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Grace Anderson's new job as a nanny, for the mayor's family, turns into a nightmare when a murder rocks the town, and she starts receiving ominous messages. She starts to question what deadly secrets are lurking in her hometown?

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We see Erica walking around the streets of Barcelona, speaking Spanish no problem. Cut to Anna who is the author of a book that is absolutely flopping. It's a book about falling in love in Barcelona. For some reason, though, the book is flopping everywhere except for Barcelona.

Erica walks into her favorite book store and is talking to the owner, Nico. He tells her about this book that is selling like crazy and calls it the best book he's ever read. He tells her that he's trying to get the author to come to do a reading at the store. He calls her his literary crush.

The problem here is that Erica actually translated the book and actually made some changes to the book without the author's permission and made the book better which is why it's selling so well in Barcelona. But per her contract with the publisher, she can't disclose to anyone that she translated the book, much less made any changes to it.

But it doesn't take too long for Anna to figure out what Erica did once Nico starts talking about all of his favorite parts of the book and Anna has no idea what he's talking about.

Nico asks Anna if she would be willing to write a short story and she agrees and then tries to convince Erica to help her with it so that she can impress Nico more because she's liking him. So Erica is in a tough spot here because she's liked Nico for a long time.

So Anna begins to explore Barcelona, especially the food, to become inspired for her book. And obviously hanging out with Nico a ton. The problem is Anna just can't write anything - she just wants to write food reviews.

They work together to write this short story and Erica sees that Anna is working on a food review website.

They get into an argument about Nico and all is lost. But Anna shows up and does a reading of her book and she realize how beautiful the words Erica wrote are, so she finally tells that Erica really wrote the book.

Nico realizes that shes the one he loves and they kiss.

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The movie kicks off mid stand off. This dude is asking Ethan for the Rabbit's Foot. Ethan is like I gave you to the Rabbit's Foot. He's like you have until the count of 10 or I kill your boo thang over here. There's yelling. It's serious. Ethan is like I'll help you find the Rabbit's Foot but you gotta let her go. Dude says 10 and it cuts to the Mission Impossible music, back to form!

Cut back a bit. Ethan is just living a normal life and he is engaged to a women named Julia. She's not Nyla and we'll never hear from her again. We're at their engagement party when Ethan get's a call. He knows it means to meet at the gas station, so he goes to "get ice". At the gas station, he sees his buddy John from the IMF. He tells him about a mission to rescue one of Ethan's proteges, Lindsey Farris, who was captured while investigating arms dealer Owen Davian, who is the guy from the beginning of the movie.

Normally IMF would disavow captured agents, but Farris may be their only clue to get to Davian who is a high priority for the IMF.

After a night of sleep, Ethan decides he in. He's met by his old pal Luther and a couple of other folks. They raid the warehouse where Lindsey is. She tells Ethan that she needs to talk to him but there's no time. They get to the helicopter and Lindsey begins to complain about serious pain in her head. Ethan uses his fancy head scanner and discovers a micro-explosive implanted in Lindsey's head. He tells her he needs to use a defibrillator to disable the decide. But before they can charge it, it goes off and she dies.

When he gets back to the IMF, he is in big trouble. IMF director Theodore Brassel tells him that he's lucky to even be alive now.

Ethan finds out that IMF technician Benji Dunn recovers enough from the damaged laptops that they took from the warehouse. He finds out that Davian is gonna be at the Vatican City to get the "Rabbit's Foot", something he's planning to sell for 850 million dollar.

So Ethan once again has to tell Julia that he's gotta travel for work. Before leaving, he and Julia have an impromptu wedding at the hospital's chapel and then kiss big ones!

And off he goes to infiltrate the Vatican City and capture Davian. The plan goes perfectly, complete with masks, switch em up, it's a whole thing. And they all escape on a boat. It's a perfect plan. They even make everyone think that Davian died in a car explosion.

On the flight back, Davian wakes up and immediately threatens to kill Ethan and his wife. This makes Ethan very mad and when Davian won't share where the Rabbit's Foot is and who his buyer is, he dangles Davian out the plane.

After landing, Ethan learns of a video of Lindsey warning that she believes IMF Director Brassel is working with Davian. Just then, the convoy that has Davian is suddenly attacked and Davian escapes. Ethan is able to get his hands on the briefcase though that contains the location of the Rabbit's Foot.

Ethan is very concerned about Julia. So he rushes to the hospital to warn her but it's too late. Davian calls Ethan to give him 48 hours to recover the Rabbit's Foot for Julia's life, but then Ethan is captured by IMF. Brassel holds him there and calls him a rogue agent. His buddy Agent John Musgrave from the beginning comes in to "question him" but really is there to mouth instruction for how to escape and get to the Rabbit's Foot's location and gives him a knife to help him escape.

Armed with a delightful disguise, Ethan hops on a plane to Shanghai and meets his team, which Musgrave sent there under the guise of another operation. Ethan and his team raid the building where the Rabbit's Foot is secured and tell Davian that they have the Rabbit's Foot.

Ethan goes to deliver the Rabbit's Foot with almost no time to spare. Davian tells him to arrive alone. He tags the Rabbit's Foot and send the info to Musgrave so he can track it.

He is forced to show up alone with the Rabbit's foot. He is then given a liquid to drink that knocks him out. When he wakes up, he is injected with the same micro-explosive Lindsey had in her head. Suddenly, we're back to the beginning with Davian questioning where the Rabbit's Foot is which Ethan is confused by because he had it in his hand when he drank that stuff. It's not good enough for Davian and he shoots and kills Julia.

Musgrave then walks in. Turns out, it wasn't really Julia. It was Davian's head of security in a Julia mask. They put a Julia mask on her to force Ethan to tell the truth about what he brought. Musgrave reveals himself as the mole, not Brassel. He explains to Ethan that all of this is to get the US to attack the middle east in order to make sure they don't use the Rabbit's Foot.

But Musgrave knows about Lindsey's message. He demands to know what it was. Ethan won't tell him. So he calls up to show that he does indeed have Julie captive. Ethan bites his hand. He calls Benji and asks him to track where the last call from Musgrave's phone was to. Benji gives him the info despite Ethan being a wanted man.

He stays on the phone with him and leads him through Shanghai to get him to Julia. Unfortunately, Davian is also there. He tells Ethan he's going to kill Julia in front of him. But Ethan fights back, pushes him out onto the road, rolls Davian on top of him so he gets hit by a truck that passes over Ethan perfectly.

He runs back to free Julia but Ethan has that micro-explosive in his head. He stumbles around trying to find a defibrillator. So he makes a handmade one, teaches Julia how to use a gun, asks her to exlectrocute him and bring him back to life. She proceedes to do all of that perfectly, including killing Musgrave. She punches Ethan in the chest until he comes back.

He explains to Julia who he really is and brings Brassel the Rabbit's Foot. Brassel tries to convince him to stay on but all Ethan says is "I'll send you a postcard." The whole office cheers as Ethan and Julia walk off together.

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Trish Moore is a jewelry designer who is at a bar, watching this couple hug. It inspired her to beginning sketching at ring idea. Suddenly, her blind date shows up and spills her drinks. His name is Booker and it does not go well. She's very by the book. He's very loosey goosey. She ends up leaving and breaks another glass. And then bumps into a guy holding Christmas presents. She is not well.

The next day at work, she is finishing up some rings for a wedding. The box that it's in ends up getting in this box of boxes that are being picked up for delivery after she falls on them while flirting with the pick up guy. So that box ended up getting mixed up in those boxes and taken by the pick up guy. 

Booker then shows up much to Trish's surprise. He's actually the best men for the wedding the rings are for and that's when she discovers that the rings have been picked up. So they decide to go to the delivery company and try to figure out where it ended up since it didn't have an address on it. He has no idea but gives them the addresses that were along the route. Maybe it somehow got dropped on on the route. IT did not. 

But Trish and Booker are kind of enjoying each others company until they aren't. They end up getting into a huge argument and she goes off to meet another guy but the sparks just aren't quite there.

She comes up with another set of rings for the wedding and Booker comes by to pick it up. He ends up sticking around to play his Christmas board game. After hanging out for a while, she comes back to her office and lays on the ground and finds the rings.

She brings them to the wedding and at the reception, Booker asks her to dance. They dance and talk and kiss. 

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Daisy Lu is an aspiring graphic designer and a big fan of dogs. She wants to start her own business and adopt a dog but all she can handle right now is to foster. She works at her best friends coffee shop that also helps get dogs adopted from the local shelter. She finds out that Jace James is moving back into town and she does not like Jace James. Well, she used to like Jace James. He makes furniture and had a show with his girlfriend where they would do interior design for the stars but they've broken up. But he used to live here and he had ideals that Daisy believes he's abandoned. As she's ranting about Jace James, he walks up behind her and overhears it. He's like "it's good to be home". He decides he wants to adopt the dog that Daisy has been fostering named Patches. She decides to pitch helping Jace like market a new image for himself and then they can enter that rebranding into this design expo that has a 50k cash prize? I dunno man. 

She keeps showing up. At first, it's to help him get used to having a dog. But then it's to help give him pointers on how to interior design his house. Then to just hang out. She starts recording videos of him building a dog house out of refurbished wood and she thinks there might be something good there. 

After having an argument with her mom, she rushes over to Jace's house and is shocked to see that his ex is there. She saw the video of the dog house and saw how happy he was and she realizes that she really missed him. Daisy ends up sticking around for dinner and then she overhears the ex talking about how dumb this expo is that she's entering because you can't enter a person into the design expo.

Daisy leaves and looks it up and she's right - you can't enter a person into the design expo. She goes to tell Jace to forget that she ever existed. 

He ends up sending her a yarn sweater from the yarn bomber - and that's enough to convince her to still enter the contest. She gives the presentation and she is, predictably, disqualified. 

Also, she finds out her mom is the yarn bomber. 

A video of her presentation goes viral - people are calling it the future of marketing. Turns out, it was Jace who posted it. 

They make up and kiss and go into business together.