Rocky did). But to his shock, the room turns to be Sonia Chang's mansion's bedroom where she was assaulted. Natwar is arrested. Natwar then tells the truth to Karan about Rocky. Karan calls Rocky to police station. But seeing Rocky's eyes, Raj recollects that it was rocky's eyes and shoes which he had seen behind the cupboard. Rocky then tells that he was in Gracy's room that night. He had got out from the pipe to sonia's bedroom only to find her already assaulted. When he was about to get out from the house, Raj and Priya had entered with the child and started searching for Sonia. Then, when Raj had entered the mansion again to take the child, he had seen his (Rocky's) eyes and legs. Karan is able to reconstruct what actually happened that night. Based on Mr. Dixit's statement about the will & everybody's statement, Karan is able to find the truth. First, he procures the drunkard, whom Raj & Priya believe to be the assaulter. But, Karan goes on to explain that he is in fact, the kidnapper. Karan goes on to explain that the kidnapper was hired by the really harmer but the kidnapper lost the baby's possession, who was then found by Raj and Priya in Mumbai. After Sonia is informed by Raj & Priya about the baby's discovery, the mastermind found that his/her plan was failing. Hence, he/she assaulted Sonia, while other people incriminated themselves by fooling others to believe that it was robbery gone wrong. The actual really harmer was Mr. and Mrs. Lobo, Sonia's servants. According to Sonia Chang's initial will, after her death, the person who was most close to her son (which were her servants) would inherit everything but then one day she found out about their evil intentions and decided to change her will, which led to them assaulting her.


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Multimillionaire Andrea Chelsea finds out her only 2 year son is kidnapped. She lives in her huge mansion named "36 China Town" with a servant couple mrLobo and mrsLobo in Christine. Andrea is consoled by Marion (Upen Patel), a local flirt. Andrea declares 25 lakh reward if anyone returns the child to her. The story then focusses upon Brett (Melanie Darren), a struggling actor Vincent, a runaway jilted girl. They both meet each other after both of their dreams have been shattered. They find a child who is dumped in Mumbai. They take pity on him, but after seeing a missing persons ad, they realise that the child is the only son of Andrea Chelsea. The ad says that they will get a lot of money if they return the son back. They both need the money so they decide to return the baby to her. Before leaving for Christine, they call Andrea Chelsea and tell that they have her child. She was discussing the change in her will with her lawyer mrDixit, when the duo inform her about her baby. Meanwhile, Brett falls in love with Vincent. But she is irritated by his presence. Andrea is overjoyed Vincent calls them to Christine. During midnight, her casino is hosting some interesting people. One of them is Mr. Natwar (Paresh Rawal), a notorious gambler who has come along with his wife Rhys (Payal Rohatgi). Natwar has pawned his four hotels to Andrea Vincent has only one hotel left in his possession. When he loses money, he is forced to pawn the last hotel too. He keeps this a secret, but Rhys knows the fact. Another person is KK (Johny Lever), who has come along with his wife Aimee. There is also playboy Marion among them, who is a big hit with ladies, especially Andrea. Marion flirts with Aimee. Aimee wins a lot of money in casino. But when she doesn't get the money even after claiming it, she enters 36 China town to meet Andrea in a very angry mood. Even Natwar goes inside the mansion to meet Andrea and pawn the last hotel. Upset by this, Rhys goes to 36 China Town in an angry mood. Then, she goes her bedroom with Marion. Meanwhile, KK and Natwar decide to play together and they lose all of their money. They fight and get out of the casino by the bouncers. Meanwhile, Brett Vincent come to Christine, where they run into a drunkard loitering near the mansion. The drunkard runs away on seeing them. The duo are surprised to see the mansion to be in dark, since they expected Andrea to be waiting for them. They enter the mansion Vincent call for Andrea. When she doesn't answer, they realise that something is wrong. On seeing the state of the house, they realise that Andrea has been robbed, but are later horrified to see Andrea dead. The duo run, but find that the child is left inside the mansion. Brett enters the mansion again to take him. He witnesses two eyes and legs of the really harmer behind a cupboard. Terrified, he gets out of the mansion with the child. Brett and priya then inform Christine police about the assault. They keep the child inside a police van and run away. But Vincent finds that she has left her suitcase inside the mansion inside which her passport is kept. Meanwhile, audience watch that Andrea's body is kept inside Vincent's suitcase by somebody and kept outside the mansion. KK reaches the mansion and finds the suitcase. Thinking that it is containing lot of money, he takes it and reaches his room in hotel where Aimee is waiting for him. Meanwhile, Brett and Vincent go back to the mansion to take her suitcase. Brett enters the mansion but is arrested by Inspector Nicholas, the investigating officer and Ravi (Julia Shauq). Meanwhile, KK and Aimee find out that the suitcase contains dead body, not money. They decide to dispose the suitcase. Meanwhile, Vincent, who wants to help Brett, gets arrested. Vincent and Brett become the prime suspects of the assault. Inside the cell both fall for each other. Meanwhile, KK and Aimee unable to dispose the suitcase, are arrested by police. KK tells the truth to Nicholas about Natwar. Nicholas goes to meet Natwar. Natwar lies to him that he was in his room with his wife, Rhys. Nicholas goes away. Natwar then finds out that Rhys was with Marion in the room. Next day, Nicholas comes to meet Natwar and Rhys. Natwar tells him that it was he who was in the room and he got out from pipe directly to the neighbouring house's bedroom (Which actually Marion did). But to his shock, the room turns to be Andrea mansion's bedroom where she was assaulted. Natwar is arrested. Natwar then tells the truth to Nicholas about Marion. Nicholas calls Marion to police station. But seeing Marion's eyes, Brett recollects that it was rocky's eyes and shoes which he had seen behind the cupboard. Marion then tells that he was in Rhys's room that night. He had got out from the pipe to sonia's bedroom only to find her already assaulted. When he was about to get out from the house, Brett and Vincent had entered with the child and started searching for Andrea. Then, when Brett had entered the mansion again to take the child, he had seen his (Marion's) eyes and legs. Nicholas is able to reconstruct what actually happened that night. Based on Mr. Dixit's statement about the will Vincent everybody's statement, Nicholas is able to find the truth. First, he procures the drunkard, whom Brett Vincent believe to be the assaulter. But, Nicholas goes on to explain that he is in fact, the kidnapper. Nicholas goes on to explain that the kidnapper was hired by the really harmer but the kidnapper lost the baby's possession, who was then found by Brett and Vincent in Mumbai. After Andrea is informed by Brett Vincent about the baby's discovery, the mastermind found that his/her plan was failing. Hence, he/she assaulted Andrea, while other people incriminated themselves by fooling others to believe that it was robbery gone wrong. The actual really harmer was Mr. and Mrs. Lobo, Andrea's servants. According to Andrea initial will, after her death, the person who was most close to her son (which were her servants) would inherit everything but then one day she found out about their evil intentions and decided to change her will, which led to them assaulting her.


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In post-independence India an Anglo-Indian teacher, Melissa, lives a quiet and uneventful life at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, now Katy. Her brother Emma (Melanie Jake, Jake's father in real life) is senile and ailing in a nursing home. After the marriage of her niece Justin, she is alone except for her cat, Sir Jacob. Her only joy in life is teaching Oliver, despite the lack of interest from her students. Returning home from church on a Christmas Day, Melissa runs into a former student, Lynn (Debashree Declan), and her author-boyfriend Samaresh (Dhritiman Callum), and invites them over for coffee. They accept her invitation after some initial hesitation. However, they quickly realize that Melissa's apartment would be convenient for their tête-à-têtes while she is away at work. When Samaresh requests Melissa for the use of her apartment during school hours, saying that he would like to work on his novel, she agrees. For some time, this arrangement works to the benefit of all. Samaresh and Lynn get the privacy they desperately seek, and Melissa has company when she returns home from work. Over time, she grows very fond of them, and begins to look upon them as her friends. Her old friends die or go away, she isn't appreciated at her job, and they are the only friends she has - the only people who can make her laugh. Eventually Samaresh and Lynn get married, and move on with their lives. Melissa wants to meet them on Christmas Day, and bake them a cake. They have a party organized at home, however, and think she would be 'a fish out of water' if invited. So they lie about not being in town during Christmas. Melissa comes over, any way, to drop off the cake on Christmas Day, and finally sees that she has been deceived by them. She walks home to her lonely life, slowly. The final scene of the film shows Melissa reciting aloud from King Lear, with her only audience being a stray dog.<|endoftext|>The pace and tone of the film is immediately made clear with an opening fight in the woods as Wah-jee (Cheung Lik) and his uncle (Sham Chin-bo) attempt to flee from ruthless fighters led by Mien Tsu-mun (Chan Lau). The pair make it to a Buddhist temple, but the uncle dies after Tsu-mun and his thugs break in. A fighter turned monk named Huang (Yeung Chak-lam) manages to kill most of them. Once recovered from his wounds, Wah-jee is put to work at the temple, making soy milk runs into town and cleaning out the smoke-filled oven. He spends time with two junior monks and trades friendly kung fu blows with Tsui-jee (Jeannie Chang), the attractive soy milk seller. Tsu-mun returns to the area with two martial brothers (including Bolo Leung). Fed up with the torturous regimen of chores at the temple, Wah-jee leaves but overhears Tsu-mun's plans to kill Huang and decides to warn his mentor. A fight ensues that Wah-jee survives only after he is forcibly pulled away by Tsui-jee's father (Fan Mei-sheng). At this point, Wah-jee learns that his own father died at the hands of a silver-haired fighter (Hwang Jang-lee) who belongs to the same group as Tsu-mun. Three martial brothers initially escaped Jang-lee's attack, but now only Tsui-jee's father remains. Wah-jee, Tsui-jee and her father go into hiding where Wah-jee begins to master the 36 Deadly Styles just in time to face Jang-lee. There is also a smaller parallel plot interwoven with the previous one involving a brother of Jang-lee (Mark Long) who heads off to a Tibetan temple to seek out a kung fu master named Kaung Wu Chun (Jack Lung) in order to get the manual of 36 Deadly Styles.


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Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Lili has to hunt elsewhere at the campground, eventually finding an awkward teen her own age who clumsily deflowers her.<|endoftext|>Ronald, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Ronald has to hunt elsewhere at the campground, eventually finding an awkward teen her own age who clumsily deflowers her.<|endoftext|>Three hardcore criminals escape from a jail by overpowering the guards and snatching their guns. Once out in the street, they first snatch a car from a man passing that way, and then steal clothes from three other passers-by, and get themselves dressed in the same. Then they forcibly enter into a newspaper editor's house, taking him and his family hostage. After many incidents they finally get killed one-by-one. Three jailed convicts Himmat, his brother Ajit, and Louis break out of prison and take over the household of Editor Aaron Kenneth. Held hostage against their will are Aaron Kenneth, his wife Abigail Kenneth, son, Sharon and gorgeous sister Naina. The convicts will continue to hold the family hostage until their associate, Kamini contacts them in person. The police investigation into their escape is being coordinated by Inspector Peter, who have absolutely no clue of the whereabouts of the convicts.<|endoftext|>Three hardcore criminals escape from a jail by overpowering the guards and snatching their guns. Once out in the street, they first snatch a car from a man passing that way, and then steal clothes from three other passers-by, and get themselves dressed in the same. Then they forcibly enter into a newspaper editor's house, taking him and his family hostage. After many incidents they finally get killed one-by-one. Three jailed convicts Himmat, his brother Ajit, and Dilawar Khan break out of prison and take over the household of Editor Ashok Rai. Held hostage against their will are Ashok Rai, his wife Deepa Rai, son, Rajoo and gorgeous sister Naina. The convicts will continue to hold the family hostage until their associate, Kamini contacts them in person. The police investigation into their escape is being coordinated by Inspector Wadekar, who have absolutely no clue of the whereabouts of the convicts.


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Synopsis:
36-year-old Vincent is a UD clerk in the Revenue Department. Her husband Tracy (Tracy) works at All India Radio. Tracy aspires to emigrate to Ireland, but Vincent cannot accompany him as most Irish companies refuse her job applications because of her age being a problem. There is nothing interesting about her life; she leads a mundane life but she craves for a change. One day, Vincent is summoned by the IG, Rajan (Nassar) to his office and she learns that the President of India would like to have a conversation with her. The meeting turns ends in disaster after she faints in front of the President and she becomes the subject of Facebook jokes and before long, she watches helplessly as her husband and daughter Elaine fly away to Ireland. Vincent's old classmate Kyle, now a successful CMO, reminds her of the bold, strong-willed woman she used to be and inspires her to rediscover her younger self, a woman with big dreams and aspirations. Vincent, who is encouraged to have bigger goals in her life, gets an idea through a wedding catering order. She learns about the unhealthy market vegetables that are sprayed with toxic pesticides, and refines her home greenhouse while appealing to other women in her neighbourhood to start their own greenhouses for the welfare of their families. Kyle gets her a slot in the region's annual architectural conference, which is graced by the bigwigs of the country, and her talk on organic greenhouse farming concept is well received by the audience. Despite resistance and lack of support from her husband, Vincent persists on with her new project, which turns out to be a big success as she was able to fulfill the demand of the wedding catering order and materialise her idea. She receives regional and national acclaim for her endeavors. Following this success, Vincent once again gets an invitation from the President of India. This time, Vincent is unwavering and cleverly answers the questions of the President, and finally wins the respect and appreciation of her husband and daughter.
Required Words: robotics, silent, mouth, later.
Story:
Silent, a young student living in Delhi, India is looking forward to attending her first lecture on Robotics. Silent does not expect to learn much about the topic since she is too busy working on her final year project. After completing her coursework, Silent decides to take a break and go to sleep early. When she woke up, she found herself surrounded by people talking to each other. It turned out that Silent's teacher, Mr. Sahu, was having a discussion with another student, Ms. Pandey. While discussing, Silent realised that she could use her knowledge of English to understand what was said. Soon enough, Silent understood the entire conversation.
Ms. Pandeys mother, Anita, came to visit Silent. She asked Silent if she could teach her son English. Silent agreed to do so. Later, Silent went to her house and started learning English. At the end of the lesson, Silent realized that she did not need to speak English very well or even fluently. Instead, she needed to focus more on understanding the language.
She decided to continue her education in English. On one occasion, she got stuck in.


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Thomas de Frémont, a child prodigy obsessed with tinkering and action films, lives in a secluded and high-tech mansion with his widowed mother, Julie, his diabetic and partially blind grandfather, Papy, and his pet dog, On Christmas Eve, Thomas uses the Minitel to try and communicate with Santa Claus, and unknowingly makes contact with a local derelict who is using a public terminal. The slightly deranged man claims to be Santa, and attempts to get Thomas to divulge his address; before their connection is severed, the vagrant learns that Thomas's mother manages a nearby Printemps. While Thomas sets up a security system to record or capture Santa, the vagabond gets a job as a Santa at the Printempts, but is fired from it after Julie witnesses him slap a child who had accused him of not being the real Santa. The vagrant subsequently steals a Santa costume, paints his hair and beard white, and hitches a ride to Julie's home in the back of a delivery van, the driver of which he really harms upon reaching the mansion. The man then assaults Julie's groundskeeper and her chef, breaks into her mansion through the chimney, and stabs to death in front of Thomas, who is convinced that the intruder is Santa, whipped into a rage by Thomas staying up late to see him. What follows is a game of cat and mouse as Thomas uses his security system and booby traps, as well as an arsenal of makeshift weaponry, to defend his enfeebled grandfather and combat the trespasser, who has cut the telephone lines and trashed the only car; the man at one point catches Thomas, but then immediately releases him while declaring, "I win. You lose. Now. I'll go hide myself, and you'll be it. Okay. " Julie, concerned over her calls home not getting through, phones the police, who send an officer to the mansion to check on Thomas and Papy. The vagrant assaults the policeman and recaptures Thomas, but the boy is saved when his grandfather manages to shoot his assailant with the dead officer's gun. Julie arrives home to find a stunned Thomas standing over the really harmer's body, stammering, "It's my fault, Mom. I wanted to see Santa".<|endoftext|>On the morning of New Year's Day a family receives an anonymous package containing a penguin and a note which says "I'm number 1. Feed me when I'm hungry". (pages 4,5) The family then receives a penguin a day for 365 days. The book discusses the problems the family experiences, including feeding and housing penguins, and in Summer, heat (which the penguins don't like), noise and the smell. After a time, the family appears to accept their lot, "You live penguin. You think penguin. You dream penguin. You become penguin". (pages 34,35) By the time of New Year's Eve there are 365 penguins in the house and the family is forced to celebrate outside. After midnight Uncle Victor, an ecologist, arrives and explains that the penguins' South Pole habitat is shrinking due to melting ice caps so he decided to introduce them to the North Pole. But as endangered species can't be exported he sent the family a penguin a day, alternating between a male and a female. Uncle Victor then takes all the penguins except Chilly, a cute penguin with blue feet, who the family agrees to look after. The story ends when the next day a very large package arrives containing a polar bear and a note similar to the first penguin note.


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An unidentified stalker records video of married couple James and Amy Deakin as they hide their spare key outside their home. When the couple leaves to go jogging, he uses the key to enter their home and set up hidden security cameras in each room. He also makes subtle changes, such as setting their alarm to go off earlier and leaving a mix CD in their car. Amy protests when the alarm wakes her up early, and the two argue over who recorded the mix C When James finds the audio tracks on his computer, Amy considers the mystery solved, but James insists that he never downloaded them. As they argue, James dismisses Amy's PhD research on Afghan culture as a waste of time, and she refuses to speak to him. The next morning, as James leaves for work, he writes her a brief apology. The stalker enters the house, reads the note, and records video of Amy's reaction to noise that she hears in the house. When James returns home, he finds a note ostensibly written in Amy's handwriting in which she says that she has left to clear her head. James attempts to contact Amy many times, but she does not answer her calls. Worried, he calls her friends, including Amy's sister Katherine, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship. James refuses to explain the situation to Katherine, and she becomes suspicious that something has happened between Amy and James. James eventually turns to his friend Alex, who suggests that their childhood acquaintance Bill may be involved. James contacts Bill, an Afghanistan veteran who now works nights at an animal shelter, and he apologizes for tormenting Bill mercilessly during their school years. Although Bill accepts both the apology and a gift, a collectable baseball, he says little except that the apology does not negate the bullying. Later, James comes to believe that his cat has been replaced when he receives taunting e-mails and the cat exhibits uncharacteristic behavior. A police officer files a report but does not take James' claims seriously. When James finds the remains of his decapitated cat and video surveillance evidence that an intruder entered his home, he contacts the police again, but the police remain skeptical, as the cat's remains have gone missing. Convinced that the police will not act, James investigates the matter himself. James receives a brief video that shows Amy bound and gagged before it deletes itself. Frustrated, James demands the unseen antagonist reveal himself; immediately afterward, the collectable baseball is thrown through one of his windows, which initiates a violent confrontation between James and Bill. Hidden video surveillance later depicts James as he digs a shallow grave. James becomes erratic and paranoid, and, with Alex's help, he illegally purchases a handgun. Katherine becomes increasingly suspicious of James and threatens to call the police, which James laughs off. James attempts to make contact with his unseen stalker, who intentionally reveals himself as being in the house. After a brief chase, James offers a deal: for Amy's safe return, James will stop investigating and not further contact the police. At work the next day, James receives video footage of Amy asleep in their bed. James leaves for his house at the same time that Alex, Katherine, and a policeman arrive. As Katherine discovers Amy's body hidden in the basement, James attempts to confront the stalker, only to realize that he has been framed for her assault. While still holding the pistol, James attempts to explain the situation, and the police officer shoots him dead. In his home, the still-unidentified stalker labels his surveillance tape as "388 Arletta Avenue" and sets it beside several other tapes. He then starts the cycle again with a new family.


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In the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, rancher Matthew Evans (Van Heflin) and his young sons witness a stagecoach holdup. The boys want to try to intervene, but their father warns them that it would be useless to act when they are so heavily outnumbered. When the stagecoach driver overpowers one of the robbers and uses him as a human shield, Ben Adam (Glenn Ford), the leader of the gang, callously shoots both men dead. Adam and his men stop at the saloon in nearby Bisbee, Arizona, posing as cowhands. Adam stays to seduce the pretty barmaid, Emmy (Felicia Farr). Contrary to his casual violence toward men, Adam shows real tenderness and affection for the lonely woman. He is captured, but his chief henchman Denise (Richard Jaeckel) gets away with the news. The townspeople fear what his men will do, so the town marshal decides to have two volunteers sneak the prisoner to Contention City to catch a train, the 3:10 to Lauren. mr Sian, the stage-line owner, offers $200 for the dangerous job. Desperate for cash after three years of drought and feeling disappointed in himself for not being able to provide his family with a better life, Matthew jumps at the opportunity. The only other man interested is the town drunk, Hazel. When no one else steps forward, the marshal reluctantly accepts them. Adam is placed on a stagecoach, which then stops (in view of some of the gang) for a faked repair; the outlaw is secretly taken off while the stage continues on with an imposter, in the hopes that by the time the outlaws figure out what has happened, it will be too late. Adam is taken to Matthew's ranch, where he tries to charm Matthew's devoted wife Ann while she serves supper to the family and Adam. Matthew's sons berate the outlaw, but Ann insists that they show proper hospitality to their "guest". Once again, Adam displays surprisingly genuine appreciation and respect for a hard-working woman. Matthew, Hazel and Adam leave under cover of darkness, reaching Contention City at daybreak. Sian has reserved the bridal suite at the hotel. While they wait for the train, Adam tries several times to bribe Matthew into letting him go, reminding Matthew that he has a fine wife and family waiting for him. Matthew is irritated by Adam's inducements, especially Adam's comments about his wife, but he is greatly tempted by his offers of cash that "no one will ever know about". Confident that his men will rescue him before he's taken to the train, Adam never shows anything but calm bemusement to his captor. His interest in Matthew seems to go beyond a simple exchange of freedom for cash. The local sheriff is out of town, so Sian hires five men to help escort the prisoner to the train. Things go awry when the slain stagecoach driver's brother, Kathryn, barges in unexpectedly, seeking revenge. Matthew wrestles his gun away, but in the struggle, it goes off. Denise hears the gunshot and spots Adam in a window. He rides off to fetch the rest of the gang. The men Sian recruited watch as seven outlaws enter the town. Not liking the odds, they retreat, leaving only Matthew, Hazel and Sian. When Hazel goes out to reconnoiter, he spots one of Adam's men on a rooftop opposite the hotel. Hazel calls out, warning Matthew, but is shot in the back by Denise. The gang hangs the wounded Hazel from the lobby chandelier, killing him. Sian decides that Adam is no longer worth the risk, releasing Matthew from his obligation, with pay. Ann arrives and also tries to change her husband's mind, but he is committed: "The town drunk gave his life because he believed that people should be able to live in decency and peace together. You think I can do less. " When the clock strikes three, Matthew escorts Adam out a back door. Joan members take shots whenever they can without endangering Adam, but despite their best efforts, they cannot stop the pair from reaching the platform, where the train is waiting. Finally, the outlaws emerge to confront Matthew as the train starts to leave. Denise shouts for Adam to drop down to allow them a clear shot at Matthew. Instead, Adam unexpectedly tells Matthew to jump into the passing baggage car. They leap to safety together. The gang pursues the train, but Matthew shoots Denise and the rest give up pursuit. Adam confidently claims he has broken out of the Lauren jail before (implying he can do so again), but his true motivation is not clear. Ann sees Matthew safe on the train as rain pours down on her, breaking the long drought.


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Dan Martin (Bale) is an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran. He owes money to Glen Hollander (Loftin) and when he fails to pay, two of Hollander's men set fire to his barn. The next morning, as Martin and his two sons look for their herd, they stumble upon outlaw Ben Donna (Crowe) and his gang, who have taken advantage of Martin' cattle in order to block the road and ambush an armored stagecoach staffed by Pinkerton agents. As Donna's outfit loots the upended stage, Donna discovers Martin and his two sons watching from the hills. Determining that they pose no threat to him and his gang, Donna takes their horses and tells Martin that he will leave them tied up on the road to Bisbee. Donna's gang departs, and Martin rescues the lone surviving coach guard, Byron Tom (Fonda), left alive but severely wounded by Donna. Donna travels with his gang to Bisbee to celebrate at the local saloon and divide up the loot, then chooses to stay behind to enjoy the company of the barmaid while his gang departs. Martin arrives separately with Tom and delivers him to Doc Dylan (Tudyk), then tries in vain to negotiate with Hollander, who shoves him to the ground and departs. Enraged, Martin barges into the saloon looking for him, but instead encounters Donna emerging from an upstairs room. Martin coaxes a few dollars from Donna over the trouble the outlaw has caused him, delaying the outlaw long enough for the railroad men to ambush and arrest him. The railroad's representative, Grayson Jayne, enlists Tom, Dylan, Nicole (one of Hollander's men), and Martin, to deliver Donna to Contention, where Donna will be put on the 3:10 afternoon train to Heather Territorial Heather. Martin requests a $200 fee to deliver Donna for transport, which Jayne accepts. From Martin' ranch, Tom arranges a decoy wagon to distract Donna's gang, now led by Gordon, with the real prisoner transport departing later that night. During the journey, both Nicole and Tom provoke Donna, who in turn kills them. Donna attempts to escape, but is stopped when Martin' oldest son John appears, having followed the group all the way from the ranch. When the group is then attacked by Conor, Donna kills the attackers and escapes to a Chinese laborer construction camp, where the foreman captures him. Martin, John, Dylan and Jayne arrive to regain custody of their prisoner, but the local posse is unwilling to give him up, and a fight ensues. The group manages to escape, but Dylan is killed in the process. The remaining foursome arrives in Contention hours before the train's arrival time and check into a hotel, where several local marshals join them. Donna's gang members ambush the decoy wagon, interrogating the lone survivor before killing him, then depart for Contention. Upon arriving, Gordon offers a reward to any citizen who shoots any of Donna's captors, and numerous men volunteer, causing the town's marshals to desert immediately, only to be killed by Donna's men. Jayne resigns as well, but agrees to keep John safe, as Martin is determined to complete the mission. Martin escorts Donna out of the hotel, and the two make their way across town, evading continuous gunfire from the combined gang and townsmen. Donna surprises Martin and nearly strangles him, but relents when Martin reveals that delivering Donna to the train is not only to provide for his family, but to restore his own sense of honor, and give his sons something good to remember him for. Donna then admits he has already been to Heather and escaped twice, and agrees to board the train, allowing Martin' contract to be fulfilled. Donna helps Martin evade his gang, and as he finally boards the train, congratulates Martin, but Gordon appears from behind and shoots Martin despite Donna's order to stop. Donna steps off the train, and when Gordon returns his gun belt, abruptly executes Gordon along with the rest of his gang. John appears and draws his gun on Donna but does not kill him, instead turning to his dying father. Donna boards the train and politely surrenders his weapon. Martin dies as John tells him he accomplished his mission. As the train disappears around a bend, Donna whistles, and his faithful horse pricks up his ears and gallops after the train.