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Banana Fish Ep. 3- Across the River and into the Trees · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess back again to
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Speaker 1: torture you with this anime. Yeah, so I don't think
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Speaker 1: I've said this yet, but kind of recently, there was
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Speaker 1: an announcement that Magic Night Ray Earth is getting some
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Speaker 1: sort of new adaptation, which is pretty cool, and I
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Speaker 1: thought that I would just mention that because it's shojo,
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Speaker 1: Banana Fish's shojo, Like, maybe if you like this, you're
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Speaker 1: like that. I'm just kidding. They're not even relatively the same.
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Speaker 1: They're for the same demographic, but they're like worlds apart.
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Speaker 1: But who knows. Sometimes it's nice to watch a little
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Speaker 1: more showjo, so maybe you can check that out when
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Speaker 1: it comes out. The original anime kind of sucks, but
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Speaker 1: the monk is pretty okay, so who knows. But enough
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Speaker 1: about Magic Night Ray Earth. Let's talk of what we
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Speaker 1: really want to talk about, I guess, which is Banana
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Speaker 1: Fish Episode three. But before we start, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: go over a couple of things that kind of come
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Speaker 1: up in this episode or don't come up in this episode,
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Speaker 1: but it needed you to know about. So first of all,
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Speaker 1: in the last episode, I mentioned that according to the manga,
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Speaker 1: this takes place on Riker's Island, so I wanted to
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Speaker 1: let you know a little bit about that in case
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Speaker 1: you're not familiar with New York prisons. So Riker's Island
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Speaker 1: is a prison island in the East River that's in
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Speaker 1: the Bronx, and it's one of the world's largest correctional institutions.
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Speaker 1: It houses approximately ten thousand inmates a day at least
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Speaker 1: as of twenty fifteen, and it's a jail, not a prison,
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Speaker 1: so about eighty five percent of the people who are
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Speaker 1: being housed there are pre trial detainees, and I will
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Speaker 1: get to that in one second, but continuing, it has
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Speaker 1: a reputation for violence, physical and mental abuse, and neglect
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Speaker 1: of inmates. So it's a great place, and at least
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Speaker 1: according to the Wikipedia article, New York voted to shut
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Speaker 1: it down by twenty twenty six, so it's time is limited,
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Speaker 1: but it's notorious. Anyway, what I said about it being
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Speaker 1: a jail and not a prison, I wanted to clarify
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Speaker 1: that because in the anime they're going to say prison
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Speaker 1: a lot, and that's just kind of a translation error,
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Speaker 1: or it's possible that in Japan there aren't two separate words,
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Speaker 1: but in the US technically, and I know everyone kind
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Speaker 1: of uses them interchangeably. Technically, prison and jail are not
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Speaker 1: the same thing. Prison is exclusively for people who have
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Speaker 1: been convicted of a crime and usually longer term sentences.
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Speaker 1: Jails are usually for people who are awaiting and sometimes
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Speaker 1: who have like low level convictions where they're serving for
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Speaker 1: like less than a year. For Rikers Island, there's like
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of like little prisons on the islands
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Speaker 1: or facilities or whatever, and I don't think any of
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Speaker 1: them are combined where you'd have people who were sentenced
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Speaker 1: serving with people who are waiting for trial. In fact,
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Speaker 1: if this was real life, there's actually one facility that
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Speaker 1: I don't remember the name of at Riker's Island that's
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Speaker 1: just for like younger men, so like eighteen or whatever,
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Speaker 1: the like early twenties. So actually that's probably where ash
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Speaker 1: would be and not in this kind of general population whatever.
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Speaker 1: But hey, I don't expect everyone to, you know, care
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Speaker 1: about the minutia of the criminal justice system in New York,
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Speaker 1: and I don't expect for you know, a Japanese mangaica,
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Speaker 1: especially one in nineteen eighty five, when we didn't have
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Speaker 1: like this robust Internet where you can just go, like
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Speaker 1: I wonder, like exactly what the laws are in the
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Speaker 1: New York criminal justice system, Like I don't expect that
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Speaker 1: to be perfect, so just letting you know for some reason,
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Speaker 1: So anytime that the translation says prison, I've changed to
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Speaker 1: jail because I just think that that's a user error. Basically,
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Speaker 1: now you know, I'm sorry. Anyway, back to Bananafish Things,
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Speaker 1: Episode three is called Across the River and Through the Trees,
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Speaker 1: which is the title of a novel by Ernest Hemingway.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna read a little snippet of the plot
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Speaker 1: for you because I thought it was interesting. So basically,
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Speaker 1: it is about a fifty year old kernel from World
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Speaker 1: War One and World War Two who is you know,
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Speaker 1: back and I think he's like duck hunting, and he
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Speaker 1: has terminal heart cancer and the whole thing is like
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Speaker 1: a flashback of like his service in both of the wars. Basically,
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Speaker 1: and according to Wikipedia, the primary narrative of the book
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Speaker 1: focuses on his romance with a eighteen year old Venetian
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Speaker 1: girl named Branada who he calls daughter Gross and she's
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Speaker 1: aware that he is dying of cancer. And the book
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Speaker 1: is about how he and Renata are coming to terms
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Speaker 1: with his impending death. So yeah, I'm not sure if
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Speaker 1: the actual literature that's being referenced has any bearing on
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Speaker 1: the actual episodes, but that one like kind of creeped
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Speaker 1: me out, and I went like, hi, I can get that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that definitely feels a little bit like banana Fish. So
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Speaker 1: I figured i'd share that one with you. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I haven't really decided how I'm doing this yet, but
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Speaker 1: now you know a little bit about across the river
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Speaker 1: and through the trees. Gross, let's actually do the episode now.
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Speaker 1: Sorry for making you wait, I guess, and yeah, let's
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Speaker 1: let's do it and hope the best. I'm gonna really
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Speaker 1: try this one not to like fuck it up. So
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Speaker 1: we start with an exterior shot of a large beige
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Speaker 1: brick building that kind of has a Gothic architecture bend
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Speaker 1: to it. I assume that this is the jail, and
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Speaker 1: we have a voiceover that says does this happen often?
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Speaker 1: And we see that we are in a visitor's room,
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Speaker 1: like the visitor's room of the jail, and Charlie, Shunichi,
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Speaker 1: and Agi are at a table and Shoonichi is like
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Speaker 1: I mean being sent to jail without a trial, And
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Speaker 1: Charlie's like, it's legally possible, but rare. No, it's just
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Speaker 1: that he probably didn't get bail. Guys, it's not that
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Speaker 1: weird anyway. Age says, what's gonna happen to Ash? And
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Speaker 1: Charlie's like, well, And then Max enters the room, who
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Speaker 1: is a tall, kind of middle aged looking dude with
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Speaker 1: light brown hair, blue eyes, and kind of a five
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Speaker 1: o'clock shadow, who I think we are supposed to know
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Speaker 1: is the Max from the first episode who shots Griffin.
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Speaker 1: Remember when they were in the army. Anyway, he walks
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Speaker 1: into the room and he's like yo, Shunichi and they
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Speaker 1: look over and Shoonichi stands and he's like long time,
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Speaker 1: no see man, and they hug. I like this, they're
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Speaker 1: actually good friends and not just acquaintances. And Shoonichi says,
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Speaker 1: you're such an idiot to end up in jail, and
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Speaker 1: he pats him on the back and he's like, I
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Speaker 1: heard you punched a cop. Yeah he did. Did you
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Speaker 1: realize what you put us through? And Max laughs and
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Speaker 1: he's like, my bad. And he looks over and sees
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Speaker 1: Charlie like sitting there looking super serious, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: what's up, Charlie, And then I guess we cut to
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Speaker 1: a little while later because Max is like sitting now
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Speaker 1: and he's like, you're crazy. I've had a hard time
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Speaker 1: looking after my own ass here. What can I do
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Speaker 1: against those rough housers with my delicate little arms? Huh?
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Speaker 1: He does not look like his arms are delicate. Also,
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Speaker 1: he punched a cop and Charlie's like, I know, but
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Speaker 1: we need your help and Max is like yeah, but man,
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Speaker 1: and Ag says please and Max looks over at him
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Speaker 1: kind of surprised, and Age's like, he saved my life.
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Speaker 1: I'm begging you to protect him. Max sighs and kind
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Speaker 1: of rests his head on his hand, and then we
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Speaker 1: go to the opening theme. Yes. Coming back from probably
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Speaker 1: a commercial break, we see Ash being let into a
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Speaker 1: cell and the guard to like a person who's like
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Speaker 1: lying on a bed with a book over his face, says,
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Speaker 1: new inmate, be nice, and I kind of like paused
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Speaker 1: here to see what the book is called. And it's
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Speaker 1: called Unfair by Jock Nicol, which doesn't seem to be
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Speaker 1: a real book, so there's that anyway, The guy takes
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Speaker 1: the book off his face, and it's Max, thank god.
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Speaker 1: And Ash walks in and he kind of like looks
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Speaker 1: around the cell and Max is like, A'm Max Lobo
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Speaker 1: and he extends his hand and Ash says, Ash links
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Speaker 1: and they shake hands. Max is like you're young. How
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Speaker 1: old are you? And Ash is like what about you,
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Speaker 1: old man? And Max says, old man, I'm thirty two.
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Speaker 1: He does look older than thirty two. And he is
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Speaker 1: so loud that like people start yelling at him from
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Speaker 1: the other cells and like tossing things at the cell
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Speaker 1: and some guy's like shut up, Max, and Max is
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Speaker 1: like sorry. So Ash says you're thirty two, you really
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Speaker 1: are old, and he climbs to the top bunk because
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Speaker 1: Max is on the bottom bunk and says I'm seventeen
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Speaker 1: and Max is like, compared to you, anyone would be old.
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Speaker 1: Ash lays down and Max says, where are you from?
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Speaker 1: Got any family? That's a good question. We actually don't
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Speaker 1: know if Ash has any family. Ash is just like,
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Speaker 1: you sure talk a lot. Max kind of like chuckles
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Speaker 1: and is like yeah, sorry, I'm actually a journalist. And
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Speaker 1: Ash says Max Lobo, Huh, there's a columnist by that
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Speaker 1: name with the greenwich Tribune he wrote seven hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty Days in Baghdad, and Max like excitedly gets up
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Speaker 1: and leans over the top bunk and he's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wrote that. You read it, and Ash says William
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Speaker 1: Ouster's reportage was way better. You should quit writing that
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Speaker 1: pretentious stuff and stick to the columns. Max is crushed
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Speaker 1: and he covers his face and Ash says, hey, I
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Speaker 1: actually meant that as a compliment. Your columns are way
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Speaker 1: better than those lousy paperbacks out there, and Max thinks, damn,
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Speaker 1: what's with this kid? He really hit home with that one,
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Speaker 1: and then he remembers Charlie saying, anyway, Ash isn't just
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Speaker 1: some delinquent, so don't take him lightly, and he thinks, geez,
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Speaker 1: this is way different than what I imagined, an elite
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Speaker 1: thug who reads political books and even local newspaper columns.
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Speaker 1: Next we get an exterior shot of the jail and
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Speaker 1: I guess it's morning. Some birds are chirping. I think,
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Speaker 1: if I'm thinking of the right parts. Then we cut
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Speaker 1: to assuming Max and Ash's legs as they're walking down
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Speaker 1: the hall, and then we see that people may or
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Speaker 1: may not be staring at them, and Max thinks, wait
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Speaker 1: a second, maybe he's not much of a fighter. And
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Speaker 1: Max is like explaining like all sorts of jail stuff
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Speaker 1: to Ash, but we can't hear it because Max is
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Speaker 1: thinking over his explaining, so he thinks that'll make things easy.
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Speaker 1: We'll just sit quietly and read. And then he points
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Speaker 1: ahead and out loud says, and the library's up there.
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Speaker 1: Want to take a look. And Ash is like probably
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Speaker 1: barely paying attention because he's feeling uncomfortable, and he says,
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Speaker 1: why is everyone staring at me? Max says, cause you're
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Speaker 1: new here, plus you're young. Since they're walking, he'd been
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Speaker 1: looking forward and he looks over at Ash, and Ash
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Speaker 1: looks just totally unconcerned, actually, and Max says, you better
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Speaker 1: not wander around by yourself, and As says why, and
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Speaker 1: Max is like he doesn't know what to say, and
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Speaker 1: he's just like, well, you know, young guys are seen
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Speaker 1: as salts, if you know what I mean. Ash just
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Speaker 1: kind of stares at him blankly. At least I thought
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Speaker 1: it looked like a total blank stare. And Max thinks, oh, no,
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Speaker 1: I think I scared him too much, and he puts
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Speaker 1: his hand over shoulder and he says something that we
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Speaker 1: really can't hear, but I think in the manga it
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Speaker 1: was like, don't worry about it. Something something something, It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, I guess because anyway. We cut to Ash
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Speaker 1: taking a tray of actually okay looking food and I
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Speaker 1: guess the cafeteria and Ash says, this is pretty crappy.
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Speaker 1: The soup kitchen serves better shit than this. Max is like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it takes some time to get used to it. Let's
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Speaker 1: sit here, and they sit down at an empty table
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Speaker 1: and there's a guy sitting at a table behind them,
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Speaker 1: and we overhear him say he's quite cute, and the
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Speaker 1: guy he's talking to says, I might visit him tonight.
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Speaker 1: Max is listening and he looks super worried, and again
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Speaker 1: he says, don't wander around alone, okay, and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: what about you. You're being awfully kind to me. Max
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Speaker 1: gets all flustered and he's like me, yeah right, I'm
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Speaker 1: just looking out for you. As it's happening, we get
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Speaker 1: this kind of obscured dude who's too close to the
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Speaker 1: camera for us to see, kind of walk over, but
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Speaker 1: we do see that he is a snake tattoo. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: it's the guy from episode two, and Snake Guy says, hey, there, newbie,
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Speaker 1: and we get a look at him and he's just
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Speaker 1: this like really tall white dude with brown hair, and
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Speaker 1: he's got like a short haircut, but the front of
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Speaker 1: his hair is kind of longer, like a devil lock
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Speaker 1: kind of sort of. It just looks weird, and he says,
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Speaker 1: you look pretty young. How old are you? Ash looks
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Speaker 1: away and is picking at his food, like just kind
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Speaker 1: of stabbing it with a fork, moving around, and the
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Speaker 1: guy sits down across the table from them and leans
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Speaker 1: over the table a bit and says, what being a
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Speaker 1: little shy? Max is? Like, uh, hey, Garvy, this kid is.
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Speaker 1: Before he can say anymore, a black guy with a
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Speaker 1: pink mohawk kind of and a really cool face tattoo
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Speaker 1: and a white guy with a green hat put their
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Speaker 1: hands on Max's shoulders and he flinches. They're pretty tough looking,
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Speaker 1: I guess, and Garvey, who we know his name now, says,
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Speaker 1: why don't you come to my cell sometime We can
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Speaker 1: have some fun. Ash is still silently picking at his food.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool, and Garvey continues, we can be real
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Speaker 1: good friends, and he reaches for Ash's hand and actually
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Speaker 1: goes so far as to touch it, but then he
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Speaker 1: gets the tray of food just slammed in his fucking face,
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Speaker 1: which he totally deserves, and Ash jumps on the table
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Speaker 1: and says, get your fucking hands off me, and he
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Speaker 1: kicks Garvey right in the face and he's like down,
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Speaker 1: and his buddies like rush over to go help, and
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Speaker 1: Ash and Garvy are like on the ground now and
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Speaker 1: Ashes on top of him like they're kind of wrestling
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Speaker 1: almost and fighting, and everyone is watching and cheering them on,
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Speaker 1: you know, because prison is probably boring and this is
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Speaker 1: how you get your daily entertainment. And Max is like
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Speaker 1: trying to get through this crowd of people and he's like,
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Speaker 1: Ash stop, and he yells for the guards, and a
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Speaker 1: guard who I guess is really just not paying attention
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Speaker 1: says what's going on? And then the guards rush over
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Speaker 1: and they grab Ash and Ash's like let go of me,
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Speaker 1: damn it, and they like take him away, and Max's
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Speaker 1: panicking now and he thinks, Shirley owes me big time.
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Speaker 1: Then we cut to Ash being thrown in a dark,
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Speaker 1: unadorned cell and the guard says, think about what you
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Speaker 1: did and closes the door, and we see that Ash
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Speaker 1: is taking a fork from the messhole, which I thought
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Speaker 1: was interesting. I don't know if you get real forks
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Speaker 1: in jail, but I kind of don't think so. I
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Speaker 1: bet they're plastic, but in this case, it's a real fork,
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Speaker 1: you know, one made of some sort of metal, probably
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Speaker 1: stainless steel. Anyway, we cut to test tubes with some
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Speaker 1: red liquid in them, like a bunch of them, and
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Speaker 1: a voice says, I just don't get it, and we
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Speaker 1: see it's doctor Meredith. Oh, I haven't seen him in
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Speaker 1: a while. And this woman who might be his assistant
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Speaker 1: or his receptionist or whatever, says what and Doctor Meredith says,
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Speaker 1: the drugs Ash asked me to analyze, and he's like
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Speaker 1: looking at a computer. They're mainly lisurgic acid dithalamide, you
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Speaker 1: know LSD. Did all the rats turn out the same way?
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Speaker 1: And the woman's like yeah, Doctor Meredith says, sporadic behavior, savagery, aggression,
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Speaker 1: destructive behavior that doesn't really happen with LSD. And he
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Speaker 1: opens a curtain and we see Griffin in like the
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Speaker 1: room behind it, and he says, Griffin, I'm afraid your
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Speaker 1: little brother is caught up in some huge mess. Now
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Speaker 1: we go back to Ash in solitary confinement, and he's
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Speaker 1: laying on the floor for some reason, and he thinks,
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Speaker 1: what is banana fish a person? Some kind of code?
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Speaker 1: What the hell has Dino been up to? And he
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Speaker 1: sits up and thinks, whatever the case, And then we
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Speaker 1: cut to a very terrified looking young Ash who has
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Speaker 1: Dino's hand on his face, like on his cheek, and
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Speaker 1: Dino is like looking at him very intently, and Ash thinks,
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Speaker 1: ever since they took me captive when I was eleven,
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Speaker 1: I've been waiting for my chance. I have to go
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Speaker 1: up against him if I want to be free shit eleven.
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Speaker 1: And then we cut back to Ash now and he
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Speaker 1: presses his hands together and he thinks of Skip dying,
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Speaker 1: and he says, I'll never forgive him killing Skip like
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Speaker 1: he was just some insect. I'll never lose to him
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Speaker 1: no matter what he does, and I will survive. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So he's holding, you know, a grudge against Dino, which
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Speaker 1: sounds like it makes sense based on what we just heard.
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Speaker 1: And you know, of course Skips death, and of course
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Speaker 1: you should know if you don't already. I'm a huge
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Speaker 1: sucker for characters who were just gonna fucking survive no
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Speaker 1: matter what. So this little monologue made me a fan. Yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: now you know. So sometime later, the guard opens the
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Speaker 1: door and Ash is sitting on the floor and the
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Speaker 1: guard says, get out. Then we see Max and some
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Speaker 1: other dudes in this room and they're like painting the
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Speaker 1: walls or whatever, and the guard brings Ash in, and
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Speaker 1: the guard says, you've learned your lesson, now behave yourself.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's learned anything, but okay. Ash walks
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Speaker 1: into the room and some guy, of course chuckles little
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Speaker 1: tomboys out guys. Max walks over and says, you don't
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Speaker 1: look too bad for someone who was just in the
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Speaker 1: repenting cell, and Ash is like, I've never repented, not
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Speaker 1: once in my life, and he just kind of walks away,
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Speaker 1: and Max thinks, what a kid. Now I wanted to see.
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Speaker 1: This is a weird translation, because I mean, in the
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Speaker 1: manga just translated to solitary confinement, so this interaction is
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Speaker 1: a little bit different. But it seems that repenting sal
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Speaker 1: was accurate, so this is an accurate translation. I just
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Speaker 1: assume that this must be what solitary confinement is called
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Speaker 1: in Japan or something, but also sure you've never repented Ash?
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Speaker 1: All right? So anyway, we next cut to Max on
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Speaker 1: the phone and like a little phone booth thing, and
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Speaker 1: he says, yeah, he caused trouble the day he got in.
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Speaker 1: The guys have their eye on him. Anyways, do something quick.
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Speaker 1: I'm counting on you, Charlie. And then we see Ash
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Speaker 1: in the prison yard, sitting alone on some bleachers. He
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Speaker 1: is in the shade and everyone else is in the sunlight,
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Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting framing because I would expect
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Speaker 1: to see Ash the sun and these kind of seedy
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Speaker 1: characters over, you know, in the dark shaded areas. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what this is getting at, but
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Speaker 1: I might be getting at something. Anyway. Ash thinks I've
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Speaker 1: got to get that drug away from Doc and Griffin.
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Speaker 1: It's too dangerous. But how the phone lines are probably tapped.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they check letters too, And then out loud,
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Speaker 1: he says shit, and someone that we can't see says hey.
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Speaker 1: Ash looks up and it's Garvey and friends. Fuck. Garvey says,
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Speaker 1: I had fun the other day, boy. Then we cut
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Speaker 1: to Max now looking around the yard for Ash, and
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Speaker 1: he's like, where did that kid go off to and
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Speaker 1: there are two guys like sitting on some bleachers, and
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Speaker 1: he turned to them and he says, have you seen Ash?
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Speaker 1: And the first guy's like no, and the second guy
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Speaker 1: says I saw him. And Max is like, really where
20:57
Speaker 1: and the guy says it's probably too late though he
21:00
Speaker 1: went to the library with Garvey and his guys. What
21:05
Speaker 1: And Max like gasps. Then we cut to a low
21:10
Speaker 1: shot of some stairs, so we're like kind of at
21:12
Speaker 1: the bottom of the stairs and we see some dudes
21:14
Speaker 1: coming around the corner at the top of the stairs,
21:16
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a not very detailed image, so
21:19
Speaker 1: it took me a second to figure out who this was.
21:21
Speaker 1: But it's Garvey and his crew and Garvey laughs and
21:25
Speaker 1: is like that was fun. Huh. So they start to
21:30
Speaker 1: walk down the stairs and one of his crew guys says,
21:35
Speaker 1: but weren't you supposed to make him talk? Garvey stops
21:39
Speaker 1: and turns back and says that can wait. I've got time.
21:44
Speaker 1: Max then gets to the bottom of the stairs and
21:46
Speaker 1: he's out of breath, and Garvey's like, hey, Max, what's
21:50
Speaker 1: the hurry? And Max like, where's Ash? And Garvey, who
21:54
Speaker 1: is walking down the stairs again kind of chuckles, and
21:57
Speaker 1: he says he knows how to survive in this world.
22:01
Speaker 1: Max says, what is that supposed to mean? And Garvey's like,
22:06
Speaker 1: he was actually pretty obedient. I thought he'd at least
22:09
Speaker 1: put up a fight. Shits. I think Max is too late,
22:16
Speaker 1: And Garvey and his crew walk past Max, and Max
22:20
Speaker 1: is like, that is not what I want to hear,
22:23
Speaker 1: and he runs up the stairs and he's like running
22:25
Speaker 1: through the library looking for Ash and calling out to him.
22:29
Speaker 1: So Max finally comes around a corner and he sees
22:33
Speaker 1: Ash and Ashes lying on the floor, you know, completely
22:39
Speaker 1: naked except for his jumpsuit which is you know, down
22:42
Speaker 1: around his ankles. His hands are tied and he is
22:48
Speaker 1: pretty beaten and scraped up. Yeah, he was too late,
22:54
Speaker 1: So I think we can just pause there for a
22:57
Speaker 1: second and talk about some things. Yeah. I wasn't expecting
23:03
Speaker 1: gang rape in episode three, like at all, or really
23:07
Speaker 1: any episode, to be honest with you, I going into
23:12
Speaker 1: this wholeheartedly expected Max to make it in time or
23:16
Speaker 1: Ash to be able to fight them off. So this
23:20
Speaker 1: was pretty shocking to me. I mean, it's gonna be
23:25
Speaker 1: shocking anyway no matter what my expectation. But still in
23:30
Speaker 1: my experience with anime, of course, they don't all fit this,
23:34
Speaker 1: but my general experience, excluding things like Redo a Healer,
23:39
Speaker 1: is that this doesn't normally happen to a main character
23:42
Speaker 1: where there is a threat of sexual assault and it
23:48
Speaker 1: actually happens, and you know, normally somebody is there in
23:53
Speaker 1: time to save them or they are able to get
23:58
Speaker 1: out of it themselves. I don't know. And even then
24:02
Speaker 1: I see a lot more of kind of secondary characters
24:07
Speaker 1: in this situation. I'm kind of thinking of sort of
24:10
Speaker 1: art online and that kind of stuff where there's a
24:13
Speaker 1: threat but it's it's not really real, you know. So yeah,
24:20
Speaker 1: I just like didn't see this coming at all. I
24:27
Speaker 1: don't know. We're obviously not watching something that is gonna
24:33
Speaker 1: play it's safe with assaults, So yeah, I don't know
24:38
Speaker 1: how you feel about that. But on the topic of
24:42
Speaker 1: being saved and having other characters in a story come
24:47
Speaker 1: to your rescue when you're faced with possibly incredibly traumatic shit,
24:53
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to go down
24:54
Speaker 1: the way that you're used to, So you may just
24:57
Speaker 1: want to keep an eye on how a often ash
25:01
Speaker 1: has to take care of himself because no one is
25:04
Speaker 1: coming to help, or even if they are, they're going
25:08
Speaker 1: to be way too late. Now I'm a little bit sad,
25:14
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's something i'll touch on again later,
25:17
Speaker 1: but yeah, thanks for taking this minute with me, and
25:22
Speaker 1: let's get back to it. So we cut to a
25:26
Speaker 1: doctor putting a little tiny bandage on Ash's arm, and
25:32
Speaker 1: we're in the infirmary and Ash is like sitting in
25:34
Speaker 1: a bed and the doctor says he isn't banged up
25:38
Speaker 1: that badly, nothing to worry about, Okay, I gave you
25:41
Speaker 1: a shot of antibiotics. Just rest here today. And Ash says,
25:46
Speaker 1: my head's killing me. Do you have any pain killers?
25:50
Speaker 1: My doctor's like, your head, sure, whatever, your highness. And
25:55
Speaker 1: Ash says, I can't swallow powders or tablets because I
25:59
Speaker 1: really hate the taste though, And the doctor's like, so
26:05
Speaker 1: high and mighty eh, how about this? And he hands
26:08
Speaker 1: out one of those little capsules and Ash takes it
26:10
Speaker 1: and thanks him. The doctor hands him a glass of
26:13
Speaker 1: water and says, drink up. Gotta make sure you don't
26:15
Speaker 1: stock up on meds and get high. I don't think
26:18
Speaker 1: you can get high on this, but whatever. Ash's like, okay, sure,
26:22
Speaker 1: and he puts the pill in his mouth and he
26:23
Speaker 1: drinks my doctor's like at a boy, And then we
26:28
Speaker 1: see that Ash is actually still holding the capsule behind
26:31
Speaker 1: his back. So anyway, the doctor leaves, maybe it's the
26:36
Speaker 1: end of his shift or something, and Max is like,
26:39
Speaker 1: you're really in for it now. Garvey's spreading false rumors
26:42
Speaker 1: that you didn't put up a fight, and Ash is like,
26:45
Speaker 1: I was outnumbered. They could have killed me. Max says, well, yeah,
26:50
Speaker 1: but anyway, are you hungry? And we see that Max
26:55
Speaker 1: has brought a tray of like cafeteria food and it
26:59
Speaker 1: looks like it's like some sort of meat and mashed
27:02
Speaker 1: potatoes and mixed vegetables, and there's like a slice of
27:05
Speaker 1: bread and some butter, and there's also a banana. And
27:08
Speaker 1: Max laughs and he's like, I bet you don't even
27:10
Speaker 1: want to see a banana right now. I'll eat that
27:13
Speaker 1: for you. And he goes to pick up the banana
27:16
Speaker 1: and Ash stabs it with his fork, and Max like
27:20
Speaker 1: backs away and he's like, I'm just kidding, it's all yours.
27:24
Speaker 1: Ash takes a bite of the banana and kind of
27:27
Speaker 1: to himself, just says banana fish, and Max's eyes widen
27:32
Speaker 1: and he says, what did you just say? And he
27:35
Speaker 1: thinks of Griffin and says, did you say banana fish?
27:39
Speaker 1: How do you know that? Ash is like, why are
27:43
Speaker 1: you so worked up? It's just a fish from a
27:45
Speaker 1: Salinger novel. Max says, don't lie. You know something, don't you.
27:51
Speaker 1: Ash is silent and not looking at him, and Max says,
27:54
Speaker 1: you gotta tell me. Do you know where he is?
27:57
Speaker 1: There's like a over the bed like tray table and
28:01
Speaker 1: Max is just leaning further and further over it towards
28:04
Speaker 1: Ash and he says, is that why Charlie has me
28:07
Speaker 1: guarding you? You fucking idiot? Max? And Ash says Charlie,
28:13
Speaker 1: so you And Max cuts him off and slams his
28:16
Speaker 1: fist on the table and says answer me. And Ash says,
28:20
Speaker 1: you asked if I knew where he was? So banana
28:24
Speaker 1: Fish is a person, and Max says, yeah, it's taken
28:28
Speaker 1: me ten years to figure out that. Much later, we
28:33
Speaker 1: are back in the cell with both of them. I
28:35
Speaker 1: guess Ash got to leave. He's okay enough, I guess,
28:39
Speaker 1: and Max says the guy who wrote the article was
28:42
Speaker 1: a military intelligence officer in Baghdad from two thousand and
28:45
Speaker 1: five to two thousand and seven. According to him, it's
28:48
Speaker 1: unclear whether Banana Fish is a person or an organization,
28:51
Speaker 1: but it's connected with a certain drug trafficking route. And Ash,
28:55
Speaker 1: who is looking at some like I guess it's a
28:57
Speaker 1: notebook or something, says, but if it's been around that long,
29:02
Speaker 1: how come there are no rumors. I've never heard of it?
29:05
Speaker 1: And Max says that's just it. His article said the
29:08
Speaker 1: rumors just stopped after two thousand and seven. He finally
29:12
Speaker 1: got a lead in LA this year, and As says
29:15
Speaker 1: where's he now? Max is like, his picture and profile
29:19
Speaker 1: are on the last page. After he got out of
29:21
Speaker 1: the military, he became a freelance writer. Ash flips to
29:25
Speaker 1: the back page and gasps Max doesn't really notice this,
29:29
Speaker 1: and he continues, I'm gonna go see him when I
29:31
Speaker 1: get out. Ash is like, no, you won't. Max looks up,
29:37
Speaker 1: super confused, and Ash says, he died in front of
29:41
Speaker 1: my eyes. Oh my god. It's the guy for episode
29:44
Speaker 1: one who was killed and gave Ash the drug. Max
29:49
Speaker 1: is like what do you mean? And Ash says, I
29:52
Speaker 1: guess he'd gotten too close without realizing it. Max is like, unbelievable,
29:56
Speaker 1: and he puts his hand on his face, and Ash says,
30:00
Speaker 1: why are you trying to find banana fish? Anyways? Max
30:04
Speaker 1: is like, when I was in Iraq over a decade ago,
30:07
Speaker 1: I had this friend and he got seriously messed up
30:10
Speaker 1: by some bad drug. He was a great guy, liked poetry,
30:13
Speaker 1: even wrote some himself. His last words were banana and
30:17
Speaker 1: Ash cuts him off and says what's his name? And
30:20
Speaker 1: Max is like what? Nash says, your friend's name? What
30:25
Speaker 1: is it? Max says, Griffin Callen Rees. We called him
30:29
Speaker 1: Griff and Ash cuts him off and says you must
30:32
Speaker 1: be Max green Read and Max is like, how do
30:36
Speaker 1: you know my real name? Ash stands and walks over
30:40
Speaker 1: to the bars and puts his hands on them, and
30:44
Speaker 1: he's looking out of the cell at this point, and
30:46
Speaker 1: he says, I have a real name too, It's Oslon
30:50
Speaker 1: Oslon Callan Rees. And Max is like, you're Griff's little brother, Oslon.
30:57
Speaker 1: Who'd have thought I'd meet you here? But man, you
31:00
Speaker 1: two are nothing alike. Your brother was a quiet poet.
31:04
Speaker 1: Ash is still looking outside and he says, yeah, he
31:08
Speaker 1: liked to write. He wrote me letters often, so I
31:11
Speaker 1: know a lot about you. Max is like, yeah, Griff
31:15
Speaker 1: and I we and Ash turns and says you shot
31:19
Speaker 1: him and Max is like what and Ash says, and
31:25
Speaker 1: you left him there to die. Max stands and he's like,
31:29
Speaker 1: that's not how it was. He shot. I didn't have
31:32
Speaker 1: a choice. Griff was high on some drug and he
31:34
Speaker 1: tried to kill us all. Ash leans back against the
31:38
Speaker 1: bars and he says he trusted you. He wrote about
31:42
Speaker 1: you a lot, said you were his only friends. Max's
31:47
Speaker 1: face falls and Ash continues, he still can't use his legs,
31:52
Speaker 1: but you didn't have a choice. Max is shocked, and
31:57
Speaker 1: he says Griff's still alive, and he walks towards Ash
32:00
Speaker 1: and says, where is he. I have to see him.
32:03
Speaker 1: Ash grips the bars tightly and says, even if you did,
32:06
Speaker 1: he wouldn't recognize you, and he slams his fist against
32:09
Speaker 1: the bars. He doesn't even recognize his own brother. You
32:12
Speaker 1: said that drug messed up his brain, yet you left
32:14
Speaker 1: him there to die, and Max is like, that's not true.
32:18
Speaker 1: He was sent back home after that. I looked everywhere
32:20
Speaker 1: for him, and the guard is like, keep it down.
32:24
Speaker 1: You two go to sleep, and he walks away. Max
32:28
Speaker 1: turns away from my Ash and says yeah, let's let's
32:31
Speaker 1: get some sleep, and Ash says, when I get out,
32:36
Speaker 1: Max stops. He continues, I'm going to kill you shit,
32:43
Speaker 1: good night, Max. I liked your columns. Fuck Ash, geez.
32:49
Speaker 1: Max in bed lightly punches a picture of him and
32:54
Speaker 1: his Iraq buddies that he has on the wall and thinks,
32:58
Speaker 1: damn it, why now after all this time? It's morning now,
33:04
Speaker 1: and we hear Charlie say you quit? What do you mean?
33:09
Speaker 1: And we see that he's talking to Max in the
33:12
Speaker 1: visitation room and he continues, you can't quit now, what's
33:16
Speaker 1: going on? Max looks down and then we go to
33:20
Speaker 1: another table where Ash, AG and Shunichi are and Ash says,
33:25
Speaker 1: thanks for coming, ag, Ah, he invited him. Ag says,
33:30
Speaker 1: I was glad to hear you wanted to see me. Aw.
33:34
Speaker 1: He looks down and then continues, after what happened with
33:39
Speaker 1: Skip because of me. Ash gets up and puts his
33:42
Speaker 1: arm around Ag, and AG looks kind of shocked me too, AG,
33:46
Speaker 1: and Ash says, it's not your fault. Japanese people think
33:50
Speaker 1: so strangely, and AG's like, you think. So. Shunichi is
33:54
Speaker 1: looking on at this and he thinks it's kind of
33:56
Speaker 1: hard to tell who's older. Ash stands up and says,
34:01
Speaker 1: I hear you're still taking pictures. How are my guys.
34:04
Speaker 1: Shunichi's like, actually, it's too dangerous for us to get close,
34:09
Speaker 1: and Agie says it seems like Arthur's leading the gang now,
34:13
Speaker 1: so you know how it is. Ash kind of pounds
34:16
Speaker 1: his fist on the table and says that coward. Then
34:21
Speaker 1: we cut back to Charlie and Max, and Charlie says, okay,
34:25
Speaker 1: I say, and Max is like I might have been
34:28
Speaker 1: chasing banana fish out of guilt, and he puts his
34:31
Speaker 1: hand on his head, but that's all over now, and
34:34
Speaker 1: Charlie says, but you've been working on this for ten years.
34:39
Speaker 1: Max just kind of shrugs, and Charlie's like okay, I'll
34:43
Speaker 1: let the captain know. He stands and then walks over
34:46
Speaker 1: to Ag and Shunci and Ash and he says, eBay, age,
34:52
Speaker 1: time to go. AGI's like okay. So they all stand
34:57
Speaker 1: and they are walking to the exits and Ash says,
35:01
Speaker 1: you take care, okay, don't worry, you'll be out soon.
35:05
Speaker 1: Ag and Ash stop and Ash gets closer to Ag
35:09
Speaker 1: and is like, yeah, I'm glad you came today. He
35:14
Speaker 1: then puts his hand on the back of AG's head
35:18
Speaker 1: and leans in slightly, and AG's like, uh yeah, and
35:24
Speaker 1: he looks at Ash's hand as it caresses his hair,
35:32
Speaker 1: and Ash slides his hand onto AG's cheek, and AG
35:37
Speaker 1: is flustered and blushing slightly at this point and obviously
35:43
Speaker 1: pretty uncomfortable, which is totally understandable. And Ash says, next time,
35:49
Speaker 1: come alone, got it? And AG's like why? And Ash
35:55
Speaker 1: leans in and Ag says what, and Ash just fucking kisses,
36:01
Speaker 1: super surprised Ag. That's assualt Ash, you can't you can't
36:07
Speaker 1: just kiss him. Charlie and Shunichi look on in total shock.
36:14
Speaker 1: And this kiss is not just like a fast kiss.
36:18
Speaker 1: It has tongue and it lasts for like a full
36:22
Speaker 1: eight seconds because I counted them. It's actually really well animated.
36:30
Speaker 1: And I couldn't find out who did it, guys, and
36:32
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And at the very end, when they're still kissing,
36:37
Speaker 1: Ag likes looks super surprised for a second, and then
36:41
Speaker 1: Ash pulls back slightly and he opens his eyes and
36:46
Speaker 1: he stares at Ag like really intensely, and they both
36:52
Speaker 1: stare at each other for a second in a way
36:54
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem to match the kiss, like Ag no
36:57
Speaker 1: longer looks flustered or surprise, and then I guess Ash
37:02
Speaker 1: pulls fully back and he says later, sweetie, and he
37:07
Speaker 1: slaps Age's ass and AG jumps and he says bye,
37:13
Speaker 1: and he winks and like walks off, waving, and Shichi's
37:19
Speaker 1: just like you okagehn And Ag puts his hand over
37:24
Speaker 1: his mouth and he's blushing again, and he's like, I
37:27
Speaker 1: have to go to the bathroom and he runs off.
37:30
Speaker 1: Shoonici sighs and he's like that might have been his
37:34
Speaker 1: first kiss ever. Oh no, So now we cut to
37:39
Speaker 1: the bathroom and Ag is in a stall and he
37:43
Speaker 1: puts his hand over his mouth and he spits out
37:46
Speaker 1: the capsule. Oh that makes so much sense. I totally
37:51
Speaker 1: didn't know that was coming for some reason. So happy
37:55
Speaker 1: to see that there was a plan there. Anyway, AG
37:59
Speaker 1: is looking at the caps and he thinks something's inside.
38:02
Speaker 1: He opens it and he pulls out this tiny rolled
38:05
Speaker 1: up piece of paper and he reads it and we hear,
38:08
Speaker 1: you know, Ash's voice reading it. So it says, Ag,
38:12
Speaker 1: I know this is dangerous, but I need you to
38:13
Speaker 1: do something. Go to the shop called Chang Dai in
38:16
Speaker 1: Chinatown and meet short or long just say ASH sent you,
38:21
Speaker 1: And then we're kind of like seeing them leave and
38:24
Speaker 1: AG's in like the car as they're going back to
38:26
Speaker 1: I guess the hotel or something, and the note continues,
38:30
Speaker 1: tell him to get what I gave to doctor Meredith
38:32
Speaker 1: and hide it somewhere safe. Then Agi is in the
38:35
Speaker 1: hotel room looking at the note, sitting on the bed,
38:38
Speaker 1: and the note continues, be careful, don't let anyone know
38:42
Speaker 1: about this. At this point, Agi stands and he walks
38:45
Speaker 1: over to Shunichi, who's in another room, and says, I'm
38:48
Speaker 1: going out for a bit. Sniji's like okay, but be safe.
38:53
Speaker 1: Age says, I will, and thanks forgive me. He bass
38:56
Speaker 1: on and he turns to leave, and SI's like oh,
39:00
Speaker 1: and Agi jumps and Shinigi says, could you grab me
39:03
Speaker 1: a Sunday on your way back? And Age's like okay, sure,
39:09
Speaker 1: So AG's gonna do this, huh. Anyway, we cut to
39:13
Speaker 1: the mansion and Dino, that guy that I don't know
39:16
Speaker 1: what his name is, and Arthur are in a room
39:18
Speaker 1: and Dino says an Asian kid, and the guy's like, yeah,
39:23
Speaker 1: he came to see Ash with the detective and Arthur's
39:26
Speaker 1: like hmm, and Diino says, you know who he is,
39:30
Speaker 1: and Arthur's like, Ash wouldn't just meet with someone to
39:33
Speaker 1: just chat, Papadino, let me handle this. Garby's taking his
39:37
Speaker 1: time right then, in the place of the Lynx, I'll
39:40
Speaker 1: bring you a cute Japanese cat oh fuck. Then we
39:44
Speaker 1: cuts to the cute Japanese cat agi putting some cute
39:48
Speaker 1: purple glasses on, and he thinks Chinatown, huh. And he's
39:54
Speaker 1: walking through Chinatown in the sharpest pink track jacket with
39:59
Speaker 1: a black tank top and these crazy leaf print pants.
40:04
Speaker 1: But I don't know, maybe he thinks he is incognito,
40:07
Speaker 1: and he's like somehow blending in, but he looks loud,
40:11
Speaker 1: like I mean, I think he looks great, but not
40:15
Speaker 1: right for like New York City. Anyway, He's thinking, I
40:20
Speaker 1: heard it's dangerous around here, and he looks around and thinks,
40:23
Speaker 1: I can't chicken out now. He is now like looking
40:26
Speaker 1: at a map on his phone and he's like, that's weird.
40:29
Speaker 1: It should be around here. He sees two guys sitting
40:33
Speaker 1: on a stoop and he's like, I'm looking for a
40:35
Speaker 1: place called chung Dai and the guy stand up and
40:39
Speaker 1: walk over to him, and one of the guys says,
40:41
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? What business you got there?
40:44
Speaker 1: And he's like I and he starts to kind of
40:48
Speaker 1: back away, and we kind of see his legs are
40:50
Speaker 1: shaking a little, and he's like, I just uh, I'm
40:53
Speaker 1: looking for shorter long ash Link sent me. And the
40:56
Speaker 1: first guy's like Ash did, and the other guy said,
41:00
Speaker 1: Shorten's not here. Arthur's men are trying to hunt him down.
41:03
Speaker 1: The first guy's like, Chang Di is like right around
41:06
Speaker 1: the corner by the barber shop, and he points up
41:08
Speaker 1: the street and Age's like thanks, and we cut to
41:13
Speaker 1: Ag walking into chang Dai. It's pretty empty. It's like
41:17
Speaker 1: a small Chinese food place, and he looks around and
41:22
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, this woman pops up in is like
41:24
Speaker 1: table for one, and Agy jumps and he's like huh
41:27
Speaker 1: uh yeah. The woman says, sit wherever you want and
41:31
Speaker 1: just kind of walks off, and Agi takes off his sunglasses,
41:35
Speaker 1: sits down and sighs and thinks I didn't come here
41:40
Speaker 1: to eat. But and then this dude with glasses and
41:44
Speaker 1: this like very stereotypical Chinese garb like pops up from
41:48
Speaker 1: literally out of nowhere with a bowl and he startles
41:53
Speaker 1: the shit out of Ag and he says, here, this
41:57
Speaker 1: is for you. It's free, and he sits down the table.
42:00
Speaker 1: He says, I'm Chang, this is my restaurant. You here
42:03
Speaker 1: to ask something, my boy, And AG says, I'm looking
42:07
Speaker 1: for Shorter Wong. There's something important I have to tell him.
42:12
Speaker 1: And we get a quick look over Age's shoulder with
42:16
Speaker 1: an out of focused shot of some dude sitting behind
42:19
Speaker 1: him a little bit, and then a nice shot of
42:22
Speaker 1: the bowl containing what looks like wanton soup with block choi,
42:25
Speaker 1: which I really want right now, thanks, And I guess
42:28
Speaker 1: his name is Chang, And Chang says, well, that's too bad.
42:33
Speaker 1: He's not here now. No one knows where he is.
42:36
Speaker 1: AG's like, I see, then, do you know of a
42:39
Speaker 1: doctor Meredith? And that guy from the other table like
42:43
Speaker 1: immediately picks up his phone and starts texting or calling someone.
42:47
Speaker 1: That's not good. Then we cut to Ag leaving the
42:50
Speaker 1: restaurant and it's dark out now, so maybe it was
42:52
Speaker 1: already kind of late in the day, and Age's like,
42:55
Speaker 1: I thought i'd at least find something Ash will be
42:59
Speaker 1: so let down. I can't let him down. I'll go
43:04
Speaker 1: find the doctor myself. Back at jail, Max is writing
43:09
Speaker 1: something at like a small desk in the cell. His
43:13
Speaker 1: faces to the wall, so his back is to the
43:15
Speaker 1: open area of the cell, and he says, what are
43:20
Speaker 1: you staring at? And we see that Ash is standing
43:24
Speaker 1: there just staring at him, and Max turns and says
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Speaker 1: say something. If you hate me, just say it, and
43:35
Speaker 1: then he stands and he's like are you listening. Ash
43:38
Speaker 1: just stares at him. Max is starting to look kind
43:43
Speaker 1: of nervous and he's like what and Ash just continues
43:47
Speaker 1: to stare at him, and Max is like, don't look
43:50
Speaker 1: at me like that. And he thinks of Griffin and
43:53
Speaker 1: he covers his face and he's like stop it. Don't
43:55
Speaker 1: look at me with your brother's eyes. And at this
43:58
Speaker 1: point something's going on with his brain and he kind
44:00
Speaker 1: of sees Ash as Griffin and there's like a greeny
44:04
Speaker 1: green filter on this, like his brain is like not
44:07
Speaker 1: processing this correctly. And he grabs Ash and he throws
44:11
Speaker 1: him on the bed and he gets like over him
44:14
Speaker 1: and he strangles him. Fuck. Then people from other cells
44:20
Speaker 1: are like, shut up, Lobo, what the hell's going on?
44:23
Speaker 1: And at this point Max snaps out of it and
44:27
Speaker 1: he starts to release his grip on Ash's neck, and
44:29
Speaker 1: Ash just looks like terrified, and Max says, I'm sorry,
44:38
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to and he gets off of him
44:40
Speaker 1: and says, I'll ask the guard to change cells. It'll
44:44
Speaker 1: be better for both of us. At this point, Ash
44:47
Speaker 1: sits up and Max is covering his face with his
44:51
Speaker 1: hand and he's like, if you want to kill me,
44:54
Speaker 1: go ahead, I've had enough. Good night, Ash. We cut
45:00
Speaker 1: back to Chinatown and Ag is walking up a poorly
45:05
Speaker 1: lit stairwell and he knocks on a door at the
45:07
Speaker 1: top of the stairs and then he opens it and
45:10
Speaker 1: he says, excuse me, I'd like to ask you, and
45:15
Speaker 1: there's some sort of shuffling sound and then AG's glasses
45:19
Speaker 1: drop to the floor and it's Arthur and he is
45:23
Speaker 1: kind of holding Ag by the face, like by the
45:27
Speaker 1: chin I guess, and he says, I've been waiting for you,
45:31
Speaker 1: Samurai boy. And then we get the title card across
45:35
Speaker 1: the river and through the trees, and then we go
45:37
Speaker 1: to the ending and that's the end of the episode. Yeah,
45:42
Speaker 1: so closing thoughts, Yeah, that was an episode, right, that
45:46
Speaker 1: was one of the episodes of all time. Yeah, it
45:54
Speaker 1: pains me to tell you that I really liked that episode. Yeah,
46:00
Speaker 1: so there are some things that we kind of learned
46:03
Speaker 1: in this episode that I kind of wanted to talk about.
46:06
Speaker 1: I guess what I can say first is why the
46:09
Speaker 1: hell was ash on the street when he was eleven
46:12
Speaker 1: years old? Like, we don't know what his family situation
46:16
Speaker 1: is like at this point, but that's like super young
46:21
Speaker 1: to be homeless, like super young. And I assume that
46:29
Speaker 1: Dino taking him off the streets is not a good thing,
46:33
Speaker 1: especially because of what we have seen of his life
46:36
Speaker 1: so far and his past. But I wanted to quickly
46:41
Speaker 1: point out something happened in episode one where remember that
46:46
Speaker 1: first time that we saw Dino when Ash like went
46:49
Speaker 1: to him and was like, hey, you used my guys
46:52
Speaker 1: to kill someone, and Dino says that he took ash
46:57
Speaker 1: In off the streets like it was a good thing.
47:00
Speaker 1: So it seems like maybe that's not the case. It
47:03
Speaker 1: also seems like there is a disconnect in their views
47:07
Speaker 1: of what would be a good thing. So yeah, of course,
47:12
Speaker 1: as of this moment, Yeah, we don't really know what
47:15
Speaker 1: happened after that is there a chance that he adopted him.
47:19
Speaker 1: I wish I hadn't said that. I don't know, right,
47:23
Speaker 1: it could be anything. You know, sometimes kids just don't
47:26
Speaker 1: like their parents, right or something. Yeah, sure, sure, well
47:32
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll come back to that because it's a theme.
47:36
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, it's a little bit worrisome, especially because
47:41
Speaker 1: of how terrified little tiny Ash looked and his eyes
47:45
Speaker 1: were like so big, and his eyes are so like
47:50
Speaker 1: narrow and small now and in anime world, that makes
47:53
Speaker 1: me feel like his life has been really, really tough.
47:58
Speaker 1: So but yeah, I mean, this was a pretty intense episode.
48:02
Speaker 1: So it hasn't been very long, I don't think, but
48:05
Speaker 1: it has been a little while on the anime is
48:08
Speaker 1: in particular not very good at getting us to understand
48:12
Speaker 1: how long things have taken. Like he was in solitary
48:14
Speaker 1: confinement for three days, I think, but we didn't get
48:17
Speaker 1: to hear that, which I thought was weird. But Ash's
48:20
Speaker 1: time in prison has like been real, real bad. I mean,
48:24
Speaker 1: we already talked about a lot of it, so we
48:26
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about it again. But you know,
48:30
Speaker 1: at least he got to kiss sweet sweet age, I mean,
48:34
Speaker 1: past that capsule with the note in it to him.
48:39
Speaker 1: At least that worked to help. I wanted to point
48:42
Speaker 1: out a couple of changes, especially to the scene where
48:45
Speaker 1: Ash was in the infirmary. The anime really tones down
48:50
Speaker 1: how mean everyone is to Ash, Like it doesn't tone
48:55
Speaker 1: down the sexual stuff, but there's just kind of an
48:58
Speaker 1: element of cruelty to the way the Ash is treated
49:01
Speaker 1: by a lot of people, and it's very much present
49:05
Speaker 1: in the way that the doctor talks to him after
49:08
Speaker 1: this incident. You've got to remember this part of the
49:10
Speaker 1: manga takes place in nineteen eighty five, so there's a
49:13
Speaker 1: real threat of him contracting HIV from these situations, and
49:18
Speaker 1: it's in there, and the doctor very flippantly talks about it,
49:22
Speaker 1: and he's also like, hey, look on the bright side,
49:25
Speaker 1: at least he can't get pregnant, like that is an
49:28
Speaker 1: upside to all of this. So it's just, yeah, it's rough,
49:34
Speaker 1: and like there's just not a lot of empathy taking
49:38
Speaker 1: place towards him, or sympathy or really consoling happening, Like
49:45
Speaker 1: he just went through probably a traumatic experience, and we're
49:49
Speaker 1: getting like nothing from the doctor and we're barely getting
49:51
Speaker 1: anything from Max with his joke about bananas, which yeah,
49:56
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, but like you know, it's
50:01
Speaker 1: it kind of sucks. So I don't know, man, I
50:04
Speaker 1: don't know why you are listening to me explain this
50:08
Speaker 1: honestly right now, But I just did. Also super cool
50:14
Speaker 1: that Age's on board and he is going to get
50:17
Speaker 1: himself in trouble. I guess he almost didn't. I mean,
50:23
Speaker 1: it seems as though he was followed, so he didn't
50:26
Speaker 1: really have much of a chance to get over there
50:28
Speaker 1: without Arthur finding out. But I got to respect him
50:33
Speaker 1: for giving it a shot and looking so cool while
50:37
Speaker 1: he did. So that's that's really all I got, guys. Anyway,
50:43
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go now and think about what
50:47
Speaker 1: I've done, and I hope you have a really good
50:51
Speaker 1: whatever later weebs if you come back,