The Parkers (Starz TV Series)

Marvel's The Parkers is a spy-thriller show telling the lives of Peter Parker's parents, Richard and Mary, before their deaths. It starts in the mid-1970s during the Cold War with former marine and CIA Agent Richard Parker(Damien Lewis) being tasked to go undercover as a Russian doctor to spy on the Soviets to find the truth to the murders of political figures. He would later meet Mary Fitzpatrick(Lauren Cohen) an O.O.C Agent, they are then tasked to live together as a married couple in order to find the truth. The series also focuses on a soviet sleeper agent Cyril(Emile Hirsh) who has blackouts.

The Director(Ben McKensie)

Piotr Kuruchev(Unknown)

Dimitri

Curt Conners

Episodes

 * 1) Welcome to Heartbreak - Agent Richard Parker is sent to Moscow to go undercover as a Soviet doctor to spy on the Federation, on his way there he meets MI-6 agent Mary Fitzpatrick.
 * 2) Fringe - an American soldier named Cyril comes back from his tour overseas and he notices something isn't right.
 * 3) The First Night - Richard and Mary get acquainted in their new living arrangements, they would later stake out a local Russian plant owned by the federation. Cyril starts to have Flashbacks to an earlier time of his first assassination.
 * 4) Silverfinger - Richard crosses paths with a man named Richard Hardy, a thief. while Mary meets her next door neighbor.
 * 5) Stolen Lives - Richard and Mary are invited to their neighbors cookout, where they try to make friends. In the past, Richard and Ben Parker get into trouble.
 * 6) Person of Interest - Richard realizes he's being watched and tries to evade his pursuer. Mary gets close to one the richest man in Moscow in order to get answers about a secret club. Cyril gets the attention of a girl.
 * 7) Paint the City - Mary returns to her stomping grounds when she realizes the Sparrow Academy, a secret spy school for women, is involved in a dark conspiracy. Richard is tasked by Kuruchev to oversee a project linking to their Reaper program, an Omega Algorithm program to find targets by computer.
 * 8) Napalm - Richard is tasked to protect an heiress whose father is secretly funding the Reaper program, but later goes south when the father is targeted by a resistance group accusing him of mass murder. Later Mary and Richard start growing close. Cyril later gets betrayed.
 * 9) Project North - Richard finds out from his superiors that Mary has been keeping secrets from him on where her allegiance lies, which later comes to a head when they fight it out. Mary then explains that she was tasked to kill him under the impression he was selling out the US. They later get ambushed by the Reapers as they force them to go on the run.
 * 10) Breakpoint - Richard and Mary find out that the Soviets planning to drive the US into Nuclear War and they must stop it before innocents die. Cyril finally gets clarity when he finally remembers his life. Later, Richard and Mary elope and go off the grid away from their agencies.

Post Credits: Kuruchev later answers to his bosses, who are revealed to have orchestrated the events to take over. They would later call themselves The Cabal.

Season 2
10 years have past as the Parkers settle down in Queens, NY. As they now raise a son named Peter.


 * 1) Back to Basics - In 1988, The Parkers are living their quiet life with their 5-year old son, Peter, but things change when a man named Mosley(Lance Riddick) approaches them with news of a terrorist plot. Richard declines but only until Mosley leverages them with their identity files. He then tells them that he works for secret organization within the government tasked to hunt down the Cabal, a club hellbent on world domination. They later agree and leave young Peter to his Aunt and Uncle.
 * 2) Freight Car - Richard and Mary are tasked to find a kidnapped scientist named Curt Conners in Moscow being held by the Russian Mafia. Newlyweds Ben and May Parker realize taking care of a child is more than they can handle.
 * 3) Avalor - Richard gets hired by Oscorp to oversee their Neogenics division. He would later reunite with an old friend in Edward Brock, who also joined the science division with Curt and Otto Octavius. Mary later finds a job as a secretary for Norman Osborn.
 * 4) Burn Notice - Richard and his team get their first test subject when former marine Levi Samson volunteers for Conners experimental enhancement formula, but things go sour when it does more harm than good. Mary follows Osborn to meet with shady people.
 * 5) Blackout - Richard and Mary get a visit from Walter Hardy telling them about Osborn's connection with the Cabal, as the 3 go to a warehouse in the outskirts of NY find out. Ben later takes Pete to a Yankees game. The Parkers then find test subjects of innocent civilians in tubes, one of them claiming to Mosley's son.
 * 6) Prey - Richard confronts Conners and Brock on the lab he found and tries to tell him that Osborn forced them to do it, which causes distrust among the group. Mary and Walter track down former Oscorp member Spencer Smythe, who may have answers about Osborn affiliation with the Cabal.
 * 7) Monsters - Osborn mental problems start to spiral when the board pressures him to complete the serum, as his stress manifests into imaginary goblins watching him. Conners and Richard reach a breakthrough on the serum. Smythe later reveals to Mary that Norman has been supplying the cabal with enhanced soldiers.
 * 8) War - Richard and his family gets attacked by mutant creatures as he later deduces Osborn sent them to silence them, as he pitted against his own boss. Osborn unveils the new serum called, The Oz Formula, to the military in order secure the contract before Toomes industries. Later, Mary gets captured by an unknown figure.
 * 9) Sword and Dagger - Following the trail towards Mary location, Richard, Ben and Edward Brock infiltrate the lab and runs into cross-breed creatures, Rhino, Scorpion, and Vermin. Osborn explains to the tied up Mary that he's been working with the Cabal for a long time in order to keep his family safe, even if it is the wrong way to do it. The Cabal make their move.