Shades of blue - season 1

in progress


1-2-3
Pilot - Original sin - False face, false heart
Harlee helps a rookie get away with a bad shooting. Her daughter is doing well at school, doing a concert solo and Harlee also takes money like her squad and her lt Wozniak.
An FBI agent gets her for bribery, and gives her a choice: go to jail abandoning her daughter, or help him nailing her Lt.
He saves his number on her phone under the name Jason Bourne *rollingeyes no-you're-not...
Harlee hates wearing a hidden camera, they've worked together for ten years. They are friend, the Lt and his wife also love her daughter Cristina.
Wozniak knows there's a Fbi informant and wants to find whoever that is.
Harlee breaks the camera as soon as she can, scared to get caught and killed. Still, she has no choice but continuing working for the Fbi.
After the poligraph the Lt tells her that he trusts her, but then he looks at her old interview and sees that she lied.
He confronts her with a gun but she successfully lies her way through it.
The rookie gets too familiar with the dead guy's family, Jamarr.
Harlee goes on a date with the new ADA, and sleeps with him while the Fbi guy hears everything via the wire in her bag.

4-5-6-
Who can tell me who am I? - Equal & opposite - Fall of man
Wozniak has a car accident, looking at a dog and not at the road.
The rookie Loman attends the funeral of the guy he killed, but when he starts talking the cops take him away.
Tess has to apologise to the girl she assaulted, and is sorry to realise her marriage might be over.
Harlee and Loman catch a bad guy breaking into his house.
The Fbi guy finds stuff in a store unit in Wozniak's daughter's name - she died of suicide.
Wozniak brings food to that stray dog and takes him home.
Loman keeps seeing the dead guy's cousin.
Fbi Stahl goes to IA Donnie to tell him to stop his surveillance on the Lt's team because he's surveilling them too, and right after that he tells Wozniak everything.
Tess starts a relationship with her partner.
Harlee is furious when they arrest a kid who turns out to be Cristina's boyfriend.
Wozniak walks in busting Tess and Carlos in bed, and puts a stop to it.
Wozniak finds out that his white cop lied - actually he likes a Brazilian girl and pays a prostitute to teach him portuguese, and then Wozniak sees him with a man - he pays him to teach him to cook Portuguese dishes - Wozniak is so paranoid now that every lie seems to hide a betrayal.
Miguel sees Harlee in prison and he asks for her help.
Saap - I think, I'm going crazy with those names, anyway he's his white cop - is in trouble because Wozniak is sure he's the traitor. Worried for Saap, Harlee calls the Fbi and has him arrested.
Cristina finds a letter from Miguel and wants to go see him.
Saap attacks Stahl and runs away. He tries to reach Wozniak, but Harlee calls him telling him not to. Saap goes anyway and helps Wozniak out of a bad situation.
Wozniak kills Sap and the suspect and tells them that 'they fell'...
The last image is of Tufo yelling that he's still breathing...

7-8-9-
Undiscovered country - Good cop, bad cop - Live wire act
Wozniak tells Harlee that he tried to save Sap after she goes on the ambulance to the hospital. Harlee tells the Fbi that it wasn't Wozniak. At the hospital Wozniak tells Saap, "give in, let go so I don't have to kill you twice".
Saap's mom tells Wozniak of the 'men' that wanted to take him away.
Harlee tells the DA, "I'm not a good person, you should stay away from me"
Later Wozniak confesses to Harlee that "he can never wake up" and "I did what I had to do".
He wants her help to kill him for good but she refuses. She says, "I forgive you, I understand, but please promise me you won't hurt him again" and Wozniak says "ok"
Harlee goes to jail to see Miguel - Fbi went too.
Tufo finds an immunity agreement at Sap's home and tells Wozniak that Sap sold them out. Wozniak places a bomb in the hospital, a nurse sees it and calls security and Harlee understands it was him trying to kill Saap, but she's too late, he's dead when she gets there.
Wozniak go tell his mother.
Cristina brings home a Manny with his face all bloody.
Harlee is angry because Wozniak promised her, and he tells her that this way he's the only responsible.
Cristina calls Wozniak to tell him that two cops beat Manny up.
Harlee yells at Wozniak that there's a witness that knows Miguel is innocent and that Wozniak never wanted to help her, only own her and use her. He gives her the name of the witness saying that he's been paying her silence for ten years with his own money.1000 every two months, and that now it's her problem.
Harlee tells Loman to get transferred, get out while he can.
Wozniak and Tess talk to the cops and doubt that Manny told the truth, but Cristina was there and made a video. Wozniak and Tess show it to Harlee and she's mad that Cristina didn't go to her directly and wants to handle it herself.
Tess tells her that if it was her son she'd rather have him talk to Harlee than no-one.
Harlee is also upset because in the video Cristina was smoking pot, but Cristina is very disappointed and talks about justice..
Fbi goes to Nava on false pretence to tell him his conduct is questionable because of Miguel and Harlee and Nava goes to Harlee with angry words, wondering if she would have slept with anybody else working Miguel's case :-/
Harlee tells Fbi how Miguel beated her for two years and how she was afraid for Cristina's life.
Wozniak sends Loman to the two cops to tell them there's a video and to bring them outside to beat them up - not much, actually, I guess the gesture was enough.
Harlee tells Manny that she's angry they were smoking but he deserves a second chance because he protected Cristina.
Harlee goes to Fbi to tell him that Wozniak told her that he killed Sap and asks to be wired.
After Sap, she now wants to destroy Wozniak.
Chen seems to be bothered by an 'innocent man' in prison :-/ yeah, really innocent Miguel..
Harlee joins Wozniak in his secret operation but he gets mad when they find a guy in the car's trunk.
Wozniak gives Harlee Donnie's name, but Fbi are away, I guess they didn't hear that, but she tells him. Chen doesn't let it go and talk about Miguel to DA. She thinks Fbi is getting 'too close' to Harlee.
Harlee leaves the wire in Wozniak's office to record his conversation with Donnie.
Miguel is set free.
Harlee learns about Wozniak's relationship with Donnie.

10-11-12-
What devil do - The breach - For I have sinned
Harlee ducks Nava's calls, then she sees Miguel on the street and talks to him, and also warns Cristina. Harlee thinks Nava has something to do with him getting out, but he recused himself.
Stall tells Donnie to tail Wozniak again because he lost his only informant...
Wozniak takes an interest on an ex-Marine accused of murder, because he was a Marine too.
Stall is angry at Molly Chen because of Miguel but doesn't tell Harlee it was her.
Harlee goes with Wozniak to the meeting with the mysterious man for the big case. The guy's part of some agency too, and might get them three millions.
Miguel shows up at Cristina's door, and she tells him that Harlee told her he's not her dad.
Harlee doesn't tell Stall the guy's name, but tells the rest. She asks immunity for her team.
Miguel calls Harlee and puts her on speakerphone to convince Cristina she lied to her and he's her father.
Cristina goes out to talk to Miguel. Harlee sleeps with Stall? and then Wozniak sees her getting out of the apartment.
Miguel tells Cristina that Harlee "tripped down the stairs" - does she doubts the beatings now?
She tells him that Harlee works with Wozniak.
Stall tells her he needs the name to get her team immunity, and she gives it, but he doesn't. He says to his own time that only one is an asset and gets immunity - so not all of them.
Miguel pokes around to prove that she framed him. Harlee goes to offer Miguel money to have him go away. Wozniak tells Harlee he "thought" he saw her at Stall's house, but then he shows her a picture of a prostitute that looks a lot like her and she said that he calls her Harlee - basically he found a substitute.
From her cameras Harlee finds out Stall never asked for her crew's immunity. She confronts me, "you used me", he replies "I handled you".
Knowing nothing about the big case, Loman follows the Marine case stepping on it with nobody knowing. When Chen tries to retrieve the kidnapped guy she finds him dead. Loman stumbles on their robbery and calls for backup. Harlee tries to help half of her crew by keeping them away but she fails. Loman tries to stop them, the murderer Joaquim starts shooting. Tess is injured, Joaquin too, a guy is dead. The squad takes Tess to get help, Wozniak and Harlee drive away with the money.
Their car is hit somehow and the money taken. Wozniak thinks it was Donnie.
The Fbi is not happy with Harlee's story. The guy who said he was a DIA agent or something gave a false name.
Linda saw a car circling her house so Wozniak tells her to go to a hotel with Cristina.
When Harlee goes there, Cristina wants the truth but Harlee can't give her the whole story of course.
Loman keeps his mouth shut with the Fbi. Harlee told him that Donnie is blackmailing them because he found out about Loman's shooting, that they're protecting him so he protects them. "We're doing this for you" she said.
Joaquin dies while they're taking him to a hospital, so they bury him themselves.
Cristina keeps in touch with Miguel, calls him dad and secretly phones him.
Harlee makes a video for Cristina and Wozniak talks to a priest about his daughter's suicide and all he's done.
He tells him that he made deals with bad people to keep drugs away from schools, that if someone had done it before his daughter might still be alive now. The priest asks "you're asking God's forgiveness? you're searching for absolution?"
Wozniak walks out, "I can't make a confession yet father" - "because you can't accept God's mercy?" - "no, because I got a couple more people that I need to hurt"
At the end we that Harlee's friend is the one that took the money, he has it and tells her, "so, what now?" - "now we start calling the shots"

13
One Last Lie
Wozniak tells Stall to stay away from his crew. Cristina sneaks out to meet Miguel. Loman confronts Donnie at Wozniak's house. Donnie's words are half-truths half-lies: keeping himself clean and blaming it all on Wozniak, but then he takes a gun, they fight and Loman kills him.
He tells Wozniak it was self-defence. Wozniak thanks him, "he was setting me up" and they take care of it together.
Molly Chen makes a move on Stall and they kiss - is she drunk or for real??
Harlee went to Nava to spend the night. She apologises for blaming him for Miguel's release. He's comforting, they hug, he tells her she can stay like that as long as she wants.
Linda calls Harlee to tell her Cristina's gone. Harlee thinks Miguel took her and goes to his place. Miguel tells Harlee the truth, that Cristina called him, they had dinner.. she doesn't believe him.
He says Cristina is with his mom.
Wozniak burns Donnie's body. Harlee goes to pick Cristina up but Cristina admits that she called him and refuses to get in the car and says Miguel has done nothing wrong, and keeps saying that Harlee lied to her (which is true).
Harlee wants to use part of the stolen money to pay Miguel to disappear but she left it at Nava's place.
Harlee confesses to Wozniak that the Fbi forced her to work for him using Cristina as leverage, but when he asks "when, how long ago?" she says "last night".
She says she's been given the heist money by the Fbi to put it in Wozniak's boat, but instead she put it in an abandoned building. She tells him she won't give him (him being Wozniak) to the Fbi, but she can give them Donnie and Linklater and they'll have to take it, and Wozniak now tells her that Donnie is dead and Linklater left the country, "which means the only person you've got left to sell out is me".
She tells him to get Linda and some money and go away.
Harlee delivers a bag of money to Miguel's mom. She wants to get to know her granddaughter but Harlee can't forget that she let her son repeatedly break her face and did nothing.
Now Harlee has no men to give to the Fbi but she has the money and wants her crew's freedom.
Stall has Chen removed from the operation.
Harlee tells Cristina that Miguel's nice side hides a manipulative monster that beat her up for two years and almost killed her, then she sends her away in a tearful goodbye.
Harlee wants to exchange the money for the freedom of her crew but finds that Wozniak took all the money, leaving a bag for her to pay for Cristina's college. She calls him, he says he's taking the bullet for the team, sitting there on the money waiting for Stall. She says she cut a deal, he says he did it too (after he told him to leave his team alone).
Harlee cries, tells him that she lied and it's been her all along, she was the mole and he says he knows.
He didn't before but he understood when they talked because she made a mistake in one of those lies, Stall could not have given her the money because Stall didn't have it.
Wozniak says that he would do for her everything she would do to protect Cristina.
He says "I don't want to lose another daughter, I forgive you"
The Fbi cars are already there, Harlee tries desperately to find another way, he says "unless you've got something on this fed I don't know about, I think we've reached the end of the rope"
She thinks, yells "Wait" and we hear no more but we see his face and I think she told him something interesting...
Despite the 200.000 she gave him Miguel doesn't go away, he shows up in front of her saying he'll take the money but he doesn't want a new life, he wants his old one, then he hurts her, and when he tries to have sex with her manipulating and scaring her like he probably used to do once, she snaps and she breaks his neck. (good)
And just like that, on this little note, the episode and the season end , leaving quite a cliffhanger.

What will happen to Wozniak? He did many bad things, I won't forget he killed his crewmember, and yet the one I dislike the most in the whole show is Stall, I really can't stand him, I don't want him to win.


I found the names below on IMDB:

Harlee - Jennifer Lopez
Wozniak - Ray Liotta
Tess - Drea De Matteo
Loman - Dayo Okeniyi
Espada - Vincent Laresca
Cristina - Sarah Jeffery
Stahl - Warren Kole
Nava - Gino Anthony Pesi

Star Trek The Next Generation - season 1

in progress


1 - Encounter at Fairpoint
41153.7 The new Galaxy-class UssEnterprise. Captain Picard is going to Fairpoint to meet his new first officer and solve the place's mystery. While on route they meet Q. They try to run, but unable to do so Picard orders the separation of the ship. Worf remains to command the saucer section while higher officers go to battle bridge.
They separate at warp 9.5 or something similar. They stay behind and Picard: "we surrender" to avoid a battle with such a powerful being.
Mid 21st century, post atomic horrors: in such a 2079 court, Q plays the judge. They're on trial accused of being a savage race. Tasha defends them saying that Starfleet saved her, so she gets frozen. After Picard's protests, Q cures her.
Can we spare a second to consider that of the four people on trial, only one is human? Why are the others there? Data has no race at all, and to call Betazoids savage?? Anyway.
We see that Data can repeat what he heard in the same voice he heard it in. Forced to plead guilty, Picard desperately resorts to "test us!" and Q allows it. The Fairpoint Station will be their test.
At Fairpoint we meet Ryker and we start seeing that there's a mystery concerning the station. What's it made of, what's its power source, and how come people immediately get what they asked for?
Ryker talks about it to Doctor Crusher and her son Wesley. She's known Picard for many years; well, not just because he brought back her husband's body as Wesley says, I know that they already knew each other before.
Ryker also meets Lt LaForge. Ryker is beamed on board and watches on tv what has happened :lol I know, a record of it.
Then Ryker must "conduct a manual docking" to unite the two parts of the ship.
Basically we are introduced to everyone. Picard's not comfortable with having children around, LaForge has been blind since birth and needs a visor to see, Tasha is chief of security, Admiral McCoy doesn't like transporters :lol: we know that :-)
Actually Bones has no part in the story at all, but they put him in to make a connection to TOS and it was nice.
We understand there's a romantic history between Troi and  Ryker. I always liked the word Imzadi.
I love the holosuites, always loved them. Here Ryker meets Data and they talk. Lt Cmdr Data is trying to whistle and Ryker does it better: "how easily humans can do that" well, not all humans Data, I can't....
"prejudice is very human" unfortunately you're right, Data..
"do you consider yourself superior to us?"
"I am superior sir, in many ways, but I would gladly give it up to be human" ..don't...
"Nice to meet you Pinocchio" :-)
(Can I also comment on that Lt girl helping Ryker find Data? After he goes on his way she checks out Ryker's b-side... :lol
They start investigating this strange construction. Wesley wants to see the bridge, and usually Picard wouldn't allow children in, but he's Beverly's son so he lets him in. Wesley already knows a lot about the ship - we know he's a little genius - A strange ship approaches, very big. It scans the Enterprise then leaves them be and fires on the planet but carefully avoiding the station, because the big mystery here was that the ship and the Fairpoint Station were both living creatures, one enslaved and the other angry.
Q very stupidly tries to sabotage their mission - very very stupidly, basically all Picard had to do was to do the opposite of what Q told him...
They feed the 'station' energy so it can free itself and fly away.
They were beautiful, weren't they? when I was little I loved them very much :-)










Q - John DeLancie

Goldeneye - 1995

One of those films that make everything else seem probable... there are scenes so absurd that they aren’t even entertaining anymore, they are just plain: oh-come-on-what-is-this ...

The best part of the whole movie is the very small scene with M, where she tells him that she knows he doesn’t like her, and then she tells him why she doesn’t like him: “I think you’re a sexist , misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the cold war whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you” - so they DO know that he’s a sexist misogynist dinosaur!!! It’s nice to know. 

The most memorable part of the movie is the Q scene, you know, when Q presents Bond with a new series of gadgets, usually the only ones that he will use during that specific movie *rollingeyes

and in the background there are scenes of his people trying out other inventions, things going wrong, it’s quite funny actually :-p

Now, am I mistaken or Bond drove an Aston Martin only at the beginning, and later replaced it with a BMW? 

Details:

There are two 00 agents working together (one is Pierce Brosnan and the other is Sean Bean, which is something that needs to be pointed out). At first they call each other by their number, to let us understand that they are both secret agents, then they call each other by name to let us know that they are friends... I understand this, but it makes no sense, if there is no secrecy reason, why use the numbers at all....

They are on some mission in Russia, Alec is captured and shot... Bond escapes because in Bond movies he’s always lucky af, no other reason really.

At the beginning of the movie there is a bungee-jumping scene that is quite cool, actually, when our bond needs to go down a lot and fast.. but later scenes are just excessive.

To escape the Russians, he follows a plain on a motorbike (obviously no soldier knows how to shoot) and then... prepare yourself.. the plain jumps without him, so he launches himself off the cliff and what do you know, he reaches the plain, grabs it, enters, and goes away... one of those things that even Murdock would call crazy...

Anyway.

We see our Bond again on his favourite Aston Martin (if I’m not mistaken) with a blonde with him that should be evaluating him but since he’s the protagonist no female can resist him *rolling eyes..

He starts a stupid crazy race with a woman on a red car, avoiding accident after accident because of the usual luck.

We see that there is a group of people working with computers somewhere (a Russian base or something?) but as we see a pretty Russian blonde it’s pretty obvious what will happen, she will be the bond girl for sure.

When her friend Boris is out for a smoke and she’s gone for a few minutes, the place gets attacked, everybody killed and the place blown up. She’s safe somehow, she comes out of there and... let’s spare a comment on the make-up guys who did their best to give her a post-tragedy look while keeping her pretty at the same time. thumbs up.

She manages to get out and find the sledge dogs so she can save herself, good girl! Proud of you!

No surprise she ends up working with Bond to stop the bad guys that killed all her colleagues. 

She finds out that Boris is alive and betrayed her, while James finds out that Alec is alive and betrayed him. It’s good to have things in common right?

Of course since he’s called Bond nobody would dare kill him right away, noooo, they are both put into an helicopter where they will die in due time if they stay there and politely wait for their death, but the girl wakes him up... they quickly realise that if they stay there they’ll die, no kidding, so they try to free themselves but they are tied up, but James manages to hit the Eject button with his head... I’m serious, they put him right next to the eject button... these old movies... *sigh

They are questioned by the Russian minister of defence, but then Uronov comes him and kills him. He takes the girl away and Bond goes after him, with a tank, destroying half the city I guess, lots of building are crashed everywhere he goes (all empty I hope, but nobody cares enough to check...

sure, only the ground floors are destroyed, but still that’s not a good thing...

and during all this, the girl looks back at him all proud that he’s unstoppable in his mission to save her...

Bond even carries a monument statue over his tank at one point, and then he crashes it, of course. If there’s one thing Bond is good at , it’s destroying things.

Alec then asks him, what do you choose, the girl or the mission? He says that he can kill her, that she means nothing to him, but then he shoots Uronov first to save her and Alec escapes.

Obviously what follows is the two lovebirds kissing and having sex... 

One thing I’d like to ask these authors: Bond is supposed to be the hero, but you’re implying that he saved her because he likes her? So if they had taken hostage a man or a woman he wasn’t interested in sleeping with, he would have let him kill them? 

The funny CIA guy helps them a bit, but I expected more from the CIA. He didn’t know about the secret Goldeneye, a huge antenna that can destroy planes.

Bond and the girl find their way into the launch base where she changes their codes. Boris is working there for Alec, who is doing this for money after all.

Boris tries to find the new password but he needs time, and he keeps playing with the bomb-pen he took from Bond.. 

There’s a big Alec-vs-James fight where Alec wins, but doesn’t kill him giving him the chance to save himself once more, then Alec is killed, thrown down from up high.

Boris dies when he was about to celebrating his victory in finding the password, totally covered in liquid nitrogen.

Bond is saved by the girl.

When it’s all over, the Marines arrive. The missile was launched but it fails its target so the bank of England and all England’s computers are safe.

Bond and the girl are taken away by the Marines in a helicopter. The end.

This is what action movies were in the 90s.

James Bond - Pierce Brosnan

Alec - Sean Bean

Natalia - Izabella Scorupco

M - Judy Dench

Boris - Alan Cumming

Q - Desmond Llewelyn

Moneypenny - Samantha Bond