Ball State, 10 at Tennessee, 59

Hooker leads Tennessee over Ball State, 59-10AP

AP
Sep 1, 2022
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- — Hendon Hooker threw for 222 yards and two touchdowns and ran for two more scores to lead Tennessee to a 59-10 season-opening victory over Ball State Thursday night.

Hooker, in his second year as the Volunteers' starter after transferring from Virginia Tech, had 211 yards passing by halftime along with a 38-0 lead. Eight different receiver caught passes in the first 30 minutes. He was replaced by Joe Milton midway through the third quarter.

"(Hooker) was really efficient," said Tennessee coach Josh Heupel. "He was in command; in control. He was in complete command of the football game."

Jaylen Wright led the Tennessee ground game with 86 yards and a touchdown.

"Tennessee is good at what they do from an offensive standpoint," said Ball State coach Mike Neu. "It's tough to slow down an offense like that with a quarterback playing at a high level."

"We have more guys who understand the ‘why' behind (what's being done)," said Heupel, comparing his second season to last year. "We're a deeper team than a year ago.

"We know more about this football team than a year ago. Roles are going to change throughout the season."

The Cardinals' bruising running back Carson Steele was limited to 27 yards on 11 carries.

"(We were) disruptive up front," Heupel said of his defense's success against Steele. "We controlled the edges. We didn't let him get vertical in their run game."

Making his first career start at quarterback for Ball State, redshirt junior John Paddock threw for 269 yards and a TD. His first pass, on the game's first play, was intercepted by Tamarion McDonald. Tennessee scored its first TD on the next snap.

"Credit John Paddock for battling back, especially after that punch to the gut to start the game," said Neu. "Really proud of him for battling back."

The Vol defense came up with three turnovers — two interceptions and a fumble.

NUMBERS GAME

Hooker extended his streak of games with having thrown a touchdown pass to 13, tied with Tony Robinson (1984-85) for second all-time in Vols' history behind Heath Shuler's 18 (1992-94)... Hooker's two TD passes gave him 33 in his two-year career at Tennessee, 10th on the all-time list... Vols receiver Cedric Tillman had his streak of seven consecutive games with a touchdown reception come to an end. Tillman is Tennessee's all-time leader... Tennessee has scored 45 or more points in its last four games, tying a school record set in the last four games of the 1993 season.

THE TAKEAWAY

Ball State: The best thing to come out of Thursday night's game in renovated Neyland Stadium was the $1.5 million game check that will help the athletic department. The Cardinals, picked to finish last in the Mid-American Conference West Division can set their sights on improvement after the lopsided loss.

Tennessee: With the embarrassing 2019 season-opening loss to heavy underdog Georgia State still fresh in the minds of Volunteer fans, they were able to exhale when Tennessee, under second-year head coach Josh Heupel, showed it was focused and prepared. The Vols made positive strides that they will be able to take into next week's trip to play No. 17 Pittsburgh.

UP NEXT

Ball State: The Cardinals will jump into the MAC season next Saturday when they entertain rival Western Michigan.

Tennessee: The Vols will head to Pitt Sept. 10 with revenge on their minds. Last year, Tennessee gave up 27 points in the second quarter and lost a 41-34 decision to the Panthers.

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Black Sails S4 Ep 2

from Den of Geek: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/black-sails-season-4-episode-2-review-xxx/

By TS Rhodes|February 6, 2017|

This week’s Black Sails is one of the best episodes in the show’s history, full of revelations and plotting and gunfire and tenderness. As has often happens in this show, the violence is epic, but the best moments come when the characters stand or sit together, by torch or candle light.

We pick up mere moments after we left – Long John Silver, having made it to land alive, has been clonked over the head, and is being dragged through the sand. Cut to Silver chained to a post. Beautiful set here, a home made from pieces of shipwreck.

Silver’s captor produces paper and a carpenter’s pencil, and announces his intention to turn Silver in for the bounty (500£) He kindly adds one more crime to Silver’s accomplishments by killing one of the Governor’s men himself, then demands that Silver write a confession to the crime.

Pirates are being hanged in Nassau and Max, supporting the Governor, tells her informants that they need to lay low, and stop helping the pirate cause. Meanwhile, Eleanor has the brilliant idea of asking her rich grandfather for cash and support. She plans to use her alignment with Woodes Rogers (who has more social clout) as leverage to gain Grandpa’s support.

Their position is becoming more dire. Blackbeard (in an entirely imaginary, but suitably theatrical move) sends a ship full of hanging corpses drifting to the city. Blackbeard is sitting out in the harbor, daring Rogers to come out and fight, while he sends Rackham and Bonny in by nightfall to kidnap Eleanor, whom he blames for Vane’s death.

Silver’s captor is none other than Israel Hands, Blackbeard’s former first mate. Hands is enraged over his treatment by Blackbeard when Vane rose to power. It seems he’s been living rough on the island for years, and Silver, ever the con man is soon spinning tales of the legend of Long John Silver, and the dead redcoats in the woods. Silver, says Silver, may be worth 500 to the British, but he’s worth far more in the power struggle with the pirates. And he claims to share Hands’ rage at Blackbeard.

Is he telling the truth? Israel Hands is an interesting character here. He is both a part of history and a part of the Treasure Island universe. The real Hands was, indeed Blackbeard’s second. And the fictional Hands appears as an alcoholic former pirate in the crew of the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s book.

Anne Bonny has the best speech in the episode during the raid on the plantation. Blackbeard wants to avenge Vane’s death by killing Eleanor, but Anne has mixed feelings about Max. Anne has felt kinship to Max as they are both women living in a man’s world. She has slept with Max, and may have even loved her a little. But Max tried to separate Anne from Jack, and that is something that Anne can’t forgive.

This is the quiet talk in the dark, a heart revealed. And it’s a messy heart, full of anger and affection and betrayal and lust. Anne blames it on the island.

Blackbeard is also thoughtful. Jack speaks with him about Vane, about the thought of “only a fool would give his life to earn the admiration of a corpse.” Blackbeard is sentimental here, remembering his relationship with Vane as an almost mythical partnership. But Vane would never have been as sentimental as Blackbeard. Where Blackbeard saw an omen in a large white bird, Vane saw dinner. Is it really for Vane’s memory that the pirates fight?

We began the episode with Silver helpless – a crippled man without his false leg, captured by a violent man with no reason to show mercy. By the end, he is demanding a meeting with Max, calling in what she owes him in order to support the pirate cause and establish himself as a Pirate Kind in fact as well as reputation.

But this is the Max who is invested in going straight. She arrives at the meeting place with her own muscle to support her. When Silver makes demands, she replies that she will repay him by holding him captive rather than turning him over to the redcoats.

But now Silver has Israel Hands on his side. The fight is short and bloody. Max escapes. Her men die. We close with the look on her face, and on Silver’s.

There’s very little historically wrong with this episode. Pirate trials did happen fast, and many, many pirates died showing no remorse. And while I’m not an expert on the way landholders treated their slaves, militia and the plan to hold the slave’s families hostage against rebellion is entirely plausible.

The details related about Eleanor’s family is close to history. Sets and firelight and guns and motivations are beautiful and believable.

In fact, the only flaw I can see in the whole thing is that, when Woodes Rogers’ ship is seen coming off of the quay, Blackbeard orders his own ship to “pursue.” With Rogers still closer to land, and Blackbeard holding the mouth of the harbor, the order should have been to “intercept.” Pretty good history for an hour about pirates.


Bravo, Starz! It looks like we’ll this last season will be a high note.

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Evil S2 Ep 8: B is for Brain

from TVline.com: https://tvline.com/2021/09/05/evil-recap-season-2-episode-8-b-is-for-brain/

Andy returns in this week’s Evil. And by the end of the episode, I’m willing to bet that he’d rather cross the Khumbu Icefall armed only with dental floss and a pair of woolen mittens than try to figure out what the holy heck is up with Kristen these days.

She’s self-harming. She’s punching dudes in grocery stores. She’s demanding that he wear an animal mask while they have sex. It’s a bad scene when your mother-in-law — who’s currently worshipping a doll, remember — is in the right, but Andy, what Sheryl said is true: You’ve been gone too long.

There’s also some very intriguing God-helmet stuff that unfolds during the hour. Read on for the highlights of “B Is For Brain.”

HELLO, ANDY | Kristen is drinking the monks’ whiskey in the bathtub (ha!) when her girls announce that their father will be home in just a few minutes. She’s less than thrilled. But she pastes on a smile and goes down to greet Andy. When they’re alone later, he announces “I need sex,” and she’s into it, but she flinches when he pulls her close. Turns out, she has several cross-shaped burns on the skin of her abdomen, injuries she explains away by saying that she leaned into the stove by accident. Andy is incredulous, but the prospect of nookie distracts him… until she seems to get off on his hurting her by touching the wounds.

Don’t worry, it gets weirder. She grabs a bag from her closet and pulls out gags (did she steal those from the monastery?) and animal masks; he gets a rat, and she gets a tiger. They go at it, and it’s apparently a satisfactory experience for both of them. Yet when he wants to cuddle afterward, she skedaddles out of bed and doesn’t seem to care much when one of the girls sees her, still in mask and lingerie, in the bathroom.

GOING TO HELMET IN A HANDBASKET | The next day, Kristen, David and Ben are at a research lab. The scientists there are mapping the brain to investigate neurodegenerative disease, but the electrode-studded helmet they place on their subjects has been causing some to think that they’re communing with God. Kristen scoffs that the Vatican only wants them to look into the project to see whether technology can be used to convert people to the faith, though she concedes that stimulation of the temporal lobe — which the helmet does — could lessen depression and cause ecstasy, as one woman reports. The problem, though? Some test subjects report experiencing Hell while strapped to the unit.

So our trio decides to try it out. Ben is first. He has a vision of his dead mother, who tells him she wanted him to understand science but not reject Allah. “I did not reject Allah,” he tells her. “Allah rejected me.” Still, though, she takes him by the hand and they wander through their old neighborhood. But when a prostitute walks by and takes off her veil, she’s a scary, dark cloud of ghost. In the test area Ben rips off the helmet and runs from the room.

CLEANUP ON AISLE 2! | Kristen is next. But before we get to her experience, let’s talk about how Andy finds the red unicorn journal in her closet, and it’s filled with maps of houses (and are those sigils on them?). And later, when he and Kristen are in a supermarket and a douchey guy cuts them in line, Kristen goes to the frozen aisle, grabs a bag of French fries, and whallops the guy so hard that he hits the ground. (Real talk? Right before this, Kristen is telling Andy about how she misses the way they were before kids, when they “didn’t give a f—k,” and while my personal manifestation of this type of personality dissonance usually manifests in an ill-advised one-more-glass-of-wine-than-everyone-else-is-having, followed by tipsy online shopping at 2 am, I FEEL YOU, MAMA.)

Anyway, back to the helmet. As we watch, it seems like David is going next. But his vision is of Kristen, selecting an ice axe and then going to Orson LeRoux’s house to murder him with it. Kristen is shaken when David privately tells her what he saw; she hightails it to Kurt’s office, who advises that she confess to David, if nothing more than for the placebo effect, which could alleviate her physical symptoms. “THIS IS HER THING, ISN’T IT?” I write in my notes at this point, and it IS. She goes to David’s room at the rectory and when it opens, Leland is gnawing on David’s arm while David screams in pain on the floor.

She’s very disoriented when she takes off the helmet, and she can’t figure out why one of her boots is buckled now; it very clearly wasn’t before she donned the apparatus. Anyway, for real now, she runs to Kurt. He observes that she talks about David a lot, but that Andy is home after a long time away, and she’s barely mentioned him. “Reflect on what you want in this moment. If it’s your husband, it’s your husband. If it’s David, it’s David,” he says. But she says that David isn’t obtainable, because he’s about to become a priest. However, Kurt notes, “If he doesn’t become a priest, he’s not unobtainable.”

‘MAPS TO KILL PEOPLE’ | David is the last to put on the helmet… and he sees nothing. But Sister Andrea has an easy explanation for that — his visions are from God, not from being zapped by electrodes, she says — and they’ve got bigger problems, anyway. She faced off with Leland earlier in the episode and managed to stare him down by wielding a kitchen knife and a steel demeanor. But the bad guys are getting stronger, she warns. So she instructs him to meditate more and “start over,” because Leland will be back.

Ultimately, Bishop Marx is frustrated when David says the Vatican should not look into the helmet, Kristen says it “absolutely” should and Ben is torn. Back at home, after getting read for filth by Sheryl and her creepy puppet of the damned, Andy suggests that they sell the climbing business and that she quit her job, because something in it is “making you different.” She gets very angry very quickly, raising her voice as she protests that her work is “making me tougher. It’s making me more self-sufficient.” In fact, her job is “our lifesaver,” she says.

Her ire, though, is doused when Andy pulls out the unicorn journal and says that Laura told him that the blueprints are “maps to kill people.” Kristen starts crying, overcome, explaining that they’re a therapeutic tool to manage her anger. She’s so clearly done for the day, and he lays down behind her and puts his arm around her to comfort her.

Later on, though, when Andy is asleep, Kristen creeps downstairs. She heats a crucifix over one of the stove’s burners. When it’s glowing hot, she lays it on her bare stomach, presses it in and then claps a hand over her mouth to stifle her scream.

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Star Trek Picard S2 Ep 5:
Fly Me To The Moon

Despite Paramount pouring many millions into "Star Trek," it seems "Halo" has been the recent draw as the new sci-fi show's premiere broke the streaming channel's records(opens in new tab) this week on Paramount Plus(opens in new tab). And while recent episodes of "Picard" have been some of the best "Star Trek" we've seen since the first season of "Discovery" back in September 2017, there are early indications that Season 2 of Jean-Luc's ongoing adventures is beginning to slip. But more on that later.

The tribute to "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" was evidently limited to just one episode and we've moved on, way past that now, with episode 5, entitled "Fly Me To The Moon." That said, there are still a lot of exciting plot threads to continue with and we pick up more or less straightaway from last week's episode with Picard (Patrick Stewart) talking to Laris Tallinn (Orla Brady). He concludes that she's a sort of "Supervisor," similar in principal to a one-time character called Gary Seven who appeared in an episode of "The Original Series" entitled "Assignment: Earth" (S02, E26), which was actually an attempt to jump-start a potential spin-off series.

According to Memory Alpha(opens in new tab), Gary Seven (played by Robert Lansing) was a human-looking male whose ancestors were abducted from Earth around 4000BC and taken to another planet. He was a Class 1 "Supervisor" sent to Earth in 1968 to discover why his superiors lost contact with Agent 201 and Agent 347. When he discovered they were killed in an car accident, he assumed their mission. Using advanced alien technology, he continued their mission to make sure mankind did not destroy itself with nuclear weapons.

There were subtle indications(opens in new tab) that this connection was coming and even if you missed those, lest we forget how "Discovery" tapped into "The Original Series" back in the Season 3 two-part episode "Terra Firma" with the Guardian of Forever. And while there's nothing wrong with this, it would be nice to see these throwbacks developed further, rather than appearing to be casually-regarded, short-lived references used when new ideas seem to be thin on the ground. Perhaps we'll learn more about the backstory of Laris Tallinn later, but given the rapid turnaround of guest-star characters in this show so far, it feels unlikely. And we'll come to that too, a little later.


We see the same young girl that Q (John de Lancie) was obsessing over during his lunch break last week only now she's in a kind of spacecraft cockpit simulator and not doing a very good job with an orbital debris evasion practice run. A French flag patch can be seen on her arm before a head and shoulders close reveals her name badge, Renée Picard (played by Penelope Mitchell).

Picard provides some helpful exposition, "The Europa Mission was a pioneering space flight in my history," so you'd think he'd remember that a Picard was on it. In "Star Trek: Generations," he says to Deanna Troi, "From being a small child, I can remember being told about the family line. The Picard who fought at Trafalgar. The Picard who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The Picards who settled the first Martian colonies…" Confirming the family's importance through history, but he'd surely remember this. (Then again, it didn't even occur to him that an "alien living in Los Angeles in the 21st century" might be Guinan.)

Turns out she's supposed to be on the prime crew for Expedition Europa, which was an early interplanetary mission to the Jovian moon of Europa. We've even seen big billboard posters promoting — for some reason — this mission when Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) were causing havoc in downtown Los Angeles.

All that's known about Renée is that she "discovered a microorganism on Io that she believed was sentient and convinced the mission commander to bring it back to Earth." Given all the twisty-turny timey-wimey nonsense that's been going on of late, especially with whether or not Guinan would've known Picard, it's probably best to just not think about it too much, a bit like how the writers haven't.

Following the opening credits we're back on the crashed La Sirena and the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) is up to some clever mischief. Tapping into the nearby cellphone towers, she calls the local constabulary and reports, "There are screams coming from the Picard vineyard!" This has the desired effect and a poor policier from little La Barre comes to pay a visit. Raffi and Seven meanwhile have managed to rescue Cristóbal Rios (Santiago Cabrera). So, you know, phew.

Upon watching some video footage of a therapy session with young Renée that Laris Tallinn has managed to get hold of, they can see that Q, who's gone full Freud, is the one who is surreptitiously trying to talk the young astronaut out of going on the mission, which suggests a whole new level of intervention from Picard's omnipotent adversary. In the past, Q's been satisfied with purely observing the various outcomes in his experiments in alternative history, but this is active interference. And then we get the biggest surprise of this episode, a Soong (Brent Spiner) and Soji character cameo.

This is a brand new incarnation of Dr. Soong, bookending his appearance in the first season of "Picard" as that was the oldest Soong we've seen, in the 24th century and now this one, in the 21st century marks the earliest. And since it's the modus operandi of this show to incorporate as many of the much-loved former cast members of "The Next Generation," it feels apt. The problem is, as we've mentioned, so far, it's been a rather rapid in the turnaround of potentially interesting reinvented characters.

And that's a shame, because as we see, Q versus Dr. Soong — with two exceptional, heavyweight classically trained actors playing the roles — could arguably be the greatest single match up in "Star Trek" since…well, Captain Kirk took on Trelane in "The Original Series" episode "The Squire of Gothos" (S01, E18). Who knows, maybe he'll turn up next week.

This episode isn't directed by Lea Thompson — although she makes a brief appearance as the chairman of the board that revokes Dr. Soong's license for breaking the Shenzhen Convention and running genetic experiments on soldiers with a privatized military organization, Spearhead Operations. This episode is once again in the hands of Jonathan Frakes and evidence of that will become obvious later in the episode.

Soong is struggling to find a cure for his daughter Kore's (Isa Briones) rare and unusual condition and Q introduces himself by way a cryptic business card, which incidentally has a number on it that you can actually call to hear a prerecorded message from the irksome entity. He gives Soong a test sample, which works, for a short period. But now Q has his claws well and truly sunk into the dodgy doctor so he'll naturally do anything for the promise of a permanent sure.

Meanwhile, on La Sirena, the poor policeman has totally failed to detect either Dr. Jurati (Alison Pill) fast asleep on the sofa, or the smell of the fire that they lit earlier. He's instead drawn to the voice of the Borg Queen who's imitating the sound of someone in distress. Jurati finally wakes up, grabs an antique shotgun and goes back into the crashed ship herself to see what's going on. She finds the Queen holding the policeman hostage and give her both barrels. Go Agnes.

Not long after, everyone regroups at the ship and Jurati explains what happens. Out intrepid time travelling team hatch a plan to crash a fancy gala where young Renée will be in attendance. This new plot thread has distinct a "Stardust City Rag" vibe from last season along with an element of "Mission: Impossible," as even the accompanying music helps set the tone in a trademark Frakes set piece. Jurati cleverly, deliberately lets herself get caught by security guards so that she's held in the security surveillance room, where through the power of flashback, we see how the Borg Queen was able to get two assimilation tubules(opens in new tab) into her neck before she "died" from her shotgun wounds.

Roll closing credits on what is an interesting episode that gets better the more you watch it. The worry is where it goes from here. Guinan was undoubtedly underused and let's hope that next week's story isn't just a format to introduce yet more cameo characters for just the space of one episode. The Brent Spiner versus John de Lancie match up is worth half the season alone and it's great to have yet another ancestor of the legendary father of eugenics appear in "Star Trek."

Rating: 7½/10

Dexter S2 Ep 8: Morning Comes

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Dexter S2 Ep 8

from the Dexter wiki: https://dexter.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_208:_Morning_Comes

Since her loft caught fire, Lila has been staying with Dexter, which is getting on Debra's nerves. Dexter finds an action figure that Cody slipped into his bag. Lila tells Dexter that Cody's trying to control him. On his way to work, Dexter stops by Rita's house to return the action figure and deliver donuts, and knocks instead of using his key. Rita lets him in, but later tells him never to come here again, as it's too hard on her and the kids.


With Lundy having determined that The Bay Harbor Butcher is somebody in law enforcement, Deb and Batista are reluctant to consider the possibility that one of their own is the Butcher. Later, Lundy asks Deb to look into drug dealer Anthony Rodrigo, one of the BHB victims. He also asks her to dinner, which she accepts.

LaGuerta and Doakes walk on the beach together and discuss the BHB investigation. After she tells him that he'll likely be brought in for questioning, Doakes expresses his desire to quit the force. LaGuerta then suggests that he become a security contractor, and agrees to set up a meeting with a friend of hers in the industry.

While helping Lila clean up her loft, Dexter takes a closer look around and realizes that the fire seemingly had multiple points of origin. Suspecting that Lila started the fire on purpose, Dexter leaves somewhat hastily.

Dexter meets with Lundy, who brings up the Rodrigo case. Rodrigo was arrested for murder, but the blood work allowed him to walk free; soon afterward, on April 16, 2002, he disappeared thanks to the Bay Harbor Butcher. Lundy notes that Dexter performed the blood work, which was later proven wrong. Dexter tries to cover for himself, arguing that the blood work was actually correct, but Lundy expertly counters all of his points. Eventually, Dexter "admits" that he made a mistake because he was overworked.

Deb and Batista question Lenny Asher, a paranoid man who used to live next to Rodrigo. Though he doesn't know who killed Rodrigo, Lenny makes notes of almost everything he witnesses from his window, and gives them all the ones he wrote down in 2002.

Back at the station, Deb tells Dexter that she found an apartment and will move out soon. She also tells him she has a date with Lundy, and Dexter passively and somewhat facetiously accuses her of sleeping her way to the top. Annoyed, Deb insults Dexter's choice in women—namely, Lila.

That night, Deb has dinner at Lundy's apartment, and the two kiss.

Despite his attempts to avoid Lila, she invites herself to Dexter's bowling night with his coworkers. Afterward, in the parking lot, Santos Jimenez attacks Dexter with a knife, but flees when Masuka and Batista come running. Dexter lies that it was just a mugger, and leaves with Lila. At her loft, Dexter tells Lila the truth about who the man was, and she comforts him as they lie in bed together. Later, however, Dexter resolves to stop being vulnerable and embrace who he is. He leaves Lila asleep in her bed, and drives to Naples to kill Jimenez.

Rita finally tells Astor and Cody that she broke up with Dexter. Cody fears that this means Dexter doesn't like him anymore, leaving Rita saddened.

As LaGuerta arranges the meeting with her security friend that night, Doakes meets with Lundy for questioning. Lundy notes that Doakes worked on several of the BHB victims' cases, but never got a conviction. Upon learning that it was erroneous blood work that let Rodrigo go free, Doakes has a sudden realization and quickly leaves.

Lila drops by the station and asks to see Dexter, who told her he'd be working late tonight. Deb tells her that Dexter isn't here, and realizes with great satisfaction that he lied to Lila. Upset, Lila leaves.

Deb and Batista find a note dated April 16, which describes an unconscious Rodrigo being carried into a car. They run the license plate that Lenny wrote down, and discover that the vehicle was registered to drug dealer Charlie Lewis. However, Lewis was arrested four days before April 16, and his vehicle was seized as evidence; the only people who had access to it were members of the Miami Metro Police Department. This proves that the Bay Harbor Butcher is one of their own.

LaGuerta and her friend wait for Doakes. However, instead of going to the meeting, Doakes breaks into Dexter's apartment and inspects the place. He eventually looks behind the air conditioner and finds Dexter's collection of blood slide trophies.

Dexter stakes out Jimenez's bar, and follows him to the Everglades. Jimenez arrives at an isolated cabin and prepares to make a cocaine run, but Dexter knocks him out. When he comes to, Dexter cuts him up with a chainsaw, avenging his mother.

Rita and the kids come home, but strangely, the door is already unlocked. None of them notice Lila leaving the house.

Dexter looks through Jimenez's wallet and finds the bowling alley's address written on a piece of paper. As he deduces that Lila gave Jimenez the location, Dexter gets a call from Rita, asking if he was there and telling him about the unlocked door. Realizing that Lila stole his key, Dexter tells Rita to take the kids outside and call the police. Forced to leave Jimenez's corpse at the cabin for now, Dexter returns to Miami.

With a policeman standing guard at Rita's house and a unit patrolling her neighborhood, Dexter goes to Lila's loft. He takes his key back and interrogates her. Lila confirms that she called Jimenez, but she never planned for Dexter to get killed — that's why she arranged for it to happen when Dexter's colleagues were nearby. She did it to bring Dexter back into her arms, and it worked. Dexter orders Lila to stay away from him and Rita, or else "you will see the monster."

Vanderbilt, 63 at Hawaii, 10.

Wright ignites Vanderbilt in 63-10 romp over Hawaii

Aug 28, 2022
AP

HONOLULU -- — Mike Wright factored into four touchdowns and Vanderbilt used a 35-point third quarter to pull away from Hawaii 63-10 in a season opener on Saturday.

The Commodores rolled up 601 yards of total offense, including 404 rushing to pick up their first win since Oct. 2, 2021. It was just the third victory under second-year coach Clark Lea.

Wright threw for 146 yards on 13-of-21 passing without an interception. Both of his touchdown passes went to Will Sheppard, covering 1 and 15 yards. Wright also ran for 163 yards and two scores, including an 87-yard touchdown, on only 13 carries.

Vanderbilt's defense scored two touchdowns on fumble returns. Anfernee Orji snagged the first one out of the air after Maxwell Worship jarred it loose and returned it 28 yards to the end zone with 21 seconds left in the opening quarter. CJ Taylor scored from 14 yards out on a third-quarter scoop-and-score after Elijah McAllister forced the fumble.

"Obviously pleased with the result tonight. Feels like we have a team that came out and handled some early adversity and I thought we really played well as a team," Lea said. "I thought we really battled back and the pain that we went through a year ago and having early setbacks there was a different feel on the field."

Hawaii opened the game by driving 75 yards in eight plays, capped by Dedrick Parson's 37-yard TD run to take an early lead.

The Rainbow Warriors posted 358 total yards. Quarterbacks Brayden Schager and Joey Yellen combined to threw for 250 yards on 28-of-55 passing. Jonah Panoke caught seven passes for 101 yards.

"This first game I know these guys were excited to play. Their intentions were in the right place and they played pretty good coming out the gate and (over) time things started to happen and the result is what it is and so for me it's back to the drawing board," Hawaii first-year coach Timmy Chang said.

Vanderbilt led 21-10 at halftime in the first match-up between the teams. It was the Commodores first win to open a season since 2018.

Hawaii had won its last seven home openers.

THE TAKEAWAY

Vanderbilt: After it averaged just 15.8 points and 312.6 yards per game, Saturday's prolific production is a promising sign for a team that lost its final seven games of 2021 and was picked by league media to finish last in the SEC East this fall.

Hawaii: The first game of the Chang era was far from pretty, but after a tumultuous off-season that saw the resignation of Todd Graham following a large amount of outgoing transfers — including a number of starters — optimism around the program and support for its former record-setting quarterback should remain throughout his first season as coach at his alma mater.

TURNING POINT

Vanderbilt scored 14 points in a 15-second stretch late in the first quarter. Wright's 1-yard touchdown pass to Sheppard with 36 seconds left in the first quarter. On Hawaii's next play from scrimmage, Worship forced the fumble by Parson and Orji's TD return put the Commodores ahead for good with 21 seconds left.

UP NEXT

Vanderbilt: The Commodores return home to host Elon on Saturday.

Hawaii: The Rainbow Warriors host first-time opponent in Western Kentucky on Saturday.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi S1 Ep 2

from Showsnob: https://showsnob.com/2022/05/31/obi-wan-kenobi-season-1-episode-2-recap/

by Colin Gaughan


The second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1 starts with the titular Jedi tracking down the young Princess Leia’s kidnappers on the planet of Daiyu. The city is filled with so much crime and gambling that when he asks where he could find Leia, who he alleges is his daughter, he is told nobody leaves Daiyu.

Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1 episode 2: Searching for the Princess

Once a peddler tells Obi-Wan about a supposed Jedi helping people, he investigates to find Haja Estree (Kumail Nanjiani). Unfortunately, he is pretending to be a Jedi to con folks in need out of their credits.

Obi-Wan uses Haja’s street smarts to locate the true underbelly of the city so he can rescue Leia. While infiltrating and sneaking into an illegal drug operation, Obi-Wan is trapped but narrowly escapes Leia’s kidnappers by using the criminals’ own illicit drugs.

He finally finds Leia and instructs her multiple times to listen to him, so he can protect them. The Third Sister finds her mercenaries after they let Kenobi and Organa escape which only makes the Sith foot soldier even angrier.

When she is confronted by the Grand Inquisitor, he explains that she is not suitable to make big decisions like these because she is the “least of [them].” This only leads to the Third Sister doubling down and putting a bounty on Kenobi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1 episode 2: Running through the city

While trying to keep the young princess in check, Obi-Wan fends off the bounty hunters that the Third Sister put out. In the process, he learns Leia is wiser beyond her ten years of age.

However, the trust that was building between Obi-Wan and Leia quickly diminishes when she sees the bounty put out on her “savior”. She blames him for her kidnapping while dismissing every piece of info Obi-Wan told her.

Leia tries to flee from Obi-Wan’s protection which only leads to the Jedi making scenes throughout the city and attracting more bounty hunters. A rooftop chase commences with Obi-Wan chasing Leia, while the bounty hunters with the Third Sister chase him.

When they are cornered, Leia makes a jump which compels Obi-Wan to finally use the Force to save her. He’s able to have her float like she wanted to do earlier.

This leads to Haja Estree seeing Kenobi and lending his assistance. He tells Kenobi to use a cargo port since it is all robotically automated.

Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1 episode 2: Some shocking news is shared

Up at the port, Obi-Wan notices some of Leia’s mother in the young child before the Third Sister, who the Grand Inquisitor called Reva, locates them. As Obi-Wan is hiding, Reva explains that she is not the only one looking for Obi-Wan because Lord Vader is as well.

At this moment, Obi-Wan’s demons and failures cloud his mind knowing that Anakin is still alive.

The Grand Inquisitor arrives at the port to stop the Third Sister. However, because he verbally tormented her earlier, Reva is done allowing her mission to be compromised anymore.

She, without hesitation, kills the Grand Inquisitor. In doing this, it allows Obi-Wan and Leia to escape the Empire’s wrath, but just barely.

This escape is not all a celebration because Obi-Wan knows he might cross paths with his former Padawan turned Sith Lord, Darth Vader.