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Banana Fish Ep. 19- Ice Palace · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Starting this over again because
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Speaker 1: everything sucks this week. Not as much as it sucked
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Speaker 1: last week when I was crying during the episode and
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Speaker 1: then I cried some more later, but still sucks a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I am recording this on Wednesday, as like the
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Speaker 1: Wednesday before it's supposed to come out like tomorrow Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: because I was trying to yesterday, but then the HVAC
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Speaker 1: technician had to come, but he didn't even tell me
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Speaker 1: he was coming, so like everything was just a mess.
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Speaker 1: But like, that's the least of my problems. I fought
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Speaker 1: my drone on Friday unintentionally. I wish I could explain
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Speaker 1: to you why I thought it was a good idea
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Speaker 1: to put my hand up in front of the blades
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Speaker 1: of my drone when it was in the air. Basically
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Speaker 1: I had, you know, touched the control and it started
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Speaker 1: coming towards me. Instead of just moving out of the way,
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Speaker 1: I just shielded myself and cut the shit out of
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Speaker 1: my thumb and my pinky, and my pinky was bleeding
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Speaker 1: like so much. Like you gotta understand, this was for work,
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Speaker 1: and it was right at the beginning of my inspection
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Speaker 1: and the realtor's like, are you okay? And I'm like
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Speaker 1: bleeding all over the sidewalk, and then in my car
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Speaker 1: as I'm like trying to stop my finger from just
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Speaker 1: you know, gushing blood everywhere, and I'm just like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm fine, and it like eventually stopped when
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Speaker 1: I put a band aid on it. I mean not really,
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Speaker 1: but it stopped enough that it wasn't just coming all
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Speaker 1: over the place. And then I like had to sit
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Speaker 1: in my car and I was like, please, we can't
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Speaker 1: have a panic attack. I have to do this inspection.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna take like three hours, so I have to
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Speaker 1: not have a panic attack. Later I realized that that
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Speaker 1: was a panic attack. Yay, I had a panic attack
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Speaker 1: at work, So things are just kind of all over
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Speaker 1: the place. It was really hard to write notes because
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Speaker 1: it's my left hand, so I can't really tell what
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Speaker 1: I wrote. And no, I'm not gonna type it. That
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Speaker 1: takes me forever. I'm such a slow typer you would
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Speaker 1: be embarrassed anyway. The good news is the extra day
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Speaker 1: gave me a little bit more time to prepare this episode,
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Speaker 1: because honestly, I'm not really sure what's going on with
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Speaker 1: the subtitles, but I don't know if there's been like
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Speaker 1: multiple people doing the translations. But this episode was like bad,
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Speaker 1: Like there were words missing, there were things that I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure are mistranslated or like the context is a
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Speaker 1: little bit off, or like, are just things that I'm
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Speaker 1: just like, no one will ever say words like that
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Speaker 1: in English. You just wouldn't, especially not a teenager. So
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Speaker 1: just like in other episodes, a lot of what I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna read is more akin to the manga translation, I mean,
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Speaker 1: excluding all of the extra stuff that's in the manga.
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Speaker 1: But like you know, there are a bunch of spots
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Speaker 1: where I was just like, I'm pretty sure if I
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Speaker 1: like looked at this in the manga, I would understand
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Speaker 1: what they meant, and I did, so yep, so let's
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Speaker 1: just let's just do it because I gotta get this.
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Speaker 1: Then I gotta take like hours and hours to edit
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Speaker 1: out all of the really dumb things I did in it,
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Speaker 1: like pause for a really long time stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, So episode nineteen of Banana Fish, which is
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Speaker 1: what we're doing in case you forgot, not that you could,
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Speaker 1: especially after last week, that is. But it's called Ice Palace,
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Speaker 1: which I think is a great title for this episode.
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Speaker 1: It is named after a novel by Edna Ferber that
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Speaker 1: has absolutely nothing to do with banana fish, despite it
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Speaker 1: being such a good title for this episode. So I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you remember where we ended off last week, because
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Speaker 1: how could you not with all of my crying, so
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Speaker 1: I don't know. In case you forgot, Ash was being
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Speaker 1: carded away to experience basically his worst fears. So that
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Speaker 1: is exactly where we start episode nineteen. So we're at
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Speaker 1: the pier. Ka is standing and he's watching Dino's cars
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Speaker 1: drive off and Ash obviously be driven away as well,
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Speaker 1: and ue Lung, who is like standing over by his car, says,
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Speaker 1: what did you and Ash talk about? And Blanca's like,
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Speaker 1: I just told him to go back with the machere
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Speaker 1: yue Lung walks over to him and is like, hmmm,
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Speaker 1: so be it your contract with the Machure is over now, right, Blanca?
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Speaker 1: Would you consider working for me? Blanca is just like
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Speaker 1: I refuse. U A Lung is a little bit shocked
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Speaker 1: for a second, and then he's like, you won't even consider.
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Speaker 1: Blanca says, I've already retired. This was just a special exception.
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Speaker 1: Is there really someone that you're that eager to eliminate
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Speaker 1: ue Lung says A g O Kimura. What you promised
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Speaker 1: Ash that you wouldn't kill him, That was the whole
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Speaker 1: big term of the deal. You gotta be fucking kidding
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Speaker 1: me anyway. Blanca says, why do you despise that Japanese
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Speaker 1: boy so much? He's just helpless? Kit you along side
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Speaker 1: and starts to walk back to his car and says,
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Speaker 1: I haven't given up though. He's like getting into his
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Speaker 1: car now, I'll find you even in the Caribbean. Blanca
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Speaker 1: smiles in like a pained sort of way, and he says,
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Speaker 1: how scary and you A Lung's just like, good night, Blanca,
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Speaker 1: we'll meet again. Blanco watches his car as he drives off,
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Speaker 1: and then we go to the opening. Good news, this
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Speaker 1: is already better than the last time. Yay. We come
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Speaker 1: back from the opening on an exterior shot of Chinatown
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Speaker 1: and we hear Kang saying we're standing out, aren't we.
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Speaker 1: We see Bones, Kong Ag and Alex walking down the
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Speaker 1: street and people are staring at them, and Alex says,
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Speaker 1: they're still mad at us about Shorter, so don't fight back.
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Speaker 1: Bones is like, are you sure Sing knows something and
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Speaker 1: AG says it's just a feeling, but I think Sing's
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Speaker 1: boss U A Lung does. And then Bones is like,
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Speaker 1: they're here. We see a group of people approaching them
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Speaker 1: from all sides. This one guy who's just gonna talk
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Speaker 1: for the whole group, I guess, says, what's that smell?
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Speaker 1: Are there pigs around here? And AG's like, we're not
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Speaker 1: here to fight, we just want to talk to your boss,
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Speaker 1: saying the guy to Alex says, is this sucker one
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Speaker 1: of your guys? Seems like Ashling's was pretty desperate. Alex
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Speaker 1: is like, shit, your fucking mouth and the guy's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you want some of this and he like takes out
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Speaker 1: a knife and luckily Sing is watching from the fire
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Speaker 1: escape and he says that's enough. I never told you
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Speaker 1: to pick a fight, and then to Ag, he says,
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Speaker 1: so we meet again. AG's like, I came to ask
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Speaker 1: you something. Okay, that's the end of that scene. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to point out something because I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna think it was weird, but I did. There's
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Speaker 1: you know, Ag says he's not here to fight, and
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Speaker 1: then the guy is like, why are you running with
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Speaker 1: this like sucker, dude, and it's like AG has done
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Speaker 1: nothing except exist, you know, like I mean, he's Asian,
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Speaker 1: but so are all of these kids, Like I don't
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Speaker 1: really understand. So what's going on here is we just
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Speaker 1: lost an entire joke from the manga, So they really
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Speaker 1: should have just caught that line altogether. But in the manga,
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Speaker 1: when that guy's like, what smells like pigs? Ag is
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Speaker 1: just like, oh, over there, and an he like points
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Speaker 1: to a I guess restaurant storefront that has like hanging
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Speaker 1: like meats in the window, including like a whole pig
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Speaker 1: and some chickens, and he's like, yeah, it's coming from
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Speaker 1: over there. I really like that smell. So the guy
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Speaker 1: is just like what the fuck is wrong with him?
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Speaker 1: Because AG doesn't understand the context. And I also wanted
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Speaker 1: to point out one of the big things that we
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Speaker 1: lose in the anime from the manga is that, at
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Speaker 1: least in the English version, I can't speak for the
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Speaker 1: original Japanese, but AG doesn't speak English that well, Like
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Speaker 1: he doesn't speak it poorly, but he speaks it like
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Speaker 1: someone might speak a second language that they're not, you know,
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent fluid in so sometimes people in the
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Speaker 1: manga are like, what's with the accent, and he'll like
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Speaker 1: get made fun of. Yeah, I mean there were times
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Speaker 1: when he doesn't understand something that's someone says, or when
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Speaker 1: he thinks he's thinking in Japanese, like this is clearly
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Speaker 1: his second language. So that's kind of what you know
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Speaker 1: we were doing here, But uh, it kind of sucks
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Speaker 1: to miss it, and it really sucks to have the
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Speaker 1: end of it in there, as if it just makes
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Speaker 1: sense to call Ag outs like stupid or something without
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Speaker 1: having the backgrounds. Yep, So that's what I wanted to
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Speaker 1: tell you. Anyway. Now we see Ag and Sing in
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Speaker 1: a room like maybe a bedroom. AG's sitting on the
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Speaker 1: bed and Sing is just standing in front of him,
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Speaker 1: and Singh says, you want to meet with U a Lung?
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Speaker 1: Why for real? AG's like, ash has been missing since
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Speaker 1: the day before yesterday. I don't know where he is.
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Speaker 1: Singh says, so you're saying it was U a Lung.
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Speaker 1: Ag like kind of looks down and he's like I
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Speaker 1: think so. Sing just kind of stares at Ag with
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Speaker 1: his arms crossed and he kind of like hms or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Then we cut to Ag and Sing walking to the
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Speaker 1: door or of what looks like a restaurant, so I
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Speaker 1: assume this was like an apartment above a restaurant or
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Speaker 1: something that they were in, and sings like, we're going
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Speaker 1: out for a bit. You guys make yourselves at home,
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Speaker 1: and we see Alex Bones and Kan like sitting at
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Speaker 1: a table eating a variety of different noodles, and they
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Speaker 1: look like super surprised to hear this because they need
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Speaker 1: to watch AG like that's at least Bones and Kong's job.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, So Alex is like, where are you going?
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Speaker 1: And Ag turns back and he's like, sorry, guys, don't
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Speaker 1: worry about me. We cut to a tea cup on
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Speaker 1: a table and then we see that yueiy Lung is
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Speaker 1: like lounging on a couch with like lots of pillows,
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Speaker 1: like it looks super comfy, and he's reading like a
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Speaker 1: magazine or a newspaper and he says, you brought an
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Speaker 1: unusual guest with you, huh sang. Ag and Sing are
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Speaker 1: standing across from the couch and Ag says Ash is gone,
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Speaker 1: and I think you know where he is. Fucking rites
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Speaker 1: to the point ag Ui Lung's like, yeah, I guess
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Speaker 1: you do have a break in that head of yours.
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Speaker 1: AG takes like a sharp breath and he's like, what
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Speaker 1: did you do to him? Oh? Uilung stands and he's like, well,
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Speaker 1: if you want to know that badly, he gave up
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Speaker 1: everything for you. He made a deal with us to
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Speaker 1: save your life. Ag gasps yeah. Uilone continues, there was
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Speaker 1: this big scandal that was supposed to sweep the nation
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Speaker 1: in a couple of months, but he handed over all
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Speaker 1: that information. Sing like looks on in disbelief. You Wilon continues,
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Speaker 1: but that's not all. Why do you think he hasn't
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Speaker 1: come home to you. He's in Golzane's hands now, and
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Speaker 1: then super dramatically, he's like he's returned to hell because
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Speaker 1: of you. This is all your fault. AG looks pissed off,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't say anything. Uilon continues, I bet you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna do anything about it, though, or will you
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Speaker 1: feel so terrible that you take your own life. He
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Speaker 1: like walks over the window and he's like, let me
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Speaker 1: help you out, and he opens the window. Fuck anyway.
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Speaker 1: AG doesn't jump out the window, thank god, and he's
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Speaker 1: just like, is that all you wanted to say? Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't care what you say to me. I won't
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Speaker 1: think it's my fault. Ash cares for me just as
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Speaker 1: much as I care for him. That's all this means.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to rescue him no matter what. I'll
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Speaker 1: do whatever it takes, even if it means I have
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Speaker 1: to kill. So you can say whatever you want, asshole.
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Speaker 1: And he like runs out and slams the door and
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Speaker 1: sings like you lose yuey Lung like straight up throws
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Speaker 1: the cup of tea at him and it like shatters
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Speaker 1: against the wall like next to his head, and Sing's
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Speaker 1: like ooh, getting a little hysterical, huh, And Uelung's like
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Speaker 1: shut up. Sing turns to leave, and he's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't hate you, but you're in the wrong this time.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna team up with Golden and be shady
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Speaker 1: like that, he kind of turns back and he's like
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Speaker 1: I might just side with ag He leaves. We cut
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Speaker 1: to a like army looking guy, like general looking guy.
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Speaker 1: He's like sitting down somewhere like a table or something,
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Speaker 1: and he says, Talia is our target. Nowhere else, we
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Speaker 1: see that there's a bunch of men in suits in
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Speaker 1: a room seated at a long table. We're just seeing
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Speaker 1: one side of the table right now, where the army
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Speaker 1: looking guy is, and he continues, the more unsable it gets,
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Speaker 1: the more influenced the terrorist game. We're like panning slowly
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Speaker 1: across the table as he talks, and he continues, if
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Speaker 1: we leave it alone, it could lead to another nine
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Speaker 1: to eleven. We see now that Dino is at the
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Speaker 1: head of the table and we're continuing to pan, and
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Speaker 1: the guy continues, we must take action before that becomes
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Speaker 1: a reality. We have now panned to the other side
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Speaker 1: of the table and Ash, who is there in a
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Speaker 1: suit chuckles. I fucking called at everyone, and we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that in a minutes. The general is like, what's
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Speaker 1: so funny, Ash, Oh, he's in a green suit, by
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Speaker 1: the way, and he's got a classic Ash smirk on.
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Speaker 1: He says, General, what you're trying to say is understandable. However,
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Speaker 1: we've invested a fortune in this project and your proposal
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Speaker 1: just has no chance of recouping those costs. The general
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Speaker 1: guy is like, and what would a teenager like? You know? Smiles,
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Speaker 1: who is seated next to him, is like, General, and
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Speaker 1: he gets the guy to shut up and also Smiles
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Speaker 1: looks real, real stressed. And I don't know if it's
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Speaker 1: because he knows that Ash isn't just some teenager or
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Speaker 1: because this is not going well, but anyway, he goes,
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Speaker 1: then what do you propose? Ash smirks, as if he
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Speaker 1: wasn't already doing that. We cut forward, I guess a bits,
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Speaker 1: and we see some papers on the table and stuff,
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Speaker 1: and they have like words on them, as paper sometimes do,
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Speaker 1: and grabs and we hear a voice say, stage a
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Speaker 1: military coup in Afghanistan and set up a pro American government.
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Speaker 1: That's not a real place, And Ashes like, just use
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Speaker 1: banana fish on the Maliban anti terror organization. Yeah, these
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Speaker 1: names are really embarrassing. He continues, Cafghanistan is the largest
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Speaker 1: producer of heroin. Currently most of the supply goes to Europe,
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Speaker 1: but it can be all ours. The US government has
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Speaker 1: wanted to take the upperhand for Ages. Smiles is like,
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Speaker 1: but we have over ten thousand of our soldiers over
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Speaker 1: there right now. They'll be dragged into the dispute. Ash says,
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Speaker 1: it's a chance to show the world just how great
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Speaker 1: America is. Isn't that worth it? What? Smiles look shocked
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Speaker 1: and the General's like, so you want us to just
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Speaker 1: abandon them? Talking to you makes me feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: making a deal with the devil. Ash smirks, Deviously, we
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Speaker 1: cut two goalzines sitting on a couch with some tea,
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Speaker 1: and we can see that someone is sitting in the foreground,
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Speaker 1: like we could see their back kind of curved that
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Speaker 1: we can't see who it is. And Dino says, I
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Speaker 1: know I told you to be straightforward, but that was
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Speaker 1: a little bit too blunt. Good work, though. We can
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Speaker 1: now see that it is Ash, hunched over a desk
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Speaker 1: and he's like sweating, and he looks real panicked, and
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Speaker 1: he just says, I make myself sick. Oh. He turns
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Speaker 1: to Dino and stands, why are you making me do this?
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Speaker 1: I know your men already came up with this idea.
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Speaker 1: He walks over to Dino. Were you testing me to
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Speaker 1: see if I'd get it right? Dino's like, well, that
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Speaker 1: was a part of it, but your ideas actually perfected
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Speaker 1: the plan. You did a good job. Ash is like,
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Speaker 1: it's the only way to clear the conditions you mentioned.
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Speaker 1: He kind of looks away. Dino sets down the tea
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Speaker 1: and he's like, why do you look so irritated I'm
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Speaker 1: praising your work. Huh. Ash, still not looking at him, says,
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Speaker 1: you said you were going to make me a prostitute. Again,
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Speaker 1: he looks back. You said you were going to debase
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Speaker 1: me until I went out of my mind. So what
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Speaker 1: are you waiting for? I take that over this hell
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Speaker 1: hole any day. Fuck you Ash? Okay, Dino says, I'm
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Speaker 1: doing exactly as I said I would. It's just that
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Speaker 1: from now on, it's not your body that you'll be selling,
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Speaker 1: but your soul. Ah. Yes, Ash as a corporate wor,
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Speaker 1: he continues, and you will continue to do so. You
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Speaker 1: have no other choice. Ash does not look happy. Dino continues,
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Speaker 1: We're going to the opera tonight. He picks up a jacket.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's on the couch or whatever, and he stands.
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Speaker 1: Ash sits back down at the desk that he was
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Speaker 1: sitting up for. Dino continues, They're performing Wolfgang Amadeus mozarts
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Speaker 1: the Marriage of Figaro. He starts to walk towards Ash.
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Speaker 1: It's one of your favorites. If I remember correctly, we
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Speaker 1: have now like a shot of kind of Ash part
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Speaker 1: of his body from under the desk. So like what
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Speaker 1: you'd see directly under like the desk part like the
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Speaker 1: bottom of his kind of torso crotch area. We can
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Speaker 1: see his fists or clenched. It's kind of a really
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Speaker 1: interesting shot. And Dino continues Ominaeus, which means loved by God,
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Speaker 1: and indeed he was just like you. We now see
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Speaker 1: Dino's legs walk up towards the chair and then the
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Speaker 1: chair like an Ash turned towards him, and it's pretty
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Speaker 1: clear from the way this happens that Ash is not
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Speaker 1: the one that turned the chair. And then we see,
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Speaker 1: of course Dino's hand on the chair next to Ash's
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Speaker 1: face and he's hovering over him, and he continues, but
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Speaker 1: your gifts are for me alone to enjoy. Ash's expression
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Speaker 1: is pretty damn stoic. Honestly, good for him, because fuck.
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Speaker 1: Dino leans down and he kind of caresses Ash's chin
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Speaker 1: with his hand and he pulls it up to me
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Speaker 1: his gaze. This is not fun, and he continues, I've
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Speaker 1: told you this already. You can't run from me. Ash
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Speaker 1: looks pretty damn blank here, which is yay defense. Dino
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Speaker 1: closes in like for a kiss, fuck, and before their
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Speaker 1: lips touch, Oh god, we cut to behind, so we're
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Speaker 1: just seeing Dino's back. The action is totally obscured, but
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Speaker 1: we fucking know what's going on. And there's like a
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Speaker 1: pretty decent pause now, and then we cut back to
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Speaker 1: their faces as Dino pulls away and we see that
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Speaker 1: he's bleeding from his lower lip. He seems pretty shocked
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Speaker 1: for a second, but then he kind of smiles and
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Speaker 1: he wipes the blood away, and Ash's mouse has blood
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Speaker 1: in the corner of it too, and he's staring at
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Speaker 1: him like super coldly because he's fuck awesome, and Dino says,
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Speaker 1: you're an ill tempered, sharp clawed peacock. He starts to
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Speaker 1: walk away. I can't wait to pluck those feathers. Fuck Okay,
19:15
Speaker 1: I want to stop there for a second because I
19:16
Speaker 1: want to talk about Ash as a corporate whore. So
19:19
Speaker 1: this was on my Bengo card. This is what I
19:21
Speaker 1: thought was going to happen. More or less. I figure
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Speaker 1: that this could go one of three ways. The first
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Speaker 1: is that, and this is probably for me be the
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Speaker 1: least satisfying way is that like nothing happens after episode eighteen,
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Speaker 1: Like he just escapes or Blanca saves him, and he
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Speaker 1: just goes back, like I don't know, like it was
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Speaker 1: like not really a real threat kind of deal. I
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Speaker 1: didn't think that was gonna happen. So then my other
19:47
Speaker 1: two options were he's actually going to be a prostitute again,
19:52
Speaker 1: or he was going to be forced to do things
19:57
Speaker 1: to help the distribution of banana fish, which I thought
20:00
Speaker 1: was a pretty good chance because I know of that
20:03
Speaker 1: fucking weird trope where like the main character or a
20:06
Speaker 1: character like is evil but they're not really evil but
20:08
Speaker 1: it looks like they are, and then there's this whole
20:10
Speaker 1: big conflict. I'll talk about that more at the end
20:12
Speaker 1: of the episode. But yeah, so I was like pretty
20:15
Speaker 1: pleased with myself for getting this right, but yeah, this
20:18
Speaker 1: is fucking terrible, and I feel terrible for Ash obviously.
20:22
Speaker 1: Next we see Max and Shunichi at a bar with
20:25
Speaker 1: like red filter, like it's really red in the bar.
20:28
Speaker 1: It's nice. Schunici says fired, Huh, that's too bad, aw,
20:32
Speaker 1: because you gave all your documents to Ash so we
20:35
Speaker 1: could save his boyfriend anyway. Max says, I can't really
20:39
Speaker 1: blame them. I ruined everything. He takes a sip of
20:43
Speaker 1: his drink. Shunisi's like, but you don't have to give
20:46
Speaker 1: up yet. Max says, what Shinici continues, there's gotta be
20:50
Speaker 1: another approach. Max looks down and he's like, another approach,
20:55
Speaker 1: I mean, probably right. We hear the TV in the
20:58
Speaker 1: background and there's a news and he's like, Dino Golsen
21:01
Speaker 1: has been cleared of his extensive tax evasion suspicions. Max
21:05
Speaker 1: looks up at the TV. On the TV we see
21:08
Speaker 1: like what looked like reporters kind of all grouped around,
21:10
Speaker 1: like they're on the side of a building and they're
21:12
Speaker 1: like taking pictures and shit, and the headline at the
21:15
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen says, Dino f Golesening suspected of
21:18
Speaker 1: tax evasion. Courts decide not to prosecute. To be fair,
21:22
Speaker 1: he was not committing tax fraud. That was Ash. But
21:26
Speaker 1: still I guess it's not great that he isn't gonna
21:30
Speaker 1: get in trouble because he's a bad dude anyway. Max says,
21:34
Speaker 1: damn that lucky bastard. Then his eyes widen. We cut
21:38
Speaker 1: back to the TV and we see Dino, some guy
21:41
Speaker 1: I don't know who he is, and Gregory. They're like
21:43
Speaker 1: walking past these reporters and Ash is with them. Fuck
21:48
Speaker 1: Max stands and he's like Ash. We cuts to a
21:51
Speaker 1: black car driving in the city, obviously, and we hear
21:56
Speaker 1: Dino say tonight's figure wasn't bad at all. Inside the car,
22:00
Speaker 1: Ash is sitting with Dino, obviously, and he looks like
22:05
Speaker 1: really weird, like something is going on with his eyes,
22:09
Speaker 1: Like he looks stressed or terrified. Terrified is probably the
22:13
Speaker 1: right word. And he has his hands like partially on
22:19
Speaker 1: his face. I mean, the eye thing is just really odd,
22:22
Speaker 1: like maybe they look dilated or something, something is wrong
22:25
Speaker 1: with them. Dino says, your site will return within the hour.
22:30
Speaker 1: Fuck the drug I gave you makes your pupils dilate.
22:34
Speaker 1: I couldn't take the risk, no hard feelings. He's looking
22:38
Speaker 1: out the window now and he says, one day I'll
22:40
Speaker 1: give this city to you. We see that they're like
22:42
Speaker 1: near Time Square and there's brightly lit billboards and that
22:45
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and Dino continues, it's a sea of
22:50
Speaker 1: confusion and chaos, suitable place for a great demon to
22:53
Speaker 1: rain over. What we now see Times Square through a
23:00
Speaker 1: perspective and it's just super out of focus. So quick
23:04
Speaker 1: note on that. I'm sure you know if you've ever
23:07
Speaker 1: had an eye examination, that there is a drug that
23:10
Speaker 1: you can drop in someone's eyes that dilates their pupils.
23:14
Speaker 1: I think, and we'll see this a little bit going forward,
23:16
Speaker 1: but like it doesn't quite work this way. The way
23:19
Speaker 1: that we saw Ash's perspective, you know, kind of makes sense.
23:23
Speaker 1: But the problem is that what happens when your pupils dilate, obviously,
23:28
Speaker 1: is they get bigger, so your eye doctor can like
23:30
Speaker 1: look in them and stuff, so they're just permanently big.
23:34
Speaker 1: I mean while the drug is active and the way
23:37
Speaker 1: eyes work obviously, you know, like your pupils get smaller
23:41
Speaker 1: the lighter it is, and if they can't contract, like
23:45
Speaker 1: it's hard to see things, like it's blurry, it's unfocused,
23:48
Speaker 1: and it hurts. So this doesn't kind of totally work.
23:52
Speaker 1: At nights, Ash probably wouldn't notice very much of a difference.
23:56
Speaker 1: But the way that this drug that I probably should
23:59
Speaker 1: looked up what was called works it is a little
24:02
Speaker 1: bit different depending on the individual. And I know that
24:06
Speaker 1: individuals who are younger and have lighter colored eyes, it
24:10
Speaker 1: has a bigger effect on them. So Ash does fit
24:13
Speaker 1: the bill of someone who would be pretty affected by
24:16
Speaker 1: the pupil dilation stuff. But he'd still probably be able
24:20
Speaker 1: to see because it's so dark. But I still think
24:22
Speaker 1: it's a really cool idea of something to keep him
24:26
Speaker 1: from trying to run away. And as a character who
24:30
Speaker 1: relies on himself and his senses to stay safe, it's
24:34
Speaker 1: got to be really, really terrifying for him. Okay, So
24:39
Speaker 1: we now cut to just the cutest robin, an American
24:44
Speaker 1: robin on a tree varranch, and it's chirping. It's like
24:48
Speaker 1: outside of a window, and then it flies away and
24:51
Speaker 1: we ship the focus to the window and we can
24:54
Speaker 1: see that Ash is on the other side of it,
24:56
Speaker 1: and he's at a desk on the computer. Pretty sure
24:59
Speaker 1: he's lo this room. We see him typing, and then
25:04
Speaker 1: I guess we're trying to do a montage pass his
25:07
Speaker 1: time stuff. So then he's standing and he's like looking
25:09
Speaker 1: at some book and then typing again, and then he's
25:12
Speaker 1: talking at a board meeting and typing again, and then
25:15
Speaker 1: he just kind of stops and stares at the screen blankly.
25:21
Speaker 1: We go to an exterior shot of the mansion. Now
25:23
Speaker 1: this is a new mansion. It's not the one from
25:25
Speaker 1: episode one that was burned down. I like that one better.
25:28
Speaker 1: I think this one is just okay looking. It doesn't
25:31
Speaker 1: have any cool front stuff like a fountain or anything,
25:33
Speaker 1: but whatever. We hear Blanca say, I'm thinking of leaving tomorrow.
25:38
Speaker 1: He is sitting across from Dino in what I think
25:40
Speaker 1: is Dino's office. Probably, he continues, I've seen all the
25:45
Speaker 1: plays I wanted to see. There's really no reason for
25:47
Speaker 1: me to stay any longer. Dino's like, that's too bad.
25:51
Speaker 1: That tax evasion case was settled the other day, and
25:55
Speaker 1: I hope you'd attend a party. I'm planning to celebrate it.
25:57
Speaker 1: Blanca shrugs and he's like, oh, I wish I could.
26:01
Speaker 1: By the way, how's he doing? Dino makes a pretty
26:06
Speaker 1: unhappy sounding noise, and then the door to the office
26:10
Speaker 1: opens and we see Ash from the back, and there's
26:14
Speaker 1: a guy standing next to him, and he's like, here
26:15
Speaker 1: he is. When we cut to a front view of Ash,
26:18
Speaker 1: he looks like death warmed over, basically like I don't
26:23
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen him look this bad before. I mean,
26:26
Speaker 1: he just looks so weak. I guess. He takes like
26:32
Speaker 1: a step or two and doesn't say anything. A Blanc
26:35
Speaker 1: is like hey. He then kind of sways a little bit.
26:40
Speaker 1: Maybe he tries to take another step and he just
26:44
Speaker 1: collapses forward. Blanca runs and catches him before he hits
26:48
Speaker 1: the ground. Thank god that someone cares enough to do that,
26:52
Speaker 1: and he like lays him out on the floor and
26:55
Speaker 1: he's like, get his doctor quickly. We cut to Ash
27:00
Speaker 1: laying in bed. He's kind of looking away from the
27:04
Speaker 1: room towards the window, so we don't see his face,
27:07
Speaker 1: but it's important to note that there is an ivy
27:10
Speaker 1: near him, so that's not really a good sign. And
27:13
Speaker 1: Dino's like, he's been living on an iv for a
27:16
Speaker 1: week now, but there's only so much an ivy can do.
27:19
Speaker 1: Fuck what. Blanca walks over to Ash and we can
27:24
Speaker 1: see Ash's face now though he's still turned away, and
27:26
Speaker 1: he looks pissed. Blanc is like, what's wrong? This is
27:31
Speaker 1: so unlike you. Ash says, get out. Seeing your face
27:35
Speaker 1: pisses me off. Blanca does what I was really hoping
27:39
Speaker 1: Blanco would never do, which is grab Ash by the
27:42
Speaker 1: chin and he turns his face towards him, which is
27:44
Speaker 1: not okay. And this is the second time this has
27:46
Speaker 1: happened in this episode. Stop touching Ash. Ash is surprised
27:49
Speaker 1: and honestly, probably a little bit scared, and he pulls
27:52
Speaker 1: away and he's like, get your hands off of me.
27:54
Speaker 1: He slaps his hand away. Blanca's face is like, I
28:00
Speaker 1: can't really, I don't know how to describe it. He
28:02
Speaker 1: just looks like a parent watching their child act out,
28:06
Speaker 1: kind of, and he's just like, you need to take
28:08
Speaker 1: care of yourself. Ash looks away again. We cut to
28:12
Speaker 1: the hallway where Dino and Blanca are standing I guess
28:15
Speaker 1: maybe outside of the room, and Dino says, I thought
28:19
Speaker 1: it was a hunger strike at first, so I just
28:21
Speaker 1: let him, but he held out for so long that
28:23
Speaker 1: I had to force feed him, and he just couldn't
28:25
Speaker 1: keep anything down. What the doctor said it might be
28:29
Speaker 1: due to having such a stark quick change in his environment,
28:33
Speaker 1: I don't think so well. I mean kind of, yes.
28:37
Speaker 1: Blanc is like, you don't need a physician, you need
28:40
Speaker 1: a psychiatrist. You are correct, Yes, Ash definitely needs a
28:45
Speaker 1: psychiatrist or a psychologist. Dino, who was looking out the window,
28:50
Speaker 1: turns to Blanca and he's like, what Blanca says, it's
28:54
Speaker 1: not so much of a problem that he's just refusing
28:56
Speaker 1: to eat. But it doesn't really seem to be the
28:58
Speaker 1: case to me. If this continues. We cut to a
29:02
Speaker 1: mouse hanging out and sniffing some crumbs between some boxes
29:06
Speaker 1: on the floor, and we hear Singh say, I heard
29:09
Speaker 1: from mister Yuey Loan's close advisor that Goldene's gonna host
29:12
Speaker 1: a party at some hotel to celebrate his victory over
29:14
Speaker 1: the tax of Asian charges. We see that the room
29:18
Speaker 1: is full of ashes Gang. Ag is also there, and
29:22
Speaker 1: of course Sing, I think we've seen this kind of
29:25
Speaker 1: hideout area before. It was when Singh first found ashes Gang.
29:30
Speaker 1: So it's like dirty, just like gross little room, just
29:33
Speaker 1: lit by an oil lamp. I have no idea where
29:35
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be. I assume it's just in
29:37
Speaker 1: an abandoned building that they like hang out in or
29:40
Speaker 1: maybe live in. I really don't understand, guys anyway, sing says,
29:44
Speaker 1: this is our only chance. AG's like, he probably won't
29:48
Speaker 1: have many body cards during the party. Bone Size and
29:52
Speaker 1: Alex is like, but we don't even know when it's
29:54
Speaker 1: gonna be sing says, well, I'll get that out of
29:57
Speaker 1: mister Yuey long. You guys just think of a way
30:00
Speaker 1: to sneak in. He starts walking to the exit with Looe,
30:03
Speaker 1: who was also there, and he continues, this time, we
30:07
Speaker 1: can't count on Ash being able to help us out.
30:10
Speaker 1: Kng's like, why not. Alex says, he'll be out in public.
30:14
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're gonna have something done to him. Bones
30:17
Speaker 1: and Kanng both look kind of stressed and they sigh,
30:21
Speaker 1: and Age's like, don't worry, I'm not gonna let anyone
30:24
Speaker 1: lay a finger on Ash, Ah saying looks surprised for
30:28
Speaker 1: a second, and then he's like, I'm counting on you,
30:31
Speaker 1: see ya, and he and Loo leave. Ag says Alex.
30:37
Speaker 1: Alex looks at him, he continues, can you give me
30:40
Speaker 1: a gun before we move any further. I just wanted
30:46
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that it feels a little bit weird that
30:48
Speaker 1: they knew that Ash is out doing stuff, you know.
30:52
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they saw the news thing where he
30:58
Speaker 1: was walking around, but again we missed the scene where
31:03
Speaker 1: Singh saw him get into Dino's car because he just
31:08
Speaker 1: happened to be in the area when they were leaving
31:10
Speaker 1: the opera and he tried to get his attention and
31:12
Speaker 1: he couldn't and he was like they did something to
31:14
Speaker 1: his eyes. So that's why they know that he might
31:16
Speaker 1: not be able to help them, and that he is
31:18
Speaker 1: being paraded around in public, so he'd probably be at
31:21
Speaker 1: the party just to clear that up case you didn't
31:24
Speaker 1: get it, because it wasn't in there. So we go
31:26
Speaker 1: to a hotel hallway. There's a door to one of
31:30
Speaker 1: the rooms open and there's one of those cleaning carts
31:32
Speaker 1: in front of it, and we hear a woman laugh
31:34
Speaker 1: and go, oh mister. So there's a cleaning woman and
31:38
Speaker 1: she's sitting on the side of a bathtub that Blanca
31:42
Speaker 1: is in. He's like taking a bubble bath, and the
31:43
Speaker 1: woman says, you're such a smooth talker. Blanca is like,
31:49
Speaker 1: I mean it, You're really beautiful. The woman moves in
31:53
Speaker 1: and caresses his face and says, well, thank you. They're
31:58
Speaker 1: like freight about to kill yes, and then ue Lung
32:02
Speaker 1: is just like, excuse me, and we see that he's
32:05
Speaker 1: standing in the bathroom with his arms crossed. They both
32:08
Speaker 1: look over like what the fuck me too, and ue
32:10
Speaker 1: Lung continues, how could you after you made such passionate
32:15
Speaker 1: love to me last night? He's like really playing it up.
32:18
Speaker 1: Blanca looks shocked, and ue Lung says, and you're seducing
32:22
Speaker 1: a woman today. He turns away and he covers his
32:25
Speaker 1: face and there's also like sparkles and stuff, and he's like,
32:28
Speaker 1: were you just playing with me? And he fake cries
32:31
Speaker 1: how cruel. The woman looks back at Blanca and she
32:35
Speaker 1: is not thrilled, and Blanca's like, no, this is a misunderstanding.
32:40
Speaker 1: But she just kind of huffs and starts to walk away,
32:42
Speaker 1: and Blanca is like, no, wait, and ue Lung stops
32:45
Speaker 1: fake crying and sticks his tongue out of Blanca. Blanca
32:49
Speaker 1: is so confused and he's just like, damn you, and
32:53
Speaker 1: Ui Lung says, damn your taste is that the kind
32:57
Speaker 1: of woman you go for. Blanca is now in a robe,
33:01
Speaker 1: so I guess. It's a little bit later and he's
33:02
Speaker 1: pouring some champagne and he says, I love all women.
33:06
Speaker 1: They're beautiful and strong like life itself. Oh thank you.
33:10
Speaker 1: Yuilung is sitting, I guess, on a couch and he's like,
33:14
Speaker 1: was Natasha like that too? Blanca looks up. He doesn't
33:18
Speaker 1: look happy. What did you say? Uilung says, Natalia Carsavina,
33:26
Speaker 1: the woman who was your wife. You were a former
33:29
Speaker 1: SPETSNA Special Agent Lieutenant Sergei Varishkov. He's smiling slightly. Your
33:36
Speaker 1: code name Blanka was your wife's nickname. She was from Belarus,
33:41
Speaker 1: from the Republic of Kazakhstan of the Soviet Union. You
33:44
Speaker 1: entered Moscow University at eighteen, and then after your military
33:48
Speaker 1: service joined SPETSNAS. Everything else is unknown. Quick side note, SPETSNAS,
33:53
Speaker 1: if you don't know, is Russian special Forces. It is
33:56
Speaker 1: kind of what the KGB was to the Soviet Union.
34:00
Speaker 1: Just so you're aware. Blanca exhales, and he's like, you
34:04
Speaker 1: did your research. Well. He walks over. Uelung says, you
34:09
Speaker 1: were on the road to becoming a top a lade
34:11
Speaker 1: in the military. Why are you in exile? Blanca puts
34:15
Speaker 1: his hand on the couch next to yue Lung and
34:18
Speaker 1: leans over him. The only ones who know about my
34:21
Speaker 1: past are the machere and you. Now. Yuelun kind of
34:25
Speaker 1: pauses and then says, are you gonna kill me? Seem
34:29
Speaker 1: like you want it. Blanca smiles, of course not. He
34:34
Speaker 1: hands Uelung some champagne. That's not what you came all
34:38
Speaker 1: this way to tell me, is it? What is it
34:40
Speaker 1: you wish, mister yue Lung. Ue Lung says, I heard
34:44
Speaker 1: you going back. I invited you to dinner numerous times,
34:48
Speaker 1: and you never came. Isn't that a bit cool? I
34:52
Speaker 1: told you I wasn't gonna give up. Blanka's like, fine,
34:56
Speaker 1: you win. I'll hear what you have to say, and
34:58
Speaker 1: then he kisses his hand as you wish, young sir.
35:02
Speaker 1: Ue Lung's like, forgive me for doing this to you.
35:04
Speaker 1: Blanca says, it's nothing. He stands up and walks through
35:09
Speaker 1: the side of the room again, and uie Lng says,
35:13
Speaker 1: by the way, have you seen Ash You went to
35:15
Speaker 1: the Matuer's mansion right? Blanc is like you already know everything.
35:20
Speaker 1: He kind of smiles in a pain sort of way
35:23
Speaker 1: and continues. Ash hates me now, uie Lung says, do
35:27
Speaker 1: you regret it? Blanca pauses and he's like, no, really, dude,
35:34
Speaker 1: fuck you. We go to Ash. Here, we go asleep
35:38
Speaker 1: in bed, and we hear the door open and there
35:42
Speaker 1: are some footsteps and he opens his eyes. Okay, he
35:45
Speaker 1: probably wasn't actually asleep. Dino is standing at his bedside
35:49
Speaker 1: and Dino says, do you really want to get away
35:52
Speaker 1: from me this badly? Ash just kind of stares at
35:56
Speaker 1: him like he is surprised. That's something that some and
36:00
Speaker 1: would ask him right now. Dino then grabs him by
36:04
Speaker 1: the collar and pulls him up and he's like, are
36:06
Speaker 1: you trying to die your way out? Ash says, I'm
36:11
Speaker 1: not doing this on purpose. Deno's like, oh, you can
36:14
Speaker 1: finally speak, and he like throws him back down on
36:17
Speaker 1: the bed like hard, and it kind of looks like
36:19
Speaker 1: it hurts, and he continues, if you're sick, I will
36:22
Speaker 1: get you the best treatment available. But if this is
36:25
Speaker 1: you trying to die to escape, that Japanese boy is
36:29
Speaker 1: going to be falling right in your footsteps. Ash looks
36:32
Speaker 1: away and says, I never even thought about it, not once.
36:37
Speaker 1: Deno's like, good, I'm planning a large gathering soon at
36:42
Speaker 1: a first class hotel. He starts to walk away. I'll
36:45
Speaker 1: make it official. Then he stops and turns back. Then
36:48
Speaker 1: I'm adopting you what. Ash's face rises in like subtle shock,
36:55
Speaker 1: and I think he like inhales sharply. This is really bad,
36:59
Speaker 1: and Deno can tinues, you will become mine in substance
37:02
Speaker 1: and in name. Gross you'll become my successor my slave.
37:07
Speaker 1: Oh god. Ash's face is still like frozen in shock,
37:12
Speaker 1: and we have this weird like super close up shot
37:14
Speaker 1: where you see like most of his face, but like
37:17
Speaker 1: it's kind of cut off at his forehead. I don't
37:19
Speaker 1: really know how to explain it. It's really good, though,
37:21
Speaker 1: and he looks fucking scared of shit, and he says,
37:29
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to call you my father. We cut
37:33
Speaker 1: back to Dino as Ash lets out a chuckle. Dino
37:39
Speaker 1: kind of blinks in confusion, and Ash says, that is
37:44
Speaker 1: the most grotesque joke I have ever heard. A smirk
37:49
Speaker 1: returns to his face. I thought you only thought of
37:53
Speaker 1: me as your sex toy. Dino is now fully facing
37:57
Speaker 1: Ash because he had, you know, been about to leave,
38:00
Speaker 1: and Ash getting really really animated now because this is
38:03
Speaker 1: animation so it works, says, remember that guy used to
38:07
Speaker 1: round up kids. He stands, he rapes me over and
38:11
Speaker 1: over again, and then do you know what he asked me?
38:14
Speaker 1: Dano like really doesn't look happy, and Ash continues. He says,
38:18
Speaker 1: does that hurt? Kid? Does that hurt? What a fucking joke?
38:23
Speaker 1: Like he thought I didn't feel anything, like I wasn't
38:25
Speaker 1: even a living thing to him. It's the same with
38:28
Speaker 1: you and Kippard and all the rest of them. You
38:31
Speaker 1: think the only reason you have a brain is to
38:33
Speaker 1: learn how to suck dick, flushing your semen whenever you
38:36
Speaker 1: like it. It's like I'm your toilet. He looks fucking insane,
38:40
Speaker 1: by the way, and he starts to laugh like hard,
38:43
Speaker 1: like he's swaying from laughter, and he continues, I've never
38:47
Speaker 1: heard anything so funny in my entire fucking life. I
38:50
Speaker 1: just can't stop laughing. This must be the American dream, right.
38:54
Speaker 1: He then like literally like tosses himself on the floor
38:57
Speaker 1: and he's like rolling around laughing. Dino is just like
39:01
Speaker 1: shut up. Ash on the floor with his hand over
39:05
Speaker 1: his eyes, smiling, is like, sorry, but I really don't
39:10
Speaker 1: think I can. I think I'm probably gonna laugh myself
39:12
Speaker 1: silly first, So I don't think I'm gonna have a
39:14
Speaker 1: little up to your expectations. And when my brain stops working,
39:19
Speaker 1: am I just gonna go back to using my body
39:22
Speaker 1: to being a living toilet? Ha? Dad? Fuck. Dino fucking
39:26
Speaker 1: just kicks him in the face at this point, and
39:29
Speaker 1: like we get like a nice blood splatter on the carpet.
39:33
Speaker 1: His Ash's lip is now bleeding, and Ash turns his
39:36
Speaker 1: head back towards Dino because it has been kicked to
39:38
Speaker 1: the other side and he says, don't be so rough, dad.
39:42
Speaker 1: You can't screw a broken sex toy, can you fuck.
39:46
Speaker 1: Dino just like gets on top of him and just
39:49
Speaker 1: starts punching the shit out of him, and some guy
39:52
Speaker 1: opens the door and he's like, michere, please calm down,
39:54
Speaker 1: and he like pulls Dino off of Ash, and Dino
39:57
Speaker 1: and this guy and some other random woman are just
39:59
Speaker 1: like standing there for a minute, his ashes laid out
40:01
Speaker 1: on the floor, and then they start to walk out
40:04
Speaker 1: of the room and Dino stops and he's like, you
40:07
Speaker 1: were born a vulgar prostitute, but I'll turn you into
40:10
Speaker 1: a chaste wife. Fuck. They leave Ash on the ground, obviously,
40:17
Speaker 1: and he just looks so fucking done. So I mean,
40:23
Speaker 1: that was a scene, right, that was That was a lot.
40:28
Speaker 1: We can talk about that at the end. The next
40:31
Speaker 1: thing we see is sing ringing a doorbell, and I
40:34
Speaker 1: guess into like an intercom he says, it's me, mister Yuelung.
40:38
Speaker 1: We kind of get the impression that someone walks up
40:40
Speaker 1: behind him, because like it casts a shadow over him,
40:43
Speaker 1: and we hear Blanca say hello, saying turns back in shock,
40:47
Speaker 1: and he thinks he's huge, and he says, hey, don't
40:51
Speaker 1: just stand behind me like that, you block in the
40:52
Speaker 1: sun actually really like Sing. Blanca is like oh, and
40:56
Speaker 1: he moves over. Sorry. Sing thinks he's giant, but I
41:00
Speaker 1: didn't even send him coming. Who is he? Some guy
41:03
Speaker 1: opens the door and he's like, oh, Blanca, are you
41:05
Speaker 1: here too? And Sing thinks Blanca. That guy is like
41:10
Speaker 1: this way and he leads them inside, and then we
41:12
Speaker 1: hear like two gun shots and this dude in like
41:14
Speaker 1: a chef's uniform like runs across a balcony above them
41:17
Speaker 1: and he aims a gun at them, and Blanca is like,
41:20
Speaker 1: stand back, and he pulls out a gun and he
41:22
Speaker 1: shoots the gun out of the guy's hand like by
41:24
Speaker 1: shooting his hands and stuff. And Sing throws his rope
41:28
Speaker 1: dart and gets it around the guy's neck and Blanca
41:30
Speaker 1: is like, don't kill him. Sing lets him go, but
41:33
Speaker 1: the guy falls over anyway, and he's like bleeding from
41:36
Speaker 1: his mouth. They rush over and Blanca is like, no use,
41:40
Speaker 1: he bit a poison capsule. Fuck. We go to Yue Lung,
41:43
Speaker 1: who is sitting on a couch holding his left arm,
41:48
Speaker 1: and one of his attendants is like, the doctor's on
41:51
Speaker 1: his way Blanca kind of runs in and he's like
41:54
Speaker 1: looking at his arm and he's like he shot you
41:56
Speaker 1: up close. He touches Ue Lung's like his shoulder and
42:00
Speaker 1: Yuiluing flinches, and Blanca says, did you know him? Yui
42:04
Speaker 1: Lung's like he's the cook I hired last month. He
42:08
Speaker 1: kind of recoils in pain. Blanca says, bear with me,
42:11
Speaker 1: and he's like dressing his wound with some sort of
42:14
Speaker 1: I don't know bandage or material. Anyway, he continues, he
42:18
Speaker 1: was a hired pro. Any idea who he worked for.
42:21
Speaker 1: Ui Lung's like could be anyone. I wouldn't know. Sing says,
42:27
Speaker 1: they're saying your brothers were killed by the Vietnamese because
42:30
Speaker 1: someone's spreading rumors. Yuelung stands and walks over to Sing
42:35
Speaker 1: and is like, shut up, I never called for you. Leave.
42:39
Speaker 1: Blanc is like now now, and he puts a coat
42:43
Speaker 1: over Youelung's shoulders, and he says he tried to stop
42:45
Speaker 1: the culpri too. Yueilung huffs and turns away and Sing
42:49
Speaker 1: sticks out his tongue, and then we cut to Uelung
42:52
Speaker 1: in bed in like a robe, Blanca standing next to
42:55
Speaker 1: him and Sing kind of leaning on the window frame
42:58
Speaker 1: on the side of the room. Ue Lung says, forgive
43:01
Speaker 1: me for dragging you into this. I didn't plan on
43:04
Speaker 1: this happening. Blanc is like, you have too many enemies
43:07
Speaker 1: for a person of your age. Uey Lung says, I
43:10
Speaker 1: was just born under the wrong stars. Blanca says, I understand.
43:15
Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. Ue Lung's eyes widen
43:18
Speaker 1: and he's like really, and he kind of blushes slightly.
43:21
Speaker 1: Blanca says, under one condition, my job will only be
43:25
Speaker 1: to protect you. Huh. I will not kill otherwise, but
43:29
Speaker 1: I won't tolerate anyone who means you harm you. Alung smiles,
43:33
Speaker 1: even if it's ash Geez Sing gulps. Blanc is like,
43:37
Speaker 1: of course. Sing's like, sorry to butt in, but who
43:40
Speaker 1: the hell are you you Along says stay out of this, Sing,
43:44
Speaker 1: this is none of your business, and Blanc is like,
43:46
Speaker 1: I'm just a bodyguard. This point, the credits start up
43:51
Speaker 1: and Blanc is like saying something about the party, but
43:55
Speaker 1: like it's not translated for some reason, at least it's
43:57
Speaker 1: not in my comfort or where I was watching this,
44:02
Speaker 1: And then he says something like, won't you go it's
44:05
Speaker 1: on the twentieth, you alone, says I'll go the machere
44:08
Speaker 1: said he had a surprise. Fuck. Sing's eyes narrow and
44:12
Speaker 1: he thinks the twentieth. Yeah. At this point, the ending
44:16
Speaker 1: theme starts up. He cuts to Dino and Blanca standing
44:19
Speaker 1: at Ash's bedside. Dino's like, you were right. It's a
44:23
Speaker 1: case of acute anorexia. That's what the psychiatrist said. He's
44:29
Speaker 1: not eating because he doesn't want to eat. Or what
44:31
Speaker 1: are we doing here? Blanc is like it's like watching
44:36
Speaker 1: a wild beast dying, refusing any help from humans. What
44:39
Speaker 1: the fuck? Blanca? Dino's like, I won't let him die.
44:44
Speaker 1: He's being treated by the best there is. Really you
44:48
Speaker 1: what your doctors who you know work on and imprisoned
44:53
Speaker 1: sex live, They're the best they are. Huh. Sure, I
44:56
Speaker 1: believe that he continues. But if he's still and be mine,
45:00
Speaker 1: I'll be the one to send him to his grave.
45:03
Speaker 1: Blanca says Micheur, I've signed a contract with mister Yue Lung.
45:08
Speaker 1: They're sitting in an office now. Dino says what Blanc
45:13
Speaker 1: is like, he discovered my past. The Chinese have a
45:15
Speaker 1: formidable network. Diino says, I see, I trust that you
45:20
Speaker 1: won't let your emotions take control of you. Serge Blanc
45:24
Speaker 1: is like, of course not. We cut to Sing and
45:27
Speaker 1: Ashes gang in that's hide out type place. Singh says,
45:32
Speaker 1: these are the two escape routes. We'll use them as
45:35
Speaker 1: a situation demands. We have thirty minutes before the cops come.
45:39
Speaker 1: Alex is like, but we don't know the uptown streets
45:42
Speaker 1: very well. And we hear someone say leave that to me,
45:46
Speaker 1: and they look up and Alex is like, kine yay.
45:50
Speaker 1: Kine is in the doorway and sing is like, good,
45:53
Speaker 1: you're finally here. Kane smiles. Awesome, I missed Kane, Singh says,
45:58
Speaker 1: and the plans were sneaking in ag She's like all set.
46:02
Speaker 1: Then we cutch to Dino looking out the window and
46:05
Speaker 1: he turns as he hears the door open and it's
46:07
Speaker 1: some guy Gregory and Ash in a wheelchair. Just great, sure,
46:13
Speaker 1: and Gregory says he's ready, and we cut to a
46:16
Speaker 1: closer shot of Ash and he looks real bad, like
46:20
Speaker 1: no pupils, real bad, like the light in his eyes
46:22
Speaker 1: is gone, real bad, like maybe he's given up. Maybe
46:25
Speaker 1: this is it, maybe they've finally broken him. Real bad.
46:27
Speaker 1: It's not good. It's definitely the worst I've ever seen him. Look,
46:32
Speaker 1: he just looks gone, but maybe he's dissociating and everything's okay, yay,
46:40
Speaker 1: that's totally fine. Dino says, come my son, and then
46:44
Speaker 1: we go to the title card Ice Palace. Oh my god,
46:49
Speaker 1: and that's it. Yay. Closing thoughts. So, I don't even
46:53
Speaker 1: know where to start with this episode, because that was
46:55
Speaker 1: a lot, so some easy stuff that I wanted to
46:59
Speaker 1: get out of the way. I fucking hate the whole
47:02
Speaker 1: let's change the name of locations and countries and groups
47:06
Speaker 1: of people thing that they're doing with the Middle East,
47:10
Speaker 1: with the Maliban and Cafghanistan. It's really frustrating. So I
47:15
Speaker 1: wanted to point out that this is anime exclusive. Obviously
47:19
Speaker 1: in the manga we just talk about real places. But
47:21
Speaker 1: in the manga we're talking about South America. So the
47:26
Speaker 1: place that they want to destroy and put a puppet
47:29
Speaker 1: government in is Honduras because apparently at the time it
47:33
Speaker 1: was a really big I guess, cocaine transporting area, so
47:38
Speaker 1: it would be really good to get a handle on
47:40
Speaker 1: the cocaine market. Obviously that doesn't work as much. In
47:42
Speaker 1: the twenty tens, Heroin makes a little bit more sense
47:45
Speaker 1: for now than cocaine does, just because of the way
47:50
Speaker 1: drug tastes have changed, I guess, But yeah, I don't
47:53
Speaker 1: like that, Like, this is clearly what you're talking about,
47:55
Speaker 1: but we can't say the exact word because we don't
47:58
Speaker 1: want to offend people in the Middle East, like this
48:01
Speaker 1: is fiction. I'm pretty sure you could say the country,
48:04
Speaker 1: but whatever. So we got that going on at the beginning.
48:09
Speaker 1: We had that really cool parallel between Ag and Ash
48:13
Speaker 1: because in the last episode we saw Ash go like,
48:18
Speaker 1: he cares about me, so I'm gonna do anything for him,
48:21
Speaker 1: kind of deal. And in this episode we hear AG say, well,
48:23
Speaker 1: that's just because Ash cares about me as much as
48:25
Speaker 1: I care about him, which I thought was amazing, like
48:28
Speaker 1: a really nice parallel to show that they kind of
48:31
Speaker 1: understand each other and that they both really care about
48:33
Speaker 1: each other. So I love that. And that brings me
48:37
Speaker 1: to this research that I did this episode where I
48:40
Speaker 1: watched episodes eighteen through twenty two of Fushigi Yugi, which
48:45
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen before, obviously I don't
48:47
Speaker 1: even know you, but it's this show Jo. I think
48:52
Speaker 1: I think the adaptation is like late nineties. I don't
48:55
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure. It's not a very good adaptation,
48:58
Speaker 1: to be fair, but there's an arc in it that
49:00
Speaker 1: I was thinking about when I was watching this for
49:02
Speaker 1: the first time, and now where one of the main characters.
49:06
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you some spoilers. It's really not
49:08
Speaker 1: that big of a deal for shiggy Yugi. Even if
49:11
Speaker 1: you watched it, it would probably not ruin this experience
49:14
Speaker 1: for you very much. So the main love interest in
49:17
Speaker 1: Fushigi Yugi gets given a mind control drug by the
49:22
Speaker 1: antagonist and turns evil for a little while. So that's
49:26
Speaker 1: what I was thinking about that kind of like this
49:29
Speaker 1: might go in that direction where you have, like I
49:31
Speaker 1: was saying a little bit earlier, a character who is
49:35
Speaker 1: good but for some reason they're acting in a very
49:38
Speaker 1: bad way and it's either because of like mind control
49:41
Speaker 1: or it's some sort of misunderstanding they have to do
49:45
Speaker 1: something to save someone kind of deal. And I was
49:49
Speaker 1: afraid this was going to go in that direction when
49:51
Speaker 1: I first saw that we were gonna have like a
49:53
Speaker 1: whole arc where everyone is like, oh my god, Ash
49:56
Speaker 1: is like helping with banana fish now and he's e
50:00
Speaker 1: and AG's like, I can't believe you're doing this and
50:03
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and I was like, that would be
50:04
Speaker 1: really out of character if everybody was suddenly like, hey,
50:06
Speaker 1: this person who's always behaved in a certain way is
50:08
Speaker 1: totally behaving in a different way and they must have
50:11
Speaker 1: just changed, because that's how things work. So I was
50:14
Speaker 1: willed when we didn't do that, especially in the manga,
50:16
Speaker 1: because Singh had seen Ash walking around outside and I
50:21
Speaker 1: really thought when he tried to like reach out to
50:25
Speaker 1: him and be like, oh my god, Ash, and Ash
50:27
Speaker 1: didn't respond. He was in the car, by the way,
50:28
Speaker 1: so you know, it's not like they were face to face,
50:31
Speaker 1: but when he like didn't respond to him at all
50:33
Speaker 1: or look at him, I loved that sing was just
50:36
Speaker 1: like something is wrong, Like something is wrong with his
50:39
Speaker 1: eyes because I don't feel like he saw me. So
50:42
Speaker 1: I just love that we just killed that trope before
50:45
Speaker 1: it could exist, and that ag knowing what Ash did,
50:48
Speaker 1: is just like, yeah, man, because he fucking cares about me,
50:51
Speaker 1: so I gotta fucking save him. So whereas in Fushigi Ugi,
50:55
Speaker 1: they just fucking leave Tomahomide with the bad people because
50:58
Speaker 1: he had just tried to kill me. Yaka the main character,
51:01
Speaker 1: you know, but he's not him anymore, and so they
51:04
Speaker 1: just fucking leave him, and Miyaka says, Sayonada Tom Mahomade,
51:08
Speaker 1: and I was just like, he's being held against his will,
51:12
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And then they go back and Miyaka,
51:14
Speaker 1: I think, tries to kill herself by walking into a pond,
51:18
Speaker 1: or maybe she was so distraught that she didn't realize
51:21
Speaker 1: she was walking into a pond because she heard Tom
51:23
Speaker 1: Mahomey's voice but he wasn't there. Fucking Watching it again
51:27
Speaker 1: made me just like wanna not ever watch it again basically,
51:30
Speaker 1: because like, come on, this is your love interest. There
51:33
Speaker 1: is someone that you trust above everyone else, and you
51:36
Speaker 1: just think he snapped like that and we're just gonna
51:38
Speaker 1: leave him bullshit. So I'm sorry about the tirade about Fushikyugi,
51:43
Speaker 1: but like I was so again thrilled to not have
51:47
Speaker 1: that go this way. But I feel terrible for ash because,
51:53
Speaker 1: as we know, he would rather do anything than what
51:58
Speaker 1: he's doing right now, to the point that he's making
52:00
Speaker 1: himself sick. And I don't know for sure that he
52:03
Speaker 1: isn't doing this on purpose, not eating, because like I mean,
52:08
Speaker 1: he's being asked to help commit the murder of countless
52:13
Speaker 1: people for the government and for the mafia to increase
52:19
Speaker 1: their drug trade, and like, it's fucked up. So, I mean,
52:26
Speaker 1: I get it, and mad respect for him for being
52:29
Speaker 1: like I would rather you just have me as a
52:32
Speaker 1: prostitute again, then put me in a situation where I'm
52:36
Speaker 1: just contributing to the deaths of all of these people.
52:40
Speaker 1: He doesn't want this organization, as we've heard multiple times.
52:44
Speaker 1: He does not want to be here. He doesn't like
52:47
Speaker 1: what this stands for, which is good because it stands
52:49
Speaker 1: for bad things. And he certainly does not want to
52:52
Speaker 1: be the heir apparent to the organization. So that is
52:58
Speaker 1: fucked up too. The whole thing is fucked up. And
53:01
Speaker 1: we can talk again about Amadeus, which was brought up again,
53:05
Speaker 1: where you know, it seems like Dino thinks of him
53:10
Speaker 1: as his creation, that Dino was the god, that kind
53:13
Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff, and I
53:18
Speaker 1: just feel bad. I feel really bad for him. And
53:22
Speaker 1: I think he's an adult. He doesn't have to be adopted,
53:24
Speaker 1: and he probably still has a dad. We don't know
53:25
Speaker 1: if he died, but he's probably alive somewhere. Ugh, so anyway,
53:30
Speaker 1: this is getting really rambly. The other thing I wanted
53:33
Speaker 1: to say is, oh, since we were just talking about
53:37
Speaker 1: Amadeus really quickly the Marriage of Figaro. I looked it
53:41
Speaker 1: up real quick just to see what it's about, because
53:44
Speaker 1: I don't know anything. I'm not culturally intelligent or something.
53:50
Speaker 1: So apparently when it came out, it was very controversial
53:54
Speaker 1: because it was about servants rising up against their masters.
53:59
Speaker 1: So actually it's a perfect opera for Ash to like.
54:04
Speaker 1: So I like that he likes it. But yeah, I
54:08
Speaker 1: mean where we ended with Ash, with him just staring vacantly.
54:13
Speaker 1: I think he's always been able to separate himself from
54:19
Speaker 1: the actions being done to him. But I don't know
54:23
Speaker 1: how he would separate himself from giving people ideas that
54:28
Speaker 1: would destabilize them ad least, you know, Like, I don't
54:32
Speaker 1: know that you can really dissociate well enough to not
54:37
Speaker 1: realize when you're creating plans that are going to like
54:40
Speaker 1: murder people. So this has got to be it's got
54:43
Speaker 1: to be a lot for him. I think that I
54:46
Speaker 1: probably said all I needed to say, Oh, except yeah,
54:48
Speaker 1: I love Ash being able to kind of clap back
54:51
Speaker 1: at Dino. I really think this is probably the first
54:53
Speaker 1: time he's ever said anything like this to him, just
54:56
Speaker 1: because of the way, you know, looked when he said it.
54:59
Speaker 1: And I think I was shocked, But like, why are
55:03
Speaker 1: you shocked, dude, Like you're holding him against his will.
55:08
Speaker 1: You've been holding him against his will since he was eleven,
55:11
Speaker 1: Like why are you shocked that he doesn't want to
55:14
Speaker 1: do this? You know? Like I don't want to say
55:18
Speaker 1: that Ash was that good that he was able to
55:23
Speaker 1: fawn well enough that Dino thought that this was real,
55:27
Speaker 1: But really Dino is just diluded. So yeah, it really
55:31
Speaker 1: hurt him hearing that from Ash, evidently because of how
55:35
Speaker 1: much you beat a Bash after that. And also I'm
55:38
Speaker 1: wondering if Ash if his motivation was just that he
55:42
Speaker 1: needed to tell him off, or if it was kind
55:44
Speaker 1: of like almost like that thing like suicide by cop,
55:48
Speaker 1: where you in that particular thing you do things to
55:51
Speaker 1: antagonize a cop and hope that they shoot you. Maybe
55:55
Speaker 1: he was like, maybe I can just get this guy
55:57
Speaker 1: to kill me by telling him the truth. I was
56:00
Speaker 1: gonna say, it's too bad it didn't work, but I
56:02
Speaker 1: don't want Ash to be dead, so yeay, it didn't work. Anyway,
56:09
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is so rambly. I really am not
56:11
Speaker 1: having a great week. But I hope that this was
56:15
Speaker 1: okay for you, because I know that this was particularly heavy,
56:19
Speaker 1: but that's what this show is basically, and I do
56:23
Speaker 1: think that this is being done well, I guess in
56:29
Speaker 1: the most horrendous sort of way. Maybe. So I'm gonna
56:36
Speaker 1: go and edit this so I can get this out
56:38
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow and I hope you have a really
56:41
Speaker 1: good whatever and yeah later weeps.