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

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 1985, The Parkers are living their quiet life with their 3-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 stakeout a handoff which goes sideways, which raises questions on why it happened.