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Banana Fish Ep. 24- The Catcher in the Rye · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess back again with
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  Speaker 1: the last anime episode of Banana Fish. Yay. Before we start,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: just the heads up, I am not feeling well. I
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  Speaker 1: maybe am allergic to some sort of food that has
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: made me throw up. Yay, so I'm gonna do my best.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really unhappy about this, but I'm also unhappy about
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  Speaker 1: this episode, so we might as well cry over that
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  Speaker 1: and not over my personal problems. Yeah, so let's just
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  Speaker 1: get into it because I have twenty five pages of
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  Speaker 1: notes to get through with you guys, so I assume
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be like super super long, so apologies
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  Speaker 1: in advance for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So episode twenty four is called The Catcher and the
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  Speaker 1: Rye and that is, you know, also a novel by JD.
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  Speaker 1: Salinger about a kid who is just not doing too well.
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  Speaker 1: Like I I read Catcher in the Rye before, but
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  Speaker 1: like I don't really remember it because I was in
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  Speaker 1: high school and I'm not like a super good reader,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't even know if I read the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: like I did not like reading in school. But I
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  Speaker 1: remember liking this book and I was reading the description
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  Speaker 1: of it on Wikipedia and then on readit, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember any of that. And I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to go into details about what The Catcher and the
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  Speaker 1: Rise about because it's not a podcast about JD. Salinger novels.
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  Speaker 1: But it does have some relevance to this story. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not a ton, but it's one of the first episodes
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  Speaker 1: titles that I've been like, huh, okay, I could see
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  Speaker 1: where that would that would be kind of similar. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say anything else because again, don't
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  Speaker 1: really remember it. I just know Holden Caufield was the
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  Speaker 1: main character, and apparently he was in New York because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want to go home because he got kicked
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  Speaker 1: out of school and so he's like just in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, just like totally alone and depressed, and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the end of his innocence and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. And yeah, that's enough, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like it's kind of in the same lane. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about that. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get off track. We don't have time, So let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about episode twenty four. If you remember, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the last episode, fucking Golzing was shot in
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  Speaker 1: the chest and he was falling because Fox shot him.
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  Speaker 1: So we start off this episode kind of with a
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  Speaker 1: small recap of that scene where Golzine is shot again
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  Speaker 1: and he's falling in Ash gasps, and then like a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of gates around the windows come down and separate
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  Speaker 1: him from the gang members outside. I'm pretty sure in
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  Speaker 1: the manga like people actually get like killed by these gates,
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  Speaker 1: but I could be thinking of another part. And also
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  Speaker 1: in at least the aired version of the anime, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't lower all of the gates. There was a weird problem.
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  Speaker 1: I think that a lot of this episode and episode
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  Speaker 1: twenty three and twenty two, I noticed like tons of
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  Speaker 1: errors in them in the animation, which makes me think
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  Speaker 1: that they were just running out of time. And I
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  Speaker 1: know some of those were corrected on the Blu ray
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  Speaker 1: because I've seen them corrected, but I haven't checked this
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  Speaker 1: one in particular because I didn't. So anyway, gates have
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  Speaker 1: come down over the windows and doors, so all of
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  Speaker 1: the gang members are stuck outside with Ash and Goalzin
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  Speaker 1: and Fox and friends inside. Anyway, Fox Chuckles and some
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  Speaker 1: of the gang guys are like knocking on the gates
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  Speaker 1: like trying to get in and one guy's like open
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  Speaker 1: up and then they just get shot because there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mercenaries out there, and now they are under attack.
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  Speaker 1: So we just lost all of the advantage that we
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  Speaker 1: had going into this. So they're under tremendous gunfire and
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  Speaker 1: Kane is like, we're surrounded, and Singh says, we can't
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  Speaker 1: take cover. Yeah, they don't have anywhere to run. Blanca
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  Speaker 1: throws a smoke bomb or flash bomb or something bomb
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  Speaker 1: and then is like go now, and they all start
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  Speaker 1: to run for it. Back inside, Ash is now on
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  Speaker 1: his knees with his hands tied behind his back, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of those mercenary dudes like pointing
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  Speaker 1: their guns at him, and Fox says, we're even now.
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  Speaker 1: You took me by surprise, but this must have been
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  Speaker 1: surprising for you as well. Ash looks pretty pissed. Fox
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  Speaker 1: kneels down in front of him. You must hate how
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  Speaker 1: things turned out. Michere Dino we see is still alive,
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  Speaker 1: but he's laying on his stomach and he like does
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  Speaker 1: not look good because he's been shot a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times and he's like sweating, and Fox says, he's mine
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  Speaker 1: now the foundation and that drug too he lifts Ash's
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  Speaker 1: chin to meet his gaze. Please stop doing that, and says,
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  Speaker 1: come with me. At this, Ash spits in his face.
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  Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, Fox is you know, caught off guard by
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  Speaker 1: getting spit at it. But then he pistol whips Ash
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  Speaker 1: in the face and Ash falls to the floor. Fox
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  Speaker 1: smashes at. Fox smashes Ash's head into the ground with
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  Speaker 1: his boots, and then to Goldzeine says, you were so
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  Speaker 1: smitten by this beautiful monster that you lost it, But
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  Speaker 1: not me. I'll tame him and control him. Leave him alone,
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  Speaker 1: he's a human. Fox still has his boot on ashes
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  Speaker 1: face and we can see the ashes bleeding from his
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  Speaker 1: mouth or lip or wherever. And Dino somehow gets the
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  Speaker 1: wherewithal the talk and he says, do you realize who
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  Speaker 1: you're facing? You overestimate your capacity? You pour faust, which
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  Speaker 1: I had to look up to see what Foust meant
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not very smart. Apparently it's the protagonist of
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  Speaker 1: some German legend and it's basically sacrificing your spiritual values
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  Speaker 1: for power, knowledge or material gain. I guess whatever doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter anyway. Then we hear Mannerheim like gasp, and he's
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  Speaker 1: like mo sure, and we see that he's holding a
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  Speaker 1: case and he looks really, really frightened. Fox is like,
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  Speaker 1: Maschuur is retiring, ash Lynx is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: next president, and I will back him up. But he
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: is still stepping on ashes head, so it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: look like ash is gonna be the president of anything.
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  Speaker 1: He continues, I'll guarantee you the exact same position. Mannorheim,
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  Speaker 1: to his credit, looks kind of pissed off. Then we
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  Speaker 1: see two guys kind of leading Ash off, like holding
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  Speaker 1: him up. He may have been knocked out. I'm not sure,
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  Speaker 1: and Fox says, sedate him just in case. Then he
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  Speaker 1: looks back at Diino. Time for you to finally get
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  Speaker 1: some rest, mesure. Dino looks pretty pissed off, but also
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  Speaker 1: he's in a puddle of his own blood. And then
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  Speaker 1: we go to the opening for the last time. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do it for the last time.
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  Speaker 1: At the very end of the opening, I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to point out there was a caption or whatever that
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  Speaker 1: said in memory of Unsho Ishazuka, and I had to
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  Speaker 1: look up who the hell that was. That's Dino's voice actor.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he died that's really sad. It looked like
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  Speaker 1: he died kind of in the summer of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: So unless I'm totally misunderstanding the timeline here, that would
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  Speaker 1: have meant that he died before this aired. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: had all the voice acting done pretty far in advance.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, guys, something like that, but that's pretty sad.
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  Speaker 1: He was a pretty well known voice actor, I guess. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: back from the opening, we are outside of the mental
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  Speaker 1: health institute and some of the gang dudes, including Kine
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  Speaker 1: and Sing and Alex are firing like around a corner
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  Speaker 1: and then one guy gets shot and Sing is like, damn.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, they found another entry into the building
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  Speaker 1: and Blanca runs up and he takes out some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys and he starts to move forward, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, rescue the hostages. Once you have them, just go,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about us, and Kane says, what about you.
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  Speaker 1: Blanca is like, I'm going to get ash yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: he smiles he hasn't paid me yet, and then he's
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  Speaker 1: like go and he runs off, and Sing looks pretty stunned,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and Kin says, Sing, come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Sing kind of snaps out of it and then looks
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  Speaker 1: really determined and he's like, Kan, I'm leaving them to you,
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  Speaker 1: and he runs after Blanca and Kin is like, what hey,
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  Speaker 1: we owe to where Blanca is. He's like looking around
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  Speaker 1: a corner and he sees some of the mercenary guys
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  Speaker 1: and he comes out and he starts shooting, and then
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  Speaker 1: Sing like appears next to him out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 1: starts shooting as well, and they take them all out,
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  Speaker 1: and Blanca is like totally confused, and Sing says, I
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  Speaker 1: won't get in your way. Blanca smiles and he's like
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  Speaker 1: I know, yay, and they head forward past the dead
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  Speaker 1: guys that they just killed. We go to Fox and
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  Speaker 1: Friends in the control room and Fox says, is this
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  Speaker 1: all the data you have? Mannorheim's like yeah. Mannerheim goes
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  Speaker 1: to lift up the case with the data. It's like
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: a little suitcase, little like hard shell suit case, so
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  Speaker 1: it looks like it's metal, you know, silvery that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. So anyway, Mannerheim goes to lift it up
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  Speaker 1: and Fox puts his foot on it and he says,
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  Speaker 1: I'll hold on to this. You go to the helicopter
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  Speaker 1: Mannerheim looks pretty frustrated, but he walks away because he's smart.
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  Speaker 1: And Fox to one of the guys, says, how's Team Alpha.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's like just about ready, Fox says, And Team Bravo.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's like preparing to blast the center. Uh oh,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna blow it up. Fox is like, okay, get
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  Speaker 1: them to hurry. We're heading to the hangar in thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: This place will be a sea of fire. We then
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  Speaker 1: go to what I assume is the hangar and there's
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  Speaker 1: a helicopter in it and someone is securing sedated Ash
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  Speaker 1: into one of the seats, like putting him in a
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  Speaker 1: seat belt, which is very nice, I guess otherwise he
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  Speaker 1: just kind of flop around, so he needs to be
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  Speaker 1: seat belted, and he is it seems passed out. Once
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  Speaker 1: you're done, joined Team Bravo. The first guy's like, got it.
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  Speaker 1: He makes sure things are secure and then he walks off.
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  Speaker 2: We pan in to.
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  Speaker 1: Ash's face and he opens his eyes yay, and he
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  Speaker 1: looks pissed. We then cut to a blueprint on a
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  Speaker 1: phone screen and Blanca says, is that the blueprint? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is Blanca sing is the one who's showing it
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  Speaker 1: to him on his phone, and he says yeah. Blanca
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  Speaker 1: takes the phone and continues to look at it and
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  Speaker 1: Sing says, Ash didn't tell you anything. Blanc is like,
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  Speaker 1: he just asked me to back you guys up so
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  Speaker 1: you could get out safely. Sings like he never intended
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  Speaker 1: to survive, and Blanca says it's a smart choice, no
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  Speaker 1: need for everyone to die, so we just gonna kill
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  Speaker 1: Ash now. Anyway, Sing says, is your being here a
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  Speaker 1: smart choice too? He kind of smirks. Blanca is like,
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  Speaker 1: look who's talking. There's kind of a pause while Blanche
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  Speaker 1: is still looking at the phone, and then he says,
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  Speaker 1: this top area is structured differently and sings like huh,
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  Speaker 1: and he tries to look at the phone, but Blanc
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  Speaker 1: is so tall that he can't, so Blanca leans down
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  Speaker 1: to show him and says, my guess is that it's
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  Speaker 1: a hangar. They figured it out in the manga. I
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  Speaker 1: believe he has to explain to Sing what a hangar is,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was cute, but we lost it.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: We go to an elevator, doors open and some guys
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  Speaker 1: and Mannerheim and Fox get out. They're walking down a
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  Speaker 1: hallway and the guy at the front like raises his
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  Speaker 1: fist to like stop them, and then they go into
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  Speaker 1: the hangar and everyone's dead except for Ash because he's
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  Speaker 1: just not there. Mannheim's like, no anesthetized person should be
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  Speaker 1: able to do this. Fox is like he's no normal
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  Speaker 1: person and he grits his teeth. This area is completely
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  Speaker 1: locked down. He's got to be on this floor.
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  Speaker 2: Find him.
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  Speaker 1: We cut to Ash, who is kneeling down somewhere dark,
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  Speaker 1: holding a gun. His breathing is labored and he's sweating.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that even though the drug didn't make him sleep,
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  Speaker 1: it makes him feel pretty bad. So that's not good
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  Speaker 1: if he's trying to escape. Next we see Age, who
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: is on the phone in the hospital, like he's in
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  Speaker 1: his hospital bed, and he says, don't worry mom. He
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: looks really sad. I know I'm coming home. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: then he hangs up Shunichi. Charlie and Jenkins are there too,
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  Speaker 1: and Ag says, I don't know where Ash went. Charlie's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not why we're here. We just we're worried about you.
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  Speaker 1: Ag isn't really looking at them, and he says, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know what got into me. He puts
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: his hand on his head and he just looked so hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, I'm just so confused. Jenkin's like, I
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: hear you. Goldine's club, Codd'll be investigated tomorrow. Why wait, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's like, thanks to Max, we have proof. Ag looks
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  Speaker 1: surprised and he says, will Ash be in trouble? Oh? Ag?
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  Speaker 1: Jenkins is like, he he's a victim in this case.
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  Speaker 1: So we were actually hoping to hear his side of
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: the story. Oh, I want to point out right here
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: because it's important, not really that important. So in the
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: anime we don't get an explanation of, like any more
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  Speaker 1: of what happened to Ag in the hospital or what
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  Speaker 1: he told police or any of that. In the manga,
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  Speaker 1: he has told them that he was mugged like and
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  Speaker 1: shots and I had nothing to do with Ash or
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  Speaker 1: any of that stuff because he didn't want him to
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  Speaker 1: be involved. And everyone kind of knows that that's not
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  Speaker 1: what happened, but he's like, adamant, that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. We cut to.
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  Speaker 1: Ag alone in the hospital bed. It's evening and the
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  Speaker 1: room is dark and he's looking out the window and
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: he looks real worried, and he thinks, Ash, where have
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  Speaker 1: you gone? Are you leaving me again? Oh? My god,
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  Speaker 1: Ag going somewhere far away Without a single word. We
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  Speaker 1: see the moon is full and it's like peeking out
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  Speaker 1: behind some clouds, and we get a close up on
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  Speaker 1: AG's eyes. Anythinks you said Sionada. He closes his eyes
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  Speaker 1: that word I should have never taught it to you
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  Speaker 1: for real. We cut back to Ash. He's breathing hard.
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  Speaker 1: He takes a deep breath, and he gets moving again
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  Speaker 1: as some dudes start to pursue him. Next, we see
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  Speaker 1: Blanca and Sing standing in front of a door at
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  Speaker 1: the end of a hallway, and Blanca is like, it's
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  Speaker 1: no use, it's locked. He points to like an air
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  Speaker 1: HVAC register, like it's kind of half on the wall
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: and half on the ceiling and says, let's go up
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  Speaker 1: to the roof through that air duct and find a
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: way in. As we've talked about in the past, that
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: may or may not be possible, but it's going to
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: be loud, and I also learned that it's going to
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: be really dirty because unless it's a new building, which
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: it actually is, so maybe it won't be dirty. Air
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  Speaker 1: ducts are filthy anyway. Blanca smiles, I hope you're not claustrophobic.
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  Speaker 1: Sings like, nah, but can you even fit through that duct?
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  Speaker 1: He winks. Now in the controller, a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: are looking at computers and the first guy says, sir,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: the hatch won't open the entire system. Stop. Responding, Fox
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  Speaker 1: is like what. The guy continues, someone mess with the
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: main system's code ash. Fox says, you mean LINX, that's
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: what I said.
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  Speaker 2: No, he couldn't have.
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  Speaker 1: He gasps and thinks that bastard's still alive. Oh. We
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: cut to a trail of blood on the floor leading
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: to Goals and as he stands at like one of
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  Speaker 1: those desks with the walls of computers in a control room,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: he is breathing hard, but he's fucking with the codes.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I guess yes, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm confused. Who do I root for.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: We go back to Sing, who is crawling in event,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and we hear like a slam, and then we hear
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  Speaker 1: Blanca say ow.
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  Speaker 2: Sing looks back.
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  Speaker 1: And Blanca is like, barely fitting through this duct, and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Sing is like, oh, come on, Blanca lets out kind
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: of an embarrassed chuckle back to Fox, who he is
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: on like a I don't know, like a bluetooth earpiece phone.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I don't really know. It's like an ear
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: piece thing in his ear. That's where your pieces go,
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  Speaker 1: he says, emergency situation, Send Moonwalk over pronto. Mannerheim walks
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  Speaker 1: over and says, haven't you found him yet?
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  Speaker 2: He hates me. He'll kill me if he finds me.
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  Speaker 1: I hope. So your a piece of shit anyway, Fox says,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: don't worry, we're looking for him. Mannerheim is basically hugging
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  Speaker 1: him at this point, and he's like please, and Fox
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  Speaker 1: pushes him off and says take him to the heliport.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Two guys lead the terrified looking Mannerheim off, and Fox
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  Speaker 1: says that coward he really is. Then one of the
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  Speaker 1: guys is like, sir, Moonwalk will arrive in twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Fox says, that'll be tight. Hurry up, especially if the
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: place is gonna blow up in a half hour or
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: probably a little bit less than that. Now, Yeah, you
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: guys got to move on it. We go to a
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  Speaker 1: hallway where came Alex and some other gang members are
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  Speaker 1: having a shootout with some mercenaries. Cain says, if we
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: give up now, none of us are getting out of
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: here alive. We then cut to that area where everyone
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: is being held and stuff and Bones is looking through
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: like the window in the door, and everyone can hear
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the gunfire now, so we know that they are very
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: close to where the gang people are being held. Max
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: is also looking out and he says, don't die on us.
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  Speaker 1: We cut back to Cain and Alex and some guys
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  Speaker 1: and they're like shooting at a bunch of mercenaries. Still.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: As this is happening, Cain looks back and sees a
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: mercenary approaching from behind them, but.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: He is shot by Jessica.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yay. She runs over and she takes cover behind the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: wall corner with them, and Kane's like you. Jessica takes
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a pin out of a grade with her teeth and
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: tosses it. They duck as it explodes and takes out
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: all the mercenaries. Yay, Jessica. Now that they don't have
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: any obstacle, Cane's like, go and they run off. When
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: you get to the end of the hall, there's like
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a door and Jessica shoots the control panel on it
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and all of the cells unlocked, so everybody comes out
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: into that area, but they're still separated by a door,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and Bones and Kang emerge and they see each other
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and they're both like all right, and they like jump
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: for joy, and then the door to the whole area
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: opens and they look over and Alex is like you
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: all okay. Bones has like tears in his eyes, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: he's like Alex and he runs over and like tackle
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: hugs him to the ground. So they're all like happy
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and stuff, and Jessica's just kind of looking around worried
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: as this is happening. She finally sees Max at the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: back of the crowd. He looks over and he's so
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: happy to see her, and she runs to him and
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: she's like Max and she hugs him tight, and Max
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: is like Jessica obviously anyway, He continues, I was gonna
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: ask you if I survived, will you marry me again? Huh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Jessica has tears running down her face and she just smiles.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: In some other hallway, Sing pushes off the register and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: exits the air duct. Blanc is behind him. He kind
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of sighs, and he gets stuck halfway out and he's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: just kind of struggling to move and Sing's like, come on,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what are you doing. He tries to pull him out
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: by his face, which is probably not a great way
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to pull someone out of an air duct, and Blanc
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: is like, you're tearing off my jaw. But before Sing
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: can either get him out or successfully tear off his jaw,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: those two guys in Mannerheim walk by and see them.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Sing turns just as the guys realize that they're in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: front of them, and he flinks his rope dart at
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: them and he hits one of the guns out of
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the guy's hands, and Blanc of fires and takes both
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of the mercenaries out instantly. Mannerheim is left standing there shaking,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and he quickly grabs the suitcase and runs off before
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: they can do anything. Sing is like wait, you bastard,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and he starts to chase him, and Blanca's like sing.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Sing stops. Blanca is still stuck and he's like, could
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you give me a hand? Sings like damn, and again
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: he's trying to pull out Blanca up by his head.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: We cut to Mannerheim in a stairwell and he's like,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I don't want anything to do with these brutal men.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He makes it to this area where there's kind of
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: like a catwalk between the finished building and an unfinished one.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: They're building that like doesn't have windows or any furnishings.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It's just has metal, you know.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Construction stuff. For some reason. I don't know what words
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: are right.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Now, but you know it's it's just the shell of
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a building. Basically. In that section, there's a piece of
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: tape that says keep out, like a caution piece of tape.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And he grips the case greedily and he's like, as
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: long as I have this, and he rips down the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: caution tape, they can go to hell. Then a gun
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: clicks behind him and we hear Ash say, who's going
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to hell? Oh? Mannerheim freezes. Ash has a gun to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: his back. Mannheim's like, don't shoot, and ask says, after
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: all you've done. He presses the gun even further into
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: his back, and Mannerheim turns and is like all the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: data concerning banana fishes in here. Ash looks surprised. Mannerheim continues,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'll go to court. I'll testify if you let me live.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Ash's eyes narrow. We cut to what I assume is
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a helipad because it's on top of the building. And
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Fox is there with some guys, and one of the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: guys says sir he is leaning over the edge of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the roof. Mannerheim walks over to see what's up, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the guy's like, look and he points down. Fox can
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: now see Ash is leading Mannerheim somewhere by gunpoint, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: he's like, Ash, how did he? We can't let him
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: take the data. At this point, Singing and Blanca are
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: walking up the stairs to the roof. That's not good,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and they just kind of happen to peek over the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: roof and everyone sees each other and Blank and sing
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Duck and they're immediately being shot at. Fox is like,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: damn it not, now kill them And then he looks too, too, guy,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and he's like, you follow me. Fox and the two
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: guys are walking somewhere. Fox into his little headphone thing,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: says Team Bravo reports. We see some mercenaries setting up
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it look like bombs somewhere maybe, And the first Bravo
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: guy says the labist said, we need more time for
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the rest of the center. Fox is like, head over
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to the new wing and the guy says Roger. Fox
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: racks his gun. One of the guys is like, sir,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Fox says, you go around from the side, catch that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: brat no matter what, and get the suitcase. So part
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of the group is walking and Ash sees them from
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: above and he makes like a tisk noise and he
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: forces Mannheim in the opposite direction as they are looking.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Ash was doing, but Mannerheim gets
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: really really close to the rail at the end of
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the building and he's just like help me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Oh fuck.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Ash tosses him back and Mannerheim is like over here,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: help And just like that, Mannerheim is shot in the head. Yay.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Ash turns and raises his gun. Unfortunately it's Fox killed
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: manor Heim. Fox is standing, you know, a bit behind him,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: kind of on the opposing wall of the building, you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and he says, you can't escape. Ash links and then
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the helicopter, which I guess was Moonwalk,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: just like flies down and hovers behind Fox, like in
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: line with the floor that they're on. And the guy
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in the helicopter has like a machine gun and he
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: just starts shooting, and Ash just runs for his life
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and he takes cover behind some metal column for a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: second as he's being fired on, and then he continues
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to run. I should say that Fox was very close
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to the bullets when they were being shot, like he
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: had his back to the helicopter, and I was just like,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get killed, Like you don't just stand there
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: while a giant machine gun is shooting. But whatever, maybe
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: he's that cool. He's not cool, but maybe in this
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: circumstance that's pretty cool. It's not anyway. Blanca and Singh
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: are on the roof and they have successfully killed all
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the guys. They hear like the shooting and commotion from
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the machine gun on the helicopter, and Sing looks over
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the edge and he's like, shit, they're gonna get him.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: The helicopter comes into view more now and it starts
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: shooting again, and Blanca is like, sit down in front
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: of me. Sing sits down in front of Blanca. Blanca
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: rests his sniper rifle on Sing's shoulder. That was pretty cool,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and he's like, lend me your shoulder. Sing looks pretty
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: shocked and he's like, no way. With the range and wind,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Blanca's like, cover your ears. Sing puts his fingers in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: his ears and winces. Blanca shoots right through the windshield
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of the helicopter and he hits the pilot in the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: head because he's just that good. The helicopter obviously loses
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: control because no one's flying it anymore, and smashes into
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the unfinished building. There's a little explosion, but then it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: falls to the ground and makes a giant explosion. Yeay explosions.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Some of the mercenaries are like thrown to the ground
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: by the force of the blast, and Sing and Blanca
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: are staring down at the destruction and Sing says, what
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the hell are you? Blanca is like, we have to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: do something about them. Can you distract them? It's gonna
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: be very risky, sings like, leave it to me. We
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: quickly cut to Fox, who is looking really pissed off,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and I guess following after Ash. Then we go to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: two of the mercenary guys sitting in the dark, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the first one says to the other one, we'll corner
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: him from below. Ash is walking sort of kind of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: dragging himself, like he's holding the gun, but his arm
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is just slack. He looks really bad. He rests his
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: arm on like some spare building materials, and then he
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: starts getting shot at again. He starts to fire back. Fox,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: who is obviously the one shooting, is like, you're mine.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Ash runs and dives behind something like concrete pipes or whatever,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and then he comes out and starts shooting again. Fox
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: stucks behind a column and read loads. He immerses again,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: but this time he doesn't see Ash anywhere. We see
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the Ashes hide behind a column and he's breathing really hard,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and he looks at his gun and it is locked
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like the slide is locked back, which some guns do
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that when you're out of bullets, and so that means
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: that he has no more bullets obviously, and he's like shit.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: We cut back to Sing. He is shooting off at
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: some mercenary dudes who are on a higher floor and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: he says, over my dead body. I think that's what
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do. And the guy he's shooting at
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is like you little punk, and they return fire, and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Sing is like, go to hell, and he runs for cover.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: He's doing a good job distracting. We now see Fox's
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: boot as it kind of like finishes stepping down and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: there's gun fire in the background. Fox is standing with
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: his gun raised waiting and he thinks no sign of him.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: He steps forward.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: At this point, his gun is smashed out of his
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: hand by something metal and he stumbles backwards. Ash has
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a metal pipe now and he's gonna fight with it. Yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: he swings it at Fox. Fox like backflips away and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Fox lands and he grabs a pipe. Two, So I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: guess they're going to fight with pipes. They are now
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: just kind of in a standoff, staring at each other
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: holding their pipes. The difference between them is that Fox
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: looks like he's in good shape and he's calm, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Ash is not okay. He is breathing hard, and his
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: stitched wound from when he gets shot when Ag got
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: shot has reopened and is bleeding through his shirt. Fox
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: notices and smiles. Ash runs at him. We then cut
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to those mercenary dudes who are firing it sing and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: one of them is just suddenly taken out and one
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: of the guys says a sniper. Blanca takes another one
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: out like that, and that first guy starts shooting at
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: him because he's kind of figured out his location now,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and Blanca gets out of the way so he doesn't
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: get shot and reems and fucking takes that guy out.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: At this point, the the opening theme from the first
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Core starts playing. Yes, I love when the opening theme
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: plays in a show. It makes me very happy, and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I love this opening theme. So we got that going on.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Things are getting really really bad now, I guess, or
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: good or something. Anyway with that, saying emerges and they
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: wave at each other. Sing turns around and he gasps
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and he thinks that's the suitcase Ash was carrying around. Oh,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the suitcase with all the banana fish stuff is just
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: laying on the floor. We go back to Ash and Fox,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: who are staring each other down again. Fox is like,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: we had so much fun that day, didn't we. Ash?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Ash krits his teeth. Fox continues, you fear me, don't
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you You should? He moves towards Ash. You poor boy.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: He hits the ground with the pipe as he walks,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: which is pretty intimidated. Continues you try to forget, but
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: your body remembers.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, please dude, please leave him alone.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Ash is like, shut up, stop acting like you get
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it for real. Fox says, I'll make you bow down
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to me. He flips the pipe around again and strikes
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: at Ash. Ash blocks him with his pipe and they
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, pardy back and forth. Is that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a word? Okay, yeah, I think that's the right word.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Fox says, No use trying to act tough.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: You know, you can't win against me.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: He brings down his pipe again and Ash lets go
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of his and he like uses Fox's pipe as leverage
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and he like kind of runs up.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: It slightly and like flying.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Kicks at Fox. Fox dodges and Ash kicks again, but
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it's not working. Fox kicks him instead. Ash is knocked
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to the ground and before he can get up, Fox
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: is on top of him with the pipe to ash
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: his neck. Great, none of that's good, Fox says, understand now,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you're nothing but a whore. He leans in. I'll make
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you remember that, Jesus. We cut to one of the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: guys that Blanca took out just a couple of minutes ago.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: He is not completely dead. He's laying on the ground,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: very very injured, and he has a detonator in his
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: hand and he pushes it and it blows up like
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: part of the unfinished building. Singh is almost near that part,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: and his area just kind of collapses and I think
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he like falls Fox looks up when hears the explosion.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That little bit of a distraction was all that Ashne did,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and he manages to force the pipe back, knocking Fox
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in the face when he does, and then he kicks
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Fox off of him. Yes, Fox, whose nose is now bleeding,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is able to grab Ash before he can stand up,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and he's back on top of him, so that didn't
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: even help at all. He strangles him, this time with
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: one hand, and then he plunges his knife into ashes
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: left shoulder. So Ash is being choked out, and he
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: manages to kind of look around and he sees a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: power drill on the floor behind him, and he struggles
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to reach for it and he gets it and then
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: he forces it into fox'side and turns it on.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: So now they're both being.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Stabbed by each other, but Fox is also being kind
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of drilled at the same time, and they both are
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: just more or less screaming in pain, trying to dig
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: their respective instruments into each other further enough to stop
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: one of them from continuing, And eventually it's Fox. He
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: lets go of the knife and collapses.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole thing.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: With like the sound of the drill and like him
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: being stabbed with it. It's real fucking messed up.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Ash throws Fox off of him and kind of removes
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the drill as he does, and he gets his feet.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He braces himself, and then he pulls the knife out
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of his shoulder, which he shouldn't have done, as we've
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: learned in the past. You don't want to do that
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: because it's gonna bleed more. But really, he can't go
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to a hospital, so I guess he's gotta take it
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: out himself or he's gonna have a knife and the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: shoulder forever.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: He stares at Fox holding his shoulder for a bit,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what you do next here,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and then he hears Sing struggling. He runs to the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: edge of the building and he looks over and Sing
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: is dangling off of one of the floors below him,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: holding on for dear life with one hand, and Ash
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: is like sing. We get a more close up chot
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: of Sing now and he says, I can't anymore. We
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: see that below him is the fire from either the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: helicopter or the building or both of them, and he
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: is slowly losing his grip. Ash runs down the stairs
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and sing loses his grip and Ash catches him by
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the wrist, of course with his bad arm, because his
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: shoulder is bleeding, has just been stabbed, and he is
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: struggling and wincing, and he says, give me your other hand.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Sings like put and we see that he's holding the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: suitcase with his other hand. Ash kind of managed just
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a smile, and he says, just drop it. Sing looks
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: kind of surprised or hurt, but then he just slowly
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: lets it drop. Ash grabs him by the other hand
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and starts to lift him up, and just as he does,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: there's a gun at the back of his head. Fox
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: is standing behind him, and he says, too bad, let
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the boy go when you just might be able to live. Sing,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: who was still hanging just being held by Ash at
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: this point, says Ash, just let me go. Ash says,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: don't move. He just kind of pauses and takes the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: breath and has this just resigned look on his face,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: like he's ready for this to just be over. And
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Fox is like, I told you you can't win against me,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and then he shot in the side of the head.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: As he falls.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: In slow motion, we see that Dino is holding a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: gun behind him. Ash stands and faces the calmly and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: they just kind of stare at each other as the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: wind kicks up and Dino is pointing the gun at Ash.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And in case you're interested, there's in the background you
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: can see the New York skyline, at least part of it,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: so we know that this part of New Jersey's not
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: very far from New York.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: After a little while, Dino kind of starts to shift
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: his weight and he just looks kind of faint, and
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Ash gasps, as you know, kind of steps and falls
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: off the side of the building. Ash runs over and
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: he watches him fall in slow motion because that's how
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: you got a fall, and they just kind of stare
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: at each other as Dino falls towards the fire. I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: will say that this is not a great looking fall
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: animation wise, and even when I watched it the first time,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, man, I wish that was done better.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: But whatever, Dino's gone. Sing walks over to where Ashes
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: standing and he says, there won't even be any bones left.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: There probably will be. Wasn't that suitcase important? Why did
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you save me? You and I are Ash cuts him off.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Forget it, I didn't save you, just to kill you,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: even if we did kill each other, and it just
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: means some other guy makes an extra ten bucks. Let's
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: end it all, all this insanity. They kind of look
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: out at the skyline and Ash continues, do you really
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: want to fight me? Things like no, I just wanted
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: everyone to be satisfied. Ash says, they will be. You
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: did a great job. We hear Blanca say, I don't
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: mean to interrupt. They turn and Blanca is like, we
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: should probably get out of here before the wind changes.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: It'll be chaos before long. And Ash is like another
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Indiana Jones reference. I'm not sure if that is, but okay.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Blanca says, if you want to burn to death, be
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: my guest. Ash is like you were watching all that,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: weren't you. Blanc is like yeah. Ash says he should
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: have just saved us. Then Blanc is like, I figured
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: you wanted to end it your way. He looks down,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: maybe kind of forlorn. He must be satisfied too, who
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: cares about what Tina wants? Ash looks kind of sad
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: in a way that you would hope someone wouldn't look
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: sad if their amuser just died, but you think they
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: might anyway, the sun is rising. At this point, we
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: go to a press conference at the White House and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the guy who could be the President but I don't know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: says what has been uncovered is truly deplorable. We hope
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: We see like a different shot now it's clearly on
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: a TV screen and it looks like it's on CNC,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: which I guess is the station, but it doesn't really exist.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: And the newscaster says, unprecedented news of government officials paying
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: for sex with adolescent boys. Max, Jessica, Robert and that
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Newsweek guy that we're seeing sometimes now or watching it,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: And the Newsweek guy says the Assembly might summon Smiles
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to appear in court. He looks over and realizes that Max,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: who's a little bit behind him, looks kind of upsets,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and he says, what's wrong. Your wounds still hurting. Jessica
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and Robert look over at Max as well. Max says no,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: he looks down. Jessica's like thinking about ash. Don't worry,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: he's ash after all. Max's cell phone buzzes in his pocket.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: He takes it out and looks at it and there's
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a message that looks like maybe it's an email. I'm
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: not sure it's from an anonymous sender, and there's no subjects,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: but the body of the email says congrats Dad, and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: then following that is a emoji of a pig with
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: a fork and knife emoji next to it, which I
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: thought was cute. Max looks pleasantly surprised, and he smiles
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and says ash. He looks out the window. We cut
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to a full glass of wine being tossed onto the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: carpet and spilling, obviously, and we hear Uelung say let
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: him in. A guy's like, But yue Lung, who is
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: sitting on the couch, says I said let him in.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: We hear the door open and they turn and we
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: hear Sing say, cool it, you drunkard. The guy's like,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: he's dangerous, sir, and Uelung says I said, go away.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Sing is standing in the doorway surrounded by like other
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Chinese mafia guys, and he says, what a tyrant.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Someone's gonna poison you someday.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: The guys leave, leaving Sing and yue Lung alone. Uilung says, sadly,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: i'd noticed beforehand he's like playing with his braid. He continues,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I'm much more practiced in it. Sing raises his gun
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: at Uelung. Uelung stands and smiles really sadly and says,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: go ahead, you have the right to sings like you
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: want to die that badly. I heard from Blanca. I
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: understand why you hate your kin. Ue Lung's like that blabbermouth.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Sing looks down. I understand how you feel. Ue Lung's
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: like as if you could, Sing says I. I trusted
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't pray on our Chinese brothers unlike you're worthless brothers.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: But you sided with Golzen and 's loud to shoot Ag.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You couldn't forgive Ash for opening up to Ag because
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Ash found something you never could.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: You were just jealous.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Ue Lung looks hurt and walks over to Sing and
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: slaps him, and Sing just like slaps him right back,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: but way harder, and ue Lung collapses. Sing was not
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: expecting him to fall over and is shocked and yeah,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: did not mean to hit him that hard, and he says,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: stop clinging to your past, no matter how much you
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: hate them, you have the lea blood inside you. Yue
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Lung is still on the floor, and he just looks
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: so sad. Sing continues, I'll never forgive you, but Chinatown
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: has gotten so out of control, but it's no longer
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: safe to walk around in broad daylight. You're going to
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: live and pay for what you did. Uelung sits up.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Sing continues and bring back peace to Chinatown. Yuelung looks
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: down and says, I don't have what it takes. Sing says,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that's why I'm gonna help you. Stop hating yourself. It
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: won't get you anywhere, saying you are too mature for
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a fourteen or fifteen year old. Uelung's like, it's not
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: that easy. My only reason to live was to hate
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: my brothers. Without that, I would have never made it
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: this far. He covers his face with his hand and
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: begins to cry, saying, kind of sadly, says, you've avenged
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: your mother, isn't that enough? I don't hate you. Yue
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Lung looks a little surprised. Sing says, for some reason,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I just can't bring myself to You're hurt, your heart
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: bleeds even now, You're just like ash in that aspect.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Ui Lung starts to cry again. Sing's like, damn stop
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: crying like a girl. Uie Lung's like, well, sorry for
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: being girlish on the inside too. Singh says, you really
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: get on my nerves and Uie Lung's like, then leave
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: me alone, and sing says, oh, come on, give me
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: a break. We see Blanca. Oh God, here we go.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: So how are you feeling so far? Let's pause there
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and say that this is a tone shift in the episode.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And I am sorry because this is where I start
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: to cry.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: We see Blanca sitting in a park reading on a bench.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: He hears footsteps, but he doesn't look up. He just says
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: it's you Ash. At this point, the credits start to roll.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Ash walks over kind of from behind, and he's wearing
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the same flows he does in the manga, which I
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: never really understand why they do that sometimes and other times.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: But Blanca says, how did you find me here? Ash
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: jumps over the back of the bench and sits down
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: next to Blanca. You used to come here all the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: time to read. He sticks his fist out toward Blanca
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and says, anyway, here's your pay. Blanca lifts his hand
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: and Ash releases the money into it and says five
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen bucks and seventy five cents all taxes
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: and costs included. Blanca is, yeah, he's just like, well, thanks,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Ash says, you leaving today. Blanca's like, yeah, did Sing
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: say anything to you about mister Yuelong? Ash says, what
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: a faithful servant, caring for his master even after the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: contract's over. Blanca smiles and sighs. Ash continues, Sing didn't
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: kill him. He's too soft, unlike me. Blanca takes off
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: his glasses, which I didn't tell you he had on,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: but that's okay, and says, what would you do to him?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Ash smirks, I tear into a pulp. Always make sure
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the enemy is dead. You're the one who taught me that.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I was never taught to take it easy. Blanka looks
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: kind of sad, and he says, I was told there
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: was no need to. Ash continues, but anyway, I'm not
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the type to go out of my way to kill someone.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: As long as he doesn't come for me, I'm fine
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: with that. Satisfied, Blunk is like yeah. There's a little pause,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: and then he says AGI's going back to Japan tomorrow.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Ash is quiet for a second, and then he says,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you were right, I don't bring him anything with danger.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I'm the kind of person needs to stay away from.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I get that now, Nah, I've known that the entire time.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I just couldn't accept it. He smiles, sadly pitiful. Huh.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: We go to a shot of Ag and Ash standing
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: like the background is just white. It's from episode one,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: and Ash continues, when we first met, I knew what
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: kind of die he was, but he wasn't scared or
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: even wary of me. He talked to me with his
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: awful English. We get another view of the same shots,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: focusing on Ash's expression, and Ash continues, I just thought
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: he was weird. I figured it was because he was
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: a foreigner. We now focus in on AG's face with
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: like just the sweetest expression on it, Like I just
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: like all the trust in the world in his eyes.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: And Ash continues, but I realized after time that I
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: was wrong. Where now back in the present time, by
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the way, and Ash says, when he's near me, his kindness,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: his honesty, his warmth, it flows right through me. He's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: smiling like the saddest smile with his eyes closed. He continues,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: it made me complete. We get a first person perspective
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: shot of Ash's hands as he's kind of holding them
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: in front of him, and he says, but I my body,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: it reacts like a machine and kills people like it's nothing,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: without thinking, without feeling. He kind of folds his hands together.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I've never been so scared of myself for so ashamed
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I'll never see him again. There's a pause as Blanc
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: is kind of waiting for him to continue and looking
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: on sadly, and Ash says, he's still my friend, even
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: if we never meet again. I'm allowed to feel for him, right.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: There's a pause. A couple kind of walks by, and
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Blanca says, what are you gonna do now? Ash just
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: like not that much, just going back to being the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: scum of the city like always. We see a shot
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: of Blanco's book, which is a Farewell to Arms by
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway, and Blanca says, won't you come to the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Caribbean with me? Ash pauses for a second, and then
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: he's like, you want me to fill your void? That's
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: not like you, surge. Blanca takes a deep breath. You're right,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: forget I asked. Ash stands and reaches out his hand.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Well take care. They shake hands. Blanca says, you two,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: They both smile painfully at each other, and Ash leaves. Okay.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I just want to stop there for a second, mostly
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: so I can get a grip of myself, but like, yeah,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Ash loves him so much that he's willing to let
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: him go to protect him. Now, when I was watching this,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that it was thirty one minutes long,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and I actually thought we were basically at the end here,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: and I was not happy with this conclusion, so I
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: was surprised it kept going anyway. We see Age in
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the hospital room. He's in a wheelchair and he's dressed
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: and there are suitcases packed near him, and the bed
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: is all, you know, undressed, Like it's clear he's leaving.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: He's just kind of looking down at the floor sadly.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: He hears the door open and looks over and it's
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: saying and he's like yo, And Ag says Sing. Sing
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: walks into the room and he's like, hey, you're leaving today, right,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: AG says, Sing. Is Ash okay?
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Is he safe?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Sings like, huh, he hasn't come to see you. Ag
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: looks down sadly and Sing continues. Why he crosses his arms.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I really don't get him. AG reaches down and holds
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: out like an envelope and says, can I ask a favor?
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Sing takes the envelope and stares at it. AG says,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: could you give this to Ash? I wish I could
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: go myself, but look at me. There's no one else
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I can ask. Sings like, but I don't know where
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: he is right now. AG's eyes widen the library. He
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: is at the library. I know he is. We cut
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: to a brief exterior shot of the library, followed by
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Ash sitting at a table in the Rose reading room.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: It's quiet and he's reading a book called White Something
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: e Anjeane Dean. I don't know. I didn't try to
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: look it up. He takes off his glasses and he
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: glances at his watch, which is sitting on the table.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the time is because I couldn't
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: figure out what direction the watch was supposed to be in.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Is it eleven thirty four, ten thirty four, five oh three?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: It's one of those times he looks sad. He's obviously,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: you know, counting down for When Ag leaves. We get
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: a quick shot of someone's boot, and then a wider
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: shot as Sing approaches Ash. Someone is standing kind of
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: in the corner of the frame, shadowed maybe behind a column,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and he walks off. We cut to Ash holding the envelope,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: which says dear Ash on it. They're outside and Ash
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: is just staring at it, and he looks kind of confused,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: and Sing says.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Why won't you go to him? He's going back to
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Japan today.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Ash is still looking at the left I know. Sing
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: is like, then, why he's your friend? And Ash says,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: that's exactly why, and clenches his fist. I'm returning him
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: to his own world. He is clenching his fists so
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: hard that his arm is shaking. This world's of killing.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: He doesn't belong here. Sing gasps, and he says, but
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: there isn't any time left. Ash turns away. Sing says,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: want me to give him a message. Ash is just silent,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: still facing away from saying. Sing says, you stubborn idiot,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: and he just runs off. Ash just stares blankly in
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the opposite direction. We see the inside of JFK Airport.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I know it is now Yay and Max, Robert, Jessica,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Charlie and Jenkins are all there to show Shounici and
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Ag off, and Max says, take care both of you.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Shounci's like you too. It's gonna be tough, but good luck.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Max says, leave it to me. I'll get to the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: bottom of everything. They keep talking, and ag just kind
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: of looks at the floor sadly, and he thinks, Ash,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: you didn't come. He's actually looking at the flowers that
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: he's holding in his lap. I don't know if they're
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: get well flowers. I don't know if they are for Ash. Yeah, anyway,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: he continues to think, I understand how you feel. He
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: didn't want to come because you thought it was best
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: for me. But that's just too painful. Are you okay
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: with that? We see Ash sitting on a bench outside,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: maybe outside of the library, somewhere I don't really know.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: He opens the envelope and is surprised. Inside there's a
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: ticket to Japan. It says it's from JFK to Tokyo
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: HND and it is for Oslam callan Reese. He starts
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: to read the notes that's enclosed with it, and we
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: hear it in Agy's voice. It says, Ash, I'm worried
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: to death because I haven't been able to see if
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: you're doing okay. We see Shunichi pushing Ag as they
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: wave goodbye to everyone. The note continues, you said we
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: live in different worlds, but is that really true? AG
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: looks over and is surprised to see Alex kan and
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Bones peeking out from behind a column. They're happy that
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: he noticed them and they waved him. The note continues,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: we have different colored skin and eyes. We were born
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: in different countries, but we're friends.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Isn't that what counts?
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Ag happily waves back to Alex, Bones and Kanan. The
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: note continues, I'm really glad I came to America. We
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: got to like Bones showing him some weird alligator toy
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and then like he's bothering Alex with it. I don't
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: know what that was. AG kind of laughs. The note continues,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I met a lot of people, and more than anything,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I met you. Ag laughs as he watches you know, Alexon,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Bones and kN We cut to Ash reading the note,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: and at this point we get some of the words
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: appearing on the screen, which is helpful because I can
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: read them instead of the translation, and the note continues,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: you ask me many times if you scare me, but
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I never felt scared of you not even once from
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the first time I met you. Actually, I always felt
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: that you were hurt much more than me, that your
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: spirit was wounded.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Funny right. We cut to an image.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Of Ash teaching Ag how to shoot from episode six.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: The note continues, You're way smarter and bigger and stronger
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: than me, but I always felt like I had to
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: protect you. Ash, still reading the letter, gasps and jumps
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: up and starts to run. The note continues, I wonder
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: what it is I wanted to protect you from. Ash
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: is just running down the street. I guess going to
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: AG and someone cuts him off and just stab him
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: in the chest. His eyes widen. He says heg heg
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: jumps and books for Ash, but obviously he's not there.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: And then we hear Sing say AG and he's waving
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: from like another area above and Alex, Kung and Bones
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: are with him, and he continues, Ash said see you
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and you better come back. Bones and Kong say we'll
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: be waiting. Alex, Bones and Kong wave, AG waves back,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I will I will come back. We cut to blood
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: dripping onto the sidewalk, and then a knife that's in
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Ash's like chest or stomach area, and we hear Lao say,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: why did you let your card down? He pulls the
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: knife out. You never do why now? And then there's
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: a gunshot. Lao stumbles backwards, bleeding no heart feelings. He
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: against the wall of a building and says, I can't
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: let you take sing away, and he's dead. Ash is
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: just grabbing his chest and leaning over in pain. He
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: drops the pages of the letter on the sidewalk and
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: he bends down to pick them up before they can
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: blow away or something. And then we see Agy looking
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: out the window of the plane. Shinichi says, are you okay,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: and AG's like yeah. Once I got into a fight
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: with Ash, and I went to the library to apologize.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: He was sitting there quietly, so serene, set apart from
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: the world of violence and fighting, but so alone, such indescribable,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: sublime loneliness. And we cut back to the note I
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: wanted to protect you from fate, the faith that tries
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: to carry you far away, drifting further and further, And
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: then to Shunichi, he says, that's when I thought I'd
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: believe in him, no matter what. He starts to cry,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: no matter what may happen, that I that I at
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: least I would. Tears are streaming down his face, so
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: at least my crying makes sense. Right now, We cut
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: back to Ash, who is limping or down the sidewalk
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: holding the note. The note continues, you once told me
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: about a leopard in a book you read, Ashes kind
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: of stumbling now, and he returns to the library, into
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the rose reading room. The note continues, how you believed
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: that the leopard knew it couldn't go back. Ash makes
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: it to the table and he sits down and continues
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: to read.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: He looks so hurt.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: The note continues, and I said you weren't a leopard
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: that you could change your destiny, Ashes, still looking at
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: the note, which is now covered in his blood. It continues,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: You're not alone on by your side, My soul is
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: always with you. Tears hit the note near those words,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: and the Ash is crying, and he looks up and
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: he takes his shaky breath. The plane takes off. Agy's
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: looking out the window. The note continues, Sionara America, Sionara
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: New York. But I'm not gonna say Sionara to you. Ash.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: He smiles. It's snowing. I know we'll meet again, no
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: matter how far apart we are. You're the best friend
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: I'll ever have. We cut back to Ash, who is
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: collapsed on the table. We have a close up shot
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: of him. I can't see everything. A woman who I
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: believe is a librarian comes up and says, excuse me,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't sleep here. Ash's head is resting on the
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: notes and he looks so peaceful. The woman, I guess,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: thinks so too, and just says, must be a nice dream.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Then we hear a voice say excuse me. The woman
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: looks over and walks away to help someone and leaves Ash.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Alone to die. And that's it.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I hope you could understand that since I'm crying so much.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: I was really trying not to cry all the way
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: through that, but it didn't work. Yay, So closing thoughts. Yeah,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: I knew that was gonna happen. When I was watching
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: this for the first time, I was on the phone
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: with one of my friends and I was just kind
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: of looking up some banana fish stuff, either like art
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: or merchandise, I'm not really sure on Google. And Google
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: did that thing it does where it's like other people
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: have asked and then it says a bunch of things
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: and one of the things was did age you know,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Ash died? And the other one was when did Ash die?
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: And I was just like what And this was around
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: episode twelve or so, and I like panicked and I
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: like felt that like weird fight or flight response in my.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Body, which is weird.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: So I knew for you know, basically half of the
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: anime that he was gonna die during this episode. When
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: we got to the scene with him in Blanca on
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the park bench, I thought maybe I was wrong, Like
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: maybe it's just gonna end kind of open ended. They'll
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: never see each other again, but they care about each
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: other whatever, And like I said, I was not happy
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: with that conclusion. It reminded me a lot of Number six,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the anime, which had this weird thing at the end
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: where like the two main characters are obviously in love,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and in Number six, like there's no you know buts
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: about it, there are a couple and they kind of
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: go off to do their own things. She had was like,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to the destroyed city, and Nezumi's like, Okay,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: maybe i'll see you around or we'll see each other again.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: It's like, Nezumi, you will go to the city with him.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: You have nothing holding you there?
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? I just thought it was like
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: a shit way to end things. I want a conclusion.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: I don't want ips it's not you know, like, so
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: I actually really loved this ending. I never thought I
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: was going to burn an anime character the way that
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I kind of more into ash. It makes me feel
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: bad about myself because, like, the fuck am I mourning
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: a non real person, But also it makes me feel
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: kind of nice because I don't I don't really cry
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: about character deaths. Ever.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: In order to you know, feel this way, I just.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Had to get so fucking attached, you know. And that, really,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: in my opinions, speaks to the writing of this character
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a lot, because I don't think Banana Fish is a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: like a crime thriller. I think it's very much a
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: character study about one person and their life and their death.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: And I think that that's really obvious that because the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: whole thing with Banana Fish isn't really resolved, like they
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: lose all of the data on it, so I assume
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: it's not going forward. But I don't know how much
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: the people in the government, who are you know, doing
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: all the shitthead access to they might have some of
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: the stuff. But you know, Ash just telling sing like
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: to just let it go. It just makes it very
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: clear that this was not about that, and I think
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: anyone who was watching it probably knew that this was
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: not about the drug and that thing. It was about
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the relationship between Ash and AG and just Ash as
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: a character. And I mean things did get resolved though,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: like a lot of powerful people in the government were
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: probably going to go to jail because of what was leaked,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: which wasn't banana fish, but was the sex trafficking of
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: all of these young boys, which honestly needed to be exposed,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: maybe even more than this drug. Not really, they're both
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: really bad, but this is gonna save people's lives hopefully
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: if they got there in time. And Club Cod didn't
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: like shut down and move somewhere else. So in the end,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: you know, Ash did something really good because without him
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: being involved in all this, none of this would have happened.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: But I didn't want him to die, but I knew
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: that he had to, you know, not just because I've
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: read that he was going to die, but because what
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: happens from here, you know, like he's either technically dead
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: and doesn't have a social security number and can't get
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: a real job if you wanted one, Yeah, you know whatever.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, he has money, but how much money left
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: and you know how long? What's gonna happen with that?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: We don't know, So like, no job, So what does
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: he do? Go back to crime, go back to prostitution,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: like what's there? I mean, it would be so so
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: nice if he could go to Japan with ag and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: just start over, but that could never happen. He's not
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: gonna get out of the country. He's a fucking criminal.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: And if he doesn't totally lay low, and I mean,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Charlie knows that he's alive, right, so if they're looking
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: for him again, he's eventually gonna get caught. You know,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: he's gonna go to jail, go to prison for the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: rest of his life. Best case scenario, and that's a
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: terrible scenario because we know what Ash in prison looks like, well, jail,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: but still there's really not a good way for this
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: to go. Either he dies on screen or he dies
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: in an alley in a couple of years. And I
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: don't want to feel like that because I really want
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: to believe that everyone could be saved, you know, But
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: some people just don't have a fair shot, and he
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: did not have a fair chance into anything. And he
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: was really brave, and he was a really good guy,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: and he chose what was best for Agie over what
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: was best for himself, even though they both desperately wanted
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: to be together, and that just.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: Takes so much love to do that for someone else.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: But Age left not knowing what happens. You know, he
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: got on the plane and didn't know that Ash was
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: dying at the same time, which is horrible because he
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: deserves that. He deserves to know, so even the idea
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: that he wouldn't just makes me very sad. I think
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: maybe the other reason that this hit me very hard
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: is I don't normally find like character relationships and romances
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: or whatever that's understandable.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I'm a romantic and asexual, so I
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: don't know, they don't tend to work for me. But
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: I this might be the first time that I was, like,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: I totally believed that these characters were like really good
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: for each other, you know. I mean, yes, ag was
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: not safe around Ash, he was not, but on an
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: emotional and connection level, they were so good for each other.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Ag so wanted to care for someone instead of having
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: people worry about him. And Ash really needed someone.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: To make him feel like he's.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: A person because no one else did. You know, and
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: I've said this a couple of times, but he was
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: he was either a prostitute or gang boss or criminal.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: And that goes for everyone that goes for his gang
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: members too. You know, they were following him because of fear.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: No one even b other to really look at him
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: as a person, and I just I wanted him to
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: continue to have that.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: So I really liked their relationship, the kind of you know,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: non sexual it' spin on it. I mean, I don't
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: think Ash could have handled a sexual relationship. I think
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: one time I was like reading something. It was like
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: a question someone asked on like Tumblr, and it was
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: like who would be the bottom and who would be
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: the top to like someone, And I like got viscerally
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: upset because I thought of both of those situations and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I don't think Ash
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: can do that. Like I don't think he's okay enough,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, yeah, no, I'm off topic, but I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: don't know that if they would have ever gotten to
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: a point where they were like that with each other
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: and maybe romantically but more than that, I don't really know.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: And for an asexual a romantic person, that's like, oh,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: this is like pretty much if I was gonna have
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: a relationship with someone, this would be like the best
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: case scenario.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: It's like super cute.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: They just kind of live together and they like each
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: other a lot, and one of them cries on the
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: other one all the time. That sounds nice, That sounds
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: like something I could do. I don't know. It's just
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: for some reason, their connection like really really hit with me,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: and I so wanted them to be together.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: But I'm really glad that if Ash had to die,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: he died in.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: A place that he felt safe, finally free from Dino
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: in Fox and all of those people, and finally believing
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: that someone actually loved him. It's really probably the happy
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: he'd been forever, you know. But he still died alone,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: just like he lived, you know, and he still didn't
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: have help when he needed it, And it's still so sad,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: And I guess sometimes when I think about him, he
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of some of my like punk
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: friends from when I was younger who just didn't make it,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: not because they were stabbed outside the library, but because
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: of drugs or I don't know, usually it's drugs, but
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: they didn't have good lives and they just they were
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: just never gonna make it, so I don't know, maybe
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: that's in there too, Maybe that's why this hurts me
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: so much, but I really don't know. Yeah, I feel
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: like there's probably more to say, but we still have
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: three more weeks that I can remember things a little
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: bit and I probably won't cry next week at all
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: because it's not that sad, So yeah, I'll probably just stop.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: But I really like this. This is probably my favorite
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: ending of an anime. There are so many that are
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: just not very conclusive or kind of stupid, Like I
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: really don't like the ending of the original try Gun Oh. Also,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the other anime that I really like the ending of
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: has a similar ending, and you may want to just
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: skip ahead thirty seconds if you don't want to hear
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the ending of Cowboy Bebop. But you know, Spike dies.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: He's shot at the end and he dies, and I
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: remember watching that and going like that is exactly how
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: this was supposed to end, Like what else could he
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: have done? This was gonna happen. So I think the
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: last thing I want to say is, while I was
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: watching this for the first time, knowing that Ash was
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: going to die at the end, I kept thinking about
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: the song A Broken Jar by a.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Lot of Dispute.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: But there's a part, well technically the end of it
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: that goes now, I'm throwing all the shards away, discarding
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: every fragment and fumbling uncertain towards a curtain call that
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: no one wants to happen and no one's gonna clap for,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: but still has to be. I just thought that kind
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: of summed up the way I feel about this. I
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: didn't want this at all, but it had to happen.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna link that song in the comments, and
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: I'm also gonna link another song by a Lot of
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Dispute called King Park, which also makes me think of
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: this now. It's also like a really good, like empathy lesson.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: But you gotta listen to the whole thing, because if
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: you listen to the beginning, you're gonna be like me
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: and just roll your eyes. You gotta listen to the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: whole five minute song. Anyway.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: I really hope I did this justice.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: I really do because I have no idea why this
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: meant so much to me, but it really did. And
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: I hope that's you got something out of it too,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: even if you're not paul like I am about Ash
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: being dead and loving Ag enough to let him go
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: and dying in the library, I hope that. I hope
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: you thought it was good at least, and I hope
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: that you're not really freaked out by the fact that
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just crying through half.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: Of this episode.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I could have done it another way.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: I can't even think about this stuff without crying. So yeah,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Ash was right about being the leopard, though he really was.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: All right, I think I'm gonna go. I gotta fucking
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: blow my nose or something. Again, Thank you for watching
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: this with me, and I will see you next week
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: when we go over in July. Which, if you're looking
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: for it, it's in volume nineteen of Banana Fish Manga.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: You can find it online multiple places. Some of them
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: have porn ads on them, which is just so much fun.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's really really good. It deals with the past,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff I want to talk
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: about afterwards. Hopefully it won't be two hours long, but
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: who knows. So yeah, if you want to read that,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: go for it. If you don't want to read it,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: I'll just talk it to you straight from the manga.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: So whatever, Yeah, that's gonna be it. It must have
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: been a nice dream, though. I hope you have a
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: really good whatever and you know you're you're worth something.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: Don't forget that, Okay, even if you have tons of
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: flaws and you've had terrible things happen to you, you're
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: still worth something and you still deserve to be loved for.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: The most part, unless you're like the worst person ever,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: and then don't take this to heart, but you're probably
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: not the worst person ever, so you really deserve you
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: really deserve it.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Later weeps