#john behr

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Actor/Director John Derek was a serial adulterer, cheating on each wife while he pursued a younger replacement.

His first wife, Pati Behrs, was a Turkish ballerina. They had two children yet Derek abandoned them 1955 after meeting 19-year-old aspiring Swiss actress Ursula Andress.

A cheater should expected to be cheated on. A few years after marrying Andress, he suspected her of having a relationship with another actor.

But while still married to Andress, he started a relationship with actress Linda Evan. Although Evan’s helped Derek pay is alimony and child support payments to Behrs, it’s no surprise Derek cheated on her.

In 1973 Derek started a relationship with Mary Collins while filming a movie in Greece. When Evan’s found out, she returned to the US and filed for divorce. Derek remained in Greece until Collins turned 18, otherwise he could have been charged with statutory rape.

After Derek married Collins, she changed her professional name to Bo Derek.

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S2, Ep: 22: As I Lay Dying (2011) The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017)

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John McClane and Hans Gruber’s radio conversations throughout the movie.

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how is it john figures this out after speaking to emilio for not even ten minutes and yet everyone else puzzles over it the entire damn book

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Gotham (2014) Season 4 Episode 7 - A Day in the Narrows by John Behring

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Rewatch:  “The Reckoning”

The basics:  With four dead, including a CIA Officer, NCIS investigates if this has something to do with the DRONA project.

Written and directed by:  Frank Military Military wrote "Little Angels", "Deliverance", "Lockup", "The Job", "Greed", "Betrayal", "Crimeleon", "Vengeance", "Out of the Past" Part One, "Rude Awakenings" Part Two, season four’s finale "Descent", season five’s premiere "Ascension", "Allegiance", "Spoils of War" (directed by Military), "Black Budget", "SEAL Hunter", "Rage" (directed by Military), "Unspoken", "Unlocked Mind", "Revenge Deferred", "The Seventh Child" (directed by Military), "Crazy Train", "Uncaged" (directed by Military), "The Silo", "Monster", "Line in the Sand" (directed by Military), season ten opener "To Live and Die in Mexico" (directed by Military), "The Patton Project", "Better Angels", "False Flag" (the season 10 finale), "A Bloody Brilliant Plan", season 11 finale "Code of Conduct" (directed by Military), "Raising the Dead", "Through the Looking Glass" (directed by Military), "Indentured", "Down the Rabbit Hole" (directed by Military) and "The Body Stitchers". 

Military directed one episode he did not write, season 11’s holiday episode "Answers". 

He also appeared as Donald Kessler in "Raising the Dead" and several other episodes in photos.

Guest stars of note:  Jere Burns returns from season 13’s “Genesis” as Howard Pembrook, Duncan Campbell is back from the last episode (“Sensu Lato”) as NCIS Agent Castor, David DeSantos as Anthony Beltran and Milissa Sears as Leah Novack are back from “Sleeping Dogs”, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as CIA Officer Rafael Cortes, Scott Christopher as CIA Officer Chris Behr, Amy Kim Waschke as CIA Officer Avery Lamica, Maurice Hall as AMT Julian Cousins, John Marshall Jones as Jonathan Hunter and Rick Tunell, the series’ longtime producer/director was the Head of Airfield Security

Our heroes:   DRONA drama blah blah blah.

What important things did we learn about: Callen:  Lone wolfing. Sam:  Out of town. Kensi:  Tailing Callen. Deeks:  Airport trip. Fatima:  Figured out early that the CIA was up to no good. Rountree:  Tailing Callen with Kensi. Kilbride:  Side-eye master.

What not so important things did we learn about: Callen:  Wasn’t getting violin lessons as a kid. Sam:    Absent. Kensi:   Waiting for Deeks to return from the airport. Deeks:  Mostly absent. Fatima:  Side-eying with the best of them. Rountree:  Started the day with Deeks, ended it with Kensi. Kilbride:   Friends with the head coach at USC.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  Basking in guilt according to Pembrook.

Who's down with OTP:   Not a lot of OTP time.

Who's down with BrOTP:  Down one part of the BrOTP but Pembrook’s final conversation with Callen was all about the brotherhood of Callen and Sam, the show’s most important relationship.

Fashion review:  Callen wore a light blue and white plaid button down shirt before going in the pool and a navy blue hoodie post-pool.  Kensi wore a wine colored long-sleeve top.  Deeks wore a pale blue henley.  Fatima had a fabulous black leather jacket (soft like butter!) and a white sweater with blue piping at the collar.  Rountree black long sleeve tee-shirt with a black jacket.  Kilbride, as always, dark blue three-piece suit, red tie, pale blue dress shirt. 

Music:  “Home” by Aron Wright plays at the end of the episode.

Any notable cut scene:  Not today.

Quote:  Kilbride:  “And you are not leaving my office until you tell me everything you know about Pembrook and Beltran.” Cortes:  “And you're gonna stop me?  With force?” Kilbride:  “Don't tease me.”

This is was very solid Kilbride as a badass episode.

Anything else:  The previously-s include all the Pembrook nonsense. 

In the hospital, a still comatose Leah Novak is being moved to a rehab facility with serious CIA security around her.  Callen is there as well.  Nobody knows where Leah is going except the head security man – who is driving the ambulance.  Novak will be checked in under an alias.  The security chief promised to keep Callen advised of her status. 

As the security team leaves, the second security team member tells her boss they found one of the Drona subjects, Clayton, dead.  If they can find Clayton, the head man tells her, they can find everyone.  for some reason, the head of security thinks it is a good idea to meet with the other Drona subjects in Pershing Square.  He leaves the ambulance with only a nurse watching Novak.  Clayton was tortured before he was killed, according to one of the Drona survivors.   The group realizes none of them are safe.  And they’re not as a sniper picks off all the Drona subjects except the security chief.  He dodges bullets getting back to the ambulance and driving off.

A cranky Admiral is marching from his office to Ops.  Deeks and Rountree are just behind him.  After a Deeks mindfulness joke falls flat, the Admiral explains that four people, including a CIA Officer named Avery Lamica – she was the number two person moving Novak - were shot dead in Pershing Square.  Kensi has already left for Pershing Square to meet with Callen.   

In Ops is CIA Officer Raphael Cortes (another person allowed to wander about the super-secret office).  After the Admiral does some introductions, Cortes wants to talk to Callen and Sam.  Sam is out of town and not available.  Cortes does not want Callen running the investigation but the Admiral makes sure Cortes understands that Cortes doesn’t make staffing decisions for NCIS.  When the Admiral brings up that Cortes asked for help, Cortes makes sure the Admiral understands that the CIA doesn’t need help, they need information.  Since the FBI is investigating the shooting, Cortes wants to question Callen about letting Beltran get away.  And Cortes wants the Admiral to do that right now.  Knowing Callen wouldn’t return to the office even if Kilbride ordered him to do so, the Admiral won’t – and didn’t plan on anyway.

Deeks asks if the CIA is tracking the ambulance.  They can’t find it, according to Cortes.  CIA Officer Chris Behr is missing – he’s the head security guy.  Cortes thinks Lamica was meeting with other Drona team members.  Pembrook ran black ops for the DoD, NSA and the CIA.  Rountree mentions Beltran’s plan for a lawsuit against Pembrook for what was done to him and to the others when they were children.  Cortes believes Pembrook made monsters – “including Agent Callen.” 

At the crime scene, Callen is covering Avery Lamica’s body with a tarp when Kensi arrives.  Callen has not heard from Behr.  Looking at a high rise building just off Pershing Square, Kensi is going to check the victim’s locations and angle of the gunshot wounds to see if she can backtrack the math to the sniper’s location. 

On comms, Callen asks Fatima to check out security cameras.  Also on comms, Kilbride tells Callen that Cortes would like to speak to him – the FBI can cover the crime scene.  Callen tells Cortes that the FBI isn’t even at the crime scene – though LAPD is all over the crime scene.  Deeks talks about Drona and Callen thinks it makes sense – Lamica and Behr were put on the protection team by the CIA and likely Drona.  Cortes pushes for Callen to come in but Callen fakes some static and is off comms.

Kensi returns to Callen.  Based on the wounds, there is no way the sniper fired from the high rise.  The angles of the bullet wounds are too steep.  The sniper was likely in a helicopter and one great shot.

Fatima has eight helicopters over that part of Los Angeles at 8:16AM – the time of the shooting.  Kensi thinks the shot came from at least 1,400 feet east of Pershing Square.  On the big screen in Ops, Deeks finds the helicopter.  Deeks traces it to a company called Cypress Park Industries.  Rountree asks where did the helicopter come from – Camarillo Airport.  Kilbride is sure there are witnesses or video of someone getting on the helicopter.  Deeks is going to track that down.

Cortes orders Callen to return to the office or he’ll get the FBI to bring Callen in.  Callen says he’s returning but gets a call from an unknown number followed by a text message telling Grisha to pick up.  Callen has Kensi take them off comms.  It is Pembrook on the phone.  Callen has a flashback to his happy times with Pembrook.  He wants to meet and Callen does too.  Kensi gets back on comms to get Fatima to trace the call.  She does this quietly.  Pembrook is about a block away inside Pershing Square, watching Callen and Kensi.

Pembrook starts to walk away from the crime scene, saying that Callen won’t miss a chance to face the monster of his childhood.  Under a bench near the coffee cart is a discarded water bottle with an address in it.  Pembrook wants to meet Callen without any other agents around.  Pembrook hangs up and walks away.  Even tosses his phone into a half finished glass of water. Callen and Kensi check out the bench – he finds the water bottle.  Cortes hears from the FBI – they’re on site and want a sitrep.  Callen shows Kensi the address in North Hollywood.   With the FBI closing in on Callen, he’s off to deal with Pembrook with Kensi on his tail.

At Camarillo Airport, Deeks confirms that Beltran and three other people were on the helicopter but Pembrook wasn’t one of them.  Deeks is getting security video.  Cortes demands that it is sent to Langley as soon as it is available.  The Admiral does his version of rolling his eyes and says “of course.”

Callen arrives at the address Pembrook provided with Kensi just a few blocks back.  No one is at the home but since the bottle had the word “pool” in a circle, Callen check out the backyard.  There is a pool with a box at the bottom and lots of cameras all around.  Realizing that by going in the water Callen shorts out all his comms, Kensi tells Callen not to let Pembrook control the next move.  The Admiral doesn’t want Callen to go offline  Callen tosses his earwig and phone into the pool before diving in for the box.  Cortes pitches a fit that Kilbride has no control over his agents.  Saying they can track Callen through his car – and Kensi can trail him – the Admiral wants Rountree working with Kensi. 

A wet Callen finds a key to the house in the box.  Inside the house is a change of clothes and a key to a vehicle.

Kilbride wants Kensi to go in and see what Callen is up to.

Callen is up to getting into a van and in the van is an armed Pembrook.  Pembrook does the Pembrook stuff – talking about teaching Callen the language of violence.  After getting Callen’s gun, the two are off for a drive.

In Ops, Fatima has video from Camarillo Airport.  Beltran and three randos – two men and a woman - are walking to the helicopter.  Cortes demands Fatima send him the photos to run them through facial rec.  She was going to do that but he barks “send them to me.”  The Admiral nods and Fatima sends the photos.

Entering the house by picking the lock, Kensi finds Callen’s wet gear.  Kensi tells Ops that Callen mentioned a van by the house.  Cortes is disgusted they lost Callen “completely.”

Using Kaleidoscope, Fatima traced Callen through Van Nuys to LAX.  Cortes disses Kaleidoscope as a tenuous connection and tells Kilbride – who is quiet with a lot of side-eyeing – they better pray they don’t lose Callen.  Cortes gets a call – the CIA has ID the three with Beltran.  He leaves Ops.

Callen asks Pembrook what are they doing?  Pembrook says he’s trying to understand what Callen is feeling but Callen is not “doing that.”  Not wanting Pembrook as a therapist, Callen asks what Pembrook wants.  Pembrook wants to save Callen’s life, save Leah’s life and by that, maybe save his own.  Callen really doesn’t care about Pembrook’s life – “full stop.”  Pembrook leads Callen to an underground garage of an office building.

Fatima is still tracking the van on a bit of a delay.  The vehicle is near San Pedro.  Kilbride thinks that an awful long ride for Pembrook to take Callen on just to kill him.  Cortes disagrees – Pembrook could be taking Callen someplace off the grid to torture him.  After his phone beeps, Cortes has IDs for the three people with Beltran.  The three are Russians but not FSB.  The CIA got intel on the three entering the country but nothing else.  Fatima is joining the side-eye brigade.

In the parking lot, Pembrook starts by telling Callen he was obsessive and filled with anger.  Callen says this isn’t about him but Pembrook keeps pushing.  Callen’s anger drives his obsession.  Again, Callen really doesn’t care.  Pembrook admits he did horrible things – he won’t deny it.  And the Drona subject were children.  Pembrook says he thought his training methods were justified.  He’s consumed with remorse.  Callen doesn’t care.  Pembrook says he takes solace that Callen has moved on from his trauma.   Angry, Callen tells Pembrook he doesn’t know anything about Callen’s life.  Pembrook does – he’s been following Callen for 35-years.

Fatima hears from Vance’s assistant.  Kilbride is needed on a conference call in three minutes.  The Admiral is not pleased as he returns to his office.

Rambling, Pembrook has been following all the Drona children, trying to help those in the most distress.  Callen doesn’t believe him.  Knowing Callen so well, Pembrook offers to turn over Callen’s paper file – everything about Callen’s past.  Pembrook tells Callen he can date test the ink.  Pembrook starts talking about his own childhood.  If Callen isn’t interested in hearing Pembrook talk about Callen’s childhood, he certainly doesn’t want to hear about Pembrook’s.  All Callen cares about is the file and is offended that dangling the file in front of Callen is an apology.  Callen starts talking about having a hard time building relationships – he went from the DEA to the CIA to NCIS because Pembrook took from him the most elemental part of being a human – the ability to feel.  Pembrook knows this and knows it was a terrible thing to do.  He apologizes again and Callen isn’t interested in another apology.

In his office, Kilbride is waiting for Vance.  Fatima sends him the NCIS facial rec runs on the “Russians”.  They are, of course, Americans.  Cortes approaches Fatima, asking that she check the last area where the van was seen – maybe there is a CIA safehouse in the area.  Kilbride pops up on the big screen – he wants to see Cortes in his office.

Entering Kilbride’s office, Cortes asks if Kilbride shared what’s going on with Vance.  The Admiral did not and asks Cortes to close the door behind him.   After bickering about Cortes sitting down, Kilbride brings up an issue of dishonesty, especially with Callen being in such a precarious position.  The three with Beltran were Americans, not Russians.  Cortes tries to sell it as a good job with backstopping their IDs.  No, one of the men played football for USC.  Kilbride texted the head coach at USC to confirm it.  Cortes is not leaving the office until he tells Kilbride everything.  Sneering, Cortes asks if Kilbride thinke he can stop him by force.  “Don’t tease me,” the Admiral sneers back.

Rountree meets up with Kensi near the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.  They are sitting tight, waiting for an update on Callen.  Kensi asks Fatima about Cortes’s Russians and Fatima is sure they aren’t Russians.  She’s watching what’s going on Kilbride’s office via a security camera on the second level over the bullpen.

Callen asks Pembrook why is he killing the other Drona subjects.  Pembrook has been running a black ops Drona team for years.  Beltran was part of that team but wanted to start doing jobs for the highest bidder.  The only way Pembrook could get the rouge Drona subjects to stop doing these jobs was to kill them.  Beltran and his team killed a pro-democracy presidential candidate in Ethiopia along with the candidate’s family.  Pembrook was outraged that they killed children for a paycheck (as opposed to Pembrook I guess who only tortured children for a paycheck).   Since Pembrook was trying to kill Beltran’s team, they are returning the favor.  Callen reminds Pembrook that he is responsible for turning these people into psychopaths. 

A team of shooters open fire on the van.  Callen gets his gun back from Pembrook and the two make their way to a stairwell.  From the stairwell, Pembrook shoots into the van and blows it up.  Callen and Pembrook start running up the stairs but Pembrook is slow – he’s been shot.  Neither Callen or Pembrook have phones – Callen’s went into the pool, Pembrook ditched his burner at Pershing Square.  Pembrook has more happy news – he’s out of ammo.

Walking into an office that is being refurbished, Callen and Pembrook have Beltran and a partner in hot pursuit.  Hiding in a cubical farm, Callen and Pembrook escape to a stairwell but almost run into Beltran’s other two partners.  Callen and Pembrook go up another flight.

In Ops, Fatima downloads some photos of Beltran and his team – Cortes is in one of the photographs. 

Kilbride wants full transparency on Pembrook’s Black Ops from Cortes.  That is going to happen according to Cortes.  The CIA is willing to cooperate in the matter but not everything is going to be shared.  With his earwig in, Fatima tells the Admiral that Cortes worked with Beltran.  Cortes gets a text message with a list of CIA safe houses near where Callen and the van were last seen.  Kilbride starts talking to Fatima with Cortes in the room.  Cortes wonders what the Admiral is doing.

Callen and Pembrook get a higher floor.  Pembrook is in rough shape.  Finding a server room – that is fireproof and locks from the inside – Pembrook wants to stop running and let Callen go.  Callen and Pembrook wind up locked in the server room with Beltran and his team now on the floor.

Kilbride accuses Cortes of being part of Beltran’s team.  Cortes denies it.  The Admiral wants to know what Cortes’s role is in all of this.

Beltran tries to open the server door but it is locked.  He is about to move on when he realizes there is blood on his hand.   He asks the team to find something that will cut through the steel door.

Saying that Kilbride’s accusations are stupid, Cortes stands to leave.  The Admiral warns him not to so Cortes pulls a weapon on him.  “Are you insane,” is Kilbride’s reaction.  Saying his life is over as he knows it, Cortes is desperate to get out of the building.  Looking at the big screen, Fatima sees Cortes with his weapon out.  

Fatima walks into Kilbride’s office with her tablet and a pretend update.  Cortes orders her to leave – he’s exiting the building with Kilbride as a hostage.  Fatima won’t leave, earning a second gun pulled by Cortes.  She tells Cortes to look around.  There are several NCIS Agents with their guns drawn all over the second floor of the office building, including Agent Castor directly across the second floor. 

Cortes wants to leave the office and threatens to shoot Kilbride and Fatima if he can’t get his way.  When nobody moves, Cortes fires a shot into the floor by Kilbride and promises the next one is going into Fatima’s face.  While Fatima is clutching her tablet, she has her firearm under it.  To protect Fatima, Kilbride stands.  Cortes wants everyone to lower their weapons and Fatima gives the order to the others.  Cortes wants her to move to the left.  Causing a distracting, Fatima makes a Beyonce joke, asking if it is her left or his left.  When it is her left, the Admiral hits the deck, as does Fatima and the other agents on the floor unload their weapons in what was Kilbride’s office.  When Cortes does not go down, Fatima starts shooting and before long, he’s fallen out the window and onto the main floor outside of Hetty’s office.

As Beltran and company work to drill their way through the lock, Callen is looking for a way out of the server room.  Pulling down an air vent, he makes enough noise to stop Beltran for a second but only a second.  The drilling resumes.  The air vent is way too small to fit Callen or Pembrook.

Using Cortes’s facial ID iPhone, Castor is able to open the phone and pass it on to Fatima.  She finds evidence that Cortes was sending out everything NCIS was working on while he was there (and alive).  She starts tracking Beltran’s phone location.  Fatima sends the office building location to Kensi and Rountree who are on their way.   They were waiting for Deeks but are going in without him.

As the drill gets closer to opening the door, Pembrook tells Callen that when Hetty found out what he was doing she pulled Callen from the program.  He’s to blame for all that happened, not Hetty.  Callen wonders why Hetty didn’t tell him.  The drill breaks through the lock.

Kensi and Rountree see smoke coming out of the garage.  Inside, they find the burnt remains of the van with no bodies.  Bringing the big guns, Kensi and Rountree follow the bloody handprints Pembrook left on the stairway walls.

When Beltran gets into the server room, Pembrook looks to be alone.  Asked where Callen is, a seemingly struggling Pembrook says he doesn’t know, they split up.  Beltran says everyone always thought Pembrook was evil, a monster.  But Beltran knew otherwise and that was going to be Pembrook’s downfall.  Pembrook doesn’t agree.  Living with what he’s done is far more difficult than dying will ever be.  Beltran promises to put Pembrook out of his misery. 

Hanging from a small ledge over the door, Callen shoots Beltran.  Jumping down, he takes out Beltran’s partner.  As the other two team member rush back to the floor, Kensi and Roundtree arrive, arresting both.  Kensi gets an ambulance for Pembrook.

Outside of the ambulance, Pembrook hears that Officer Behr and Leah are safe.  Callen has arranged for NCIS Agents to take Pembrook to the hospital.  That’s not happening as Officer Behr shows up with Intelligence Agents from both the DoD and NSA – they’re taking Pembrook somewhere safe.  Callen is livid – does Behr know what Pembrook has done?  He does, Behr was a Drona subject, “There are a lot of us.  He made us, for worse or for better.”  As Pembrook drives away, Callen wants to know why Hetty never said anything.

Back in the office, Callen looks at all of Hetty’s things.  He gets a phone call from Pembrook.  He wants to meet Callen outside. 

Outside, Pembrook has a large file.  He answers Callen’s question – Hetty never said anything because she was consumed with guilt for getting Callen involved in the Drona program.  Callen isn’t really interested in Hetty’s guilt about trying to turn children into super-agents.  Pembrook disagrees.  Hetty put Callen into the program because he was brilliant and gifted, wanting him to live up to his full potential.  Hetty’s world was the arts and Callen wasn’t going to learn how to play the violin.  She wasn’t going to make the mistake some parents make of taking child with one set of talents and forcing the child to master a different set. 

Callen points out that Hetty isn’t his parents.  “You mean everything to her.  And you always have.”  Callen is as close to a son as Hetty ever had – she told Pembrook that because even Hetty needs someone to talk to sometimes.  While Callen may feel he’s been alone in this world, “you’ve been far from an orphan.”  Hetty loved him deeply.  Both Callen and Pembrook are a little weepy. 

Pembrook turns over the file with some advice.  “Don’t make your life be just about the past.  Let it be about the present and now the future.”  Pembrook offers his congratulations on Callen’s engagement and wishes him all the happiness in the world.  As he leaves, Pembrook mentions he gave Hetty the dossier on Senior Chief Petty Officer Sam Hanna.  “I thought he’d make a great partner.  No, that’s not true.  I thought he’d make a great friend.”  With all he did, Pembrook tried to look out for Callen as a way to make up for it all.

What head canon can be formed from here:    “Frank Military, please come to the front desk, clean up on aisle Drona.”

As an independent hour, this was great.  There wasn’t a dull moment, there wasn’t a dip in the tension, the dialogue was crisp, the action was top notch and there wasn’t a useless scene or conversation.  Frank Military is the king of “competence porn” – everyone on the team was at the top of their game, doing their best work.  Sam being “out of town” was a bummer – nobody writes the Sam Hanna competence porn better than Military.

But Drona.  For the life of me, I don’t know why in season 13 the program completely retcon’d Callen’s childhood.  For years, the backstory was Callen bounced from foster home to foster home, some bad, some really bad and some good.  He was found by Hetty, went to a good college, joined the DEA/CIA/NCIS and served his country.  Now, it seems Callen was some test subject where beating children was seen as great training and Callen completely forgot that part.  He remembered all his foster parents but not the guy who took a hammer to his fingers. 

Feh.

And if Drona and Hetty were keeping their eye on Callen from the time he was a little boy, could someone maybe have grabbed Amy Callen out of the orphanage and moved her in with a foster/adopted family before she drowned. 

Retconning characters’ past isn’t new to me – Samantha Mulder had multiple middle names and multiple kidnapping scenarios.  I have a high crapola tolerance level when it comes to this stuff but 13-seasons in, knowing that every season could be the last, introducing a complicated new storyline just seems like a bad idea.  And it was.

Nice touch having Cortes land right outside the Hetty’s office, what Mosley called Hetty’s throne.   Glad to see Castor not knocked out, instead being a key part of taking Cortes down.

So what did we learn today – you can abuse children physically and psychologically but if you suggest Sam Hanna as a friend to Callen, all’s good.

Episode number:   This is episode 19 of season 14.  The 321st episode overall.

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ides of march

well, its tumblr's favorite holiday and who can blame us? The assassination of Julius Caesar is probably one of the only group projects that ever went down the way it was supposed to with, well, not complete group participation (there were said to be upward of 60 people involved but only 23 stab wounds - obviously someone was not carrying their weight) but at least a good effort was made at it. But lets take a moment, between our jokes about salad and Animal Crossing butterfly nets to look at what else has happened in history on the Ides of March. For instance, did you know, on March 15th:

1493 - Columbus returned to Spain after 'discovering' the new world.

1580 - Phillip II of Spain put a bounty on the head of Prince William I of Orange for 25,000 gold coins for leading the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Hamburgs

1744 - King Louis XV of France declares war on Britain

1767 - Andrew Jackson, who would go on to be the seventh president of the US, was born.

1820 - Maine became the 23rd state in the US

1864 - the Red River Campaign, called 'One damn blunder from beginning to end' started for the Union Forces in the American Civil War

1889 - a typhoon in Apia Harbor, Samoa sinks 6 US and German warships, killing 200

1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicated the Russian throne, bringing an end to the Romanov dynasty

1955 - the first self-guided missile is introduced by the US Air Force

1965 - TGI Friday's opens its first restaurant in New York City

1991 - in LA, four police officers are brought up on charges for the beating of Rodney King

2018 - Toys R Us announces it will be closing all its stores

2019 - a terrorist attacks two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51, and wounding 50 others

Oof! Pretty bleak, isn't it? It would almost make you think that the day is just bad luck, start to finish and its probably just as well, we're all focusing on assassination instead of other horrors. But wait - its not all bad news! The Ides of March has some tricks up its sleeve yet (joke intended). I'd be telling you only half the story if I didn't add:

1854 - Emil von Behring is born and will eventually become the first to receive the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin, being called 'the children's savoir' for the lives it saves

1867 - Michigan is the first state to use property tax to support a university

1868 - the Cincinnati Red Stockings have ten salaried players, making them the first professional baseball team in the US

1887 - Michigan has the first salaried fish and game warden

1892 - the first automatic ballot voting machine is unveiled in New York City

1907 - Finland gives women the right to vote, becoming the first to do so in Europe

1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg is born and will go on to become a US Supreme Court justice

1934 - the 5$ a day wage was introduced by Henry Ford, forcing other companies to raise their wages as well or lose their workers

1937 - the first state sponsored contraceptive clinic in the US opens in Raleigh, North Carolina

1946 - the British Prime minister recognizes India's independence

1947 - the US Navy has its first black commissioned officer, John Lee

1949 - clothes rationing ends in Britain, four years after the end of WWII

1960 - ten nations meet in Geneva for disarmament talks

1968 - the Dioceses of Rome says it will not ban 'rock and roll' from being played during mass but that it deplores the practice - also in 1968, LIFE magazine titles Jimi Hendrix 'the most spectacular guitarist in the world'

1971 - ARPANET, the precursor of the modern day internet, sees its first forum

1984 - Tanzanian adopts a constitution

1985 - symbolics.com, the first internet domain name, is registered

The Ides of March turns out to just be a day, like any other day in history.

Unless you're us. In which case -

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My 250 Favorite Arrowverse Episodes: Part 8: 75-51

Taken from „Arrow“, „The Flash“, „Supergirl“, „Legends of Tomorrow“, „Constantine“, „Black Lightning“, „Batwoman“, „Stargirl“ and Season 1-3 of „Superman & Lois“:

In honor of Seaosn 4 of "Superman & Lois" being the end of the Arrrowverse, the end of DCTV like we knew it and the end of The CW like we knew it, a final time before the final season all Seasons ends of all the 250 best Arrowverse Episodes (according to me):

I did include "Stargirl" this time, since it has as much connection as "Superman & Lois" to the rest of the Arrowverse, but One Hit Shows like "Gotham Knights" and "Naomi" (anyone still remember this one?) are not on this list, neither are Arrowverse unrelated DC shows:

 75. Zari, Not Zari (Legends of Tomorrow 5x8)

The One in which: Zari meets Zari and „Supernatural“ crosses over.

76, Written by: Morgan Faust, Tyron B. Carter, Directed by: Kevin Mock

 74. Freakshow (Legends of Tomorrow 3x2)

The One in which: The Legends participate in the Greates Show.

35, Written by: Keto Shimizu, Grainne Godfree, Directed by: Kevin Tancharoen

73. The Magician (Arrow 3x4)

The One in which: Nyssa comes to town and Malcolm is under suspicion.

50, Written by: Wendy Mercile, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: John Behring

72.  Crisis on Infinite Earths 1-5

The Ones in which: The Multiverse is destroyed.

Part 1: Supergirl Episode 5.9/96, Written by: Robert Rovner, Marc Guggenheim, Derek Simon, Jay Faerber, Directed by: Jesse Warn, Part 2: Batwoman Episode 1.9/9, Written by: Din Whitehead, Holly Henderson, Directed by: Laura Belsey, Part 3: The Flash Episode 6.9/123, Written By: Lauren Certo, Sterling Gates, Eric Wallace, Directed By: David McWhirter, Part 4: Arrow: Episode 8.8/168, Written by: Marv Wolfman, Marc Guggenheim; Directed by: Glen Winter, Part 5: Legends of Tomorrow Episode 5.0/68, Written by: Keto Shimizu, Ubah Mohamed, Directed by: Gregory Smith

71. The Getaway (Legends of Tomorrow 4x10)

The One in which: A President gets kidnapped and a bugs makes to tell the truth.

61, Written by: Matthew Maala, Ubah Mohamed, Directed by: Viet Nguyen

 70. Midvale (Supergirl 3x6)

The One in which: Kara and Alex team up to solve a murder.

48, Written by: Caitlin Parrish, Jess Kardos, Directed by: Rob Greenlea

69. For the Girl who has everything (Supergirl 1x13)

The One in which: Kara is back on Krypton, or so she thinks.

13, Written by: Andrew Kreisberg, Ted Sullivan, Derek Simon, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 68. Aruba-Con (Legends of Tomorrow 3x1)

The One in which: Sara fights Caesar and Rip thinks the Legends are a chainsaw.

34, Written by: Phil Klemmer, Marx Guggenheim, Directed by: Rob Seidenglanz

67. Crisis on Earth X 1-4

The Ones in which: Barry’s and Iris‘ Wedding is crashed by Nazis.

Part 1: Supergirl 3.8/ 50, Written by: Robert Rovner, Jessica Queller, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: Larry Teng, Part 2: Arrow 6.8/ 123, Written by: Wendy Mercile, Ben Sokolowski, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, Directed by: James Bamford, Part 3: The Flash4.8/77, Written by: Todd Helbing, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: Dermott Daniel Downs, Part 4: Legends of Tomorrow 3.8/21, Written by: Phil Klemmer, Keto Shimizu, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, Directed by: Greogry Smith

66. Here I go again (Legends of Tomorrow 3x11)

The One in which: Zari is stuck in time-loop.

44, Written by: Ray Utarnachitt, Morgan Faust, Directed by: Ben Bray

 65. Unthinkable (Arrow 2x23)

The One in which: Slade kidnaps Laurel and Thea shoots Malcolm.

46, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, Directed by: John Behring

64. Luthors (Supergirl 2x12)

The One in which: Lena looks guilty and Kara is jealous.

32, Written by: Robert Rovner, Cindy Lichtman, Directed by: Tawnia McKiernan

 63. Checkmate (Arrow 5x16)

The One in which: Oliver learns who Prometheus really is.

108, Written by: Beth Schwartz, Sarah Tarkoff, Directed by: Ken Shane

62. The Virgin Gary (Legends of Tomorrow 4x1)

The One in which: Garys nipple gets eaten by an unicorn.

52, Written by: Phil Klemmer und Grainee Godfree, Directed by: Gregory Smith

 61. The Man Under the Hood (Arrow 2x19)

The One in which: Slade in the Arrowcave.

42. Written by: Greg Berlanti, Geoff Johns, Andrew Kreisberg, Keto Shimizu, Directed by: Jesse Warn

60. Welcome to Earth (Supergirl 2x3)

The One in which: Mon-El wakes up.

23, Written by: Jessica Queller, Derek Simon, Directed by: Rachel Talalay

59. Witch Hunt (Legends of Tomorrow 4x2)

The One in which: The Fairy Godmother is not all nice.

53, Written by: Keto Shimizu und Matthew Maalaa, Directed by: Kevin Mock

58. Helen Hunt (Legends of Tomorrow 3x6)

The One in which: There a some changes in Firstorm and Helen of Troy mixes up Hollywood.

39, Written by: Keto Shimizu und Ubah Mohamed, Directed by: David Geddes

 57. Deathstroke (Arrow 2x18)

The One in which: Slade kidnaps Thea and Isobel shows her true colours.

41, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Drew Z. Greenberg, Directed by: Guy Bee

 56. Present Tense (Arrow 8x4)

The One in which: Mia, William and Connor land in the present.

164, Written by: Oscar Balderrama, Jeane Wong, Directed by: Kristin Windell

 55. Supergirl Lives (Supergirl 2x9)

The One in which: Kara goes to space to stop human trafficking.

29, Written by: Andrew Kreisberg, Eric Carrasco, Jess Kardos, Directed by: Kevin Smith

54. Phone Home (Legends of Tomorrow 3x4)

The One in which: Ray’s best friend is a Baby Dominator.

37, Written by: Matthew Maala, Directed By: Kevin Mock

53. Heir to the Demon (Arrow 2x13)

The One in which: Nyssa wants to bring Sara home.

36, Written by: Jake Coburn, Directed by: Wendey Stanzler

52. Tagumo Attacks!!! (Legends of Tomorrow 4x5)

The One in which: A gigantic squid comes to live.

56, Written by: Keto Simizu, Ubah Mohamend, Directed by: Alexandra LaRoche

 51. Honor Thy Fathers (Arrow 5x21)

The One in which: Ollie and Thea have to come to terms with Robert.

113, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: Laura Belsey

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Trek Talks 3 happens Saturday, January 13, 2024 beginning at 9:45am PST with the SyFy Sistas Pre-Show Panel!

Star Trek actor John Billingsley together with podcast hosts Bill Smith and Dan Davidson developed a streaming telethon for the Hollywood Food Coalition. The all-volunteer team quickly grew, as Roddenberry Podcasts joined Trek Geeks to co-produce the event, and Trek Talks was born. Now in its third year, Trek Talks has become an annual event that provides vital support for the Hollywood Food Coalition and the people it serves. Trek Talks’ guest list reads like an all-star roster of Trek luminaries, as its first two telethons have featured Jeri Ryan, Anson Mount, Scott Bakula, Alexander Siddig, Gates McFadden, Cirroc Lofton, Nana Visitor, Jonathan Frakes, Michael & Denise Okuda, Brent Spiner, Tony Todd, James Cromwell, Terry Farrell, Mike McMahan, Linda Park, Dan & Kevin Hageman, John de Lancie, Armin Shimerman, Brannon Braga, Robert Picardo, Ira Steven Behr, and many, many more. 

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Books I've read in 2023:

On First Principles by Origen. Translated by John Behr.

Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) by David Zahl

Luther's Outlaw God, vol. 1: Hiddenness, Evil, and Predestination by Steven Paulson

Luther's Works, vol. 23: Sermons on the Gospel of St. John, Chapters 6-8

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby

Theology is for Proclamation by Gerhard O. Forde

Luther's Outlaw God, vol. 2: Hidden in the Cross by Steven Paulson

The Annotated Luther, vol. 4: Pastoral Writings ed. by Mary Jane Haemig

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and to Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Who is the Church?: An Ecclesiology for the Twenth-first Century by Cheryl M. Peterson

Messianic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity by Donald Juel

Luther's Outlaw God, vol. 3: Sacraments and God's Attack on the Promise by Steven Paulson

Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted by Gretchen Ronnevik

The Early Versions of the New Testament: their origin, transmission, and limitations by Bruce Metzger

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Confessing Jesus: The Heart of Being a Lutheran by Molly Lackey

Adamantius: Dialogue on the True Faith in God translated by Robert A. Pretty

The Annotated Luther, vol. 5: Christian Life in the World, edited by Hans Hillerbrand

The End is Music: A Companion to Robert W. Jenson's Theology by Chris E. W. Green

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melodie Beattie

The Church Unknown: Reflections of a Millenial Pastor by Seth Green

Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley

A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

Daily Grace: The Mockingbird Devotional, vol. 2

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Not listed are some books that I chose not to finish and some books that I have yet to finish.

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I think one of the best things big franchises can do is bring somebody on who kinda fundamentally disagrees with the whole thesis. When you get these long running IP’s and the last generation’s fans become the current generation’s writers, it can lead to an incestuous stagnation.

Im thinking about what Ira Behr brought to the table in DS9, and how it feels like Tony Gilroy is sort of trying for the Star Wars equivalent of that with Andor. A stickler for the continuity and world building, but skeptical of the end result. Teasing out nuance from the dissonant bits, rather than just trying to smooth them over.

Like at the end of the day Dave Filoni is a kid playing with action figures, and now that Disney has given him the EXPENSIVE toys like Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett, he’s become far more reverent than he was with his original characters, or the pre-destined tragedies of the clone wars guys. His best stories are mostly putting meat on the bones of George Lucas’s high concept outlines, so when a fundamentally incurious guy like John Favreau is setting the course of the grand narrative, all Filoni can really do is focus on cute character dynamics on an episode by episode basis. Tony Gilroy et all are needed to break the cycle

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S2, Ep: 22: As I Lay Dying (2011) The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017)

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TUMBLR | AMBIENTACIÓN | GRUPOS

Abrimos la lista de reservas de faceclaim. La misma será actualizada  constantemente hasta la apertura del foro.

Recordamos que la reserva será por llegada de mensaje así que les pedimos que controlen bien cuales son los PB que ya han sido reservados.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson — High

Abigail Cowen — missmyowndream

Adelaide Kane — leire

Andrea Damante — Mr T.

Agustín Bernasconi — Shishoska

Alan Ritchson — Almaespada

Alina Olesheva — Xenia

Allissa Salls — Cyro

Alycia Debnam-Carey — Galadriel

Amelie Zilber — Khaleeliz

Ana de Armas — Beth

Anabelle Wallis — acinderellastory

Andy Blossom — Perséfone

Angelina Michelle — Miel

Anna Zak — Hécate

Arthur Benedetti — shiker

Bar Zomer — Lost

Ben Barnes — Khaleeliz

Ben Dahlhaus — Shishoska

Brock O’Hurn — Thor

Carolina Moura — Elena

Charleen Weiss — Magdalena

Chris Evans — Mr.Sin

Chris Pratt — ScarletGuy

Chris Hemsworth — Lawson

Cindy Kimberly — Luna

Cole Sprouse — kattokoshmar-blog

Constance Dominik — Perséfone

Davey Fisher — Dr. C

Do KyungSoo — Carpincho

Dua Lipa — Khaleeliz

Eden Fines — Gotita

Elizabeth Olsen — Galadriel

Elliot Page — kattokoshmar-blog

Emilia Mernes — Shishoska

Emily Blunt — Moony

Emily Carey — Carpincho

Emily Ratajkowski — Ritsu

Emma Watson — El Sensei

Federico Cola — Beth

Gal Gadot — butterfly

Grey Damon — OnAir

Han So-hee — Athena

Hande Ercel — Coonie

Hanna Edwinson — Rose

Henry Cavill — Galadriel

Herman Tømmeraas — K.

Jacob Elordi — Laurificacion

Jake Gyllenhaal — Toffee

Jean Carlo León (jashlem) — Hana

Jensen Ackles — Perséfone

Jessy Hartel — Harrington

John Krasinski — Lighting

Jonathan Bailey — El Sensei

Josie Lane — withmew

Kailee Morgue — Tested

Ken Bek — Red Ranger

Kennedy Walsh — Carpincho

Kerem Bursin — Mr.Sin

Kwon Ji Yong — Piruleta

Lily Collins — Kaz

Lily Easton — Pinky

Lily James — gilmoregirl

Liza Weidmann — Elena

Lucas Jade Zumann — Hacker

Lucy Boynton — Bo Peep

Lusya Abramovskaya — Hana

Madelaine Petsch — Xenia

Maia Reficco — Clover

Maks Behr — poseidón

Margot Robbie — Laurificacion

Marissa Long — Harrington

Mathew Daddario — Blossom

Michael Yerger — Pikachu

Nicki Nicole — Beth

Nicola Porcella — Darkish

Noah Centineo — Astro

Oliver Stark — kattokoshmar-blog

Pedro Pascal — Karmela

Phoeve Dnyevor — OnAir

Richard Madden — Theo

Romaneinnc — lunita

Ryan Gosling — Dopesmoker

Ryan Guzman — Blossom

Sadie Sink — Obsidian

Scarlett Leithold — Blossom

Sebastian Stan — Themuffinman

Sergio Carvajal — Xenia

Sienna Raine Schmid — Fallen

Stefania Spampinato — OnAir

Stephen James — Conejito

Sophie Thatcher — safismística

Sydney Sweeney — muñeca vudú

Thomas Doherty — Coryo

Tobias Reuter — poseidón

Tom Hardy — Dr. C

Tyler Hoechlin — El Sensei

Vanessa Kirby — leire

Victoria Bronova — Laurificacion

Victor Pérez — PikachuPaldeano

Vinnie Hacker — Soul

Vladislav Gerasimov — Dimitri

Willy Whey — Hana

Yael Shelbia — elizabeth

Zoe Kravitz — Karmela

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Color palette for John McClane and Hans Gruber’s first face-to-face meeting in Die Hard, where Hans pretends to be an escaped party guest named Bill Clay.

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250(ish) Favorite Arrowverse Episodes: Part 4: 175-151

Picked from „Arrow“, „Black Lightning“, „Supergirl“, „Legends of Tomorrow“, „The Flash“, „Barwoman“ Season 1+2 and „Superman & Lois“ Season 1+2. I did consider kicking „Superman & Lois“ of this list, but since it pretended to be part of the Arrowverse for its first two seasons I left it on here.

 175. My Name is Oliver Queen (Arrow 3x23)

69, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim, Jake Coburn, Directed by: John Behring

 „You were delivered by the prophecy. You wed my daughter. Your name is Al Sah-Him and you are Warith al Ghul!" "My name... is Oliver Queen!"

 174. The Calm (Arrow 3x1)

47, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim, Jake Coburn, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "I thought that I could be me and the Arrow. But I can't. Not now. Maybe not ever."

 173. Legends of Today / Legends of Yesterday (The Flash 2x8/Arrow 4x8)

Part 1: The Flash 2.8/31, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Aaron and Todd Helbing, Directed by: Ralph Hemecker, Part 2: Arrow 4.8/77, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Brian Ford Sullivan, Directed by: Thor Freudenthal

 "It's just... the rules keep changing. One day, I have to run through time, the next, I'm fighting a telepathic gorilla, and now we're, what? We're chasing down an immortal madman on a rampage against a reincarnated warrior priestess? I just never thought I'd have superpowers and feel more powerless than I ever have in my entire life."

 "Why would you risk the lives of your friends and family for two strangers? 206 times I have killed them. What hubris possesses you that makes you think that you can prevent me from doing so again?"

 172. Pilot 1+2 (Legends of Tomorrow 1.1-1.2)

1&2, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisgberg, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "I know it's difficult for you to fathom, but where... when I'm from, the year 2166, you and everyone on this roof aren't just considered heroes... You're legends." "Legends?" "I, um, I hate to nitpick, but doesn't a legend have to be dead?"

 "One thing that time travel teaches you is that time changes, people don't."

 171. Heritage (Superman & Lois 1x2)

2, Written by: Todd Helbing, Directed by: Lee Toland Krieger

 "You have any idea what you just did? You ruined their childhood, Clark. I've seen the toll this life's taken on Lois over the years. She never says anything to you, but I know. Now you're going to put the boys through the same hell?" "This is gonna keep my family together." "No, Clark, It's going to tear it apart."

 170. Off with her Head (Batwoman 1x15)

15, Written by: Natalie Abrams, Directed by: Holly Dale

 "Red is a very symbolic color. It's the color of love, but it's also the color of passion, courage, war. At one point or another, you're going to have to wrestle with all of these emotions, and what defines your character is how you balance them. So keep me close to your heart, because I'll be thinking of you while I wear mine."

 169. Deus Lex Machina (Supergirl 5x17)

104, Written by: Lindsay Sturman, Katie Rose Rogers, Brooke Pohl, Directed by: Melissa Benoist

 "I didn't just save the world. I made a new one."

 168. Magenta (The Flash 3x3)

49, Written by: Judalina Neira, David Kob, Directed by: Armen Kevorkian

 "Sorry John... Frankie's gone!"

 167. The Demon (Arrow 7x5)

143, Written by: Benjamin Raab, Deric A. Hughes, Directed by: Mark Bunting

 "There was a time, Talia, when aligning yourself with a man like Ricardo Diaz would have been beneath you."

"I do what it takes to survive. Another lesson you seem to have forgotten. I taught you to separate the man from the monster. Instead, you exposed your identity for all the world to see and became the monster you always feared you were."

 166. Manhunter (Supergirl 1x17)

17, Written by: Derek Simon, Cindy Lichtman, Rachel Shukert, Directed by: Chris Fisher

 "Ancient Greeks had Hades. The Egyptians, Anubis. The Incas, Supay, the lord of the Underworld, god of death. Today, the villagers that live among the ruins of that empire believe that Supay has returned to live amongst them. But this creature is no devil, it is an alien fugitive, the Manhunter."

 165. Elongated Journey into the Night (The Flash 4x4)

73, Written By: Sterling Gates, Thomas Pound, Directed By: Tom Cavanagh

 "Did I make a mistake back then? Did I cost a good man his life?" "I don't know, Barr. He did break the law. Crossed a line. And you didn't make him do that. And you didn't make him blackmail the mayor. But, maybe Caitlin was right. Everyone who's gone what you, and her, now Dibny's gone through... maybe he deserves a second chance."

 164. The Wrath of Rama Khan (Supergirl 5x8)

95, Written by: Lindsay Struman, Jessica Kardos, Directed by: Marcus Stokes

 "People make mistakes and they do terrible things. We have to let them do better, bring them back to the light. Otherwise, what's the point in trying to save everyone?"

 163. Life Sentence (Arrow 6x23)

138, Written by: Wendy Mercile, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: James Bamford

 "I am the Green Arrow. I realize that I've denied that claim with the same conviction with which I'm speaking now. I have let good people stand accused of things that I've done. Roy Harper is not the Green Arrow. Tommy Merlyn is most certainly not the Green Arrow. These are two names on a long list of people who have given so much and sacrificed everything in the name of my crusade. Some of them gave their lives in the pursuit of one simple objective— to save our city. Star City still needs saving."

 162. Truth, Justice and the Amercian Way (Supergirl 1x14)

14, Written by: Michael Grassi, Yahlin Chang, Caitlin Parrish, Directed by: Lexi Alexander

 "What I have done is protect this city. This world. Humans understand little about justice. Justice must be absolute. I'd hoped that you'd see justice the same way your mother did. The way I do."

 161. Armageddon Part 5 (The Flash 8x5)

156, Written by: Kristen Kim, Directed by: Menhaj Huda

 "You don't think I want to see him dead either? 'Cause I do. If I learned one thing being a cop, it's that you can't just protect the people you think are good. You have to protect everyone. That's what heroes do." "I know that." "Do you? A hero is not just in the name, Barry, or in a red suit. It's the choices we make that decide who and what we become. You know that."

 160. Anti-Hero (Superman & Lois 2x7)

22, Written by: Max Cunningham, Michael Narducci, Directed by: Elizabeth Henstridge

 „My father used to say pain is just a way of reminding me I was alive. Quite the gem.“

 159. Rogue Time (The Flash 1x16)

16, Written by: Grainne Godfree, Brooke Eikmeier, Kai Yu Wu, Directed by: John Behring

 "How many times are we gonna go through this, Snart?!" "Until the best man wins!"

 158. Purgatory (Arrow 8x7)

167, Written by: Rebecca Bellotto, Rebecca Rosenberg, Directed by: James Bamford

 "The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for purgatory. Now I understand why. The memories, the pain, I've never escaped them. They're always with me, a reminder of what I had to endure with only one thought, one goal-- survive. To save the multiverse, I must become something else. To do that, I have to return to where my journey began-- purgatory."

 157. Man of Steel (Supergirl 4x3)

68, Written by: Rob Wright, Derek Simon, Directed by: Jesse Warn

 "Ben Franklin's fears have come to pass. The modern immigrant cannot assimilate, and it's not a question of desire, it's not a question of culture. It is a question of biology, and from that context... from that context, I should be proud if you were to call me a nativist."

 156. Attack on Gorilla City (The Flash 3x13)

59, Written by: Andrew Kreisberg, Aaron Helbing, David Kob, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 "Father taught me well. Always think ahead."

 155. Revenge oft he Rogues (The Flash 1x10)

10, Written by: Geoff Johns, Kai Yu Wu, Directed by: Nick Copus

 "The Scarlet Speedster. Any preference on how you'd like to die? The flame or the frost?"

 154. How queer is everything today (Batwoman 1x10)

10, Written by: Caroline Dries, Directed by: Jeff Hunt

 "Okay, people. Time to recalibrate our gaydar. Batwoman is a lesbian? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but talk to me, Gotham. Whatever happened to politics staying out of our superheroes?"

 153. A New World Part 1: Reunions (The Flash 9x10)

181, Written by: Eric Wallace, Thomas Pound, Directed by: Eric Wallace

 "You win one battle, Thawne, not the war between us. Neither of us can do that. If you don't walk away tonight, you will lose everything."

"Liar. Don't you know who I am? I have always been the hero. You're the villain, Flash. You're the one who reversed my entire life and dragged me into hell. And that's why you die tonight, by my hand."

 152. A Head of Her Time (Legends of Tomororw 5x4)

72, Written by: Morgan Faust, Directed by: Avi Youbain

 „Ava, I can handle myself in the field. I once played capture the flag to raise awareness about feline OCD.“

 151. Paranoid Android (Legends of Tomorrow 7x8)

105, Written by: Phil Klemmer, Marcelena Campos Mayhorn, Directed by: David Geddes

 „Ugh! Hate watching people die with no sound! What are we, in the Dark Ages?“