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Banana Fish Ep. 11- The Beautiful and Damned · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's sure, whatever, Michelle. I actually already recorded this episode,
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Speaker 1: but I was so stressed when I did it that like,
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Speaker 1: I hate it, So I'm doing it again. Yay. You'll
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Speaker 1: never hear that first take of the whole episode that
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Speaker 1: took me over an hour that I'm just throwing out
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Speaker 1: because fuck that. I wanna do this episode justice. So
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Speaker 1: I'm trying again. And if I don't feel like this
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Speaker 1: time was good enough, I guess there's just not gonna
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Speaker 1: be good enough. Great, that's just what I wanted. So
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Speaker 1: we gotta try really really hard, and by we, I
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Speaker 1: just mean me. So I'm just gonna put a lot
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Speaker 1: of pressure on myself and hopefully I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: like collapse under the weight of it, but I feel
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Speaker 1: like I might, so we'll find out. So obviously we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about episode eleven of Banana Fish. But before
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Speaker 1: I start, there are a couple of things I wanted
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Speaker 1: to say. Well, first of all, I'm only two weeks
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Speaker 1: ahead now on the podcast. For a while, there was
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Speaker 1: running like super far ahead. So now I'm actually recording
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Speaker 1: in the same month that the podcast is airing again,
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Speaker 1: which is good, and that means there's a couple of
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Speaker 1: things I want to tell you about. By the time
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Speaker 1: you hear this, it'll already be a couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: into the new season of anime, the fall season. But
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Speaker 1: in case you don't know yet, the third season of
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Speaker 1: Ree zero is airing on Wednesdays. So yeah, if you
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Speaker 1: liked ree zero and we did it on the show,
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Speaker 1: and you watch the second season, like, go for it,
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Speaker 1: get in there, watch some Ree zero or something or
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Speaker 1: don't I don't know, and don't forget about dunda on
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Speaker 1: which yay is exciting. So yeah, check check them out
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Speaker 1: if you want to, or if not, because you don't
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Speaker 1: want to, because now after watching this anime with me,
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Speaker 1: my opinion no longer holds any weight. That's okay too,
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Speaker 1: I understand. Besides that, I've been wanting to tell you
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Speaker 1: guys for a long time that. And it's not that
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Speaker 1: big of a deal that in Banana Fish, Ash's hairlines,
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Speaker 1: like the outline of his hair are a different color
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Speaker 1: than all the other lines. And maybe you're thinking, why
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Speaker 1: do you know that. I don't know why. I know that.
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Speaker 1: I've just stared at it a lot. So most of
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Speaker 1: the lines in this show are black. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: talk about this because they're like thicker than usual, and
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Speaker 1: they kind of have like a modeled look to them,
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Speaker 1: almost like maybe they were supposed to be done with
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Speaker 1: like a piece of charcoal or like a pencil. I mean,
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Speaker 1: not that messy, but kind of in that vein. And
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Speaker 1: actually that's, in my opinion, created some problems because when
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Speaker 1: you have characters that are further back in the shot,
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Speaker 1: the lines are so big that you can't get a
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Speaker 1: lot of detail on them. So I'm not a huge
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Speaker 1: fan of that. But in general, these outlines are black,
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Speaker 1: but Ash's hair lines are like a mustard yellow color
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Speaker 1: or brown or whatever that is. And I thought that
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Speaker 1: was really cool, and I'd seen it several weeks back
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Speaker 1: and then been like, well, maybe everyone's hairlines are a
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Speaker 1: different color. No, they're not. And I thought, well, maybe
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Speaker 1: people with like blonde hair or like light colored hair
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Speaker 1: have lighter colored hair lines outlines of their hair. No,
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Speaker 1: it's just Ash. So there you go. Now you note that,
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Speaker 1: why is that happening? I'm not sure, but it is.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing before we get into this episode,
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to remind you guys. I think I
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Speaker 1: talked about this either in episode three or episode six
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Speaker 1: I can't remember about how Ash doesn't really speak for
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Speaker 1: himself and everyone else is kind of relaying information about
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Speaker 1: him to other people. Like we found out all sorts
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Speaker 1: of stuff about his past, not through him usually, especially
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Speaker 1: like episode nine, we just find out like lots of
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Speaker 1: stuff and it's all you know, either when he's not
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Speaker 1: in the room or when he's in the room uncomfortably.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna see that start to in this episode,
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Speaker 1: so be ready for it. I guess. Okay, that's that's
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Speaker 1: enough random stuff. So Banana Fish Episode eleven is called
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Speaker 1: The Beautiful and Damned, which is also the title of
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Speaker 1: a novel by f. Scott Fitzgerald about like two lovers
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Speaker 1: that get married and they're like in a really passionate
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Speaker 1: relationship and then they fall out of love. Basically, it's actually,
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, the antithesis of Banana Fish and Ash
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Speaker 1: and Agy, but you know that's just my stupid opinion.
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Speaker 1: And even though the story isn't related to the episode,
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Speaker 1: I think the title is awesome and perfect for this episode.
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Speaker 1: It might be my favorite episode title in the show.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but right now it is so there. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So if you remember where we left off last time,
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Speaker 1: everyone had escaped from the mansion that was on fire.
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Speaker 1: Now Ash was heading towards Manhattan in a red sports car,
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Speaker 1: and Sing and Yue Lung were in a helicopter. So
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Speaker 1: we pick up a little bit past that. So we
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Speaker 1: start off with Charlie. Remember Cop Charlie, we haven't seen
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Speaker 1: him in a couple episodes, sitting on his couch in
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Speaker 1: a robe watching TV, looking just really really shocked. And
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Speaker 1: there's a newscaster on the TV and he says, last night,
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Speaker 1: the home of Dino Goldzine, the head of the Corsican mafia,
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Speaker 1: was attacked, and we see the mansion briefly on the
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Speaker 1: TV and it's like super fucked up. And then there's
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Speaker 1: a knock on the door and Charlie jumps. We hear
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Speaker 1: Max from the other side of the door say, Charlie,
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Speaker 1: it's me, It's Max. We got to a few moments
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Speaker 1: later when Shunichi and Max are slumped over in exhaustion
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Speaker 1: on the couch and they're still in their suits, so
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Speaker 1: it's not been very long since they escaped. Charlie's like,
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Speaker 1: what the hell happened? Where's Ash and Ag and Max
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Speaker 1: says okay, chitchack and wait, let me catch my breath first,
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Speaker 1: and Charlie says, what happened to Ash I saw on TV?
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Speaker 1: And Max cuts him off and is like, we know
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Speaker 1: we're the ones who called the cops. Then we go
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Speaker 1: to Dino and I think Gregory, and they're standing outside
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Speaker 1: the destroyed mansion, and I'll explain, it is very destroyed,
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Speaker 1: like parts of the roof are just missing, like there's
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Speaker 1: chunks of it are gone, the windows are broken, there's
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Speaker 1: like debris everywhere. In fact, I don't know that the
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Speaker 1: roof could stay up in the condition that it's in.
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Speaker 1: It looks bad, guys, really bad, Like I would assume
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Speaker 1: it's just gonna have to be knocked down and rebuilt.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully he has insurance, I guess. If we want
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Speaker 1: him to have an easy time, maybe we hope he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have insurance. Yeah, fuck you, Dino. Anyway, they're just
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Speaker 1: standing there and this other mob guy comes up and
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Speaker 1: is like the reporters, and Gregory's like, send them away,
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Speaker 1: shut them all out. Now we cut down to a
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Speaker 1: kind of run down apartment, I guess, and it's it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like dirty, but not in the sense that
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Speaker 1: the dirt is fresh in the sense that the dirt
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Speaker 1: is now a part of the apartment. It's like baked
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Speaker 1: in there, so it's not like it's not clean, it's
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Speaker 1: just that it can never be clean again, kind of deal.
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Speaker 1: And we see this dude like come around the corner
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Speaker 1: in the hallway and be like Boss is back. And
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Speaker 1: then Ash comes into the room and everyone like stands
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Speaker 1: up in excitement, and we see Bones Kong, Alex and
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Speaker 1: Ag as well as some other people, and they all
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Speaker 1: are like talking over each other, like trying to talk
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Speaker 1: to Ash, and Ash is not really paying attention. He's
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Speaker 1: just kind of looking around until finally he sees Ag
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Speaker 1: and Ag smiles, Hey, anyway, Alex says, now that you're back,
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Speaker 1: we won't let Arthur have his way, and Ash is like,
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Speaker 1: first food and clothing, check up on all our buyers.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea what buyers. He means. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that they're selling drugs, because I don't think Ash
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Speaker 1: really likes drugs. But maybe they're stealing catalytic converters. I
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Speaker 1: don't know they're doing something. Anyway, he looks at a
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Speaker 1: cell phone and he's like pressing on it and stuff
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Speaker 1: the way you would touch a cell phone, you know,
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Speaker 1: and then he hands it to Alex and he says,
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Speaker 1: tell Fly to get these for me, and Alex is
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Speaker 1: like okay, and Ash continues and two cell phones and
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Speaker 1: a tablet. There's like a bed in the room, which
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Speaker 1: is weird because it's like a living room, and he
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Speaker 1: like just falls face first onto the bed and he says, now,
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Speaker 1: give me two hours of sleep. And then it's just silence,
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Speaker 1: and everyone looks scared, basically, and AG's like he fell
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Speaker 1: asleep just like that, and Alex is like, yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: always like this. Ag is just confused, and Ash suddenly
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Speaker 1: sits up, and it causes all of the guys in
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Speaker 1: the gang to like yell and run for their lives,
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Speaker 1: and AG is just like, what the fuck is happening?
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Speaker 1: And Ash says, two hours, wake me up in two hours.
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Speaker 1: The gang members are all like cowering behind the couch,
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Speaker 1: except for Alex, who could just kind of get behind
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Speaker 1: Ag before I guess Ash started talking and Bones and
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Speaker 1: Conger like yes, boss, and Ashley's back down, and then
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Speaker 1: we go to the opening theme. Yep. Anyway, we go
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Speaker 1: to Dino, Gregory and Arthur who are walking down the
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Speaker 1: hall somewhere. Obviously it's not in the mansion, because the
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Speaker 1: mansion is a disaster, And Arthur says, give me another chance,
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Speaker 1: and Dino's like, I already asked you to get all
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Speaker 1: of the groups in Manhattan under your control. And Arthur says,
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Speaker 1: I thought I'd taken care of all of Ash's guys.
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Speaker 1: He's like sweating and stuff, and Dino's like, my mansion's
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Speaker 1: in ruins. Ash has escaped and now the meat is
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Speaker 1: all over my tail to you fool. Gregory opens the
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Speaker 1: door to a room and he and you know go inside,
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Speaker 1: leaving Arthur alone in the hallway, and Arthur's like shit.
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Speaker 1: Back to the apartment where Age is sleeping on like
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Speaker 1: an armchair and everyone else is kind of out of
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Speaker 1: it as well, and his alarm goes off and it
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Speaker 1: wakes him up, and he says to the other guys,
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Speaker 1: it's been two hours. You guys gonna wake him up. Alex,
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Speaker 1: Bones and Kong just kind of like look away from him,
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Speaker 1: maybe ashamed, and AG's like, what are you guys afraid of?
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Speaker 1: Kong and Bones look to Alex and Alex sighs, and
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Speaker 1: he's like Ash has a real bad temper when he
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Speaker 1: wakes up. Well, there's just kind of a pause and
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Speaker 1: Age's like, that's it. Kng says, you don't understand. He's
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Speaker 1: scarier than a line when he wakes up. Bones then
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Speaker 1: shows Ag his missing front teeth, which you might not
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Speaker 1: have noticed because it just looks like he is fangs.
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Speaker 1: But no, that's because he's got no front teeth. And
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Speaker 1: he says, this is what I got for waking him
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Speaker 1: up last time, geez, and Age's just like fine. He
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Speaker 1: stands up and he's like, I'll wake him up. He
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Speaker 1: starts to walk over, and Kanng and Bones and Alex
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Speaker 1: are like freaking out and trying to think of a
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Speaker 1: way to stop him, but they don't. By this point,
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Speaker 1: Ag has reached the bed that Ash sleeping in and
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Speaker 1: he gently shakes him and he says, Ash, wake up,
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Speaker 1: it's time. Ash like doesn't move at all, and then
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Speaker 1: Ag just slaps him on the head and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I said wake up. It's been two hours. And the
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Speaker 1: gang looks on in fear from out of the room
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Speaker 1: again and Ash just groans and he finally opens his eyes.
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Speaker 1: He's like still mostly under the covers though, and Bones
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Speaker 1: to the guys in the kitchen with him hiding, says,
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Speaker 1: see is frown and Alex is like, yeah, he's in
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Speaker 1: for it now, and Conk says, I'm shaking. Ash just
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Speaker 1: sits up and he looks really grotcky and he says
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Speaker 1: two hours and AG's like, yeah, just like you said.
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Speaker 1: Ash puts his hand on his forehead and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I said that, I'm gonna take a shower. The gang
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Speaker 1: watches in complete and utter confusion as he heads to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom, and then they look at Ag like maybe
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Speaker 1: he's some kind of magician, until they asked from the bathroom, say, hey,
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Speaker 1: where's the soap? Where's the shampoo? Ag watches in astonishment
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Speaker 1: as the gang scrambles to find them, and he just
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Speaker 1: kind of smiles. What caught me off guard the first
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Speaker 1: time I watched this was how afraid everyone was to
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Speaker 1: wake him up, and the whole thing with Bones losing
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Speaker 1: his teeth, which is so sad because Bones is so
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Speaker 1: cute and nice and probably a murderer. So I highly doubt,
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Speaker 1: based on what we've seen of asked so far, that
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Speaker 1: he would intentionally punch someone in the face if they
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Speaker 1: woke him up, especially if he asked them to wake
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Speaker 1: him up. It seems a little bit more likely that
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Speaker 1: he doesn't react well to being touched, and that it's
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Speaker 1: kind of an unconscious physical reaction that he's having, especially
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Speaker 1: he's asleep. He seems to sleep pretty deep, so being
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Speaker 1: woken up from that by some unknown person touching him
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Speaker 1: is probably very upsetting for him. And it's interesting to
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Speaker 1: me that the gang doesn't get this context. But it
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Speaker 1: fits in with everything we've seen of him so far.
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Speaker 1: We've multiple times had people try to touch him and
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Speaker 1: him like recoil and say don't touch me. And we've
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Speaker 1: seen most of the people who have touched him it
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Speaker 1: be in a negative connotation. So I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: a leap to say that he is some sort of
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Speaker 1: aversion to touch. I'm going to take it a step
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Speaker 1: further and tell you that I think he has half
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Speaker 1: a phobia, which is the fear of being touched, obviously,
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Speaker 1: but we can maybe talk about that some other time.
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Speaker 1: We cut to the bathroom, which is one of those
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Speaker 1: really nice tiled kind of like forties or maybe fifties
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Speaker 1: bathrooms that I love so much, and Age walks in
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Speaker 1: and he puts a bottle of refreshment shampoo on the
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Speaker 1: floor next to Ash, who is in the tub taking
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Speaker 1: a bathroom, not a shower, so maybe that was a
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Speaker 1: translation error. And he starts to walk out, and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: aren't you gonna ask me about shorter? Ag stops and
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Speaker 1: he's like, you can tell me when you're ready. Ah, Ag,
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Speaker 1: you're the best. Ash is like leaning over the tub
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Speaker 1: and his hair is in his eyes so we really
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Speaker 1: can't see his expression, and he says, I made sure
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Speaker 1: they'd never be able to touch him again. EG is
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Speaker 1: still at the door, just kind of staring at the door,
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Speaker 1: and he says, I say and he turns to Ash.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Ash. He opens the door and walks out,
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Speaker 1: leaving Ash alone to grieve. Ash eventually emerges from the
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Speaker 1: bathroom and he sits down on the couch with the
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Speaker 1: tablet that I guess they got for him. And AG
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Speaker 1: is watching the gang as they watch Ash intently, and
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Speaker 1: he thinks they're holding their breath, watching his every move,
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Speaker 1: waiting for their bom order. His words are their law.
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Speaker 1: He's their king, the symbol of respect, fear, and absolute authority.
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Speaker 1: Then he looks down. But that's not the Ash I know.
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Speaker 1: I will cut in here to say that this is
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Speaker 1: a pretty big departure from the Ash that we know
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Speaker 1: as well. He's very very authoritative, very very flat emotionally.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that we know Ash is an
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Speaker 1: incredibly emotional character, but this is a new side or
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Speaker 1: new level for him. Anyway, back to Ash, he says,
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Speaker 1: what groups are under Arthur now? And Alex is like
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Speaker 1: almost all of them, only too other than the Chinese
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Speaker 1: are still somewhat neutral and they're too afraid to do anything.
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Speaker 1: Ash smirks, and he's like typical Arthur. He stands up.
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Speaker 1: He's looking for me, like his life depends on it.
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Speaker 1: He's backed by the Corsican mafia now, but I'll repress them.
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Speaker 1: And they kind of gasp because that's a big claim
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Speaker 1: to make, you know, He continues, You guys, gather as
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Speaker 1: much info as you can, the number of men, their races,
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Speaker 1: who their bosses are, and their hideouts. But be careful,
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Speaker 1: remember you're in danger. To stay alert. And everyone's like, yes, boss,
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Speaker 1: and Ash pauses and he says, now go and everyone
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Speaker 1: just runs off. Yeah. To be a street punk in
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Speaker 1: a New York gang must be nice. It only takes
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Speaker 1: less than a minute for all of the gang members
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Speaker 1: to be totally cleared out of the apartments, and at
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Speaker 1: that point Ash looks to Ag, who's staring at him,
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Speaker 1: and in a much less authoritative voice, says, what is it.
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Speaker 1: AG's like, you're a real leader. Ash says, it's just
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Speaker 1: a troop of monkeys. Anyway, let's eat. We then cut
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Speaker 1: to them sitting I think, like at the kind of
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Speaker 1: coffee table in the living room area with some sushi
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Speaker 1: and like tofu with like a sauce on it and soda,
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Speaker 1: and AG's like, wow, it really is Japanese tofu. Ash
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Speaker 1: breaks apart, like some of those would takeout chopsticks and says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they picked it out for you. I assume he meets
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Speaker 1: the gang members, but I'm not sure. He picks up
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Speaker 1: a piece of sushi with the chopsticks and Age's like, wow,
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Speaker 1: you're good with chopsticks. You could live in Japan, and
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Speaker 1: Ash says, Japan. Huh do you have any family? Now?
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Speaker 1: I feel like that would be a weird question to
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Speaker 1: ask basically a teenager if it wasn't coming from Ash,
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Speaker 1: but coming from Ash. Yeah, you know, I don't know
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Speaker 1: how many of the gang members around him have family.
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Speaker 1: He basically doesn't really have family anymore. So I get it.
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Speaker 1: Age's like my parents and a kid's sister. Ash says,
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Speaker 1: a little sister. She must be really cute, and he's like, yeah, right,
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Speaker 1: absolutely not. Ash just kind of chuckles and he looks
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Speaker 1: really relaxed, and he's like, we've never talked like this before.
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Speaker 1: Even after all this time, He's like, you're right. Ash says,
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Speaker 1: I don't know anything about you. Your hair is pitch
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Speaker 1: black and your eyes are deep and dark too. Jeez, Ash,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know I hated dark things
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid. We cut to the night
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Speaker 1: sky with a full moon and we hear Ash say,
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Speaker 1: one year, my dad carved me a jack a lantern
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Speaker 1: for Halloween. I wore it out trig or treating and
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Speaker 1: we see a bunch of kids in costumes walking down
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Speaker 1: the street and Ash with a pumpkin on his head.
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Speaker 1: I know, I don't know why that would happen, but
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Speaker 1: maybe he's just really creative and he didn't have a costume,
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Speaker 1: so he was like, I guess I can just put
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Speaker 1: this pumpkin on my head. It's not super heavy. It
18:33
Speaker 1: totally is heavy, but whatever, I'll give it to him.
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Speaker 1: He continues, I decided to hide in the woods so
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Speaker 1: I could scare Griffin on his way home from school.
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Speaker 1: We see Ash running in like a forest and then
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Speaker 1: like sitting against a tree, and he continues, it was
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Speaker 1: pitch dark and there were eerie noises all around. I
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Speaker 1: got scared, so I turned to just go home, and
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Speaker 1: I saw this huge pumpkin floating towards me. And you know,
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Speaker 1: little Ash sees a pumpkin peering out of a bush
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Speaker 1: with a big scary smile, and he like runs away, panicked.
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Speaker 1: Let me cut back to now, and he says, looking
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Speaker 1: very annoyed by the way. I realized a couple of
19:13
Speaker 1: years later that it was just my reflection in the
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Speaker 1: windshield of a car. But I've hated pumpkins ever since.
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Speaker 1: Just seeing one gives me the chills. AG is like
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Speaker 1: just staring at Ash like slack jawed, and Ash is like, what,
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Speaker 1: I don't think Ash has ever told anyone this before.
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Speaker 1: AG is doing his best not to laugh. He's trying
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Speaker 1: so hard, but he just can't hold it in, and
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Speaker 1: he kind of starts to giggle, and Ash is blushing now,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, what's so funny? AG is laughing, and
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Speaker 1: he's tears in his eyes, and he's like, you better
19:51
Speaker 1: not tell that to anyone else. Ash is like full
19:55
Speaker 1: on blushing and embarrassment, and ag continues, a guy who's
19:58
Speaker 1: got the mafia gunpoint is gared of pumpkins. I've got
20:01
Speaker 1: to tell Goalsing to fire his bodyguards and plant a
20:04
Speaker 1: pumpkin garden instead. Ash's embarrassment just knows no bounds at
20:07
Speaker 1: this point, and he huffs and he's like, laugh all
20:10
Speaker 1: you want. He goes to drink some soda, but then
20:14
Speaker 1: something catches his attention and he stares into the hallway.
20:18
Speaker 1: He stands and starts to reach for the gun that's
20:21
Speaker 1: in the back of his pants. Agy, who is finally
20:24
Speaker 1: getting control of his laughter, says what is it. Ash, now,
20:28
Speaker 1: with the gun in his hand, says, get behind the bed, hurry,
20:33
Speaker 1: and Age obliges. Ash then kneels behind the chair and
20:36
Speaker 1: he points his gun towards the hallway and waits. Then
20:41
Speaker 1: we hear a voice say, hey, my man, it's me.
20:44
Speaker 1: Don't put a hole on me now, and a pair
20:47
Speaker 1: of sunglasses and a hat peek around the corner of
20:50
Speaker 1: the doorframe. But they don't have like a person in them.
20:52
Speaker 1: It's just a hat and glasses, basically floating for a second,
20:57
Speaker 1: and Ash relaxes and he's like, okay, it's just Fly.
21:01
Speaker 1: In the manga. Fly just knocked on the door like
21:03
Speaker 1: a normal person, which makes way more sense than entering
21:06
Speaker 1: an apartment that you know has someone who wants to
21:08
Speaker 1: buy a gun from you and may have a gun
21:10
Speaker 1: already without any sort of notification. So but that's okay.
21:15
Speaker 1: The anime did it in a cute less realistic way,
21:18
Speaker 1: but whatever. So anyway, Fly enters not just his sunglasses
21:24
Speaker 1: and hat, and he is this like black dude with
21:28
Speaker 1: blonde hair, and he looks like a nineteen seventies pimp.
21:32
Speaker 1: So it would have been great if this is one
21:34
Speaker 1: of the character designs that got updated, but hey, I
21:37
Speaker 1: guess we're not gonna do that. Anyway. He's like, yo,
21:40
Speaker 1: and we cut to a bunch of guns laid out
21:43
Speaker 1: on a table, all sorts of guns, and Flies like,
21:47
Speaker 1: I brought the goods you asked for. He picks up
21:50
Speaker 1: one of the guns and he hands to Ash and
21:52
Speaker 1: he's like, see just the way you like it. Ash
21:55
Speaker 1: is just kind of looking at it, and Fly continues,
21:57
Speaker 1: you still like that old fashioned revolver, huh? He picks
21:59
Speaker 1: up another gun. How about this baby instead? It's the
22:02
Speaker 1: Cold Government forty five ACP. Ash is not interested. He's
22:07
Speaker 1: still looking at the revolver that he's holding and he's like,
22:09
Speaker 1: don't eat it. Flies like, but it's pretty handy. You
22:12
Speaker 1: can kill a lot more bad guys with this, and
22:14
Speaker 1: Ash is like yeah, but I won't be able to stop.
22:17
Speaker 1: AG looks shocked and Flies like, you're an old fashioned sniper,
22:22
Speaker 1: straight up and honest, huh? And Ash is like like,
22:25
Speaker 1: hell I am. Whoever heard of an honest murderer? I
22:28
Speaker 1: fucking love Ash. At this point, Fly is packing up
22:31
Speaker 1: his stuff and he says, by the way, you can't
22:33
Speaker 1: pay for this right. Ash is like, don't worry, and
22:36
Speaker 1: he takes off that ear ring the Dino gave him
22:39
Speaker 1: and he's like, here's some jade. It's worth four hundred
22:41
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and he throws at the Fly and AG's
22:45
Speaker 1: like four hundred thousand dollars. Fly studies the jade and
22:50
Speaker 1: he's like it's real. I guess Fly is an expert
22:53
Speaker 1: in precious stones and not just guns, so that's good
22:56
Speaker 1: for him. Good to be diverse. AG's like, what'd you
22:59
Speaker 1: get that? And Ash is like it was a gift.
23:03
Speaker 1: Ag says from who, Yeah, Ash was not expecting follow
23:08
Speaker 1: up questions, and he just starts to like blush slightly,
23:12
Speaker 1: and he's like, none of your business. And at this
23:14
Speaker 1: point he's really blushing and his arms are crossed, and
23:17
Speaker 1: Fly is not really paying attention, and he's like, oh right,
23:20
Speaker 1: I'm also taking orders for coffins. Ash's like, get lost
23:23
Speaker 1: before I stuff you in one. Flies like okay, whatever
23:26
Speaker 1: you say, any leaves. So yeah, I don't know if
23:31
Speaker 1: he was getting uncomfortable because he didn't want to explain
23:34
Speaker 1: the whole like gouls and gave me this earring that
23:38
Speaker 1: matches my eyes thing to Ag or like he didn't
23:42
Speaker 1: want Fly to know, but he was just not expecting
23:45
Speaker 1: to have to, you know, to further explain any of that,
23:49
Speaker 1: which was cute. We see age in the kitchen, which
23:53
Speaker 1: is like a little galley kitchen, and there are some
23:57
Speaker 1: like cans of tomatoes and soup around, mostly just tomatoes.
24:02
Speaker 1: I don't know what they were gonna cook, maybe just
24:04
Speaker 1: tomato sauce, and also some like oats and cereal and coffee.
24:10
Speaker 1: Ag is staring blankly at a kettle that he's heating
24:14
Speaker 1: on a two burner stove that doesn't look anything like
24:16
Speaker 1: you'd see in New York, But that's okay, and he thinks,
24:21
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel Ash. We get some
24:24
Speaker 1: flashbacks of like the past couple of episodes, and AG continues,
24:29
Speaker 1: the U who kills relentlessly amidst all that blood and gunpowder,
24:33
Speaker 1: the U who hates pumpkins and pouts about it. Which
24:37
Speaker 1: is the real you? We see Ash looking out the
24:42
Speaker 1: window and AG continues, or are they both you coexisting
24:46
Speaker 1: within you? Side by side? He's carrying the two cups
24:49
Speaker 1: of coffee down the hall, he continues, Sometimes I get
24:53
Speaker 1: really scared. Ash takes the coffee from AG and he
24:56
Speaker 1: blows on it and he realizes that A is staring
25:01
Speaker 1: at him, and he's like, why are you staring at me?
25:06
Speaker 1: AG's like, oh, I just noticed that even your eyelashes
25:09
Speaker 1: are blond. Nice save Ag. Ash grins like super widely,
25:14
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know down there is blonde too.
25:17
Speaker 1: Do you want to see? And AG's like, for real,
25:21
Speaker 1: yeah I do. And that is not what Ash was
25:25
Speaker 1: expecting to happen. And he looks so freaked out, and
25:28
Speaker 1: he like backs up against the wall and AG's like,
25:32
Speaker 1: I I was just kidding. I don't think you were, AG.
25:37
Speaker 1: So we cut to Ash, who's sitting on the bed now,
25:40
Speaker 1: just drinking the coffee, and he's like, you're so weird.
25:43
Speaker 1: AG then continues his inner monologue. He thinks you're so close,
25:48
Speaker 1: but I get scared you might slip away to some
25:50
Speaker 1: far away place. And we see that he's like on
25:53
Speaker 1: the other bed and Ash is like as far away
25:56
Speaker 1: from him as he could possibly muster because he's so
25:58
Speaker 1: weirded out, while AG's zips the coffee like awkwardly. Next,
26:03
Speaker 1: we see a tablet with a New York Journal article
26:07
Speaker 1: open on it about Senator Peter Grant being stabbed by
26:10
Speaker 1: a secretary. Guess that was the dude in that hotel
26:13
Speaker 1: that was stabbed just last episode. And I can read
26:17
Speaker 1: a little bit of the article. In the last episode,
26:20
Speaker 1: they just said the presidential candidate person, so I wasn't
26:24
Speaker 1: sure who they meant. So it looks like he's the
26:26
Speaker 1: forerunner to be the Democratic nominee for president, but he's
26:30
Speaker 1: dead so it doesn't matter anymore anyway. Ash is looking
26:33
Speaker 1: at it, obviously, and he is not wearing a shirt,
26:35
Speaker 1: which is important. Sorry, Ag touches his wounded arm, remember
26:42
Speaker 1: when the gun grazed him. He touches it with a
26:45
Speaker 1: cotton ball and Ash flinches and he's like ouch, and
26:48
Speaker 1: she's like, sorry, did that sting? And Ash says, hell,
26:52
Speaker 1: yeah did. I don't know about you, but I have
26:55
Speaker 1: a delicate body. It really hurts when you do it
26:59
Speaker 1: sloppy like that. AG's eyes narrow and he thinks, too bad,
27:03
Speaker 1: it was in your mouth that was hurt, and he
27:05
Speaker 1: smiles deviously. Then we cut to outside the window where
27:08
Speaker 1: some pigeons are hanging out, and we hear AG say, well,
27:12
Speaker 1: sorry about that. I'm just a sloppy Japanese. I can't
27:15
Speaker 1: do it any better, and we hear like Ash like
27:17
Speaker 1: struggling and yelping in pain, and we cut back and
27:21
Speaker 1: Ash is loosely wrapped in gauze like amami basically, and
27:26
Speaker 1: Ag kind of marches off, like really impressed with himself.
27:29
Speaker 1: But when he's in the doorway, he turns back and
27:31
Speaker 1: he says, would the delicate American like a sandwich made
27:35
Speaker 1: by the sloppy Japanese? And Ashes like, as long as
27:38
Speaker 1: there's no fingers in it, and they kind of like
27:40
Speaker 1: raise their fists at each other and then smile and
27:42
Speaker 1: laugh a little, which is fine. But in the manga
27:45
Speaker 1: they flipped each other off, which made more sense with
27:47
Speaker 1: a joke about not having fingers in the sandwich. So
27:52
Speaker 1: I hate that that was censored, but that's okay. We
27:54
Speaker 1: cut to Max and Shunichi sitting in I guess Charlie's
27:57
Speaker 1: living room, and Max says, all be fine, ashe will
28:01
Speaker 1: protect him even if it cost his life. He took
28:03
Speaker 1: ag with him, knowing the risk he had to. Shinichi
28:07
Speaker 1: kind of exhales, and Max continues, even that tough little
28:11
Speaker 1: Lynx couldn't bear to be alone right now. Oh. He
28:14
Speaker 1: SIPs some whiskey, and Shinci says, I guess you're right.
28:19
Speaker 1: I think i'll have a drink too. Max is like,
28:22
Speaker 1: that's the spirit, and he pours him some whiskey. Age's
28:25
Speaker 1: a strange kid. Shunci is confused by that assertion. Max continues,
28:30
Speaker 1: he's pretty damn plain, if you know what I mean.
28:32
Speaker 1: Geez Like, he's a really nice boy, but that's it.
28:37
Speaker 1: For better or worse, he lacks personality on like ash.
28:40
Speaker 1: He takes a sip of his drink. Again, He's got
28:43
Speaker 1: a strange power, though, it's like he's got the ability
28:46
Speaker 1: to comfort those around him. He's the exact opposite of Ash,
28:50
Speaker 1: and Shinici says, I wouldn't say it like that. We
28:54
Speaker 1: cut to a flashback of their time in Cape cod
28:57
Speaker 1: where Ash was showing a you had to shoot a gun,
29:00
Speaker 1: But it's not like a direct flashback from episode six.
29:03
Speaker 1: It is from Shunichi's perspective, so it's different animation, and
29:07
Speaker 1: we hear Shounichi say they had a really good time
29:09
Speaker 1: together when we were in Cape God, they'd have looked
29:12
Speaker 1: just like two boys having a good time if it
29:14
Speaker 1: weren't for the gun. It was comforting to watch. Ash
29:17
Speaker 1: noticed me while I was watching them, and it only
29:19
Speaker 1: took a split second to read what was going on
29:21
Speaker 1: in my mind. We see Ash look away from age
29:25
Speaker 1: and his expression just goes cold. Shunici continues, his care
29:29
Speaker 1: free expression was gone, and he was his usual self again.
29:33
Speaker 1: I felt so sorry for him. I wonder when he
29:36
Speaker 1: learned to be like that. Max, in a rather downcast way, says,
29:41
Speaker 1: he can only be a kid again when he's with Agy,
29:44
Speaker 1: just a normal seventeen year old. Yeah. We cut to
29:54
Speaker 1: the apartment again and Ash is startled awake, by a nightmare.
29:59
Speaker 1: He said, it's straight up, and he's sweating and breathing
30:01
Speaker 1: really hard, and he looks like so frightened. He looks
30:06
Speaker 1: over and Ag is in the bed next to him,
30:09
Speaker 1: sleeping soundly. He calms down. We cut to him turning
30:15
Speaker 1: off the faucet in the bathroom, his hand over his face,
30:18
Speaker 1: like he's just splashed water on his face. He looks
30:21
Speaker 1: up in the mirror and he sees that Ag is
30:24
Speaker 1: standing behind him. Back in the bedroom, Ash is sitting
30:28
Speaker 1: on the bed and Age's kind of sitting on the
30:30
Speaker 1: floor next to him, and the scene is just illuminated
30:33
Speaker 1: by the soft glow of like a table lamp, and
30:36
Speaker 1: Ash says, I tried to forget former prostitute gang leader murderer,
30:42
Speaker 1: and I still get shaken up. He's just kind of
30:45
Speaker 1: looking down in a way, and AG's like, don't say
30:48
Speaker 1: that about yourself. Ash looks over at Ag with like
30:54
Speaker 1: fear in his eyes, like either he's afraid of what
30:56
Speaker 1: he's going to tell AG or afraid of what happened.
31:00
Speaker 1: And he says, the first time I killed someone, I
31:04
Speaker 1: was eight years old. AG just kind of stares at Ash,
31:08
Speaker 1: waiting for him to continue. He obviously knows this already,
31:11
Speaker 1: but Ash doesn't know that he knows, and Ash says
31:15
Speaker 1: he'd raped me. Tears start to stream down his face
31:18
Speaker 1: and his eyes are like really wide, and he continues,
31:23
Speaker 1: I was terrified, so scared. I couldn't find my voice.
31:27
Speaker 1: My heart was screaming for help, but nothing came out.
31:31
Speaker 1: I cried when I shot him because I didn't feel anything.
31:35
Speaker 1: He stares down at his hands. I'm so scared of myself.
31:40
Speaker 1: He starts to shake. I killed shorter. Tears start to
31:45
Speaker 1: fall on his hands. I don't even know how many
31:48
Speaker 1: people I've killed. I don't feel anything. Nothing. He puts
31:54
Speaker 1: his hand over his face and he begins to sob.
31:58
Speaker 1: Ag sits next to him on the and puts his
32:01
Speaker 1: arm around him and says, Ash, it's okay, calm down.
32:05
Speaker 1: You do feel it. You're hurt, really hurt, I can tell.
32:09
Speaker 1: Ash is still sobbing. Ag continues, you saved my life,
32:13
Speaker 1: so if you feel responsible, then I am too. Ash
32:18
Speaker 1: takes his hand off his face and looks up at
32:20
Speaker 1: Ag in confusion, and Ag says, you know, my words
32:25
Speaker 1: might not meet anything right now, but just remember one thing.
32:28
Speaker 1: Even if the world turns against you, I'll always be
32:32
Speaker 1: on your side. Ash is so confused, and AG continues,
32:38
Speaker 1: I'll stay by your side, that is, if you don't mind.
32:43
Speaker 1: Ash wipes the tears from his eyes and he smiles,
32:48
Speaker 1: and he says, does that mean I have to keep
32:50
Speaker 1: eating those nasty sandwiches? Oh? He's bouncing back. AG's like,
32:55
Speaker 1: that's right, lucky you. My tofu sandwiches are so good
32:58
Speaker 1: for you. Your health is safe in mind, and before
33:00
Speaker 1: he can finish, Ash just collapses into his lap, and
33:06
Speaker 1: Ag is obviously stunned silence, and we see that Ash
33:14
Speaker 1: is shaking and probably crying, but we can't see his
33:17
Speaker 1: face because it's in AG's lap, and he says, stay
33:22
Speaker 1: by my side. It doesn't have to be forever, even
33:26
Speaker 1: if it's just for now. AG puts his hand on
33:31
Speaker 1: Ash's back, and Ash cries, Yeah, we can stop there
33:37
Speaker 1: for a second because I want to talk about some things. So,
33:41
Speaker 1: first of all, this is the second time we've had
33:44
Speaker 1: a lap pillow scene since I started doing the show.
33:49
Speaker 1: The last one, if you remember, was from Ree zero
33:53
Speaker 1: when Subaru cried into Amelia's lap and then he fell
33:56
Speaker 1: asleep there and it kind of endeared everyone in the
34:00
Speaker 1: showdomn in that arc in case you don't remember, the
34:05
Speaker 1: episode was called I Cried, I cried my lungs out
34:08
Speaker 1: and stopped crying, thanks for being so on the Nosary zero.
34:14
Speaker 1: So they actually think this scene might have done the
34:18
Speaker 1: same thing with Ag that it did with Amelia and
34:22
Speaker 1: Rem and Ram in Ree zero, where that amount of
34:25
Speaker 1: vulnerability deep in the connection between those characters basically, and
34:31
Speaker 1: I think that's really important. Ash in this episode has
34:35
Speaker 1: been an interesting dichotomy of you know, strength and harshness
34:40
Speaker 1: and vulnerability. So that's kind of cool. And unfortunately we
34:47
Speaker 1: lost something very important in this scene in the anime,
34:51
Speaker 1: in my opinion, at least at the very end of
34:54
Speaker 1: this scene. After Ash says you know, doesn't have to
34:59
Speaker 1: be for just for now, Agy says forever, And that's
35:03
Speaker 1: the end of the scene, which I think is important
35:05
Speaker 1: and I would love to have back in. There are
35:07
Speaker 1: a couple other things that are missing from the scene
35:09
Speaker 1: as well. We get a little bit more detail of
35:12
Speaker 1: what happened with Ash and that vets, but I guess
35:17
Speaker 1: I really don't have to tell you about that stuff
35:19
Speaker 1: because it'll only hurt you, so like, for instance, I
35:23
Speaker 1: don't need to tell you that that veteran dude shoved
35:26
Speaker 1: a towel and ash's mouth so we couldn't scream, and
35:29
Speaker 1: he still remembers the taste of it, except I did
35:31
Speaker 1: tell you, so now you know. Yay, high five. Sorry.
35:37
Speaker 1: But the other thing in that scene that is so
35:39
Speaker 1: interesting to me is his impression of himself. Like we've
35:43
Speaker 1: seen in this episode, he's got, at some points like
35:47
Speaker 1: a really balanced impression of himself, and at some points
35:49
Speaker 1: it's so skewed, like him acknowledging that he's a murderer
35:54
Speaker 1: and being like this fucking no such thing as an
35:56
Speaker 1: honest murderer to fly, and then in this san not
36:01
Speaker 1: understanding himself and saying that he doesn't feel anything, which
36:06
Speaker 1: obviously he does. He's fucking crying, so he feels something.
36:10
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering what he is feeling and what he
36:12
Speaker 1: thinks he's supposed to feel. Right, So there are a
36:15
Speaker 1: couple of things that could be happening here with him
36:19
Speaker 1: that make him think that he doesn't feel anything that
36:21
Speaker 1: aren't that he doesn't feel anything, because I don't think
36:23
Speaker 1: that's true. Maybe he's dissociating, Maybe he has separated himself
36:29
Speaker 1: so much from all of the terrible things in his
36:31
Speaker 1: life that he doesn't feel the emotions associated with them anymore.
36:35
Speaker 1: I think that could be a take. But in my opinion,
36:37
Speaker 1: what I think is happening, and I was thinking about
36:40
Speaker 1: this a couple of nights ago at like four am,
36:42
Speaker 1: by the way, is that I think maybe he doesn't
36:46
Speaker 1: feel like he has the emotions that he's supposed to
36:48
Speaker 1: have here, Like maybe he thinks he's supposed to be
36:52
Speaker 1: either really passionately angry killing these people or really like
36:56
Speaker 1: warn them or something, and maybe what he's feeling is
37:00
Speaker 1: relieved or just disgusted with himself. Maybe he doesn't feel
37:06
Speaker 1: like his emotions that he absolutely does have are good
37:09
Speaker 1: enough and justifiable enough, but they're definitely there all right.
37:14
Speaker 1: Back to the episode, I guess. So it's dawn now.
37:20
Speaker 1: We see the Statue of Liberty with the New York
37:23
Speaker 1: City skyline in the background, and the sky is just
37:28
Speaker 1: beginning to turn slightly blue. Ash is laying in bed
37:33
Speaker 1: and he opens his eyes and he starts to sit up,
37:36
Speaker 1: and he realizes that AG's head is resting on his stomach,
37:40
Speaker 1: so they like switch places during the night. That's very cute,
37:43
Speaker 1: and he kind of sighs in the mong he very
37:46
Speaker 1: carefully picks up AG's head and puts it on the bed,
37:49
Speaker 1: but we don't see that in the anime. So whatever,
37:53
Speaker 1: The sun is coming up now over the buildings and
37:57
Speaker 1: birds are chirping lightly, but over all the city is
38:00
Speaker 1: like pretty quiet, kind of how it is in the
38:03
Speaker 1: early morning hours. I would assume at least that's how
38:06
Speaker 1: it is in other places in the early morning hours.
38:09
Speaker 1: Ash sits on the windowsill and he just watches the sunrise,
38:14
Speaker 1: and we see some really cute pigeons outside. We cut
38:17
Speaker 1: to him typing something into a keyboard while Age is
38:21
Speaker 1: sleeping soundly on the bed behind him. Oh no, he's
38:24
Speaker 1: actually getting up now, and he says Ash. And Ash
38:29
Speaker 1: is completely absorbed in whatever he's doing, and he's wearing glasses.
38:32
Speaker 1: I guess he's far sighted. Yay, He says, did I
38:36
Speaker 1: wake you? AG's like, oh, Ash says, go back to sleep.
38:41
Speaker 1: It's still early. AG's like, what are you doing? Ash
38:46
Speaker 1: says stealing. Ag sighs and scratches his head and walks
38:51
Speaker 1: over to Ash and he's like, Ash, are you gonna
38:55
Speaker 1: keep doing that stuff? Ash, who is still like barely
38:58
Speaker 1: paying attention to Ag, says what stuff. AG's like, you know, gunfights,
39:03
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and Ash says, you scared. Now. I'm
39:08
Speaker 1: pretty sure that was not a nice check in, and
39:12
Speaker 1: that was kind of sarcastic, but I still count it.
39:16
Speaker 1: He said the thing. AG's like, I'm just saying that
39:21
Speaker 1: being reckless isn't the only way to be brave. Cool, Ag,
39:24
Speaker 1: you just said that to the bravest character in the show.
39:26
Speaker 1: But whatever, I'm older than you, so you should listen.
39:29
Speaker 1: And Ash is like, well, forgive me older brother. AG
39:33
Speaker 1: starts to blush and he's like, why are you already
39:36
Speaker 1: like this? You were just crying like a baby last night.
39:39
Speaker 1: Ash takes off his glasses and finally turns to Ag
39:42
Speaker 1: and he's like, come on, big brother, I'm really busy
39:46
Speaker 1: right now. Could you get off my back. I'm glad
39:50
Speaker 1: he's in a good mood. We cut to Ag pouring
39:53
Speaker 1: coffee in the kitchen angrily and he thinks that Ash
39:57
Speaker 1: and he kind of smiles. He's like, oh, well, he's
40:00
Speaker 1: still a kid too, crying in my arms like that.
40:03
Speaker 1: He takes a step of the coffee. We cut back
40:06
Speaker 1: to Ash as he clicks the track pad and he
40:09
Speaker 1: smiles deviously. I'll pause there and tell you that that
40:12
Speaker 1: is what my tattoo is of, is of Ash stealing. Technically,
40:17
Speaker 1: it's of a couple of panels that aren't represented in
40:19
Speaker 1: the anime. Before Ag wakes up and he is doing
40:23
Speaker 1: stuff on the computer, and even though the manga is
40:26
Speaker 1: from the eighties, Ash did have a laptop. It was
40:30
Speaker 1: a big, thick laptop, but he had one, and he
40:33
Speaker 1: had like a printer and stuff, and he was printing
40:35
Speaker 1: stuff out and all that stuff. So it's of that.
40:37
Speaker 1: It's of two panels of Ash stealing. Why that in particular,
40:42
Speaker 1: I will tell you at the end of the episode.
40:44
Speaker 1: Next we go to Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant.
40:48
Speaker 1: We don't actually see the full sign, but I know
40:52
Speaker 1: that that's where it is, so yes, and it is
40:55
Speaker 1: a real restaurant that has been in Grand Central Station
40:59
Speaker 1: since like the nineteenth Ortezer or something. And it's in
41:01
Speaker 1: the original Manka too. It's always been Grand Central Oyster
41:04
Speaker 1: Bar and Restaurant, which I'd like to go to now anyway.
41:09
Speaker 1: Ash and Max are there at a table and Ash
41:12
Speaker 1: is wearing like a blue sweater with glasses. He looks
41:16
Speaker 1: kind of put together for Ash honestly, and Max has
41:20
Speaker 1: a mustache which is probably fake but I'm not sure.
41:23
Speaker 1: And he's wearing a suit and Max says, that's all
41:26
Speaker 1: you're eating. Ash is like, I'm watching my weight. You
41:29
Speaker 1: go ahead and pick out. Max looks irritated and he's like,
41:32
Speaker 1: the hell, I will you just nibble on that leaf
41:34
Speaker 1: like a little bunny. It really surprised me when your
41:37
Speaker 1: boys came for me. How'd you find us? Max eats
41:40
Speaker 1: some steak and Ash is like, where else would you be? Dad?
41:45
Speaker 1: He eats an oyster and Max says, cut it out.
41:47
Speaker 1: I am not old enough to be your dad dressing
41:49
Speaker 1: me up like this, playing family? So what's going on?
41:53
Speaker 1: Ash says, old Mandino's got the cops looking for me.
41:57
Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time until they find me.
42:00
Speaker 1: In the anime, we actually lost a scene here because
42:02
Speaker 1: they originally met in the park in the manga and
42:05
Speaker 1: Ash was stopped by the cops. He had a fake ID,
42:08
Speaker 1: and Max appeared and basically saved him and was like,
42:12
Speaker 1: oh son, But yeah, the cops are looking for him,
42:17
Speaker 1: not only because he you know, jumped bail back then,
42:20
Speaker 1: but also because they suspect that he started the fire
42:23
Speaker 1: at Dino's mansion, which he did, but someone had to anyway.
42:28
Speaker 1: Max says, if you're worried about ag, give him to us.
42:32
Speaker 1: Ash looks away and like slightly pouts, and he's like,
42:35
Speaker 1: he's safer with me. You guys can't protect him like
42:38
Speaker 1: I can. Sure. Max is like, fine, have it your way.
42:43
Speaker 1: So what now? Ash says, I'm buying a condo on
42:47
Speaker 1: fifty ninth Avenue. I need you just signed the contract.
42:51
Speaker 1: Max is like, what did you say? And Ash says,
42:54
Speaker 1: I can't do it myself. I'm a kid. Max is like,
42:58
Speaker 1: but how are you going to pay for it? That's
43:01
Speaker 1: a good question, and he looks surprised all of a sudden,
43:07
Speaker 1: and we see that Ash has the most devious look
43:09
Speaker 1: on his face and his fingers are more or less crossed.
43:12
Speaker 1: He's smirking, and Max is like, what did you do?
43:17
Speaker 1: We cut to Gregory, who slams the door open and
43:20
Speaker 1: he's like Papa Dino is staring out of the window
43:24
Speaker 1: on the other side of the room, and he says,
43:25
Speaker 1: what is it now. Gregory's like, we just got a
43:29
Speaker 1: call from the New York Stock Exchange. Our company, Webster
43:32
Speaker 1: e Com stocks have plummeted since the opening this morning.
43:35
Speaker 1: Dino turns like freaked out, and he's like, what we
43:38
Speaker 1: cut back to the restaurant, Ash says, it's nothing. I
43:42
Speaker 1: just sent fake selling orders to the main stock brokerages,
43:46
Speaker 1: lots of them back to Dino. Some other dude opens
43:51
Speaker 1: the door now frantically and he's like, Papa, big trouble.
43:54
Speaker 1: And Dino's like, now what. And some other guy's like
43:58
Speaker 1: the money and Goose has all been wired somewhere overseas.
44:01
Speaker 1: It's all gone. Dino is shook. Back to the restaurant,
44:07
Speaker 1: Ash continues, there are five companies and tax havens that
44:11
Speaker 1: are all owned by the Corsican Foundation that Dino is
44:13
Speaker 1: a part of. He like draws a map of the world,
44:16
Speaker 1: maybe the back of a menu or something. I don't
44:18
Speaker 1: really know, he continues. They're known collectively as Goose, which
44:23
Speaker 1: is an acronym based on each of the countries that
44:25
Speaker 1: they're located in's initials. But they don't really exist. The
44:30
Speaker 1: Foundation has a number of shell companies like these to
44:32
Speaker 1: disperse their profits and evade taxes. Goose is the largest,
44:35
Speaker 1: though it is a total of ninety million dollars a
44:39
Speaker 1: year passing through it, and I took it yay. We
44:45
Speaker 1: cut back to Dino, who was staring out the window
44:47
Speaker 1: again but sweating this time, and someone's like someone accessed
44:52
Speaker 1: it from outside. Dino says, no, we couldn't have been hacked,
44:55
Speaker 1: and another guy's like, well, actually, it seems like your
44:58
Speaker 1: credentials were used for the transaction, Papa, and Tino's like what,
45:03
Speaker 1: but I'm the only one who knows the password, And
45:05
Speaker 1: just as he starts to figure out what happened, we
45:07
Speaker 1: cut back to Ash, who says only his favorite pets
45:10
Speaker 1: were allowed in his bedroom. We cut to Max, who
45:14
Speaker 1: looks totally horrified or stunned or impressed or something, and
45:18
Speaker 1: Ash continues, while the perverted old guy was enjoying the sex,
45:22
Speaker 1: I had my mind on other things. Fuck Ash, for real,
45:26
Speaker 1: he never imagined his pet would plant spyware on his computer.
45:30
Speaker 1: It's dirty money to begin with. I love Ash just
45:33
Speaker 1: casually dropping in his dissociation into the discussion, like it's
45:37
Speaker 1: no big deal. And Max is like, so, it looks
45:40
Speaker 1: like he caused major damage to the foundation and he'll
45:42
Speaker 1: have to go and explain it to the dons now, huh,
45:45
Speaker 1: And Ash says, bingo. Max is like, you know, for
45:49
Speaker 1: the first time, you're really scaring me. If the devil
45:52
Speaker 1: really exists, I think he'd look just like you. Ash's
45:56
Speaker 1: eyes narrow, and he's like, anyway, he won't be able
45:59
Speaker 1: to make a move for a while. Now. He sets
46:02
Speaker 1: his cell phone on the table and it has that
46:04
Speaker 1: article about Senator Grant being stabbed open on it, and
46:08
Speaker 1: he says, I want you to look into this. The
46:11
Speaker 1: secretary was controlled by banana fish. Max gasps, but come on,
46:15
Speaker 1: he must have known. We then cut to Max signing
46:19
Speaker 1: closing paperwork on a condo under the name of Eddie Winston,
46:24
Speaker 1: and a woman who is probably a realtor says, thank you,
46:27
Speaker 1: mister Winston. I'll be right back with the documents. She leaps.
46:31
Speaker 1: Max is looking around this crazy, huge apartment and he says,
46:36
Speaker 1: I feel like a celebrity, even though it's not my money,
46:38
Speaker 1: buying an eight million dollar condo in cash. He goes
46:42
Speaker 1: to what I guess is the bedroom and opens the door,
46:44
Speaker 1: and he sees that Ash is staring out the window
46:47
Speaker 1: and he's like, what are you looking at? Ash says,
46:51
Speaker 1: the Corsican Foundation owns that building, which he's pointing to
46:54
Speaker 1: the building right next door, and Max is like, what damn,
47:01
Speaker 1: you're bold. But if they find you. Ash says, there's
47:05
Speaker 1: a gym in a supermarket downstairs. I don't even have
47:07
Speaker 1: to leave the building for anything. And Max is like,
47:10
Speaker 1: but EJ has a pretty aggressive side. Do you think
47:12
Speaker 1: he'll agree to be cooped up here? Ash is like,
47:15
Speaker 1: he has to. We cut to them walking down the
47:18
Speaker 1: street and Ash says, don't tell anybody about the condo yet.
47:22
Speaker 1: We have to lay low for now. Max is like,
47:25
Speaker 1: and what are you gonna do? Ash says, it's better
47:29
Speaker 1: if you don't know. Just look into what I asked you.
47:32
Speaker 1: Let's get to the bottom of things. They are stopped
47:34
Speaker 1: at a crosswalk now and Max looks down and he says,
47:40
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I'm actually really scared. I
47:44
Speaker 1: feel like we're gonna uncover something that we shouldn't know about.
47:48
Speaker 1: And Ash says it's too late now. He at this
47:52
Speaker 1: point is on the stairs going down to the subway,
47:55
Speaker 1: and he says, later, Dad, I'll call you. He starts
47:59
Speaker 1: to walk off. Now we see Max walking by himself
48:03
Speaker 1: and he thinks, Ash, there's something I couldn't tell you.
48:07
Speaker 1: It's too dangerous for you to stay with ag. He's
48:10
Speaker 1: your Achilles heel, I'm afraid that someday. At this point,
48:15
Speaker 1: the ending theme starts up and we cut back to
48:17
Speaker 1: Dino and he says, I'll give you one last chance.
48:21
Speaker 1: Arthur looks super surprised at this. Dino continues, I'm leaving
48:25
Speaker 1: the States to attend to some business. You'll have full control.
48:28
Speaker 1: Catch that boy. Arthur smiles. Dino says, you can cut
48:33
Speaker 1: off all his limbs for all I care, but keep
48:35
Speaker 1: him alive. I will attend to him. The moment I
48:38
Speaker 1: get back, I'll strangle him with my own hands. Geez.
48:42
Speaker 1: Arthur smiles super widely at this, and then we cut
48:45
Speaker 1: to him with the gang and he says, it's time
48:48
Speaker 1: for war. There's no turning back now that you're with me,
48:51
Speaker 1: got it? And everyone's like, yeah, Arthur thinks I'll stomp
48:55
Speaker 1: the life out of you for sure. This time Ash,
48:58
Speaker 1: we cut to Ash, who is on the subway. He
49:01
Speaker 1: has a hood up and he's wearing sunglasses, and he's
49:04
Speaker 1: sitting a little bit away from one of Arthur's guys,
49:08
Speaker 1: who I'm pretty sure is the same dude who kidnapped
49:12
Speaker 1: ag and Skip in the first episode, at least one
49:16
Speaker 1: of them, And I think his name is a Wookie,
49:18
Speaker 1: which we don't get his name until a little bit later,
49:21
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna tell you that because we might
49:23
Speaker 1: as well say it anyway. The train stops and Alex
49:28
Speaker 1: and Bones get on, but they don't acknowledge Ash and
49:31
Speaker 1: Bones is like, I feel so sick, and Alex sits
49:35
Speaker 1: Bones down and he's like, you're so drunk. They are
49:39
Speaker 1: now approaching the forty second Street Times Square stop and
49:43
Speaker 1: Ash walks over to the doors to get off, and
49:47
Speaker 1: Wookie is sitting in the seat next to the doors.
49:51
Speaker 1: The train stops and Ash pulls down his hood and
49:55
Speaker 1: sunglasses and he smiles at Wookie. Wookie gasps and he
50:00
Speaker 1: gets up to go after him, but at that point
50:02
Speaker 1: Bones and Alex knock into him, knocking him back a
50:05
Speaker 1: little bit because Bones is gonna throw up and they
50:07
Speaker 1: gotta get off the train. The doors close before what
50:10
Speaker 1: he can get off, and he looks really surprised, I guess,
50:16
Speaker 1: and upset because I guess he couldn't get off the
50:18
Speaker 1: train to follow Ash. But then he falls to the
50:20
Speaker 1: ground because he is really surprised because he got stabbed
50:23
Speaker 1: in the back. Yay, I guess. Passengers gather around and
50:28
Speaker 1: somebody screams, and we cut to Ash walking past the
50:32
Speaker 1: train as it takes off again, and then we get
50:34
Speaker 1: the title card, the beautiful and damned Yay, we did it.
50:40
Speaker 1: So closing thoughts, I think I did a better take
50:43
Speaker 1: than the last take, but you'll never know now because
50:46
Speaker 1: you're only gonna hear this one. So I covered most
50:49
Speaker 1: of the stuff I wanted to talk about during the episode,
50:52
Speaker 1: which was the plan this time. But I did say
50:55
Speaker 1: I was gonna talk about my tattoo, so let's talk
50:58
Speaker 1: about that because that is important to me, and maybe
51:01
Speaker 1: to you. You don't care about my tattoo, but whatever.
51:04
Speaker 1: So specifically, why I got these two panels of Ash
51:09
Speaker 1: on the computer and then Ash drinking some coffee and
51:13
Speaker 1: looking pretty intense. I mean, the reason that I got
51:16
Speaker 1: this particular set of panels on my arm is that
51:20
Speaker 1: I wanted something that wasn't true traumatic and conveyed something
51:25
Speaker 1: important to me. And this act of stealing to me
51:30
Speaker 1: feels like the culmination of a very long and incredibly
51:35
Speaker 1: dedicated plan. As we heard when he was talking to Max,
51:40
Speaker 1: doing this has been in his mind for years. He
51:44
Speaker 1: has been working towards bringing Dino down for as long
51:49
Speaker 1: as he has known him, basically, and this particular episode
51:56
Speaker 1: is kind of when I went from thinking Ash was
51:59
Speaker 1: a pretty cool character to being like, oh my god,
52:02
Speaker 1: I fucking love this kid, because I really see Ash
52:06
Speaker 1: as a survivor, someone who decided that he was going
52:09
Speaker 1: to do everything he possibly could to get out of
52:14
Speaker 1: a really terrible situation and to bring Dino down like
52:17
Speaker 1: it all fucking costs, And yeah, I really really like
52:22
Speaker 1: him for that. Also, I'm wondering if the timeline with
52:27
Speaker 1: him deciding to take down the company and steal all
52:30
Speaker 1: that money the day that he did, I wonder if
52:33
Speaker 1: he was influenced by AG's faith in him and AG's
52:37
Speaker 1: saying that he was going to stay by his side
52:39
Speaker 1: no matter what. Like he got up, like he had
52:42
Speaker 1: a really good cry and he felt a little bit better,
52:46
Speaker 1: and then he was like, it's time to take him down.
52:49
Speaker 1: So anyway, I don't really have anything else to say
52:53
Speaker 1: about that except that I just think that his drive
52:56
Speaker 1: and his will to survive through this are just super
52:59
Speaker 1: fucking And he did this all knowing that Dino was
53:04
Speaker 1: going to know immediately that it was him, because who
53:08
Speaker 1: else could it be. He doesn't fucking care This is
53:11
Speaker 1: about making this man pay for what he's fucking done
53:14
Speaker 1: to his friends and to him for all of these years.
53:18
Speaker 1: And I respect Ash so much for doing that. Of course,
53:24
Speaker 1: in the manga, there was no spyware. It's the eighties,
53:27
Speaker 1: so I assume he just got onto Dino's computer a
53:30
Speaker 1: bunch of times. That's not like any eighties everyone was
53:32
Speaker 1: changing their passwords all the time, so I'm sure he
53:35
Speaker 1: had it and then like that was it. And I'm
53:37
Speaker 1: sure the password was like password or like one two, three, four,
53:40
Speaker 1: five six or something. But still, so that's why I
53:43
Speaker 1: have that tattoo, yeah or something. Also, if you were
53:48
Speaker 1: confused about how he bought in apartments, that's fine. In
53:51
Speaker 1: the manga, it seems he hacked into that broker's like
53:56
Speaker 1: database or whatever the hell, and I guess that he
53:59
Speaker 1: input fake information because otherwise I don't really know how
54:02
Speaker 1: that would work. So good for him. But I think
54:06
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. I think I've said everything that
54:08
Speaker 1: I needed to say here. The only thing that I
54:12
Speaker 1: will say that I feel like I probably shouldn't say
54:15
Speaker 1: is is, Hey, I really want to go to Grand
54:17
Speaker 1: Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant. Do you want to take
54:20
Speaker 1: a field trip with me, because I totally would do that.
54:24
Speaker 1: If any of you live close enough to New York
54:26
Speaker 1: City where you just want to go to Grand Central
54:29
Speaker 1: Station and go to an oyster bar restaurant, we could
54:34
Speaker 1: totally do that. Maybe we could go to one other
54:36
Speaker 1: place that's located somewhere in the area or not. Yeah,
54:41
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that sounds like a bad
54:43
Speaker 1: idea now that I've said it, But hey, i'd be
54:46
Speaker 1: down if you're down, But you'd have to actually let
54:49
Speaker 1: me know that, because otherwise, how would we communicate if
54:54
Speaker 1: we don't talk to each other. So if it's something
54:58
Speaker 1: you'd be interested in, like we could organize like a
55:01
Speaker 1: little field trip. Oh god, yeah, I know, I know.
55:06
Speaker 1: I understand that this is weird and that I'm weird.
55:08
Speaker 1: I get it. But if that's something you'd be down for,
55:11
Speaker 1: you'd have to email me and tell me. So my
55:14
Speaker 1: email is always in the show notes. It's the thing
55:17
Speaker 1: that looks like an email, So feel free to or
55:21
Speaker 1: not pretend you didn't hear this. I think I got
55:26
Speaker 1: everything I needed to say out, So I'm gonna go
55:30
Speaker 1: and I hope you have a really good whatever, and
55:34
Speaker 1: I will probably see you next time, unless this is
55:37
Speaker 1: this is it for you, and in that case bye
55:40
Speaker 1: forever Later webs