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| Castle |
| Day: Saturday July 10 2021 |
| Time: 8 PM Eastern |
| Channel: WNYA MyTVHD |
Supposed to be one of the greatest TV scenes!! (I have never seen this one.) Title: Castle Medium: TV Series Actress: Stana Katic, Laura Coover, unknown Description: Episode: "Reckoning" (7.15) This episode wraps up a recurring plot arc for the Castle series. In a nutshell, a serial killer and his plastic surgeon partner have conspired to kidnap Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) at the end of the previous episode, "Resurrection" (7.14), by injecting her with something and carting her unconscious body away in a wheelchair. As "Reckoning" (7.15) begins, Castle and the cops have no idea where Kate is or what's happening to her. It's very suspenseful. Stuff happens, including the near-rescue of an unknown woman (actress uncredited) at 16-17mins, who is discovered bound to a chair; her hands are tied to the armrests with rope, feet tied together and to the chair legs, and OTM gagged with a black cloth. She meets her demise at the barrel of a gun triggered to shoot her, but Castle is somewhat relieved that it turns out not to be Kate. At 19mins an extreme close-up of Kate's eyes shows her awakening in a makeshift operating room. It is very creepy, with medical equipment and lights and the walls and ceiling lined with glistening plastic. She's cleave gagged with a black cloth, lying face up on an operating table, and bound by modern patient restraints. A wide nylon strap is across her ankles and similar straps around her wrists, binding her arms at her sides. Very wide padded restraints are across her torso and thighs. Kate was kidnapped in street clothes, but now she's wearing long pajama bottoms and a white cotton T-shirt. All of this is well-documented by the camera, including many close-ups of her gagged-face, bare feet, and her hands tugging against her bonds. At the end of the sequence the plastic surgeon enters, stating "Oh good, you're awake. We can begin." Kelly, our villainess, is played by Annie Wesching. A minor scene takes place at 26mins. Castle apprehends cute blonde Amy Barrett (Laura Coover) at gunpoint, demanding information on Kate's whereabouts. Her hands are then bound behind her back with a white ziptie onscreen, and she is forced into a car trunk. She is not shown again. Later, at 27-29mins, Kate and Kelly have what is (IMHO) one of the great gloating scenes of television. The interaction is very well-staged by the director. Kate is ungagged but the cloth is left around her neck, with Kelly explaining that she intends to have surgery to give herself Kate's face. She spends some time using an elaborate scanning device to record Kate's facial features, then re-gags her to some angry mmpphhing. Meanwhile, Castle has chased the serial killer to a house in the country. At 31mins he spots a PC monitor showing real-time footage of Kate gagged and strapped to the table, but is overpowered by the man he was looking for all along. He is forced to sit in front of the monitor and watch Kate meet her fate, all while Kate has to watch the scanning device being finalized by Kelly. More great close-ups of this. However, Detective Esposito makes use of his army sniper training and follows Castle's order to "Take the shot." The killer thought he was manipulating Castle, but it was a double-manipulation. Meanwhile at 37-38mins, back at the doctor's creepy lair, Kate has been busy picking apart the stitching of her left wrist restraint with her fingernails. Kelly keeps trying to call her partner on her smartphone, but as he's now a cooling corpse, the calls don't go through. The calls do serve to lead the cops to her location, however. Finally, she realizes something has gone wrong, so she picks up a scalpel and leans close to Kate begin the facial surgery. A very determined Kate suddenly grabs Kelly's hand with her now free left hand. The expression on Kate's gagged face is priceless; pure venom. When Castle and the cops finally arrive within less than a minute, Kate is free and standing over the doctor's corpse with the bloody scalpel in her hand. |
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| The Glory Stompers |
| Day: Saturday July 10 2021 |
| Time: 8:30pm Central |
| Channel: TCM |
| Haven't seen this one turn up in quite a while. |
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Record number: 1360 Title: The Glory Stompers (1967) Medium: Movie Actress: Chris Noel Description: Playing a biker's girlfriend who's been abducted by a rival gang. Rough 20mins in, after she's caught trying to run, she's shown bound hands behind. Freed so she can eat, she spurns Dennis Hopper's advances and is knocked cold by him. Then shown being rolled over on her stomach and hogtied on screen. Roughly 43mins in, she's bound wrist's in front by Hopper's girlfriend. She makes out with one of her captor guards with her hands bound in front-and contemplates reaching for a nearby crowbar (she doesn't) Roughly 1hr & 13mins in, she's shown sleeping bound wrists behind and ankles together. Brief hand-gagging and being led around by one of the baddies with her hands tied in back, as he tries to get her away from the gang to have his way with her. The gang finds out and there's a big fight with her making a run for it with her hands still bound behind her, just as her boyfriend and his cohorts come to the rescue. |
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