An arrogant self-centered contankerous old rich man dies after heart surgery and is denied entrance into Heaven despite his protests and demands. Meanwhile, a mousy nurse who demurs on her worthiness is allowed to enter. The man is met by a devil and forced to confront his former bad behavior.

While investigating a racketeering case, a young reporter finds out that she was adopted. She searches for her birth parents.

While investigating murders that take place in the building in which he lives, a reporter encounters a beautiful woman who has eyes like an Egyptian Queen. He falls in love with her and marries her. But her first love is her cats. She is surrounded by cat sounds and mysterious deaths involving deep scratches.

In a totalitarian state, a woman's husband fails to return home. Her best friend has mysteriously divorced her husband, and her friends refuse to talk to her. Despite evidence, she cannot believe the secret police have kidnapped her husband.

Alexander as a 19 year old is repulsed by his mystic mother and embraces the warrior life of his father. While Alexander is eager to run off to war, his father wants him to learn rulership. He saves his father, King Philip, and starts his warrior career.

Alexander's father, King Philip, embarrasses him and his mother by marrying a 17 year old girl, Cleopatra, which delays the war with Athens. But the marriage provides an opportunity for conspiracy. The Queen seeks revenge while Alexander is torn between the father he admires for his warrior prowess and the mother he loves. When his father is assassinated, he becomes King.

After his father's death, Alexander consolidates his power over his holdings, learns the secret of his father's death, and prepares for his conquest of Greece.

Alexander consults Apollo's Oracle of Delphi, brutally destroys Thebes (burning it to the ground), and then defeats Persia to unite Greece under his banner.

Alexander continues to wage war across Persia before a long soujorn where he defines himself as one of the great rulers in European history.

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