The Hitchhiker Season 3, Episode 5: Shadow Puppets

1

The Martyr

Deirdre manipulates Jacques into killing her wealthy older husband for her after getting his attention by pretending to be blind, but soon realises that things don't work out the way she planned when Jacques will not go away.

30 min

2

In Living Color

After photographer Eric Coleman takes pictures of an elderly woman's suicide, he takes on a new assistant named Madeleine, who may have a deeper connection to the dead woman than he could ever guess.

30 min

3

Dark Wishes

A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.

30 min

4

Garter Belt

A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.

30 min

5

Shadow Puppets

A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it's dangerous to play games.

30 min

6

Renaissance

When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer's plans, they take action of their own to stop it.

30 min

7

The Miracle of Alice Ames

A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place.

30 min

8

3615 Code-Liz

Jane works for a company that provides various online services including sex chat with an online sex operator. Her deadbeat husband Robert obsessively chats with operator named Liz. She tells him to kill his wife. Or is he imagining it?

30 min

9

Her Finest Hour

Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois' home, but they soon realise that some memories are best left forgotten.

30 min

10

Together Forever

An emotionally unstable woman becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is having an affair.

30 min

11

Phantom Zone

Young man on the brink of success is about to marry the woman of his dreams. However, his past comes calling.

30 min

12

Spinning Wheel

A female artists' nightmares cause her to lose herself in self-pity mixed with egotism.

30 min

13

Square Deal

An indebted con-man meets his match.

30 min

14

Part of Me

A fast food owner has only one goal in life - to utterly destroy and humiliate his competition. However, he gets a taste of his own medicine.

30 min

15

Fashion Exchange

A fashion designer demands too much from his model, which leads to her suicide. This gets all those he'd wronged to seek revenge.

30 min

16

Hootch

A Vietnam War vet is forced to leave his home that keeps him sane by his greedy sister. Tragedy ensues.

30 min

17

Coach

Tough, fierce, and intimidating high school track coach Billy Bolt zealously clings to his track record that's remained unbeaten for twenty-five years. When his runner son Kenny threatens to break his legendary mark, Bolt buckles under the pressure and risks having his heretofore spotless reputation ruined.

30 min

18

The Verdict

If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.

30 min

19

Hit & Run

A deadbeat, who's abandoned his family and is on his way to meet the girl he likes, ends up in a hit and run situation. However, the man he ran over begins to haunt his conscious.

30 min

20

Studio 3X

When a television journalist's private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.

30 min

21

Striptease

Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.

30 min

22

Cruelest Cut

Men in the city are being knifed by a prostitute who wears all black. Sterling Jenkins is a hard-hearted prostitute who, despite herself, is intrigued when an attractive man named Jason asks for help in fixing his car. Although she tries to rebuff the sensitive man, Sterling allows herself to believe Jason when he tells her that he's fallen for her. It is only afterward that she realises appearances can be deceiving.

30 min

23

Dying Generation

After the suicide of their friend Katie, Adam Ross and Stephanie Duvall are faced with their own mortality. They learn from a friend, Brian, that he believes Katie was murdered, and that it had something to do with a fortune teller she had gone to see. Adam and Stephanie visit the same fortune teller, a woman who has let herself become so bitter she taints the life of everyone she comes in contact with.

30 min

24

My Enemy

Hollywood actress Jane Ambergris is so desperate to escape what her life has become she creates a new identity for herself, but it isn't long before she finds out that the person she tries to become is far worse than the person she is leaving behind.

30 min

25

Power Play

A producer's assistant meets his match when he agrees to housesit for his boss and falls for the sexy young woman who is supposed to be helping him out.

30 min

26

Pawns

A has-been musician who is down on his luck finally decides to pawn the only thing that means anything to him to make a few bucks, but realises that what he's sold is worth a lot more than he ever realised.

30 min