Did a few horror-themed sitcom and dramady episodes while I worked. "I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld" from the fifth season of Moonlighting starts with Maddie, David, and Agnes discovering a man who has died in their office. The next day, another fellow claims his late friend had the other half of a lottery ticket worth millions. Hoping to cash in, Dave takes Maddie around town to find the ticket. But someone else is after the ticket, too...and it turns out that this corpse had a lot more up his sleeve than winning the lottery. While the duo dig in a cemetery and dodge the creeps who are after this very popular corpse, they argue over death and the possibility of there being something on "the other side."
"Weekend Vampire," from the first season of Get Smart, is only slightly less spooky. Someone's been killing Control agents during weekend shifts, leaving puncture marks like vampire teeth in their victim's necks. Max and 99 head to a creepy old manor disguised as newlyweds to investigate a former Control scientist who was fired for his unauthorized experiments.
Headed off to work shortly after Get Smart ended. It was on and off busy...but when it was on, the lines snaked around the store. We simply weren't prepared for how popular this 4-day sale was. While I did manage to clean the bathrooms and gather trash, recycling, and baskets, I mostly got stuck in the registers again. At least by this point, the sun had finally emerged and the clouds were gone. It wasn't warmer, but at least it wasn't damp and blahh anymore.
Worked on writing as soon as I got home. Hank leads Jyn, Leia, Cassian, and Bodhi back onto the pier to keep an eye out for trouble. Jyn sniffs out gasoline that isn't powering a ride, leading them to the Imperials attempting to set the pier's top roller coaster, the Kamakazi Star, on fire. They try to stop them, but there's too many there, and they're simply overpowered.
Did two Scooby Doo, Where are You? episodes while eating roasted Brussels sprouts and the last of the shrimp for dinner and making Cranberry Flummery for dessert. It's a "Hassle at the Castle" when the kids are stranded on a deserted island. They end up in a creepy castle haunted by a ghost that can walk through walls! "What a Knight for a Knight" is the pilot episode. The gang runs around a museum at night, trying to figure out why the Black Knight armor is moving, and what happened to the man who originally brought it to the US.
Ended the night after a shower with The French Connection. Detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Schinder), members of New York City's narcotics squad, are after a charismatic French smuggler (Fernando Rey) who has brought millions of dollars of heroin into the US via his friend Henri Bordeaux (Frederique De Pascale), who has no idea what's going on. Popeye and Cloudy follow the Frenchman's trail from fashionable New York clubs to the elevated subways to grimy warehouses in Brooklyn, hoping to shut down the trail from its source. But this is one crafty Frenchman, and it'll take all of Popeye's determination and resources to track him down and dodge his hitman (Marcel Bozzuffi).
I'm not normally the biggest fan of cops and robbers tales, but this thriller about a devoted cop and the crafty criminal he chases is really enjoyable, sagging only in the middle when exposition takes over. No wonder this won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1971. (Hackman, director William Friedkin, and the screenplay also won.) Hackman owns the role of the cop who will take down this drug ring, no matter what; Rey is also excellent as the charismatic French drug dealer. This also features one of the most famous and well-directed car chase scenes in cinema history under New York's elevated railway. Awesome cinematography shows off New York and Marseilles in all their early 70's grittiness.
If you're a fan of Hackman or love police procedurals, thrillers, or true-crime tales, this is a classic cop story absolutely worth checking out.
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