Judge (Netflix Series)

Judge is an upcoming Netflix series based on the 2018 Manga of the same name.

Plot
Henry Tarver accidentally causes the death of his brother, Andrew, after falling in love with his brother's girlfriend, Harley. Henry wakes up in an unknown building wearing a rabbit mask and forced to play a death game with 8 other people in animal masks, where they must judge eachother for their sins.

Main Characters

 * TBA as Henry Tarver/"Rabbit"
 * TBA as Theodore Harrison/"Lion"
 * TBA as Sandra Mend/"Pig"
 * TBA as Shane Rollins/"Horse"
 * TBA as Ash Kevins/"Cat"
 * TBA as Kylie Anders/"Dog"
 * TBA as Thomas Walton/"Bear"
 * TBA as Ruby Oswald/"Fox"

Minor Characters

 * TBA as Harley
 * TBA as Andrew Tarver
 * TBA as "Cow"
 * TBA as Roger Tenford
 * TBA as Gideon Harrison/"Lion 2"
 * TBA as Albert Mend/"Pig 2"
 * TBA as Rebecca Rollins/"Horse 2"
 * TBA as Bill Kevins/"Cat 2"
 * TBA as Stephen Edwardson/"Dog 2"
 * TBA as Eli Walton/"Bear 2"
 * TBA as Brenda Oswald/"Fox 2"
 * TBA as Gordon Spencer/"Cow 2"

Episodes

 * 1) Episode 1 - Henry Tarver falls in love with his brother, Andrew's, girlfriend, Harley. After shopping with Harley to help her decide on an anniversary gift for Andrew, Henry decides to tell Harley how he feels and tells Andrew that Harley changed the time of their anniversary date to 1 hour later, which results in Andrew dying in a hit and run. 2 years later, Henry wakes up in a room wearing a rabbit mask. When the lights come on, he sees a bunch of other people wearing animal masks with a stuffed animal on a chair. When Henry tries to take off the mask, he is warned not to, at risk of dying like a man that was wearing a cow mask, who died after removing his mask. A man in a horse masks finds a video tape in the stuffed animal and they find a tape player to play the video, revealing they are going to play a game called 'Judge', where they must judge each other for their sins.
 * 2) Episode 2 - The video tells the participants to remove their masks, which they hesitantly do, and introduce themselves. They are then told to make their way to the next room, where they will vote for someone to die every 12 hours. The group splits up and Henry talks with Ash. Most of the participants reunite with 1 hour left, except Thomas, who locked himself in a bathroom. Everyone panics, since, as explained in the video, if anyone is not in the voting room when the timer expires, everyone will die. Henry and Ash go to convince Thomas to return. When they return, Henry tell everyone to vote for themselves to force a tie so everyone will survive. When everyone votes, Thomas panics as no one died, but he admits that he didn't vote for himself, and locks himself back in the bathroom. Henry eventually goes to talk to Thomas, but his screams draw everyone to the bathroom, where it's revealed that  Thomas has been murdered.
 * 3) Episode 3 - Henry realizes that Shane must have voted for Thomas, since Thomas admitted that he voted for Shane, but a scoreboard reveals that Thomas received 3 votes from Shane, Theodore and Kylie. The others realize that since 4 of them will be allowed to survive, that they can just vote for the other 3 and leave safely. Henry decides to try to convince the others to vote for themselves again, but agrees that if he is unable, he will vote with them. Theodore tells Henry that one of the players is a traitor trying to sabotage them. Kylie corners Henry in another bathroom and tries to seduce him, but he rejects her when he sees someone watching them, she is able to convince him to let her die last of the 3 in her group, since help might arrive before then. Henry, Ash, Ruby and Sandra decide to agree to vote for Shane, since he seems like the biggest threat, but they are shocked when the second vote begins and Shane, Theodore and Kylie vote for themselves, making the others believe that it is safe to vote for themselves too, but everyone is shocked when the votes reveal that everyone voted for Ash.
 * 4) Episode 4 - Theodore reveals he switched the display pictures for the voting buttons, causing everyone to vote for Ash by accident. Ash runs out and Henry, Sandra and Ruby go to search for him, finding him downstairs after a new room has been opened. Ash admits that he had been given instructions by the mastermind to keep his mother safe, including injecting the guy with the cow mask with poison. Henry heads out to search the new area, when he finds a broken justice statue, he also finds a man covered in cuts and bruises, the girls arrive and the man regains consciousness and commits suicide when he crashes into the statue, causing him to be impaled by its sword. Ruby's scream draws them back to the room Ash was hiding, revealing he had committed suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
 * 5) Episode 5 - Ruby finds a cell phone, which she hides when the others arrive. The guys investigate the dead man, finding his driver's license, revealing his name to be 'Roger Tenford', which also hides a memory card. Kylie finds an exit while investigating, but it is locked. Henry finds a hidden door behind a bookshelf, which he notices on a map of the building. The group search inside, finding a room full of security monitors.
 * 6) Episode 6 - The group search the security room, Henry, Theodore and Sandra decide to stay in the security room for the 10 hours before the next vote. While waiting, the monitors reveal another game of Judge being played at the same time as their own. Theodore declares the footage as fake, but Henry leaves to inform the others. He finds Sandra in a warehouse eating a supply of food, which she apologizes for eating without sharing. Henry helps her hide the trash and she promises to share the food. Henry also finds Shane making an advance on Ruby, but when she remembers him as a former musician that threw his career away when he got into a fight with a bandmate, he loses his temper and pulls a gun on her, ripping her shirt and threatening to rape her, until Kylie steps in.
 * 7) Episode 7 - Shane threatens to shoot and kill Kylie, but she persuades him that if he kills her, he won't have enough votes to survive the next round. Shane leaves and Kylie promises to vote with Henry in the next round. The group later return to the voting area, where the vote ends in a tie of 3-3 for Shane and Henry, so they are forced to fight to the death to survive. Shane excitedly beats down Henry and pulls out the gun to shoot him, but the gun backfires and shoots off one of his fingers and blinds him in one eye. While everyone else thinks they should let Shane die, Henry gives him first aid. The others ration out the food while Henry takes care of Shane. Ruby gives Henry his food and tells him to get some sleep while she looks after Shane. While looking after Shane, Ruby considers killing him, but she is knocked out with a Taser, when she wakes up, she finds a bloodied pair of scissors and Shane stabbed to death. Henry wakes from his nap, wondering who voted for him to make the votes a tie, when he arrives, everyone starts suspecting each other of who killed Shane. During an argument between Kylie and Ruby, Ruby drops the cell phone, which Theodore takes and uses to read what's on the memory card.
 * 8) Episode 8 - Theodore puts the memory card in the phone, revealing photos of the participants, except Sandra, with photos in her file instead being full of photos of an overweight teenager. When they tell Sandra about the photos, she steals the phone and runs away. She heads back to the security room, where she remembers being bullied as a kid because she was overweight. In anger, she smashes the phone. When everyone berates her for breaking the phone, Henry realizes that the people playing the other game are the people from the photos, meaning they are people they know.
 * 9) Episode 9 - Everyone starts to recognize the people from the photos in the other game, including Ruby's mother, Sandra's grandfather, Shane's mother and even Harley. The remaining survivors head back to the voting area as the clock counts down, and Kylie reveals her intentions to vote for Sandra. Sandra admits that she voted for Henry in the last vote, since she didn't want him to tell the others about her gluttony. As the others leave, Sandra remembers when she asked her grandfather to pay for surgery to get her to lose weight. Now, feeling guilty, Sandra promises to make sure her grandfather survives. Sandra returns to the voting area and everyone starts casting their votes, but Kylie is shocked when Ruby votes for her, until she reveals Sandra threatening Ruby with a piece of broken glass stabbed into her leg. When Kylie tries to approach, Sandra threatens to kill Ruby, with the votes tied at 2-2, Henry places the final vote, but votes for himself, forcing Sandra and Kylie to fight to survive. While Kylie is able to overpower Sandra, Sandra wins the fight when she kills Kylie by stabbing her in the neck with her broken glasses. The 4 survivors go to the exit to escape, when the voice announces they must now play with the other 4 survivors to determine the final 4. A hidden door opens up, revealing a man with a lion mask, a crossbow and an axe.
 * 10) Episode 10 - The voice on the monitor reveals that the remaining 8 survivors must fight to the death, with the final 4 going home free. The man with the lion mask, who Theodore reveals is his father, Gideon Harrison, a corrupt judge, shoots Sandra in the neck with the crossbow, killing her. Henry and Theodore attempt to run, when Gideon shoots Theodore in the arm with the crossbow. When finding a place to hide, Theodore tells Henry to find Ruby and warn her about what is going on. Henry agrees and runs off, when he is nearly caught by Gideon, but is saved by the fact that the mask reduces the wearers' vision. After Gideon leaves, Henry encounters someone wearing a Rabbit Mask, who he realizes must be Harley.
 * 11) Episode 11 - Henry reunites with Harley, but cannot take off her Rabbit Mask, as it is locked onto her head. Henry realizes that he can use one of 2 keys that were found to try to unlock the mask and carries Harley away. Harley thanks Henry for helping her. Henry and Harley reach the room where Roger died and find Gideon waiting, realizing they wouldn't be able to sneak past without him noticing, Henry grabs a rock to kill Gideon, but Gideon realizes what he is doing and goes to shoot him with the crossbow, but Henry smashes the rock into his hand, breaking the crossbow. Henry grabs Harley and they run upstairs, where they run into Theodore holding a Taser, and think Theodore is the one that killed Shane. Theodore insists he just found the Taser and didn't kill Shane, but Henry doesn't believe him and tries to run back downstairs with Harley, but are cornered by Gideon with an axe. Henry tackles Theodore, allowing Harley to escape. Theodore tases Henry and Gideon reveals he has also killed a man with a Pig Mask, Sandra's grandfather. Gideon reveals what happened to him, being drugged and left in a dark room, being forced to put on an animal mask and watching the others play the game. Gideon also theorizes that the link connecting everyone together was actually for the hostages, not the players. When Gideon tries to throw Henry over the ledge, Henry reveals he was never tased and Theodore knocks his father over the ledge, seemingly killing him. Theodore reveals his father was an awful man and he has no remorse for killing him. Henry tells Theodore about the locks on the animal masks and that Ash and Shane had keys that might unlock the masks. Henry goes to get Shane's key while Theodore goes to get Ash's key. When Theodore gets Ash's key and passes his father again, Gideon reveals he is still alive and kills Theodore. Henry finds Harley and uses Shane's key and removes her mask, just as Gideon enters the room.
 * 12) Episode 12 - Gideon demands the key to remove the mask, in exchange, he promises not to kill either Henry or Harley. He sends Harley to go and find Ruby and her mother. Henry asks Gideon who he thinks could be the mastermind, Gideon believes it to be someone with a vengeance against the 9 hostages. Henry doesn't know why someone would have a grudge with Harley, as she's too nice, but believes that they must be fixated on something to hide them in a courthouse. Gideon gets curious about Roger Tenford, and remembers that he was at a trial, where Harley was in the courtroom at the time. Harley finds Ruby's mother. Gideon tells Henry that Harley was in attendance for a trial where Roger was the defendant. Gideon asks Henry what Harley's end game is, but Henry doesn't know, so Gideon leaves to find Harley to question her directly. Henry follows Gideon to a reception office and asks what Roger's case was about, but Gideon can't remember. Gideon removes Sandra's grandfather's pig mask and recognizes him, he then finds the bodies of the other people he was locked up with and recognizes them as jurors in Roger's trial. He remembers Roger was charged with Criminally Negligent Manslaughter after killing a man in a car accident. Henry injects Gideon with a drug to knock him out.
 * 13) Episode 13 - Henry stands Gideon on a stool with a chain around his neck. Henry admits to being the real mastermind, he had spent a year setting up the game and made sure everything went according to plan, including killing Thomas, blackmailing Ash into killing himself, tasing Ruby to allow him to kill Shane etc. Henry admits that Roger Tenford was the driver that killed his brother, Andrew in the hit and run. Henry admits to finding one of the jurors and torturing him to make him release the identities of the others, planning originally to take them all, but 3 of the jurors had died within the following months. Roger Tenford was engaged to the daughter of his boss, a friend of Gideon, so the boss offered a bribe of $500,000 each to allow the jury to go easy on Roger, allowing Roger to get a reduced sentence. Gideon asks why Henry went after the family members of the jury when the jurors would have been enough, Henry says that each of the jurors spent their bribe money on their family members, allowing their family members to become 'sinners', with Thomas being a lazy shut-in, Ash refusing to take over his father's factory, Shane becoming a violent drug addict, Kylie buying expensive clothes to fuel her vanity and Sandra spending the money on expensive plastic surgery. Gideon mocks Henry, stating that he should be flattered that his brother's life was worth so much for the bribe, while Gideon's own life is worth over twice as much. Henry pulls out a disk, full of data on all of Gideon's crooked dealings, which Theodore had been collecting, Gideon isn't scared, until Henry takes out a cell phone that reveals a news report that Gideon is the main suspect in everyone's disappearances and is the target of a nationwide manhunt. Henry had sent recorded audio of him interrogating the juror and the data on the disk to the police and media outlets. Gideon panics and slips off the stool, accidentally hanging himself from the chain. Henry stages the scene to look like a suicide. Henry reunites with Harley, Ruby and Ruby's mother, who was the only juror that refused the bribe. Henry lies to everyone about Gideon being the mastermind and Theodore being his accomplice. The 4 are able to leave. Henry pulls Harley to the side, where he admits that Andrew's death was his fault after he lied about the time of their date.