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Why’d He Zip His Fly with Such GUSTO? | MAFIA II | Part 2 · Replay Reviews

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We're off to a rough start with unable to sync
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ourselves. Oh my gosh. After a two week delay
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because I was out sick and out of commission
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and you got a dog. Yep. I have a puppy now. He's
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just a little guy. He's a good boy, but we have
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to revolve around his nap schedule for a while
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to record. So hopefully he stays asleep. This
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is the first time we're trying it. But after
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a long break, we're back to Mafia part two. Should
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I just do the out -of -context summary? Mm -hmm.
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In this episode, we witness the return of the
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bitch slap. This game likes ass more than we
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do. And is Joe f***ing serious? Thank you for
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coming back for more replay reviews. My name
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is Leah. And my name is Kathy. We are two friends
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who are here to replay, review, and analyze your
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favorite video games. And since Kathy has never
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seen the games before, it helps me view them
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through her fresh eyes. Almost like I'm discovering
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them again for the first time. We hope it will
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be a similar experience for you. Chapter 4, Murphy's
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Law. We're in Little Italy, February 11th, 1945.
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Vito learns a bit more about the dynamics of
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his new job when he and Joe take on another mission.
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So, Vito wakes up, drinks his morning beer, spots
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a note that Joe left for him on the counter,
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He says to head to Freddy's because there's another
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job. Well, I think at the start of the game,
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we noted that there's a woman who grunted so
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loud it sounded like a man hoister. I'm curious
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about this person. Yeah. It's at 57 seconds if
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you want to look it up. I'm not going to take
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complete blame for that. She should look both
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ways before crossing the road. And it was just,
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it was a love tap. I didn't hit her. But yeah,
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the noise she makes. I'm afraid to do it because
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I don't want to wake up toast, but we'll insert
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it. Vito gets to Freddy's. He and Joe are a bit
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uppity about the job last night, but Henry's
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pretty good at handling it. He says, relax, this
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is a high -risk business. You can go back to
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the docks if you want. Their discussion is interrupted
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when the camera pans over to this guy at the
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counter on the phone, and he's talking so loud
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that everyone... could hear his business what
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is up with him like i get he couldn't get things
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done and that's really what triggers next point
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but do we really need to hear a guy who's probably
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doing something illegal just draw so much attention
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towards himself i'm pretty sure he breaks the
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phone too oh my gosh back into the cradle but
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yeah he's pissed off about not being paid for
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two months and then he like storms over to henry
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he's like do it now And either Vito or Joe says,
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who was that? And Henry says, somebody you don't
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need to know right now. So Henry then outlines
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the job. It sounds like the boss, whoever that
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is, lent a man money to start a jewelry store,
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but he's not paying it back fast enough. So they're
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taking it back in jewels, plus extra for their
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trouble. Joe says he has a plan. He makes it
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sound pretty easy. He says that basically they
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just need to lockpick, and they're in. I don't
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know why Vito keeps trusting Joe. I would never.
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What has he done? I mean, honestly. Besides help
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him desert. If he really needed help and Joe
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wanted to show his loyalty, he would have helped
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out Vito's sister. He could have just borrowed
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or lent them money. There was no need to drag
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Vito into this and Vito should have accepted
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it. Six hours later, they're in disguise on site
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and things go well until a car crashes into the
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store. Turns out this is a rival group led by
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a Brian O 'Neill. Who is also here to rob the
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store in a less under -the -radar fashion. The
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way they come in is they're crashing through
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a whole building. And I don't know what kind
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of experienced robbery crew would do that. Why
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would you draw so much attention to you guys?
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And what are the coincidences of having two different...
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groups of people robbing the same place at the
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same time with the police right on their tails
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i think someone set rito and joe up there's no
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way that that's happening at the same time it
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is pretty sketchy one of them might even say
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like it was a setup or something i can't remember
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yeah someone says something like that so which
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is why i'm thinking that either henry's working
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with the irish and trying to get everyone arrested
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at the same time But there's no need to do that.
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He could have just let the cops on. So I don't
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understand how. Yeah. And who's being set up
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because Brian O 'Neill gets arrested. So it seems
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like everyone's being set up. Vito and Joe make
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a run for it when the cops show up and they run
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to the roof. It's snowing. And they decide to
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shimmy across the side of the building in the
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snow on a high rise building. I think I would
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let the cops shoot me and hope I live. I would
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never face outwards. I think that's the conversation
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I asked you when watching is, if I did have to,
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is it better to face outwards or face against
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the wall and hug and grip the sides? I think
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I would keep it low. I'd probably crawl and have
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one hand on the billboard thing that was there
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and just hope for the best. But ideally, I would
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hope to never be. in such a situation they do
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manage to escape though and this is where o 'neill
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and his crew get arrested joe takes the jewels
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and veto heads home can we pause on that yeah
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we didn't like that did we no no why would why
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would you trust joe again isn't that what got
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you in trouble in the first place and sent to
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war i don't know i don't know if if you asked
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me to give you the jewels and then i got in jail
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and you never did anything to help me out i don't
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know if i would trust you again with giving you
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the jewels and let history repeat itself why
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can't they both go you know hand the jewels over
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why is it just joe i'm surprised that joe doesn't
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backstab him though get them in the scene and
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we know he doesn't get backstabbed he's a unintentional
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backstabber that's the way i see it So, it's
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already Chapter 5, The Buzzsaw. We're at Joe's
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apartment, February 20th, 1945. So I'll spend
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a few days. Last, we left off on the 11th. Vito
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and Joe are commissioned to help with a high
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-stakes mission that could cement their entry
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into the family. We learn a bit more about Henry
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and the inner workings of the Mafia. Starting
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out this scene, who is this lady? She's useless.
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I'm entirely confused. Why is she there? Why
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do we care about her? And why? I don't get it,
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because it was like, when Vito first got back,
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this is when we meet her, or we see her in the
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bar, and Vito's the one, like, checking her out.
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But now she's, like, with Joe? And I'm just confused.
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Like, I don't know why she's here. I don't trust
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her. I mean, she's still kind of flirty with
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Vito, so maybe she's using Joe to get closer
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to Vito? I don't know. Kinda. Extremely. She
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tells Vito that Joe wants him to come to Freddy's
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for lunch, so Vito heads out. And once outside,
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he witnesses this lady get rear -ended by some
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guy. Vito steps in and she's grateful and says,
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Want to come over to my place for a piece of
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pie? Vito declines. And he's going to continue
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on to Freddy's, but hold on. What's going on
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at 1347? I feel like a line is crossed here.
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What? Does she booty bump him in the crotch?
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She booty bumps him, but why was that necessary?
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I mean, she's flirting with him. I get that.
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But in this game, I don't know how they design
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games and stuff, but why did they add these frames?
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They had to put attention behind it. Right. Ma
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'am, keep your buns to yourself. Keep your buns
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away from Vito's hot dog. He's not interested.
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I don't know if there's like a side mission that
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involves her that I just didn't do or what, but
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they make her seem so important. And then I don't
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know if we ever see her again after this. So
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I'm confused by her. I don't get it. That's useless.
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So finally at Freddy's, we meet Luca Garino.
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Luca congratulates Vito and Joe on a job well
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done. Is this the guy that was on the phone?
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I forgot to pull it up. Pull up the video. So
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one of them is the phone guy. I don't know if
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it's Luca or the guy dealing out the bitch slap.
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Dracula looking guy is the guy on the phone.
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Is that Luca? So this guy with wrinkles with
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the thin mustache. Let me fast forward. He's
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the guy who gets slapped. So that's Luca. This
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greasy guy's Luca. He gets slapped. Yeah. So
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who's this guy? I don't know. We don't know him.
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Okay, question answered, though. So we're meeting
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Phone Guy, who's Luca. And he then states he's
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wondering if they're ready to take the next step.
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I'm talking about taking somebody out. Just because
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someone points his finger at him and tells you
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to do it. Before we get into this, it was in
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this scene that I realized Vito has blue eyes.
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What? And that seems genetically improbable.
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You're lying. Hold on. I have Googled this already.
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No, he doesn't. Look for the close -ups. Okay,
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it is. Okay, but I found information on this.
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Okay. Number one. One to 19 % in all of Italy,
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which is a wide range. I couldn't find anything
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for Sicily specifically. But what I did find
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in the lore is that he's supposed to have brown
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eyes, but the remaster just kind of f***ed him
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up. Oh. I don't know. I don't know why they gave
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him blue eyes. Can we talk about how quickly
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we escalate the scene, though? We go from a casual
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jewelry store robbery to, I mean, like, you did
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shoot some people escaping the police. But, like,
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we're going from unintentional shooting, somewhat
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you could debate and say it's self -defense,
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to outright murder and homicide. In response
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to the idea of taking out a hit, Vito references
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his time in war and being like, yeah, I killed
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people all the time. It's fine. But Luca says
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this will be different. It's not so much just
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killing the bad guys. It's whoever we tell you
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to. No questions asked. And to me, Vito has no
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reaction. And I find that deeply disturbing.
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I don't know what to think about him right now.
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I'm concerned with how willing he is, much more
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so than Joe, even though Joe seems like the guy
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who's like, I could do anything and I'm in the
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mafia kind of situation. For Vito, what is this
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character arc? Like, what direction is it heading
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into if he is the good guy, but yet so easy?
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Like, I was in the war and therefore I can kill.
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He has no morals or... empathy or reactions yeah
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i keep waiting for guilt to enter the equation
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guilt for deserting guilt for you know killing
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people even if it was in war guilt for doing
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these things that his mother doesn't want him
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to do all the people that have died so far and
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then like he just has no reaction here i'm like
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he just seems completely disconnected i don't
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even know if he has emotions like where are his
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emotions at agreed and they make a big deal like
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we'll see this repeatedly we make a really big
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deal about him being a war hero but we never
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really explore what does that mean we want to
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explore does he feel guilty or does he have any
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issues since being in the war I can't figure
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him out. And I don't know if the game, you know,
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when they keep mentioning the medals and the
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awards, if that's the game trying to help us
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be like, oh, he did his time. So don't feel bad
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about him deserting, basically. But a good person
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would feel bad about deserting. I don't care
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how many medals they got. And he didn't want
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to be there in the first place. You know, I just,
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I don't get it. I don't get Vito. So if he completes
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this job, they have a chance of being accepted
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into the family. After you pay the initiation
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fee, of course, which is five grand each. Vito,
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you're trying to get money to pay off your family's
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debt. You should not be entertaining a five grand
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entrance fee to the mafia. I don't understand
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why he would even consider that because him coming
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back, doing all these jobs was for money, not
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for entertainment, not for finding a purpose
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in life. Joe should be telling Vito, I'll cover
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it or... Vito, you don't need to do this. You're
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here for the money. Let me remind you again as
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your friend. Vito questions Henry, who says that
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it's his contract, but he needs some help. So
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it's sounding like this guy's a real challenge.
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It's sort of a kill or be killed situation. Vito
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finally arrives at the stakeout apartment. We
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learn here that Henry's father sent him to the
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U .S. to work for Clemente when the war started
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and that his father died in jail. And they're
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just casually standing by the window having these
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conversations. Yeah, our boys are not subtle.
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We've got the windows wide open in the middle
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of winter. Joe's snoring audibly. Speaking of
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Joe, when Henry says that his father died in
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jail, Vito asks, how is your English so good?
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Because he grew up in Sicily. But before Henry
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can answer, Joe interrupts him, having spotted
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their guy. So that's kind of weird. Why is he
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so good at English? Why do we care? I think just
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because he grew up in Sicily. So Vito's confused.
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Because the war is still ongoing, so he hasn't
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been here very long. If he got sent over when
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the war started. After their very not subtle
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stakeout, a shootout begins and we have to chase
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after our mark. So we run into this whiskey factory.
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We're shooting. We're blasting. Joe. You're hitting
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hard liquor straight from the bottle during a
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firefight. When did he find the opportunity to
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grab that? And he needs to go to AA because if
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he needs hard liquor while doing a job and he's
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going to be drunk and impaired, he probably can't
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drive and is not helping anyone in that situation.
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They're making it hard for me to like the characters
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in this game. So far, I only really like Henry.
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Yeah. So they eventually fight their way up to
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their mark. I'm not sure we get a name other
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than Porky. Henry sticks his gun in his mouth.
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Not a euphemism, literally. But he begs with
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Henry to let him live for his wife. And Henry
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says, you should have thought about your wife
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before. Don Clemente sends his regards. This
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whole scene is so dramatic. The fact that the
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Porky guy is really dramatic in the scene with
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Henry. And there's some sarcasm thrown in. I
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like it, but at the same time, come on. And they
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call women dramatic when you have guys like this.
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My only other note on this exchange, and it's
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been a long time, so I don't recall, but I wrote,
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Henry's voice here is delicious. Oh, my gosh.
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I need to find out who the voice actor is. I
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need to find it now. Sonny Marinelli. He looks
16:23
like Jeff Probst mixed with Ben Stiller? What?
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What's his name again? I'm looking it up. Sonny
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Marinelli. He does look like Jeff Probst mixed
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with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Just a hint
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of Owen Wilson. Yeah. Okay, okay, I can see where
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the delicious voice comes in because I just found
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it. There's something about it, right? Let me
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share it. Hold on. It's just so cold. It's just
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so tough. So anyway, Porky. It's a shot in, though.
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Yeah. He shoots Henry at close range with a snub
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nose, I think. Pistol. Vito and Joe go a little
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overkill, finishing Porky off. And then Henry
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puts one in him after the fact, just, you know,
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to get him back. And then he says, get me to
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El Greco. Joe's like, the f*** paino? I don't
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get the joke, Kathy. But he says, no, the f***
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doctor, you idiot. Joe's just a drunk dumbass.
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Who is El Greco? But at least Joe isn't completely
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useless because he helps carry Henry so Vito
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can do his thing. Okay, Joe. El Greco was born
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in 1541. Joe has no business referencing him
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as a person who could be alive and be brought
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to. Joe's out of it. They escape from the building.
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They race to get Henry to El Greco. Okay, but
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then the joke continues. They get to El Greco's
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and they're like, are you the doctor? He's like,
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no, I'm the f***ing painter. Yeah, what's up
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with that? Is El Greco just a widely known person
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that we don't know about or was he popular in
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the 1940s? Maybe he was like a nickname because
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he painted and someone said, hey, that's your
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nickname from now on. Sure, we'll go with that.
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But then Henry pays Vito here, even though he's
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bleeding out. Why? Weird, right? Is he just trying
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to gain trust? Why is that the first thing on
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your mind when you're bleeding out? If there
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was more conversation about how Vito needed the
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money for his sister, I could see that making
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sense. Take care of your family first and then
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join our family because you're family now. There's
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never any conversation. Henry probably doesn't
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know about Frankie's situation or why Vito's
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here in the first place. So, makes no sense.
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Well, and why does Henry have the money with
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him at all? That seems odd to me. Seems risky
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to take that with you into a shootout. So, I
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don't know. Between that and the English question,
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Henry's, like, a little mysterious to me now.
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I don't know. He's just doing a couple things
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that I don't understand, but so is Vito and Joe.
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Anything before scene three, it's a short scene.
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No, I have two notes on it, and that's it. Vito
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visits Francesca. He now has the money needed
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to clear his father's debt, so he pays her back.
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Very quick stop in. But she's so cool for asking
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the right amount of questions, and then covering
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for him to not tell their mom where he got the
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money from. She's great, but I'm annoyed about
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Vito. He doesn't even want to say hi to his mom,
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and why is he acting like a stranger? Yeah, and
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then he just goes to Joe's. You can stop with
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the mafia stuff now. You paid off the debt. What
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is keeping you here? If they kind of build up
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more background saying that he feels like he's
20:19
just going to bring danger to his family, I get
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that. Then it makes sense for him to stay away.
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But there's no reason to do so. They really don't
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fluff up his background and give us understanding
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of... why he does what he does yeah like why
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does he like killing people i agree questions
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he's starting to irritate me but i think he gets
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what he deserves in the next chapter should we
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move on to that we're now at chapter six time
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well spent we are again in little italy february
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26 1945 so been about a week vita gets arrested
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for selling the gas stamps and is sentenced to
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10 years in prison Which is so excessive. Yeah,
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and I had a note here. I like Vito a bit better
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realizing that he gets arrested right after getting
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the money he needs. And if getting arrested is
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what turns him back to the mafia, I get it. You
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know, I get why he chooses that life. We just
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don't know if he would have stopped had he not
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gotten arrested. So right now, that's my big
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moral question for Vito's character is, we don't
21:24
know. Maybe he did plan to stop with the mafia
21:26
stuff now that he got the money back. But he
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gets arrested and that's sort of what throws
21:30
him back into it. Sort of like the Tommy in the
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cab situation where he was kind of being hunted
21:35
down because he was just wrong place, wrong time.
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I would say that because he never chooses to
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hang around with his sister and his mom, he had
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the intention of going back. He's surrounding
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himself with people like Joe and that's not going
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to help him stop with being on the mafia track.
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So if he doesn't get arrested, he's not. going
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to stop. So we're at the jail and at 39 minutes
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there's an inmate just shaking and slapping ass
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right at Vito. You gotta look. And he kind of
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taps his butt cheek too. It's at 3857. And that's
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just the beginning. Well, first of all, at 4035,
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I don't like the way that the guard looks at
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Vito. At all. Watch this. Why is he looking so
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far down his... Not the up and down. Yeah. At
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least he didn't lick his lips. He did as soon
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as they cut away from him. But this is the start
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of the ass. The ass. So then we hear the guard
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saying, your ass belongs to me now. Maybe there's
23:02
a lot of soap dropping in the shower? I mean,
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I get it. I get that that's where we're at right
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now. But we're just getting an overwhelming amount
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of ass. Like, just as a topic, as a whole. Like,
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visually, ass. Metaphorically, ass. Verbally,
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ass. Assholes. Ass butt. Stick you in the hole.
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Another choice phrase. I don't know how many
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more ways they can say it. Peaches. Vito receives
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a message from Joe telling him to find a Leo
23:31
Galante who can help him out. While searching
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for him, Vito runs into Brian O 'Neill. They
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fight, and then they get sent to the hole as
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a result. Okay, but during the fight, at 45 -35,
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Vito taunts O 'Neill by saying, I believe. This
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is going to be easier than that time I shoved
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a potato up your mother's ass. Huh? What? This
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is going to be easier than the time I shoved
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a potato up your mother's ass. Excuse me? I didn't
24:04
catch that. I didn't know. For some reason, that
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didn't really hit me while watching that scene.
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But again, with the butt theme. Yeah, more ass.
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Yeah. Is there some connection that we don't
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know about? Are we too innocent to know about
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what a potato up an ass means? Or is he just
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being... Colorful hair. Googling it. Better you
24:27
than me. Wait. The first thing. Show me your
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screen right now. First trend. Why are people
24:44
shoving potatoes up their butts? Fair question.
24:47
Second, please do not stick frozen potatoes up
24:50
your butt to treat medical conditions. Three,
24:53
YouTube. People who put potatoes up their butts.
24:56
Donkey of the day. What? Four, fry butt. Never
25:01
did we need to ask people not to shove dot dot
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dot. Putting potatoes up your butt won't cure
25:08
hemorrhoids. Oh my god. But this feels like something
25:15
that wouldn't have existed in 1945. This one
25:18
though, Leah. A vicar came in once with a potato
25:21
stuck up his bum. He was in his mid -fifties
25:24
with gray hair and well -spoken. He walked in
25:26
and said, I had an accident. Wait, wait, wait,
25:29
hold on. Look, I am not a doctor and if the local
25:32
ass man confirms my suspicions that baking a
25:38
potato in my dot dot dot What the hell, Kathy?
25:45
I don't know, what? I think we should move on.
25:49
Yeah, we should. Wait, wait, wait. I have to
25:52
say, the prison top dog has a Hitler mustache?
25:56
Questionable choice of mustache for that day
25:59
and age, for sure. Two days later, Galante visits
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Vito. He, I guess he just has free reign here,
26:06
it seems. He does not seem fond of Clemente,
26:10
but sees that Vito could be useful after having
26:12
witnessed him fight. Essentially, we undergo
26:15
multiple sessions of combat training in exchange
26:17
for his protection. This whole chapter is just
26:21
fighting in jail. Yeah. Why did Vito start spilling
26:24
out the beans about the initiation fee and things
26:27
like that? That's just going to lead you to get
26:30
hurt by Luca and Henry when he leaves jail. Yeah,
26:33
it seems weird because, sure, we trust Joe for
26:36
some reason. And he gave us this guy's name.
26:38
But Galante says he doesn't like Clemente. So
26:42
I don't know why he's just like, yeah, we have
26:44
to pay five grand. But this is when we learn
26:46
that that's basically BS. Galante or his right
26:50
-hand man, one of them says, when this gets out,
26:52
Alberto and Luca are going to have a lot of explaining
26:54
to do. So I think Alberto might be the guy that
26:58
slapped Luca, but I'm not positive. But essentially,
27:01
charging money to get into the family is a big
27:03
nah. You don't do it. So we have a few more fights.
27:09
Vito's getting along with Leo. And then at some
27:11
point, Vito is informed that he has a visitor.
27:16
Lo and behold, it's his sister. But it's a shocking
27:20
bomb that she drops that she's getting married
27:23
and their mom isn't doing well. Yeah, I don't
27:26
know how long he's been in here at this point.
27:28
Yeah. I think it's maybe a couple years into
27:31
his 10 years. I have trouble with this scene
27:34
because or the following scene too. His relationship
27:39
with his mom and his sister is really weird.
27:41
We never really see much connection between them.
27:44
So, and I'm going to fast forward a bit. When
27:47
his mom dies and he's just wrecked, I understand
27:51
you'll have grief no matter what, but why is
27:54
this happening? Why even make these characters
27:58
if you're not really going to utilize that story
28:02
and relationship arc to benefit Vito's ability
28:06
to look more human? My question I asked earlier
28:09
about would he have just walked away from the
28:11
mafia if he hadn't gotten arrested? He tells
28:14
Francesca to go to Joe's and take my money, use
28:18
it for your wedding, and to get mom a good doctor.
28:22
So he obviously had more money than just paying
28:26
the loan shark back, right? So he could have
28:28
walked away from the mafia sooner. And also,
28:30
why'd he wait so long to pay them back if he
28:32
has this extra money at Joe's? I don't understand
28:35
that. After everything that happened, he shows
28:39
no remorse about his wrongdoings. He's sad that
28:43
his mom died, but he's not sad that he did what
28:46
he did, landed in jail, and he never got to see
28:49
his mom again. Mm -hmm. I struggle with that.
28:52
Yeah. I'm struggling to find the moral appeal
28:55
of Vito. One more week later, he's waking up
28:59
in his cell and the guard's like, come on, you
29:01
gotta clean the toilets. And ironically, he does
29:04
not clean the turlets. He cleans the urinals.
29:09
I don't... So, okay. He's cleaning the urinals.
29:14
He gets one done, moves over to the next, and
29:17
then the guard comes up and just pees in the
29:19
one he just cleaned. And then why'd he zip his
29:21
fly up with such gusto like that? Why do we need
29:25
this? It's so unnecessary. And before we even
29:29
start the scene... It starts out with men sharing
29:33
with their boxers on together. I guess that was
29:38
the easiest way for them to go about not having
29:40
nudity. Well, maybe they just shouldn't even
29:42
make that scene. Well, yeah, because speaking
29:45
of nudity, I was playing, obviously. And then
29:49
I saw like a collectible, like, oh, cool, collectible.
29:51
I pick it up and it's just boobs in my face.
29:54
I'm like, whoa. It's like some pinup thing. So
29:59
I had to do like a hard cut in the gameplay at
30:02
some point because I'm like, I don't know what
30:04
to do about these boobs that pop up for one second.
30:08
But speaking of the shower, he's sent to shower
30:12
where he becomes a target. And he says, you picked
30:15
the wrong ass to drill. So they get in a fight.
30:18
He gets sent to the hole. But the guard tosses
30:21
him an envelope. And this is when we learned
30:23
that his mother has died and that she died while
30:26
Francesco was visiting him. And my note is, Vito
30:30
sucks, man. His fault that Francesca had to leave
30:33
her side and die alone. And he is so selfish.
30:39
Just even consider what his mom needed that wasn't
30:43
money. She never asked for money. She asked for
30:46
time with her son. And I don't like how he never
30:49
learns his lesson. Absolutely. I mean, it seems
30:52
like anything that happens like this where he
30:55
should feel... guilt or try to improve himself
30:58
to not let situations like this happen again
31:00
instead of doing that he just it's like he tells
31:03
himself I'm a piece of shit I'm going to continue
31:05
to be a piece of shit and so the next thing he
31:08
does is he's told to beat up Brian O 'Neill but
31:13
he kills him did you have a choice to not kill
31:17
him no it makes you kill him oh my gosh you couldn't
31:21
just like get beaten up by him and not kill him
31:23
right And of course, Vito gets away with it.
31:27
And not only does he get away with it, he gets
31:29
a prison apartment. I don't understand that.
31:32
How did he not learn his lesson with not killing
31:34
more people? I get he's in here for stamps, but
31:37
they obviously know he's a dangerous criminal.
31:39
And he's just proving their point right now.
31:41
And his mom just died. He should feel like, I
31:45
want to be a better man for my mom. No, he's
31:47
like, you know what? I'm just going to kill more
31:49
people, disappoint my mom, and disrespect my
31:52
last name. He should be like, I'm just going
31:54
to take my licks. I'm going to not kill this
31:56
guy. But if he did kill this guy, he should have
31:58
gotten his sentence increased instead of being
32:01
moved to Galante's lush apartment where Galante
32:06
says, I'm going to do something about getting
32:08
you out of here early. And he does. Vito just
32:11
cannot be punished. That's just like sending
32:14
the wrong message and I don't like it. Vito wins
32:17
even when he loses. I need to know if people
32:21
like Vito. At some point towards the end of the
32:23
game, I need to go through Reddit and get their
32:26
thoughts because I'm not liking him. I don't
32:29
know if they're going to redeem his character
32:31
or if it's just going to keep going downhill.
32:35
We skipped over a couple things. So Vito and
32:37
Galante are chatting about Clemente. And Galante
32:40
says that he's going to have a lot of explaining
32:42
to do in regards to the payment he wanted to
32:44
join the family. And Vito says, like, explaining
32:48
to who. I thought Clemente was the boss. There's
32:51
more than one family in Empire Bay. There's three.
32:54
Each family controls their own neighborhoods.
32:57
There's a system of rules. And if there's any
33:00
disagreements, the bosses of all the families
33:02
meet to work things out. That's the commission.
33:06
And the commission is made up of Clemente Falcone
33:09
and Frank Vinci. And it sounds like Galante's
33:12
pretty tight with Vinci. And this is who he's
33:14
going to talk to about getting Vito's sentence
33:16
reduced. Which he does. I am frustrated with
33:20
that. I'm frustrated with how the game is rewarding
33:22
Vito by being a bad person. I'll get more into
33:26
depth with this at the end of the game, and I
33:28
don't want to talk too much about it, but my
33:30
thought about Vito right now, and I haven't seen
33:32
the third game, I don't know if he's in it, but
33:35
I like his character if he's being set up to
33:38
be a villain. But if this is a one -and -done
33:41
Vito, or if he's supposed to be a guy we root
33:43
for in the next game, I hate it. I don't think
33:46
they can continue having him in the third game
33:48
if this is the trajectory he's on. But yeah,
33:54
I guess that's my closing thought for part two.
33:56
You got anything else? No, I'm just frustrated
33:59
with him and we're going to keep beating the
34:02
same horse to death. But for now, part two, we're
34:06
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