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Banana Fish Ep. 13- The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess back again, like
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  Speaker 1: you never really wanted, but it's too late now because
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: it's happening. I guess yeah. I don't know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously we are going to talk about banana fish
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: because that's what we're doing all the time now. And
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: that's good, right. It's not totally upsetting and horrible for you,
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  Speaker 1: and for some reason you're sticking it out because you
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: think it's gonna get better. It's not gonna get better
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  Speaker 1: if you don't like it by now. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're gonna be like, wow, this
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  Speaker 1: is great. No, this is what it is. So I'm
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: not trying to deter you from watching it. I obviously
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  Speaker 1: like it, as you have noticed. I'm sure so quick update.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: I have now seen three episodes of Donda Done and
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  Speaker 1: it is great still. It is so so good. And
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: I've all so heard about the fourth episode of Uzumaki
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  Speaker 1: and apparently that was really bad. But you know, what
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna do? This was never gonna work out.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: And of course it's important that I mentioned again that
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: we are in the third season of Ree zero two,
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  Speaker 1: in case you forgot that that is happening. It's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been pretty good so far. So yeah, but who
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  Speaker 1: the fuck cares about all that shit. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: banana Fish episode thirteen. So Episode thirteen is called The
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  Speaker 1: Snows of Kilimanjaro. Now, that title is from a short
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  Speaker 1: story by Ernest Hemingway, and I don't have to say
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  Speaker 1: anything else about it because we're gonna talk about it
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  Speaker 1: in the episode. It's one of the few times the
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  Speaker 1: title is absolutely relevant as it was meant by the
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  Speaker 1: original author. So yeah, okay that And if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: I think last week I talked a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: how in the manga we got some glimpses of Ash
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  Speaker 1: being into like reading and stuff like that in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: even though we didn't get that in the anime, and
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  Speaker 1: I specifically said that he was into Ernest Hemingway. Well,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe this relates directly to him. So let's let's
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  Speaker 1: find out. I guess. So, if you remember last time,
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  Speaker 1: we ended the episode with Ash walking into the streets
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  Speaker 1: after getting a phone call that I assume means he
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  Speaker 1: has to go fight Arthur. Now, so we start this episode,
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  Speaker 1: I guess a little bit before that in the apartment
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  Speaker 1: Hallway with Ash Bones and Kanan and KNG says, what
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  Speaker 1: did Kin say? Three am tonight? East Broadway station? The
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  Speaker 1: F line is under construction, so what doll we shut down?
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  Speaker 1: It's like a blind spot in the city. Arthur won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to sneak his guys in as long as
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  Speaker 1: they guard the entrances. I assume he means black Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: And also, before we go any further, there is an
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  Speaker 1: East Broadway station. It's in the Lower East Side, and
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  Speaker 1: the F line is the only train that runs through there.
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  Speaker 1: So if the F Line was being worked on, the
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  Speaker 1: station would technically be closed. So this is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds about accurate. In the original, it was just
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  Speaker 1: that it was late enough that the subway was closed.
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  Speaker 1: But that makes like zero sense because the subway runs
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  Speaker 1: all night long in New York. So I'm glad they
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  Speaker 1: fixed this. This is one of the few times that
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this was a good update. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Continuing right along, Bone says, but you still never know
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  Speaker 1: what dirty tricks he might play, and Con is like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the mafia on his side. Ash says, I
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  Speaker 1: know Alex knows what to do if something happens you
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  Speaker 1: two take Agy to the airport. They look really surprised
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  Speaker 1: by this, and Ash says, don't tell him anything now
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  Speaker 1: they just look worried. Bones, who looks really sad, says,
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  Speaker 1: but you said he was one of us. Now, Kanan
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  Speaker 1: sighs and he's like, he reminds me of Skip. I've
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  Speaker 1: become attached to him. Aw kN is so so swet.
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  Speaker 1: We Bones is like, if we drag him to the
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  Speaker 1: airport without telling him anything, he'll think he's been betrayed
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  Speaker 1: and it'll hate you for it. Ash absolutely knows this,
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  Speaker 1: and he looks pretty upset. He says, that's how it
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  Speaker 1: should be. I'm counting on you. Fuck. We flash quickly
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  Speaker 1: to Agy's sleeping and then to Ash walking down the street,
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  Speaker 1: so we're back where we left off at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the last episode. We see Arthur now sitting in
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  Speaker 1: I guess his apartments. It's just like a room, basically
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  Speaker 1: on his bed. He is thinking of a knife fight
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  Speaker 1: I guess that he had with Ash in a parking garage,
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  Speaker 1: which we see and they're like exchanging like slashes and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and Ash trips Arthur and then he holds out his
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  Speaker 1: knife towards him and he says, want more. Arthur drops
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  Speaker 1: his knife and he falls to his knees and ashe says,
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  Speaker 1: this is my territory now. As agreed, he starts to
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  Speaker 1: walk away, and then he's like, leave or submit to me.
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  Speaker 1: You have til tomorrow to decide. Arthur looks pissed, but
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  Speaker 1: he like doesn't move and Ash continues to walk away.
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  Speaker 1: And Wookie, who is dead remember but wasn't in the past,
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  Speaker 1: he runs over to Arthur and he's like, Arthur, are
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  Speaker 1: you okay. Arthur like grits his teeth and he looks
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  Speaker 1: over at the gun that's in Wookie's pants, and he
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  Speaker 1: grabs it and he pushes him away and he's like
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  Speaker 1: die and he shoots at Ash. Ash turns back and
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  Speaker 1: manages to dodge because he's Ash, and he like runs
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  Speaker 1: at Arthur and kicks the gun out of his hand
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  Speaker 1: and grabs him by the arm and flips him onto
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  Speaker 1: the ground and he is still holding his arm and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, you coward, and he slashes at his hand
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  Speaker 1: with his knife. We go back to now and Arthur
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  Speaker 1: is staring at his scarred up hand and his hand
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  Speaker 1: like twitches a bit and then he exhales. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's ready to end this, and then we know the
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  Speaker 1: opening for the last time before it switches damn it,
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: so we can stop there just for a second to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happened to Arthur's hand. Ash slashed it after
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  Speaker 1: he tried to kill Ash behind his back when the
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  Speaker 1: dual thing was already over. He's a piece of shit.
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  Speaker 1: He deserved to have his hand slashed. Back from the opening,
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  Speaker 1: we're now outside East Broadway station and Cain is there
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  Speaker 1: with like two of his guys, and we hear Arthur
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  Speaker 1: say hey, Kane. They look over and Arthur is walking
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  Speaker 1: towards them and he's like, what a great night, perfect
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  Speaker 1: for Halloween. Yay. And if you're listening on the correct day,
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: the day that this released, it is also Halloween. Happy Halloween, guys,
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: and yay. I'm so happy that I could make this workout. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it is a really nice, great Halloween night. The moon
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  Speaker 1: is full and like the sky is clear. It's exactly
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  Speaker 1: how I'd want Halloween night to be. Maybe it's like
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  Speaker 1: that today. I have no idea because I'm recording this
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  Speaker 1: like ten days before Halloween, so whatever. Also, besides it
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  Speaker 1: being just a beautiful night, there's a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: graffiti on the wall by the station and a fuck
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  Speaker 1: So it looks really good unless you really look at it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like in the very graffitiest graffiti style, like lots
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  Speaker 1: of bubble letters and like scrawling letters and you can't
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  Speaker 1: really read them. But if you look closer, you will
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  Speaker 1: realize that you absolutely can't read them because they don't
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  Speaker 1: say anything, and I'm not even sure they're using like letters,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what they are. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like if this wasn't done in twenty eighteen and this
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  Speaker 1: was done like two weeks ago, I would be like,
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  Speaker 1: did they just like use AI for this, because you
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  Speaker 1: know how AI does and understand how to like generate
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  Speaker 1: language in pictures. That's what it looks like to me.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of interesting because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: graffiti on everything in the manga too, But the graffiti
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  Speaker 1: in the manga looks like the way I would make
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  Speaker 1: graffiti if I was, you know, put in graffiti on things,
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  Speaker 1: which is just words because I'm not super skilled in
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  Speaker 1: using like spray paint, so I would just right like
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  Speaker 1: I am sad or something. So you lose the style
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  Speaker 1: part in the manga, but it's all real words in English,
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  Speaker 1: which is cool. And I give Akimi Yoshda like so
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  Speaker 1: much credit because I don't know if I said this
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  Speaker 1: when we were doing Windbreaker, because there's tons of graffiti
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  Speaker 1: in that, like school in Windbreaker in Bofuran or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all nice. But the thing that really bothered
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  Speaker 1: me about it is there were like no dicks. Like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know you, but I'm used to seeing lots
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  Speaker 1: of penises when people make graffiti. I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but that's just the thing. So every time I see
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of graffiti, like a really graffitied up place,
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  Speaker 1: and there's just no penises, I'm like what. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Akima Yoshta, in one of the one shots that follow
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  Speaker 1: up Banana Fish, there was like graffiti and there was
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  Speaker 1: this gigantic dick on the ball and I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, she understands. So I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I told you that, but let's just get back to
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  Speaker 1: it so I can stop making my soul feel embarrassed. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur continues, too bad, we won't be able to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it underground, and Kane's like, well, we got to stay
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  Speaker 1: out of side of the cops. I have men standing
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  Speaker 1: watch at the neighboring stations, one on one. No dirty tricks,
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  Speaker 1: got it. Arthur's like, yeah, yeah, I know. So where
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  Speaker 1: is he? He chickened out. Kane's like, you just worry
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  Speaker 1: about yourself, and then we see Ash. He's walking over
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  Speaker 1: right now, and he looks pretty pissed off. Arthur also
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  Speaker 1: looks pretty pissed off, and then we cut to them
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  Speaker 1: walking down the stairs into the subway station and Sing
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  Speaker 1: is there, and Kane's like, who are you? And Ash
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  Speaker 1: says the Chinese boss Sing Su Ling sings like you
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  Speaker 1: remembered me. I'm flattered. Kine says, how'd you know it
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  Speaker 1: was here? I had my men comb this place free
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  Speaker 1: of rats. Sings like, you underestimate our espionage, and he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of smirking. I don't get why it's so hard
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  Speaker 1: for you. It's really easy for us. Kin looks maybe
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  Speaker 1: kind of surprised, and Sing continues, I have the right
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  Speaker 1: to bear witness to this fight. They're not the only
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  Speaker 1: ones with business downtown, so I'm not gonna be kept
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  Speaker 1: out of this. Kine's like, I get it. He turns
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  Speaker 1: to Arthur and Ash and says, so how about it.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Ash is like, have it your way. Arthur's like, I say, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's none of their business. I don't want some outsiders
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  Speaker 1: snooping around. Sings like, oh, dear me, create boss, like
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  Speaker 1: you leading the biggest gang down town and you're scared
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  Speaker 1: of a little rat like me? Or is there a
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  Speaker 1: reason you don't want me here? Oh maybe there is.
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  Speaker 1: Kine's like, he's right, what are you so worked up about?
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  Speaker 1: Arthur's like, fine, it's not like I have anything to
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  Speaker 1: hide anyway, Kin says, then it's settled. Give me your guns.
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  Speaker 1: Ash hands over his gun and Arthur's like, ain't got
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  Speaker 1: one and he holds up his hands. Can't pull anything
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  Speaker 1: with a trigger, obviously, he means, because his hand has
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: been injured by Ash. So I guess this's worse than
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: I originally thought. But he has two hands, Guys like,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: you don't need two trigger fingers, you only need one.
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  Speaker 1: So like, maybe he should just learn to shoot left handed.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with your left hand. Fucking stop blaming
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  Speaker 1: everything on this one incident, Jesus. Anyway, they back away
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  Speaker 1: from each other and it kind of looks like they're
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: getting ready to do like a gunfight duel, Like, why
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  Speaker 1: are they backing away from each other? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Kine's like, only knives are allowed. Arthur throws off his
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  Speaker 1: jacket and he turns around to face them, and he
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  Speaker 1: looks like really really confident for some reason. Kaine's like,
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  Speaker 1: no dirty tricks. That goes for both of you. Ash
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  Speaker 1: also throws off his jacket and he takes out a knife,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a very big knife, and Kine continues,
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  Speaker 1: don't do anything funny, or you'll have to face us.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're in position, staring each other down. Arthur twirls
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  Speaker 1: his butterfly knife like a lot, like he's pretty impressed
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  Speaker 1: with himself, and he says, you're gonna be throwing up
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  Speaker 1: blood this time, okay, and Ash is like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: hear you. Arthur chuckles, and then he runs at him
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  Speaker 1: and he swipes Ash dodges, but he looks kind of concerned,
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  Speaker 1: and we realize that he's looking at Arthur's hand, which
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: had a knife in it but doesn't anymore. So he's
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: like trying to put this together, and then we see
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  Speaker 1: that Arthur has thrown I guess the knife to his
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  Speaker 1: other hand, and Sing is like left Arthur lunges at
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  Speaker 1: Ash again, and Kane just sing is like are you
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  Speaker 1: Ashes Fan and Sing like blushes and he's like no.
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  Speaker 1: Arthur lunges again, and Ash is evading, but he's clearly
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: on the defense, which is interesting. While this is happening,
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  Speaker 1: Ash kind of like stops and gasps and looks over
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: at the tracks. Arthur lunges again, and Ash is still
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  Speaker 1: evading and ashes like train. Kin and Sing look confused,
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  Speaker 1: but remember Ash is super hyper vigilant, so he probably rights.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Ash dodges Arthur's blade again and he's like, a train's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Kin is like, that's impossible. This line shut down till morning.
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  Speaker 1: Sing looks over at the tracks and we see lights
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  Speaker 1: way back in the tunnel coming forward and sings like
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  Speaker 1: he's right, it's coming. Arthur slashes at Ash again, and
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  Speaker 1: Ash stops him with his knife like he blocks the
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  Speaker 1: knife with the blade of his knife knife, which again
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: his knife is like not that cool, it's like pretty small.
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  Speaker 1: So their blades are like locked and Ash is like
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  Speaker 1: you bastard, and Arthur says, time for you to die.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Fuck okay, pretty sure Dino wanted him alive, but okay,
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  Speaker 1: Ash kicks him in the stomach and knocks him away,
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  Speaker 1: and at this point the train is arriving and Arthur
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  Speaker 1: just kind of runs off. Okay, fuck. The train begins
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  Speaker 1: to pull up to the station and there's people in
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  Speaker 1: it and they are fucking shooting. Ash is running to
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  Speaker 1: get out of range, and he dives behind one of
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  Speaker 1: the columns. By the way, this really does look like
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: East Broadway station pretty much, so good job. Arthur's like
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  Speaker 1: kill him. Kin is like, you've done it now, and
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: we see Cain's gang start to come down the steps
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: because obviously they heard the gunfire, and one of the
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  Speaker 1: guys is like boss and Kane is like stand back,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: but it's too late and they're shot. Cain flinches and
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: he's like, fuck you, Arthur, and Sing is like Cain.
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  Speaker 1: Cain looks over it. Sing who is behind a column
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  Speaker 1: like a little ways away. I guess he ran for
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  Speaker 1: Coverer in a different area, and he says, give me
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  Speaker 1: Ash his gun, and Kane's like, take it, boy, and
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: he slides the gun across the ground. Sing runs to
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  Speaker 1: catch up with it and he's like, don't call me boy,
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  Speaker 1: and he grabs the gun. The train has stopped now
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of guys get off. Ash is still
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  Speaker 1: behind that column, and Arthur's like, no need to be afraid,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: he's unarmed. At this point, they start to charge at
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  Speaker 1: him and Sing is like, Ash, take this, and he
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: tosses the gun. Ash catches it yay, and Arthur's like,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: oh shit, how did you think this was gonna go?
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: So Ash emerges from behind the column and he shoots
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  Speaker 1: these like three guys down, like and seconds, and Arthur's like,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: damn it, stay calm, he's alone. Ash shoots two more guys,
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  Speaker 1: and while this is happening, Kane approaches a dude with
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  Speaker 1: a gun from behind and like chokes him out, and
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  Speaker 1: Kane is like, too bad, you're wrong ah, And then
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  Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, singing whistles and so many
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  Speaker 1: members of the Chinese gang emerge from like hiding places
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  Speaker 1: I guess, like in trash cans and like on the tracks.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really understand that maybe they were on the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: other side of the tracks or something, and maybe in
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: the ceiling. I don't know what's going on, guys, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of them, thank god. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get shot in all of the gunfighting. So
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: that's good. Anyway, the Chinese gang starts taking out Arthur's guys,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and Arthur's like, shit, we're pulling out, and he runs
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to the train. Arthur's guys start backing up into the
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  Speaker 1: train while they're shooting. Ash shoots a couple more down
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  Speaker 1: while this is all happening, and he fucking dives into
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the train right as the doors close. Great. Inside the train,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it's got kind of like a green overtone to everything,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: which is really cool and very much in stark contrast
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  Speaker 1: to the blue color that we have in East Broadway Station.
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  Speaker 1: I really like this. I really like the lighting in
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  Speaker 1: the train a lot. The train starts to pull away,
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  Speaker 1: Sing looks on like just dumbfounded, and Kane is like,
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  Speaker 1: how the hell did he get that train? Yeah? I
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: don't know, man, so how about it? Sings like you
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: already know my answer. Kin kind of goes like hmmm,
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  Speaker 1: And then to his guys he says, we're going after Arthur.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: We're gonna give him what he deserves, and his gang
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: is like yeah. And then Sing to his guys is
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: like to Coney Island, and the Chinese gang is like,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: all right now, this is pretty cool. Ash apparently has
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: friends awesome. Anyway, we cut back to Ash, who is
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: on the green lit graffiti train, the graffiti that like
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything, and he moves into the next car,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: walking really cautiously, and some dude who's in the next car,
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  Speaker 1: like at the front of the car, looks up and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: sees that it's him. I think it's okay that he
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: didn't notice immediately the dude, because trains are loud. But anyway,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the guy tries to I don't know, but he's shot
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  Speaker 1: in the head before he can do anything, and the
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  Speaker 1: two other guys that he was with like take off
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: running like scared. We cut to Arthur, who is just
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: standing and like tapping on a pole. And I don't
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: know if I've said this, I haven't said this yet,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but Arthur is wearing like no sleeves, and so is Ash.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: But this is the first time that I've seen that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Arthur has a tattoo on his like shoulder, and it's
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: like red and black and like super dumb and tribal,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: so like, it's not cool, Arthur, You're not cool. Anyway,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: He's standing there and hears someone say Arthur, and those
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: two guys run up, and the first guy's like Ashes
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: on the train and Arthur's like, what did you say?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And the second guy, who is like paying from running
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: all that way, it's like, what do we do, boss?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Arthur says, get a grip. This is our chance. He's alone,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: right where is he? The first guy says, around the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: sixth car. Arthur smiles, but he also looks kind of worried,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and he says, good, we'll get him from both sides.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Then back to Ash, who is just kind of kneeling
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in one of the cars, up against the side wall,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: kind of preparing, maybe trying to stay out of eyeshot
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of these people. But it's kind of hard in a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: subway car to do that, so I wasn't really sure
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: how this was working. But he stands up and a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: guy from the next car sees him and he's like,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: there he is. Ash runs as they shoot, and then
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: we cut to Ag on the couch and he wakes
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: up and he says Ash. He goes to look around
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the apartment for him, and he like checks the bathroom
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and he's like, Ash, where are you? Which I don't
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: think he's in that dark bathroom age, so I'm not
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: sure what you're doing. We get a shot of the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: clock in the apartment, and it's an analog clock, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it looks like it's around three fifty seven am, So
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: it's been about almost an hour since this all started,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I guess, or at least since they were supposed to meet.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And AG's like, what could he be doing at this hour?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: He opens the door with his jacket on, so he's
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: obviously going out to find him, and Bones and Kong
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: are standing in the hallway and Kng is like, where
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: are you going? Ag says, Ash is gone? Do you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: know where he is? They don't say anything, and AG's like,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you're hiding something. Bones is like, it's good that you're
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: already awake. Pack up. We're taking you to the airport.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: AG looks surprised and sad, and he says airport. Did
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Ash tell you to Bone sighs, and he's like this
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is hard on us too, okay, huhuh, But the boss
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: can't do his job when you're around. Ag gasps fuck,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and Bones continues, we need you to understand. Oh my god.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: AG's like, what time is it? And Bones seems confused,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and Ag continues the flight. Bone says eight ten. I think.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Ag turns away kind of like back towards the apartment,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and he says, can I have some time alone? I
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: won't run away or anything. He looks so hurt. Bones
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and Kang also look pretty hurt to see him like that,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and Bones is like, yeah, sure of course. We cut
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: back to Ash, who is kind of hiding in a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: train car, and this whole section is just Ag thinking
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and us basically seeing what's happening with Ash. So I'm
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: going to try to read it that way. I don't
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: know if it's gonna work. There are a couple of
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: shots of Ag just like staring out the window to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: but assume most of it's just Ash with AG thinking
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: on top of it. It's actually pretty cool, and we've
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: got some like really sad music during this. It's like
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: kind of a quiet orchestra epiece called Oslon, and it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: just sad. It's so weird juxtaposed with him like fighting.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: But this series does that a lot, and I haven't
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: pointed it out every time, but there's a lot of
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like really sad music when like there's action scenes, like
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: sad slow music, not all the time, but enough that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it like hurts, man, it hurts. So let's see if
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I can do this EG closes the door and he thinks,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: we live in different worlds. We cut to Ash, who
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: is like hiding in one of the train cars. AG thinks,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that's what you always say. Ash looks behind him and
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he raises his gun as the door to the train
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: car behind him opens. AG thinks, but is that really so?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Guys from the car in front and behind Ash's train
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: car start to rush towards him. AG continues, why must
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: we part because we live in different worlds. Ash dives
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to the ground and he aims his gun and shoots
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: out the lights. AG thinks, do you really believe that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it's dark in the train car now? AG continues, If
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: you've decided that it's for the best, then I'll go
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: with your decision. No, I'll go back to Japan. Ash
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: shoots a guy in the head, still able to kind
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of deal with things in the dark, unlike the rest
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of the gang people who are coming after him, because
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, he's like a cat or something. AG
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: continues and never again. Ash shoots another two guys. Will
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I come back? Oh? Ag exits the apartments a guy
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: He runs screaming to the next train car, and there's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: two other guys there, and one of the guys is like,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: what happened and the guy who ran in is like,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: he shot out the lights. He's shooting out the lights.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Before anybody else can say anything, one of the guys
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: gets shot in the head and the other two run
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: for it, and at this point they run to the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: car that Arthur is in, which I guess is way
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: at the front, and Arthur's like, what is it. The
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: guy who was there when he shut out the lights
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is like freaking out and he's like, it's no use, boss,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: he got them all. Arthur looks freaked out now too,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and the guy says he's the devil. I think this
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: is the fourth time in the last maybe four episodes
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that someone has called Ash the devil. I think it's
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: actually more in the manga by now, But that's just awesome. Yeah,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Arthur collects himself and he grabs the dude by the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: hoodie and he pulls him in close and he's like,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: shut it with the brainless talk. He's just a human.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: He tosses the dude aside and he's like, he's just
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: another punk. Don't glorify him. He like hits one of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the other guys down because he's so pissed off. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: guess that's mean, and he is like panting at this point,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and he finally manages to calm down, and he says,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the sun's about to come up. The train will be
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: going above ground soon. This is an elevated line, so
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's I guess it starts underground and then by the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: time it gets to its destination it is above ground.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: He continues. When it does, you'll breathe your last breath. Ash. Fuck.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: We go back to Age, who we see opening the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: apartment door to Bones and Kong, who are still standing
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: in the hallway, and he walks out. He looks fucking destroyed,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and Kong says, where's your stuff? And AG's like, I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: don't have anything. So I didn't catch this until just
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: now when I rewatched it, but oh my god, it's mirroring.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Remember when Ash was leaving jail and Max asked him, like,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: are you all packed? And he's like, I don't have anything.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I fucking love that. I'm so happy that this is
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in there. So anyway, Bone says, let's get going. Then
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: AG's like, can you tell Ash for me to take
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: care of himself? And that I'll be praying for him
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: wherever I am fuck. Bones and Kong look sad. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: now we see them at the elevators waiting for the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: elevator to come, and Bones and Kong are standing kind
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of in front of Ag facing elevators, and Ags standing
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: behind them. Obviously. At this point, Kong looks over at Bones,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: but Bones is like doing his best not to look
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: at him, and he's like, I can't take it anymore.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I can't keep a secret. Bones tries to strush him,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: but AG's right there and AG's like, what are you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: talking about? They flinch because they're stupid, and AG's like,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I know you're hiding something. Tell me. I'm begging you
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to tell me the truth. Did something happen to Ash?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Bones sighs and turns back to Ag, and he's like,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Boss is fighting Arthur right now at East Broadway station
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to settle things once and for all. AG looks shocked.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We go back to Ash, who is sitting in the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: darkened subway car. I guess when he shut out the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: lights he was just really trying to protect himself for
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a while, because he's probably exhausted and he thinks the
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: sun will rise soon. I might die this time. He
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: closes his eyes. We go to kind of a flashback,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: but not something we've seen before from the last episode.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Remember when Ag found Ash at the library and then
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: they like went to like a peer or a place
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: by what looked like the Hudson River. They were like
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: standing at the edge of it, overlooking the New York skyline.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: So I was thinking, maybe they're on the Jersey side
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that kind of place. So we're back there and Ash says, hey, Ag,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: have you ever thought about death? What AG's like death? Ash,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: who is just looking out over the water, says, he said,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I wasn't like normal people. One thing I'll admit to
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not being normal about is that I don't fear death.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: He leans over the rail slightly. Humans can be funny.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: They don't understand death, but they instinctively fear it. There
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: were so many times where I thought that death would
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: be better, Dying would seem so sweet and tempting. Then
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: fuck AG is like Ash. Ash continues, There's a mountain
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: in Kilimanjaro nineteen seven hundred and ten feet high, deep
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: in the snow. The mass I call the western summit
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the House of God. We see a mountain now, Ash
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: continues near its peak, lies that the shriveled and frozen
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: carcass of a leopard. What was the leopard doing so
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: high up there? We see a dead leopard. Nobody's been
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: able to explain it. That's from the novel The Snows
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of Kilimanjaro. When I think of my death, I picture
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: that leopard. Why had he climbed so high up the mountain?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Did he just get lost while he was hunting prey
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: until he reached the point of no return? Or had
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: he climbed higher and higher as if possessed by something
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and then collapsed while he was trying. What's his carcass like?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Was he trying to go back or was he trying
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to keep going higher? Either way, you must have known
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be able to make it back. Oh my god.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Ag is just staring at him, just completely hurt by
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: all of this, and ashe says, don't look at me
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: like that. I've never been afraid of death, but I've
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: also never wished for it. Ag says, good, I'm glad
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to hear that humans can change their destiny. They have
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: wisdom that leopards don't. And besides, you're not a leopard, right.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Ash looks away and he's like, yeah, you're right. Okay,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: well that was a lot anyway. We cut back to
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Ash as he opens his eyes, and then we go
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to Ag and Bones and Kong as the elevator door
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: is finally open. Bones is like, well, go on now,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and they kind of like move out of the way
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: for Ag so that he can get on first, which
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I guess I understand because they don't want to get
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: on and then have him just run away or something.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Ag walks into the elevator and then he turns back
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and he knocks Bones and Kong to the ground and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the door's closed before they can get in or do anything.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Kung stands up and he bangs on the door and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: he's like, hey, Bone says, cut the shit already. Kong
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: turns back confused, and Bones is like, at least we
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: can tell the boss. We try, we'll just get a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: few knocks in the head, is all. Ag, who is
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: now alone in the elevator, thinks I've heard it so
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: many times, your cries as you slept. We see their
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: bedroom at night, and Ash is asleep just like he
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: just looks terrible, and Ag continues, you cried for help,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You cried for your mother, Ash wakes up and he's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just covered in sweat, and he looks so scared. AG continues,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I pretended not to notice. Ash looks over at Ag,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: who is pretending to sleep. I guess, well, technically his
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: eyes were open, but his face the other way, so
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Ash doesn't know, and AG continues it pained me. Ash
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: gets up and he stands by the window. What are
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: these nightmares that torment you sew about? Is it about
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: killing Shorter or some other bitter childhood memory that I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: don't know about. We see some flashbacks to pre episodes.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: You're almost cold blooded leadership, your fearless willpower. We see
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: AG running down the street. Now is it all to
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: cover up a fragile soul? If so, how cruel it
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: all is? Ash? Don't die? You have to live. Yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I cried super hard when I was taking notes for
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: this in this section because I think Age's right so,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and I'm crying a little bit now, but not a ton.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: We cut to black, and then we see that it
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: is because we are in the tunnel and the train
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: finally emerges into the sunlights and it's light in Ash's car.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Guys from both the front and the back cars opened
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the doors into Ash's car, and they prepared a fire.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Ash shoots one of them in the head, and actually
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: he shoots most of them in the head, and this
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: one guy is like die and he manages to get
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: a bullet in and it grazes Ash's shoulder, so his
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: right shoulder is bleeding now, but Ash does take him out.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The last guy who is left is shaking so much
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: that he drops his gun. He bends down to pick
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it up, and then he looks up to Ash standing
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: over him. Ash looks at him coldly and then shoots.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: He turns back and he sees that Arthur is in
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the next car running for it, and we cut to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Arthur and Arthur's like, damn it. Ash holding his right
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: shoulder is now chasing him, and Arthur's like, damn it,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: damn it. Ash now in the same car as Arthur,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: says Frederick. Arthur stops and he says, that's the first
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: time you've ever called me by my first name. He
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: turns back and he leans against the door between the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: cars and I don't know if this is like the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: last car or the first car, but I don't think
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: he can go much further. And he says, I lose
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: kill me. Ash pauses, and then he puts his gun
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: down on one of the seats. Arthur looks surprised, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: he's like, don't you want to blow my brains out?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: You're mocking me because I can't shoot. Ash says, no,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I could easily shoot you if I wanted to. Arthur says,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: then do it. And Ash is like, stop running from
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: me and fight. Arthur gasps and kind of pauses, and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: he's like, bring it on. He stands up straight. It's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: clear to me now we finally won't have to be
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: haunted by each other anymore, right, boss. We cut to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a helicopter in the sky, obviously, and we hear some
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: guys say they're reaching Brooklyn. We see Charlie and Jenkins
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: at the station looking at some screens or whatever, and
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: we hear the guy in the helicopter say they're moving
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: along the F line. Charlie's like, the last stop of
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the F line is and he gasps Coney Island, and
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: then we see con the island and the train approaching it. Okay,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: it's important that I say this. The last stop of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the F line really is Coney Island so fucking cool,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and it really is an elevated stop, and it really
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: does look like this, So I was pretty fucking excited
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: about that when I figured it out, because yeah, I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: just went and researched all of this because I'm insane. Also,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: it takes about forty seven minutes from East Broadway to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: get to the last stop, according to Google Maps at least,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: so it's probably closing in at about five am now
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: maybe like let's just say five am. So there's a
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: little bit of a problem here, and that is that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: it is October now, and I am just two hours
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: from New York, and I know that it is not
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: light at five am. In fact, it's not really light
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: until seven am right now. But I'm just gonna give
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: them this because according to my really really not very
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: thorough web search that I just did two minutes ago,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Japan does an even have daylight savings time, so I
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: could forgive this anyway. Continuing right along, the train stops
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and the doors open, so they're on the elevated tracks
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: still with the train stopped, Arthur says, aren't she gonna
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: ask me why I hate you so much? We see
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: them like walking out of the train and onto the tracks.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: They could have fought in the train, by the way,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: but I guess they want to do it outside. We
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: hear Arthur say, they say I'm a coward or that I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: become the mafiast dog. But I did all of that
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to wipe you out of my sight. Geez, do you
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: know why? And Ash is like yeah, but it's not
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: my fault. Arthur's like, yeah, you never asks for it,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: but that makes me hate you even more. I hate
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you down to my bones. I'm gonna pause here and
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: just say that. So Arthur just hates Ash because Ash
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is Ash, I guess, because really it seems like all
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Arthur wants is power and to be in with the mafia,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and that's something that ashe got without even trying to
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: get it. He was just I guess from the outside,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: it just looks like he's always been in Dino's good graces,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and he didn't even work towards it, which
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: isn't really true. So I think that Arthur wishes that,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you know, Dino loved him the way that Dino loves Ash,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: except I don't think sexually, but I'm not sure. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: think he just wishes that Dino was like, Wow, he's
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: fucking awesome, but I'm not sure, guys, I'm really not sure.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: But anyway, it seems like just Arthur hates Ash because
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: he's jealous of his absolute terrible life. Again, it's like
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Arthur was using Ash's life against him when he was like, Hey,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make things happen to Ag that happened to you,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna upset you real bad because I know
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: that your life was terrible. But then at the same
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: time he's like, man, I wish I was you. It's like, no,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you don't. Like nothing that happens to Ash has been good.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: And I know that he is in a position where
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: he's got gangs that trust him and believe in him,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and the mafia was on his side and he was
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: in their good graces and Dino was like loved him,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: but like, I don't actually think you want that, But
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Arthur has this like delusion of grandeur that he can't
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: achieve because of Ash. I guess. So, yeah, I hope
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: that that meant something to you, because it didn't to me,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I guess even though I just said it. Anyway, Ag
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: is running still somewhere in Manhattan, and a car pulls
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: up to him and stops. Bones leans out of the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: passenger side and he says, hey, we got word. The
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Boss isn't at the station anymore. Jump in. We cut
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: to Ag in the backseat as Kong tribes and Ag says,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: can't you go any faster? Bone says like, yeah, you
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: want to die on the way there. Oh, they like
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to observe the speed limits. Kng says, damn it. It
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: seems like the cops are already in on it too.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: We see several cop cars speed past them, and Kong
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: is like, there's a whole mob of them. Bone says,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: if they get Boss, he'll never make it out alive. Elsewhere,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: we see the Chinese gang as they arrive at Coney
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Island by the tracks, and they're on motorcycles. I guess
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: actually they're a motorcycle gang. Just pretty cool, saying looks
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: up at the tracks and he says, there they are, obviously,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: and Ash and Arthur are on the tracks and they
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: are already fighting. They both look kinda tired already, so
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: who knows how long this has been. Arthur kind of
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: circles Ash on the track and he's like, what's wrong.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: You're out of breath. Don't forget that Ash is injured
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and it's his right arm, so I actually think he's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: doing most of the fighting with his lefts and now,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: which I don't think is his dominant arm, so this
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: can't be going as well as he'd hoped anyway. Arthur says,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: let me put you down, and he runs at him.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Ash dodges and they kind of like knife spar for
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: a bit until Ash finally cuts Arthur's cheek. Arthur wipes
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the blood off of his face, and at this point
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath pulls up. Kine gets out of the car
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: and then to Sing says where are they? They're right
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: above you, guys. Sing is like up there, Ash's shoulders cut.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Kine's like, that's gonna weigh him down if this drags
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: out exactly. Ash looks really tired and he's breathing really hard,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and Arthur is looking pretty good right now, despite just
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: getting a cut on his cheek. He tosses his butterfly
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: knife back and forth, again, trying to look cool like
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: he did a little bit earlier. He is not cool.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Arthur is not cool. Ash is kind of trying to
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: collect himself, just watching Arthur play with his knife, and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: then Arthur finally runs at him. Ash steps backwards, but
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: remember they're on tracks, and his foot like catches the
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: air between the tracks and he stumbles backwards. This allows
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Arthur to grab him by the wrist and he raises
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: his knife as Ash falls back and he's like die.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Ash grabs Arthur by the wrist that has the knife
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: in it to prevent the knife from actually reaching him,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: so they both have each other by different wrists basically,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and he slams back into the track, so Arthur's basically
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: on top of him, trying to bring the knife down
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: on him as he struggles to keep it away. Eventually,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Ash manages to kick Arthur off, thank god. This is
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: when Ag and Bones and Kong pull up. So at
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: this point there's a pretty big crowd watching from the ground,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and Ag gets out of the car and he's like
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: pushing through them and he's like move, like, please let
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: me through. He finally gets to a spot where he's
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: close to the front and he just yells Ash, oh
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: my god. Agy. Ash of course hears him and immediately
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: knows it's Age and gasps, and this just totally throws
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: him off, so he isn't able to dodge Arthur's next attack,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and Arthur slashes him in his left side. AG of course,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: witnesses all of this, and he just looks horrified. This
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: is kind of your fault, AG, But I understand. At
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: this point, drops of Ash's blood land on the tracks
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and we see Ash clutching his left side kind of
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I guess where your kind of kidney area would be.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I don't really know. Arthur licks the blood from his
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: knife and prepares to attack again. Like, Arthur grows gross.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: You don't know what kind of diseases Ash has. I
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: don't want to lick anyone's blood. Why would you do that,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: especially when this originally took place in like the eighties, Like,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: we don't lick people's blood. It's dangerous. Anyway, he's insane.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Ash tries to move forward and he just kind of
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: winces in pain and half stumbles instead, and at this
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: point Arthur rushes him Somehow Ash gets up enough strength
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and he runs at him as well, and for a
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: brief moment, we have slow motion as they're coming towards
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: each other and Agy's like stop. Ash dodges Arthur at
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the last second, and he fucking stabs him in the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: stomach and then he stabs him again in the throats,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and he kind of like lets out a you know,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: guttural scream. He then rips the knife out of Arthur's throats,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: slashing it and blood sprays into the air. The crowd
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: cheers except for Age. Of course. Arthur stumbles back, I guess,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: trying to breathe through his slash throats, and then through
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Arthur's point of view, we see him reach towards Ash,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: his vision going in and out of focus, and then
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: he falls backwards over the rail. He looks terrified. There's
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: a moment of slow motion as he is descending, and
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: then he hits the ground below with a thud. Everyone
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: cheers as Arthur lays on the ground in a pool
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: of his own blood. Yeah. Ash exhales and raises his
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: knife in the air. He does not look happy. The
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: crowd just begins to chant his name over and over again.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Ash stares directly at Ag now just incredibly sternly. Ag,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: to his credit, is just frozen in shock at this point,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and Ash yells to him go back to Japan. Ag gasps.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Ash says, I he looks really frightened for a second,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and then just terribly sad I don't want you seeing
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: me like this. What. Ah draws a sharp breath, and
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: at this point a helicopter starts to descend over the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: tracks and it's like hovering and Ash is trying to
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: protect himself from all of the winds, and the ending
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: theme starts up, which honestly sucks because that means we're
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: not gonna get the ending animation, and again, this is
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the last time we would see this ending, so I'm
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: pretty sad. Within seconds, the cops arrive and they aim
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: at the crowd. One of the cops is like, everyone, freeze,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: resist and well open fire. Wow, that's really honest, guys.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Cops are now on the tracks with Ash too, and
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Ash is just like not able to stand up straight anymore.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: He's just in so much pain. Another cop says, freeze,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: put down your weapon. At this point, Charlie runs up
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: like he's on the tracks and he's like, don't resist, Ash,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: you're surrounded. Ash he's just kind of swaying now, not
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: able to find his balance, and he just says shut up,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: as if I could resist anyways, and he collapses. Ag
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: is so scared. The police rush over and they lift
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: up now unconscious Ash on the ground. Cops grabs Sing
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: and Caine and sings like, let go, I didn't do anything.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: The cops like, shut up, you're under arrest. Sing looks
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: over and he sees someone being put in the ambulance.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: They look like they have a blanket over them, so
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: maybe it's dead. Arthur, I'm not really sure, and he thinks, unbelievable.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I'm nothing compared to him. That's okay, Sing, you don't
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: want to be him Ash that is, or really Arthur.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Ag at this point is pushing through a crowd of onlookers,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: like not gang members, like people who have come to
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: see what the fuck is going on, and he's trying
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: to be nice. He's like, please let me move, let
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: me through. Once he gets through them, he starts to
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: towards the ambulance that I guess has Ash in it,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and he's like Ash. Before he can get close enough,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: two police officers grab him by the arms and he's like,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: let me go, take me with him. I'm his friend.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're so sweet. The dude like standing
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: behind the ambulance like taps the ambulance like we're all done,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: and the ambulance drives away and Ag is just left
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: there being detained by cops, just totally distraught. We then
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: cut away from Ag and we hear one of the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: cops say, line up, don't put up a fight. Bone
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: and Kan are like hiding behind a building, I think,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: but watching Ag get arrested and Bones is like that
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: idiot for real. Ag is now, I guess, in a
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: line of people who are gonna be taken to jail
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and he is just staring blankly and thinking
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: of the fight, and he thinks, no, this can't happen.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: He closes his eyes tightly and he thinks of Ash
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: being lifted off the tracks. Ash. Then we go to
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the title card, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and that's the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: end of the episode and the end of the first core. Yay,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: we did it. So closing thoughts, Arthur's dead. That's pretty good. Honestly,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: he's a piece of shit, So I'm glad he can't
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: come back. I'm kind of not happy that Ash had
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: to do it, or that he got incredibly injured, or
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: that it was kind of Age's fault a little bit
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: for calling out to him. I mean, that was dumb,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: but I understand where Age's mind and heart were you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: like he wanted to stop Ash from doing something else
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: that he'd regret. He wanted to stop him from being
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: killed or hurt. So like, I can't really fault him
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: for it, but it was dumb. And Ash, you know,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: is taken away hopefully okay, and probably thinking that Age's
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: never gonna want to see him again because of this.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, he very clearly told Ag that he didn't
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: want him to see him this way, and because he
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: knew what would happen, right, Like sometimes when you you
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: care about someone, I don't know, Ash is just so
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: guarded that letting this person that for some reason like
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: believes that he's like worthy of being loved, letting him
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: see like all of the really horrible stuff that he
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: is putting himself through and he is doing, like it's
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: gotta be really scary. Like he just he didn't he
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: didn't want him to see that, you know. So yeah,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm sure he just I mean, he's passed out,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure he must be scared that Age he
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: never you know, wants to see him again. And I
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: mean I know he was sending him back to Japan
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: hoping that they'd probably never see each other again, but
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: it's not because he wanted that, you know. And even
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: though in the previous episodes he had said, like, you know,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: he'll hate me by then by the time that he
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: goes back, he didn't, so he didn't want this to
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: be the reason. You know. I'm not even sure this
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: makes sense because I'm crying now, but yeah, this was rough.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't expect this episode to hit me this hard
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: watching it again, I don't think it did the first time,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I I am hurt. And the whole thing
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: with Ash talking about his death, talking about how like
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: like he wasn't scared, which I'm not even sure that's
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: totally true, but about how there were a lot of
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: times when he thought that it would be better, be
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: comforting to just die, Like it's really hard, you know.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: And there's something about the way that this character's written
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: that I really believe all of this, and it really
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: like hurts. I've seen kind of tragic characters done so
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: many times where I just like didn't care or I
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: mean that's mean, but sorry about my snipping, and I
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: just didn't really empathize in a way that like the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: tragedy like hurt me. I haven't told you this because
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I why would I? But I think I have synesthesia
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: for pain or pain empathy, and I think I mean
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I do so when people like are like hurts, I hurts,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: and I don't mean like mirror, I just mean like
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: my nerves will be like cool. Now I have pain too,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: in a different spot. And if an anime is good enough,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: it works for fictional people as well. So this episode,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: when I was watching this back, I was like, in
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: fucking physical pain because this character's written well enough that
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: my body is reacting to their pain, which is totally
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: weird and makes me uncomfortable telling you, so let me
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: just stop. So the episode about knife fights ends the
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: way the saying about knife fights goes huh, which is,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: in case you don't know, it's the loser dies in
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: the strait, the winner dies in the ambulance. They're not
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: a good time. They're not a good time at all. Yeah.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I don't have much else to say. I did want
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: to say, as I've been trying to for several episodes,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: how we feeling about our main character, assuming that he's
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: still alive. Are you cool with this? Because we haven't
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: really done a show with a main character that was this.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say morally gray, but that's not actually true.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think Ash is morally gray. I think he's
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: got very solid morals, but he just can't keep to
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: them and it's very upsetting for him. This is definitely
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: the first character we've had that's an all out murderer,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: like fucking for real, and the first one that we've
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: had that is a former prostitute. It's new on all sides,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: and the first time we've had a character that is
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: definitely not straight. So, like, how you feeling about this?
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Are you happy with it? Are you crying like I am?
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Are you just like? Fuck this guy? I am really interested?
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: And if you want to tell me, you could. You
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: could tell me, like you could email me and you
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: could tell me about it, or you don't have to.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: You can say that you like wanta come on a
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: little field trip to Manhattan that I stole them. Try
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: to plan where. Maybe we'll go to a couple of places,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: not just the Grand Central Oyster Bar and girl. Maybe
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: we could take the f train, oh god, to Coney
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Island and go to the library, but not in that order,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: because that doesn't make any sense. Like, I don't know,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: write to me and tell me things or don't or
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: please don't. I don't know. But anyway, obviously I really
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: like Ash's character because I'm like kind of wuzz and
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: am pretty like jazzed to have a character that is
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: this different than what I've been seeing recently or in general.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I don't normally see this type of character as a
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: main character in any sense of what he is, right,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Characters like Ash are usually more marginalized.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: They're usually secondary. They're usually being used to prove a
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: point for the main character, to inspire growth, to move
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: the plots. I don't normally see them as the subject
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: of the story or of what this essentially is, as
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: a character study of him. So like, I fucking love this.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you Akemi Yoshida for making such an interesting and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: dynamic and difficult character. Yeah, so anyway, I'm not really
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: sure what I just said there, but I hope that
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it was interesting and not scary, because now you're afraid
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: of me for, you know, gushing about Ash. So I
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: am just gonna go and hopefully I will see you
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: next week. I hope that you had or have a
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: very good Halloween and that there are no knife fights involved,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: because I don't want you dead or in the hospital.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: That would be bad because then you couldn't listen anymore,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: and also you'd be dead and that would be really sad.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: And I don't want you to die because you're probably
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: a nice person, and even if you're not, I still
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: don't want you to die. So yeah, anyway, I'm going.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I hope you have a really good whatever later webs