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What's in the box? Hello, and thank you for joining us for this spoiler special for John Wick, Chapter 3, Parallel.

I am Sam Adams, senior editor at Slate, and joining me are Forrest Wickman, Slate's Culture Editor.

Hey, Sam.

And Matthew Desham, who is the Knights and Weekends editor of Browbeat.

Hello.

Welcome, Team Culture.

So we are going to talk about John Wick 3.

Today, normally, this is the part of the podcast where I summarize the plot of the movie.

In this case, that is people are trying to kill John Wick and he kills them.

One of the features of these movies, which has become increasingly apparent as we get, you know,

further into the series and people get more the hang of it is they're really, they are just

kind of machines to string together a bunch of generally pretty amazing action sequences. And that is

very much true in this case. This movie starts, I think, six minutes after the end of the last one,

something that is essentially continuous. John Wick was given an hour after killing someone

on the grounds of the hotel, the Continental, which is sort of like a neutral zone for this international coven of assassins. He's broken this cardinal rule of this place. He is given one hour to get clear before he is excommunicado and basically every assassin in the world will be after him. And so we start off with the clock ticking in about 56 minutes and him

running away from it. Before we get into spoiling what plot there is in this movie, Forrest and

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