What is "end game"

n. (alternative spelling of endgame English)

1. n. the final stages of an extended process of negotiation; "the diplomatic endgame" [syn: endgame]

2. the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board [syn: endgame]

End Game is a 2006 American action film written and directed by Andy Cheng, and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Secret Service agent Alex Thomas, who is shot in the hand while unsuccessfully trying to protect the President ( Jack Scalia) from an assassin's bullet. Later, with the help of a persistent newspaper reporter named Kate Crawford ( Angie Harmon), he uncovers a vast conspiracy behind what initially appeared to be a lone gunman. The film co-stars James Woods, Burt Reynolds, and Anne Archer. This film was originally set to be shown in cinemas by MGM in 2005, but was delayed by the takeover from Sony and eventually sent direct-to-DVD.

"End Game" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by Rob Bowman, and written by Frank Spotnitz. "End Game" featured guest appearances by Megan Leitch, Peter Donat, Brian Thompson and saw Steven Williams reprise his role as X. The episode helped explore the series' overarching mythology. "End Game" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.2, being watched by 10.7 million households in its initial broadcast. It received positive reviews from critics.

The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Scully is kidnapped by an alien bounty hunter and Mulder offers his sister Samantha (Leitch) forward as ransom. However, Samantha is merely one of several clones created as part of a human-alien hybrid project, leading Mulder to pursue the bounty hunter for the truth about her disappearance. "End Game" is a two-part episode, continuing the plot from the previous episode, " Colony".

"End Game" was the first episode of the series written by Spotnitz, who eventually went on to become one of the series' executive producers.

"End Game" is the 14th episode of the third season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street. It originally aired on NBC on February 10, 1995. The episode was written by Rogers Turrentine and directed by Lee Bonner. The episode continues a storyline about the shooting of Beau Felton, Kay Howard, and Stanley Bolander.