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Persona 5 but the Cast can fuse together in the Metaverse as a blending of their subconscious desires and drives

Joker + Queen Codename Ace

Ryuji + Ann Codename: Tiger

Yusuke + Futaba Codename: Sibyl

Akechi + Haru Codename: Flamant ( French for Flamingo)

Sumire + Morgana Codename: Periwinkle

Interesting Idea. Would they like....Steven universe kinda fuse? Or just their personas? That could offer some interesting ideas and dynamics between the crew, plus some neat outfit changes. I, personally, would love to see catgirl and catboy phantom thieves because of Morgana fusion

May I offer:

Akira + Sumire: Lotus

Ann + Futaba: Witch

Haru + Makoto: Monarch or Monarque

Ann + Yusuke: Lynx

Akechi + Sumire: Swan

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“Loving” : film délicat ou truffé de clichés ?

Dans la Virginie de 1958, les unions mixtes sont illégales. Un couple va pourtant faire changer les lois. Inspiré d'une histoire vraie, le film de Jeff Nichols a divisé la rédaction cinéma de “Télérama”.

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Mildred est noire, Richard est blanc. Ils s'aiment et veulent fonder un foyer. Mais, en 1958, dans leur Virginie natale, les couples mixtes sont illégaux. Pour ce « délit », ils risquent la prison. Histoire vraie : poursuivis comme des délinquants, forcés à l'exil dans un autre Etat, les bien nommés époux Loving sont devenus des symboles de la lutte pour les droits civiques, dans une Amérique encore massivement ségrégationniste. Leur cas exemplaire, porté devant la Cour suprême, a changé les lois et le cours de l'histoire. Le plus souvent, ce genre de grand sujet engendre de pesantes reconstitutions, avec déluge lacrymal et monologues explicatifs. Après quatre longs métrages réussis, on craignait un premier faux pas de la part de Jeff Nichols. Le jeune réalisateur inspiré allait-il se perdre dans la paperasse et les contraintes d'un film-dossier ?

Moins spectaculaire, moins ouvertement singulier que le reste de son oeuvre, Lovingdéjoue tous les pièges avec une infinie délicatesse. Le cinéaste — qui, comme à son habitude, signe aussi le scénario — investit le film biographique comme il s'était, par exemple, emparé de la science-fiction dans le récent Midnight special : en y instillant son souffle poétique. On reconnaît sa singularité dans la contemplation méditative des paysages du Sud américain, vastes tableaux ­d'horizons infinis et bruissants. On ­retrouve aussi son sens de l'ellipse et des silences. Dans la tendresse pour le héros taiseux, anxieux, rugueux, comme naguère celui de Take shelter. Joel Edgerton livre une performance intense et pudique. Mais c'est sa partenaire, la gracieuse Ruth Negga, qui est la grande révélation du film. D'abord réservé et craintif, presque effacé, son personnage devient, sans rien perdre de sa délicatesse, le moteur de la lutte. La manière dont la comédienne laisse deviner, tout en douceur, une force têtue, est impressionnante.

Le classicisme dont le cinéaste fait preuve cette fois est une forme de respect. Tout au long des épreuves du couple, de la description attachante de son entourage, on a l'intuition qu'il retient les effets de mise en scène trop visibles, les démonstrations de virtuosité. Qu'il évite ce qui pourrait faire écran entre le spectateur et des personnages simples, dignes et limpides. Ce qui pourrait nous faire oublier la réalité ordinaire et insidieuse de la ­ségrégation. Tout, ici, est au service d'une histoire d'autant plus grande qu'elle se développe dans les détails minuscules, intimes et touchants d'un amour au long cours, en butte à la bêtise et à la violence du monde, puis à la médiatisation. Ni militants, ni porte-drapeaux, les Loving sont à l'image du film : discrets, profondément humains. — Cécile Mury

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Dès Take shelter, son deuxième long métrage, en 2011, Jeff Nichols bénéficie d'une ferveur quasi béate de la critique. « Mise en scène au scalpel » et « dénouement vertigineux », note Louis Guichard, dans Télérama. Un an plus tard, Samuel Douhaire est en admiration devant Mud : sur les rives du Mississippi, et Midnight Special est sélectionné par l'équipe cinéma du journal parmi les quinze meilleurs films de 2016.

Précédé de l'insupportable formule « Inspiré par une histoire vraie » (comment émettre la moindre remarque puisque tout est présenté comme exact à cent pour cent ?), ­Loving semble devoir bénéficier de la même indulgence. Pourtant, débarrassé de la totalité de ses « trucs » (­apocalypse, paranoïa et enfants menacés), le réalisateur semble, cette fois, proche du célèbre conte d'Andersen Les Habits neufs de l'empereur : un monarque paradant nu, sans que personne n'ose le lui dire... Des dizaines de films, déjà, ont vigoureusement dénoncé le racisme anti-Noirs aux Etats Unis, de Hallelujah !, de King Vidor (1929), à La Couleur pourpre, de Steven Spielberg (1985). Qu'on y revienne sans cesse est une nécessité absolue, mais pas dans un mélo que le réalisateur, tout fier de lui, veut visiblement transformer en noble tragédie. Un film qui accumule imperturbablement les clichés : héros proches de la sainteté, méchants au-delà du mal. Les espaces américains sont immenses, comment pourraient-ils ne pas l'être ? Quant au rythme... lent est un terme très en ­deçà de la vérité, figé serait nettement plus exact. Aussi généreux soit-il, un film peut-il être académique ? Oui. — Pierre Murat

Loving ( Drame )

Réalisé par Jeff Nichols (2016)

Durée 123 mn

Nationalité : britannico-américain

Avec Ruth Negga (Mildred) , Winter-Lee Holland (Musiel) , Karen Vicks (Clara)

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Marvel War Heroes

Mutants. Inhumains. Optimisés. Ces trois mots et bien d’autres se trouvent sur toutes les lèvres ces derniers temps. La découverte de personnes « non humaines » inquiète certains et fait rêver d’autres. Que ce soit avec le gène X ou la Terragénèse, les humains sont à l’aube d’une nouvelle évolution jusqu’alors impensable. Les optimisés sont de plus en plus nombreux et certains possèdent des pouvoirs phénoménaux et parfois hors de contrôle. Suite à cette découverte et après de nombreuses pertes humaines parmi les civils, le projet de loi sur le recensement des êtres optimisés a vu le jour. Tout être possédant des pouvoirs surnaturels doit signer cette loi nommée le « Super-Human Registration Act » (SRA ou SHRA) sous peine de se retrouver sous les barreaux dans la Prison Alpha. Anthony Stark, aka Iron Man est le premier super héros à signer le registre. Cependant tous les optimisés n’acceptent pas de signer le SHRA. C’est notamment le cas de Steven Rogers, aussi connu sous le nom de Captain America. C’est ainsi que se créé deux groupes luttant pour des idéaux différents. Ce conflit grandit de jour en jour alors que chaque camp est déterminé à ne pas rendre les armes. Certains restent indécis et se retrouvent pris entre les deux groupes. Le sérum développé par la firme Yoshida qui serait capable de retirer les pouvoirs à tout optimisé ne fait qu’attiser les flammes d’un incendie qui risque de ravager les États-Unis en détruisant tout sur son passage. Le tonnerre de la guerre gronde alors que les jours passent. Stark est soumis à la pression constante du gouvernement et Rogers est incessamment traqué par ce dernier. Poussés à bout, autant par leurs idéaux que par des pressions extérieures, les deux super-héros ne sont qu’à une étincelles près de l’affrontement. Et vous, quelle sera votre place dans cette guerre imminente et cruciale pour l’évolution de l’humanité ?

Scénarios féminins : - Adrianne Palicki, agent du SHIELD. - Alicia Vela-Bailey. - Anna Paquin, aventurière et serveuse. - Chloé Bennett, hackeuse, agent du SHIELD de niveau 10, chef des Secret Warriors. - Cobie Smulders, agent du SHIELD. - Elizabeth Henstridge, agent du SHIELD, scientifique et biochimiste. - Elizabeth Olsen, Avenger. - Ellen Page, enseignante, membre des X-Men, experte en informatique et électronique. - Elodie Yung, mercenaire, tueuse à gages, ancienne étudiante et danseuse. - Emily VanCamp, agent de la CIA. - Emma Stone, étudiante et mannequin. - Famke Janssen, top-modèel et membre des X-men. - Gwyneth Paltrow, ancienne assistante personnelle d'Anthony E. Stark. - Halle Berry, professeure, future Reine du Wakanda, membre des X-Men. - January Jones, codirectrice de l'institut Xavier, présidente générale de Frost International, Présidente de l'académie de Massachusetts. - Jessica Alba, femme d’affaires, actrice, membre des 4 Fantastiques. - Katie McGrath, 368 ans, barmaid au Hellfire. - Kerry Washington, sculpteuse. - Krysten Ritter, détective privée. - Liv Tyler, professeur de biologie cellulaire et scientifique à l'université de Culver. - Ming-Na Wen, agent spécialiste du SHIELD. - Natalia Cordova-Buckley, agent temporaire du SHIELD et membre des Secret Warriors. - Natalie Portman, astrophysicienne. - Omahyra Mota, criminelle. - Rachel McAdams, ancienne collègue de Stephen Strange et docteur en chirurgie. - Rebecca Romijn, mercenaire. - Sally Field. - Scarlett Johansson, espionne, tueuse professionnelle, Avenger. - Zoé Saldana, membre des Gardiens de la Galaxie. Scénarios masculins : - Avatar au choix, 666 ans, dirigeant d’une entreprise d’import-export dans le monde et mafieux. - Aaron Stanford. - Aaron Taylor-Johnson. - Alan Cumming, aventurier et membre des X-men. - Andrew Garfield. - Anthony Mackie, travailleur social et planificateur urbain. - Axle Whitehead, Aventurier, agent de comptoir. - Ben Foster, propriétaire des Industries Worthington. - Benedict Cumberbatch, docteur en neurochirurgie et Sorcier Suprême de la Terre. - Blair Underwood, neurologue et psychologue. - Brett Dalton. - Chadwick Boseman, souverain de la Cité des Morts, monarque du Wakanda, scientifique. - Charlie Cox, avocat et justicier. - Chiwetel Ejiofor, ancien Maître des Arts Mystiques. - Chris Evans, Avenger. - Chris Evans, acteur, mécanicien, pilote de course, membre des 4 Fantastiques. - Chris Hemsworth, Dieu du tonnerre et des orages d’Asgard, Avenger. - Chris Pratt, Leader des Gardiens de la galaxie, explorateur. - Chris Zylka, joueur de basketball. - Christopher Eccleston, souverain des elfes noirs. - Clark Gregg, agent du SHIELD. - Dane DeHaan, propriétaire du Coffee Bean. - Daniel Cudmore, membre des X-Men. - David Bautista, aventurier et agent de Kronos. - David Tennant, criminel professionnel. - Don Cheadle, Agent du SHIELD, officier de l’armée américaine, instructeur, ancien sauveteur en mer, activiste politique, pilote, ingénieur dans l’aviation, militaire. - Eric Dane. - Frank Grillo, tueur et mercenaire. - Henry Simmons, agent du Shield et mécanicien. - Hugh Jackman, co-leader des X-men. - Iain de Caestecker, agent du Shield, scientifique et ingénieur. - Ian McKellen, terroriste. - Idris Elba, 1000+ ans, gardien du portail d'Asgard. - Ioan Gruffudd, scientifique, ingénieur en informatique, leader des 4 Fantastiques. - Jaimie Alexander, 1000+ ans, reine de la guerre et guerrière. - James Marsden, : professeur à l'institut Xavier, professeur d'une prestigieuse école de commerce française, analyste financier, membre des X-Men. - Jamie Foxx, poseur de lignes électriques pour Consolidated Edison travaillant à la Oscorp. - Jason Momoa, Souverain d’Atlantis, aventurier, ancien guerrier, commandant militaire, terroriste, homme d’affaires (propriétaire d’Oracle Inc. et SM Studios), pirate, vagabond, artiste de spectacle nautique. - Jensen Ackles, 35 ans, soigneur dans un zoo. - Jeremy Renner, Avenger. - Joe Manganiello, 39 ans, garde du corps et ex-militaire. - Jon Bernthal, mercenaire. Ancien militaire, agent de la CIA. - Jon Favreau, garde-du-corps et chauffeur de Anthony E. Stark et chef de sécurité à Stark Industries. - Josh Brolin, conquérant, nihiliste, adorateur de la Mort, chercheur, explorateur. - Josh Hartnett, 71 ans, mercenaire. - Juan Pablo Raba, technicien sur des sites de construction, agent temporaire du SHIELD, membre des Secret Warriors. - Julian McMahon, Monarque de Latvérie, Génie Scientifique, Industriel milliardaire. - Karl Urban, guerrier. - Kelsey Grammer, professeur et généticien. - Liev Schreiber, mercenaire. - Luke Mitchell, agent temporaire du SHIELD, membre des Secret Warriors. - Mark Ruffalo, chercheur et physicien nucléaire, Avenger. - Michael Chiklis, membre des 4 fantastiques. - Michael Douglas, ancien soldat, ancien PDG de Pym Technologies, ancien consultant au SHIELD. - Nick Blood, ancien lieutenant de l'armée de l'air britannique et agent du SHIELD. - Nicolas Cage, sans emploi. - Orlando Bloom, 700+ ans, guerrier au service d'Odin. - Patrick Stewart, professeur, fondateur de l'institut Xavier. - Paul Bettany, Avenger. - Paul Rudd, électronicien et ancien voleur. - Peter Fonda. - Ray Stevenson, 1000+ ans, guerrier. - Robert Downey Jr, membre des Avengers, consultant au SHIELD, Avenger. - Ryan Reynolds, détective privé. - Ryan Reynolds, mercenaire, ancien agent gouvernemental, soldat, sumotori et bien d’autres activités... - Samuel L. Jackson, agent du SHIELD. - Sebastian Stan, ancien militaire, Howling Commando, tueur du KGB et d'HYDRA, mercenaire, tueur à gage. - Shawn Ashmore, membre des X-men. - Tadanobu Asano, 1000+ ans, guerrier. - Taylor Kitsch, mercenaire. - Tom Hardy. - Tom Hiddleston, dieu de la ruse et du chaos. - Tyler Hoechlin, 29 ans, médecin. - Vince Diesel, 45 ans, garde du corps. - Vincent D'Onofrio, chef de la pègre. - Vinnie Jones. - Wesley Snipes, chasseur de vampires. - Zachary Levi, 1000+ ans, guerrier.

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Marathon on Comet TV this Sunday!

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Reflecting - Chapter Three

Chapter Three

Micki made her way down the stairs into the store, a mug of coffee in each hand. Walking over to the paper- and book-covered desk Jack sat at, she placed his mug down on one of the few bare spots. “Anything new?” she asked, looking at the newspaper Jack was scanning intently.

“Hmm? Oh, nothing jumping out at me, no.” Jack answered, laying the paper down and picking up the steaming mug. “Thank you for this.” he said to Micki.

“What about last night? Any mention of Garth’s death?” Micki asked, leaning back against the bookshelf, holding her warm cup with both hands. The chill from the pouring rain and the terrible events of last night lingered with them both, and the coffee offered some solace.

“No, nothing. It was probably too late to make the morning edition.” Jack responded, picking up the paper once more. “None of the obituaries listed seem particularly odd. At least, not in the cursed antique sense.”

The bells over the door jingled just then, as Johnny entered the store. He made his way quickly through the display portion of the storefront and up the small staircase that led to the desk, the cash register and the small sofa, their makeshift office. He tossed a bundle of mail onto the desk, right on top of Jack’s newspaper.

“Mail was already here.” he said, dropping down on the sofa. He looked longingly at the mug in Micki’s hands, but said nothing.

“Thanks, Johnny.” Jack said, breaking the band that bound the mail and looking through the letters. “Any news on Garth?” he asked.

Johnny sighed before speaking. “Yeah, I listened to my police scanner after I got home. They are treating it as a suicide, and linking it to the deaths from the art gallery. The cops seem to believe he killed those people, they just have no idea how.”

Micki chimed in. “Well, good. He did kill those people. The method shouldn’t matter as much as the fact that he can’t kill anymore.”

“Oh, I agree, Micki.” Jack said, looking at them both. “But we can’t begrudge the police their curiosity. However, they would never accept our explanation, that Garth killed them with a cursed paint brush and used their blood to create masterpiece paintings. Best if they are left to wonder.”

Micki shook her head before saying, “Is there anyone these damn antiques can’t corrupt? Garth was such a peaceful man before he got a hold of that brush.” She looked off into the store, where a few of Garth’s old paintings were on display for sale. He had been trying to sell his work for years, with little success. Micki liked his style, however, and paid him what she could afford to add his latest work to the store’s inventory. She had always wished they could offer him what he deserved, but they never sold more than a couple of his works. Now, she wanted to throw them into the trash and never see anything he had painted again.

Jack and Johnny didn’t answer her question. The truth was, they didn’t have an answer. The items that Micki’s Uncle Lewis had cursed and sold to the world had an innate ability to find the weakest spots in their owners’ psyche, then adapt and exploit these flaws. Normal people became cold-blooded killers. And the number of antiques left to recover seemed endless. The horror kept going and going.

Micki stood up now, trying to shake off the thoughts racing through all three of them. “Anything good in the mail, Jack?” she asked before taking a big gulp of the hot coffee.

Jack turned his attention back to the letters. Scanning them, he threw the junk mail in the trash immediately. “Bills, mostly. Some invoices. There don’t appear to be any responses to our mailers today. Oh, here is a letter from Mrs. Dallion.” he said, holding the letter up for Micki.

She stared at it, then shook her head. “Just leave it on the desk, Jack. I’ll read it later.” Truth was, she couldn’t right now read another letter from Ryan’s mother. She didn’t want to hear that Ryan was having even more bad dreams. He had left here, transformed back into his ten-year-old self, and they had believed he was free of all the terrible things he had seen and experienced. But over the past few weeks, he had been having vivid nightmares, nightmares he couldn’t make sense of. When Micki had spoken with him, he had related a few of them to her. She was chilled to her core at his words. The dreams were of things the adult Ryan had gone through, with her and Jack, in their attempts to retrieve the cursed antiques. The memories, obviously, were still buried somewhere in Ryan’s mind. Even his fresh start, away from all this chaos and terror, wasn’t free from this place, from Uncle Lewis and his damned curse.

Jack placed the letter down on the desk near the Manifest, the book Uncle Lewis used to catalog all his sales. They now used this old book to track and recover the antiques, through any means necessary, so they could lock them away in the vault, keeping the horror buried in the basement of the store where it could do no further damage.

“C’mon, let’s get some more coffee.” Micki said, heading up the staircase to where the kitchen was, where her bedroom was, where Ryan’s now-empty room was. Jack and Johnny followed her, silently. None of them was eager to get back to searching for another lost item. At least not for a little while.

After the trio had disappeared upstairs, the face that had been watching them through the shop window moved quickly to the door. Opening it very slowly, very carefully, so that the bells above didn’t signal his presence, the man entered the store. With precious little time available to him, he began the search his master had sent him here for.

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Episode Recaps

Here is a quick list of each episode recap I wrote.

Season 1

1 - The Inheritance

2 - The Poison Pen

3 - Cupid's Quiver

4 - A Cup of Time

5 - Hellowe'en

6 - The Great Montarro

7 - Doctor Jack

8 - Shadow Boxer

9 - Root of All Evil

10 - Tales of the Undead

11 - Scarecrow

12 - Faith Healer

13 - The Baron's Bride

14 - Bedazzled

15 - Vanity's Mirror

16 - Tattoo

17 - The Electrocutioner

18 - Brain Drain

19 - The Quilt of Hathor (1)

20 - The Quilt of Hathor (2): The Awakening

21 - Double Exposure

22 - The Pirate's Promise

23 - Badge of Honor

24 - Pipe Dream

25 - What a Mother Wouldn't Do

26 - Bottle of Dreams

Season 2

1 - Doorway to Hell

2 - The Voodoo Mambo

3 - And Now the News

4 - Tails I Live, Heads You Die

5 - Symphony in B#

6 - Master of Disguise

7 - Wax Magic

8 - Read My Lips

9 - 13 O'Clock

10 - Night Hunger

11 - The Sweetest Sting

12 - The Playhouse

13 - Eye of Death

14 - Face of Evil

15 - Better Off Dead

16 - Scarlet Cinema

17 - The Mephisto Ring

18 - A Friend to the End

19 - The Butcher

20 - Mesmer's Bauble

21 - Wedding in Black

22 - Wedding Bell Blues

23 - The Maestro

24 - The Shaman's Apprentice

25 - The Prisoner

26 - Coven of Darkness

Season 3

1 - The Prophecies (1)

2 - The Prophecies (2)

3 - Demon Hunter

4 - Crippled Inside

5 - Stick It in Your Ear

6 - Bad Penny

7 - Hate on Your Dial

8 - Night Prey

9 - Femme Fatale

10 - Mightier Than the Sword

11 - Year of the Monkey

12 - Epitaph for a Lonely Soul

13 - Midnight Riders

14 - Repetition

15 - The Long Road Home

16 - My Wife as a Dog

17 - Jack-in-the-Box

18 - Spirit of Television

19 - The Tree of Life

20 - The Charnel Pit

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Happy Birthday to Steven Monarque

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Hate on Your Dial

Episode Recap #59: Hate on Your Dial Original Airdate: November 18, 1989

Starring: Louise Robey as Micki Foster Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Michael Rhoades as Ray Pierce Vlasta Vrana as Sheriff Robert A. Silverman as Archie Pierce (as Robert Silverman) Melanie Miller as Margaret Pierce Martin Doyle as Steve Pierce Henry Czerny as Joe Nelson Richard Mills as Elliot Marc Gomes as Henry Emmett Gene Mack as Ben Wilten Jackie Richardson as Frances Jan Taylor Hendricks as Waitress / Edna (as Jan Waterhouse) Jamie Near as Young Archie

Written by Nancy Ann Miller Directed by Allan Eastman

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It is night time and we are at a modest home. Mr. Sandman on the radio. Two men in a garage cleaning an old car. They are brothers, Ray and Archie. Ray appears to be older and have special needs. His brother teases him. Their old mother comes into the garage with coffee. She doesn't like them reminiscing and leaves. Archie reads the date (May 17, 1954) on the photo, and Ray says it was "Black Monday" when "white folks got in trouble" and their daddy had "no choice."

Just then a little boy named Elliot shows up, admiring the car. Archie is happy to see him, but racist Ray reacts badly, knocking the fundraising candy out of the boy's hands. He pulls a screwdriver on Elliot, then shoves him, causing his engine parts to scatter. Ray gets even madder and pulls a shotgun off the wall, to frighten Elliot, who runs off. Ray says he'll get him another time.

Cut to credits.

Curious Goods, and a woman has brought a box of old items to the store for an appraisal. Johnny doesn't know what to offer, but they settle on $25 for the box. She leaves as Archie enters. He is browsing for a gift for his brother. Johnny takes a car radio out of the box he just bought and Archie identifies it as from a '54 Chevy. He says him and Ray have their daddy's '54 Chevy and Ray is always working on it. He wants to buy the radio, but he doesn't think he can afford it. Johnny gives him a good deal on it.

Next we are back in the garage, and Ray is finishing installing the radio his brother gifted him, saying it will now be just like when their daddy had it. But Archie says their father never drove it much, he went away cause he killed a man. Ray says the man was a "colored sharecropper" and thinks a black lawyer who got some mystery witness was the reason their dad got executed. Archie tells Ray he doesn't like how racist he is, especially to his friend Elliot. Ray says Archie may be slow, but he doesn't have to be stupid. He pulls out a photo album of their father in full KKK gear, and crosses they had burned. Ray obviously idolizes this time in history and his father's role in it.

At the store, Johnny is cleaning when Micki comes in. She says Jack's flight has been delayed a couple of hours. Johnny tells her about the car radio he bought and then quickly sold. Micki, already anticipating the answer, asks if he checked the manifest first. As she checks she finds a '54 Chevy radio listed. Johnny can't believe it and Micki seems to cut him some slack, but then Jack arrives home. From the looks on their faces, he knows it's bad news. Johnny says what he did, and Jack is frustrated at him. But Johnny remembers the car wash logo on Archie's shirt. Johnny and Micki head out, but Johnny stops to apologize again to Jack, who is clearly ticked off.

Next, we see Elliot playing alone at a basketball court. Ray pulls up in the old Chevy, clearly drinking as well. He gets out with his bottle, taunting Elliot, who doesn't trust him. Ray pulls a gun and shoots the hoop, then at Elliot's feet. Ray continues his racist rant, scaring Elliot as he waves his gun, shooting. Elliot is panicked and falls as Ray shoots again, this time hitting the kid. Ray touches him, gets blood on his hand and at the sound of police sirens, takes off.

Driving away, he is nervous and goes to turn on the car radio, getting Elliot's blood on the dials. This activates the curse, and the radio glows, then it envelops the car in a blinding light. Suddenly, Ray and the Chevy are in black and white, having traveled back in time. The radio says it is night in Mississippi as Ray cruises the streets, surprised. He stops the car and checks a newspaper, happy to realize where and when he is.

He goes in to a diner. He asks about his parents, and as the waitress gives directions, the place falls silent as a black man enters. He just wants to buy a loaf of bread, but the racist waitress refuses, telling him to go. He makes the mistake of grabbing her arm, and a man stands up, calling him "boy". He confronts the man, continuing the racist bull, even slapping the man. Fed up, the black man picks up the other and slams him in to a table, but the other man present gang up on him. Ray, who is loving all of this, hits the man himself until the sheriff arrives and pulls him off. He tells the black man to go, and merely chastises the group, Ray included. Another man introduces himself to Ray and buy him a shake.

Jack is still researching the radio when Micki and Johnny come back. They found where Archie works, but he won't be back until Monday. They also learned his name and that he has a brother, which further irritates Jack. Johnny tells him to rip his head off, but Jack is still snippy. Micki is shocked, Johnny says he look for it himself, but Jack calls out. He says he isn't angry with Johnny, just their situation, and that they done the same thing he did. Johnny says it all just keeps on happening.

Back to the past and Ray and his new friend are walking. Ray loves how "pure" the place feels and warns the other man things will change, going into yet another racist rant. He takes Ray to a meeting of men at a house. These men are already mad about the Supreme Court decision and think "their" colored people aren't unhappy and know their place. Ray realizes the man is his father when his wife comes in and recognizes his mother, pregnant with himself. Archie is there too, a young boy. Ray is introduced to his father and told what happened in the diner. He's invited along on their mission that night.

In the present, Johnny and Micki arrive and see Archie with his mother. Johnny says he wants to buy back the radio, but Archie says it's already in the car, and their mom says he's out driving and sometimes isn't back for days. They leave their card with Archie and leave, but decide to wait outside for Ray to return.

In the past, the men are in full KKK robes and burning a cross and an effigy of a judge to protest the end of segregation. They head off to teach the black man a lesson. Ray realizes what is about to happen is what got his father executed and tries to warn the men. But they say they'll kill the lawyer, too. Ray says they have to make sure they kill the woman who was a witness, too. The men agree, too amped up to understand what Ray's saying.

Later, they are dragging the black man, Ben Wilten, to a barn, his hands tied up and hooked up so they can beat him and lash him with a whip, just for touching the waitress. His hands get loose and he is able to hit the mask off, revealing the face of one man, and he is beaten more for that. He collapses and is whipped again.

Jack arrives at Micki and Johnny's stakeout with some food. He says he found some clippings Lewis had from 1954, and is thinking time travel.

Back in '54, the men are all hyped up from their attack, Ray included. He thinks maybe he changed things in his father's favor. They all drive off. As Ray drives, he notices Elliot's blood still on the radio. He wipes it off and him and the car are transported back to the present. Micki and the guys see his happen. Ray is pissed, pulling into his garage. Jack thinks Ray just came from the past.

Inside, Ray tells Archie to be quiet and asks his mother where his father is, hoping he changed things. But she says Mississippi hung him. Jack eavesdrops while Micki and Johnny attempt to slip into the garage. Ray says there was no witness back then, but he can't understand why their daddy didn't survive. Ray looks in the old album to see what the lawyer from back then looked like, so he can try again to change the past. Archie tries to talk to his brother, but Ray heads outside.

Micki sees Ray coming and her and Johnny hide. Archie keeps trying to get his brother's attention, but Ray ignores him and heads into the garage, saying he needs to kill another of his little black friends, shoving Archie, who realizes his brother killed Elliot. He grabs a hammer, but Ray takes it. Johnny and Micki try to get in as Ray beats his brother with the hammer. Johnny and Jack try to stop Ray as Micki goes to Archie. Ray jumps in the Chevy and wipes his brother's blood on the radio. It begins to glow and is transported back to Mississippi in 1954, this time with Ray, Johnny and Jack. Ray speeds off, leaving them in the road.

Ray goes to his parent's house, trying to warn his father to get out of town. His mother and Archie are their, and she listens as Ray tells them about the judge and what's going to happen. As Ray continues to try and get through to his father, Archie starts repeating over and over "Daddy killed a Negro." Ray tells his father this all going to ruin him unless they get the clan together to kill the lawyer. The man agrees and Ray goes to find the lawyer. Archie continues ranting and his father hits him hard, his mother too late to help.

Jack and Johnny are shocked to be in 1954, but Jack thinks Ray wants to change his father's fate. They see a commotion at the courthouse, townsfolk angry about the lawyer here to get justice for the murder of the sharecropper, Ben Wilton. The sheriff arrives to break things up. The lawyer, Henry Emmet, and he wants the sheriff to arrest the clan. But the sheriff wants him to have some witness or there is no case, but then goes on to threaten this supposed witness. Things break up, Johnny is shocked by this, but Jack says the present isn't much better.

Jack goes to speak to the lawyer, but the man and his friends are understandably wary. Jack tries to warn them about the men in town, and that his life is in jeopardy. But Emmet thinks Jack's warnings are really veiled threats. Jack is speechless.

In the present, Micki is telling the cops as much as she is able about Ray's disappearance after killing Archie. She tries to comfort the mother, who says she knew something like this would happen.

In the past, we see the mother comforting a hurt Archie. Ray arrives looking for his father, but she says he's at work. He is happy to have found the lawyer, but she isn't happy. She doesn't seem to carry the racism like her husband, and Ray. He asks what's up with Archie and she says his daddy hits him, and one day it will be too much.

Jack finds Johnny, who says he'll need a screwdriver to get the radio out. Jack says no, it is their only way home. They need to stop Ray before heading back. Johnny has the album from the car, and Jack recognizes some of the men from town. He takes off.

Later, after having shown the sheriff the album and identifying the man who killed Ben, Jack is surprised the sheriff doesn't head right off to arrest him. Jack then sees the clan dragging the lawyer into a car and goes to help, but is tossed into the car, too. The clan speed off.

In a field, with another cross on fire, the men in robes arrive and drag Jack and Emmet out. The grand dragon tells the others they also have a spy in their midst, who has been lying to them about helping. Johnny slips out of the trunk of Ray's Chevy. The spy is identified as Ray, who the man thinks is their to turn them in to the FBI. Ray is tied up as he protests.

Johnny hotwires the Chevy, turns it on and drives toward the group, causing them to scatter. He jumps out and shoots off the shotgun, and Jack tells Emmet they need to get in the car. Johnny again shoots the gun, stopping one of the men so they can drive off. The clan decides to deal with things here first, and tie up Ray and his friend from the diner, thinking they are traitors. They light the men on fire as Ray begs his daddy for help. As Ray burns, his father realizes the witness must be his wife.

After dropping Emmet off, Johnny and Jack drive the Chevy to where they arrived in the past. Johnny wipes the blood off the radio. The car glows and they go back to the present, appearing in front of Micki and the mother of Archie and Ray, who realizes both her sons are gone.

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My thoughts:

Heavy, to say the least. I wrote a huge summary because it felt wrong to leave off details here. But I hated writing so much of Ray's racist nonsense. Just felt so skeevy doing it. I can't fathom how a person could think that way about other people.

But Jack is right. Johnny calls the past bad, Jack says the present isn't much better, and here we are another 30 something years even from that and there are still monsters among us.

The time travel radio is cool, but the usage is so dark. Poor Elliot. Kid did literally nothing wrong, and Ray hated him. Sad, to say the least.

And Archie, too. I'm actually surprised his mother let Ray stay with them, when we find out she was the one who told about her husband in the past. I guess she ended up relying on Ray, but I'm surprised she didn't snap before then.

Weird how Ray's prophetic information was just laughed at by the clan. I would think the other men would have thought he was insane. And how shocked was the sheriff by the album when Jack brought it in. And who was taking the photos at those clan burnings?

I like how Micki was easy to cut Johnny some slack about the radio. Her and Ryan sold a ton of antiques when they first got to the store. But it made sense that Jack would be ticked off, at least at first. Johnny learned a lesson here, for sure.

Near the end, when the father had the thought of his wife being the witness, I thought we were going to see that the future had changed, but it apparently went no where. Odd to include that, then.

Dark episode. But kudos for the show in taking it on.

Next week: Night Prey

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The Prophecies - Part 2

Episode Recap #54: The Prophecies - Part 2 Original Airdate: October 7, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Fritz Weaver as Asteroth Marie-France Lambert as Sister Adele Jean Brousseau as Father Decroux Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Tara Meyer as Chris Davis Madeleine Pageau as Sister Francis Lee J. Campbell as Mr. Burt Davis Nathaniel Moreau as Young Ryan Robert Desroches as Mr. Thorez (as Robert Des Roches) Jacques Tourangeau as Lieutenant Marceau (credit only) Jill Frappier as Elizabeth Dallion Guy Provencher as Blind Beggar Joshua Labelle as Jimmy Dallion Huguette Oligny as Housekeeper / Theresa

Written by Tom McLoughlin Directed by Tom McLoughlin

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Part 2 picks up with a recap of Part 1. Then we are back in the streets of Marie-Mere, with Micki finally finding Ryan, who seems dazed. He said he tried to get the book but was knocked out. Micki is worried, since it has been over an hour. He insists he is fine. She says they should check on Jack. Ryan wants to see Adele, but Micki says they will after seeing Jack.

Asteroth goes to a cemetery crypt. He breaks in the stone door via magic. Inside, it is a huge space. He breaks open more crypts, exposing skeletons. He tells Lucifer the place of his return awaits and laughs.

At the church. Christine and her father sit and pray. She's worried, asks him to pray for her.

Micki has been going through Jack's papers about the Book of Lucifer. She gets frustrated by Ryan just staring out the window. He says it is a waste of time, he needs to see Sister Adele. Micki says no one can see her. Ryan acts weird and then leaves.

Later, Ryan is outside the church as Asteroth reads the next prophecy. Ryan heads forward. He gets inside, upsetting the other nuns with his insistence on seeing Adele. She says it is okay, he's a friend. Ryan says he has to speak to her in private. Uneasily, Adele takes him to her room. Ryan tells her he met Asteroth. Adele knows Ryan is under Asteroth's hold and tries talking to him, then grabs her crucifix and begins praying. Decroux and the other nuns try getting into the room as the possessed Ryan attacks Adele. Asteroth speaks and laughs through Ryan, opens the door and tells Decroux that Adele is dying for her faith. Then he runs off. Decroux and the nuns find Adele and pray to God.

In an alley, Ryan is lamenting what he just did under Asteroth's control and finds the 666 on his chest. He screams.

At the hotel, Micki calls Johnny who's at Curious Goods, worried about Ryan's odd behavior. Ryan's mother shows up at the store. Johnny tries to calm Micki, who asks him to come to France. He agrees, then tells Mrs. Dallion it will be okay.

Cops bang on Micki's hotel room door, then barge inside, looking for Ryan. They take Micki with them.

Johnny talks to Ryan's mom, who is worried about him, thinking he must hate her. Johnny says Ryan loves her, and everyone deserves a second chance. She says she can't lose another son.

Ryan slips into the hospital and goes to see Jack. He begs his friend to wake up, telling he killed Adele and doesn't know why. He begins to cry, thinking his life is over now. Jack lays unconscious, Ryan asks why he couldn't help him this time. And tells Jack he needs him as he continues to sob.

Asteroth is chanting his evil prayers over a skeleton, and Ryan is again possessed, leaping out the hospital window as nurses rush in. He runs off into the night.

Next day, Micki is still being interrogated by the police. They don't believe her claims of strange events and she doesn't believe their claim that Ryan killed Adele. They won't let her leave or make a phone call.

Asteroth continue his work in the crypt, with Ryan at his mercy. He makes an upside cross on Ryan's forehead and says a child of God will be Lucifer's vessel.

That night, at a candlelight prayer vigil, Adele's body is carried through the streets. Johnny arrives via taxi and goes to the hotel, where he finds out Micki was arrested.

Ryan watches the prayer from the streets.

Johnny demands they let Micki go if they aren't charging her, and is shocked with the allegations against Ryan. He tells the detective they are leaving to look for Ryan, and they head out.

Ryan spots Christine and her father in the prayer group, and takes the girl, her father rushing after him.

Decroux begins a prayer over the body of Adele for all of those present. He tells them Satanic powers are at work to destroy their faith.

Ryan rushes with a protesting Christine as Micki and Johnny search frantically. Christine's father tries to stop Ryan, but Asteroth possesses Ryan, who tosses the man to the pavement.

Decroux continues to pray, saying Adele was killed because she was a symbol of good. He tells them they should have faith and pray. As they do, Jack has memories of what happened, what Adele had told him about her faith, and finally awakens, saying "The child."

Ryan brings Christine to Asteroth in the cemetery crypt.

Micki and Johnny still search, then go to see Jack, who is gone from the hospital.

Asteroth continues to read from his book, as Christine prays on her own. Asteroth tells her Lucifer is the true ruler, but she is brave and keeps praying. Asteroth uses his magic to heal her legs for Lucifer's arrival.

Jack finds Christine's injured father, who tells him Ryan took Christine. Micki and Johnny come upon the men, thrilled to see Jack. Micki fills Jack in on what she read, and Jack realizes the place of the dead mentioned must be the cemetery. Before dying, her dad asks them to save Christine.

Asteroth continues his plan to bring Lucifer to Earth. Asteroth has Ryan pull Christine to her feet, to show her what his faith in Lucifer has done for her. She can now stand on her own and walk. Christine listens to Asteroth, but refuses to praise Lucifer, so Asteroth makes her legs give out.

Decroux and the crowd continue to pray, as wind begins to blow.

Ryan is forced to hold Christine down as Asteroth works to use the Book to bring forth his master. He picks up a sharp skeleton bone, and says since she won't accept Lucifer, he will kill her and Lucifer will be resurrected in her body. He lifts the bone over her.

Jack, Micki and Johnny race through the cemetery looking for Asteroth and Ryan.

Christine appeals to Ryan, trying to get through to him. He looks at her and is flooded with memories of his late brother. Just as Asteroth brings the bone down, Ryan screams and puts his body between it and Christine, Asteroth stabbing him in the back. Micki, Jack and Johnny arrive at the same moment. Ryan, out of Asteroth's control, asks Christine to pray for him before falling to the ground.

His body is wracked in pain and transforms into young Ryan. Asteroth says the prophecy has been fulfilled, thinking Ryan will be the vessel for Lucifer.

At the funeral vigil, wind blows and a bright light appears in the sky. All are in awe.

The light even reaches the crypt, worrying Asteroth, who is burned reaching for the Book after struggling with Johnny. Christine stands in the light. Jack rushes to her. Asteroth stumbles to avoid the light. Jack finds the unconscious boy on the ground and picks him up. Micki is confused. Asteroth again tries for the book but it bursts into flames, then he does as well. He thrashes about before turning into his demon form and exploding. Micki holds the boy, and Christine says they must get him to the shrine.

They get to the shrine, still bathed in the bright light. Ryan begins to thrash about. Decroux prays over him, hoping to rid him of the influence of Satan. Christine kneels and prays to the Blessed Mother, asking them to return Ryan to what is God's will. A visage of a woman appears, the light becomes blinding and Ryan screams.

The light dims and fades away, and the boy lies calm. Jack talks to Ryan, who asks who he is. Ryan remembers Jack as a friend of Uncle Lewis. Christine introduces herself, but Ryan doesn't recall her. She thanks him. Ryan asks where his mother is. Christine tells Decroux that the Blessed Mother wants her to stay, and the Shrine waters flow again. Ryan asks if Micki is okay. She tries to get him to remember her, but all he can recall is a cousin named Micki, with red hair. They hug.

Back in the airport in the US, they all arrive home. Ryan runs off, Jack says he didn't say anything to Mrs. Dallion because it would be hard to explain. She is there, waving at them. Ryan comes up to her, calling her mom, but at first she thinks he's looking for someone else. Then she recognizes the boy her son used to be. Ryan says she looks different. She is shocked and Jack tells her this is Ryan, as hard as it is to believe. Micki tells Ryan she recognizes him, but he looks a little different. He says she is still the prettiest mom in the world, and them embrace, as Jack, Micki and Johnny look on.

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My thoughts:

As I said last week, this is written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, who was the man behind Friday the 13th: Part VI - Jason Lives!, one of my favorite in the film series. He did a great job in opening the third season, while finding a creative way to write out - but not kill off - Ryan. I commend and thank him for that.

I remember the first time I watched this episode. I had graduated high school around the same time as the season two finale. Was working nights now, and was harder for me to be there each late Saturday night. I recorded this and watched it a few days - maybe weeks? - after it had aired. Like I said, no pre-information. It was, to me, just the season three opener. Little did I know.

Ryan becoming possessed and killing Adele is so much. But, as it was with weekly shows, you assume they will somehow over come this. Ryan won't be sent to prison! Then he sacrifices himself for Christine, and you think this will either wound him and also redeem him or kill him. But he's back for season three, they won't kill him off.

Imagine my - and other fans - shock. Ryan is turned back in to a child… and stays that way! Yeah, he isn't killed off. But LeMay is gone? What does all this mean? I was stunned. Ryan and Micki were so big to me as a lonely, awkward teen. How could Ryan be gone from this group?

We had no answers this week. Just this ambiguous end. I remember after watching this, going to let my dog out and just standing, looking out at the bare trees and feeling the end of something. Like I said, I'd graduated and was working. I'd begun to miss episodes of the show and had to play catch up. It all just felt like an end had begun for something that had been so special and important to me. And I had no clue what the future held, for Ryan, for Micki and Jack, and in my life, for me. A weird, very personal, nexus point of life, I guess.

Johnny, as we know now, took over the younger male lead role. They play Johnny here a little different than before. Less harsh and horny, and more friendly and helpful. I don't mind Johnny, but Ryan was irreplaceable.

The religious motifs here are huge, and it makes sense. The show always focused on the demonic and Satanic, so it was interesting to see the flipside of that. But, I have to wonder if this big season opener, with God, and prayer, and nuns and Lucifer combined with airing in more prime time slots, opened the door for more tight ass religious zealots to see and condemn the show. Is it a coincidence that this ended up being the final season?

All in all, a great big movie of a season opener, with the show's status quo truly shaken up. Glad Ryan was left alive, for a possible return. Never happened, unfortunately. Only in my fanfic. Maybe I'll share that one day, if anyone would care to read it.

Good-bye, Ryan.

Next week: Demon Hunter