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The Night Shift (season 3)
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The Night Shift (season 3)
Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
13
Release
Original network
NBC
Original release
June 1 (2016-06-01) – August 31, 2016 (2016-08-31)
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List of The Night Shift episodes
The third season of the Medical drama series The Night Shift debuted on June 1, 2016 and concluded on August 31, 2016, on NBC in the United States.[1][2] It is produced by Sachs/Judah Productions, and Sony Pictures Television with series creators Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah serving as executive producers. This season contained 13 episodes.[3][4]
The series follows the overnight shift at San Antonio Medical Center, where three of the surgeons have a connection to the U.S. military. Dr. Thomas Charles "T.C." Callahan (Eoin Macken), an ex-army medic who often butts heads with his former girlfriend, Dr. Jordan Alexander (Jill Flint) and the hospital administrator, Dr. Topher Zia (Ken Leung), also an ex-army medic. Meanwhile, Dr. Alexander hires a new intern, Dr. Shannon Rivera (Tanaya Beatty), while Dr. Drew Alister (Brendan Fehr) has returned stateside after an incident overseas. Other doctors that are on the shift include surgeons Dr. Paul Cummings (Robert Bailey Jr.), who struggles to come out of his father's shadow while developing possible romantic feelings for Dr. Rivera, and Dr. Scott Clemmens, a recovering alcoholic and head of the surgery department.
Contents
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1 Cast
1.1 Main cast
1.2 Recurring cast
1.3 Guest cast
2 Production
2.1 Casting
3 Episodes
4 Broadcast
5 References
Cast[edit]
Main cast[edit]
Eoin Macken as Dr. TC Callahan
Jill Flint as Dr. Jordan Alexander[5]
Ken Leung as Dr. Topher Zia
Brendan Fehr as Dr. Drew Alister[5]
Robert Bailey Jr. as Dr. Paul Cummings[5]
JR Lemon as ER Nurse Kenny Fournette
Scott Wolf as Dr. Scott Clemmens[6]
Tanaya Beatty as Dr. Shannon Rivera[7]
Recurring cast[edit]
Esodie Geiger as Nurse Molly Ramos
Alma Sisneros as Nurse Jocelyn Diaz
Catharine Pilafas as Nurse Bardocz
Luke MacFarlane as Rick Lincoln
Merle Dandridge as Gwen Gaskin[8]
Jennifer Beals as Dr. Syd Jennings[9]
Sarah Jane Morris as Annie Callahan[10]
AnnaLynne McCord as Jessica Sanders[11]
Michael Cassidy as Sam
Kyla Kenedy as Brianna
Briana Marin as Nina Alvarez
Mac Brandt as Mac Reily
Guest cast[edit]
Lindsey Morgan as Kryztal[12]
Elizabeth Sung as Sumei Zia
Lance Henriksen as Clive
China Anne McClain as Lauren
Carla Gallo[13] as Hannah
Production[edit]
"We went [to San Antonio] to scout so we could expand the look of the show; get more of [the] city in it ... Had the honor of a return visit to the Center For The Intrepid. Also amazing food. … Great locations here."
—Gabe Sachs to My San Antonio[14]
Gabe Sachs revealed on Twitter that the first day of the writer's room for season 3 of The Night Shift was on November 17, 2015.[15] Sachs said that shooting for the third season would commence in February, and later Jill Flint announced that filming would start on February 1, 2016.[16][17] The sets began going up on December 15, 2015.[18][19] Actors Robert Bailey Jr., Brendan Fehr, and Jill Flint arrived in Albuquerque, NM to begin filming on January 24, 2016.[5] The first production meeting took place on January 27, 2016, and location scouting took place the day before.[20][21] Production on the third season began on February 1, 2016 in Albuquerque, NM.[22]
For the third consecutive season, the show will be filmed at Albuquerque Studios, and filming is expected to take place from February to June 2016. The tax incentives offered were cited as the main reason for filming in New Mexico, rather than in San Antonio.[14] The show will employ about 130 New Mexico-based crew members, and approximately 500 New Mexico background talent.[23] The first scene of the season filmed on February 2, 2016.[24] The show filmed in a casino for part of one episode.[25] Creator Gabe Sachs has said that this season would be more San Antonio-centric than either of the previous seasons. The Pearl Brewery, a local brewery, would be where the characters hang out after work, as well as "little taco places." Also, the costume department purchased T-shirts from local San Antonio locales such as, "Hogwild Records" and "Tapes on Main Avenue," because Sachs thought that "it would be cool if characters wore them" on screen.[14]
Casting[edit]
Jennifer Beals was cast as Doctor Syd Jennings.
On July 15, 2015, it was revealed that Scott Wolf who portrays Dr. Scott Clemmens had been promoted to series regular for the third season.[6] On January 21, 2016, Deadline reported that Jennifer Beals had been cast as a recurring character named Doctor Syd Jennings. She will be introduced in the season 3 premiere as a Major in the Army who "has worked with the Culture Support Teams (CST) in conjunction with Ranger and Special Forces."[9] On February 2, 2016, actress Tanaya Beatty was cast as a new series regular named Dr. Shannon Rivera, a recent med school graduate who impresses Dr. Alexander enough to recruit her as her intern.[7] Melissa Gilbert and Sarah Jane Morris will both be returning for the third season.[10]
Freddy Rodriguez, who portrays hospital administrator Michael Ragosa, revealed on Twitter that he would not be returning for the third season of The Night Shift, as he is starring in a new CBS drama pilot Bull.[26] Jeananne Goossen who portrayed Krista Bell-Heart, is also not returning for the third season; she says that she split "amicably" from the show.[27] On March 21, 2016, it was revealed that 90210 alum AnnaLynne McCord had been cast as a recurring character named Jessica Sanders, "a striking and driven pharamaceutical rep who's always looking for a way to make a deal." She will first appear in the fifth episode of the season, and in at least 3 additional episodes.[11] Lindsey Morgan will appear in a guest role as Kryztal, "a high-strung bride whose injury in a wedding-day accident reveals a deeper and more complicated medical problem."[12]
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of The Night Shift episodes
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)
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1 "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Timothy Busfield Gabe Sachs & Jeff Judah June 1, 2016 (2016-06-01) 4.81[28]
Following Jordan's loss of her baby, she and TC have broken up but are still working together. Jordan recruits one of her colleagues, Shannon Rivera (Tanaya Beatty), to join the Night Shift, and Shannon makes an unusual first impression with the staff. Meanwhile, Drew is sent overseas to Afghanistan along with colleague Syd Jennings (guest star Jennifer Beals), where they are forced to tend to a 15-year old patient who is pregnant and whose husband is a high-ranking member of the Afghani army. Elsewhere, TC, Topher and Scott tend to a female car accident victim, only to realize when the woman's husband arrives that they left her young son behind at the scene. Also, Gwen updates Kenny on her law school applications, and later learns the closest she got to acceptance was being put on a wait list at Georgetown.
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2 "The Thing with Feathers" Timothy Busfield Tom Garrigus June 8, 2016 (2016-06-08) 4.18[29]
Following a fight between Drew and the Afghani leader, the leader is accidentally shot in the shoulder by Drew, putting him in a tough spot. Despite the problem Drew and Syd are able to help the young mom, her baby, and her brother get away from the leader. The consequences to this causes Drew to get sent home early while Syd, who was looking forward to her daughter's 13th birthday in two weeks, has to stay on tour an additional three months, due to a shortage of personal working there. TC and Scott deal with the car accident victim from the previous episode while simultaneously trying to save her son. They later determine the boy needs a bone marrow transfusion, but he is adopted and the parents claim they don't know the birth mother, which sounds fishy to TC. His suspicions are soon confirmed, as the boy was actually kidnapped by the couple. Desperate to have a child, they stole him from his birth parents at a mall. Elsewhere, Shannon helps Jordan move on from TC, Topher tries to renew his commitment to get fit again, and Gwen learns she moved off the wait list at Georgetown when another candidate drops out. To Kenny's dismay, she has to leave the next morning.
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3 "The Way Back" Tara Nicole Weyr Janet Lin June 15, 2016 (2016-06-15) 4.47[30]
Drew returns from Afghanistan and deals with the aftermath. Meanwhile, Jordan and the team deal with a newly-married couple whose wedding is ruined by the bride's alcoholic father. Drew treats the father, an Iraq War veteran who served multiple tours, and tries to get the daughter, Kryztal (Lindsey Morgan), to understand the root of her dad's problems. Topher and TC invite Topher's overbearing mother Sumei (Elizabeth Sung) to a casino. After they treat an elderly man named Clive (Lance Henriksen) who collapses while playing craps, Topher works to understand why his mother is so critical of him. Meanwhile, Paul comes up with a diagnosis for Kryztal that helps him finally earn the respect of both his subordinates and his fellow doctors.
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4 "Three-Two-One" Oz Scott Zachary Lutsky June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22) 4.30[31]
Amid protests over a court case involving a white police officer who shot an African American, riots erupt causing TC and Paul to be sent to the scene to treat any wounded. They arrive to find an officer and an African American perp named Shawn both shot and in critical condition. They can only put one on the first helicopter, and TC makes a call to send the officer, angering Paul who has to try and keep Shawn alive at the scene. At the hospital, Jordan treats Officer Benedict, the policeman at the center of the court case. Kenny has already made up his mind about Benedict's guilt, while Jordan hears the man out when he says he only shot because his own life was threatened. Shannon and Drew deal with the contaminated people (after officers are forced to use Tear Gas), after Drew leaves, Shannon is stuck with a 10-year-old separated from his mother. Jordan also finds a tumor in Benedict that she has to treat immediately to save his life. Drew and TC treat the officer brought back from the riot scene, but cannot save him. The bullet TC removes from the man's body, however, shows the fatal shot came from the gun of the man's partner, not Shawn's gun. Soon after, Benedict is being escorted out of the hospital when a protestor on the street shoots him in the head, killing him.
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5 "Get Busy Livin'" Dailyn Rodriguez Gabe Fonseca June 29, 2016 (2016-06-29) 4.46[32]
As TC and Paul treat an injured person at a college party, a young co-ed falls from a fourth floor balcony to the pavement. Critically injured, the young woman tells her roommate as she is being wheeled into surgery that she was trying to kill herself. Scott learns that the hospital is on the short list to receive cutting-edge heart valve technology, but pharmaceutical rep Jessica Sanders (AnnaLynne McCord) holds the keys to their winning the program. TC angrily confronts Sanders when he learns an acne medication her company makes, and which the co-ed was taking, has "suicidal thoughts" as one of its side effects. The two later reconcile, with Jessica admitting the hospital was going to get the heart valve program anyway, and she was trying to use the situation to make a big sale. Elsewhere, Annie and Scott bond over their issues with substance abuse, while Jordan decides to finally spend the night with Sam.
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6 "Hot in the City" Darnell Martin Nicole Rubio June 29, 2016 (2016-06-29) 4.46[32]
The opening reveals TC sleeping with Jessica, Jordan waking up with Sam, Kenny sleeping with Nurse Jocelyn (Alma Sisneros), and Scott and Annie making out in a car. At the hospital, the air conditioning goes out on one of the hottest days of the year. Shannon and Jordan attend a local wrestling event, only to wind up bringing patrons back to the hospital after a fight breaks out. A young man who befriended Jordan at the event is injured, but his treatment reveals something worse. The ring girl has an injury to her spine that may cause paralysis, but Drew performs a successful surgery using a technique he learned on the battlefield. TC treats a competitive runner who collapsed from the heat. Her tests reveal possible meningitis, but it turns out she has an entirely different condition. Jordan later confronts Scott, saying it's not a good idea for him to date Annie, while Jordan herself decides to break up with Sam when he starts to get too serious.
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7 "By Dawn's Early Light" Louis Shaw Milito Brian Anthony July 6, 2016 (2016-07-06) 5.74[33]
Syd returns stateside, and is attending an outdoor concert with Drew and her daughter Riley (Jillian Estell) when banks of fireworks ignite early, causing chaos. A mother (Jessica Tuck) and her daughter Darika (Jackie R. Jacobson) are badly burned. TC and Topher arrive on the scene, and Topher authorizes Syd to assist in treating the mother and daughter back at the hospital. Soon after, Topher approaches a burning truck that contains fireworks and it explodes. Topher is badly hurt, but he refuses tests and insists on continuing to treat the wounded, over TC's and Jordan's objections. It is later discovered that Topher suffered a concussion. At the hospital, Scott and Syd treat the mother's burns. Impressed with Syd's techniques, Scott offers her a job, and Syd says she'll think about it. Paul and Shannon treat a street artist with a mysterious ailment, and in doing so, the two doctors finally find some common ground. Scott explains his attraction to Annie in a conversation with Jordan, asking that Jordan stay out of it. Kenny and Nurse Jocelyn consider going on a real date instead of just sleeping together. Syd learns that her ex-husband is moving to Washington, D.C. with his new wife and, to avoid a custody battle and stay close to Riley, Syd decides she will also move to D.C.
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8 "All In" Tara Nicole Weyr Milla Bell-Hart July 13, 2016 (2016-07-13) 6.28[34]
Drew and Shannon rescue a woman and her foster daughter, Brianna (Kyla Kenedy), from a car crash. As she is wheeled into surgery, the woman reveals she wants to adopt Brianna. While Drew tries to calm the scared Brianna, the team can't save the mom. At Shannon's request, Paul pretends the mom is "dying" but still alive, so Brianna can say goodbye. Shannon reveals to Nina (Briana Marin), the social worker assigned to Brianna's case, that she herself was a foster child. Topher and TC treat Topher's mother Sumei when she arrives with a life-threatening condition. Coincidentally, Clive, the man who collapsed at the casino (S3, Ep3) is also back in the hospital. TC finds that Clive's nitro patch is missing and, following a hunch, he finds it stuck to Sumei's back, revealing she and Clive were engaged in sexual activity. Jordan and Scott treat Dylan (Josh Fadem), who is having a rare reaction to a kidney stone. Scott wants to break up the stone with an ultrasound device, but the software malfunctions. Jordan notices the machine is made by Jessica Sanders' company, causing her to have to call TC's girlfriend to fix the problem and save Dylan. Meanwhile, throughout the night, everyone keeps congratulating Kenny, but he doesn't know why. Jocelyn finally reveals Kenny was elected head of the nurses' union at the hospital, a job he doesn't want. As the shift ends, Nina asks Kenny out "for coffee sometime", and hands him a card in full view of Jocelyn. Kenny doesn't accept, but he doesn't refuse, either. In the parking lot, Shannon thanks Paul for helping with the Brianna situation, then kisses him hard, and the two fall into the back seat of a car.
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9 "Unexpected" Marisol Adler Janet Lin July 27, 2016 (2016-07-27) 5.32[35]
A female patient is wheeled in to the ER as the shift begins, and she complains about leaving her backpack behind. TC is tasked with her. The woman comes back out moments later to look for her backpack, which a fill-in nurse does not realize is right under his foot. The nurse goes after the woman and walks the backpack outside. Meanwhile, the nurses are on strike for not getting raises promised to them years ago. Kenny and Jocelyn get in a fight when he incites his intern. Kenny's young soccer-playing friend Lauren (China Anne McClain) gets treated for possible Pneumonia. Lauren steps outside, and a bomb goes off right outside the front doors. She is critically injured by the blast, and the fill-in nurse is killed. As the SWAT team clears the perimeter, TC's patient is no where to be found. He assists the SWAT team in finding her in her pickup truck. Just before they seduce her to bring her back to surgery, TC asks why she brought the bomb, and she answers with, "you deserve it." Shannon confeses to Jordan that she slept with Paul, however the two get awkward around each other. Drew continues to help Brianna, his young patient with cystic fibrosis, only to find out she needs a lung transplant. Shannon and Paul are tasked with removing glass from Jordan's patient, and find out the man has anthrax. Realizing the anthrax was in the bomb, the hospital is shut down, and everyone decontaminates. The nurses come back in to help, despite the strike. While reopening blood flow to Lauren's foot that was damaged in the explosion, Kenny and Scott find out she has lung cancer. Jordan and TC remove bullets from the patient who brought the bomb, and Jordan remembers she was a former patient. As the two talk, the woman says Jordan saved her life after her husband and child were killed by a drunk driver. Claiming Jordan should have just let her die, she pulls her chest tube out, killing herself. In the end, Drew tells Brianna she needs the transplant, the nurses get their raise and end the strike, while Lauren confesses she actually doesn't like soccer. Topher gets a phone call and finds out the hospital was sold to an insurance company, which plans to sell off the ER.
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10 "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" Jeff Judah Tom Garrigus & Zachary Lutsky August 3, 2016 (2016-08-03) 5.00[36]
TC and Paul arrive at the site of a quarry accident, where they pronounce one of the workers, a seventeen year old male, brain dead. Another teenager asks TC for help with his friend, who is falling down a sinkhole. TC saves him, using unconventional methods to get rock out of the kid's throat. Paul sends a blood sample to the hospital to see if the deceased man can give his lungs to Brianna. Drew tells Brianna that he and Rick want to adopt her, and she is thrilled. Scott and Jordan, meanwhile have to run dialysis for Malik, whom Scott paralyzed in a car accident last season, but Malik's dad refuses to let Scott work on the boy. The dad goes into cardiac arrest and the two have to operate on him immediately. Drew gets the labs back on the lungs and finds five of the six requirements match, however Paul informs him that the victim's mom refused the transplant. Paul later gets the mom to accept, however, because Brianna is not a perfect match, her transplant is aborted and the lungs are given to another candidate who has a better chance of survival. Scott and Malik's dad make up, after Jordan talks with all three and Malik just wants the fighting to stop. Topher finds out that Jessica Sanders is actually heading the transition team for Hobart, the insurance company that bought the hospital. She volunteers to help with the insurance papers and tries to get Topher interested in another job offer, knowing Hobart will want their own Chief of Surgery and that Topher will be the first one fired. TC realizes Jessica knew about the sale to Hobart and kept it from him, so he angrily ends his romance with her.
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11 "Trust Issues" Oz Scott Dailyn Rodriguez August 3, 2016 (2016-08-03) 5.00[36]
TC and Drew land in jail after a bar fight. Jordan and Shannon's double date ends in disaster when Jordan's date falls through a glass door, and is unconscious. While Jordan tends to her date, his wife shows up and a deeper secret is revealed. Topher enlists Shannon to help him with a patient whose condition is claimed to be psychological. Annie begins to work at the hospital, and later confronts Scott when Jordan reveals she and Scott recently kissed. Kenny and Jocelyn break up, and Kenny begins to see Nina, Brianna's social worker. The hospital attempts to contact Drew after Brianna gets another chance at a lung transplant. With time running out to get Brianna into surgery, Paul has to ease her fears. The hospital finally contacts Drew, and Kenny sends Jessica to bail out Drew and TC. Nina is totally blown away by Drew being in jail, and considers not accepting the adoption. Syd returns to sign her release papers, and meet Brianna. Topher and Shannon find out their patient's condition is due to a Kissing Bug reaction, and is therefore physiological. Jessica attempts to regain TC's trust, while Drew arrives at the hospital late. Brianna wakes up to Drew, Syd and Rick, her new lungs working great. Topher tells the hospital staff what is really going on with the sale of the hospital and the future of the ER. Syd tries to recruit people to go with her on an assignment at the Turkish border. TC decides some time away might do him some good, so he accepts.
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12 "Emergent" Timothy Busfield Brian Anthony & Gabe Fonseca August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24) 5.52[37]
Kenny reveals to Topher that some pain medication has been stolen, and everyone except Scott points fingers at Annie. Paul and Shannon butt heads over how to treat a patient who comes in with internal burns. Jordan and Scott deal with a man who caught his hand in a bear trap, and a piece of the trap ends up in his lung. Topher's old Army friend Mac comes in and asks Topher to sign off on a physical exam requirement so he can return to active duty, but Topher insists on doing the exam. TC and Syd get caught in a typhus outbreak at the Syria-Turkey border when more people flood into their refugee camp. Nina informs Drew that his adoption plans for Brianna are put on hold when Brianna's birth father, who didn't even know he had a daughter until a few months ago, comes back into the picture. Kenny reveals the gym he owns has flooded and he asks Paul for a loan. Kenny then makes a phone call to a mysterious person who may be a loan shark. Mac returns later and asks if anyone would help him at the site of a fire, and Jordan and Scott volunteer. Annie checks TC's locker and finds his field jacket gone; it is later revealed Jordan is wearing TC's jacket and finds the missing pain pills in a pocket. Syd catches Typhus after giving her pills to an older Kurdish woman. Mac, Jordan and Scott get trapped after the fire quickly changes direction. Topher learns that the buyer he'd hoped would purchase the E.R. from Hobart has backed out, only to have Paul reveal his father is part of an organization that buys hospitals. A package containing needed typhus medication for TC and Syd is dropped by parachute, but it floats to the Turkey side of the border fence and the Turkish guards refuse to let TC retrieve it.
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13 "Burned" Tara Nicole Weyr Tom Garrigus August 31, 2016 (2016-08-31) 5.43[38]
Scott and Jordan get trapped in a rapidly intensifying wildfire and are forced to do surgery in a farm. Topher's friend, Mac is with them and goes back into the blaze to save them. TC gets arrested at the Syria-Turkey border when he tries to get the crate of Cipro which floated to the Turkish side. Syd's Typhus symptoms get worse. TC later makes a promise with a Turkish guard; in exchange for the supply, he says Syd can perform surgery on the man's lame child. Kenny waits on a loan from Paul, and tells a loan shark he should have his $5,000 soon. Jordan tells Scott that Annie stole the missing pain pills. Paul's father arrives, and the two get into a disagreement over treatment for a patient. Drew and Rick do a background check on Brianna's father, which reveals his ulterior motive. The two later get the father to drop the custody suit, allowing Drew and Rick take Brianna home. Scott escorts Annie to rehab over her initial protests. Paul's father buys the E.R. but fires Topher, saying Topher is too willing to give high-priced treatment to people who can't pay. This causes Paul and most of the remaining staff (except for Shannon) to resign in protest. Shannon says she cannot risk quitting at this stage of her career, and Paul says he understands. The two then confess their love for each other. Paul's father cuts off his son's financial support, causing Paul to ask Kenny to give back the $5,000 check. Kenny does so, then walks toward his loan shark and two other large, intimidating men. As TC and Syd prepare to go their separate ways, missiles strike their camp, leaving the two unconscious.
Broadcast[edit]
The Night Shift airs on Global TV in Canada, and on Universal Channel in Australia.[39][40] On September 23, 2015, Season 1 premiered in India on Colors Infinity, and in Korea, season 3 episodes will premiere right after their U.S. airing on Olleh TV.[41][42] The show premiered in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2016, on Sky UK.[43]
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The Land of Stories
Cover of the first book in the series
The Wishing Spell (2012)
The Enchantress Returns (2013)
A Grimm Warning (2014)
Beyond the Kingdoms (2015)
An Author's Odyssey (2016)
Worlds Collide (2017)
Author
Chris Colfer
Illustrator
Brandon Dorman
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Children's fiction, adventure and fantasy
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published
2012–2017
Media type
Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
No. of books
6
Website
thelandofstories.com
The Land of Stories is a series of children's fiction, adventure and fantasy books written by American author, actor and singer Chris Colfer. The first book, The Wishing Spell, was released on July 17, 2012. The sixth and final book was published in July 2017.[1] The books are described by Colfer as a "modern day fairy tale", following twins Alex and Conner Bailey as they fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before and discover there is more to this world than meets the eye.
Contents
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1 Books
1.1 The Wishing Spell
1.2 The Enchantress Returns
1.3 A Grimm Warning
1.4 Beyond the Kingdoms
1.5 An Author's Odyssey
1.6 Worlds Collide
2 Companion books
3 Development
4 Characters
4.1 Heroes
4.2 Villains
5 Reception
6 Film adaptation
7 References
8 External links
Books[edit]
The Wishing Spell[edit]
The first book in the series, The Wishing Spell was published on July 17, 2012.[2]
A year has gone by since Alex and Conner Bailey suffered the tragic loss of their father. Their mother, who is trying to balance her job and her family after her husband's death, is unable to celebrate their twelfth birthday. Instead, the twins' Grandma comes to celebrate. She gives the twins a book of fairy tales they recognize from their childhood, titled "The Land of Stories". Alex keeps it in her room at night and soon discovers a buzzing noise coming from the book. It doesn't take the twins long to realize that the book of fairy tales is real and acts as a portal between both worlds. They meet numerous classic characters including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood (who's not so little anymore) and new characters including Froggy, Sir Lampton, The Huntress, and Trollbella. However great the twins find the fairy tale world, they realize they need to find a way back to their world. Froggy tells the twins of the Wishing Spell, where magical items are put together to grant one wish. The twins embark on the greatest adventure they've ever been on, traveling across just about every kingdom and encountering villains along the way. They follow the journal of a man who collected the items once before. The book reaches its climax when Alex, Conner, the Evil Queen, the Huntress, Goldilocks, Jack, Queen Red Riding Hood, and the Big Bad Wolf Pack (descendants of the Big Bad Wolf who agreed to kidnap the twins in exchange for Red) as well as Red's army, meet at a hidden palace in the Sleeping Kingdom. Goldilocks and the Huntress battle until Jack fires a cannonball at the Huntress and she is killed. This book also tells the story of Evly, The Evil Queen and her lover Mira. When she was little, she was a very kind and caring girl. Evly stole the Wishing Spell to free her lover Mira from the magic mirror, but he dies in her arms and they are both swallowed up by the mirror. Alex and Conner find themselves trapped in the fairy world, until they learn that their grandmother is the Fairy Godmother, who is capable of making portals between the Otherworld and the Fairy World, and the journal written by a man who had successfully completed the Wishing Spell years before when he fell in love with a woman on Earth belonged to their father. Therefore, Alex and Conner are part fairy. Alex and Conner get back to their mother through a portal made by their grandmother into the Otherworld in the end.
The Enchantress Returns[edit]
The Enchantress Returns is the second installment in the series and was published on August 6, 2013.[3]
Alex heads home after attending school and finds her brother Conner, who is worried because their mother hasn't yet come home from work. He also found a romantic note to their mother from a surgeon she worked with named Dr. Bob who brought them a puppy. When Charlotte comes home, Alex and Conner ask if Charlotte really has a boyfriend. Their mother tells them that it's true. Later on, Bob goes to see the twins and tells them about his plan to propose to their mother. He shows them the ring, which has two large diamonds on it, one pink and the other blue. When Bob asks the twins for permission about the proposal, Conner and Alex decide that this would make both Bob and their mom happy, so they agree.
All three decided to surprise Charlotte with a special dinner at the Bailey house. Alex returns home as quickly as she could from a course she was taking at a community college, and Bob tells their officemates at the hospital to keep Charlotte busy so she won't come home early. The twins' mother, Charlotte, doesn't show up on time, but another nurse at the hospital says that she had left two hours ago. They then hear a mysterious knock at the door and a bunch of fairy tale soldiers barge in. Bob was originally doubtful, but later accepts that The Land of Stories is real. The twins' grandmother, the Fairy Godmother, enters and explains that their mother was kidnapped. While their grandmother attends to her own business, Mother Goose babysits the twins. Later, Alex gives Mother Goose champagne until she becomes drunk, and Alex asks her for information, which she unknowingly gives.
Alex discovers that her mother was captured by Ezmia, "the Enchantress," and that the Sleeping Kingdom was in ruin. Since she couldn't get to the Land of Stories through the book, she sneaks out of the house and goes to her Grandmother's house, hoping to find a way to the Land of Stories. The next day, she almost falls off of a bridge. Unexpectedly, Conner saves her, and admits that he had followed her. They eventually go to their grandmother's house, which had a glowing painting in it. Alex knows that this is a portal to the other world. Suddenly, Alex and Conner find themselves in The Land of Stories. They eventually find Froggy, who is still in frog form as a disguise. All three travel to the Red Riding Hood Kingdom, where the Enchantress seemed to be destroying symbolic historic sights. Alex and Conner then attend a meeting only for the kings and queens by persuading Red to wear a dress that they could hide under. At the meeting, the Enchantress captures Alex and Conner's grandmother, revealing that she had captured 'Alex', but instead got Charlotte, their mother, who pretended to be Alex. At Red's castle, Conner learns of something called the Wand of Wonderment, which makes the holder invincible. To create it, one must find the six most valuable things of the six most hated people in the world. To help find all the items, Red asks the villagers to all pitch in to make a flying ship out of all her baskets.
When the ship is completed, Alex, Conner, Red, Froggy, Goldilocks, and Jack fly the ship across The Land of Stories. They obtain the ice scepter of the Snow Queen, the wedding ring of Cinderella's stepmother, the giant's harp, the glass from the Evil Queen's mirror, and the jewels of the Sea Witch. However, they are unclear on what the Enchantress's most prized possession is. After landing in the Troll and Goblin territory, they discover that Trollbella is now queen, and that Bob traveled to the Land of Stories as well. They meet the ghost of Evil Queen in the Eastern Kingdom, who says that the Enchantress' most prized possession is her pride.
The Enchantress uses her vines to drag Conner, Red, Froggy, Goldilocks, and Jack to the coliseum. Alex tries to defeat the Enchantress by subtly stealing her pride, but she is blasted off of the coliseum. Because she was holding the Wand of Wonderment, she is saved from death. However, when she reaches the ground, she faints. Alex then has a dream that she was talking to Alice from Wonderland, Lucy from Narnia, Dorothy from Oz, and Wendy from Neverland, who advises her on the situation. Alex wakes up and goes back up the coliseum using a flying horse. When she arrives, she drops the Wand in front of The Enchantress. The Enchantress tries to kill Alex with the Wand after Alex striped her of her powers (until Ezmia got hold of the Wand of Wonderment) but Rumpelstiltskin jumps in front of the blast to save Alex out of guilt for what he has tried to do for Ezmia. Conner destroys the Wand, so all the magic is taken from her body and she dies.
After that, Bob finally proposes to Charlotte and they get married in Cinderella's castle. When it is time to leave, Alex claims that she is meant to stay in the Land of Stories, and that Conner should share their stories in the real world. The twins then believe that they were to be separated forever after the fairies decided to seal all portals leading to and from The Land of Stories. Later, Conner fetches Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters to go back to his world, Conner also shares their stories in the Otherworld.
A Grimm Warning[edit]
A Grimm Warning is the third installment in the series and was published on July 8, 2014.
In the beginning of the third book, Alex is in the Land of Stories training to be the next fairy godmother and is preparing for her coronation as Fairy Godmother. Meanwhile, Conner is at school in the real world and is questioned about where his sister is. Conner goes on a school trip to Germany to hear stories by the Brothers Grimm that was recently found in a time capsule. The good news for Conner is that the girl he has a crush on (Bree Campbell) is going. The bad news is that four girls called the Book Huggers are also going.
As for Alex, she keeps messing up casting her spells. She eventually meets a farm boy named Rook Robins, whom she starts falling for. She becomes very torn later in the story because her grandmother is dying and she feels like she is killing her. The fairy godmother is dying because she finally finds a replacement; now the fairy god mother can rest knowing the fairy tale world rests in good hands.
Conner finds out that one of the stories is actually a secret message and a warning for the Land of Stories. He sets out across Germany to crack a 200-year code. With the help of Bree and the directions of Mother Goose, Conner eventually meets Emmerich Himmelsback, a little boy from a small village.
Alex and Conner realize an army from their world, the world of regular people, is coming to the Fairy Tale world. The army is led by the Masked Man, whom they presume is their father. When some villagers are attacked by the Grande Armée, Rook (Alex's crush) informs the army of where Alex and the kings and queens are located in order to free his father.
Alex's grandmother, the fairy godmother, eventually defeats the twins' presumed father's dragon with her fairy magic and dies. Alex is disgusted with Rook, figuring out he was the person who leaked out information and dumps him. Rook saves the world. Alex feels sad about dumping him, but knows she has to. In the end Alex finds out the masked man is John Bailey.
Beyond the Kingdoms[edit]
Beyond the Kingdoms is the fourth installment in the series and was published on July 7, 2015.[4]
The book begins with the Bailey twins chasing the Masked Man, who appears to be their late father. Alex was going through mood swings, in which her hair would float above her head and her eyes would glow. She also would get affected by her emotions greatly, in which she would attack many people. Alex then was 'un-godmothered' and kicked out of the fairy council for insisting that the Masked Man should be one of their high priorities. Alex loses control of her magic, shooting at the fairy council with lightning and vanishing. She arrived at the Giant's castle which Mother Goose was staying in.
Later on, at Red and Froggy's wedding, Morina the beauty witch arrives and claims to be Froggy's first lover (and the one who cursed him to live as a frog). She also threatens to harm Red if he doesn't leave with her. Froggy chose to leave with her, as Morina is a very powerful entity. Meanwhile, Conner gets beaten up by the Masked Man in the library as he attempts to steal books. Conner ripped off his mask, so everyone else can be convinced that he is their father. That night, Alex wishes to speak with her late grandmother, who sends an angelic moth of memories from the stars to tell Alex the true story of the Masked Man: he's their uncle Lloyd.
Conner's old friend Trix the fairy had stolen a book from his grandmother's possession. Apparently, what Lloyd attempted to steal was a Portal Potion, which could transport anyone into any book created. The ingredients to the potion contain a branch from the oldest tree in the woods, a feather from the finest pheasant in the sky, a liquefied lock and key that belonged to a true love,two weeks of moonlight and a spark of magic. Alex then confronted that the Masked Man was their uncle and not their father. Conner said she was crazy, but Mother Goose said that it was true and it was their grandmother's wish for her to not tell. The group then have to travel into the literature stories and attempt to stop their uncle before he recruits an army of literary villains.
Alex and Conner are trapped in separate worlds by Lloyd, Alex in the world of King Arthur and Conner in the land of Robin Hood. After they escape and meet up in the land of Oz, they realize Lloyd has sent armies to destroy the kingdoms and that they need to go home for supplies. They leave for the Otherworld on a cliffhanger – they will not go into any published stories, but into Conner's own short stories.
An Author's Odyssey[edit]
An Author's Odyssey is the fifth installment in the series and was published on July 12, 2016.[5]
When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, and also recovering many memories they had made in the fairy-tale world, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man's reign of terror. Conner and Alex spend moments in Conner's short stories ranging from battling pirates to racing in an ancient pyramid filled with a thousand zombie mummies with the story's main protagonist. Conner had to go with his mother, Charlotte Bailey, in one of those adventures. In the meantime, the Sea Witch and the Snow Queen along with the witches at Dead Man's Creek had other plans. The Snow Queen and the Sea Witch planned a handful of dust made from a magic mirror created by demons on Alex whereas only one piece of the dust turned the Enchantress into what she became.
Worlds Collide[edit]
The sixth and final book in the series, titled Worlds Collide, was released on July 11, 2017.[6][7]
Conner and Alex must brave the impossible. All of the Land of Stories fairy tale characters--heroes and villains--are no longer confined within their world. With mayhem brewing in the Big Apple, Conner and Alex will have to win their biggest battle yet. After a prologue in which Conner, now 80, is celebrating his birthday at a bookstore, and realises he doesn't know what happened to Alex, and begins reading his last book, the story starts with Alex, still under the witches' control, wreaking havoc at the New York Public Library. Conner realises this and, accompanied by Red, Jack, Goldilocks, and Bree. There are a few mishaps at the airport, but they get on the plane safely. When they arrive, the Book Huggers, sitting in a restaurant, see Conner, and tell their parents. However, Conner ducks, and the parents don't see him. Then, as Conner's group attempts to make it into the library, a homeless man who had helped them earlier for money leads them to a subway tunnel that was abandoned in the '20s, and heads directly under the library. While there, they hear from other homeless people, and realise a portal between the worlds is going to open up in the library. They break into the library and see Alex, who is controlled by Morina, and the witch keeps them quiet. While sleeping, Conner gets a message from Alex saying that she wants him to kill her so she can "return to magic" and break free from the curse. The Book Huggers rescue Conner and the gang. Meanwhile, Alex is causing more chaos against her will. After the Literary Army was destroyed, Conner wrote a story, where he and Alex never explored the Land of Stories. Alex is not affected by the curse in the story, and they see their father.
Companion books[edit]
Five companion books to the series have been published. The Land of Stories: A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales is represented as the book Alex and Conner enter in the series. The Curvy Tree and Trollbella Throws a Party are picture books with text by Colfer. The Adventures from the Land of Stories series includes The Mother Goose Diaries and Queen Red Riding Hood's Guide to Royalty. All are illustrated by Brandon Dorman except for The Mother Goose Diaries, which has illustrations by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov.
Development[edit]
Colfer recorded his audio book using his own voice.[8] The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, Hebrew, Greek, Portuguese (Brazil), and Dutch.
Characters[edit]
Heroes[edit]
Alex Bailey is a smart, curious girl, described as having bright blue eyes and short, strawberry-blond hair with a headband always in it. She is very studious, and pays close attention to every class, getting full marks. She is also considered the teacher's pet. She is a twin to Conner Bailey.
Conner Bailey is a boy looking very much like his twin sister, who sleeps all day, even in class, and is a slacker. He's very social, however, but feels like he is constantly overshadowed by his brainy sister. He holds a deep hatred against his teacher, Mrs. Peters. He is a writer and in book 5 travels into his short stories. He is a twin to Alex Bailey. In the last book, it is revealed that Connor and Bree marry and have children together.
Froggy is a large, slightly humanoid frog. Formerly Prince Charlie Charming, a curse was placed upon him for being too vain. He is very wise and gives the twins advice and help throughout. He is embarrassed of being a frog, and lives in a sort of house-hole in the dwarf forests. In [Beyond the Kingdoms] he is imprisoned in a magic mirror in order to protect Red.
Red Riding Hood is a girl in a fairy tale series. But, she is older now. She's a little bit selfish, loves her gigantic outfits but since she has her own kingdom, she's very smart and good with her people. Her lover is Froggy but turns her away in the 4th book to protect her. Red doesn't like gross stuff, since she's a lady. Little Bo Peep took over her throne in the A Grimm Warning but she got her throne back. In book 6, Froggy and Red adopt the Lost Boys from Neverland.
Jack is now a grown man with the other Fairy Tale characters, who grew a very famous beanstalk when he was younger. He gets married to Goldilocks in the third book, in the fifth book they have a child and name him Hero.
Goldilocks is a criminal, raiding kingdoms, who got given her first sword to fight with by Hagetta, a kind witch who lives in the Dwarf Forests. She gets married to Jack in the third book. In the fourth book, she is going to be a mother. In the fifth book she gives birth to a baby boy and names him Hero.
Fairy Godmother is Alex and Conner's grandmother and leads the Fairy Council through bad times and also is the only one who can create a portal between the fairy-tale world and the other world. She dies in A Grimm Warning.
Mother Goose is able to travel between worlds (with the Fairy Godmother) and reads nursery rhymes around the world to children. She is part of the Fairy Council. She is first mentioned in The Wishing Spell, and appears in The Enchantress Returns, A Grimm Warning and Beyond the Kingdoms. She "retires" and joins Merlin in his story in Beyond the Kingdoms. She likes to gamble and travel with her pet goose, Lester.
Bree Campbell is an intelligent and determined girl. She was first introduced in A Grimm Warning as a classmate of Conner Bailey. She is a horror writer and is described as beautiful. She has blonde hair with a streak of pink and blue and always wears a purple beanie and an earbud in one ear. Conner actually has a huge crush on Bree, and at the end of [A Grimm Warning], Bree reveals that she has a crush on him too. She also becomes close friends with Emmerich. In the last book, it is revealed that Connor and Bree marry and have children together.
Emmerich Himmelsbach is a boy from Hohenschwangau, Germany, and approximately ten years old. He first appears in A Grimm Warning. He helps Conner and Bree get into Neuschwanstein castle and ends up joining Conner on his adventure to save the Land of Stories. In Beyond the Kingdoms, he turns out to be son of Bo Peep and Lloyd Bailey, the Masked Man and the twins' uncle, their for making Emmerich their cousin.
Auburn Sally A pirate who sails with her crew aboard their ship the Dolly Llama. Conner barely manages to convince her to be part of his army. They are forced to battle Smoky Sails Sam when he attacks them. Auburn Sally appears in An Author's Odyssey.
King Arthur King of England, from Camelot. Met Alex in Beyond the Kingdoms, the boyfriend of Alex.
Royals: -Queen Cinderella: Queen of the Charming Kingdom. -Queen Sleeping Beauty: Queen of the Eastern Kingdom. -Princess Hope -Princess Ash -Queen Rapunzel -Queen Little Red Riding Hood -Queen Snow White -Sir William -King Chance Charming -King Chandler Charming -King Charlie Charming -King Chase Charming -Ghost of Queen Beauty: The Ghost living in the Eastern/Sleeping Kingdom from the story Beauty and the Beast.
Villains[edit]
Evly, The Evil Queen is Snow White's stepmother. The whole Fairy tale world thought she was vain and power obsessed, but she really only wanted to free her lover, Mira, from her magic mirror. Mira had been put in the magic mirror by Ezmia, The Enchantress. After the battle at her palace in 'The Wishing Spell', she is trapped by the mirror which had once held Mira, and was transformed into a hopeless version of her old self, wandering the mirror realm in the vain hope of finding her lost lover. In Worlds Collide, the effects of the mirror have caused her to forget herself. This caused her to revert into a young girl. She is soon discover by Froggy, who was at the time, cursed by Morina, the Beauty Witch into his own mirror, and together they set of to warn his friends of the plot the fairytale villains have. She is released from the mirror realm by offering words of wisdom to a woman who’s self-esteem was shattered by her looks. With being released, she has turned into her true, middle aged self. Evly’s final fate is unknown, however it appears that she has a brighter future with her complete reformation.
Ezmia, The Enchantress was cursed by the witches to hate everyone and tried to destroy the world. This same curse was placed on Alex Bailey in the 5th book.
The Snow Queen is a weather witch who, a long time ago, secretly plotted against the king of the Northern Kingdom, whom she had befriended by granting him wishes and making prophecies. She overthrew the king and covered the kingdom in an everlasting winter. She was eventually overthrown by Wise Prince White and banished to the Northern Mountains, where she lives in an icy lair with her polar bears.
Morina is an evil witch that cursed Froggy to look like a frog. Morina looks like a beautiful lady but she has ram's horns on her head.
The Masked Man is the main villain in books 3, 4 and 5. In book 4, it is revealed that the Masked Man is Alex and Conner's uncle. In book 5 Emmerich is revealed to him as his son, and Little Bo Peep as his wife. His plot is to overthrow the Kingdoms and take over the world.
Smoky Sails Sam is a pirate in book 5 who wants to kill Auburn Sally because of what she stole from him.
General Marquis is a general of the Grand Armée who wants to take over the fairy tale world. He appeared in The Grimm Warning but died because of Masked Man.
Captain Hook is a pirate in book 4 and book 5 who wants to kill Peter Pan
Reception[edit]
The Wishing Spell was on the New York Times Bestseller List for five weeks, and reached No. 1 for two of the five.
The Onion's The A.V. Club gave The Wishing Spell a B.[9]
The Wishing Spell was named one of Barnes & Noble's "Best Books of 2012".[10]
Film adaptation[edit]
On June 13, 2017, it was announced that Twentieth Century Fox is developing a film adaptation of the first book, The Wishing Spell, with Colfer directing and writing the screenplay.[11] He will also serve as one of the executive producers on the film, which will be produced by 21 Laps Entertainment.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Chris Colfer on The Land of Stories and wishing his characters could meet Harry Potter". Entertainment Weekly. July 12, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell: Chris Colfer: 9780316201575: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
Jump up ^ Barrett, Annie (2013-04-01). "'Glee' star Chris Colfer reveals title, date, and cover of second 'Land of Stories' book". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
Jump up ^ D'Amico, Jordan (2015-04-11). "Chris Colfer Reveals The Cover & Title For His Fourth "Land Of Stories" Book". RecentlyHeard.com. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
Jump up ^ "The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey". Amazon.com. 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
Jump up ^ "Chris Colfer on The Land of Stories and wishing his characters could meet Harry Potter". Entertainment Weekly. July 12, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
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