FULL-LENGTH: It is Halloween at a group home for senior citizens in the rural town of La Center, Washington. Donald Quintero, an aging resident with dementia, is put in an improvised suit of armor for a Halloween party, and decides that he is a knight of old, viewing the world around him as a land of castles, giants, fair ladies, and evil sorcerers. At first, his antics are harmless--even therapeutic for the other residents--and the staff indulge Don’s fantasy, much to the dismay of his practical-minded son, Sam.
Then, Don’s delusions of knightly valor begin causing inadvertent harm, including wheelchair jousts against giants (a vending machine) and battles against infidels (cardboard Thanksgiving pilgrim decorations). When he convinces another resident that she is his paramour Dulcinea and she forsakes her real identity and no longer recognizes her husband of sixty years, the staff realizes Don has gone too far, and they choose to employ validation therapy to get through to Don, addressing him from inside the fantasy. When increasingly difficult “knightly challenges” cannot conquer the knight, Sam poses as the Knight of Mirrors to bring his father back to crushing reality. We are left wondering if the remaining fragments of the identity of Donald Quintero are truly better than the fantasy of Don Quixote.

Set in the 1930s, Matthew "Moose" Flanagan is a boy of twelve whose father has taken a job as a guard at Alcatraz Prison and moved his family to the tiny island in San Francisco Bay. Moose must negotiate life with of other guards' children on the island, and figure out a way to help his autistic sister get into the school she needs to...perhaps with the aid of the prison's most famous prisoner. Adapted from the Newbery Honor Book and New York Times bestseller by Gennifer Choldenko, this adaptation is the official version approved by the author.

What happens when our notions of the past are shattered by the realities of the present? Blinders follows Gil Weaver, a locally famous police officer forced to retire because of injury, who now struggles to find his identity off the force. When an unknown assailant brutally assaults his youngest daughter, Gil launches a personal crusade to find the perpetrator: partly to see justice done and partly to prove his own self-worth as a police offer. After the clues run out and the official case is about to be closed, Gil conducts a drug-enhanced interrogation of his daughter and finds out much more than he expected--uncovering an equally vicious crime committed years ago in his own house by none other than the current police chief.

When her irascible grandfather is the victim of a violent break-in, Jeannie rushes to him to offer her help but finds that his wisdom--although hidden in sarcastic barbs--might be just what she's needed to heal herself.