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Banana Fish Ep. 7- The Rich Boy · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle or something like that. I'm
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Speaker 1: back from a kind of hellish week with lots of
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Speaker 1: stuff going on that was probably fine, but I didn't
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Speaker 1: think so because my brain is all messed up. But whatever.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about episode seven of Banana Fish, obviously,
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Speaker 1: because that's what we've been doing, talking about Banana Fish.
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Speaker 1: Even though you don't really want to, and I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure I want to, but I really want to. We're
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Speaker 1: just gonna keep going and maybe you're still here. If
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Speaker 1: you're not still here, good for you. I know you
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Speaker 1: can't hear me, but give yourself a pat on the back.
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Speaker 1: If you're here. I don't know why, but thanks. Yeah. So,
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Speaker 1: before we actually get started with seven, I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to point out something that I didn't say last week
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Speaker 1: that I was thinking about after I recorded, because I
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Speaker 1: just think about Bananafish all the time. I guess, which
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Speaker 1: is that you know, last episode, Ash ran away. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was going to be sent to his aunt's house
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Speaker 1: in Philly, but he ran away because of the mistreatment
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Speaker 1: he was getting from the town. And I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to point out that that sucks because Ash is actually
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Speaker 1: the hero in that story, right, he killed the dude
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Speaker 1: who was basically a serial killer, right, and he probably
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Speaker 1: saved the lives of countless young children that this dude
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Speaker 1: was going after. So it sucks that he wasn't fewed
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Speaker 1: like that. I mean, it's a terrible thing for a
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Speaker 1: child to have to go through, but he fucking probably
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Speaker 1: saved a bunch of lives. So now really pissed off. Yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about episode seven, which is called The Rich Boy,
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Speaker 1: which works for this episode, and it's named after a
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Speaker 1: short story by f Scott Fitzgerald that probably has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with this episode, which is fine. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: we start with someone teeing pictures from a camera, like
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Speaker 1: the camera point of view, so we're seeing like through
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Speaker 1: the lens, and we slick a palm tree that they
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Speaker 1: take a picture of a woman and an Agy so
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Speaker 1: it's not Agy, and we see that Shunichi is taking
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Speaker 1: pictures from the back of that pickup truck that they've
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Speaker 1: been driving in, so kind of like the last episode, Shorter, Shoonichi,
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Speaker 1: and ag are in the back of the pickup truck
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Speaker 1: and Shorter is leaning out of the back trying to
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Speaker 1: talk to some girl who is wearing like super short shorts,
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Speaker 1: and we're getting a lot of like weird angles of
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Speaker 1: the girl's ass and I actually just checked the manka
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Speaker 1: to see if any of that's in there, because I
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Speaker 1: was like, no, it's not. No, there's like a really
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Speaker 1: short Shorter leaning out and saying hey to some girl,
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Speaker 1: but no shots of the girl's ass. And so I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking about this, and I'm like, who is this for?
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Speaker 1: This is Showjo Like, it's not like, who do you
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Speaker 1: think your target audiences with this? Animators and director like
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Speaker 1: I don't think, like, what are you trying to do?
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Speaker 1: But it does tell us one thing, which is that
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Speaker 1: Shorter seems to like women, which would make him the
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Speaker 1: most heterosexual person in this show so far. Interesting anyway, Max,
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Speaker 1: who is driving in the front, says, those airheads, we're
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Speaker 1: not here to have fun, and Ash, who's in the
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Speaker 1: passenger seat, being a responsible co pilot, says, what are
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Speaker 1: you so stressed out about? Is it about where we're headed?
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Speaker 1: Max is sweating and he covers his mouth and he says,
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Speaker 1: shut up. Shorter is still trying to talk to that girl,
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Speaker 1: and now it is harassment. Stop that Shorter, and they
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Speaker 1: are kind of swerving a bit, and Ash says, hey,
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Speaker 1: don't throw up. Where are we going anyway? Ag is
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Speaker 1: in the back and he's like, we're in California, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And then we go to the opening theme Awesome. Back
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Speaker 1: from the opening, we are at a nice suburban house
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Speaker 1: and the truck stops out in front and Max rushes
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Speaker 1: out and he throws up on the sidewalk and everyone
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Speaker 1: is like watching, and Shorter's like, what the fuck and
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Speaker 1: Ash says, apparently he's sick. Then we hear a child's
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Speaker 1: voice say daddy, and Max sits up and there's a
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Speaker 1: key like standing on like a swing like attached to
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Speaker 1: a tree in the yard of the nice suburban house,
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Speaker 1: and the kid again says daddy, and he jumps down
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Speaker 1: and he starts to run over, and everyone except for
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Speaker 1: Max is like daddy, and Max says Michael, and he
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Speaker 1: runs towards him, but before they can like reach each other,
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Speaker 1: we hear a woman's voice say, don't touch him, and
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Speaker 1: they stop. They look over and we see the barrel
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Speaker 1: of a shotgun enter the frame and the woman's voice says,
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Speaker 1: I heard from George that you jumped Bail. Are you
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Speaker 1: trying to kidnap him? Before you lose in court, and
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Speaker 1: we see that holding the shotgun is this very attractive
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Speaker 1: blonde haired woman and Max says, no, that's not and
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Speaker 1: the woman says shut up and shoots at him and
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Speaker 1: he dodges, and Michael looks stressed, and Shorter's like damn
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Speaker 1: and Ash says, no, wonder he felt sick. Shunichi starts
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Speaker 1: to walk forward and he says, hands raised, and he says, hey, Jessica.
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Speaker 1: Jessica lowers the gun and says Shoonichi. Then, thank god.
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Speaker 1: We cut to them eating a meal and I don't
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Speaker 1: know what is in the meal. I see some apples,
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Speaker 1: some green things, some sort of like vegetable and bread,
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Speaker 1: and Jessica says you better, thanks Shoonnichi, and she stabs
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Speaker 1: the apple with a knife and then points the knife
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Speaker 1: at Max and says, or you'd be dead by now.
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Speaker 1: Max flinches. Shunci says she helped me with the news
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Speaker 1: article once. Well, that's good. Jessica looks over at Ag
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Speaker 1: and Ash and says, you boys are pretty hot. Want
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Speaker 1: a model for a magazine? And Ag is surprised and
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Speaker 1: he says model. And we cut to Ash and Ag
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Speaker 1: on a magazine cover looking like models. I guess, and
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Speaker 1: Max says, don't listen to her. She'll make you spread
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Speaker 1: your legs and show your asshole what. Ash and Ag
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Speaker 1: are still on the cover of the magazine, but now
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Speaker 1: they look really sad, and Jessica slams the table and
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Speaker 1: she's like, you made a living out of shooting women's pussies,
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Speaker 1: what's wrong with me doing the same? And Max is like,
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Speaker 1: not in front of Michael. You guys are both doing
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Speaker 1: this in front of Michael, by the way, everyone is
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Speaker 1: looking on in shock, and Michael says quietly, kind of
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Speaker 1: to Ash, who's sitting next to him, what could be
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Speaker 1: worse than this? And Ash sighs, knowing that a lot
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Speaker 1: of things could be worse than this, but it's still
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Speaker 1: really not good anyway. Jessica, I guess here's Michael, and
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Speaker 1: is like, I'm sorry, Michael, have some more fries. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I guess there's fries too. Michael just kind of gets up, though,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm going to bed, and he goes
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Speaker 1: to Jessica and says good night, and Jessica says night.
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Speaker 1: And Michael goes over to Max and says night daddy
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Speaker 1: and kisses Max on the cheek and Max hugs him
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Speaker 1: and he's got like tears in his eyes and he
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Speaker 1: says good night. Michael says to Max, are you staying
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Speaker 1: for a while? Max is like oh, and he looks
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Speaker 1: at Jessica and she's not happy, and he continues, well,
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Speaker 1: I have to go back as soon as I'm done here.
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Speaker 1: Michael sighs and he says good night everyone, and he
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Speaker 1: walks off, and everyone's like, I I do want to say.
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Speaker 1: The argument in the manga is like super long and
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Speaker 1: really not appropriate for Michael, like super explicit talking about
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Speaker 1: how they met and all this stuff, and they're yelling
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Speaker 1: at each other. So it's much worse than what we saw.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's fine that it was cut out. I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to point that out that they're really good
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Speaker 1: at hashing out their problems in front of their kid,
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Speaker 1: which is not good. Anyway. We cut to Ash and
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Speaker 1: he's like kind of smiling deviously, and he says old lady,
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Speaker 1: and Max looks shocked, and Jessica just doesn't acknowledge him
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Speaker 1: at all. So he says, hey, old lady, and this
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Speaker 1: time Jessica turns and it looks like she's gonna just
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Speaker 1: fucking murder him. And she says, you mean me, and
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Speaker 1: Ash says, who else could you pass the mustard? Old
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Speaker 1: Lady God Shorter, Shoonichi and Age are sweating, and Ash
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Speaker 1: looks like he's having the time of his life. And
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Speaker 1: Jessica lifts the mustard and slams it down in front
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Speaker 1: of Ash and says, you got balls. You get a
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Speaker 1: problem with how I'm raising my son. Sorry, I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna listen to a punk like you, and then she
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Speaker 1: walks away. Ash huffs and he starts putting the mustard
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Speaker 1: on the food and he is just so much mustard
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Speaker 1: is just coming out. He he's not paying attention, and
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Speaker 1: he says, like, and who's got balls? Now? I guess
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Speaker 1: Jessica has like left the table, and Max says, I'm
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Speaker 1: really sorry about this. Ash stands and says all parents
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Speaker 1: are garbage. Kids don't get to choose who they get,
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Speaker 1: you know. They can't ask for a different paran, no
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Speaker 1: matter how bad they are, and he walks out of
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Speaker 1: the room. Shoonichi, who has kind of been nodding, is
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Speaker 1: like you should listen to him. Max is like yeah. Next,
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Speaker 1: we cut to Michael, who is sleeping in his room
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Speaker 1: and someone opens the door and we see that it's
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Speaker 1: Max and he sets down a baseball glove on the
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Speaker 1: bed next to Michael, and it has a note on
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Speaker 1: it that says, Michael, happy birthday. I'm so proud of you,
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Speaker 1: love dad, And there's a drawing of I don't know,
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Speaker 1: like a bear or a cat or something. It's terrible,
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Speaker 1: so I have no idea what it is. Oh, but
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Speaker 1: the letter is in English too, and it's in proper English,
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Speaker 1: so good for them. Super cute though. He pushes some
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Speaker 1: of Michael's hair away from his face and he's just
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Speaker 1: kind of looking at him, and Jessica is standing in
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Speaker 1: the doorway watching. Next we cut to them driving at night.
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Speaker 1: Ash says, you should have told us it was your
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Speaker 1: son's birthday. Max is like, yeah, thanks for letting me
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Speaker 1: stop by one O two forty two Westwood, was it.
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Speaker 1: They pull up to a gated house and they get out,
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Speaker 1: and Agy's like, what a big house. Shorter kind of
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Speaker 1: sauntered up to the gate and he puts his hands
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Speaker 1: on it and realizes that it's open, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: how careless of them? Not everybody locks their gate. Shorter.
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Speaker 1: Ash is kind of I don't know, looking around strangely
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Speaker 1: like something is going on, and Max says what is it?
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Speaker 1: And Ash is like, it's just it doesn't feel right.
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Speaker 1: Then they hear a woman scream okay, it's not right.
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Speaker 1: Ash is like or on back and he takes off
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Speaker 1: running and Shorter follows, and we see like an older
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Speaker 1: woman on the ground and she says, someone please help.
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Speaker 1: Ash and Shorter fly around the corner. They kind of
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Speaker 1: almost fall. They kind of like skid. We got some
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Speaker 1: really nice animation here, and Shorter kind of leans over
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Speaker 1: to the woman and says, are you okay? Ash takes
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Speaker 1: out his gun and the old woman says, master's been kidnapped,
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Speaker 1: and Ash is like that way and he runs and
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Speaker 1: he comes around the corner and he sees three guys.
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Speaker 1: One of them's like on his phone and the other
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Speaker 1: one has some person draped over his shoulder. They see
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Speaker 1: Ash and they start shooting at him, but they're not
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Speaker 1: doing a good job, and Ashes like, are you blind
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Speaker 1: or what? And he raises his gun and he's like
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Speaker 1: this is how you do it. He shoots their guns somehow,
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Speaker 1: just like right out of their hands, and they are
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Speaker 1: confused and scared and take off running and Ash tells
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Speaker 1: Shorter to like go around the front, and Shorter leaves,
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Speaker 1: and also they left the person they were carrying, which
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Speaker 1: we see is some like beautiful Asian woman with long
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Speaker 1: black hair, and she's passed out and ashes like a girl.
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Speaker 1: And Max, who was just getting there, says, didn't they
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Speaker 1: say master? I didn't go back and see what the
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Speaker 1: actual word they were using here was. But they're obviously
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Speaker 1: using a word that means like a male person, a
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Speaker 1: dude of some sort. So this is not a woman.
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Speaker 1: This is just a guy who is very, very pretty. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Shorter returns and he's like, I'm sorry, Ash, they got away.
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Speaker 1: They had a fan ready. Max picks up this guy
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Speaker 1: and says, let's go inside. So now we cut to
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Speaker 1: the Master person lying in bed, and the old woman
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Speaker 1: is like, I was making dinner and those men came
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Speaker 1: barging in and took young Master, and Max is like,
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Speaker 1: so they were after this boy. Ash asks who he
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Speaker 1: is and the old woman says, yow, she is Master's professor,
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Speaker 1: Dawson's son, and Age's like, he is, I guess because
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Speaker 1: he's Asian. So it's a little bit weird yao. She
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Speaker 1: opens his eyes and the old Lady's like young master,
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Speaker 1: and Ash like kind of half gasps, like he noticed
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Speaker 1: something but I don't know what, but it probably means something.
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Speaker 1: And Shorter's like, he looks like AG and Age's like
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Speaker 1: you think, no, I don't think so Agy. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: look anything like AG. I assume Shorter means that he
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Speaker 1: looks kind of innocent or kind or something like that,
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Speaker 1: because I can't assume that it means he looks Agian
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Speaker 1: because Shorter is Chinese, so let doesn't make any sense anyway, yao,
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Speaker 1: she says, and you are and he sets up. Max
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Speaker 1: is like we came here to see Abraham Dawson. Yaw.
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Speaker 1: She's like, that's my father's younger brother, but I've never
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Speaker 1: met him before. Ash says, your dad's not Asian? Is
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Speaker 1: he just guessing by his name? Now? She's like, my
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Speaker 1: father didn't have any children, so he adopted me. And
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Speaker 1: Ash says, you landed big and Max is like, hey,
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Speaker 1: Ash continues, so where is he? Yao? She sighs, and
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Speaker 1: he says he's been missing for six months now. Ash gasps,
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Speaker 1: and then we cut to Dino, who is on the
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Speaker 1: phone and he says, I see okay. He hangs up,
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Speaker 1: and then to Abraham, you know, red hair glasses guy.
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Speaker 1: He says, they've arrived at your house, just as we anticipated.
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Speaker 1: Fuck ah, it's all set up, maybe, Abraham gasps, and
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Speaker 1: Dino's like, we have to get Alexis before they do
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Speaker 1: in order to complete it. Get me Lee wongong on
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Speaker 1: the phone. Oh. Then we cut to Ash, who is
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Speaker 1: looking at something maybe in a library. Oh okay, no,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a really trashed office with like bookshelves and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And Ash says, what a mess? And the cops and yew.
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Speaker 1: She's like, we called, but only a few policemen came.
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Speaker 1: And AG's like, and must have been really scary with
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Speaker 1: your father missing and everything. Ah, sweet Ag and Ash
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Speaker 1: just like, something's not right. I know what it is.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what it is? It's the computer? How
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Speaker 1: come the whole room is trashed and the computer looks
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Speaker 1: totally untouched? Anyway? Max is like, where do you think
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Speaker 1: your dad could be? Yew? She says, uh, can I
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Speaker 1: ask what's going on? Who are you? Max Is like us, well,
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Speaker 1: we're Ash walks over to the computer and he says,
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Speaker 1: can I take a look at this? Yew? She says sure,
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Speaker 1: but it's password protected. Ash sits down and says, I'll
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Speaker 1: figure it out. Age's like you can do that. Ash
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Speaker 1: kind of shrugs, and the old lady walks into the
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Speaker 1: room and says, dinner's ready if you're hungry. Yew, She's
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Speaker 1: like in a minute. He looks over at Ash and
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Speaker 1: Shorter and then he starts to walk off. Ash quietly
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Speaker 1: to Shorter says, can you look into him? Shorter's like
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Speaker 1: something wrong. Ash says, I don't know, it's just that
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Speaker 1: he's too quiet. We got to later and Ash is
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Speaker 1: by himself in the office typing shit into the computer
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Speaker 1: and he is startled and he turns around really quickly
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Speaker 1: and yew, she is there. He's just entered the room
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Speaker 1: and he looks really startled, and he says, sorry, did
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Speaker 1: I surprise you? And Ash says, I don't like being
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Speaker 1: approached from behind. I grew up in a rough neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the streets are a rough neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, yeao. She has a trade with tea on
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Speaker 1: it and he says, here, have some jasmine tea. It's relaxing.
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Speaker 1: He sets it down on the desk and Ash is like,
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Speaker 1: you don't make any noise when you walk. Now, she says,
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Speaker 1: what do you mean? Ashes like, exactly what I said, Yeao.
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Speaker 1: She says, we Chinese are brought up to move quietly. Ash,
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Speaker 1: back to looking at the computer, says, yeah, is that
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Speaker 1: how it is not shorter though? M Yeah, She changes
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Speaker 1: its subject is like you got in. Ash is holding
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Speaker 1: a little USB flash drive in his hand, and he says,
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Speaker 1: I have some cracking software. You just keep cracking software
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Speaker 1: on you. Ash. He tosses the thumb drive up and
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Speaker 1: he catches it and he's like, passwords mean nothing when
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Speaker 1: you boot with this. Yeah. She's like, incredible, did you
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Speaker 1: find anything? And Ash says, I'm decrypting an encrypted drive
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Speaker 1: right now. I wish I had a faster GPU, which
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Speaker 1: I guess is a graphics processing unit. Sure, I don't
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Speaker 1: know anything about packing into computer, so sounds good to me. Yeao.
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Speaker 1: She asks if you can watch, and Ashes like, sure,
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Speaker 1: it's your home. At this point, Ag walks in, and
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Speaker 1: this is really important because I didn't understand it the
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Speaker 1: first time I watched it, or the first time I
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Speaker 1: read the manga. So anyway, Ag walks over and he
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Speaker 1: leans over Ash's shoulder like it's no big deal at all.
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Speaker 1: This is a huge contrast to what we just saw
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Speaker 1: happen with Ash and Yaoshi, where Ash immediately noticed he
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Speaker 1: was coming into the room and flipped around with Ag.
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Speaker 1: He like didn't even flinch. It's like this is totally fine,
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Speaker 1: which is super fucking cool. But yao, she notices the difference,
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Speaker 1: which is also really cool, and is just kind of
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Speaker 1: left confused about what this could possibly mean. And AG
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Speaker 1: says did it work? And Ash's like, just watch and
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Speaker 1: he hits enter and we see a bunch of files
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Speaker 1: pop onto the screen and Asha says see and Hag's like, wow,
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Speaker 1: you're amazing, and they high five and they like kind
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Speaker 1: of hold hands for a second. It's super cute, and yao,
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Speaker 1: she is watching them in a way that makes me uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: Ash types banana fish into the file search and to
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Speaker 1: AG says, go get the others. Ag nods and walks off. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: She looking at the screen, says what's banana fish? Ash
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Speaker 1: is like, that's what I want to know. A bunch
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Speaker 1: of files start popping onto the screen and Ash's eyes
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Speaker 1: widen and he is now fucking sweating. Max enters the
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Speaker 1: room and is like did you find something? And Ash
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Speaker 1: says it's not. Max is like what and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: we were wrong. We see on the screen like a
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Speaker 1: little diagram of like chemical things and lab results, and
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Speaker 1: Ash continues, Banana fish isn't a person. This is an
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Speaker 1: analysis table of it. It's mainly stilocybin, lisergic acid, and diethylamine.
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Speaker 1: Banana fish is the name of the drug itself. We
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Speaker 1: get a quick flashed episode one. By the way, we
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Speaker 1: already knew this, but now they know it yay, and
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Speaker 1: AG's like hug. Ash continues, the key is probably in
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Speaker 1: this inert alkaloid and he points out the word on
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Speaker 1: the screen and continues, but there's no data about it.
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Speaker 1: Usually you'd think if it's a nerd, that's not the problem.
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Speaker 1: But whatever, He continues, what is it? What effects does
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Speaker 1: it have? And Max is like, so this is what
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Speaker 1: broke Griff down. Shooney, She says, so it's a drug, huh,
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Speaker 1: and an undefined one at that's now we go to
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Speaker 1: La Chinatown, which looks pretty nice, especially compared to New
19:34
Speaker 1: York Chinatown and all of New York so far. We
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Speaker 1: hear Shorter saying, so, did you find anything out, and
19:42
Speaker 1: someone who we can't see is scrolling through documents on
19:45
Speaker 1: a phone and we see like high school graduation stuff
19:50
Speaker 1: and scholarship application, and the guy says, Yaoshi Dawson sixteen.
19:55
Speaker 1: Both parents deceased, So we can see some of the
19:57
Speaker 1: information on the phone, but the guy kind of goes
19:59
Speaker 1: over it. So oh, and we see that he and
20:01
Speaker 1: Shorter are in a restaurant talking at a table, and
20:04
Speaker 1: he continues his school introduced him to the Dawsons, and
20:08
Speaker 1: he shows Shorter the phone and he says he got
20:10
Speaker 1: a scholarship and has already graduated high school. Shorter leans
20:14
Speaker 1: back in his chair and he's like, so he was
20:17
Speaker 1: adopted because he was smart. That makes sense. The guy says,
20:21
Speaker 1: he's Shorter. How's Nadia doing? Okay? So we are calling
20:24
Speaker 1: her Nadia. I don't know if you remember. You might
20:29
Speaker 1: first I was calling Shorter sister Nadia. Then I was
20:31
Speaker 1: reading some of this in Japanese and it said Nadia.
20:35
Speaker 1: But apparently we're sticking with Nadia, so we'll continue to
20:37
Speaker 1: call Shorter sister Nadia from here on out. Sorry for
20:41
Speaker 1: the confusion. Anyway. The guy is looking at a picture
20:45
Speaker 1: of him, Shorter and Nadia together, and Shorter says, good,
20:50
Speaker 1: I guess she can take care of and the guy
20:53
Speaker 1: cuts him off and says, remember how she always used
20:56
Speaker 1: to feed us kids. He looks really nervous, and we
21:01
Speaker 1: kind of focus on a guy sitting at a table
21:04
Speaker 1: to the right side of them for a second, and
21:08
Speaker 1: Shorter says, yeah, Dad was still around those days. He'd
21:12
Speaker 1: always and the dude just kind of hunches over and
21:16
Speaker 1: Shorter's like, what's wrong. The guy's like, don't ask any questions,
21:21
Speaker 1: just get the hell out of la now oh. At
21:26
Speaker 1: this point, a bunch of guys stand up around them
21:29
Speaker 1: at different tables. Shorter is confused. One of them closes
21:33
Speaker 1: the lines, and the guy that he's been talking to says,
21:37
Speaker 1: forget about that Ash guy and just go please. Shorter
21:41
Speaker 1: is like, how do you know. At this point, someone
21:44
Speaker 1: puts their hand on shorter shoulder and this person says, hello,
21:48
Speaker 1: Shorter Wong, my name is Lee Ha Lung Lee while
21:51
Speaker 1: Lung of New York is my little brother. At this point,
21:54
Speaker 1: Shorter is actually being held forced down to the table,
21:58
Speaker 1: and he says the Lee clan this is not good.
22:02
Speaker 1: But now we go back to Ash, who says, I've
22:05
Speaker 1: looked through everything and there aren't any other hidden files.
22:08
Speaker 1: He sits back in the chair and he says, how
22:10
Speaker 1: about you. Max is looking through a book that was
22:14
Speaker 1: in the office and he says, I don't understand the
22:17
Speaker 1: test data, but these days go back over a decade,
22:20
Speaker 1: including Griff's case. Ash sighe. Max continues, a bunch of
22:25
Speaker 1: soldiers died back to back around that time in the army.
22:28
Speaker 1: There are even dissection logs of them. That's terrible. This
22:32
Speaker 1: could mean something totally different. Ash is kind of shrugging
22:36
Speaker 1: and staring at the computer, and he says the possibility
22:39
Speaker 1: of military involvement, and Max says, so you notice too,
22:44
Speaker 1: And Ash is like, obviously I'm the hacker, but now
22:47
Speaker 1: I'm on equal footing with Dino. Max is like, no,
22:50
Speaker 1: you need to stay out of this. This could be
22:53
Speaker 1: a nationwide conspiracy, and Ash, smiling says what could be better?
22:58
Speaker 1: Max is like, wake the fuck up. This isn't about
23:01
Speaker 1: personal vengeance anymore, and Ash says, what you got cold feet?
23:06
Speaker 1: Max is like, this isn't something that joke about. You
23:09
Speaker 1: know better, geez? Ash is silent ver a second. He says, yeah,
23:15
Speaker 1: I know this is way out of my league, but
23:18
Speaker 1: I have to put an end to this for Skiff
23:21
Speaker 1: and Griff and he kind of flicks his hand and
23:23
Speaker 1: he's looking out the window. He continues, and for me
23:28
Speaker 1: to become free, what or else I'll never And then
23:34
Speaker 1: Max just cuts him off and says no, and Ash
23:37
Speaker 1: whips around in the chair and says what, And Max continues,
23:41
Speaker 1: why risk your life? You'll just die in vain. Can't
23:44
Speaker 1: you see that if you insist on continuing, I'll have
23:46
Speaker 1: to hold you down. Ash stands and he's like, yeah,
23:49
Speaker 1: try and stop me. Max says, in prison, you said
23:52
Speaker 1: you'd kill me for abandoning Griff, So go ahead. I'm
23:55
Speaker 1: not going down without a fight, though, And for a
23:57
Speaker 1: minute they're just kind of staring each other down, and
24:00
Speaker 1: then we hear Ag say Shorter's back, and Max quietly says,
24:06
Speaker 1: don't tell the others about this, which part? And Ash
24:09
Speaker 1: is like, as if I would. Ag opens the door
24:13
Speaker 1: and is like Ash, what's going on? And Ash says
24:16
Speaker 1: it's nothing, and he shuts down the computer. All right,
24:19
Speaker 1: let me stop there, because we need to talk about
24:20
Speaker 1: this because this is important. Oh my god, So fucking
24:26
Speaker 1: Max just does not listen at all. This is not
24:30
Speaker 1: about revenge at least, not just about revenge for Skip
24:35
Speaker 1: or even Griffin, Like maybe it kind of looks to Max,
24:40
Speaker 1: or maybe it looked to you. I'm not sure. I mean,
24:43
Speaker 1: we did hear a little bit about this in episode three,
24:45
Speaker 1: but this is about Ash gaining his freedom from Dino Golzine.
24:49
Speaker 1: It's one hundred percent about that. So if fucking Max
24:53
Speaker 1: would listen and ask some questions, he would learn some
24:57
Speaker 1: stuff that would be pertinent to what happens next. But
24:59
Speaker 1: he not, And you'd think that, oh, he's a fucking reporter,
25:03
Speaker 1: he would want to listen, But he doesn't think of
25:05
Speaker 1: Ash as an adult. He thinks of him as a kid,
25:08
Speaker 1: And even after what we've learned in episode six, he
25:11
Speaker 1: still doesn't really take him seriously. He literally was going
25:15
Speaker 1: to say something about all of this to him, and
25:19
Speaker 1: Max just fucking cut him off. And it pissed me
25:23
Speaker 1: off because he's not a very open person. It seems like,
25:28
Speaker 1: so fucking you were about to get something out of this,
25:33
Speaker 1: Max asshole. So yeah, let's continue fun stuff. Now we
25:40
Speaker 1: are on the balcony of the house. It's kind of
25:43
Speaker 1: overlooking the valley. I have no idea where it would
25:46
Speaker 1: be in La, because I know very little about La.
25:48
Speaker 1: I've only been there one time. So it's Shorter and
25:51
Speaker 1: Ash on the balcony and Shorter says, there's nothing shady
25:55
Speaker 1: about yaoshe. Ash's like, well that clears out of at
25:59
Speaker 1: least I guess I'm being too uptight. Fuck. We do
26:04
Speaker 1: a flashback to the restaurant and Lee Hua Lung says
26:08
Speaker 1: the situation has changed. Shorter is like, what do you
26:11
Speaker 1: mean Your brother promised to support us, and Lie says,
26:15
Speaker 1: these orders came from him. You are to report on
26:17
Speaker 1: Ash Links and his friends from now on. Shorter at
26:20
Speaker 1: this slams the table and he stands and he's like,
26:23
Speaker 1: you want me to spy on them? No, and Lee's like,
26:26
Speaker 1: calm down, think about it. It's either that white punk
26:30
Speaker 1: or your fellow people. Uelng will be giving orders from
26:33
Speaker 1: now on. He's of the Lee clan. He'll contact you shortly.
26:38
Speaker 1: And there's this really cool transition here where we're seeing
26:41
Speaker 1: Lee in Shorter his glasses like reflected in Short of
26:43
Speaker 1: his glasses, and then we'll hear Ash say Shorter Shorter,
26:47
Speaker 1: and the reflection in Shorter his glasses changes to Ash.
26:52
Speaker 1: And I thought that was fucking cool anyway, Ash continues,
26:56
Speaker 1: you seem distracted, and Shorter's like, no, I'm just tired.
27:00
Speaker 1: He leans back in the chair and he puts his
27:01
Speaker 1: feet on the table. Ash says, then have the old
27:04
Speaker 1: lady make something Chinese for you, and he walks kind
27:08
Speaker 1: of towards the door to go back inside and is
27:10
Speaker 1: like it's way better than yours. And Shorter's like, ah,
27:13
Speaker 1: come on, man, I'm the next owner of the great
27:15
Speaker 1: Chang Dai and as says, poor Chang Di, it better
27:19
Speaker 1: kiss its reputation goodbye. He walks inside. Shorter is alone
27:23
Speaker 1: on the deck now and yao. She approaches and says,
27:28
Speaker 1: shall I have suit? Luis? Maybe I don't know how
27:31
Speaker 1: what I wrote there make you something or Shorter grabs
27:35
Speaker 1: him by the arm and yao. She is like what?
27:38
Speaker 1: And Shorter slams him against the wall and then grabs
27:42
Speaker 1: him by the collar and pulls him towards his face
27:45
Speaker 1: and says, who are you There's no way your dawson
27:48
Speaker 1: son and yao, she says, I'm not lying it. Shorter
27:52
Speaker 1: pushes him back against the wall and says, Sonny was threatened.
27:56
Speaker 1: He had to be lying. Who's yue lung spill it,
28:00
Speaker 1: and then Shorter sees this tattoo of like a silhouett
28:03
Speaker 1: a dragon on Yaoshi's neck and he says that tattoo
28:08
Speaker 1: it's the Lee family seal Hugh, are you, yue Lung?
28:13
Speaker 1: And he lets go and yue Lung pulls away and
28:18
Speaker 1: smirks kind of chuckles. Now we cut to in a
28:22
Speaker 1: room inside, I guess, and the conversation is just continuing,
28:25
Speaker 1: but we were no longer on the deck, and yue
28:28
Speaker 1: Lung says, you will obey my orders from now on.
28:31
Speaker 1: Consider my words to be that of my big brothers.
28:34
Speaker 1: Short is like just a kid like you, and yue
28:37
Speaker 1: Lung says, Lee Wang Lung of New York City is
28:40
Speaker 1: my eldest brother. I'm the seventh child, the youngest in
28:42
Speaker 1: the family. Shorter looks confused, and yue Lung says, but
28:48
Speaker 1: Lee only had six sons, or so you thought. A
28:52
Speaker 1: bloody history is inevitable when you're the ruling clan. The
28:55
Speaker 1: bloodshed in the shadow of prosperity is the darkness behind
28:58
Speaker 1: the light. I was destined to rule that darkness, which
29:01
Speaker 1: is why I was given Moon as a name. And
29:05
Speaker 1: he stands and says, I see now why my brother
29:08
Speaker 1: felt the need to send me here. He steps over
29:11
Speaker 1: to Shorter and then walks past him and says, Ash links,
29:16
Speaker 1: what an interesting and formidable foe, and he leaves the room.
29:21
Speaker 1: Shorter looks pretty stressed, which I would be too. I
29:24
Speaker 1: also just wanted to point out since last week, I've
29:27
Speaker 1: been trying to figure out how you pronounced yue lung.
29:29
Speaker 1: I think I'm close. In the anime and in the manga,
29:34
Speaker 1: it's spelled y ut l u nng, but no one
29:39
Speaker 1: is pronouncing it like that in the show. And also
29:42
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything in Chinese, but why Ue is
29:47
Speaker 1: part of moon in Chinese, which I think what they're
29:50
Speaker 1: going for. So I'm pretty sure it's like ue or uey.
29:55
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say ue for right now until someone
29:57
Speaker 1: corrects me. And I'm gonna pronounce lung as loom because
30:00
Speaker 1: I think that might be correct, or at least I'm
30:03
Speaker 1: going to try to do that. If I mess up,
30:05
Speaker 1: I'm very very sorry. This has been a challenging name
30:09
Speaker 1: for me. Whatever doesn't matter anyway. Now we cut to Ash,
30:13
Speaker 1: who is looking at his phone, specifically on a maps
30:17
Speaker 1: type application, looking at the distance between La and New York.
30:20
Speaker 1: I guess by car, and we also see that Shuonnii's
30:24
Speaker 1: on the phone and actually he just hangs up, and
30:26
Speaker 1: Max says, did you reach your publisher? Tchunici's like yeah,
30:30
Speaker 1: they're going to talk to the Japanese consulate and immigration
30:32
Speaker 1: office for US. I've completely forgotten about our visas and
30:36
Speaker 1: Max is like, do you think age will understand? And
30:39
Speaker 1: Shunci says, I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
30:43
Speaker 1: I'm scared he might run away again, and before he
30:46
Speaker 1: can say anything else, Ash says I'll talk to him,
30:49
Speaker 1: and they look over surprised because they didn't even realize
30:51
Speaker 1: Ash was listening. He's also still looking at his phone,
30:54
Speaker 1: and he says, I'll tell him to his face that
30:56
Speaker 1: he'll get in the way, and Shei's like you can't.
30:59
Speaker 1: Max says, how could you say that? Ash stands and says,
31:03
Speaker 1: wake up, this isn't a game, oh role reversal. You
31:07
Speaker 1: were just telling Ash that this wasn't a joke, and
31:09
Speaker 1: now we saying it back to you. Yeah. Ash. Anyway,
31:13
Speaker 1: he continues from here on out, the less burden, the better,
31:16
Speaker 1: and he starts to walk off and Max is like,
31:19
Speaker 1: you little punk, how can you say that? And he
31:21
Speaker 1: starts to go after Ash and he's like stop and
31:24
Speaker 1: Shunichi grabs him and he's like Max, Ash is willing
31:28
Speaker 1: to play the bad guy for us. We cut to
31:31
Speaker 1: outside and it is sunset and they're on the balcony
31:34
Speaker 1: that is Ag and Ash, and AG says, what did
31:38
Speaker 1: you just say? And Ash says that you'll be a
31:41
Speaker 1: burden go back to Japan. Ag gasps and he's like,
31:48
Speaker 1: I can't refuse, can I? He looks off into the distance.
31:52
Speaker 1: I can't even protect myself. All I've done is slow
31:55
Speaker 1: you down. Ash said, that's not true. You saved skipping me.
32:03
Speaker 1: Ag looks back over and he's like, but that was
32:07
Speaker 1: just an Ash, who was leaning against the railing at
32:09
Speaker 1: this point, cuts him off and says, that was the
32:11
Speaker 1: first time someone helped me without asking for anything in return. Oh.
32:17
Speaker 1: Everyone whoever gave me a place to sleep or fed
32:19
Speaker 1: me always wanted something for it, like sex. I only
32:23
Speaker 1: learned to shoot a gun because it was the only
32:25
Speaker 1: way to survive. I envy you for not needing a
32:28
Speaker 1: gun in your pocket. And he looks at Ag and says,
32:32
Speaker 1: you and I live in different worlds. AG's eyes widen
32:37
Speaker 1: and his face falls and he says, I understand, but
32:43
Speaker 1: can I just have some time to think it over.
32:46
Speaker 1: I need to sort out my feelings. And he looks
32:49
Speaker 1: away again, and Ash is like, sure, you can do
32:53
Speaker 1: what I can, so we're equal. I still don't know
32:55
Speaker 1: what that means, but he walks away, and I just
32:58
Speaker 1: wanted to mention this scene the most awesome compositing, you know,
33:03
Speaker 1: with the sunset glow and like the colors are not
33:07
Speaker 1: only the background, but they did a good job of
33:09
Speaker 1: making Ash and Agy look like they're part of the scene.
33:12
Speaker 1: There's also some really cool shit going on with the
33:15
Speaker 1: shadowing where where when Ash is walking away like he's
33:18
Speaker 1: gonna go back inside, we see the shadow of the
33:21
Speaker 1: railing and we also see AG's shadow kind of against
33:23
Speaker 1: the wall of the house. It looks really cool. I
33:26
Speaker 1: really like these shots here, so good job everybody. Anyway,
33:30
Speaker 1: Ash walks in with his head down. He starts to
33:34
Speaker 1: walk down the stairs and we see that Yuei Lung
33:37
Speaker 1: is watching and as he gets down the stairs, he says,
33:42
Speaker 1: your turn, and he walks past Shunichi and Max, and
33:47
Speaker 1: Shunichi says thanks Ash. Then we head back to Ag
33:50
Speaker 1: and he looks over as Shoonnichi comes out onto the
33:53
Speaker 1: balcony or deck or whatever it is, and Shinichi says,
33:58
Speaker 1: Ash didn't mean when he said I asked him to,
34:01
Speaker 1: and AG's like, it's okay. I'm altered than him, but
34:05
Speaker 1: he is the one who always has to protect me.
34:08
Speaker 1: He looks up at the sky, possibly hiding tears, and
34:11
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm fine with it, but hearing it straight
34:15
Speaker 1: from him, and we get a first person shot where
34:18
Speaker 1: he's looking up at the sky and the scene kind
34:20
Speaker 1: of blurs in and out, like he has tears in
34:22
Speaker 1: his eyes and he's blinking them away. Then he closes
34:25
Speaker 1: his eyes and we get like a black screen before
34:27
Speaker 1: we go into a regular perspective, and he says, it
34:30
Speaker 1: just makes me wonder why even came here. He's leaning
34:34
Speaker 1: over the railing at this point and he has his
34:36
Speaker 1: head in his hands, his tears stream down his face.
34:40
Speaker 1: Poor Ag. And Shunichi puts his hand on Agy's shoulder,
34:44
Speaker 1: and we cut to a sink somewhere inside and the
34:47
Speaker 1: water is running. Ash is leaning over the sink and
34:50
Speaker 1: he takes a shot of something and he grimaces, and
34:53
Speaker 1: we hear Max say, must have been hard on you
34:55
Speaker 1: to be so cold to ag. Ash jumps and drops
34:58
Speaker 1: the shotglass into the sink and he says or something,
35:02
Speaker 1: and Max is like, you're heading back to New York right.
35:05
Speaker 1: He takes the bottle from Ash and he pours a
35:07
Speaker 1: glass and continues, that's why you want age to leave? Huh.
35:11
Speaker 1: He takes a drink. Ash is like it's just too dangerous,
35:16
Speaker 1: and Max says you'll be killed if you go back,
35:19
Speaker 1: and Ash is like, it'll be down different if I
35:20
Speaker 1: stay here. His men will find us. New York might
35:23
Speaker 1: be Dino's home ground, but it's mine too. Max Is like,
35:26
Speaker 1: you're still gonna confront him. Yeah, that's the plan. Ash says,
35:31
Speaker 1: I can't stand hiding from him anymore. Max Is like,
35:35
Speaker 1: I give up. He takes a drink and Ash looks
35:37
Speaker 1: at him confused, and he continues, I'm going with you, your
35:41
Speaker 1: Griff's little brother. It feels like some kind of destiny.
35:44
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have the head of the New York Tribune
35:46
Speaker 1: and hold on to the data. You've got no say
35:48
Speaker 1: in that. This is my way of doing things. I'll
35:50
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this, Ash size, and then
35:53
Speaker 1: we cut to Yuei Lung sitting in a chair and
35:57
Speaker 1: he says, kidnap the Japanese boy age. What and Shorter says,
36:02
Speaker 1: what meso Shorter obviously, ue Lun continues, My job is
36:07
Speaker 1: to catch Ash alive and hand him over to my brother.
36:09
Speaker 1: Shorter gasps, oh, you didn't know that, Shorter. I figured
36:12
Speaker 1: that's what was happening. And ue Lung is like, but
36:15
Speaker 1: it's proving quite difficult. He suspects something about me. He
36:19
Speaker 1: seemed to notice my trained moves no one's ever noticed before.
36:24
Speaker 1: Shorter is like, so you're gonna use AG's bait, and
36:29
Speaker 1: ue Lung says, I'm glad we're on the same page.
36:32
Speaker 1: Shorter is like, you bastard, and he whips out a knife,
36:36
Speaker 1: and u a LUN's like, you're gonna kill me? I
36:38
Speaker 1: wonder what'll happen to your sister. Shorter holds the knife
36:43
Speaker 1: to u a Lung's neck, and Uelung, who is smiling, says,
36:46
Speaker 1: to kill me Ali is to disobey my brother and
36:49
Speaker 1: betray your people. Your sister's safety will be jeopardized. He
36:53
Speaker 1: gets up, you know, like Shorter doesn't have a knife,
36:56
Speaker 1: tunes neck like it's no big deal, and Shorter he's
37:00
Speaker 1: just kind of frozen and he continues, she took care
37:03
Speaker 1: of you after your parents died. Correct, Shorter is like,
37:06
Speaker 1: you fucking bastard, and like his voice actor does a
37:10
Speaker 1: superb job over there. He says it with like all
37:12
Speaker 1: of the rage in the world, and he takes ue
37:15
Speaker 1: Lung by the neck like he kind of slams him
37:18
Speaker 1: into the bed like by his neck, and he sticks
37:21
Speaker 1: the knife into the mattress like inches away from Uelung's head. Now,
37:26
Speaker 1: u a Lung looks terrified. Shorter says, I used to
37:29
Speaker 1: respect you guys. My parents always said it's thanks to
37:31
Speaker 1: the leads that we can survive in this foreign land.
37:34
Speaker 1: So no matter how bad the rumors were, I never
37:36
Speaker 1: doubted you. We get a close up of yue Lung's face,
37:39
Speaker 1: possibly from Shorterest perspective, but it's hard to tell, and
37:43
Speaker 1: ue Lung's expression changes as one of Shorter's tears falls
37:48
Speaker 1: onto his cheek. Shorter says, but now, and we get
37:53
Speaker 1: more tears falling onto the bed, and then a shot
37:56
Speaker 1: of Shorter without his sunglasses, which he just looks like
37:59
Speaker 1: a dude, like nothing special, But this is the first
38:01
Speaker 1: time we've seen him without sunglasses. Anyway, he continues, not
38:05
Speaker 1: anymore You're the same as Gulsing in his guys, you're
38:09
Speaker 1: leeches who live off the blood of others. And he
38:12
Speaker 1: stands and he puts his sunglasses back on and I wrote,
38:15
Speaker 1: I love Shorter. I do love Shorter. He continues, I
38:19
Speaker 1: thought you looked like ag but I was wrong. You're
38:22
Speaker 1: a venomous snake. And he leaves, and we hear the
38:25
Speaker 1: door shut behind him. Yuei Lung sits up and he
38:30
Speaker 1: kind of leaves the knife in the bed, and he
38:33
Speaker 1: wipes Shorter's tears from his face, and he kind of
38:35
Speaker 1: stares at his hands, and Shorters tears on his hands,
38:39
Speaker 1: maybe not confident that he's doing the right thing for
38:41
Speaker 1: the first time. And we hear the old woman who
38:45
Speaker 1: totally is a name that I don't remember already say
38:47
Speaker 1: mister Yuei Lung, and she's like right outside the door.
38:51
Speaker 1: She continues, you have a message from mister Hua Lung.
38:55
Speaker 1: Yue Lung says, I'm coming, and he pulls the knife
38:58
Speaker 1: out of the bed, and some of his hair is
39:00
Speaker 1: attached to it. I guess sweater hit right into his
39:03
Speaker 1: hair and it falls away. He looks at the knife
39:06
Speaker 1: in size. Now we cut to a window specifically a
39:11
Speaker 1: window looking into Jessica's house, and Jessica is on the
39:15
Speaker 1: phone and we hear her say, yeah, he just showed up.
39:19
Speaker 1: And Michael is looking out the window and he has
39:23
Speaker 1: his baseball glove that Max gave him on his head,
39:25
Speaker 1: which is super cute, and we get a really interesting shot,
39:29
Speaker 1: so we see him through the window, but then we
39:32
Speaker 1: see with a reflection of what's happening outside because we're
39:36
Speaker 1: pretty close to the window, so we see in the
39:38
Speaker 1: reflection a black sedan pull up and stop in front
39:42
Speaker 1: of the house. And I don't think I even noticed
39:46
Speaker 1: the first time I watched it because I was so
39:48
Speaker 1: busy reading subtitles. But anyway, Jessica continues, He's after something,
39:52
Speaker 1: isn't he George. Michael says, hey, Mommy, Jessica's like, hold
39:56
Speaker 1: on a minute. Michael says, somebody's coming. Now. Oh. We
40:00
Speaker 1: see the window again, but we see from the interior perspective,
40:03
Speaker 1: so we see Michael's reflection as he's looking out, and
40:08
Speaker 1: because it is nighttime, we don't have a really good
40:11
Speaker 1: shot of the outside. Because you know, when it's dark
40:14
Speaker 1: outside and you look out a window when your house
40:17
Speaker 1: is lit like, you don't have a really good view
40:19
Speaker 1: of the outside, you know, because of the reflection of
40:23
Speaker 1: the interior. So we're getting like kind of a weird
40:26
Speaker 1: shot where we could kind of see that three guys
40:28
Speaker 1: are walking up the driveway, but it's like kind of
40:31
Speaker 1: hard to see. It's really really cool. I love these shots.
40:35
Speaker 1: I mean, they're anime original, super super cool. Anyway, Jessica's like,
40:39
Speaker 1: what and then there's a bang on the door and
40:41
Speaker 1: they flinch, and actually it's the sound of the door
40:44
Speaker 1: being broken down, and three guys are now standing in
40:47
Speaker 1: the doorway up the living room because it's not like
40:49
Speaker 1: open plan, you know, there's an actual doorway to the
40:51
Speaker 1: living room. And at this point, the ending theme starts up,
40:54
Speaker 1: and Jessica looks on silently from the couch as they approach,
40:58
Speaker 1: and Michael runs to her and she holds him close,
41:02
Speaker 1: and then we go to the title card the Rich
41:04
Speaker 1: Boy and I mean the ending, Yeah, we did it.
41:08
Speaker 1: Closing thoughts. Yeah, so I feel like most of the
41:11
Speaker 1: stuff I needed to say I said during the episode.
41:13
Speaker 1: But this does not look good for anyone right now.
41:16
Speaker 1: At the very end, we've got Yuelum who has decided
41:19
Speaker 1: to kidnap ag to entice Ash to come with him,
41:24
Speaker 1: which is just fucking awesome. And it's interesting because of
41:28
Speaker 1: how well Yue Lung read the situation between Ash and
41:31
Speaker 1: Ag that they seem to be very fond of each other,
41:34
Speaker 1: that Ash seems to have a different disposition around Ag
41:39
Speaker 1: than he does around the other people, so he is
41:42
Speaker 1: going to use this to his advantage, which sucks, but
41:46
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. Hopefully we don't have to come
41:49
Speaker 1: to that, and Shorter will tell someone because this seems
41:53
Speaker 1: like this would be very bad. And then of course
41:56
Speaker 1: we have what happened at the end, which is the
41:59
Speaker 1: Jessica and Michael are now in danger, and that is
42:02
Speaker 1: really fucking scary because I don't want anything bad to
42:04
Speaker 1: happen either of them. They're not involved in this. They're
42:07
Speaker 1: only involved because they have fucking tied to Max, who
42:11
Speaker 1: seems like he's probably not a great dad. But Jessica
42:14
Speaker 1: kind of seems like she's not a great mom either,
42:15
Speaker 1: So what are you gonna do? So this is all
42:20
Speaker 1: bad and I guess we'll find out in the next
42:22
Speaker 1: episode where all this goes, but it seems bad and
42:25
Speaker 1: I feel like this is how the show goes. Things
42:28
Speaker 1: just get bad, and I don't know if they get better,
42:31
Speaker 1: so we're gonna find out. The other thing I wanted
42:35
Speaker 1: to say that I didn't stop during the reading of
42:39
Speaker 1: the episode thing was I'm sure that you caught that
42:43
Speaker 1: Ash said that he has exchanged sex for food and shelter,
42:47
Speaker 1: meaning that he is one of the fourteen percent or
42:50
Speaker 1: so of homeless kids who engage in survival sex. So
42:56
Speaker 1: there you go. That's what I was talking about two
42:58
Speaker 1: episodes ago, three let's ago or something. Yeah, I don't
43:02
Speaker 1: know when that happens, but there's just a lot back there.
43:05
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad shit back in his past.
43:08
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's all I got with that. I guess.
43:12
Speaker 1: Oh that's a weird place to end it. Okay, I
43:15
Speaker 1: can say one other thing. I cried, like I think
43:18
Speaker 1: twice or three times watching this episode to you know,
43:21
Speaker 1: take notes of the podcast, which is really interesting because
43:24
Speaker 1: I didn't cry the first time, and I don't expect
43:26
Speaker 1: any of you cried because it's not sad unless you
43:29
Speaker 1: know the context for everything. And then it was really
43:31
Speaker 1: really sad. So yeah, I actually ended up loving this
43:36
Speaker 1: episode on the second watch. The actually think it's done
43:39
Speaker 1: slightly better in the anime most of the scenes than
43:42
Speaker 1: are in the manga. I think things are just a
43:44
Speaker 1: little bit more pointedly important, like the scene with ag
43:48
Speaker 1: walking in and not startling ash even though he had
43:52
Speaker 1: just told you along that he doesn't like to be
43:54
Speaker 1: approached from behind. It just read a little bit clearer
43:57
Speaker 1: in the anime than it does in the manga, even
43:58
Speaker 1: though it's still in there. So it's one of the
44:01
Speaker 1: few times I think in this anime that I actually
44:04
Speaker 1: think the anime just captured some things a little bit better.
44:07
Speaker 1: Same thing with like the sun set, and that whole
44:10
Speaker 1: scene just works really well in the anime, So good
44:14
Speaker 1: job direction and staff in the anime for this one.
44:18
Speaker 1: But yeah, I didn't remember loving this episode like I
44:22
Speaker 1: loved it this time, so I am super excited about
44:25
Speaker 1: the next episode in the episode after that, which you
44:26
Speaker 1: do really love. So I hope that I'm not scaring
44:30
Speaker 1: you by being so weirdly passionate about this all of
44:32
Speaker 1: a sudden. I don't really know what's going on, so
44:34
Speaker 1: feel free to just never listen again. If this is
44:37
Speaker 1: too much, I am sorry. I am a terrible person. Anyway,
44:42
Speaker 1: I think that's just gonna be enough. I just like
44:45
Speaker 1: seeing the little interactions between Ash and Ag so far
44:49
Speaker 1: where it's very clear that they both seem to really
44:53
Speaker 1: care about each other. None of these are big, grand gestures,
44:57
Speaker 1: but they're just little things that made me confident that
45:01
Speaker 1: they like being around each other, especially which we didn't
45:05
Speaker 1: talk about. You know, Ash, you know, being pretty upset
45:08
Speaker 1: that he had to tell Ag to go home. So yeah,
45:14
Speaker 1: it's cute. I like it. Okay, I'm gonna go away now.
45:19
Speaker 1: By the time I make the next podcast, I will
45:21
Speaker 1: have a tattoo. By the time you listen to this,
45:23
Speaker 1: I will likely have a tattoo unless I died or
45:27
Speaker 1: I didn't make it to the appointment because I got
45:29
Speaker 1: into a car accident. I don't know scary things. I
45:31
Speaker 1: have generalized anxiety disorder. What do you want? I'm gonna
45:34
Speaker 1: go and I hope you have a really good whatever,
45:38
Speaker 1: and I will see you next time, maybe later. Webs