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 a Symkarian 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, Curt and Edward Brock infiltrate the lab and runs into cross-breed creatures, Rhino, Scorpion, and Vermin. Conners would later get his arm cut by one of the creatures. 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, he then injects himself with the Oz formula. The Cabal make their move.
 * 10) Riot - Richard and Osborn fight to the death as he constantly overpowers him with his brute strength. Outside, violence rages as the whole city suffers a city wide blackout and May and young peter try to stay alive. Richard later gets the upper hand on Osborn and knocks him out, the lab is set blow as he frees Mary and gets her outta there. After that Richard is then captured taken by a group of mercs led by Silver Sable, leaving Mary knocked out on the floor. Richard later wakes up and realizes he's not in America anymore, he's now in a war torn country called Symkaria. Osborn is then sent to the Ravencroft Institute.

Season 3
3 years after the finale, Richard is now locked up in a Symkarian prison by the cabal after a call from Norman Osborn.


 * 1) Taken - After 3 years held captive, Richard figures out a way to get out of prison, but later befriends an American Photographer named Robbie Robertson. Mary tries to do everything she can to track down Richard, as she later goes to her old friends in the Sparrow Academy for help. In a flashback to when Richard first got there, He gets questioned by a man named Gustav Fiers.
 * 2) Prime - Richard joins a prison gang led by russian kingpin, Nikos Bellock, and later learns he has ties to the Cabal. Mary tracks down a transport company that smuggles convicts out of their countries to escape, only to find out they were involved in kidnapping. Ben starts to worry about his brother.
 * 3) Inverted - When a Symkarian terror group break into the prison, Richard, Robbie and Nikos gang try to use the opportunity to escape, but Niko later gets killed by the leader and takes Richard and Robbie captive. Mary joins up with Mosley and his Task Force to start the search in Symkaria. Gustav later sends Dimitri to take out Richard.
 * 4) Hunt The Wolf - Richard and Robbie later get rescued from the terrorists by Silver Sable and band of mercs, and is later offered an Alliance to take down the terrorist leader, Markov. They later get ambushed by Dimitri and his men, which leads to a fight. In a flashback, Richard's father takes him and Ben hunting in the woods.
 * 5) A Hole in The Ground - Richard and Sable must track down a genetic scientist from Richards past as a CIA agent. Mary and Agent 23 land in Symkaria where they meet up with the Secret Six, a team made of the Six Dangerous Individuals in the world. In the past, Richard and his partner Dawes is sent on a Brazil to protect Dr. Andrew Crawford from an incoming militia force. Dimitri gets a visit from his brother Nikolai.
 * 6) The Asset - Richard goes undercover to get close to Markov's operation, and later gets entangled in a much bigger scheme. Mary and the Secret Six capture one of Markov's assets in the Symkarian Police, which leads them to interrupt a human trafficking ring. Back In America, Mosley meets with the President on the terrorist threat in Symkaria and how to handle it. Dimitri and Nikolai search for their cousin Sergei, which leads them taking on Bellock's gang looking for answers.
 * 7) Sekoro - Richard goes with Markov and his gang to find the traitor who ratted on his operation, which leads to Markov opening fire in an Airport. Mary and the crew later face off against Markov's crew as it becomes an all out fight. Markov later escapes with Richard, but is later betrayed by Markov as he knew he was a spy. Mary tries to go after them but it too late as she later gets arrested along with the other Secret Six. Later, a recording of the airport shootout reaches the news as the President is now faced with the decision to intervene, which puts pressure on Mosley and his team.
 * 8) Blindspotter - After Mosley orders the team to leave Symkaria, Mary decides to go AWOL and later allies herself with Silver Sable to track down Markov and his men. Richard is given a viral drug that puts in a lucid dream where he finds himself being led by an older version of his son Peter, who would show him a vision of his fate and his family. He would later wake up and try to escape the compound only to fail as he is captured and taken to the Cabal themselves. After finding Sergei, Dimitri and Nikolai get invited to join him in an Expedition.
 * 9) Fury - Mary and Sable find a distress signal from Richard and they proceed to the compound. Richard finds out the leader of the cabal is one of his old partners, Kellen Dawes. he then tells him that they've been building up to taking down America by using their criminal outreach to other nations, as once it happens it will give the chance to take over. Mary and Sable reach the compound allies themselves with Sergei, Nikolai, and Dmitri. Richard then shoots Markov while Gustav escapes only to find Sergei at the corner, Mary and Richard finally reunite but an entire force reach their location as it leads to an all out war. Dawes later activates the switch to Operation Manticore, which leads to something big back in America.
 * 10) The Manticore Sanction - Dawes unleashes a terror from the skies as targeted cities go into a state of chaos. While in NY, The Ravencroft institute gets raided and all the insane citizens go into the streets, and Ben, May and Peter must avoid them. Back in Russia, Richard and rest fight off an entire army and escape in a helicopter. Sergei, Dimitri and Nikolai manage to hold them back but Gustav leaves in the process. Dimitri decides to part ways with Sergei as he goes to find Dawes, as Sergei and Nikolai head to Africa to start a new life. At the Division command, cabal sleeper agents terrorize the base as Mosley gets shot and taken prisoner.