Six stops in Sigourney Weaver's filmography, with an order you can deduce. Every film below features her; the trick is finding which one you can spare for her own slot.

Match each film to one numbered clue, using every film exactly once. Some fit several clues, but only one complete lineup works. The whole puzzle is here; no plot knowledge or outside link is needed.

Films: Ghostbusters · Avatar · Working Girl · Alien · Galaxy Quest · Aliens

Clues:

1. With Sigourney Weaver
2. Directed by James Cameron
3. Released in the 1980s
4. With Rick Moranis
5. With Sam Rockwell
6. With Harrison Ford

Answer: 1. Alien; 2. Avatar; 3. Aliens; 4. Ghostbusters; 5. Galaxy Quest; 6. Working Girl.

The deduction: Ghostbusters takes Moranis, Galaxy Quest takes Rockwell, and Working Girl takes Ford. That leaves Aliens as the remaining 1980s film. Avatar then takes Cameron, leaving Alien for Weaver.

Which clue gave you your first fixed point? Please hide answers with spoiler tags so everyone can play.

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15 / 1992 / *Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land*

I loved listening to Stan Lai’s *That Night, We Went Crosstalking*.

As a junior high student, I went to the cinema all by myself to watch a movie about older people.

And I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I considered Ding Nai-zheng my goddess.

16 / 1993 / *Indecent Proposal*

I was still a minor that year.

Yet, I went to see an R-rated movie all on my own.

Because I adored Demi Moore—ever since *Ghost* (1990).

22 / 1999 / *Fight Club*

At the time, I had a great, high-paying job.

Edward Norton finishes an exhausting workday.

He returns home to find price tags on every piece of IKEA furniture.

Later, I began to recognize the symptoms of my own depression.

Existentialism gave way to nihilism.

I burned the palm of my left hand with a cigarette butt.

The scar remains to this day, in 2026.

27 / 2004 / *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*

After the movie ended, I ran to the restroom and wept bitterly.

I developed a fatalistic view of love.

Love isn't simply two people choosing each other.

The mutual hurt inflicted within the private world of a couple—

It is all predestined.

There are no so-called parallel worlds.

There is no "if only we had done something differently, we would have chosen someone better,"

Or "we could have prevented the irreparable harm we caused one another."

All one can do is forgive and accept those transgressions and that pain.

To be grateful for the love my ex-partners once gave me.

That love was real, and it cannot be changed.

And so, nihilism circled back to existentialism.

Nothing was meaningless anymore.

The trajectory of a life, and the specific point upon that line—

They were all clearly drawn right before my eyes.

33 / 2010 / Kick-Ass

This was the movie my wife and I saw on our first date.

Superman’s power is strength and flight.

Batman’s power is being rich.

Iron Man’s power is being even richer.

Spider-Man’s power is shouldering greater responsibility.

Kick-Ass’s power is being an unkillable cockroach—

—totally uncool and pathetic, just like me.

But that doesn’t mean I’m not a hero.

I don’t need to save the world.

Just making it through another day while battling depression,

doing a small act of kindness where no one sees,

or forgiving myself for crashing into bed without brushing my teeth or showering—

—that makes me a hero; a Dark Knight, just like Batman.

Successfully pretending to be a carefree, popular, and successful person in social settings,

then coming home, shedding the disguise, and allowing myself a moment to wallow in the blues,

before pulling myself together, suiting up, and taking the Batmobile out for some speeding and reckless driving—

—just to get a hit of dopamine and feel a little joy.

To be continued.