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Banana Fish Ep.2- In Another Country · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person thing, Michelle, I guess, and I'm
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Speaker 1: back gonna keep doing this thing. First, I'm messed up,
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Speaker 1: reason and I don't really understand because I like to
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Speaker 1: hurt myself maybe, So yeah, let's let's get into it.
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Speaker 1: Because I don't really have much to tell you. I'm
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Speaker 1: recording these, at least these first few episodes pretty early
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Speaker 1: and like a month before you're actually gonna hear them,
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Speaker 1: I think, just because I got real excited and I
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Speaker 1: just started. So whatever is happening currently in your world,
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Speaker 1: I don't even know about it yet when I'm recording this.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. I could be dead, who knows. I hope not,
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Speaker 1: but you never know anyway, So we're just gonna get
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Speaker 1: into it, I think. So. Banana Fish Episode two is
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Speaker 1: called in Another Country, which is also the title of
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Speaker 1: a short story by Ernest Hemingway, and my notes say
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Speaker 1: to reference the Wikipedia page, so let me do that.
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Speaker 1: It's a short story from a short story collection called
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Speaker 1: Men Without Women that Hemingway published in nineteen twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: and it deals with World War One soldiers who are
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Speaker 1: receiving treatment in like Italy, I guess after returning from
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Speaker 1: the war, but like still during the war. I don't
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Speaker 1: really think I'm gonna get much more into it than that.
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Speaker 1: So that's what's the titles about. We're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: find a better way to kind of work this in.
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Speaker 1: But starting off the episode, remember last episode we ended
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Speaker 1: when Agy and Skip were being fucking kidnapped and Ash
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Speaker 1: was chasing after them on his motorcycle, actually Shorter's motorcycle.
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Speaker 1: That is okay, So we start. It is night outside,
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Speaker 1: and we are outside of that bar and all sorts
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Speaker 1: of folks are being arrested by the cops, obviously, and
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Speaker 1: Charlie is there and he's either on a phone or
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Speaker 1: he's on his radio we can't see, and he says Asian,
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Speaker 1: nineteen years old, name ag Okomoa. And there's also like
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Speaker 1: an ambulance there and multiple cop cars and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people got really hurt in
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Speaker 1: this brawl. And we cut to Shoonnichi, who was looking
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Speaker 1: super stressed for good reason, and then back to Charlie,
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Speaker 1: who's still on his phone or whatever, and he says,
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Speaker 1: send out the squads to find him, and he walks
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Speaker 1: over to Shunichi and he says, I'm sorry eBay, this
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Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to happen. This is a really bad idea though, guys,
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Speaker 1: Shoonichi thinks, don't die on me chan Oh. Then we
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Speaker 1: cut to an alley with Shorter and two guys, and
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Speaker 1: Shorter is like, round up some guys and go find Arthur. Go.
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Speaker 1: And then we cut to that warehouse, the really gorgeous
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Speaker 1: warehouse that I like so much, and a car is
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Speaker 1: entering the gates. And then shortly after, but not super
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Speaker 1: close after, I guess, Ash pulls up to the gate
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Speaker 1: and he looks into this quiet, abandoned complex and it's
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Speaker 1: like really blue, like maybe it's blue hour, maybe we're
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Speaker 1: very close to the sun setting or not. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: just an aesthetic choice. It's pretty. And he sees that
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Speaker 1: a car is parked by one of the buildings in
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Speaker 1: the warehouse or the warehouses or whatever is going on here,
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Speaker 1: and he takes off his helmet and walks towards the
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Speaker 1: buildings and he says, Arthur, I know you're here, show yourself.
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Speaker 1: And Arthur very casually walks out of a building that's
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Speaker 1: a bit away from him, and he says, what's up, boss?
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Speaker 1: You know this is a trap, right as they would
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Speaker 1: say in Windbreaker, so honest, he continues, why'd you come?
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Speaker 1: And then I just wrote, God, damn it, this is
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Speaker 1: such a beautiful warehouse. The problem here is the compositing
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Speaker 1: is not very good because we have this like intense
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Speaker 1: blue landscape, and then the characters are just colored normally.
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Speaker 1: It happens. Not everybody is good at like color compositing.
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Speaker 1: It's no big deal, but I noticed it, so I
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Speaker 1: felt like I should point it out and ruin the
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Speaker 1: scene for you. Anyway, Ash says, I knew we'd have
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Speaker 1: to settle things eventually. Where's Skip? And Arthur says, hate
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Speaker 1: to break it to you, but it's not just about
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Speaker 1: us anymore. And then like a metal like garage type
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Speaker 1: gate door opens sort of I don't know what this
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Speaker 1: is called. It like rolls up, you know, the kind
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Speaker 1: that would be out in front of a storefront, kind
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Speaker 1: of like that, and we see two guys and they
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Speaker 1: have AG and Skip and Skip's like Ash. And also
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Speaker 1: their hands are tied, which is smart, and Marvin is
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Speaker 1: there and he says welcome, Ash links and Ash is
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Speaker 1: surprised to see him, and he's like, so that's what's up?
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Speaker 1: Being tamed? Like the old man's dog. That's low even
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Speaker 1: for you, Arthur. And Arthur's like, you're always too soft.
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Speaker 1: Drop the gun and we see that Ash has his
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Speaker 1: hand on the gun that is behind his back, like
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Speaker 1: in his pants. I don't think you're supposed to keep
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Speaker 1: a gun there because you've can hurt yourself, but whatever,
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Speaker 1: and Skip's like, don't do it. They'll kill you, and
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Speaker 1: Ash says let them go, and Arthur walks over to
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Speaker 1: Ag and it's kind of standing over him and is like, Ash,
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Speaker 1: who's this boy? And Ag looks terrified and like rightfully so,
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Speaker 1: and Arthur continues, I heard that Skip stood up for him,
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Speaker 1: and Skip's like, keep your hands off echean And the
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Speaker 1: guy that was supposed to be holding Skip, I guess
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Speaker 1: had let go of him for a second, so he's
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Speaker 1: like hey, and he grabs Skip back and Arthur says
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Speaker 1: kill him, and AG's like what And one of the
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Speaker 1: guys puts his gun to AG's head and Ag flinches
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Speaker 1: and gasps and kind of waits, and then Ash says
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Speaker 1: wait and makes the gun out of his pants and
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Speaker 1: he throws it at them and it kind of slides
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Speaker 1: across the ground towards them, and he says, you and
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Speaker 1: your ways disgust me, and Ag is maybe surprised to
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Speaker 1: be saved, and Arthur kind of like Chuckles and he
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Speaker 1: walks towards Ash and he says, what an admirable boss
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Speaker 1: looking out for his boys, and then he punches Ash
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Speaker 1: in the face and he says, it's time to pay
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Speaker 1: you back for my fingers. Dude, your fingers look so cool.
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Speaker 1: Stop it. He did you a favor, and then we
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Speaker 1: go to the opening theme. Oh my god, yay. So
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Speaker 1: a couple of notes about the opening theme already told
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Speaker 1: you what it was last episode, so I won't go
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Speaker 1: back through that. But when I listened to it in
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Speaker 1: this episode, I went, oh, my god, I know this
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Speaker 1: song because I happened to listen to random anime music
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Speaker 1: on Spotify, and I guess in twenty eighteen, this was
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Speaker 1: playing a lot in one of those anime mixes that
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Speaker 1: Spotify does. So I actually had it in like my
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Speaker 1: favorites for a really long time, and eventually I took
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Speaker 1: it out because I was like, I don't even know
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Speaker 1: what that song is from, so I was like super
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Speaker 1: surprised to hear it and be like, oh, it's from
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Speaker 1: Banana Fish. So now you know something that absolutely made
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Speaker 1: no difference to anything. So in the opening, we see
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Speaker 1: like shots of New York and Ash on like a train,
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Speaker 1: like lots of Ash, and then shots of like Agy
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Speaker 1: and characters we don't know, and maybe like a fight
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Speaker 1: scene and ag running. You know, it's a pretty typical opening.
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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty good. Is it my favorite opening
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Speaker 1: of all time? Of course not, but it's good. So
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Speaker 1: back from the opening, Ash is thrown on the ground
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Speaker 1: and he has his hands behind his back and he's
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Speaker 1: really beat up, and he just says, like shit, and
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Speaker 1: we see that they are in I guess one of
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Speaker 1: the warehouses, and it has like lights, like work lights
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Speaker 1: hanging overhead, which I thought was really interesting because I
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Speaker 1: thought that these were abandoned, so why do they have power?
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Speaker 1: So maybe they're not abandoned, they're just taking like real
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Speaker 1: shit care of or maybe they have a generator. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, but it bothers me. Anyway. Continuing, Marvin says,
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Speaker 1: be a good boy now, and he's standing over Ash
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Speaker 1: and he says, you know, there's no use disobeying Poppatino. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I want to point out that it looks like Marvin
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Speaker 1: is having a really good time during all of this,
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Speaker 1: and he lifts Ash up by the front of his
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Speaker 1: shirt and he says, what did that man give to you? Huh?
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Speaker 1: And Ash just fucking spits in his face. Yes, and
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Speaker 1: he drops him awesome, And while Marvin is like trying
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Speaker 1: to wipe the spit off of his face, Arthur cuts
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Speaker 1: in and is like, I don't know what you're after,
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Speaker 1: but if you want him to talk, you should just
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Speaker 1: cut off their ears. What the fuck, Arthur, that's not nice.
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Speaker 1: And Marvin's like, he's made a fool of me for
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Speaker 1: the last time. Let me enjoy myself a bit, and
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Speaker 1: he starts to unbuckle his belt and Ash is smiling
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Speaker 1: pretty slyly and he says, oh my, is someone getting
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Speaker 1: a little horny. It's okay. I was thinking that too, Ash.
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Speaker 1: I totally understand because it was implied. But Marvin then
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Speaker 1: snaps his belt tight, thank god, and is like, don't
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Speaker 1: you cry now, Ash and whips him. Ah, he's just
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Speaker 1: gonna get physically maimed. It's fine, guys, Everything's fine. So
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Speaker 1: we cut away from Ash being whipped and we go
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Speaker 1: to a dark room where Ag and Skipp are being held.
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Speaker 1: This is so much guys, why did I do this?
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Speaker 1: And the door opens and two guys like throw Ash
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Speaker 1: in and he kind of falls to the ground and
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Speaker 1: they leave, and he looks really pretty bad because he's
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Speaker 1: just been whipped by a belt. Ag of course, is like,
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Speaker 1: are you okay? And Ash sits up and he's wincing
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Speaker 1: and he's like, damn it, don't touch me. That hurts.
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Speaker 1: And we see that his arm is all cut up,
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Speaker 1: like he's got a really big gash on his right
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Speaker 1: arm and he's holding it. And at this point, Ag
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Speaker 1: whips the bottom of his shirts and says, give me
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Speaker 1: your arm, and Ash is like what and Ag starts
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Speaker 1: to just wrap his shirt around ashes wound, and he says,
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Speaker 1: we need to stop the bleeding, and he's tying it
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Speaker 1: and he says, thanks for saving my life and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: you might wish I didn't. It doesn't look like they're
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Speaker 1: gonna let us die so easily. Now. Oh good. Then
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Speaker 1: I guess we cut to sometime a little later because
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Speaker 1: it kind of looks like they're partially sleeping, and then
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Speaker 1: the door opens and it's Marvin yay, and Marvin says
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Speaker 1: how you feeling Ash? And Ash says, what are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do, and Marvin's like that all depends on you.
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Speaker 1: If you behave, I could put in a good word
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Speaker 1: with Papa. Nash thinks for a second and then sighs
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Speaker 1: and says, I want to talk to you in private,
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Speaker 1: and Marvin says sure, and then he turns to Arthur
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the crew and says, you guys
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Speaker 1: get out, and Arthur's like, you're not gonna let him go,
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Speaker 1: and Marvin takes a puff of his cigarette and says,
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Speaker 1: who do you think you're talking to? Papadino? Put me
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Speaker 1: in charge, and Arthur's like, you backstabber, and he tries
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Speaker 1: to lunch for him, but these two guys like stop
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Speaker 1: him and pull him away. And as they are pulling
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Speaker 1: him away and the scene is continuing, we're just in
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Speaker 1: the background hearing Arthur still yell stuff he's hissed, and
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Speaker 1: then this other guy says, hey, you can have your fun,
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Speaker 1: but don't forget your job, and Marvin's like, I know,
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Speaker 1: get lost, and the door closes, leaving them alone with
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Speaker 1: just Marvin, and Skip turns to Age and quietly says
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Speaker 1: he's gay and he likes Ash. What now, hold on
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Speaker 1: for a second in the manga, I appreciate the translation better.
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Speaker 1: I actually think that this is closer to what Skip
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Speaker 1: said because I can hear the word gay. But in
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Speaker 1: the manga the translation is just he want to fuck
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Speaker 1: the boss, which is more straight to the point and
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Speaker 1: makes more sense with Age's reaction, which is to blush
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Speaker 1: and say eh, and Skip shushes him. This is a problem, guys,
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Speaker 1: All of this is a problem. So Marvin to Ash
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Speaker 1: says so what now, Wow, this is a hard episode
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Speaker 1: to do. So Ash then runs his fingers up his
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Speaker 1: chest and says, not in front of them, Oh, take
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Speaker 1: me somewhere we can be alone. And he uh looks
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Speaker 1: at Marvin in a way that is that he knows
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Speaker 1: what Marvin wants and he's totally going to give it
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Speaker 1: to him. And I recognized this smile from the prequel
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Speaker 1: one shot, and of course I only recognized it when
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Speaker 1: I was watching it the second time, and it just
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Speaker 1: totally upset me. But anyway, he's really trying to sell this, folks,
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Speaker 1: And I actually want to congratulate whoever did the key
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Speaker 1: animation or the storyboards or whatever they did for this
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Speaker 1: part did a really good job, I guess. Anyway, this
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Speaker 1: is happening. Marvin kind of chuckles great, and Ag is
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Speaker 1: still pretty flustered, and he's like, you're kidding, and Skip says,
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Speaker 1: be quiet. Ash winces and is like, my ribs are broken,
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Speaker 1: could you help me up? And Marvin's like, my poor baby,
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Speaker 1: And he will walk over to Ash and he puts
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Speaker 1: his arm around him and he says, I'll take good
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Speaker 1: care of you afterwards, and he lifts them up and
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Speaker 1: somehow I didn't really understand with the choreography here, but
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Speaker 1: Ash manages to like shove him and hit him in
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Speaker 1: the back and he's like, I'll be counting on that,
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Speaker 1: and he slams him in the back of the neck
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Speaker 1: with his hand or his fist or whatever that he did.
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Speaker 1: I didn't write it down, and Marvin is down. He's out,
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Speaker 1: thank god. And Skip's like, you did it, boss, I
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Speaker 1: knew you would. And Ash is like, let's get out
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Speaker 1: of here, and Skip says yeah. AG to himself thinks,
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Speaker 1: how does he do it? I prefer the manga translation
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Speaker 1: where he's just like this guy is too cool, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know which one is correct, so you get both.
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Speaker 1: They then run out of the warehouse. There were these
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Speaker 1: folks who were supposed to be, you know, keeping guard,
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Speaker 1: and they're kind of around like a campfire almost, and
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Speaker 1: they're playing cards, so they're not not really paying attention.
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Speaker 1: But then of course, as they round the corner, one
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Speaker 1: of the guys turns and sees them and he's like,
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Speaker 1: they're getting away. And then Ash, Agy and Skip run
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Speaker 1: down this really weird computer animated alley that I didn't
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Speaker 1: understand why it was computer animated, but they just really
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Speaker 1: wanted to for some reason. And then they turn a
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Speaker 1: corner and then they come to a gigantic brick wall
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Speaker 1: that's gotta be like four stories high and it has
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Speaker 1: razor wire at the top. Yay, and Age's like a
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Speaker 1: dead end and Skip says, shit, we came so far.
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Speaker 1: Ash is staring at the wall with resolve and he thinks,
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Speaker 1: I'll hand it over and free these two. Ag kind
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Speaker 1: of stares at the wall for a second and he
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Speaker 1: takes a deep breath and he reaches for a metal
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Speaker 1: pipe that is affixed to the wall and it's like
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Speaker 1: screwed to it and stuff, so this is not easy.
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Speaker 1: He's starting to try to pull it off the wall
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Speaker 1: and Skip is like, wow, I didn't think you had
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Speaker 1: it anyway. Chan. At this point, the metal pipe finally
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Speaker 1: like pops off the wall and because of the force,
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Speaker 1: Ag falls over, and Skip's like, I'm really starting to
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Speaker 1: like you. And he grabs a piece of wood off
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Speaker 1: the ground and he's like, I'm gonna put up a
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Speaker 1: fight too, and AG's like, it's not that I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: jump over and Skip says what, and Ash's like, are
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Speaker 1: you out of your mind? Yeah? It sounds kind of weird,
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Speaker 1: and Ag is like digging a little spot in the
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Speaker 1: dirt with the pipe and stuff, like getting it ready,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, I've jumped over higher walls in Japan.
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Speaker 1: I'm a pole vaulter. Oh, he is cool. That is
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Speaker 1: not what I expected. And Ash is like, are you crazy?
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Speaker 1: If the pipe breaks, you're dead, and Skip says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not like there's a man on the other side.
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Speaker 1: And AG's like, then, are we just gonna die here?
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Speaker 1: Ash and Skip just kind of stare at him for
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Speaker 1: a second, and AG continues, if I'm gonna die anyways,
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Speaker 1: at least I try, yeah, Ag and Ash looks shocked,
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Speaker 1: and AG backs up and we hear a guy off
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Speaker 1: screen a bit away say they're here this way, and
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Speaker 1: Ag exhales and he runs forward and he thinks, don't
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Speaker 1: you break on me, and he hits that divid in
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Speaker 1: the ground that he made and he vaults over the
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Speaker 1: wall and Ash watches him in total astonishment as he
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Speaker 1: sails over the razor wire in slow motion, and I
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Speaker 1: think this is probably the spot where Ash falls for him.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Skip starts like jumping up and down and
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Speaker 1: he's like, wow, he flew. And then they hear this
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Speaker 1: horrible crash from the other side, and Skiff's like, I
17:45
Speaker 1: knew it. And Ash and Skip turn and they see
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Speaker 1: that the guys are like right behind them now, and
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Speaker 1: we cut to Ag who has fallen in a bunch
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Speaker 1: of wood crates and he's trying to stand up and
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Speaker 1: it looks real bad and his right arm is bleeding
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Speaker 1: kind of in the same spot that Ashes was, and
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Speaker 1: we see that there's a piece of glass in it. Yay,
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Speaker 1: and he pulls it out, which you shouldn't do because
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Speaker 1: it makes it worse, and he stands and then takes
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Speaker 1: off running and he's just like, shit, hang on, I'll
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Speaker 1: be right back. We cut back and Ash is being
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Speaker 1: slammed into a wall by Marvin, of course, and Skip
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Speaker 1: is on the ground. He looks like he's been beat
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Speaker 1: the fuck out of and Marvin says, where'd you hide
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Speaker 1: that punk? And Ash says he flew like a bird
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Speaker 1: and Marvin says, asshole, and he punches Ash in the
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Speaker 1: face and Ash falls on the ground and lands near
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Speaker 1: Skip and Marvin's like, you're done now, I'm gonna kill you.
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Speaker 1: And one of the guys like, how are you going
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Speaker 1: to clean this mess up? And Arthur says, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: wouldn't happen if you didn't try to have your way
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Speaker 1: with him, and Marvin thinks to himself for a second,
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Speaker 1: and he says, we got to relocate. I'll take care
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Speaker 1: of him there, and then we cut to I guess
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Speaker 1: maybe a haul of a building. I couldn't really tell
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Speaker 1: what was going on here, and Shorter is with this
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Speaker 1: guy and Shorter has a knife to his neck the
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Speaker 1: wharf on the East River, and Shorter flips the knife
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Speaker 1: around really skillfully. It's nice animation here, and hits the
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Speaker 1: guy in the neck with the handle and the guy's
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Speaker 1: out and Shorter says, good boy, back to age who
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Speaker 1: were not actually seeing. We are in first person perspective
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Speaker 1: as he is walking down the streets and he's thinking,
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Speaker 1: I have to hurry and let them know, and people
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Speaker 1: are staring at him as he limps past them. We
19:34
Speaker 1: are still in first person perspective for a minute, but
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Speaker 1: he's clearly limping. Then we cut out a first person
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Speaker 1: perspective and his arm is like really bleeding a lot
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Speaker 1: because he took the glass out, and he looks real
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Speaker 1: fucking weak, and he thinks hurry, and he sees a
19:52
Speaker 1: woman talking on her cell phone and he says, can
19:55
Speaker 1: I use that? People are about to be killed. He
19:58
Speaker 1: reaches out to her and his hand is just covered
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Speaker 1: in blood from his arm, and the woman screams and
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Speaker 1: like drops her phone and AG manages to catch it,
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Speaker 1: and she's like, murderer, Someone call the police. AG has
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Speaker 1: the phone and he starts to dial some number, and
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Speaker 1: he kind of under his breath says, yeah, go get
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Speaker 1: the cops for me, and then the phone trills and
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Speaker 1: AG says, hello, City police headquarters. Please. As he's on
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Speaker 1: the phone, we have a shot of like the sidewalk
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Speaker 1: and his you know, one of his feets and blood
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Speaker 1: is just dripping from his arm onto his shoe and
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Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, and he says please hurry, and then
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Speaker 1: a person over the line says, police headquarters, how can
20:40
Speaker 1: I help you? And Ag leans against the wall and
20:44
Speaker 1: we see behind him a little bit away that lady,
20:47
Speaker 1: the one who just accidentally gave him her cellphone, She
20:50
Speaker 1: is talking to like two cops and she says over there,
20:54
Speaker 1: and the cops run towards Ag as he is sliding
20:57
Speaker 1: down the wall, and the person on the other line
21:01
Speaker 1: of the phone says hello, and Ag collapses just as
21:06
Speaker 1: the cops reach him. We cut to the exterior of
21:09
Speaker 1: a big white building that doesn't look like it's in
21:12
Speaker 1: New York, but I thought it was cool, and we
21:15
Speaker 1: hear a voice say Charlie, eBay, this way. It's Jenkins,
21:19
Speaker 1: and he continues they've just finished dressing him Room two
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Speaker 1: o eight. Okay, it's a hospital. Shunichi thanks him and
21:27
Speaker 1: takes off down the hall and Charlie is about to follow,
21:29
Speaker 1: but Jenkins stops him and he says wait, Charlie. Agy
21:32
Speaker 1: says there's gonna be trouble at the East River wharf,
21:35
Speaker 1: and Charlie says, is it ash and Jenkins is like yeah.
21:39
Speaker 1: And what's more interesting, it seems Marvin Crosby is also
21:43
Speaker 1: taking part in this jew Charlie looks really surprised, and
21:46
Speaker 1: he's like, do you know Goalziane's guy? What the hell
21:49
Speaker 1: did Ash do? Jenkins sits and says, and I looked
21:53
Speaker 1: into the suicide cases. They were all guys who were
21:56
Speaker 1: associated with syndicates that are a war with Golzeine. Charlie,
22:00
Speaker 1: he kind of whistles. I can't do a whistle, so
22:02
Speaker 1: you're gonna just have to believe me. And then we
22:05
Speaker 1: cut to Agi, who is in a hospital bed and
22:07
Speaker 1: Shoonichi is next to him, and Shunichi says, I'm glad
22:11
Speaker 1: you're safe, and Agi, who looks like he's getting a
22:14
Speaker 1: blood transfusion of a positive blood so now we know
22:19
Speaker 1: his blood type, says I'm sorry for making you worry,
22:22
Speaker 1: but to be honest, I want to go back right now.
22:27
Speaker 1: Ash saved my life by putting his own life in danger.
22:29
Speaker 1: Skip two. He could have got away if it wasn't
22:31
Speaker 1: for me. I feel terrible. I only got in their way.
22:35
Speaker 1: And he grips the sheets really tightly and he says
22:38
Speaker 1: I couldn't do anything, and Shunichi says, that's not true.
22:43
Speaker 1: We know where they are because of you. The cops
22:45
Speaker 1: will save them, trust me. When we cut back to
22:47
Speaker 1: the warehouse and a car backs up to the door
22:52
Speaker 1: of the warehouse and Marvin says, okay, let's go for
22:55
Speaker 1: a ride now. No, don't go to a second location.
22:58
Speaker 1: That's how you die and they never find you. Ash says,
23:03
Speaker 1: Skip has nothing to do with this, let him go.
23:07
Speaker 1: And Skip's like Ash, and Marvin says, not so fast.
23:11
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like you want to join the party,
23:13
Speaker 1: so we'll have this little brat dance for us instead.
23:16
Speaker 1: What the fuck, dude? And Ash and Skip gasps simultaneously
23:21
Speaker 1: and Skip looks terrified, me too, man, And Ash is
23:25
Speaker 1: like no, and Marvin says, take him. And one of
23:30
Speaker 1: the guys grabs Ash's arm and starts to pull him away,
23:33
Speaker 1: and Ashes like shit, let me go. When he's struggling Skip,
23:37
Speaker 1: this guy is trying to get Ash into the car
23:40
Speaker 1: and Ash says, get your hands off me, and then
23:43
Speaker 1: they hear a commotion. It's a bunch of street punks. Yay, finally,
23:48
Speaker 1: And remember that guy from bar Alex that I didn't
23:50
Speaker 1: even tell you what he looks like. He just looks
23:52
Speaker 1: like a non descript guy. He is brown hair, he's
23:55
Speaker 1: a white guy. And he says, Arthur, where are you,
23:57
Speaker 1: you backstabber? And he like, is a guy out awesome?
24:01
Speaker 1: And Shorter's there and he's like running across some shipping
24:04
Speaker 1: containers holding a pipe and he says, Ash Skip, where
24:07
Speaker 1: are you? And he jumps down and he kicks some dude,
24:10
Speaker 1: and Arthur says Shorter and one of the guys, the
24:14
Speaker 1: bad guys, raises his gun and is like, it's bedtime,
24:17
Speaker 1: you punks, but Ash slams into him right as he shoots,
24:20
Speaker 1: throwing his aim way off and knocking him down. And
24:24
Speaker 1: unfortunately that was enough to also knock Ash down because
24:27
Speaker 1: he is not okay, so he's just on the ground
24:30
Speaker 1: now too, but he manages to call out, watch out,
24:33
Speaker 1: Dino's guys are here, and now a bunch of guys
24:36
Speaker 1: are shooting at the punks and they run for cover,
24:39
Speaker 1: and we cut to Shorter and Alex and Bones, who
24:43
Speaker 1: is another person in the gang who has longer hair
24:46
Speaker 1: in a ponytail but also just kind of looks like
24:49
Speaker 1: a dude, and they are ducking behind a shipping container
24:52
Speaker 1: and Shorter is like, that was Ash's voice, He's right
24:55
Speaker 1: here somewhere, And then there's a police side and one
25:01
Speaker 1: of Arthur's guys is like, shit, the cops and Arthur's like,
25:04
Speaker 1: damn it that Asian rats squealed, Yes he did, and
25:07
Speaker 1: they run off and Marvin is like, I'll get you
25:11
Speaker 1: for this, and of course he is looking at Ash,
25:14
Speaker 1: who is sitting next to the car. He hasn't been
25:16
Speaker 1: able to get up yet, and this catches Ash's attention
25:20
Speaker 1: and he looks over to see Marvin is pointing a
25:23
Speaker 1: gun right at him, and Marvin says, I wasn't gonna
25:27
Speaker 1: let you die this easily. Ash is kind of staring
25:31
Speaker 1: him down, and Marvin pulls the trigger slowly. Skip manages
25:36
Speaker 1: to get away from the guy who's holding him and
25:38
Speaker 1: just says Ash, and Marvin turns and shoots Skip twice
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Speaker 1: in the chest. Ash gasps and manages to get to
25:48
Speaker 1: his feet and says Skipper and runs to him and
25:51
Speaker 1: he grabs him. He says, hey, Skipper, no, don't die,
25:55
Speaker 1: and he's kind of shaking him, and Skip opens his
25:58
Speaker 1: eyes and he is crying. Ash says, you can't don't die,
26:05
Speaker 1: and Skip kind of gasps, and then the light fades
26:10
Speaker 1: from his eyes as tears stream down his face. Ash
26:18
Speaker 1: looks destroyed and he stands and says Marvin, he turns
26:24
Speaker 1: towards him, she bastard. At this point, the cops finally arrive.
26:29
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, and Marvin gets into his car and Ash
26:34
Speaker 1: is like, you're dead, Marvin, and he kind of tries
26:37
Speaker 1: to catch him, but Marvin speeds off before he can
26:39
Speaker 1: get there. And there's another car there too, and one
26:42
Speaker 1: of the guys is about to get in it, and
26:44
Speaker 1: Ash is like, out of my way, and he kicks
26:46
Speaker 1: the guy down because remember his hands are still tied
26:48
Speaker 1: so he can't punch him. And he gets in the
26:50
Speaker 1: car and he starts it and the door is still
26:52
Speaker 1: open even and Shorter is running towards the car and
26:55
Speaker 1: he's like, no, Ash, don't and Ash just peels off
26:59
Speaker 1: and Shorter is like and we hear Charlie say Shorter,
27:03
Speaker 1: and he runs up from behind him and he says
27:04
Speaker 1: where's Ash? And Jenkins is here too. Now. Shorter's like,
27:08
Speaker 1: what took you so long? He went after them? And
27:12
Speaker 1: Jenkins is like what? And we cut to Marvin, who
27:16
Speaker 1: is driving his car and he's like, shit, why is
27:19
Speaker 1: this happening? Why Marvin? Why is it happening? Gee? I
27:23
Speaker 1: don't know? And Ash is fairly close behind him, and
27:27
Speaker 1: then we cut to do Youno in his mansion on
27:30
Speaker 1: the phone and he says, I see he's gonna be
27:33
Speaker 1: that stubborn. It can't be helped. I'll take care of it.
27:37
Speaker 1: He puts down the phone and says, I see you
27:40
Speaker 1: can't tame a Linx. They'll never make good pets for real, dude.
27:45
Speaker 1: Then we see Ash driving that car and I guess
27:49
Speaker 1: he stops and he starts to tear the tape that
27:52
Speaker 1: is around his wrists off with his teeth and he
27:56
Speaker 1: gets out of the car and he's in front of
27:58
Speaker 1: an apartment complex and Marvin's car is parked out in
28:02
Speaker 1: front of it too, and he's like, he's in there somewhere.
28:07
Speaker 1: He walks inside. I guess they don't really have security,
28:10
Speaker 1: and up some stairs and he's in a hallway and
28:15
Speaker 1: he cautiously looks around a corner and he notices that
28:18
Speaker 1: the door to Marvin's apartment is open. He pushes the
28:22
Speaker 1: door further open and walks inside down a dark kind
28:26
Speaker 1: of center hallway that doesn't have windows, and he thinks
28:30
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel right. He looks around a corner and
28:35
Speaker 1: slowly opens the door inside the room is very dimly lit.
28:40
Speaker 1: It's daytime, but the blinds are down, so we just
28:44
Speaker 1: have a little bit of light filtering in through them,
28:46
Speaker 1: so it's hard to see what's there. But Marvin is
28:50
Speaker 1: there sitting on a chair dead, looks like he has
28:54
Speaker 1: been shot in the chest and blood is dripping from
28:56
Speaker 1: his mouth. He's got a very pained expression on his
29:00
Speaker 1: dead face. Good Ash looks at the floor and there
29:06
Speaker 1: is a discarded gun near him, and he says shit.
29:11
Speaker 1: Then we hear footsteps moving somewhere else in the apartment
29:15
Speaker 1: and police rush in and they raise their guns at
29:18
Speaker 1: Ash and one of them says police freeze and Ash
29:22
Speaker 1: looks totally shocked, because he should be. And we cut
29:26
Speaker 1: two outside and there's a couple of cop cars and
29:28
Speaker 1: cops out there, and we hear Ash say, oh that hurts,
29:32
Speaker 1: damn it. Then back to the apartment, a couple of
29:34
Speaker 1: cops are holding him and the first cop says, don't move,
29:37
Speaker 1: and ashe's like, listen to me, and Charlie comes in
29:41
Speaker 1: and he's like Ash. And Ash looks over at Charlie
29:44
Speaker 1: and Jenkins in the doorway, and Charlie's like did you
29:49
Speaker 1: And Ash's like I didn't kill him. He was dead
29:51
Speaker 1: when I got here, and a cop from behind them
29:54
Speaker 1: in the hallway says, don't lie, and Jenkins is like
29:57
Speaker 1: Evan Stein. And Evan Stein the hallway cop, who I
30:01
Speaker 1: guess is a detective of some sort because he's not
30:03
Speaker 1: dressed in a normal police uniform, exhales smoke from a
30:07
Speaker 1: cigarette and is like, hey, Jenkins, so devoted to your
30:10
Speaker 1: work that you leave your jurisdiction. Huh uh. Jenkins is like, actually,
30:15
Speaker 1: he's involved in a case we're working on right now.
30:17
Speaker 1: And Evenstein has this shit eating grin on his face,
30:21
Speaker 1: like basically every time we see him forever. So I
30:24
Speaker 1: just wanted to point that out because it's a fucking jerk.
30:29
Speaker 1: And he says, but this is my territory. Plus he's
30:33
Speaker 1: a red handed murderer. Ash gasps, and Evnstein says take
30:38
Speaker 1: him away. Ash, who is in handcuffs, is like, I'm
30:42
Speaker 1: telling you I didn't do it, and the cops push
30:44
Speaker 1: him forward and he's like shit. One of the cops says,
30:47
Speaker 1: get moving, and Ash's like, damn it, let me go.
30:51
Speaker 1: And I guess they're kind of in front, and now
30:55
Speaker 1: Evenstein is walking down the hall and Jenkins, who is
30:58
Speaker 1: behind him, says wait, and Evnstein stops and Jenkins says,
31:03
Speaker 1: can we at least sit in on the interrogation And
31:06
Speaker 1: I guess he said yes, because they cut to what
31:09
Speaker 1: I assume is the precinct in an interrogation room, and
31:14
Speaker 1: Ash and evan Stein are there at a table and
31:18
Speaker 1: Charlie and Jenkins are standing behind evan Stein, and we
31:21
Speaker 1: get a pretty cool shot that is through basically a
31:24
Speaker 1: two way mirror for the first part of the scene,
31:27
Speaker 1: so they're kind of framed. I liked it at Evanstein says,
31:32
Speaker 1: I remember you, well, Ash, hope you're not hustling anymore. Huh,
31:37
Speaker 1: maybe Ash has engaged in prostitution. Anyway. Ash doesn't respond
31:43
Speaker 1: to this. He's keeping quiet and he's not looking at
31:46
Speaker 1: this dude, which is smart, but you really really should
31:50
Speaker 1: get a lawyer before you have this kind of a
31:52
Speaker 1: discussion with a cop. Anyway, Evanstein continues, we found something
31:57
Speaker 1: pretty interesting in that pig's room. Ash looks over and
32:02
Speaker 1: his expression changes to something like muted fear, and he
32:07
Speaker 1: half gasps, and Evenstein pulls some DVDs out of an
32:13
Speaker 1: envelope and he says there were a few videos too.
32:17
Speaker 1: He opens one of the DVD cases and pulls it
32:21
Speaker 1: out and puts it in a DVD player that I
32:24
Speaker 1: guess is attached to a projector. Awesome, Ash says, stop.
32:30
Speaker 1: Even Stein seems pretty fucking happy with himself and relaxed,
32:35
Speaker 1: but Jenkins and Charlie look pretty concerned. And even Stein
32:40
Speaker 1: says something wrong, and he takes one of the magazines
32:46
Speaker 1: that was in the Manila folder and he hands it
32:48
Speaker 1: to Jenkins, and we see as he's handing it over
32:51
Speaker 1: that it is called American Boy, fucking Geese. Why am
32:56
Speaker 1: I doing this to myself? Like I wrote, just at
32:59
Speaker 1: like the top of my know, it's on this page.
33:01
Speaker 1: What am I doing anyway? Evanstein says, see for yourself.
33:07
Speaker 1: The swine was pretty twisted. Jenkins flips through the pages
33:12
Speaker 1: of American Boy, Oh my god, and Charlie says, what
33:17
Speaker 1: is it? And Evanstein says, child pornography and the kinky
33:23
Speaker 1: kind too. I don't think there's good child pornography, guys,
33:27
Speaker 1: But anyway, he continues watch the movie starting. Ash is
33:33
Speaker 1: looking at the floor in just blank horror, and Evanstein
33:40
Speaker 1: is watching totally nonplussed. We have kind of minor background
33:46
Speaker 1: noises from the movie that we're not seeing right now.
33:50
Speaker 1: They don't sound good, guys, none of this sounds good.
33:55
Speaker 1: And Jenkins winces and Charlie puts his hand over his
33:58
Speaker 1: mouth and he's like, I'm gonna pe Jenkins says, Okay,
34:02
Speaker 1: that's enough. Evenstein does not fucking care what they think
34:06
Speaker 1: and says, that's you, isn't it, Ash? Fuck? How old
34:10
Speaker 1: were you then? Ten eleven a little older. Ash's head
34:15
Speaker 1: is just down now, and so we get like a
34:19
Speaker 1: partial shot of the screen. We've been kind of getting
34:23
Speaker 1: glimpses of it for a couple of seconds that are
34:26
Speaker 1: kind of blurred and obscured, and what we get is
34:30
Speaker 1: like maybe thighs, I guess, sort of, and it looks
34:36
Speaker 1: like bad, like real bad, like without showing too much,
34:41
Speaker 1: it is very clear that there is a sexual activity
34:45
Speaker 1: occurring in this, so Banks animators anyway, In response to
34:55
Speaker 1: said video, Evan Stein says, that's Marvin's fat, right, that's
35:01
Speaker 1: why you killed him. You were holding a grudge, and
35:05
Speaker 1: Ash is clenching his teeth and shaking, and Evenstein continues,
35:11
Speaker 1: you wanted to kill him? Am I wrong? Ash is
35:15
Speaker 1: just shaking and Evenstein says, answer me. At this Ash
35:22
Speaker 1: slams his cupped fists on the table and he stands,
35:28
Speaker 1: but he doesn't say anything. He's just standing there, shaking
35:31
Speaker 1: with rage and probably other emotions. And he clenches his
35:36
Speaker 1: fists and he falls back into his chair, defeated, and
35:41
Speaker 1: there's a knock on the door and some guy's like, lieutenant,
35:44
Speaker 1: the hospital's ready. Evenstein sighs, like he was having fun,
35:49
Speaker 1: and he turns the lights on and he's like, fine,
35:52
Speaker 1: take him away. The cops like, get up, and Ash
35:56
Speaker 1: stands and goes quietly, and we do not see his expression,
36:01
Speaker 1: and as they are leading him away, Evenstein says later
36:06
Speaker 1: movie star. At this point, the cop is walking Ash
36:10
Speaker 1: down the hallway and we hear Jenkins say Ash, and
36:14
Speaker 1: he runs up from behind Ash in the cop and
36:17
Speaker 1: he says, you handled that really well, and he puts
36:20
Speaker 1: his hand On's shoulder and Ash whips around and knocks
36:24
Speaker 1: his hand away and says, don't touch me. Jenkins shrinks back, surprised,
36:31
Speaker 1: and Ash says, keep your filthy hands off me. We
36:36
Speaker 1: cut to Evan Stein, who is on the phone in
36:39
Speaker 1: his office and he says the Lynxes in the cage
36:43
Speaker 1: just as requested. There's a pause and then he says, yeah, thanks.
36:47
Speaker 1: Can't live on a policeman's pension. I wasn't sure if
36:50
Speaker 1: they really meant pension or if they meant salary, and
36:52
Speaker 1: they messed it up, so I just left it as pension.
36:54
Speaker 1: We cut to Dino, who is putting down the phone,
36:58
Speaker 1: so obviously that's who Evanstein was talking to, and he says,
37:03
Speaker 1: call Judge Phillips of the District Court. And a guy's like,
37:06
Speaker 1: got it, and Dino says so, and we see that
37:10
Speaker 1: he is talking to the red haired glasses guy from
37:13
Speaker 1: before with the orchids and he didn't care about the orgids,
37:16
Speaker 1: who is sitting in a chair, and red haired glasses
37:19
Speaker 1: guy says, the only perfect sample we had was the
37:22
Speaker 1: few milligrams that were stolen. Even with the formula, we
37:26
Speaker 1: can't and Dino cuts him off and says, and who
37:28
Speaker 1: lost it? The guy flinches. Dino takes a puff of
37:32
Speaker 1: his cigar and he says, forget it, It'll be returned
37:36
Speaker 1: in time. Banana fish, Huh, you're becoming quite a handful now.
37:43
Speaker 1: We cut to Ash in a hospital bed, all bandaged up,
37:47
Speaker 1: thank god, and Charlie is sitting next to him, and
37:51
Speaker 1: he says, I totally get it. Skip was just a kid.
37:54
Speaker 1: Ash is silent and not looking at him, just kind
37:57
Speaker 1: of looking at the window with the blind's head closed,
38:01
Speaker 1: and Charlie continues, A couple people associated with golzen and
38:06
Speaker 1: have committed suicide this year. We want to catch him
38:09
Speaker 1: this time. This has to do with him, right, you
38:12
Speaker 1: might have something we could take him down with and
38:13
Speaker 1: not even know it. Hey, are you listening? Ash? Ash
38:19
Speaker 1: finally turns his head and says, I don't know anything,
38:23
Speaker 1: and he sets up I don't care about your game
38:25
Speaker 1: of tag. I didn't kill Marvin, but I would have
38:28
Speaker 1: if someone didn't get there first. Charlie is stunned, and
38:32
Speaker 1: Ash continues, what can you guys do anyway? How do
38:36
Speaker 1: you plan to indict him? Charlie is like, well, that
38:40
Speaker 1: depends on what you tell us, and Ash says, as
38:44
Speaker 1: if it'd be of any use, he's got a team
38:47
Speaker 1: of big shot lawyers, your high and mighty rights or
38:51
Speaker 1: nothing to him. Even a stupid ass punk like me
38:53
Speaker 1: knows that. Charlie looks so fucking crestfallen his Ash is right,
39:00
Speaker 1: and Ash says, lock me up for murder if you want.
39:03
Speaker 1: I'm just a worthless hudlum. Anyways, he lies back down
39:07
Speaker 1: and looks away again and says, leave me alone. So
39:11
Speaker 1: now maybe it's later, and we see the hospital exterior
39:15
Speaker 1: for a second to give us an idea where we are,
39:18
Speaker 1: and then we see Charlie sitting with Ag and Shoonnichi
39:22
Speaker 1: in what probably is the cafeteria at the hospital, and
39:25
Speaker 1: Shoonnichi says, we're gonna pull out of this because of
39:28
Speaker 1: what happened. It's too bad, but we're heading back tonight
39:30
Speaker 1: after we meet Max in jail, and AG's like, what
39:35
Speaker 1: did you want to see me about? And Charlie says
39:37
Speaker 1: about that, and Agi says, is it about Ash? Ahuh.
39:42
Speaker 1: Charlie says he's planning to fight at Mafia Don with
39:46
Speaker 1: just one Trump card. He's going to be killed, and
39:49
Speaker 1: AG and Shoonnichi gasp, and Charlie continues, Agi, I need
39:54
Speaker 1: you to convince him to give us his trump card,
39:56
Speaker 1: and Shoonnici says, but what is it? And Charlie's like,
40:00
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Golzin is persistently chasing after Ash,
40:04
Speaker 1: so it's got to be serious. And AG says, but
40:07
Speaker 1: why me, I have no power, and at this point
40:11
Speaker 1: I noticed that Ag has beautiful eyes. Sorry, guys, so
40:15
Speaker 1: Charlie says, because he saved you, he tried to save you,
40:18
Speaker 1: even though it meant risking his and Skips lives, he
40:22
Speaker 1: might listen to you. Ag looks kind of worried. And
40:26
Speaker 1: then we cut to Ash in the hospital bed looking
40:29
Speaker 1: out the window watching a tufted titmouse. And it's important
40:33
Speaker 1: to point out that those birds are native to New York,
40:36
Speaker 1: So good fucking job there, and then he hears the
40:39
Speaker 1: door open and he looks over and Ag is standing
40:42
Speaker 1: in the doorway, and he says hey, and AG sits
40:46
Speaker 1: next to the bed and says, how are you feeling?
40:50
Speaker 1: And As says, look, who's asking? There wasn't a mat right,
40:54
Speaker 1: And AGI's like, nah, but it's it's not such a
40:57
Speaker 1: big deal, and Ash says that was really quite a jump.
41:02
Speaker 1: Didn't think you had such talent. AG looks so sad,
41:06
Speaker 1: and he says, but I didn't even get to thank Skip.
41:10
Speaker 1: Hey ash um Ash smiles and says, Charlie sent you here,
41:18
Speaker 1: didn't he? And AG's like what well, and Ashes like
41:25
Speaker 1: you're a terrible liar. AG frowns at this point we
41:29
Speaker 1: get like a really interesting shot that is just the
41:31
Speaker 1: shadows of Ag and Ash on the floor, I think,
41:34
Speaker 1: or the wall or whatever does matter, And Ash says,
41:37
Speaker 1: did he tell you about my past? And we see
41:40
Speaker 1: AG's shadow flinch and he says, what passed? Yeah, he
41:46
Speaker 1: told him, and Ash's like, I guess those kind of
41:49
Speaker 1: things don't happen in Japan, and AG's like, I really
41:53
Speaker 1: don't know. Ash is quiet for a second and he
41:57
Speaker 1: looks out the window and his face brightened slightly, has
42:00
Speaker 1: a bunch of tufted tit mice or like flying away,
42:05
Speaker 1: and he says, I envy you, you know how to fly.
42:10
Speaker 1: Fuck Out. In the hall, Shunichi and Charlie are waiting
42:15
Speaker 1: and Ag walks over and he is just fucking crying.
42:18
Speaker 1: Tears are just streaming down his face, My poor sweet age,
42:23
Speaker 1: and Shunici says, a chn what's wrong, and AG's like,
42:28
Speaker 1: I can't ask him and he wipes his face, and
42:31
Speaker 1: Charlie says, what did he say? And Shunichi like pulls
42:35
Speaker 1: Ag in close and kind of rests his head on
42:39
Speaker 1: Shunici's shoulder, and he says, could you give him a second?
42:42
Speaker 1: Let him calm down, and they kind of walk off,
42:45
Speaker 1: and Charlie answered the phone and he's like yes, and
42:48
Speaker 1: Jenkins is like bad news. Ash's being transferred to state prison.
42:52
Speaker 1: And Charlie's like what, but his raiment hasn't even been
42:55
Speaker 1: submitted yet, and Jenkins says District judges says the defendant
43:01
Speaker 1: was absent, but everything's already been finalized, and Charlie's like but,
43:06
Speaker 1: And then we cut to ag who is sitting on
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Speaker 1: a bench with some coffee, and he says, Ash already
43:14
Speaker 1: made up his mind. And he's still crying. And we
43:18
Speaker 1: know that because we are looking in his coffee and
43:20
Speaker 1: we see his reflection, and he continues, I couldn't bring
43:24
Speaker 1: myself to tell him to leave it to someone else.
43:26
Speaker 1: He knows better than anyone that he's no match for them.
43:30
Speaker 1: Shunichi's like, I understand, don't cry. We'll see this through
43:34
Speaker 1: to the end. He won't be alone, I hope not.
43:39
Speaker 1: Then we see feet walking and we hear someone through
43:42
Speaker 1: a phone say if he sent to jail, he'll be
43:45
Speaker 1: killed for sure. It's swarming with Goldzine's men. Okay, it's
43:48
Speaker 1: Jenkins's feet. So he says, Charlie, go see Max lowbo
43:52
Speaker 1: now lucky for us, he's locked up there right now,
43:56
Speaker 1: have him guard ash. Charlie runs off and he gets
44:00
Speaker 1: to where Agi and Shunichi are sitting on the bench,
44:03
Speaker 1: and he says, eBay, and he grabs him by the
44:05
Speaker 1: shoulders and he's like, I'm coming with you to see Max.
44:08
Speaker 1: And Shunichi's like what, and Charlie grabs his arm and
44:13
Speaker 1: pulls him up and is like, I'll explain later, hurry,
44:16
Speaker 1: and they are running down the hall. Now Age's there too,
44:19
Speaker 1: by the way. Then we cut to a van entering
44:23
Speaker 1: a fenced off area in the front of a building,
44:26
Speaker 1: a big, imposing one that I'm pretty sure is supposed
44:28
Speaker 1: to be a prison. I also want to say that
44:30
Speaker 1: in the manga, this is absolutely taking place on Riker's Island,
44:34
Speaker 1: but we don't specify here at all, because I guess
44:37
Speaker 1: they figure a Japanese audiences wouldn't know anyway, I don't know.
44:41
Speaker 1: So we see a hand put down ashes, mugshot and
44:45
Speaker 1: information on a table actually to desk, but whatever, and
44:49
Speaker 1: a voice says, here's your target, and we see that
44:53
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be Faulkner's State prison, which is
44:55
Speaker 1: in a real place, by the way, and we get
44:58
Speaker 1: some additional information on Ash. His full name is Oslon
45:02
Speaker 1: Jade Callan Reese and his birthday is August twelfth. Yay,
45:07
Speaker 1: now you know. And now we cut back so we
45:09
Speaker 1: can see that we are in an office and there
45:12
Speaker 1: is some dude sitting at a desk. We're looking at him,
45:16
Speaker 1: you know, head on, and there are three inmates that
45:19
Speaker 1: are so close to the camera that we only see
45:22
Speaker 1: a little bit of their back, so we can't really
45:24
Speaker 1: see what they look like. And the first inmate says
45:26
Speaker 1: a hot little princess, huh fuck and whistles, and the
45:31
Speaker 1: second inmate, who has a snake tattoo, says, looks like
45:34
Speaker 1: it'll be fun tonight. Then we cut to Ash being
45:37
Speaker 1: led down the center kind of haul in the jail,
45:41
Speaker 1: and there are cells on both sides, you know how
45:44
Speaker 1: jail is, and the inmates are being super fucking loud
45:48
Speaker 1: and vulgar, and some dude is like, hey, cutie, how
45:52
Speaker 1: old are you great? And Ash is walking completely stoically,
45:58
Speaker 1: And then we go to the title card in another country,
46:03
Speaker 1: and then we go to the ending theme. Yes, and
46:05
Speaker 1: it is called Prayer X and it is by King
46:08
Speaker 1: Neu Gnu. I don't really know how you pronounce that?
46:12
Speaker 1: Who you may know? They did the opening theme to
46:15
Speaker 1: the last season of Jujuju Kaisen, the specials theme, You
46:19
Speaker 1: are Mu Special. I wish I didn't kind of sing that,
46:22
Speaker 1: but that's the same band, and I was gonna check
46:26
Speaker 1: and see what else they did, and I forgot whatever.
46:28
Speaker 1: So the ending is pretty cool, like line art bubbles
46:31
Speaker 1: followed by like a red and blue heart and there's
46:34
Speaker 1: like a charcoal drawings of kind of ash and it
46:36
Speaker 1: almost kind of looks like the manga design, and then
46:39
Speaker 1: him grabbing his chests and like ripping a shirt away
46:42
Speaker 1: to expose that weird blue and red heart, and then
46:45
Speaker 1: sinking to the bottom of some water. Yay, Anyway, I
46:50
Speaker 1: really like this song. It is my favorite of the
46:54
Speaker 1: opening and ending themes from this show. It's just really
46:58
Speaker 1: cool soundings got kind of two very distinct styles. The
47:03
Speaker 1: chorus is very very melancholy sounding, and then the kind
47:06
Speaker 1: of verse or transition between them is like real like poppy.
47:11
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think it's cool. I love this song.
47:13
Speaker 1: I'm learning it on the guitar in case you're interested.
47:16
Speaker 1: It's not hard to play on the guitar. Really, I've
47:18
Speaker 1: learned it on the guitar. It's more that I am
47:20
Speaker 1: trying to learn the words in Japanese and it's taking
47:23
Speaker 1: some time because for some reason, the well the verses
47:26
Speaker 1: don't have much of a melody to them, so it's
47:28
Speaker 1: really hard to learn the words in Japanese. But now
47:33
Speaker 1: you know, for some messed up reason, and that is
47:36
Speaker 1: finally the end of the fucking episode. Closing thoughts. So,
47:42
Speaker 1: first of all, like so much stuff happened in this episode,
47:48
Speaker 1: and this will be a theme going forward. This anime
47:52
Speaker 1: and the manga have a very dense narrative. Something is
47:55
Speaker 1: always going on, whereas in the last anime that we
47:59
Speaker 1: want watch together sort of or that we talked about together, Windbreaker,
48:04
Speaker 1: there were episodes where almost nothing happened, like the episode
48:07
Speaker 1: that was called Dialogue, where it was just dialogue. There's
48:11
Speaker 1: not gonna be an episode like that in Banana Fish.
48:14
Speaker 1: There are some episodes that aren't as so fucking heavy,
48:19
Speaker 1: but they are all very densely packed. That's just how
48:24
Speaker 1: this series is, which I really enjoy. I didn't find
48:30
Speaker 1: a single episode boring or unentertaining in the entire show,
48:36
Speaker 1: and I have a problem with watching anime late at night.
48:40
Speaker 1: And falling asleep while watching it. I did not even
48:44
Speaker 1: close to fall asleep during any of these episodes except
48:46
Speaker 1: for the first one, apparently, so that's maybe a good thing.
48:50
Speaker 1: But so much stuff happened in this episode. Like I
48:54
Speaker 1: have a friend who I'm forcing to watch this right now,
48:58
Speaker 1: and I remember when he was watching this episode. He
49:00
Speaker 1: was texting me periodically throughout it, and I was just like,
49:03
Speaker 1: how is this the same episode? Anyway? I like this episode,
49:07
Speaker 1: but fuck, it was so hard to record because I
49:11
Speaker 1: feel embarrassed saying some of these things. And I hope
49:16
Speaker 1: you know that I don't know. So what do we
49:19
Speaker 1: know right now? Skip is dead? That's just fucking wonderful.
49:23
Speaker 1: Ag is a pole vaulter, So I think it's interesting
49:27
Speaker 1: because he has, thus far, even though it's only been
49:31
Speaker 1: an episode, been presented as very you know, quiet and
49:36
Speaker 1: kind of naive. So it's interesting to see that he
49:40
Speaker 1: has done something that's actually kind of dangerous. I mean
49:44
Speaker 1: it's not as dangerous as like shooting people, but it's
49:47
Speaker 1: still pretty dangerous. He's not just a quiet kid. As
49:50
Speaker 1: for Ash, we know something I don't think he wanted
49:56
Speaker 1: everyone to know, which is that he's had some pretty
50:00
Speaker 1: horrific shit happened to him, and maybe he was involved
50:04
Speaker 1: in prostitution. At least the cop Evenstein seemed to be
50:09
Speaker 1: implying that. I wanted to point that out, because first
50:14
Speaker 1: of all, I barely know that hustling could mean prostitution.
50:20
Speaker 1: It just seems like a catch all word that everybody
50:22
Speaker 1: uses for everything else. But in the manga, the translation
50:27
Speaker 1: it just asks if he's still turning tricks, which I
50:30
Speaker 1: know is prostitution. However, I did more than that. I
50:36
Speaker 1: listened to the Japanese in the anime to try to
50:40
Speaker 1: figure out what the fuck they were saying. Then I
50:42
Speaker 1: bought the second volume of Banana Fish in Japanese so
50:47
Speaker 1: I could read the translation and figure out what the
50:50
Speaker 1: fuck word they were using. They're using kiyaku hiki, which
50:54
Speaker 1: doesn't actually have like a really good English translation. It
50:58
Speaker 1: is a person who's basically barker. They stand out in
51:02
Speaker 1: front of bars and restaurants and shit clubs and try
51:07
Speaker 1: to get people to come in. In Japan, but there
51:11
Speaker 1: are instances where kayaku hicky work for brothels and in
51:15
Speaker 1: the red light district and stuff, so I think it
51:17
Speaker 1: kind of has a negative connotation. So I mean the
51:21
Speaker 1: closest I can get in English is like maybe solicitor.
51:25
Speaker 1: So it's like he kind of asked him if he
51:26
Speaker 1: was still soliciting. But I think what's really happening is
51:30
Speaker 1: that I don't have the best grasp of Japanese culture
51:34
Speaker 1: and I'm missing something that this word means. And I'm
51:37
Speaker 1: just going to trust the manga and anime that we
51:41
Speaker 1: were supposed to be implying that Ash has engaged in prostitution.
51:45
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you all this because it took me
51:46
Speaker 1: like eight hours to figure this out, and it's embarrassing.
51:50
Speaker 1: Something else on that train of really shitty stuff that
51:53
Speaker 1: happened in this episode. If you were like, hey, why
51:58
Speaker 1: does Marvin totally believe that after he beat up this
52:02
Speaker 1: kid that the kid is just gonna have sex with him?
52:04
Speaker 1: Now you know why, because he has before, and Marvin
52:11
Speaker 1: had no reason to believe that it would be any different. Great,
52:16
Speaker 1: everything is great. This isn't very upsetting at all. And
52:19
Speaker 1: the only other thing I wanted to say so I
52:21
Speaker 1: can just go away and take a shower is something
52:25
Speaker 1: I would like you guys to watch for In the
52:27
Speaker 1: first core from now until maybe the end of episode nine,
52:30
Speaker 1: we're gonna learn a lot about especially ash as he
52:34
Speaker 1: is the main character. I would like you, guys to
52:36
Speaker 1: keep an eye on how many times his story is
52:39
Speaker 1: explained by other people and not him, because it's going
52:44
Speaker 1: to be almost every if not every time, that somebody
52:47
Speaker 1: tells his story without his input or his approval in
52:51
Speaker 1: any way. And sometimes it'll of course be when he's
52:54
Speaker 1: around and he won't be able to say anything, like
52:57
Speaker 1: in the interrogation, and then sometimes it'll be totally when
53:01
Speaker 1: he is not there to defend himself, like with Charlie
53:05
Speaker 1: telling Age and Shunichi about his past, which he absolutely did.
53:09
Speaker 1: It is in the manga, so yeah, it will probably
53:13
Speaker 1: affect how you see him as a character, So I
53:16
Speaker 1: want you to take note of that, and I want
53:18
Speaker 1: you to take note of how much of this comes
53:19
Speaker 1: from his abusers. That's that's all I got for right now.
53:26
Speaker 1: I hope that this didn't make you hate me, but
53:29
Speaker 1: after watching this episode, it at least made me hate me,
53:32
Speaker 1: so that's got to be enough for both of us. Anyway,
53:36
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and do something that is not this.
53:41
Speaker 1: I'm actually just gonna edit this, but whatever, and I
53:44
Speaker 1: hope you have a really good whatever later weeps