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Banana Fish Ep. 14- Tender is the Night · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, sort of, Michelle, and I came back,
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Speaker 1: and I'm surprised that you're there. If you are, I
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Speaker 1: can't actually see or hear you, so I don't know
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Speaker 1: for sure. But if you are, and you came back
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Speaker 1: after me crying into the microphone last week, I didn't
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Speaker 1: expect you to, so thank you. But also, you know
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Speaker 1: you don't have to do this right. I would never
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Speaker 1: know if you listened again unless you tell me. So
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Speaker 1: if you want to leave, I get it, you can.
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Speaker 1: You can go all right bye. If you're still there.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about episode fourteen of Banana Fish today,
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Speaker 1: which starts the second core. So we are just a
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Speaker 1: little bit more than halfway through. Because there's twenty four episodes.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I have anything else to talk about
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Speaker 1: right now. I'm not recording this episode very long after
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Speaker 1: episode thirteen. I don't know why. I just had a
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Speaker 1: little bit more time this past week or however many
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Speaker 1: days it's been. So yeah, I mean, I can tell
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Speaker 1: you that Donda don is still going really well. Yay Dondadan,
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Speaker 1: But that's really all I got, So let's just get
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Speaker 1: into it. Before I start, I did want to say
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Speaker 1: that I've said this like multiple times before, but the dialogue,
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Speaker 1: like the translation in this episode is like not good
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Speaker 1: in a lot of spots. So if you're hearing stuff
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Speaker 1: that you've never heard before, it's coming from the manga
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Speaker 1: because it makes more sense. Basically, there are a couple
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Speaker 1: of spots where I may add things in from the manga,
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Speaker 1: but I'll stop before I do that and explain what
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Speaker 1: the hell's going on, because I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 1: But like the second half of the anime, we really
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Speaker 1: lose a lot of stuff, and most of that is okay.
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Speaker 1: Things are kind of rearranged in this episode and that's
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Speaker 1: fine or changed, but every once in a while there's
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Speaker 1: something that gets lost and I'm just like, man, now,
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Speaker 1: they're never gonna know this, so I want to tell
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Speaker 1: you about it when I find it, and hopefully you
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Speaker 1: won't be sad that you have to like listen to
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Speaker 1: me talk about things more. We'll see anyway, let's just
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Speaker 1: do it. Episode fourteen is called Tender is the Night,
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Speaker 1: which is also the name of a novel by F.
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Speaker 1: Scott FitzGeralds which has absolutely nothing to do with banana
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Speaker 1: fish as far as I can tell, which is fine. Also,
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Speaker 1: I think this is one of my least favorite episode titles.
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure it works. It doesn't really not work,
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Speaker 1: but it also doesn't have any special significance, at least
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Speaker 1: in my opinion. And maybe you know what the significance is.
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Speaker 1: And you are like screaming into your whatever you listen
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Speaker 1: to this on and saying like, but it's totally talking
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Speaker 1: about that, but I don't know what it is. And
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Speaker 1: I can't hear you because I've recorded this, so like
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Speaker 1: you're technically in the future right now, but whatever, or
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Speaker 1: I'm in the past. It doesn't matter. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think it has a meaning, is what I'm trying to say.
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Speaker 1: So I'm sure you haven't forgotten where we ended last time,
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Speaker 1: because Ash had fallen onto the tracks after being stabbed
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Speaker 1: by Arthur, who he killed, and the cops arrived and
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Speaker 1: they took him away and Agy was arrested, so things
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Speaker 1: are bad. We start this episode with a shot of
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Speaker 1: the area by Coney Island and the elevated tracks, and
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Speaker 1: there's like police all around at police tape and police
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Speaker 1: cars and things with police going on, and then we
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Speaker 1: transition from that to what appears to be a Morgue
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Speaker 1: because there's like lots of dead guys in the room
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Speaker 1: on like you know, I guess it's like a stretcher
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Speaker 1: or a gurney, you know, big metal laying down bad things.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why this is so hard for me,
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of dead guys on them, you know,
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Speaker 1: mostly covered, and we hear who I believe is Jenkins
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Speaker 1: say he killed them all by himself, and Charlie's like,
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Speaker 1: that's not humanly possible. Jenkins looks around and he sees
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Speaker 1: dead Arthur, who is partially kind of uncovered, like we
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Speaker 1: see his face, and he covers him back up with
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Speaker 1: the blankets, and he thinks, even if it was to
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Speaker 1: protect yourself, your claws and fangs are too sharp. Ash.
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Speaker 1: We then cut to Ash being wheeled down the hospital
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Speaker 1: hall on a gurney and his eyes are closed and
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Speaker 1: he looks like really pained because remember he's really really hurt,
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Speaker 1: and a doctor is saying, like, clear the way, emergency patient.
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Speaker 1: Then we are at the airport where Max and Shunci
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Speaker 1: are waiting for ag Max looks at his watch and
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Speaker 1: he says, what's taking Ash so long? He better or
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Speaker 1: not have changed his mind Shunichi's like, if he did,
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Speaker 1: it's okay with me. Max like what, and Shunici says,
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Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm still not sure off separating them
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Speaker 1: is the right thing to do. Yeah. I brought him
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Speaker 1: to the US to free him from Japan's stuffiness, and
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Speaker 1: he really livened up. We see some shots of Ag
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Speaker 1: and then some shots of Ag and ash and he continues,
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Speaker 1: especially when he met ash. Ah. They're from different countries, races, backgrounds,
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Speaker 1: and yet they were able to build a really important
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Speaker 1: friendship with each other. And here I am separating them.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a friendship. But okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to keep him from being hurt, but I might
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Speaker 1: actually be hurting him in the process. Max is like,
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Speaker 1: I totally get you, but things have gone way too far.
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Speaker 1: There's a TV somewhere in the airport and we hear,
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Speaker 1: I guess a newscaster saying a street gang riot broke
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Speaker 1: out this morning. They both turn and they look the
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Speaker 1: screen and we see that the headline on the TV
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Speaker 1: is confusion and panic. Continue when the wake up gang
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Speaker 1: violence on Coney Island. Oh, and it looks like it's
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Speaker 1: nine thirty four in the morning, So I think, who
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Speaker 1: is that? Like Bone said the flight was at eight ten.
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Speaker 1: I guess he was wrong. So the newscaster is like,
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Speaker 1: it's been suppressed by the police, but the area is
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Speaker 1: still in a state of panic. Max and Shoonici run
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Speaker 1: to get closer to the TV so they can hear
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Speaker 1: it better, and the newscaster continues it's believed that the
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Speaker 1: incident was caused by two opposing gang leaders. Max gasps
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Speaker 1: and he's like, we have to go back. Shoonichi Ag
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Speaker 1: isn't coming, and he starts to walk off, and Shoonnici's
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Speaker 1: like what and Max says, I think he's with Ash.
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Speaker 1: He fought it out with Arthur. Well, at least he
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Speaker 1: figured it out. Max thinks about how Ash like asked
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Speaker 1: him if he was going to continue working on the
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Speaker 1: banana fish thing even if he died, and he's like
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Speaker 1: he was acting strange. He grits his teeth and he's like,
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Speaker 1: goddamn it, why didn't I realize. Then he then lifts
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Speaker 1: his phone to his ear and he's like, Charlie, it's me.
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Speaker 1: I guess he probably dialed too, And then we go
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Speaker 1: the opening theme. It's new Yay. So this opening theme
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Speaker 1: is new, like I just said ten seconds ago, and
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Speaker 1: it is called Freedom, and it is by blue Encount
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Speaker 1: maybe in count blue Encount, who I don't know who
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Speaker 1: they are. This is I think the only song I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard from them before. It is okay. I'd say
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Speaker 1: about seventy five percent of it's in English, and it's
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Speaker 1: an okay English. It's not perfect. It's not as good
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Speaker 1: as like Survive said. The prophet did speak in English,
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Speaker 1: but I do understand what they're saying. It's not like
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Speaker 1: terrible or anything. But besides that, the new opening is
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Speaker 1: like real, real Showjo. Like we're seeing the characters. There's
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Speaker 1: like wind, there were like some feathers blowing for some reason.
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Speaker 1: So this is like if you showed me this opening
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Speaker 1: and I didn't have any context for the show, I
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Speaker 1: would just be like showjo, which I didn't get with
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Speaker 1: opening one or ending one really, so it's totally fine.
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Speaker 1: I was just like, whoa, there it is. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things in the new opening that
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Speaker 1: are really cool that we just can't talk about because
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Speaker 1: they're all import and spoilers, so we're just not But
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Speaker 1: it's a pretty good opening. So continuing right along, we
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Speaker 1: are looking at the light over and operating table, and
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Speaker 1: a doctor says, pulse sixty one, blood pressure seventy five
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Speaker 1: over forty two. Wow, that's really low. And there are
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Speaker 1: a lot of doctors like incircling Ash who was on
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Speaker 1: the table, and another doctor says he's lost a lot
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Speaker 1: of blood. A ligature on the abdominal a order scalpel.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, guys, I fairly understand anything. Then we
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Speaker 1: see this like terrifyingly lit Agy, like on a black background,
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Speaker 1: and he's smiling really blankly, and we hear Ash say,
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Speaker 1: don't look at me like that. Oh. And at this
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Speaker 1: point a cut spreads across Agy's neck and he starts
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Speaker 1: to morph into Shorter, and Ash, whose voice is shaking now, says,
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Speaker 1: stop looking at me like that. I Shorter's body drops
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Speaker 1: to the floor, and we see that AG's body is
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Speaker 1: also on the floor. Ash realizes that he is holding
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Speaker 1: a bloody knife, and he looks down at what he's
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Speaker 1: done and he screams and collapses onto his knees. This
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Speaker 1: is all anime original, by the way, and he says,
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Speaker 1: I'm a murderer. I kill people. Outside of his dream nightmare,
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Speaker 1: we see Ash real Ash lying on the table and
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Speaker 1: tears start to form in the corner of his eyes,
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Speaker 1: and he very quietly says AG, which kills me. We
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Speaker 1: now go to a holding cell at I guess a
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Speaker 1: police station, and there's like a lot of the gang
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Speaker 1: members in it and stuff, and Ag is sitting alone
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Speaker 1: against the back of the wall, hugging his knees. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't want AG to be in jail, And he
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Speaker 1: thinks of Ash saying I don't want you seeing me
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Speaker 1: like this, and he looks so sad and he thinks,
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Speaker 1: I wonder what he meant by that. He shakes his
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Speaker 1: head and buries it in his knees. I can't waste
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Speaker 1: my time just sitting here. I have to go be
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Speaker 1: by his side. I'll pause here because I like really
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Speaker 1: need to say this. So I fucking love that Ash
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Speaker 1: is like he's gonna think horrible things about me and
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Speaker 1: Age like he doesn't even understand what Ash means by
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Speaker 1: I didn't want you to see me like that, Like,
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Speaker 1: like because he already knows everything, and he isn't seeing
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Speaker 1: Ash as stereotype or you know, just a portion of
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Speaker 1: himself or a front that he is using to survive
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Speaker 1: in the world. He's seeing Ash as a full person,
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Speaker 1: and he already knows all of this stuff, and it's
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Speaker 1: not like it's not gonna change how he feels because
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Speaker 1: he already knows is like, so he doesn't even understand
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Speaker 1: what Ash would mean by I I didn't want you
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Speaker 1: seeing me like this? Like like what? So I fucking
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Speaker 1: love that and I love that. That's the resolution to
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Speaker 1: Ash in the last episode, being so upset seeing Ag
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Speaker 1: and feeling like Agi will never want to see him again.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, let's continue. Now We're in a hospital hallway
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Speaker 1: and Charlie is like standing there and Max and Shunci
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Speaker 1: run over and Max is like, Charlie, how's Ash? Will
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Speaker 1: he make it? And Charlie says, the doctor says he's
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Speaker 1: got a fifty percent chance of recovery. Shu Neci gasps
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Speaker 1: and Max is like, you've gotta be kidding, and she
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Speaker 1: Neci says and Chan Charlie shakes his head and he's like,
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Speaker 1: we're searching for him, but everything's still a mess out there.
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Speaker 1: Then we hear Jenkins say Max. Max flinches and Jenkins
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Speaker 1: walks over and he's like, you idiot, running off when
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Speaker 1: you're on bail like that, Max is like, Captain, I uh.
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Speaker 1: Jenks is like, it's fine, that can wait. The operation's over,
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Speaker 1: Max and she Needi gasp. And we see someone holding
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Speaker 1: Ash's charts, which has some information about him on it,
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Speaker 1: like they do, but it also has his social security number,
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Speaker 1: which is not in the right format for a social
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Speaker 1: security number, like at all, it's not a social security number.
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Speaker 1: And also I don't think Ash knows his social security number,
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Speaker 1: like I would bet money that he doesn't know it,
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Speaker 1: and the hospital wouldn't know it either. But hey, that's
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Speaker 1: not a Kimi Yoshida's fault. That's not in the manga.
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Speaker 1: So whoever did this, like you should have skipped that.
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Speaker 1: But it's okay. So the doctor holding the information says
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Speaker 1: the knife reached his peratonium and punctured his abdominal aorta.
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Speaker 1: The peritonium is the serious membrane forming the lining of
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Speaker 1: the abdominal cavity, by the way I looked it up. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: he continues, any normal person would have died of blood loss.
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Speaker 1: He's a wiry kid, but he's stronger than he looks.
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Speaker 1: Max is like, so he's gonna make it. At this point,
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Speaker 1: other doctors start to wheel Ash out of the operating
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Speaker 1: room and they pass him and you know, he actually
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Speaker 1: looks relatively peaceful, which is nice for him, and the
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Speaker 1: doctor continues, if he's strong enough, he'll pull through. Next,
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Speaker 1: we go to Kin, who is in a holding cell
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Speaker 1: and he looks over at Sing, who is standing next
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Speaker 1: to him, and he says, worried about ash. Sing looks
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Speaker 1: up and he looks a little bit pissed off at
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Speaker 1: the assertion, and Kin is like, don't worry. They didn't
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Speaker 1: get him. Arthur's not strong enough. No, no one's strong enough.
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Speaker 1: The only way he'll dies if he brings it on himself,
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Speaker 1: like suicide. Then a police officer walks over with a
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Speaker 1: clipboard and he's like, Sing, Su Ling, where are you?
13:39
Speaker 1: Sing walks to the bars and he's like, that's me.
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Speaker 1: Police officer starts to open the door and he says,
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Speaker 1: get out, you're free. Sing looks totally confused and he's
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Speaker 1: starting to walk down the hall and he asked the
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Speaker 1: police officer like, what about my guys. And then as
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Speaker 1: they're approaching another holding cell, a second police officer says
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Speaker 1: aig Okamura out, Sing gasps and ag He walks out
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Speaker 1: of the cell, and that second police officer says, okay,
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Speaker 1: you two follow me. As they're walking down the hall,
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Speaker 1: Sing looks over at Ag, who is just looking at
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Speaker 1: the ground because he's super upset obviously, and Sing says,
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Speaker 1: haven't seen you around before? What gang you in? Ag
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Speaker 1: looks over at him finally and says, I'm Japanese Ash's
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Speaker 1: friend and sings like Ashes. They walk out of the
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Speaker 1: station and there's a car parked at the curb, and
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Speaker 1: this dude opens the door to it and inside is
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Speaker 1: yue Lung. Oh that makes sense, actually, yue Lung says,
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Speaker 1: how disappointing. Sing Suling sings like, so it was you.
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Speaker 1: Ag Gasp says like two guys grab him and he's like,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Let me go, and he kind
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Speaker 1: of goes off screen with the dudes, but we hear
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Speaker 1: him struggling and what it sounds like being like shoved
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Speaker 1: into a car. Sing to yue Lung says who is he?
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Speaker 1: And Uelung's like, I'll explain later. Get in. So now
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Speaker 1: they're driving, Uelung says, I told you to leave Ash alone.
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Speaker 1: I can understand how you can't help but idolize him,
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Speaker 1: but I can't have you causing me even more trouble,
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Speaker 1: and Sing's like, I don't idolize him. Uelung says, admit it.
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Speaker 1: Idolization and rebellion though quite a conflict you have there,
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Speaker 1: Sing kind of like mumps and he turns away, kind
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Speaker 1: of blushing, and he's like, whatever, Hey, you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: leave my guys in there, are you u It. Lungs like,
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Speaker 1: don't worry, I'll have them released soon, and Sing says,
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Speaker 1: then could you get a guy named Caine Blood released too?
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Speaker 1: Uelung's like an acquaintance, Sing says, I guess We cut
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Speaker 1: to Sing and Yue Lung walking out of like an
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Speaker 1: elevator into I don't know where it is. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: like a penthouse or something. It's a place that looks
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Speaker 1: kind of fancy, and there there are three guys there
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Speaker 1: and they say like, welcome home, master or whatever, and
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Speaker 1: Yue Lung says, lock that Japanese boy up, but treat
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Speaker 1: him well. The guy in the elevator says very well.
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Speaker 1: Yue Lung and Sing proceed to start to walk down
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Speaker 1: the hallway, and as they do, a door opens at
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Speaker 1: the ends of the hall and a very like druly
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Speaker 1: hunched over Hua Lung walks out of the room and
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Speaker 1: like looks at them with like the deadest eyes. Sing
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Speaker 1: looks freaked out me too. Yue Lung says, big brother,
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Speaker 1: you mustn't leave your room. Hua Lung just kind of
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Speaker 1: makes some nonsensical noises. Yue Lung embraces him and says,
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Speaker 1: be a good boy and go back to your room.
16:47
Speaker 1: And then he turns to Sing and says, my big
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Speaker 1: brother is sick. Sings like sick. It's more like he's
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Speaker 1: and Yuelun cuts him off. An entirely different person, not
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Speaker 1: like the arrogant, ambitious Lee. Huhile Lung that you know,
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Speaker 1: that's right, He's just a marionette. Now what the fuck? Dude?
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Speaker 1: Sing looked horrified. Ue Lung continues, what's wrong? You hated him? Right?
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Speaker 1: Guess what so did I? Oh? No, I mean we
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Speaker 1: knew he hated him. U a Lung just starts to laugh,
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Speaker 1: and Sing just continues to stare at him in horror.
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Speaker 1: Now we go to Max, who is looking through a
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Speaker 1: window like super concerned, and then we see that like
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Speaker 1: he's looking into the room that Ash is in. Ash
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Speaker 1: is still unconscious and he's on a respirator and we
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Speaker 1: hear him think, what's that noise. He's talking about the
17:44
Speaker 1: beeping sound. I guess. We quickly cut into his point
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Speaker 1: of view, which is like kind of slightly out of focus. He's,
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Speaker 1: I guess, going in and out of consciousness right now.
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Speaker 1: And he thinks where am I? I can't move, My
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Speaker 1: limbs feel like lead. He thinks about killing Arthur, and
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Speaker 1: he thinks about AG's reaction again. He closes his eyes
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Speaker 1: like tightly, and he takes a sharp breath, and the
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Speaker 1: background fades to black, and it's just him in the
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Speaker 1: hospital bed and nothingness, and he thinks, am I dying?
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Speaker 1: How peaceful and quiet it is? Like all that pain
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Speaker 1: never happened. A bony hand from a cloaked figure reaches
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Speaker 1: out towards him, as another skeletal hand cradles the back
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Speaker 1: of his head. Gently. He continues, sadness, happiness, everything, Death
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Speaker 1: gently strips them away. Oh god, ash. We see Ag
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Speaker 1: now sitting alone in a room on a bed, and
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Speaker 1: he hears the door open and he looks up and
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Speaker 1: of course it's yue Lung. Ag stands and yue Lung says,
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Speaker 1: no need to glare, I'm not here, Echu. AG's like,
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Speaker 1: why did you lock me up in here. I have
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Speaker 1: to go right now. Uelung kind of shrugs, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do to help Ash. Ag gasps,
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Speaker 1: you know. Uelung's like, of course, the operation went well.
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Speaker 1: He's in good hands. Ag drops back down to the
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Speaker 1: bed and he's like, thank god. Yue Lung says, but
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Speaker 1: I do have bad news too. Gouldiane's coming back. Ag
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Speaker 1: looks surprised, and Uelung continues, obviously he must already know
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Speaker 1: what happened and how Ash is severely hurt in bedridden.
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Speaker 1: I can just imagine the filthy old man licking his
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Speaker 1: lips upon hearing the news. AG stands again and starts
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Speaker 1: to walk towards Uelong. Uelung's like, where are you going?
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Speaker 1: Ag says, I'm leaving, and he walks past him. Yuelung says,
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Speaker 1: and what can you do to help him? Exactly? Ag
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Speaker 1: freezes and turns back. Continues, A friend, what a joke
20:03
Speaker 1: you think of yourself so highly that you'd compare yourself
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Speaker 1: to the peerless Ash links. Ag just has this horridly
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Speaker 1: hurt look on his face, and yue Lung says he
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Speaker 1: has no need for friends. Ash is a wild beast,
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Speaker 1: a beautiful beast. Free and uncontrollable. All he needs is
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Speaker 1: those who idolize him and those like Arthur who defy him.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't need anyone else, especially not you, who's only
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Speaker 1: a burden to him. Are you really too stupid to
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Speaker 1: realize that? Ag still looks pretty hurt and maybe a
20:37
Speaker 1: little bit confused now too, Yue Lung says, what's wrong?
20:43
Speaker 1: Why are you making that face? AG's expression kind of
20:46
Speaker 1: calms slightly, and he says, I tend to get made
20:50
Speaker 1: fun of by people younger than me, same Ag, but
20:54
Speaker 1: this is the first time someone's been openly hostile towards me.
20:58
Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, Ag, Yoe Lung says, you really irritate me.
21:04
Speaker 1: Seems like you make people feel either one of two ways.
21:07
Speaker 1: You make people like Ash want to protect you, or
21:09
Speaker 1: you make them want to tear you apart and crush
21:11
Speaker 1: you too bad. I seem to be the latter type.
21:14
Speaker 1: There's such a thing as visceral hatred. But I'm sure
21:17
Speaker 1: you have an a clue what I'm talking about. So
21:21
Speaker 1: what to do with you now? Ash is awake now
21:25
Speaker 1: in the hospital bed, and he's looking out the window.
21:28
Speaker 1: He hears the door open and looks over and sees
21:30
Speaker 1: Charlie and Jenkins yay. Jenkins says, hey, how are you feeling?
21:36
Speaker 1: And Ash is like, still can't die? Huh. Jenkins says,
21:40
Speaker 1: don't say that it's good that you're alive. Ash is like,
21:44
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be so sure. Yeah, me too. Jenkins says,
21:48
Speaker 1: you understand what you did right. You're eighteen now, you're
21:52
Speaker 1: not a child anymore. Just so you guys know, we
21:55
Speaker 1: may have talked about this once in episode two. Ash's
21:58
Speaker 1: birthday is in August. It's August thirteenth, So he's actually
22:02
Speaker 1: been an adults because this has got to be happening
22:04
Speaker 1: in November at the earliest, because that's when he was
22:08
Speaker 1: stabbed on November first, So he's actually been an adult
22:12
Speaker 1: for a while now. But yes, he is eighteen anyway.
22:17
Speaker 1: Ash says, I've ignored the law all my life. I'm
22:20
Speaker 1: not gonna ask it to protect me now. Fuck super
22:23
Speaker 1: fucking honest, and Jenkins is just like, I see. Jenkins
22:28
Speaker 1: and Charlie are in the hall now, and Charlie says,
22:32
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe those words came from someone who
22:34
Speaker 1: just fought their way back from the grave. Jenkins sighs,
22:38
Speaker 1: and he's like he was sexually assaulted when he was
22:42
Speaker 1: only eight years old. It's no wonder he doesn't believe
22:45
Speaker 1: in the judicial system. You know, there's only a fine
22:48
Speaker 1: line between criminals and victims. It's kind of heartbreaking. Back
22:52
Speaker 1: in Ash's room, he kind of tries to move and
22:56
Speaker 1: he just winces in pain. He grabs his side and
22:59
Speaker 1: he's like, damn Hammets. He thinks about AG's shocked face again,
23:04
Speaker 1: and he thinks he didn't go back to Japan. He
23:07
Speaker 1: closes his eyes and sees Arthur's dead body, and then
23:11
Speaker 1: he exhales and puts his hand over his eyes. We
23:14
Speaker 1: hear the door open and a woman saying, excuse me,
23:18
Speaker 1: mister policeman. Ash looks over and there's a brown haired
23:23
Speaker 1: nurse standing there and she's like hi, And then a
23:27
Speaker 1: second nurse like pops up out it nowhere. We have
23:29
Speaker 1: a pretty close shot, so they're probably not really popping
23:32
Speaker 1: up out of nowhere, but it certainly looks like that.
23:34
Speaker 1: So the second nurse is like, how are you feeling,
23:37
Speaker 1: And the third nurse, who also was just there now
23:39
Speaker 1: says we're gonna be in charge of taking care of you.
23:43
Speaker 1: They are all both two things, which is kind of
23:45
Speaker 1: young and incredibly pretty, and also seem like they're kind
23:49
Speaker 1: of annoyed that they're not the only nurse there at
23:52
Speaker 1: the moment. At this point, a fourth nurse appears as well,
23:56
Speaker 1: and they all have like different colored hair. They're all
23:58
Speaker 1: kind of different body attractiveness types. But I mean they're
24:02
Speaker 1: all thin, you know, but it's a wide representation of
24:05
Speaker 1: a white nurse's like one of them has short brown hair,
24:07
Speaker 1: one of them is long red hair. You know that
24:10
Speaker 1: kind of thing, is what I'm trying to say. And
24:13
Speaker 1: they all at the same time say nice to meet you.
24:16
Speaker 1: Ash is confused and he just says yeah. They also
24:22
Speaker 1: are all blushing, by the way, which is not great.
24:27
Speaker 1: And the first nurse says and we've already decided to
24:31
Speaker 1: take turns, and the fourth nurse is like, so let
24:34
Speaker 1: us know when okay. Ash is sweating at this point,
24:37
Speaker 1: and he's just like what And the second nurse goes,
24:41
Speaker 1: you know this, and she like shows him a male
24:45
Speaker 1: kind of urinal bedpand thing, and then we cut to
24:48
Speaker 1: Ash looking super flustered, going keep them away from me.
24:52
Speaker 1: Charlie and Jenkins are just kind of like super confused
24:55
Speaker 1: at this point. They won't let me take a piss alone.
24:58
Speaker 1: Ash is blushing. Now, this isn't club urinals are not
25:01
Speaker 1: for their entertainments. Yeah, I feel so bad for him
25:05
Speaker 1: because like, yeah, I would be. I don't think I
25:09
Speaker 1: could take it either. In the manga, he even says like,
25:13
Speaker 1: can you just send me back to jail? That would
25:16
Speaker 1: be better. Please just anything, just keep them away from me. So, yeah,
25:21
Speaker 1: poor Ash, He's just not the right person to have
25:24
Speaker 1: to deal with. Being hit on by weird attractive nurses
25:30
Speaker 1: is like the worst, Like, I totally understand. Anyway, there's
25:34
Speaker 1: a knock on the door and we hear someone say
25:37
Speaker 1: Captain Jenkins gets up and he says, excuse me. Ash
25:43
Speaker 1: lays his head on the pillow like super annoyed still,
25:46
Speaker 1: and Charlie's like it's not easy being attractive, huh, and
25:49
Speaker 1: he does literally say be shown in By the way.
25:52
Speaker 1: Ash is not going to entertain this, and he says
25:57
Speaker 1: did you meet with ag? Did he come here? And
25:59
Speaker 1: Charlie like, uh right, Ag, only lawyers are allowed to
26:04
Speaker 1: meet with you now, and Ash just like hmm, yeah,
26:09
Speaker 1: First of all, Charlie is a terrible liar. Second of all,
26:13
Speaker 1: I mean he definitely can't tell Ash that Ag is
26:16
Speaker 1: missing because ashe will just get up and go find him.
26:19
Speaker 1: I understand that, but he may be leading Ash to
26:22
Speaker 1: believe that AG doesn't want to see him, which isn't
26:25
Speaker 1: like great. So you know. Anyway, Jenkins comes back and
26:29
Speaker 1: he's got this brown hair dude in a suit and
26:31
Speaker 1: glasses with him, and Jenkins says, this is mister Helper
26:35
Speaker 1: from the District Attorney's office. We then cut to a
26:39
Speaker 1: paper with the words intelligence psychological test on it and
26:43
Speaker 1: Ash says, an intelligence test. Mister Helper, who was smiling
26:47
Speaker 1: very politely, says it's just a formality. It doesn't actually
26:51
Speaker 1: mean anything. Ash smirks, and he's like, so you want
26:56
Speaker 1: to know if I'm a case for the Journals or
26:57
Speaker 1: just your run of the Millwaco huh. Laughs and he's like,
27:01
Speaker 1: you're so funny. But no one else is abused besides him. Now,
27:06
Speaker 1: before we continue on to this next scene, I want
27:08
Speaker 1: to tell you that they cut out something from the
27:10
Speaker 1: manga that like really is necessary for the joke in
27:14
Speaker 1: the next scene. In my opinion, at least, it's a
27:17
Speaker 1: better setup than what we had from there. So in
27:20
Speaker 1: the manga. In the next part of this scene, doctor
27:23
Speaker 1: Helper asks Ash if he can read, and Ash is
27:27
Speaker 1: just like what and he says, you know, like do
27:31
Speaker 1: you like know letters and numbers? And Ash is just like,
27:35
Speaker 1: I think I can manage. And he says, okay, but
27:39
Speaker 1: if there's anything you're confused about, like let me know.
27:41
Speaker 1: And he's trying to be super nice about this, but
27:44
Speaker 1: like it's a little bit insulting, but also like he
27:49
Speaker 1: doesn't know that Ash isn't a typical delinquent. Not that
27:53
Speaker 1: I think typical delinquents can't read, but you know, you
27:57
Speaker 1: don't want to present somebody with stuff that's going to
27:59
Speaker 1: be super hard for them without giving them the out
28:03
Speaker 1: to say like, oh I can't read, you know, Like
28:06
Speaker 1: he was trying to do a good job, but he
28:08
Speaker 1: made things weird anyway. Ash is looking at a piece
28:13
Speaker 1: of paper with I guess a question on it, and
28:15
Speaker 1: he kind of spins his pen and then he kind
28:19
Speaker 1: of points towards mister Helper. We had some really nice
28:21
Speaker 1: pen animation there for a second, and he says, I
28:25
Speaker 1: have a question. Helper stands up and he walks over
28:30
Speaker 1: and he says, is there a word you can't read?
28:33
Speaker 1: Ash points to the paper and he's like no, it's
28:36
Speaker 1: this problem. Helper takes the paper from him and he
28:40
Speaker 1: looks at it and he thinks advanced mathematics. And Ash
28:44
Speaker 1: has this expression on his face that I like don't
28:46
Speaker 1: really know how to describe. It's kind of a smirk
28:49
Speaker 1: sort of but like half fake concern, like he's trying
28:54
Speaker 1: to act but he kind of can't be totally serious
28:57
Speaker 1: because he thinks it's so funny, I think, And he says,
29:02
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be asking about the Fibonacci sequence,
29:06
Speaker 1: but if so, there should be a five after the three.
29:11
Speaker 1: Mister Helper like stares at the paper, looking kind of stressed,
29:16
Speaker 1: and we see like math symbols like whizzing past him
29:19
Speaker 1: and stuff because he doesn't know what's going on. And
29:23
Speaker 1: then we have this part where Ash explains what he's
29:26
Speaker 1: talking about, and it kind of like speeds up to
29:28
Speaker 1: the point that we can't understand it anymore because we're
29:30
Speaker 1: kind of understanding this, I guess from mister Helper's point
29:33
Speaker 1: of view, where he just has no idea what Ash
29:36
Speaker 1: is talking about. So I'm just gonna give it you
29:38
Speaker 1: from the manga so you can clearly understand it, because
29:41
Speaker 1: I was confused so anyway, Ash says, so, I assume
29:47
Speaker 1: there would be a formula that would generate an arbitrary value,
29:50
Speaker 1: and I got function of X equals a four or five, one, seven,
29:55
Speaker 1: nine six expected. Oh man, I don't even know what
30:00
Speaker 1: this means zero point four eight, five one two squared.
30:06
Speaker 1: But this, of course is an approximate formula, gradually giving
30:09
Speaker 1: rise to an error as the value of X increases.
30:11
Speaker 1: So I got all confused. We got to Charlie and Jenkins,
30:15
Speaker 1: who are looking really unamused because you know, Ash continues
30:20
Speaker 1: level with me, mister Helper, is it possible there's a
30:23
Speaker 1: typo here? Or is this a new theoretical approach that
30:27
Speaker 1: I'm unfamiliar with. You gotta understand I never even made
30:31
Speaker 1: it through elementary school. Mister Helper is trying, like really
30:35
Speaker 1: hard to maintain his customer service smile, and he's just like,
30:39
Speaker 1: you actually didn't need to go that far, and this,
30:43
Speaker 1: of course is not amusing to ask. She looks kind
30:46
Speaker 1: of pissed, and mister Helper's like, okay, let's just move
30:50
Speaker 1: on to the next test. What does this look like?
30:53
Speaker 1: He shows him like a really weird looking ink plot,
30:56
Speaker 1: and Ash is just like your wife and yeah. Then
31:03
Speaker 1: we go to a print out of his IQ analysis
31:06
Speaker 1: and we hear a voice say an IQ of one
31:10
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty. Huh, I remember that boy one eighty.
31:15
Speaker 1: So we cut back and we see that it's Senator
31:18
Speaker 1: Kippard with this print out, and Kippird, who is still
31:21
Speaker 1: looking at the chart, says that shrud old Man had
31:24
Speaker 1: him priced at twenty thousand dollars a night. What I
31:29
Speaker 1: actually thought maybe there was a mis translation there, but
31:32
Speaker 1: I hear him saying nemon, which is twenty thousand in
31:35
Speaker 1: the manga. It was two thousand dollars a night, which
31:37
Speaker 1: sounds more reasonable, and I almost looked up how much
31:40
Speaker 1: would you pay for a high end prostitute on Google?
31:42
Speaker 1: And I was just like, I don't It's okay, but
31:45
Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars for real. Colonel Holstock is also there,
31:49
Speaker 1: also looking at a copy, and he's like, he was
31:52
Speaker 1: already Goldie's pet by then. He probably just didn't want
31:54
Speaker 1: to share him with anyone, but he really screwed up
31:57
Speaker 1: this time. And we cut back a little bit further
32:00
Speaker 1: and see that Arthur Smiles is also there, and Kipbard
32:03
Speaker 1: is like, so, what's gonna happen to this project. Now,
32:07
Speaker 1: I've invested too much time and money for it to
32:09
Speaker 1: go to waste. Smile says, don't worry, this matter won't
32:12
Speaker 1: affect the project. Kipberd's like, anyway, we must get rid
32:17
Speaker 1: of this boy, and Smiles is like Golzing wanted us
32:20
Speaker 1: to hand over him alive. Kipbard says, we can't risk
32:24
Speaker 1: keeping him alive. This boy could be the end of me,
32:27
Speaker 1: the end of all of us. We now cut to
32:30
Speaker 1: some very shapely, definitely woman's legs walking down the hospital
32:34
Speaker 1: hallway and we hear Kippard say, poor kid, he could
32:40
Speaker 1: have lived a little longer if he was just pretty
32:41
Speaker 1: and brainless. We see that the legs are now attached
32:46
Speaker 1: to a nurse, obviously, and the nurse says hello to
32:50
Speaker 1: the guard. And then we cut to Ash in bed
32:53
Speaker 1: and we hear the door open. The nurse puts down
32:57
Speaker 1: like a tray on this dresser table thing and takes
33:00
Speaker 1: a syringe and starts to like inject something into the
33:06
Speaker 1: line for the IV bag that is connected to Ash.
33:11
Speaker 1: And Ash, who had been turned away and we did
33:13
Speaker 1: not know was awake, says what happened to Sally? The
33:17
Speaker 1: nurse jumps slightly and she looks over and she's like, oh,
33:19
Speaker 1: you're awake. This is not one of the four nurses
33:22
Speaker 1: that we met that was freaking out Ash. Anyway, Ash's like,
33:27
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be Sally's shift. Who are you?
33:29
Speaker 1: The nurse says, Sally's busy right now, so I'm helping
33:32
Speaker 1: out and Ash is like, and what's that? The nurse says,
33:37
Speaker 1: why do you ask? And Ash is like, you can't
33:39
Speaker 1: answer my question, and then out of nowhere, the nurse
33:43
Speaker 1: just lunges at him with the syringe, like trying to
33:46
Speaker 1: stab him with it. Ash manages to dodge, and he
33:49
Speaker 1: throws the ivy like standing at her, and we cut
33:52
Speaker 1: really quickly to the guard outside as he hears this
33:55
Speaker 1: commotion happening, and then back to Ash who is behind
33:58
Speaker 1: the bed, and he pushes the whole bed at her,
34:00
Speaker 1: like trying to push her back, and she shoots at him.
34:04
Speaker 1: The guard, hearing all this, enters and he's like what
34:06
Speaker 1: the and Ash says, stand back, but he doesn't, and
34:09
Speaker 1: the nurse turns and shoots the guard down. Fuck. Ash
34:14
Speaker 1: jumps over the bed and tackles her, so he has
34:16
Speaker 1: like one arm like on her neck and then the
34:19
Speaker 1: other one like on the arm with the gun like
34:22
Speaker 1: holding it back so she can't shoot, and he's like,
34:25
Speaker 1: who send you? I'll break your neck. The nurse doesn't
34:28
Speaker 1: say anything. She closes her eyes and she appears to
34:30
Speaker 1: bite down on something, and then she goes limp and
34:34
Speaker 1: Ash things, oh no, poison. Blood starts to come out
34:38
Speaker 1: of the nurse's mouth as she's laying on the floor.
34:41
Speaker 1: Now she's dead. Charlie appears in the doorway with his
34:45
Speaker 1: gun raised and Max is like right behind him, and
34:47
Speaker 1: he looks like really really shocked, of course, and Ashes like,
34:51
Speaker 1: she just attacked me. She shot the cop and killed herself.
34:57
Speaker 1: We cut to several minutes later. I assume there's police
35:01
Speaker 1: tape in the hall and cops are like taking people statements.
35:04
Speaker 1: Max is just kind of standing there like watching all
35:07
Speaker 1: of this, and Ash walks up to him and says,
35:10
Speaker 1: what's up, old man? Max Is like, how'd you know
35:14
Speaker 1: she wasn't a nurse? Ash smirks, and he says the
35:18
Speaker 1: smell Max is like her perfume or something. Ash says,
35:23
Speaker 1: the lack thereof. Actually, the first rule of assassination is
35:27
Speaker 1: never leave behind any trace. But that's what cost her life.
35:30
Speaker 1: In this case, there's no such thing as a nurse
35:32
Speaker 1: that doesn't smell like antiseptics. Why do you know about
35:35
Speaker 1: the first rule of assassination? Ash? Max says, I see,
35:42
Speaker 1: and he looks down and realizes that Ash is bleeding
35:45
Speaker 1: onto the floor and he gasps as Ash collapses, and
35:50
Speaker 1: he's like Ash and he catches him, Thank God. Then
35:53
Speaker 1: we see that where he's holding Ash up is just
35:57
Speaker 1: covered in blood and Ash like he's in a terrible
36:01
Speaker 1: amount of pain. Max thinks this is bad. I can't
36:05
Speaker 1: leave him here. We got back to Senator Kippard, who
36:08
Speaker 1: sets down a cup of either coffee or tea and
36:11
Speaker 1: says that little Punk is causing us too much trouble.
36:15
Speaker 1: Some guy who I don't know, says Doctor Mannerheim has
36:18
Speaker 1: offered to take him off our hands. He's interested in him.
36:22
Speaker 1: Kibberd smiles and he's like, fine, he can have him.
36:26
Speaker 1: Next we see Charlie and Jenkins looking freaked out, and
36:31
Speaker 1: we hear someone say good work, Captain. There are two
36:34
Speaker 1: guys in suits standing in like a room with also
36:38
Speaker 1: a third guy sitting, and the first guy says, we'll
36:42
Speaker 1: take over the case from here. What Charlie's like, but why, Chief,
36:47
Speaker 1: why is the FBI here? Oh? Chief, who is the
36:51
Speaker 1: guy sitting that we didn't know who he was or
36:53
Speaker 1: I didn't know? Is like, it's out of my hands.
36:56
Speaker 1: You're not involved in this case anymore. And Charlie's like,
36:59
Speaker 1: but we go to Max, who is sitting with Ash,
37:03
Speaker 1: which is nice, and Max says the doctors were shocked
37:07
Speaker 1: too getting in a brawl like that after such a
37:10
Speaker 1: big operation. Ash says, it was good exercise. I was
37:15
Speaker 1: worried to get fat just laying here. Max says, you know,
37:18
Speaker 1: you don't have to put on a tough guy act.
37:21
Speaker 1: You look really pale. He's kind of always pale, but okay.
37:25
Speaker 1: Ash is like, it's just so irritating. He makes a fist,
37:29
Speaker 1: not being able to move my own body. Max is like,
37:32
Speaker 1: things like this are gonna keep happening if you stay here.
37:35
Speaker 1: There are too many people who want you dead. It's
37:37
Speaker 1: not just Golsen. Ash says, the old man wasn't behind
37:41
Speaker 1: it this time. He'd want to capture me alive and
37:44
Speaker 1: torture me to death. And Max says, which reminds me,
37:48
Speaker 1: Goalsing is coming back next week. Ash is like, hmmm,
37:52
Speaker 1: and he starts to smirk. I wonder if he found
37:54
Speaker 1: a good taxidermist. Max is like, what, I hope he
38:02
Speaker 1: didn't find a good taxidermist. But I also hope he
38:04
Speaker 1: didn't find a bad taxidermist, because that would be bad too,
38:09
Speaker 1: So I hope there's no taxidermist. And I appreciated having
38:12
Speaker 1: that inside joke personally. Anyway, Max continues about the money
38:18
Speaker 1: you stole from Goose's account. I'm thinking of exposing the
38:21
Speaker 1: story on his homecoming. Ash says, but how you're just
38:25
Speaker 1: a freelance journalist. Now are you gonna write a blog?
38:28
Speaker 1: It'll just be a joke. This worked way better in
38:30
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, where you really needed a newspaper to
38:34
Speaker 1: back you up to get news out. But all right,
38:37
Speaker 1: Max stands and he's like, I know the right people.
38:40
Speaker 1: Be careful now, I'll get you out of here. And
38:43
Speaker 1: that's just like you. Max says, have faith in your dad.
38:49
Speaker 1: He winks and turns to leave. See it. We go
38:52
Speaker 1: to an office, I guess, and there's this dude at
38:56
Speaker 1: a desk and he looks kind of scruffy. He's got
38:59
Speaker 1: brown hair and a mustache, and he says, unbelievable, it's
39:02
Speaker 1: like something out of a paperback novel. Max and an
39:05
Speaker 1: even scruffy are looking dude with brown hair and a
39:08
Speaker 1: beard are standing in front of him, and the super
39:12
Speaker 1: scruffy looking dude, who also has glasses, says, but every
39:16
Speaker 1: intelligence agency dreams of developing mind control drugs. Max steps in.
39:21
Speaker 1: Until now, dreaming was all they could do, but they
39:24
Speaker 1: began to focus on it again in the oughts thanks
39:26
Speaker 1: to a certain drug. The desk guy says that banana
39:30
Speaker 1: fish thing. Max is like, it's the drug behind Senator
39:34
Speaker 1: Peter Grant's death, and the super scruffy dude is like,
39:37
Speaker 1: if we can find evidence, we could uncover a huge conspiracy.
39:42
Speaker 1: The guy at the desk rubs his head and he's like,
39:44
Speaker 1: all right, I'll sign you on for this. Max and
39:47
Speaker 1: the scruffy dude look at each other like super relieved,
39:50
Speaker 1: and they shake hands. And then Max's phone starts buzzing
39:54
Speaker 1: and he answers it and he's like, hello, what now.
39:58
Speaker 1: We see an FBI badge being shown to someone and
40:02
Speaker 1: I can't read the guy's name on it because it's
40:04
Speaker 1: like in cursive, it's like Mick E. Something don't know.
40:08
Speaker 1: But we cut back and we see that. He and
40:12
Speaker 1: the other FBI guy that we saw a couple of
40:14
Speaker 1: minutes ago are standing in the doorway of Ash's hospital room.
40:18
Speaker 1: The first guy says, hello, there, we'll be taking over
40:21
Speaker 1: your case from here on out. And that'sh just like
40:25
Speaker 1: the FBI. The first guy says, the psychiatric test you
40:29
Speaker 1: took the other day showed an abnormality. We need to
40:32
Speaker 1: take you to the National Mental Health Care Center for
40:34
Speaker 1: further testing. But I don't know what that is. Ash's
40:37
Speaker 1: eyes narrow. I'm a little bit pissed off because in
40:40
Speaker 1: the manga when they came into his room, they said,
40:45
Speaker 1: you know, we're with the FBI, and Ash was just
40:47
Speaker 1: like so and I missed that joke. Anyway, Next we
40:52
Speaker 1: see AG sleeping and we hear you along say I
40:56
Speaker 1: heard you tried to escape again. You have some He's
41:01
Speaker 1: sitting next to the bed that AG's sleeping and just
41:05
Speaker 1: staring at him. Apparently he's been sedated. And there is
41:09
Speaker 1: a knock on the door and we hear it open
41:11
Speaker 1: and some guy says, ju way long. Ash links has
41:15
Speaker 1: been discharged. Now we see an ambulance driving in the
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Speaker 1: city and the FBI guys and Ash are sitting inside
41:22
Speaker 1: and Ash is blindfolded. That's nice. Ash thinks straight, then
41:28
Speaker 1: left another right. That means we're headed north. He takes
41:33
Speaker 1: a breath, salty air. The highway along the river, there's
41:38
Speaker 1: like this weird road sound, and then like a jolts
41:41
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, it's a bridge. We're crossing a bridge.
41:46
Speaker 1: It's New Jersey. Oh no, not New Jersey. FBI guy one,
41:50
Speaker 1: who is the only one that talks, basically says, you're
41:54
Speaker 1: being awfully quiet. I hear you have an outstanding IQ.
41:58
Speaker 1: You don't really look like a bloodthirsty murder. Ash smiles,
42:02
Speaker 1: and he says, and you don't look like an FBI agent.
42:05
Speaker 1: The agents kind of shift in their seats uncomfortably, and
42:09
Speaker 1: Ash says, and I'll read this from the manga because
42:12
Speaker 1: the anime just picked random names that don't make any sense. Saul,
42:16
Speaker 1: we'll use actual names of clothing companies for this. Ralph
42:20
Speaker 1: Laurence suits, Calvin Klein Ties, Salvatore Ferragamo shoes. Somebody really
42:26
Speaker 1: should have told you that you rarely need to fed
42:28
Speaker 1: the dresses that well. The FBI guys look at each
42:31
Speaker 1: other and the first one says, I see, so I
42:35
Speaker 1: guess it's true what they say about you. I mean,
42:37
Speaker 1: knowing clothes that rich people wear is probably really in
42:41
Speaker 1: Ash's wheelhouse, honestly, Like, that's probably not that hard for
42:45
Speaker 1: him to figure out that you're not FBI. Anyway, the
42:48
Speaker 1: ambulance pulls towards a large, white, hospitally looking building, and
42:54
Speaker 1: then we go to Ash's perspective where the blind fold
42:57
Speaker 1: is removed and he sees two I guess order and
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Speaker 1: a doctor standing in front of him, and the doctor says, welcome,
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Speaker 1: Ash Lynx. I'm doctor Mannerheim. I'm in charge of this facility.
43:09
Speaker 1: He has light brown hair and it's like kind of
43:10
Speaker 1: slipped back, and he's a mustache. Ash just kind of
43:13
Speaker 1: stares at him. We cut to Shunichi and Max in
43:16
Speaker 1: like an off sea type room. It's that same office
43:19
Speaker 1: room is place that Max and Ash were in that
43:22
Speaker 1: one time, and Ash was sitting on the window seat
43:24
Speaker 1: and I was like, I wish I had a bay
43:25
Speaker 1: window or whatever. Well, now Max is sitting on the
43:28
Speaker 1: bay window seats and he says, anyway, ask George for
43:33
Speaker 1: me tomorrow. They'll have to let him meet a lawyer.
43:35
Speaker 1: And then he's like huh, and he picks up his phone,
43:39
Speaker 1: which I guess is on silent and he says hello,
43:42
Speaker 1: and a voice says Max, check out the news. Now.
43:46
Speaker 1: Max is like huh, and we cut to Max and
43:49
Speaker 1: Shounichi in front of a TV looking like real freaked
43:51
Speaker 1: out because the screen says deceased ash LYNX. What principal
43:56
Speaker 1: instigator in recent string of gang violence? And I guess
43:59
Speaker 1: when they turned on the TV, the newscaster was in
44:01
Speaker 1: the middle of a sentence, because all we hear is
44:03
Speaker 1: investigating the cause. And then he continues, ash Links, eighteen
44:07
Speaker 1: years old, was arrested for violence between rival and gangs.
44:10
Speaker 1: We kind of cut to everyone else who's also watching
44:13
Speaker 1: this news, so we see Kine first in like a
44:16
Speaker 1: bar with the gang, and then sing watching this on
44:19
Speaker 1: his phone with his gang, and then we see Eg.
44:26
Speaker 1: The newscaster continues he was badly wounded and had been
44:29
Speaker 1: hospitalized early this morning. He died being transported to the
44:33
Speaker 1: National Mental Health Center. AG looks like his world just
44:38
Speaker 1: shattered and he just hears the words he died, bringing
44:44
Speaker 1: over and over in his head. And then we cut
44:48
Speaker 1: to the title card Tenderous the Night, and then we
44:51
Speaker 1: go to the ending theme Whoo, this is one of
44:54
Speaker 1: the few times, if not the only time, where we
44:56
Speaker 1: see the ending animation, which isn't really animation so much
45:00
Speaker 1: as individual images. The song is called Red by Survive,
45:04
Speaker 1: said the Prophet, which you know did the first opening theme.
45:08
Speaker 1: And this song is all in English and it's very understandable,
45:12
Speaker 1: and I urge you not to listen to it too
45:15
Speaker 1: much because it's going to upset you don't listen to it.
45:18
Speaker 1: But might also upset you is the visuals, which don't
45:21
Speaker 1: really work with the song unless you know what they're about,
45:25
Speaker 1: and then it really is upsetting. The visuals are probably
45:29
Speaker 1: supposed to be from Cape Cod nineteen eighty five one shot.
45:33
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of like summer scenes of like
45:36
Speaker 1: fields of like wheats and you know, like lot's of
45:39
Speaker 1: golden wheat and age and Ash lying in the grass
45:43
Speaker 1: and shit and looking at each other. And it looks
45:46
Speaker 1: really peaceful, which is not what the lyrics are like.
45:50
Speaker 1: So don't listen to the lyrics. We'll talk about them
45:54
Speaker 1: in a different episode. And that's it. Hooray. So closing
46:03
Speaker 1: thoughts is Ash dead? I mean, we know he made
46:06
Speaker 1: it to National Mental Health Institute, so he's probably not dead.
46:09
Speaker 1: But this is really convenient for whoever planned to kill
46:14
Speaker 1: him off. I guess Senator Kippard and the rest of
46:17
Speaker 1: that weird crew of terrible people, because now it doesn't
46:22
Speaker 1: matter what happens to them, they can do whatever they want. Damn,
46:25
Speaker 1: because he's technically dead. Great, I mean unless he really
46:30
Speaker 1: is dead, and it's not like this is the first
46:32
Speaker 1: time an anime's ever killed off a main character, So
46:35
Speaker 1: you never know, right, he could be dead, this could
46:37
Speaker 1: be it. It could just be about Ag getting revenge. Now,
46:39
Speaker 1: you never know. Yeah, So Max is trying to reveal
46:44
Speaker 1: what's going on, so hopefully he can do that and
46:46
Speaker 1: we can kind of stop all this shit because Goldie's
46:48
Speaker 1: coming back and that's going to be a problem because
46:50
Speaker 1: he might have a taxidermist. So that's kind of where
46:55
Speaker 1: we are right now. There's not a lot that I
46:57
Speaker 1: really wanted to talk about this episode. I already talked
46:59
Speaker 1: about the thing that went on between AG's perception of
47:03
Speaker 1: Ash and what Ash thinks AG's perception of him is,
47:06
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite things in the whole world.
47:09
Speaker 1: But the other thing I wanted to talk about real
47:12
Speaker 1: quick is when Ue Loung was talking to Ag about
47:15
Speaker 1: how Ash doesn't need anybody, and he's you know, like
47:19
Speaker 1: a beautiful beast thing, because that's how people talk about Ash,
47:22
Speaker 1: like he's not a person. But I thought it was
47:25
Speaker 1: really interesting that ag is, like so he is so
47:29
Speaker 1: much conviction in the way that he sees Ash and
47:33
Speaker 1: really the way that he sees the world that like
47:35
Speaker 1: this didn't even shake him at all. His takeaway from
47:38
Speaker 1: what Uelung was saying to him was that ue Lung
47:41
Speaker 1: really doesn't like him, which is true, and Uelung really
47:47
Speaker 1: doesn't know that much about Ash. What he's doing is
47:49
Speaker 1: assuming that Ash is basically just like him, and he's just,
47:54
Speaker 1: in my opinion, probably projecting his fears kind of about himself,
47:59
Speaker 1: like I don't need anyone, So this guy probably doesn't
48:02
Speaker 1: need anyone, like he's like me. He just needs people
48:05
Speaker 1: to worship him and hate him so that he can
48:08
Speaker 1: kind of survive, which is terrible. I want you a
48:11
Speaker 1: Lung to have happiness. I don't want him to be alone.
48:14
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. I don't want Ash to
48:16
Speaker 1: be alone. So anyway, I just liked that, I think,
48:20
Speaker 1: especially since this manga was in the eighties and I've
48:23
Speaker 1: watched you know, multiple show Joe in the nineties and
48:26
Speaker 1: you know other things like that, where even then it
48:29
Speaker 1: was like it was really easy to challenge the perception
48:33
Speaker 1: that a character was having of the main character or
48:35
Speaker 1: the main character is having of like a secondary love
48:37
Speaker 1: interest by like just saying like, I don't think that
48:40
Speaker 1: they really care about you. I don't think that they
48:42
Speaker 1: need you. And then that would just be like, oh
48:43
Speaker 1: my god, what if he doesn't care about me? What
48:45
Speaker 1: if he doesn't need me like this person said, and
48:47
Speaker 1: what if I'm like really in his way? So I
48:50
Speaker 1: love that, like this isn't happening here that ages is
48:52
Speaker 1: like no, no, I don't know why you hate me
48:54
Speaker 1: so much, but like none of what you're saying makes sense.
48:57
Speaker 1: That's cool. It would be nice to think that if
49:00
Speaker 1: somebody cared about a person you know or you, that
49:05
Speaker 1: they would believe in you and their perception of you
49:10
Speaker 1: more than should just some random dude that is trying
49:13
Speaker 1: to obviously tear you apart, you know, So I like
49:16
Speaker 1: that makes me really happy. It's not the only time
49:19
Speaker 1: I get to talk about ag just going like nope,
49:22
Speaker 1: I don't think so, So I'm excited. It's nice that
49:26
Speaker 1: one of them believes in their relationship anyway. I don't
49:29
Speaker 1: really think there's much else. Oh, we did lose some
49:31
Speaker 1: really cool things in the manga here. They're not really big,
49:35
Speaker 1: but I did want to point out that in the
49:37
Speaker 1: scene where Kippard and Smiles and hoole Stock we're talking
49:43
Speaker 1: about ashes IQ, we lost what I think is kind
49:46
Speaker 1: of an important tidbit, which is at the end of
49:50
Speaker 1: the scene, Kipberd had said, like, ah, that poor kid,
49:52
Speaker 1: Like it's too bad he wasn't just brainless because he
49:54
Speaker 1: lasts longer kind of deal. A little bit earlier in
49:57
Speaker 1: that conversation they had been talking about basically it was
50:00
Speaker 1: really just like vulgar and straightforward. They said, like, it's
50:04
Speaker 1: kind of a shame that he has such a high
50:07
Speaker 1: IQ sence. He's really only good for giving blowjobs basically,
50:12
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like it's a shame that this is
50:15
Speaker 1: what happened to him. It was like, it's a shame
50:18
Speaker 1: that he's intelligent because he doesn't fucking need it kind
50:22
Speaker 1: of deal, which is so fucking horrible, And I hate
50:26
Speaker 1: when those things are removed from the anime because it's
50:31
Speaker 1: kind of important to see how cruel and horrible these
50:36
Speaker 1: people are, you know in my opinion, So yeah, I
50:40
Speaker 1: don't know, man. And as I kind of just mentioned that,
50:43
Speaker 1: people don't see Ash as like a complete person, they
50:45
Speaker 1: just see him as like a thing. That's kind of
50:48
Speaker 1: what's happening here too. We just lose like a little
50:50
Speaker 1: bit of the viciousness towards him, even if he's not
50:54
Speaker 1: there for it's it's still like real skew and upsetting.
50:58
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know where I'm going with this.
51:03
Speaker 1: There are a couple other examples, like when he is
51:05
Speaker 1: undergoing surgery and he kind of starts to cry the
51:09
Speaker 1: doctor's notice and they say something like, oh, look he's
51:13
Speaker 1: like crying, and the doctor's like, oh, I guess he
51:16
Speaker 1: still has some humanity left in him even though he
51:19
Speaker 1: killed all those people. You can just tell they don't
51:21
Speaker 1: want to work on him, you know. So yeah, Also,
51:26
Speaker 1: you can't cry under anesthesia, by the way, it's not
51:28
Speaker 1: a thing. But now I've ruined that for you, which
51:32
Speaker 1: is said because I love that scene. So yeah, I
51:35
Speaker 1: think that's it. I'm not going to go through, obviously
51:38
Speaker 1: all the things that we lost from the manga, but
51:41
Speaker 1: I think the manga really shines in this arc in
51:44
Speaker 1: a way that the anime does not, and I really
51:47
Speaker 1: encourage you to, if you enjoy this anime, to please
51:51
Speaker 1: read the manga after because I think you'll like love
51:54
Speaker 1: the shit out of it. So that's all I really
51:57
Speaker 1: got there. I'm gonna I'm gonna stop. Okay, one more
52:02
Speaker 1: thing before I go. So this was episode fourteen. Episode
52:06
Speaker 1: fifteen is the episode that I have been dreading recording
52:13
Speaker 1: since I decided that I was going to do Bananifits
52:16
Speaker 1: for the podcast. Actually, since I was even considering it's,
52:20
Speaker 1: I was dreading episode fifteen. So when you watch it
52:26
Speaker 1: and you're like, what the fuck, Michelle, I'm sorry. I
52:29
Speaker 1: don't know either, Like, there's nothing I can do about it.
52:32
Speaker 1: We just have to push through this, like so, and
52:35
Speaker 1: I'll talk about it next week. But I am sorry
52:40
Speaker 1: in advance for episode fifteen. So yeah, have a good
52:45
Speaker 1: time with it, and hopefully i'll see you next week.
52:48
Speaker 1: Unless you quit the show after watching it, I know
52:52
Speaker 1: you're like, what could that be? This is such a
52:54
Speaker 1: terrible series, Like what else could happen? Oh, you're gonna
52:57
Speaker 1: find out obviously, So it's really not that bad. Guys anyway,
53:03
Speaker 1: have a really good whatever, and I'll see you again.
53:06
Speaker 1: I guess later. Webs