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She Looks… Not Okay | MAFIA II | Part 3 · Replay Reviews

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Back with another morning recording. It's 1220.
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On a Sunday, so that's early. I am drinking coffee
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right now, to be fair. Thank you for coming back
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from our replay reviews. My name is Leah. And
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fresh eyes, almost like I'm discovering them
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again for the first time. We hope it will be
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a similar experience for you. In this episode,
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somehow we're in a sewer again, but this time
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it's for the plot. Is she a robot? And Playboy
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Steve really needs to keep some things to himself.
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Vito is released from prison early and picks
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up right where he left off. Though his first
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day of freedom does not go as planned. So chapter
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7. In loving memory of Francesco Potenza. Do
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we even meet that person? I don't know if we
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do. Is that the dead body? Maybe. Frankie, I
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guess? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Anyway,
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Empire Bay, April 10th, 1951. Galante did manage
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to reduce Vito's sentence by four years. As he's
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released, he says, it's a whole new world. No,
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it's just not winter anymore, Vito. It's that,
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but it's females dress less conservative. Because
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that camera immediately pans over to them. You
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were like, is she naked? The color was off. She
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was not, in fact, naked. Backless dress, people.
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Unsurprisingly. Vito heads to Joe's and he has
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an apartment secured for him and also gives him
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some money and a gun and says that he needs to
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introduce Vito to someone. We both reacted to
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the gun placement. And she's on the couch. Why
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is it so casually placed there? Tossed it on
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the couch when he came home last night. God forbid
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someone sit on it. I don't understand why the
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first thing he does coming out of jail is to
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see Joe. and not maybe his sister or pay his
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respects to his mom's grave. Like, he completely
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forgets about his sister and his mom at this
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point. And I'm done with him. I don't know if
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we ever get mention of his mother again, if I'm
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being honest. I don't recall. But I agree with
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you. They drive off to Vita's apartment, and
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we learn that Joe hasn't seen Henry in a few
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years, and that he is now working for the Falcone
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family. this is gonna get them killed by changing
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families i don't know what the loyalty stuff
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is gonna be like but i think this is gonna backfire
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yeah i mean i guess they were being lied to and
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extorted for the five grand but still risky all
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dressed up at joe's we meet eddie scarpa and
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they head out for a drink scarpa says don't let
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me drink too much i gotta take care of something
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later I hate that. If you don't want to drink
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too much, that's on you. Yeah. Stop making it
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other people's problem that you can't get your
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own things done in all your decks in a row. I
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don't know if you want to do your notes. My next
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one is just why the is he doing this during a
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conversation? That's my note. So the next part,
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we're in the club. We see a lot of stuff. And
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then we also see Eddie having a conversation.
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While multitasking. I don't know. He's being
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attended to. Yeah. By someone's mouth. And so...
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It's unnecessary. It kind of reminds me of Nishitani.
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It's way worse. But it makes that scene a little
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bit better. A lot better. Also, why does this
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lady look like a robot? Like, she looks not okay.
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And her neck is outstretched long like a turtle.
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And the face she's making is like... freaking
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drunk eddie is pretty much throwing really mean
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they're not slurs but i mean just really not
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nice words they should be naming them yeah i'll
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say it come dumpster and this entire scene made
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me so uncomfortable like why i don't know if
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it made it better or worse that the animation
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is so Eddie offers to let Vito in on the work
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for Falcone. He accepts. He's way too excited
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about it. And then as the night goes on, Joe
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and Eddie are just absolutely drunk. Poor Vito.
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I think this is maybe the only time that we can
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say poor Vito and actually mean it. Yeah, that
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is true. So they're leaving. Vito has to drive
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because he's the least drunk. And it takes the
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two of them forever to get into the car. And
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it irritates me so much. You're done with it.
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And then what's going to be even more irritating
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is that we learn the reason why Eddie said don't
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let me get too drunk is because there's a freaking
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dead body in the trunk. And I'm not saying that
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it's like a recent dead body. This is like there's
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flies around this body that's white. Blood has
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been drained from it. Yeah. You wonder what would
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have happened if they didn't smell the smell.
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Eddie just going, must be Frankie Potts. Why
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isn't he prioritizing taking care of the dead
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body before going to the club? He has a problem.
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Maybe two. Maybe two addictions at play here.
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So poor Vito has to drive to the grave that has
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already been dug and... Bury Frankie Potts in
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it. And then drive them home while they're singing
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to the radio. I will say it is nice to see Vito
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get irritated. Like he doesn't like the situation.
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Kind of like how in a previous game in Red Dead
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Redemption, I wanted John to be irritated. It's
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nice to see Vito be irritated. I agree. And the
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next day he's still irritated. So should we move
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on to... I don't know if it's the next day. Hold
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on. It is the next day. Okay. So let's move on
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to scene two then, which is chapter eight, The
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Wild Ones, Uptown, April 11th, 1951. Some guy
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who we'll learn is named Marty is tossing rocks
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at Vito's window, and he and Joe call him down
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once he's awake. Joe asks Vito to drive the truck
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in his possession to Riverside because it's going
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to make them some cash. Marty's gone, but we
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learn that he was a kid that lived down the street
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from Joe years ago. So it turns out the truck
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is full of cigarettes and they're selling them.
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And in the truck on the drive, we learn that
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Marty doesn't work for Eddie. He's not even 18.
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But he runs errands, etc. for Joe. Vito gives
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him a little bit of gruff about this, which I
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kind of appreciate that he's... I feel like he
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could... This could be a redeeming quality for
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Vito that he maybe kind of sees Marty as himself
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a little bit. Sort of being led into this too
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young. I didn't really think much about that.
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I just... Remember thinking how much you really
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were annoyed by Marty's voice? I can't even do
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it. Well, insert it. They park and you get these
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greasy looking men come out and they're like,
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ho, ho, ho, I'm the bigger macho dude right here.
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After a bit of escalation, it really escalates
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because Joe just shoots him. I mean, they did
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throw a Molotov cocktail or whatever that thing
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is. So yeah, they kind of did start it. But for
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Joe to go straight into murder? Point blank,
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pretty much. Right in the face, chest, I'm not
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sure. He did not like being called Porky. And
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why are they just like... Circling around in
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those cars looking stupid. Yeah. Looking out
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the window. They chase after them, but lose them.
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I lose them. And so then they call Eddie, who's
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pissed. He paid $2 ,000 for the truck and wants
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his money back. However, he also happens to be
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meeting Steve, or meeting with Steve, the guy
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from the dock, about how to handle the same gang.
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And they say they're going to attack them, but
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no shooting. Too late for that. And then Joe
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says, what's Steve doing working for Eddie? He
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works for Derek, and Derek's with Vinci's crew.
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Vito responds, how the hell should I know? Which,
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fair enough, but Joe's asking a valid question
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here. It seems like there's a lot of cross -pollination
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going on. Well, the fact that Joe's smart enough
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to ask a question is a bit surprising for me,
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but it's kind of a hypocrite because Joe was
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one to switch loyalties, so okay. Steve wants
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to switch, but this is also, like, foreshadowing
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probably an all -out war between all the families.
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I guess Joe fully flipped. You know, it seems
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like Steve's maybe just involved with both. But
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I don't know. Is that allowed? I don't know.
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At the meetup, Joe is surprised to see that Marty
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will be participating. They shoot up the gang's
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bar, even though Eddie said no guns, so immediately
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we break that rule. Next, they go to the foundry
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to confront the gang, who have guns, so they
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have to shoot back. I don't think anyone's disappointed
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about the shootout, though. They kill pretty
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much all of them. Vito is worried about how Eddie
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will react, but Steve isn't. Vito and Joe steal
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some cars from the gang to earn the two grand
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that Eddie is owed. And of course, Joe is the
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one taking the lead, taking the cash. How is
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Vito okay with this? I get that Joe hasn't betrayed
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him quite yet. But seeing small instances of
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this, why is Joe the one taking the cash? I don't
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know. Because for a while now, it's been the
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two of them, so it's not like he's... I mean,
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he's fresh out of jail, but he's not new. You
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know. After paying him, though, Joe asks if he
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needs anything else from them. As he says he's
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got something he's gotta take care of. Uh, what
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might that be? Suspicious? I just feel like Joe
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is going to betray Vito. There's no way that
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that's not happening. Anything else on scene
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two or should we move on to chapter nine? Let's
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go to chapter nine. All right. Balls and Beans
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is the name of the chapter. Uptown May 6, 1951.
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Also, they really one -upped my out -of -context
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summary with this chapter title. Sofito is woken
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up by a phone call from Joe, who says they have
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a situation and to meet him at the bar with a
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gun and a decent car. So at the bar... Eddie
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introduces Vito to Carlo Falcone, who asks Vito
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how he feels about Clemente and Guarino. Obviously,
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he's not a fan after they tried to swindle him
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for the five grand, and Falcone says that they're
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planning to make a move on him, so they have
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to strike first. Falcone leaves, and Eddie fills
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Vito in. He says three of their guys, Beans,
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Balls, and Frankie, are missing. He says Guarino
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is suspected to be responsible, and that Beans
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is Carlo's accountant. If he talks, we're all
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fucked. Vito's job is to tail Guarino to see
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if he's involved and rescue any of their men
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if he comes across them in the process. So the
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whole thing about the accountant being captured
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is, again, maybe it's just a general theme in
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Mafia stuff, but in Mafia 1 we also have the
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accountant, that one for sure was betraying them,
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but this one is, I don't know if he would betray
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them or if it's just the other side of... accounting
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life where you get captured and you're tortured
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and you're forced to reveal your things. Watch
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out, Kathy. I know. You might be on a list. I
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know. Also, why do they all have the same glasses?
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It's a special accounting society where we all
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have to wear matching glasses. Pull them out.
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Let me see. So he tracks Garino to Clemente's
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slaughterhouse and... I thought we could maybe
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talk to that guy that falls. But no. He just
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stumbles off. Vito spots, or he sneaks his way
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into the slaughterhouse through the sewer. We're
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back to the poop tubes. He has some bad timing
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and he gets showered with poopy. That's so gross.
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Disgusting. Vito sneaks around the slaughterhouse
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and spots the missing men and sneakily makes
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his way over to them. However, the smell of the
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poop and pee atop him gives him away. They smell
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him before they see him. That's so disturbing.
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How bad do you think he smells for other people
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to be alerted? I've gone camping with vault toilets
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before, and those are pretty bad. But if you
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have to go to the bathroom, you're going to put
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up with it, you know? But I think for it to smell
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worse than a slaughterhouse is pretty telling.
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It probably burnt your eyes a little bit. So
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we're at the slaughterhouse. There's pigs and
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humans being dangling from those hooks thing.
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And then we meet Luca again. I didn't take any
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notes about the conversation, but I just remember
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Vito then getting... pretty much beaten up, and
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so I guess what he learned in jail wasn't enough
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for him. He has to fight this big guy, who looks
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like he's wearing the same outfit as one of their
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men, so I got confused. But we win the fight.
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Frankie's dead, but the other two, Balls and
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Beans, are still alive. Balls wants to torture
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Garino despite Vito saying that Eddie asked him
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to take care of him personally. And I feel like
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that could come back to bite him. I was just
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thinking about that, too, because he's pretty
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adamant. And then the moment the guy's like,
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but I want him to die a slow death. And then
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Vito's like, oh, okay. Had Vito not killed anyone
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before this, I would have been like, makes sense.
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He didn't want to get his hands dirty and he's
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still not comfortable with it yet. But I don't
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understand why Vito didn't stay to make sure
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that the job got done. Yeah, I'm surprised he
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didn't want to watch, honestly, because he hates
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this guy. So Vito fills Eddie in, who rightfully
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demands that he go change before returning to
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the bar. And once he is back in fresh clothes,
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Joe is there, and he tells him that they're going
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to be brought into the Falcone family. Galante's
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at the bar too, and Vito thanks him for getting
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him out of jail early. Galante tells him that
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he's making good on his second promise of recommending
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him. Two things. One, I could not recognize Galante.
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Normal clothing? I was like, who is that? He's
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not in his uniform. Yeah, exactly. And two, why
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does Vito look so excited to be in the mafia?
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I don't get it. I mean, I guess he'll kind of
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explain it at the end. So maybe we should just
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finish up this gameplay part. So as the night
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goes on, both Joe and Vito are accepted into
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the family. Then we hear Vito in voiceover saying,
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You might wonder why I'd take this risk again.
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I have to spend almost seven years in a can.
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You see, where I grew up, the only guys who mattered
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were the guys who had the balls to take what
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they wanted. I don't know why he paused and said
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balls like that. Okay, I... I don't know if I
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like that. I feel like it's a cheap cop -out
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to immediately put words in there just to kind
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of tie it. Maybe as a kid during that intro scene.
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They should have set that up as part of the storyline
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saying that he saw other kids getting beaten
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up and then the mafia people came out and protected
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them but also took from them. But that's who
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has that chain of command. And therefore, Vito
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has always wanted to be in the mafia. That would
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have made more sense. You just saying three sentences,
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not you, but the game saying three sentences
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towards the end of this chapter just to make
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it give some justification is terrible right
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bad planning on their part for not setting up
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this character arc and background it would have
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been so easy just to add a scene of yeah feto
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just being impressed admiring the power that
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he sees with the the men in the mafia as a kid
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that would leave an impression as a child and
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he ends up by saying i was willing to risk anything
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to finally be somebody Shut up, Vito. Maybe you
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could focus on being a good son and brother.
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Maybe there's that. Too late on the son part.
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And then we hear, I don't think it's Falcone,
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but one of his right -hand men go, no dope, that's
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our policy, which seems to be a running theme
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in these games. And then we get a montage of
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Joe and Vito living the life and benefiting from
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it. That is so cringy and silly and stupid for
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that ending. It's almost the equivalent of a
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couple frolicking through the fields in a meadow
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of just having happy, happy times. But then just
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punching someone out. There's that. So I just
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think it's a stupid way to end the scene. I agree.
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Not a big fan of this game so far. That's why
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it took me two times to play it. And a lot of
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editing. Well, those were all my notes. Did you
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have anything else on part three or should we
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close it out? I did have one quick note. During
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the whole initiation process of going into the
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mafia or for their family, that's crazy intense
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having a burning sheet of paper so literally
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holding fire in your hands. I guess the only
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way to tell which family they are, if you look
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at everyone's palms, and if there's third -degree
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burns, that's how you know they're with the Falcone
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family. Also, why was the knife so giant to just
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do a little pinprick? I was worried they were
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going to cut the finger off. Could have used
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a steak knife, if we're being honest. Yeah, the
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drama. And the music that they wanted us to be
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sad or something? I don't know. Yeah, that or
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being really... emotional and happy for him i
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don't know what was going on but didn't work
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yeah i feel like i'm such a big critic in these
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games because i'm always pointing out the bad
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things like i didn't like this i didn't like
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when john was just um not being strong enough
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and and i have so much critique about all the
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video games we play i feel like such a debbie
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downer and it didn't hit me until how much i'm
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hating on veto in this game so far and i'm like
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okay i promise you guys that i'm a lot More positive.
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Well, no, I'm kidding. Well, on that note, should
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we close it out? Yeah. Audacity on one. Three,
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