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Banana Fish Ep. 15- The Garden of Eden · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person. I guess Michelle, you came back.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, did you watch episode fifteen and then
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Speaker 1: come to me to talk about it? You really want
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Speaker 1: to dissect it twice? Oh my god. I hope that
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Speaker 1: you're having a really okay thing, whatever the thing is,
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Speaker 1: like day thing or the night thing or whenever you're
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Speaker 1: listening to this, because yeah, I'm not feeling so worried
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Speaker 1: about stuff right now. It's you know, seventy six degrees outside,
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Speaker 1: and it's November, and you know, we did that thing
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Speaker 1: that the US does when we vote for new president.
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Speaker 1: So that's been fun, you know. And on top of
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Speaker 1: all of that, I had to sit down and take
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Speaker 1: notes on episode fifteen of Banana Fish, and now I
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Speaker 1: have to I have to, I guess, convey it to
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Speaker 1: you and potentially defend the actions of what is probably
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Speaker 1: my favorite anime character, which just doesn't really sound like
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So this has been This is
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Speaker 1: just not a great time for me. So we're just
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Speaker 1: gonna get right into it. But thank you for coming
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Speaker 1: back after what I'm sure was a catastrophe for you,
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Speaker 1: you know, watching episode fifteen. So yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Before I changed my mind. So episode fifteen is called
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Speaker 1: The Garden of Eden, Come on, really, which is I
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Speaker 1: mean the title of a bunch of things. But what
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Speaker 1: they were going for is the title of an unfinished
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Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway novel. It was actually his last novel and
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Speaker 1: it was published after his death, unfinished, and you know,
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Speaker 1: it has absolutely nothing to do with banana fish, but whatever.
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Speaker 1: So if you remember from the end of the last episode,
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Speaker 1: Ash might be dead, I mean that's what they were saying,
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Speaker 1: Like on the news they said that he died on
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Speaker 1: the way to the National Mental Health Institute or whatever
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Speaker 1: it's called, which we know that he made it there,
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Speaker 1: but we don't know that he's not dead. So that's
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Speaker 1: I mean kind of where we start off. We go
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Speaker 1: to yue Lung, who is staring at the TV and
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Speaker 1: the news report like just dumbfounded, and we hear a
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Speaker 1: reporter saying the death of ash Lynx could lead to
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Speaker 1: a new conflict between gangs, and yue Lung's like, it
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Speaker 1: can't be. He then hears a crash and he opened
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Speaker 1: a door to a darkened room and gasps because he
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Speaker 1: sees that the window is broken, and he thinks did
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Speaker 1: he And then we get a quick cut to someone's sneakers,
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Speaker 1: and we see Ag like run at him and like
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Speaker 1: grab him, and AG's like, don't move. He holds a
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Speaker 1: shard of glass to yue Lung's neck and we see
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Speaker 1: that his hand is also bleeding from I guess punching
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Speaker 1: the window out. Yue Lung sees this as well, and
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Speaker 1: he's like, you're bleeding. If Ash finds out I made
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Speaker 1: you bleed, he'll probably and AG cuts him off and
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Speaker 1: holds the shards closer to his neck and says shut up.
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Speaker 1: At this point, we see one of the staff kind
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Speaker 1: of hanging out in the doorway, and then three guys
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Speaker 1: walk in and the first guy's like Uelong, sir, and
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Speaker 1: AG says, step back or I'll kill him. Put the
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Speaker 1: guns down and step away. They do not look pleased
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Speaker 1: by this, but yue Lung says do as he says,
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Speaker 1: and they reluctantly set their guns down on the floor
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Speaker 1: and back away. We then go to I guess them
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Speaker 1: in the hallway because Yuelung is pressing the button for
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Speaker 1: the elevator as AG holds a gun to his back.
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Speaker 1: I guess from one of the dudes that put his
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Speaker 1: gun on the floor Yuelung in Chinese says, don't worry.
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Speaker 1: I have a plan, and AG's like, what did you
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Speaker 1: tell them? Uelung says, I just told them not to
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Speaker 1: hurt you. Sure. The elevator door opens to reveal Sing inside,
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Speaker 1: and he gasps and he like prepares to fight, and
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Speaker 1: Yue Lung shakes his head. Sing just kind of stares
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Speaker 1: at him in confusion, and he steps out of the
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Speaker 1: elevator and juey Lung and Ag get in and the
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Speaker 1: doors close. When the doors are closed, Sing is like
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Speaker 1: shit and he runs off, like maybe to find another
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Speaker 1: elevator to take or stares or something. And as he
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Speaker 1: starts to leave, one of the guards is like wait, Sing,
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Speaker 1: but he doesn't stop. I guess he gets to another
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Speaker 1: elevator because we see him get off an elevator into
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Speaker 1: the parking garage right as Yui Lung's car speeds away,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, shit, I won't let you get away.
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Speaker 1: He at this point gets on his motorcycle because I
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Speaker 1: forgot he has a motorcycle, and he takes off after them.
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Speaker 1: He is fourteen. Why does he have a motorcycle? Doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: Then we go to the opening. Yay, so I noticed
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Speaker 1: in the opening that there is a lot of snow,
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Speaker 1: which I assume just refers to the snows of La Njaro,
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Speaker 1: and that makes me sad. I guess. The car stops
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Speaker 1: on the street somewhere and Ag gets out. He kind
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Speaker 1: of just starts to walk off. Yuelung gets out of
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Speaker 1: the car as well, and he's like, where are you going?
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Speaker 1: Ash is dead? Age stops. Yuelong begins to walk up
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Speaker 1: to him, and he says, there's nowhere for you to go. Oh.
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Speaker 1: Ag turns back and he's like, I won't believe it.
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Speaker 1: Something's going on. Ue Lung says, let me tell you
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Speaker 1: one thing. Ag. If Ash is alive like you say
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Speaker 1: he is, I'm gonna be his enemy. I've decided that
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Speaker 1: right now. He and I are like Yin and Yang.
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Speaker 1: We both had to be strong to survive, even though
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Speaker 1: we chose different paths. I will become a formidable foe
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Speaker 1: for him. So let me be clear. I will continue
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Speaker 1: to come after you for as long as you're his
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Speaker 1: only weak point. AG lifts the gun and he points
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Speaker 1: it at Yuelong and Uelung's like, shoot me, kill me
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Speaker 1: for Ash, Yeah, kill him. AG's expression is steadfast in
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Speaker 1: his resolve, but he doesn't move, He doesn't try to
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Speaker 1: pull the trigger or anything, and yue Lung says, what's wrong?
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Speaker 1: Ash should pull the trigger without any hesitation. Ag starts
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Speaker 1: to lower the gun and he sighs, in my interpretation,
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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit hurt about the mischaracterization of Ash here,
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Speaker 1: and Yuelun continues, you won't get your hands dirty even
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Speaker 1: if it's for Ash. Huh, geeze, dude, why do you
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Speaker 1: want to die so bad? Ag says, you're wrong. I
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Speaker 1: just can't shoot someone who isn't resisting. Yue Lung's like,
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Speaker 1: what's the difference. Ash wouldn't hesitate to get blood on
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Speaker 1: his hands for you. He'd hurt himself, so you don't
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Speaker 1: get hurt. It's not fair, is it? It's not fair
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Speaker 1: at all? Why you? Ag looks shocked for a second.
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Speaker 1: Then he turns away and he says, you wouldn't understand.
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Speaker 1: You never will, and he takes off running. Fuck yuel
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Speaker 1: just stands there for a moment with the wind blowing
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Speaker 1: through his hair, and we hear Sing say why'd you
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Speaker 1: let him go? We see that Sing is standing a
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Speaker 1: little bit behind him, and he continues, you could have
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Speaker 1: done anything. Uelung is just like, leave me alone for
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Speaker 1: a while, and Sing says, you meant it when you
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Speaker 1: told him to shoot you. Do you really want to
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Speaker 1: die that much? Uelung turns his head and says, I
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Speaker 1: asked you to leave me alone. And he turns his
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Speaker 1: head away again, and Sing is like, is it true
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Speaker 1: that ash died? Really not respecting he's leave me alone here,
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Speaker 1: but u Along says, unfortunately, I'm not a psychic. He
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Speaker 1: starts to walk away. Sing starts to head in the
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Speaker 1: other direction, and then he stops and he sighs and
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Speaker 1: looks back and he's kind of like flushing slightly. Maybe,
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Speaker 1: I guess, and he thinks I can't just leave him alone,
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Speaker 1: and he runs to catch up with you a long awe.
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Speaker 1: The scene is a good dude, I think. I guess
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Speaker 1: Uie Lung has problems anyway. We cut to outside of
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Speaker 1: an airport, which I think is JFK International Airport because
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Speaker 1: thoughts in New York could also be Newark. But I
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Speaker 1: did look up the background and it looks like JFK.
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Speaker 1: I've never been to JFK, I don't think, so, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. So there's a bunch of people, like in
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Speaker 1: a crowd gathering around someone and we're like kind of
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Speaker 1: far back in the scene so we can't really see
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Speaker 1: who they are. And one of the people says, mister Golesine,
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Speaker 1: what do you have to say about the article in
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Speaker 1: today's Newsweek that accuses you of tax evasion? A second
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Speaker 1: person says, is it true? The irs is on the case.
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Speaker 1: Goalsine is walking past like a swarm of reporters and
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Speaker 1: Gregory is also there, and he's like holding them off
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Speaker 1: and he's like, no comments. Then we hear Max say,
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Speaker 1: so we meet again. Golsane stops and Max says, I'm
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Speaker 1: the one who wrote the Newsweek article, and Goalsan's like you,
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Speaker 1: Max continues, and about the death of a boy named
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Speaker 1: ash Lynx. I'd like to request an interview with you
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Speaker 1: concerning it. Golesine, There's something happens with his eyes, like
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Speaker 1: there's just the slightest hinge of confusion or surprise when
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Speaker 1: he says that, and he's like, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about, Please excuse me. The reporters clamor after
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Speaker 1: him as he walks away and gets in the car.
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Speaker 1: So just gonna stop there and say, fuck yeah, Max,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. He is so fucking brave to approach
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Speaker 1: Golesian like that, who almost fucking murdered him. Super cool,
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Speaker 1: really really liking Max's development anyway. In the car goalsine
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Speaker 1: to I guess, Gregory says, what's going on? Ash is dead? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he didn't know. I want to know the truth now.
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Speaker 1: We then go to the mental health institutes. We see
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Speaker 1: like the outside of it, and then a voice says,
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Speaker 1: the NYPD is so eager about their work coming to
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Speaker 1: witness an autopsy of an offender that's not even in
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Speaker 1: their jurisdiction. And we see that as FBI guy one
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Speaker 1: and two. I guess, I mean they're not really FBI,
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Speaker 1: but whatever, And they are standing with Charlie Jenkins, Max
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Speaker 1: and George in a hall but like looks like it's
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Speaker 1: outside of an operating room, Like there's a big window
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Speaker 1: and you can kind of see in, and Jenkins says,
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Speaker 1: thank you for letting us attend. The first FBI guy says,
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Speaker 1: but you're still outsider, so you have to watch from
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Speaker 1: the window. And George is like, it's my right to
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Speaker 1: witness the autopsy from inside. Ash is my client. FBI
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Speaker 1: guy says, sure, but it's not a pretty sight. He's
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Speaker 1: kind of smirking, because he's always smirking, And then we
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Speaker 1: cut to the lights above the kind of operating table
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Speaker 1: thing as it turns on, and a doctor says, let's begin.
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Speaker 1: The doctor uncovers what is pretty clearly Ash's body, and
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Speaker 1: everybody just gasps, and the doctor says, we'll begin the autopsy.
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Speaker 1: One of the doctors makes an incision in Ash's chest
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Speaker 1: and it kind of begins to bleed, which I don't
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Speaker 1: think you really do after you're dead, but that's okay,
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Speaker 1: I understand. We then cut to outside, I guess, and
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Speaker 1: George has his hand over his face, clearly stressed, and
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Speaker 1: he's sitting on a bench with everyone standing around him,
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Speaker 1: and he says, there's no mistake that was Ash. Jenkins
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Speaker 1: is like, Max, I know how you feel, but at
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Speaker 1: least our trip here wasn't totally futile. Max is like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm positive now he's alive. What George is like, wake up? Max?
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Speaker 1: You saw him? Max says, I can tell he's like
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Speaker 1: a son to me. Uh, that was just some other
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Speaker 1: boy that looked like him. Jenkins and Charlie are staring
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Speaker 1: at Max like he's lost his mind from grief, and
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Speaker 1: Max continues, that's why they didn't let the captain and
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Speaker 1: Charlie in. You two are too used to working with
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Speaker 1: corpses to be fooled. Charlie like, but why would they
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Speaker 1: go through all of that? And Max says, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but I guess they want him alive for the time being.
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Speaker 1: We see that doctor Mannerheim is standing in the hospital
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Speaker 1: looking out the window at this interaction. He kind of
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Speaker 1: says hmm, and he walks away. Then we cut to
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Speaker 1: an elevator shap like below an elevator or above it
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Speaker 1: as it lowers, you know, or goes up, I'm not
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Speaker 1: really sure, depends on the perspective. Then the elevator doors open,
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Speaker 1: revealing doctor Mannerheim's smirking face, and he walks into a
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Speaker 1: room where like these two dudes are looking at a
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Speaker 1: computer screen. Maybe it's like you can't really see it,
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Speaker 1: but that's probably what it is. And then there's like
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Speaker 1: a glass partition wall in front of them, and doctor
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Speaker 1: Mannerheim says, how are you feeling? And we see ash, oh,
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Speaker 1: he's definitely alive, and he has some electrodes like on
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Speaker 1: his forehead and his temple, and then like two on
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Speaker 1: his chest, and he says, how do you think Doctor
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Speaker 1: Mannerheim's like, bear with me just for a bit. We're
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Speaker 1: just doing some simple tests. Ash is sitting like, Anna,
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Speaker 1: I don't know chair thing, and there is a big
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Speaker 1: computer monitor and it like moves towards him like it's
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Speaker 1: gonna show him something. And one of the guys who's
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Speaker 1: in the room with Mannerheim says, beginning the bas test
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Speaker 1: level one. At this point, the FBI agents or whatever
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Speaker 1: they are, walk into the room to observe too. Somebody says,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know who, first question, choose the net
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Speaker 1: of the polyhedron showne. I don't even know what that means.
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Speaker 1: Ash looks annoyed and he's like it's a The first
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Speaker 1: FBI guy, who is the one that always talks, says,
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Speaker 1: what is all this? Was it really worth faking his death?
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Speaker 1: Probably not? Doctor Manheim's like absolutely, he could be the
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Speaker 1: key to solving our greatest problem. If we're gonna kill
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Speaker 1: him anyway, we should at least make good use of him. First.
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Speaker 1: Stop using Ash please. We then cut to Golzine, who
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Speaker 1: is sitting at a desk somewhere and Gregory is standing
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Speaker 1: in front of him and Goldsan says the National Mental
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Speaker 1: Health Institute. Gregory's like, yes, by Senator Kippard's orders, the
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Speaker 1: news of his death was just for the media. Golsing's like,
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Speaker 1: damn that Kippard. I raised that boy. Okay, that project too.
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Speaker 1: I won't let him have his way back to the institute.
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Speaker 1: Some guy, I guess one of the guys who was
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Speaker 1: monitoring all this, says the accuracy up to level ten
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Speaker 1: was at ninety eight point seven percent. His IQ was
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Speaker 1: over two hundred. Fuck so side note really quick. I
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Speaker 1: was wondering why there was like a discrepancy between his
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Speaker 1: IQ being one to eighty and his IQ being two hundred,
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Speaker 1: since the tests were done so close together. But I
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Speaker 1: think what happened is Ash just never finished the test
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Speaker 1: right when he was in the hospital, So I guess
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Speaker 1: two hundred is closer. But geez anyway, Doctor Mannerheim's like, wonderful.
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Speaker 1: We couldn't have asked for a better situation. We then
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Speaker 1: cut to his handcuffed wrists and it looks like from
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Speaker 1: the swaying of them that he's walking, and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: what's this you wanted to show me? He is being
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Speaker 1: walked down a hall by I guess like two orderlies
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Speaker 1: or whatever you would call those people who are behind him,
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Speaker 1: and doctor Mannheim is in front leading the way. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Mannerheim says, you'll see in a minute. Ash is looking
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Speaker 1: around and he thinks security cameras and no windows. He
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Speaker 1: then kind of stumbles and falls, and Mannerheim says, are
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Speaker 1: you okay? The orderly is going to help him up,
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Speaker 1: and he's just like, yeah, I'm sorry, I just got
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Speaker 1: a little dizzy. As he starts to walk again, he thinks,
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Speaker 1: soundproof floors. But why, come to think of it, Griffin
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Speaker 1: was really sensitive to sounds, but it can't be we
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Speaker 1: then hear someone say, doctor Mannerheim, and they stop and
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Speaker 1: there's this really big dude standing ahead of them, like
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Speaker 1: really big, like he's tall, and he's kind of like
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Speaker 1: he's not fat, but he's like kind of muscular. He
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Speaker 1: just looks like a big guy and he is just
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Speaker 1: incredibly blank expression on his face, and he says, hello,
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Speaker 1: how are you. Doctor Mannerheim says, Hi, Adam, I'm glad
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Speaker 1: to see you're doing well. Let me introduce you to Ash. Adam,
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Speaker 1: who still looks really pretty expressionless, says hello, Ash, how
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Speaker 1: are you? Ash? Inhales sharply and looks pretty concerned, and
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Speaker 1: he's just like good. Adam then just kind of brushes
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Speaker 1: past them without saying anything else. And doctor Manorheim says,
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Speaker 1: he's actually a ruthless criminal that raped and killed three nuns.
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Speaker 1: And Ash is just like what Mannerheim continues, doesn't look
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Speaker 1: like it. Huh, that's all thanks to the treatment he
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Speaker 1: received here. He starts to walk again. Come this way.
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Speaker 1: They lead Ash to a room with really really great lighting.
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Speaker 1: Looks really nice again, I huge fan of anytime we
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Speaker 1: have like a lighting filter. And this room is filled
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Speaker 1: with like you know, cylindrical tanks that have frames in them. Kay.
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Speaker 1: And doctor Mannerheim's like surprised. They're all partial samples of
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Speaker 1: human brains. I figured human brains are extremely complex. It's
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Speaker 1: system of miracles. What now about Adam? We treated him
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Speaker 1: with a certain drug. Ash gasps, because you know, and
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Speaker 1: Mennerheim continues, yes, it's a drug you know very well.
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Speaker 1: It's called banana fish. Oh fuck. Then we get this
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Speaker 1: really intense Dutch angle of Mannerheim, and he says, but
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Speaker 1: here we just call it b one. Ashes, like you're
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Speaker 1: using criminals as guinea pigs. He's kind of sweating. But
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Speaker 1: if you've noticed, I don't say the characters are sweating
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Speaker 1: very much in this because they're almost always sweating. It's
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Speaker 1: like I'd have to say it all the time. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it's up with a key Yoshida and sweat,
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Speaker 1: but they're like always sweating. So anyway, Mannorheim says, you
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Speaker 1: people overreact when you hear human experimentation, but where would
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Speaker 1: medicine be without it? You get that, right? Hugh Ash
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Speaker 1: kind of half smirks, and he's like, I thought that
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Speaker 1: stuff only happened in movies and books. Let me cut
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Speaker 1: in here for a second, so I'll get to this
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Speaker 1: at the end and I'll talk about this a little
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Speaker 1: bit more. But this conversation is really really dumbed down
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Speaker 1: in the anime, and I definitely want to talk about it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna wait and not mess up the flow
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Speaker 1: of this anyway. Mannerheim half laughs and he's like, b
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Speaker 1: one is this superb drug, but it's not without side effects.
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Speaker 1: Luckily we've succeeded in removing the violence associated with it.
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Speaker 1: Adam is proof of that. It was very difficult, but
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Speaker 1: your friend here really helped us out. Ash gasps and
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Speaker 1: his eyes widen as he looks over at the brain
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Speaker 1: next to him, and he says, are you saying is
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Speaker 1: that shorter? Fuck? I thought we got all of it.
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Speaker 1: Ash lunges at Mannerheim, but he's held back by the
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Speaker 1: Orderlys and he's like, fuck you, I'll kill you. One
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Speaker 1: of the order Leaves is telling him to calm down,
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Speaker 1: and he's still struggling to break free, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: how could you you sick bastards. You're all guilty. I'll
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Speaker 1: kill you all. Yeah, I hope you kill them all.
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Speaker 1: They force him to the ground and Mannerheim says, to think,
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Speaker 1: such a wonderful brain dwells in such a barbarian fuck,
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Speaker 1: and Ash is like, if I'm a barbarian, what the
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Speaker 1: fuck does that make you? You're all sick humiliating the
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Speaker 1: dead like that. Mannerheim says, stop being so emotional. Come on,
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Speaker 1: there's someone I'd like you to meet. It's someone you
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Speaker 1: know very well. They open a door into a room
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Speaker 1: that looks like a officey kind of room or something,
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Speaker 1: and Ash gasps, which is really all he's doing in
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Speaker 1: this part of the anime, and we see that Alexis
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Speaker 1: is sitting at the desk. Doctor Mannerheim says, this is
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Speaker 1: Professor Dawson, the creator of banana Fish, in his new lap. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So Alexis looks not there at all, like he's not
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Speaker 1: acknowledging their presence or anything. He's just staring forward, you know,
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Speaker 1: towards the wall basically. And doctor Mannerheim says, how are
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Speaker 1: you feeling, Professor Alexis, we see is holding some wooden
20:25
Speaker 1: toy blocks and is still not looking at them, but
20:28
Speaker 1: he answers, I feel fine, thank you. Ash gasps again
20:35
Speaker 1: and says it can't be and Mannerheim's like, that's right.
20:40
Speaker 1: We gave the professor a dose of B one, but
20:42
Speaker 1: there are still defects with the drug, one being that
20:46
Speaker 1: after consecutive doses, they actually gave him lots of doses.
20:49
Speaker 1: By the way, intelligence is greatly compromised, and we can't
20:53
Speaker 1: have that. If we can control the minds of the
20:55
Speaker 1: scientists without damaging their intelligence, our project will finally be complete.
21:00
Speaker 1: Fuck that's where you come in, Ash No. Ash is
21:05
Speaker 1: stunned motionless for a moment until the orderlies start to
21:10
Speaker 1: grab him and one of them has a syringe in
21:12
Speaker 1: his hand. Fuck. So Ash is like struggling now and
21:15
Speaker 1: he's like, what are you doing? Let go, and they
21:18
Speaker 1: just stab him in the arm with the syringe. We
21:22
Speaker 1: get a shot from Ash's perspective as his eyelids begin
21:27
Speaker 1: to get heavy and close, and we see him falling,
21:31
Speaker 1: and then it cuts to black and we hear a
21:32
Speaker 1: crash in the darkness. We hear Mannaheim say, when you awaken,
21:37
Speaker 1: Ash thinks will no longer exist. Fuck, You'll be an
21:41
Speaker 1: entirely different being. We then see Ash passed out on
21:45
Speaker 1: the floor. He actually looks very peaceful, but yeah, and
21:48
Speaker 1: Mannaheim says, take him away. Okay, stop there for a second,
21:52
Speaker 1: because this is actually one of my greatest fears. You know,
21:56
Speaker 1: it might be a fear that a lot of people have,
21:58
Speaker 1: but like having my identity like stripped away from me
22:02
Speaker 1: is so fucking scary. Like being a prisoner in my
22:05
Speaker 1: own mind and having something else that is not inherently me,
22:11
Speaker 1: or is a version of me that has been forced
22:13
Speaker 1: into to change, is like that. Like I don't like
22:17
Speaker 1: that at all. So I if I was in Ash's position,
22:20
Speaker 1: I mean I'd be scared all the time, But in
22:23
Speaker 1: this particular instance, I like totally feel for him. And
22:26
Speaker 1: I am terrified for him now, especially because we already
22:30
Speaker 1: saw something like this happened to Shorter, so we know
22:33
Speaker 1: the anime is not above destroying people with banana fish.
22:36
Speaker 1: I mean they also got a lexus too, so yay, right,
22:40
Speaker 1: who cares? I don't know. Help. So now we go
22:43
Speaker 1: to Ag, who is like walking down the street looking
22:45
Speaker 1: really sweaty for some reason and depressed obviously, and he
22:49
Speaker 1: remembers yue Lung saying Ash is dead. There's nowhere for
22:54
Speaker 1: you to go. He stops and kind of like grabs
22:58
Speaker 1: onto like a lamppost to bounce went to himself. I
23:00
Speaker 1: think he puts his hand over his face. He's kind
23:03
Speaker 1: of slumped over, and we hear someone say you okay,
23:06
Speaker 1: you look sick. AG looks up and there are these
23:09
Speaker 1: two like adult men, like maybe in their thirties or forties,
23:13
Speaker 1: like towering over him, and the first guy says, want
23:18
Speaker 1: us to take you home. Ag kind of exhales sharply
23:22
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, thank you, I'm fine. He starts
23:25
Speaker 1: to walk away, and we see like how huge these
23:30
Speaker 1: men are compared to him, because I mean, Age's pretty small.
23:35
Speaker 1: The first guy puts his hand on AG's shoulder and
23:37
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, come on, what the fuck. The second
23:41
Speaker 1: guy grabs him by the wrist and Age's like stop it.
23:44
Speaker 1: First guy's like easy now and he covers his mouth
23:47
Speaker 1: fuck and then like out of nowhere, the second guy
23:51
Speaker 1: is hit in the head with Sing's rope dark yay,
23:54
Speaker 1: and the first guy's like what the fuck? Sing is like,
23:57
Speaker 1: kidnapping is gonna cost you? Oh, second guy says, who
24:02
Speaker 1: the hell are you. The first guy's like, wait, that's Sing,
24:06
Speaker 1: the boss of the Chinese gang. Let's go, and they
24:08
Speaker 1: just run off because they're fucking cowards and Sings like assholes.
24:14
Speaker 1: Ag just fucking collapses. At that point, Sing runs over
24:18
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, are you okay. We go back
24:21
Speaker 1: to Ash, who is this is bad on an operating
24:24
Speaker 1: table like I guess under general anesthesia or whatever, and
24:29
Speaker 1: doctor Mannerheim says, how's the subject and one of the
24:33
Speaker 1: doctors is like, in stable condition. Doctor Mannerheim says okay now,
24:38
Speaker 1: and then we hear a voice like cut in from
24:41
Speaker 1: outside of the room say sir, you can't go in there,
24:44
Speaker 1: there's an operation in progress. They look over confused and
24:48
Speaker 1: it's fucking Goalsine and Gregory and Mannerheim's like, mister golezin.
24:55
Speaker 1: Golsine says, what the hell is going on here? What
24:58
Speaker 1: are you planning on doing? I guess ya. Mannerheim looks stressed,
25:03
Speaker 1: and he's like, I I this is necessary for the
25:07
Speaker 1: completion of B one to prevent the intelligence from Golsing
25:11
Speaker 1: cuts him off. You can experiment on anyone else but him.
25:15
Speaker 1: I will not allow this boy to be used in
25:17
Speaker 1: that experiment. At this point, those two FBI guys walk
25:20
Speaker 1: in and the first one says, what's all the commotion.
25:24
Speaker 1: I see you came back in a hurry, and Golsing's like,
25:27
Speaker 1: who are you? And the first FBI guy says, we're
25:30
Speaker 1: from the CIA. Oh they're a CIA. That's not good.
25:35
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't good when they were FBI either,
25:38
Speaker 1: but now we know. Golsing says, I see Kippert has
25:42
Speaker 1: contacts there, if I remember correctly, But stay out of this, jeez,
25:47
Speaker 1: talk that way to the CIA. So the first CIA
25:49
Speaker 1: guy says, sorry, but we can't do that. The Corsican
25:53
Speaker 1: Foundation is vicially dismissing you. What baron, Isaac Zakharav will
25:58
Speaker 1: take over your post. You see, you've fallen from power.
26:02
Speaker 1: Goalsane looks pissed off and he's like, I created this project.
26:05
Speaker 1: The first CIA guy says, the situation has changed. The
26:09
Speaker 1: project is moving forward on its own and no one
26:11
Speaker 1: can turn it back. Now, we can't allow anything to
26:13
Speaker 1: go wrong, and then he looks over at Mannerheim and
26:16
Speaker 1: says the operation is off. Oh oh okay, yay. Matterheim
26:21
Speaker 1: is like, why everything's already now that we're all clear.
26:26
Speaker 1: CIA guy cuts him off and says, doctor, this applies
26:30
Speaker 1: to you too. You don't have permission to do this.
26:32
Speaker 1: Oh cool, gay bureaucracy. CIA guy too. Oh my god.
26:36
Speaker 1: He finally talks, says, mister Kipperd is in charge. Now
26:40
Speaker 1: you need to talk to him before you do anything,
26:42
Speaker 1: and Golsian says, when will the boy wake up? Mannerheim
26:46
Speaker 1: says in about an hour. We now cut to a
26:50
Speaker 1: close up side view of Ash asleep but clearly no
26:53
Speaker 1: longer on the operating table, and he starts to come too.
26:57
Speaker 1: When he opens his eyes slowly, he kind of makes
27:00
Speaker 1: like a sound that you make if you were waking up,
27:03
Speaker 1: and maybe you're in pain a little bit, and we
27:06
Speaker 1: hear Dino say, look at you pitiful. Oh fuck. Ash
27:13
Speaker 1: gasps his eyes widened as he realizes that Dino is
27:16
Speaker 1: standing over him, which I feel like this is probably
27:21
Speaker 1: something that has happened before, and it's stressing me out anyway.
27:25
Speaker 1: Golzine says, you were so vigorous when you stormed off.
27:29
Speaker 1: What a disgrace you are now? Jesus he was drugged.
27:33
Speaker 1: Ash is kind of sitting up partially now and he
27:36
Speaker 1: manages to scowl at him, and Dino says, too numb
27:40
Speaker 1: to even speak. He then grabs Ash by the throat
27:43
Speaker 1: and lifts him up towards him, and honestly, he looks
27:47
Speaker 1: so big and imposing compared to Ash. Anyway, He continues,
27:53
Speaker 1: you're worthless now that you're weak. Let them cut you
27:56
Speaker 1: to pieces. Ash struggles to raise his hand and to
28:00
Speaker 1: try to get him off of him, and he's still
28:04
Speaker 1: glaring but also clearly distressed, and Dino says, I see
28:09
Speaker 1: you still have enough life in you to clear back
28:11
Speaker 1: at me, then survive, pull yourself back up so I
28:14
Speaker 1: can corner you and hunt you down. Dino finally let's
28:19
Speaker 1: go of Ash, who falls onto the floor, coughing and gasping,
28:23
Speaker 1: and he walks towards the door, and he says don't
28:27
Speaker 1: think you can run away from me. He shuts the door,
28:30
Speaker 1: leaving Ash alone in the dark on the floor. Yeah,
28:37
Speaker 1: I am just very quickly. Fucking It's clear that Ash
28:41
Speaker 1: is kind of scared of Dino, which he should be,
28:44
Speaker 1: and this is really upsetting honestly, Like, I don't know.
28:48
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm super glad he saved him. He fucking
28:51
Speaker 1: saved his life there, but had to be Dino. Huh. Anyway,
28:58
Speaker 1: we go to some kind of undefined featureless place and
29:03
Speaker 1: it is snowing. Ash is standing off in the distance
29:08
Speaker 1: and Ag is surprised to see him. Ash smiles at Ag,
29:13
Speaker 1: and then he kind of turns and starts to walk away,
29:16
Speaker 1: and Ag says, where are you going? He reaches out
29:19
Speaker 1: for him Ash Ash Ag wakes up mid reach and
29:25
Speaker 1: he winces in pain as he's been reaching with his
29:27
Speaker 1: hand that was injured, which is now bandaged by the way,
29:30
Speaker 1: and he's laying in a bed. He looks at his
29:32
Speaker 1: hand and thinks, who did this? We hear saying say
29:37
Speaker 1: are you awake? Now? AG looks surprised and he sits
29:41
Speaker 1: up and he's like you Sing says, don't worry U.
29:45
Speaker 1: Alung doesn't know he walks over and he sits down
29:48
Speaker 1: on a chair that's like backwards, so he's sitting on
29:50
Speaker 1: the chair backwards next to the bed, which makes him
29:52
Speaker 1: like totally cool by the way, and he says, I'm
29:55
Speaker 1: sing Su Ling the boss of Chinatown. AG's like, then
30:00
Speaker 1: you're on a Shorter's crew. Singh says, you knew him.
30:04
Speaker 1: AG looks away sadly, and Singh continues, you said you
30:08
Speaker 1: were Ash's friend when we were locked up? Did Ash
30:11
Speaker 1: really kill Shorter? If you know, tell me. I want
30:15
Speaker 1: to know the truth. AG, who is still not looking
30:18
Speaker 1: at him, says, if I tell you, what are you
30:21
Speaker 1: gonna do? Sing is like nothing, really, Ash is already
30:25
Speaker 1: dead anyways. AG says, no, Ash isn't dead. At this,
30:30
Speaker 1: sing kind of chuckles and he says you think so too,
30:34
Speaker 1: That incredibly tough guy would never die that easily. It's
30:37
Speaker 1: way too fishy. And Age's like, do you work for
30:41
Speaker 1: you a loon? Singh says, no way, My boss is Shorter,
30:45
Speaker 1: nobody else. AG's like, do you plan to fight Ash?
30:50
Speaker 1: Sing says, I have to when a boss is killed.
30:53
Speaker 1: It's the next in lines responsibility to get revenge. Besides,
30:57
Speaker 1: Shorter was Ash's best friend. He kind of looks down
31:01
Speaker 1: and he's like, and he killed him, and AG's like
31:05
Speaker 1: he didn't have a choice, saying kind of gasps this.
31:09
Speaker 1: Come on, say you must have known something was up
31:11
Speaker 1: with that, and AG continues, it's my fault. It's all
31:15
Speaker 1: my fault. We now see the late afternoons skyline and
31:21
Speaker 1: Sun through a window and Max and Shunichi, and I'm
31:25
Speaker 1: not really sure who this guy is. I think it's
31:28
Speaker 1: the scruffy guy that was with Max when he was
31:33
Speaker 1: trying to get that newsweek deal in the last episode,
31:36
Speaker 1: but I'm not one hundred percent sure because it also
31:38
Speaker 1: kind of looks like George. I don't know why. I
31:40
Speaker 1: don't know who this is, but it's someone. I'm just
31:42
Speaker 1: gonna call him that guy, Okay. Anyway, So that guy
31:47
Speaker 1: says the National Mental Health Institute is funded by the
31:50
Speaker 1: public and private sector, but the Corsican Foundation is who
31:54
Speaker 1: actually runs it. Kipperd's name is on the list of investors.
31:58
Speaker 1: He hands a tablet over Max, which I guess has
32:00
Speaker 1: the information on it, and Max, who is now looking
32:03
Speaker 1: at the tablet, says found it in twenty twelve to
32:06
Speaker 1: treat criminals with mental disorders. He kind of smirks, how respectable?
32:12
Speaker 1: If Ash is still there, how do we get in?
32:14
Speaker 1: And that guy says, actually, I have a good idea.
32:18
Speaker 1: There's a facility tour once a month, and it happens
32:21
Speaker 1: to be the day after tomorrow. Max smiles. We now
32:26
Speaker 1: see Yue Lung talking on the phone, and the voice
32:29
Speaker 1: on the phone line says, we found Agi Okamura. He's
32:33
Speaker 1: with Singh Su Ling. Yue Lung says, see the voice
32:38
Speaker 1: on the phone says, it seems like Dino Goldzin visited
32:42
Speaker 1: the National Mental Health Institute. Yue Lung's like, he did,
32:46
Speaker 1: stay on the lookout, keep your eyes on, singing AG
32:49
Speaker 1: two and he hangs up and thinks that's saying what
32:53
Speaker 1: a troublesome boy. He is sticking his nose into everything.
32:56
Speaker 1: We see Ash laying on the bed in I guess
33:00
Speaker 1: his room, and he hears the door open and it's
33:03
Speaker 1: an orderly bring him food which kind of looks like
33:06
Speaker 1: water or milk maybe and some bread I guess, which
33:09
Speaker 1: just great. Ash says, when's the operation? And the Orderly's like,
33:15
Speaker 1: who knows, not tomorrow though, that's when the monthly public
33:18
Speaker 1: tour is held. He kind of sets the food down
33:20
Speaker 1: on like a little tabley thing, and Ash's like, hmmm.
33:23
Speaker 1: The orderly says, but don't get any ideas this place
33:26
Speaker 1: has the latest security system. Just give it up already.
33:30
Speaker 1: He starts walking to the door and he says, you'll
33:33
Speaker 1: be locked up for like three hundred years even if
33:35
Speaker 1: you do survive, and he leaves cheese. Poor Ash. Ash
33:40
Speaker 1: kind of says hmm, and then we cut to Dino
33:43
Speaker 1: and some guy in an office. The guy says, so,
33:49
Speaker 1: how are things going with the drug? Dino's like, please,
33:53
Speaker 1: don't worry. We'll be able to execute the plan early
33:55
Speaker 1: next year. I don't know exactly when this is. I
33:58
Speaker 1: know that it's at least November, so it's possible that
34:01
Speaker 1: early next year is only in like two months, or
34:04
Speaker 1: maybe there's been more time that has passed, and in
34:06
Speaker 1: that case, early next year could be a year away.
34:08
Speaker 1: But I'm assuming we're towards the end of the year,
34:13
Speaker 1: I guess anyway. The guy who has kind of slicked
34:16
Speaker 1: back black hair and a beard and a mustache says,
34:20
Speaker 1: we couldn't have realized this project without you. Our foundation
34:23
Speaker 1: has a strong grip on the US government now and
34:25
Speaker 1: that's all thanks to you. But what a petty mistake
34:29
Speaker 1: you've made, Dino says, forgive me. My guy is like,
34:33
Speaker 1: I've just been appointed to do this post, so I'll
34:37
Speaker 1: need your assistance for the time being. I think this
34:40
Speaker 1: is Isaac Zekrov, maybe because he's the one who's been appointed,
34:44
Speaker 1: So I guess that's who this guy is. And Dino says,
34:47
Speaker 1: I would gladly do anything to be of use. That's
34:49
Speaker 1: very kind of him, especially considering the situation. We owed
34:53
Speaker 1: to doctor Mannerheim, who is with four other doctors standing
34:57
Speaker 1: in front of a large crowd in the institut, and
35:00
Speaker 1: he says, welcome everyone. There is much concern over the
35:04
Speaker 1: current high crime rate in our nation. It pains me
35:07
Speaker 1: to think of it. Max and Shunichi are there watching,
35:10
Speaker 1: and Shunichi quietly to Max says he has a way
35:13
Speaker 1: with words. Not so much in the anime, but I understand.
35:17
Speaker 1: Max thinks Colesine was the one who put him in charge,
35:20
Speaker 1: and then out loud, he says, I have a bad
35:22
Speaker 1: feeling about him. We go now to Ash, who is
35:25
Speaker 1: sitting on the bed, because I mean, what else can
35:27
Speaker 1: he really do in this room? And he looks up
35:31
Speaker 1: kind of determines fuck. We cut to the kind of
35:36
Speaker 1: security monitor room with all the security monitors, obviously, and
35:41
Speaker 1: there's like a bunch of security guards watching them, because
35:43
Speaker 1: that's what you do when you monitor security cameras. I
35:46
Speaker 1: guess Ash is staring directly into the camera and we
35:51
Speaker 1: are seeing it in the monitor room, and one of
35:54
Speaker 1: the security guards is like, huh no, Ash, don't do that.
36:00
Speaker 1: He has been staring rather sternly and intently into the
36:04
Speaker 1: camera for a little while now, and then he just
36:09
Speaker 1: flips and he's like, Hi, how's everybody doing you peeping?
36:14
Speaker 1: Tom's having fun. He is now posed rather suggestively, and
36:18
Speaker 1: he says, are you tired of working? God? Damn it, Ash,
36:22
Speaker 1: please stop, It's not too late. He poses in multiple
36:29
Speaker 1: suggestive poses and continues, I was actually a pretty famous
36:34
Speaker 1: singer out in Times Square. The guards are staring in
36:38
Speaker 1: other confusion right now, hold on. I know this is
36:41
Speaker 1: a weird place to stop, but I want you to
36:43
Speaker 1: understand this. This does not work in the twenty tens
36:47
Speaker 1: because the Time Square that you would be familiar with now,
36:51
Speaker 1: the very bright, touristy, crowded everything e Times Square that
36:58
Speaker 1: exists now, did not exist in the nineteen eighties. In
37:01
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. This was basically a red light districts.
37:05
Speaker 1: I mean, not exactly, but there were all of these
37:07
Speaker 1: big theaters and the city was just falling apart. So
37:12
Speaker 1: they were just showing like X rated movies and peep shows,
37:16
Speaker 1: and there was prostitution going on. And apparently in nineteen
37:20
Speaker 1: eighty one, the Rolling Stone called the forty second Street
37:23
Speaker 1: Times Square block the sleaziest block in the nation. Further,
37:28
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four, there were twenty three hundred crimes
37:31
Speaker 1: that year, and twenty percent of them were felonies. So basically,
37:35
Speaker 1: he is telling them very specifically what he's doing by
37:39
Speaker 1: saying Times Square and it is not glamorous. It is sleazy.
37:48
Speaker 1: Fuck no, Ash, no, don't do this anyway, Let's continue.
37:53
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to keep this straight, but I don't
37:56
Speaker 1: know how long I can keep from laughing, So let's
37:59
Speaker 1: find out. Anyway. Ash is now rubbing his shoulders suggestively,
38:04
Speaker 1: and he says, I'm going to sing you with special
38:07
Speaker 1: song today. He kind of winks and we get like
38:09
Speaker 1: a little star that comes on the screen. We just
38:12
Speaker 1: happened a couple of times. I don't know how he
38:14
Speaker 1: does that, but it's cool anyway. He doesn't really sing
38:18
Speaker 1: a song so much as chant one, which is one
38:20
Speaker 1: of the failures I think of the anime. But it's
38:27
Speaker 1: suggestive and this was only rated like thirteen plus on Amazon,
38:33
Speaker 1: which I think is ridiculous. And I guess I'm gonna
38:35
Speaker 1: tell you the lyrics of the song, even though I
38:37
Speaker 1: really don't want to, and I had told myself I
38:40
Speaker 1: wasn't going to anyway, he says. He says, I'm a
38:44
Speaker 1: sweet candy bar. I melt like honey in your mouth.
38:49
Speaker 1: Come over, eat me up, savor me with your mouth.
38:54
Speaker 1: Somebody stop him. The guards stare at him, dumbfounded. They
38:58
Speaker 1: also look like they might be bled, but I'm hoping
39:01
Speaker 1: that they're just blushing from secondhand embarrassment like I am,
39:05
Speaker 1: because I am embarrassed for him, and also I am
39:08
Speaker 1: embarrassed for myself to be watching this. Anyway, He continues,
39:12
Speaker 1: lick me, suck me. Okay. He's kind of moaning here,
39:16
Speaker 1: and he has his hand on his chest under his shirt,
39:19
Speaker 1: and he says, I'm beginning to feel so turned on.
39:22
Speaker 1: I haven't gone any in so long. I'm doing a
39:26
Speaker 1: very bad job with this. One of the security guards
39:28
Speaker 1: is like, what's he thinking? Another one says, has he
39:32
Speaker 1: gone crazy? Ash continues talking about how he's a sweet
39:37
Speaker 1: and tasty candy bar, and then he throws a sheet
39:41
Speaker 1: from the bed over the camera. Why didn't you just
39:45
Speaker 1: do that in the first place? The second security guard
39:49
Speaker 1: says that punk, and the third one's like, damn it,
39:51
Speaker 1: I'll handle this and he walks off. Now that he
39:54
Speaker 1: is off camera, he grips his injured side and thinks,
40:00
Speaker 1: will my body hold out? I can't exactly tell how
40:03
Speaker 1: weak I am right now. I'm so sorry Ash for everything.
40:07
Speaker 1: He thinks of Golding choking him. Just you wait and see,
40:10
Speaker 1: I'll get out of here alive. At this point, the
40:13
Speaker 1: security guard opens the door with his gun raised and
40:15
Speaker 1: Ash stands. Security guard says show time's over and Ashes like,
40:21
Speaker 1: where's my candy bar? The security guard says, shut the
40:26
Speaker 1: hell up, or I'll blow your brains out. Ash looks
40:29
Speaker 1: disappointed and he's like, damn, I thought that's why you came. Ah.
40:36
Speaker 1: He kind of shifts on the bed and crosses his
40:38
Speaker 1: legs and says, everyone else always really liked it. They
40:42
Speaker 1: said my tongue was like velvet, and he licks his
40:47
Speaker 1: lips and security guard gults no. Ash no, please stop anyway,
40:54
Speaker 1: he continues, no one can see us. Now, why don't
40:58
Speaker 1: you give it a try? He pushes back his hair.
41:02
Speaker 1: You know, I can send you to heaven in five minutes. Shit.
41:07
Speaker 1: The security guard like half chuckles, and he's like, well,
41:11
Speaker 1: I can't see why not. Really, you can't see why not.
41:16
Speaker 1: And the door is closing, like he's closing the door
41:20
Speaker 1: and ash we see his face falling as he's beginning
41:23
Speaker 1: to drop the act and he says, okay, yeah, yeah,
41:30
Speaker 1: that happens anyway. Anyway. We cut to the hall with
41:34
Speaker 1: doctor Mannerheim and Zakarrev and Goalzeine, and Mannerheim says, welcome,
41:39
Speaker 1: Baron Zakariv. Zakrev's like, forgive my sudden visit, but I
41:43
Speaker 1: wanted to see for myself what you've accomplished. And Manorheim's like,
41:47
Speaker 1: of course, come this way. They start to walk off,
41:50
Speaker 1: but Goalsine pauses as he looks down the hall and
41:53
Speaker 1: he sees the touring group as they're passing at the
41:57
Speaker 1: next intersection, and he sees me since Shunichi. Oh fuck.
42:03
Speaker 1: Zakarrev calls out to him something wrong. Call Scene's like no,
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna tell them He's just gonna let this
42:11
Speaker 1: fall apart. We cut back to ash Win saying in
42:15
Speaker 1: pain awesome as he picks up a key card. We
42:18
Speaker 1: don't really see the entire scene, but he picks up
42:21
Speaker 1: a key card and he puts a gun in his
42:23
Speaker 1: waistband and he says, I told you I'd sent you
42:26
Speaker 1: to heaven in five minutes. Fuck yeah, And then we
42:30
Speaker 1: see the guard who is super dead on the floor
42:33
Speaker 1: and Ash walks out of the room. We go to
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Speaker 1: the title card the Garden of Eden, and let me
42:39
Speaker 1: go to the ending theme Yay. Closing thoughts, I guess,
42:43
Speaker 1: how did you fare? How did you deal with that?
42:45
Speaker 1: Are you upset that this exists? That this piece of
42:50
Speaker 1: media exists? Now? I have a friend who I asked
42:55
Speaker 1: to watch this I mean not this episode specifically, but
42:59
Speaker 1: the show, and he has not gotten past this episode.
43:02
Speaker 1: And he never said that that was the reason he
43:04
Speaker 1: hasn't watched it anymore, But I think it was because
43:07
Speaker 1: he called me like right after to ask me what
43:09
Speaker 1: the fuck my problem was basically and ask me how
43:12
Speaker 1: I could like this character and grill me on it.
43:15
Speaker 1: So I know that it's not just me that is
43:18
Speaker 1: uncomfortable with Ash doing whatever that was. No, no, let's
43:24
Speaker 1: just say it. Because we're all adults offering to give
43:27
Speaker 1: the guards a blowjob. That's what's going on. It was
43:32
Speaker 1: really strange to read, especially as a very very asexual person.
43:37
Speaker 1: It just was like, I don't know, guys, I don't
43:41
Speaker 1: know how that worked, honestly, I mean again, really really asexual.
43:46
Speaker 1: I don't know if that works. I don't think it does.
43:49
Speaker 1: But yeah, it happened, now, you know. But really what
43:55
Speaker 1: we need to talk about is the kind of duality, right,
44:00
Speaker 1: I guess it's not duality, but like the difference in
44:02
Speaker 1: techniques which happened in this episode. Now we missed a
44:06
Speaker 1: little bit of what Agy had done to try to
44:09
Speaker 1: escape in the manga. You know, he faked an illness.
44:13
Speaker 1: I think he tried like five times to escape. But
44:17
Speaker 1: they both escape in the same episode using very different
44:21
Speaker 1: techniques obviously. So first of all, it's important to acknowledge
44:27
Speaker 1: that we know that it's not that Akimi Yoshta couldn't
44:30
Speaker 1: think of having Ash fake an illness or something because
44:35
Speaker 1: Ag did that. It's that this seemed like the most
44:39
Speaker 1: ash thing to do, and it kind of is right.
44:43
Speaker 1: It plays to two of his strengths murder and being
44:48
Speaker 1: a sex object, which are like two things he really despises.
44:54
Speaker 1: So yeah, it gets him out, but at what costs?
45:00
Speaker 1: I kind of want to say, how I feel like
45:02
Speaker 1: this kind of plays into one of the major themes
45:05
Speaker 1: of Banana Fish, which is bodily autonomy, which is something
45:09
Speaker 1: that Ash throughout the anime is trying to get back,
45:14
Speaker 1: like he's trying to regain or gain because fucking it's
45:18
Speaker 1: been really long time gain his autonomy and his freedom
45:23
Speaker 1: from these people who are, you know, deciding what happens
45:28
Speaker 1: to him constantly. So I'm sure that this wasn't a
45:35
Speaker 1: really fun the situation for him, you know. But we'll
45:38
Speaker 1: talk more about like autonomy and stuff kind of going forward,
45:42
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to kind of mention it now.
45:44
Speaker 1: And also I think I probably pointed this out, but
45:48
Speaker 1: I really appreciate characters who just don't have any shame. Basically,
45:54
Speaker 1: like Ash isn't someone who's sticking to a sense of pride.
45:57
Speaker 1: He does have, in my opinion, very concrete morals. He
46:02
Speaker 1: is just choosing not to follow them, which is kind
46:04
Speaker 1: of sad, really sad actually, but it's necessary for him
46:10
Speaker 1: to survive at this point. So, I mean, we know
46:15
Speaker 1: he is pretty disgusted by sex, honestly, and we'll talk
46:21
Speaker 1: more about that in episode seventeen through nineteen, maybe twenty two.
46:27
Speaker 1: So this couldn't have been a good time for him.
46:31
Speaker 1: But often he's had to do things that he wouldn't
46:37
Speaker 1: do in ideal situations. And I don't think we've had
46:40
Speaker 1: a character who is able to just kind of push
46:42
Speaker 1: their pride aside as much as this, except for maybe
46:46
Speaker 1: like Dengi in Chainsaw Man, which is you know, like
46:48
Speaker 1: when we first started this podcast, or me or whoever
46:51
Speaker 1: started it, it was me, because you know, Dengi would
46:54
Speaker 1: just do whatever he could for money to survive, and
46:57
Speaker 1: I mean that included eating a cigarette because someone would
47:01
Speaker 1: pay him to do that, and selling his eyes and
47:04
Speaker 1: his testicles stuff like that. But I think the only
47:07
Speaker 1: other time we've seen kind of a character recently do
47:12
Speaker 1: anything like regardless of their shame was Suberu when he
47:16
Speaker 1: was about to, I guess kiss or lick Priscilla's feet.
47:19
Speaker 1: I can't remember right now, and I forgot to check back,
47:22
Speaker 1: but actually that didn't work out for him. That was
47:26
Speaker 1: showing us the opposite that you can't just do whatever
47:30
Speaker 1: you know which, Eh, I'm more for the sometimes you
47:34
Speaker 1: need to do what you need to do to survive.
47:36
Speaker 1: Unfortunately that attitude makes you really fucked up sometimes, but alive,
47:44
Speaker 1: you know, yay, alive ashes alive still really really fucked
47:48
Speaker 1: up yay. So I just wanted to interject some of
47:53
Speaker 1: that because I know this episode is ridiculous, but it
47:56
Speaker 1: is also incredibly sad and thoroughly upsetting, so yeay y.
48:04
Speaker 1: When I first watched this, I was kind of taken
48:07
Speaker 1: aback by, you know, embarrassment, as I said earlier, for
48:12
Speaker 1: myself to be watching this piece of media. But I
48:15
Speaker 1: am significantly less embarrassed now after kind of mulling over
48:20
Speaker 1: all of these implications. This has been a really fun
48:24
Speaker 1: show and manga for me to analyze, which isn't something
48:27
Speaker 1: I normally do honestly. I mean maybe you're saying, but
48:30
Speaker 1: you do that because we're doing this podcast, but I
48:34
Speaker 1: don't normally do it on this level. The only other
48:36
Speaker 1: thing we've done that I've like sat and been like,
48:38
Speaker 1: what does this all mean? Is we zero? And I
48:43
Speaker 1: mean there's only a couple of other animes that I've
48:45
Speaker 1: felt the need to just be like, what are we
48:47
Speaker 1: trying to say here, So I really appreciate this anime
48:52
Speaker 1: for providing me with enough dense characterization to kind of
48:57
Speaker 1: have to parse through it, if that makes sense. Now
49:00
Speaker 1: that that's out of the way, there are a couple
49:02
Speaker 1: other things I wanted to talk to you about in
49:03
Speaker 1: this episode that were kind of cut from the manga
49:05
Speaker 1: that I think really kind of dumped down the anime
49:10
Speaker 1: or kind of cheapened things. One of them, and kind
49:12
Speaker 1: of the biggest, was when doctor Mannerheim was talking to
49:16
Speaker 1: Ash in the scary place with all the brains, and
49:19
Speaker 1: Ash was like, that's human experimentation. There was a really nice,
49:24
Speaker 1: kind of long ish not really but you know, a
49:26
Speaker 1: couple of pages or panels or whatever of conversation between
49:32
Speaker 1: him and Mannerheim about what this means and about how
49:37
Speaker 1: they are experimenting on criminals against their will. And instead
49:42
Speaker 1: of Ash saying something like I thought that only happened
49:44
Speaker 1: in like movies and stuff like that, he basically compares
49:48
Speaker 1: him to a Nazi. But Mannerheim himself says like, should
49:52
Speaker 1: we just not use you know, scientific advances that came
49:56
Speaker 1: out of like the Holocaust and stuff, which is yeay, awesome,
50:01
Speaker 1: Just what I want to hear. Yeah, and Ash basically
50:03
Speaker 1: calls him a Nazi, which fucking is awesome. And remember
50:08
Speaker 1: this kid is supposed to be really intelligent and really
50:11
Speaker 1: well informed, so I'm not a huge fan of having
50:14
Speaker 1: that stuff removed. Oh and I think that this wasn't
50:18
Speaker 1: very clear because when I watched it originally, I was like,
50:23
Speaker 1: why the fuck did they need to sedate him to
50:26
Speaker 1: give him banana fish? Right? Why don't they just give
50:29
Speaker 1: him banana fish? It doesn't really make sense. It just
50:32
Speaker 1: seems like it's just convenience, so that goalsing can step in.
50:35
Speaker 1: So in the manga, there's actually a reason that this
50:38
Speaker 1: happens like this. So I screenshoted it for you, so
50:44
Speaker 1: I just gotta find it. Basically, doctor Mannerheim says, and
50:49
Speaker 1: I'll just give it to you. You're about to undergo
50:52
Speaker 1: an operation whereby you will cease to be yourself. Ukranium
50:56
Speaker 1: will be carefully removed, and electrodes will be implanted in
50:58
Speaker 1: every part of your cerebral tissue. Then the bony plates
51:02
Speaker 1: of your skull will be replaced with a molded plastic
51:04
Speaker 1: container with ports for oxygen, nutrients, and most importantly data.
51:09
Speaker 1: In this new durable casing, we will be able to
51:12
Speaker 1: make our most accurate studies yet on the effect of
51:15
Speaker 1: B one on a living brain. Your identity as Ashlings
51:18
Speaker 1: will be lost in the process, It's true, but before
51:21
Speaker 1: you sleep, think of the future of a new being
51:24
Speaker 1: and its limitless potential. So I think that that is
51:28
Speaker 1: absolutely terrifying, so much more terrifying than the way it
51:31
Speaker 1: was explained in the anime. And I wish that was
51:33
Speaker 1: in there because that is infinitely scarier than him just
51:37
Speaker 1: being injected with banana fish. Well, they're gonna do that,
51:40
Speaker 1: but first they're gonna do all sorts of terrible things,
51:43
Speaker 1: so they obviously need him to be operated on before
51:46
Speaker 1: they can give it to him. So there you go.
51:48
Speaker 1: That's the reason. Honestly, that might be it. Yeah, I
51:52
Speaker 1: think that's it. So I hope that you. I mean,
51:57
Speaker 1: let's face it, if you were still here after episode fifteen,
52:02
Speaker 1: you're pretty fucking weird, right. You can't like this and
52:06
Speaker 1: be a normal person, right, I mean maybe you can.
52:09
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just weird, and that's how I'm rationalizing this.
52:12
Speaker 1: I don't really know, but I'm pretty impressed that you
52:15
Speaker 1: stuck it out through episode fifteen and you came to
52:17
Speaker 1: even listen to me talk about it because it was rough.
52:23
Speaker 1: I can promise you that there's not anything else quite
52:25
Speaker 1: like this in the show. I can't promise you that
52:28
Speaker 1: there won't be anything worse, because there will be, but
52:32
Speaker 1: there probably won't be any more ash chanting about candy bars,
52:36
Speaker 1: thank god, because I don't think I could handle it.
52:40
Speaker 1: So anyway, thank you for listening to me laugh my
52:45
Speaker 1: way through that. And I hope you have a really
52:48
Speaker 1: good whatever, and I'll probably see you next time unless
52:52
Speaker 1: the world ends, which you never know, but anyway, later
52:55
Speaker 1: weeps