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Banana Fish Ep. 23- For Whom the Bell Tolls · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person. I guess Michelle. Probably I'm back, right,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: because that's what this means that I exist still, and
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: if you're hearing it, it probably also means that you
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: still exist. But I don't really know how death works,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: so maybe you were listening even though you are dead.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You will have to tell me if
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: you know. Please. Anyway, before we start, I wanted to
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: make a correction. Last week I told you that there
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: was no Peer four in Manhattan, that it was in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: So I went back and I was reading that section
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  Speaker 1: of the manga. Because I'm not reading the manga super
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: in tandem with the anime this time. I'm reading back
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  Speaker 1: through the manga. I'm kind of far behind, so I'm
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: not always sure if the things that they're saying in
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: the anime are exactly the same as the manga. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and to check the manga to see if they mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a different pier because Akimi Yoshda is really really good
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  Speaker 1: at being accurate about New York stuff for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: and it was also Peer four, So then I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm stupid, and I looked into it again and
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  Speaker 1: realized that yes, there is a Peer four in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the Lower East Side by where the fish
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  Speaker 1: Market used to be, so yeah, I'm sorry I messed
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  Speaker 1: that up. And that means the other pier that I
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  Speaker 1: said that probably didn't exist also probably existed, so yay.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I guess that Pier four in Brooklyn is
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  Speaker 1: like a park and this pier is just like a
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  Speaker 1: chipping pier, so it doesn't really have an online presence.
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  Speaker 1: I guess. I did find an old image of the
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  Speaker 1: pier with a warehouse on it, so there you go,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. But yeah, I just wanted to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that because I felt real bad. I know you're thinking, like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's so good with with locations, She's like making up
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  Speaker 1: hotels and shit. It's like, no, that is the anime.
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  Speaker 1: I just hit the spot in the Mango again where
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: that's senator who is gonna run for president, like gets
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  Speaker 1: stabbed I guess by his secretary or whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like Dino and everyone's like, yay, we did it
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  Speaker 1: with Banana Fis And I found out that the hotel
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  Speaker 1: that he was actually supposed to be in when he
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  Speaker 1: was stabbed was the Carlisle, which is a real place
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  Speaker 1: and has been for a long time, and in the manga,
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  Speaker 1: I see it actually drawn here. I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: page right now, and the place where Dino had his
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  Speaker 1: party was not the car Lisle, but it was the
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  Speaker 1: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which is also a real place. So
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  Speaker 1: anytime you see a thing in the anime and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's not real. Yeah, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they were thinking why they change the places, especially
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: when you have a place like one of the two
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  Speaker 1: hotels that I just mentioned, they're so like famous, you
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  Speaker 1: could absolutely use this. It's a landmark kind of So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why that happens in the anime, but
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  Speaker 1: it does except for places like the National Mental Health Institute,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously that's not a real thing. So I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to point out something because I didn't say it
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  Speaker 1: last week, and it's kind of important in case you
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: don't know, Sionata does not just mean goodbye in Japanese.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a casual goodbye. It is a
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  Speaker 1: final goodbye, something that you say to someone that you
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're ever gonna see again. Like I remember,
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  Speaker 1: I originally looked into this because I was watching mob
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  Speaker 1: Psycho one hundred and a character said sionata to their
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  Speaker 1: husband and it was like this really big deal because
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  Speaker 1: she was like going to divorce him. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's feels so final for just the word goodbye, and
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  Speaker 1: then I realized that it is final. It's like goodbye
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  Speaker 1: forever basically. So what I'm saying is it's not something
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  Speaker 1: you say to someone if you expect to see them again. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to say that in the manga, the whole
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  Speaker 1: scene where Agy was teaching Sionada and that's when he
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: got shot, it didn't quite happen like that. We know
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  Speaker 1: that Agy taught him that word from another scene, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't framed quite that way. Anyway, I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that about Sionata because it's important for
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  Speaker 1: this episode. Yeah, so we should probably get down to
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  Speaker 1: it because I feel like I have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: say about this episode, and I also feel like I
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: may have to cry a couple of times. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sorry anyway. Banana Fish Episode twenty three is of course
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing today, and it's called for Whom the
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  Speaker 1: Bell Tolls, which is based on the title of a
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  Speaker 1: novel by Ernest hemingway that also has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with Banana Fish or based on the Metallica song for
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  Speaker 1: Whom the Bell Tolls, which I would prefer because I
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  Speaker 1: like that song, I guess, I mean as much as
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  Speaker 1: I like Metallica songs, which is eh, a little. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember where we ended last time, which
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  Speaker 1: was that AG had just been shot and also Ash
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  Speaker 1: had been shot too, and Ash killed a couple of guys,
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  Speaker 1: and fucking they called an ambulance and all that shit
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  Speaker 1: is happening, and AG's like, I'm so glad you're okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then he like passes out and it's really really bad.
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  Speaker 1: So we start this episode just a couple minutes later.
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  Speaker 1: We start outside of the warehouse, I guess, in the
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  Speaker 1: kind of darkened street because it's night, of course, and
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  Speaker 1: there's an ambulance parked out front or behind I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know where this is exactly, and it has its
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  Speaker 1: siren on and there's like a small crowd that has
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  Speaker 1: formed around it. We see Ag who is on a
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  Speaker 1: gurney like being wheeled towards the ambulance, and Ash is
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  Speaker 1: walking next to the gurney and he's just saying, like
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  Speaker 1: AG Ag, please open your eyes. And then someone places
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  Speaker 1: a hand on Ash's shoulder and we see that it
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: is Blanca, and he says, stand back. Ash gasps and stops.
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  Speaker 1: He did not expect to see Blanca, so he says Blanca,
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  Speaker 1: and Blanca is like, you can't go. You should know better.
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  Speaker 1: AG is being loaded into the ambulance now, and Ash
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  Speaker 1: is like shut up. He tries to keep walking, but
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  Speaker 1: Blanca grabs him and pulls him back, and Ash is
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  Speaker 1: like struggling, and he's like, let me go, let go,
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  Speaker 1: and Blanca like chops him in the back of the
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  Speaker 1: neck and just knocks him out, sing gasps, and everyone
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  Speaker 1: else is just like what the fuck just happened. We
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  Speaker 1: cut back to the inside of the warehouse in one
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  Speaker 1: of those like really dirty rooms where Ash is passed
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  Speaker 1: out on the bed and Blanca is placing a bandage
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  Speaker 1: on his stomach. And it looks like Blanca's got like
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: a makeshift ivy stand like as a coat hanger. He's
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: got like an ivy bag of I guess, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like saline or whatever on that, and I guess it's
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: stripping into Ash's arm, So I guess it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: that he would have some kind of medical training considering
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  Speaker 1: his background. Anyway, he's not alone in the room with Ash.
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  Speaker 1: There's a crowd of the gang members kind of behind him,
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  Speaker 1: and he turns to them and he says he should
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  Speaker 1: be fine. Everyone kind of lets out a sigh of relief,
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  Speaker 1: and then we see Ash grimace and he opens his
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  Speaker 1: eyes and then he gasps and just shoots up. Blanca
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  Speaker 1: puts his hand on Ash's shoulder and says, don't move, Ash,
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  Speaker 1: just like let me go. He reaches into Blanca's jacket
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  Speaker 1: and he grabs his gun and turns it on Blanca
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  Speaker 1: move out of the way. Blanca stands and Alex is
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  Speaker 1: like Ash. Blanca puts his arm out to prevent Alex
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  Speaker 1: from interfering, and he says, stand back. Could we have
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  Speaker 1: some privacy? And then we go to the opening theme.
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  Speaker 1: Yeay back from the opening, we see Shunichi sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a bench in like a hallway and he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like bent over and he says, I've been so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I should have kept him closer. Jessica and Charlie are
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  Speaker 1: also there, I guess, and Jessica says Ash was shot too.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's like, so he really is alive. Before anyone can
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  Speaker 1: say anything else, the doors of the room or whatever
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  Speaker 1: behind them open and these three guys and scrubs wheel
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  Speaker 1: Ag out on a gurney and it seems like he's awake.
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  Speaker 1: Thank god. He also has like a tube going into
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  Speaker 1: his nose. I'm pretty sure. At this point, Shounichi and
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  Speaker 1: Jessica rush over to him, and Shunichi's like, eh, shan,
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  Speaker 1: it's me. eBay Agi looks over at him, and he
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: just looks so exhausted, and he says, eBay shn is
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  Speaker 1: ash okay Oh. Jessica's like, he's fine, but he's being
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  Speaker 1: treated somewhere else. Don't worry. Ag relaxes and closes his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: We cut back to Ash now, who is alone in
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  Speaker 1: the room with Blanca and still pointing Blanca's own gun
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  Speaker 1: at him, and he says, out of my way, or
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  Speaker 1: I'll shoot. Blanca's like, what good would it do for
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  Speaker 1: you to go? You're a wanted criminal, Ash. If they
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  Speaker 1: question your relationship to him, he could end up being
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  Speaker 1: an accomplice. You knew this was gonna happen eventually. Why
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  Speaker 1: did you keep him so close? You couldn't guarantee his safety?
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  Speaker 1: You just wanted him around to escape your solitude. Fuck.
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  Speaker 1: Ash is like, shut up. Blanca continues, he doesn't exist
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  Speaker 1: to be your salvation. Ash's eyes widen. Shut up. He
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  Speaker 1: shoots and like barely misses Blanca's head, and he continues,
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  Speaker 1: shut up, you goddamn bastard. Shut up. He shoots over
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  Speaker 1: and over again, but he's like not really aiming for Blanca,
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  Speaker 1: but he's hitting the wall behind him and close to him,
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  Speaker 1: but like he could hit Blanca if you want to do,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not, and Blanca like doesn't even flinch. We
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  Speaker 1: cut to the hallway where everyone is still kind of
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: waiting for this conversation to be over, and they are
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  Speaker 1: now ducking from gunfire. Back in the room, Ash has
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  Speaker 1: reopened his wound and blood is just streaming down his
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  Speaker 1: stomach and onto his pants. He stopped firing when he's
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  Speaker 1: breathing really hard and he's still pointing the gun at Blanca,
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  Speaker 1: but then he just totally collapses onto the floor and
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  Speaker 1: he's out. I think I want to stop there for
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: a second because the scene like really pissed me off
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Like I don't know the amount that Ash
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  Speaker 1: has hurt right now, he obviously blames himself for what
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  Speaker 1: just happened to Ag. He really didn't need Blanca to
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  Speaker 1: also blame him. And yeah, there's no way he can
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  Speaker 1: go to the hospital. Blanc is totally right about that.
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  Speaker 1: It will implicate AG because you can't go to the
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  Speaker 1: hospital with a gun wound and not have the police come.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know about everywhere, but I did check the
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  Speaker 1: laws in New York, and the hospital staff are required
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  Speaker 1: to report guns wounds, so they're coming to see Ag,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: which is why Charlie's probably there. I mean he might
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: come anyway, because Junie, Chie and you know, Max and
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  Speaker 1: everybody are so close with Charlie. But no, the police
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  Speaker 1: get called, so Ash can't go there. And of course
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: he kind of needs to go to the hospital like
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  Speaker 1: he's been shot too, but he'll be arrested, absolutely, that'll
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  Speaker 1: be it if he goes to the hospital, like that's
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  Speaker 1: its because he's done too much. He's never gonna see
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  Speaker 1: the light of day again basically after this, so he
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  Speaker 1: can't go for his own sake and of course for
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  Speaker 1: AG's sake as well, which sucks, but that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good that Blanca has stopped him. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you care about them more than just
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: them being together. And Blanca is right sort of, you know,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: like he does feel less lonely with AG, and he
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: is a very lonely character, but like the whole like
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't exist to be salvation. Thing sucks because I
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: do think on some level that Ash feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: using AG and I'm gonna talk more about that, probably
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of episodes when we give to the
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  Speaker 1: angelized Maga. But hearing that must have like really really hurt,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: because you don't want your worst fears about yourself to
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  Speaker 1: be actually confirmed. And I don't think he's using AG.
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  Speaker 1: I think if Blanca knew everything, which he doesn't, he
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  Speaker 1: would see that their relationship is actually mutually beneficial to
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: each other, like mentally at least. But like, yeah, ouch,
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: fucking ouch. And of course if you didn't get this,
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Ashes so profoundly lonely. So yep, that's all I wanted
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: to say. There will continue, but fuck so anyway, outside
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: in the hallway, Singh is sitting and like hugging his knees.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty dark, and he looks up as Blanca walks
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  Speaker 1: out of the room and sing says, I knew you were,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: asked his acquaintance. He looks away. Yuiluing planned this, didn't
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  Speaker 1: he Blanc is like, I hope you'll forgive him. He
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  Speaker 1: walks away and Sing says, I wish I could we
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: go to Sing and Lao, who are standing like on
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  Speaker 1: one of the landings on the stairs, and Sing says,
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  Speaker 1: it's over for ashing us. He'll never forgive anyone who
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: hurd ag and he killed two of our guys too.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: We're traders now. I was like, it's my fault. I
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: knew what Yu Eiling was up to, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything. It is your fault. You should have told
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  Speaker 1: singh or anyone really. Sing is looking out the window
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  Speaker 1: and he says, forget it. Just promise me one thing loud,
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  Speaker 1: don't question anything I do from now on. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you planning to do? Sing says, come on,
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  Speaker 1: bing bro, and he looks at him sadly. Let me
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  Speaker 1: handle this. I didn't want to have to fight Ash.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: I just thought like, how great it would be if
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Shorter was with us. He takes a shaky breath and
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: a tear runs down his cheek. I wish I'd never
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: become boss. Back to the hospital. Jessica and Shinci are
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: looking through kind of like a big observation window type
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  Speaker 1: thing at Ag who is laying in a hospital bed
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  Speaker 1: and he's got like a breathing mask on his face,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: and I guess he's asleep. We go back to Ash,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: who is asleep, and then his eyes just shoot open
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  Speaker 1: and he gasps. He sits up like abruptly, and he's
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: breathing really hard, and the room is just dark. He
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: kind of collects himself and he closes his eyes and
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: then he kind of makes this incredibly painful, sad sounding exhale. Next,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: we see that kind of like big room in the warehouse,
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  Speaker 1: and like all of the gang members are there pretty much,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's really quiet and somber because this has just
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: not been good. And they hear a door open and
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: then they look over and they're all like Ash. Ash
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: has dressed himself and he looks fairly normal, but like
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: this is he needs to rest. This is bad. They
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: run over and they're like happy to see him and stuff,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and Alex is like, you're up already, are you okay?
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's not okay. Ash says, yeah, we don't have time.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: He walks forward into the room. Let's get down to business.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: We cut to one of the Black Sabbath guys who
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: looks up and he says, Boss Kin, who's standing next
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: to him, looks over and we see that the Chinatown
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: guys are entering the room because they weren't there because
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: everything's been kind of weird. Now ash Now is sitting
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: on a bench and he's looking just like so crisfallen.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: As they approach, Sing gets closer and he's like, two
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  Speaker 1: of my guys betrayed you, and I want to apologize.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Another Black Sabbath guys like it's too late for apologies.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Other people are kind of like talking in the background
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: too and stuff. Everybody's getting kind of antsy, and Kane
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: is like, shut up and they stop. Sing continues, I
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: know words aren't enough. I'm prepared to be punished, but
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I still have my responsibilities as a boss. So all
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: I ask is that you wait until we rescue everyone.
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  Speaker 1: If you're willing to show me any mercy. Sing walks
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  Speaker 1: more directly in front of ash Now. Ash I ask
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that you fight me one on one. Lao and Kane
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: gasp and chatter like kind of erupts all around from
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the gang members Ash just kind of stares and Lao says,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: are you insane? Sing's like, I told you to shut up.
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  Speaker 1: I want to end all of this. Lao looks panicked
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: like he's sweating, and he's like, no, you can't. And
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: then to like kind of everyone, He's like, he he
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: killed our guys like they were nothing. That's all he
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  Speaker 1: thinks of us, saying grabs Lao by the jacket and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: he's like stop it, Lao. Lao continues to him that
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Japanese boy is the only human worth anything. Ash at
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: this point is just sitting there. He looks totally like
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: out of it and dead, like he's not really paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: He's not flinching at these comments. It's almost like again
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: like the last episode, like they're treating it like he's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: not even in the room, like he's not even a
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: person anyway. Lao continues, why the fuck can't you see that?
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  Speaker 1: Are you all blind? How could you risk your life
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  Speaker 1: for him? This heartless, cold blooded monster? Oh my god. Yeah,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: So we cut to Ashity he just looks so upset,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: but not pissed off, like ashamed of himself. Up said great,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: this is exactly what he needed right now. His friend
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: is in the hospital, possibly dying because of your fucking gang,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and you're calling him a heartless monster. Fuck off Lao anyway,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Sing just like punches Lao in the face and he's
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: like saying one more word, and Lao stops him and
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: he's like, I'm out. Sing says what Lao's like, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: can't accept him, not him? Sorry Sing. He turns and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he walks away. A couple of the Chinatown gang guys
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: like call after him, and they're like trying to stop him,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and sings like let him go. Lao stops Sing says,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you went Tai. Lao is no longer one of us.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Lao smiles, glad to hear it. He continues to walk out.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: There's kind of a pause here for a minute, and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: once Lao is out of the room, Sing addresses Ash
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  Speaker 1: again and says, I'm sorry, So what do you say.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Ash finally looks up and is just like okay, Sing
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: exhales thanks, Ash, I'll cooperate with the liberation plot. I'll
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: stake my life on it. We cut to Ash sitting
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: alone in a darkened room, like he's sitting on a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: window sill and the room is just illuminated by the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: light coming in from the window kind of like in
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a long, straight beam and not dispersing for some reason.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It looks really cool, but I don't know if flight
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: works like that, but I still think it's awesome. Anyway,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: He's sitting there looking out the window, and the door
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: opens and Kane walks in. We cut to a shot
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: from the other side of the window, pane looking in
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: as Ash stares out just blankly. The window is like
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: super dirty, by the way, which I thought was like
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a super nice touch, considering like how gross this place is.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We also hear like police sirens in the background and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: just normal city noises, and Kane says, why'd you agree
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to it? Ashes, like his eyes told me he was
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: prepared to die. Couldn't really turn him down, Kane says,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: so he shows you as his hangman. Fuck, could we
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: not choose Ash to kill people right now? Like? Please? Anyway?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Ash says he's just doing what he can to save
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: his guys. Kin's like, aren't you gonna go? Ash has
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: not turned away from the window, by the way, He's
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: still looking out and he doesn't say anything. Kine's like,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you know, Aj was shot in the real bad place.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Ash clenches his fists. Don't I don't want to hear
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: his name. Kine's like, you'll regret it if something happens.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Ash stands really quickly and he says, I would be
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: there if I could. He kind of surprises himself, like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: he didn't realize he was gonna have this reaction, and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he looks down and he kind of like chokes on
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: his words, and he's just like, but I can't turn
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: him into a criminal. Cain looks shocked, and he says,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I guess even you fall apart sometimes worry about Lao.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: There's just some guys you just can't get along with.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: He turns to leave and Ashes like Ash places his
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: hand on the window pane and he's looking at his
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: reflection in the broken glass, and he says it's just
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that he probably sees it the repulsive monster, the real me.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Ash. Kane's like, stop torturing yourself, Ash,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I believe in you, and he turns to leave again.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Once Kane has gone, Ash grips his chest tightly and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: he says, hegi forgive me for not being able to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: be by your side. He covers his face with his
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: hand and he starts to cry, please don't take him
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: from me, God, Please, he collapses, take me instead. She's ash.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: We go to yue Lung, who is staring at some champagne.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He's wearing a robe and he's sitting on a couch
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and there's a knock at the door. The door opens
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and Blanca's like, excuse me and closes the door behind him.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Ue Lung says, you're back. So I heard he didn't die.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: He kind of chuckles and he's like, damn his luck.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: He takes a drink. Blanca's like, are you drunk, sir.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Ue Lung says me, you're right, I'm dry as hell,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and he's just like laughing. At this point, Blanca just
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: takes the glass from ue Lung's hand and he says,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you should stop. Champagne will give you a hangover. He
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: starts to walk away. Good night. Ue Lung says, didn't
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you want to tell me something? Blanca stops, yes, but
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it seems like tonight isn't the best time for it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I that ue Lung stands and says, then why don't
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I tell you something instead? Sit? Blanca says, mister yue Lung,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and ue Lung's like, sit, I order you two. Blanca
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: kind of stares at him for a moment and then
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: sits in a chair. Yue Lung is now standing with
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: his arms crossed, not looking at Blanca, and he says,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: have you ever been to Hong Kong? Blanka's like a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: few times. Yue Lung says, what did you think of it?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Blanka's like, it's a beautiful, mysterious city. Ue Lung says,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it's my hometown. We get a image of Hong Kong,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and then we see this old guy like sitting in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a chair with guards around him, and Ue Lung continues,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: my father was Lee Hong Lng, the most powerful of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: all the overseas Chinese. He controlled all that was light
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and dark. We then see a very young, very young,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: sad looking girl, and Ue Lung says, but my mother
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: was a poor street vendor's daughter. She became his mistress
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: when she was ten. Fuck great. So then we see
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Hong Lung pat like his mom on the head, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: of course because she's all really small, and he's like
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: lean down and pat around the head and stuff, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: it really has a very similar feel in my opinion too.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Some of the stuff we saw in ashes passed in
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: episode three when he was meeting Golding for the first time,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and it kind of freaked me out a little bit. Anyway,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: ue Lung continues, my father was sixty five. Then grotesque,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: is it not? Yes, it is. We then see his mom,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: who looks older now, like a teenager maybe holding a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: small child, and his dad is kind of like doting
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: over the child, and she does not look happy. She
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: looks blank, really blank. Yeah, awesome, yue Lung continues. My
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: mother was acquired by my father. He took good care
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of us. He knew I'd probably be his last child,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but he suddenly died when I was six. My brother's
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: barging in and they raped my mother and they killed her.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: We see Uelung watching all of this, and he continues,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I was held back by Hualung's arms as I watched
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: my mother being eaten by demons. We see his mom
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: sort of on the ground, I mean, we don't see
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: much of her. We see like her hair and one
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of her hands kind of, and then just the pool
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of blood surrounding her, which is yeah. At this point,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Uelung is leaning over Blanca and he says, so what
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: do you say. Don't I have the right to hatred.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: He takes his class back. What about Ash. Blanca's face
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: falls slightly, Uelon continues, jeered at and trampled on. Didn't
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he feel any hatred? Didn't he curse anyone? Uelung's face
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: is kind of like partially obscured and warped by the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Champagne glass, Like it's over half of his face because
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: he's holding it up. It's really interesting, he continues, I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: can see it. His anger under that cold, beautiful face
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: is the devil himself. I know it. He drops the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: glass and chuckles. It's not fair him trying to save himself.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: He should know he can't be saved by such a
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: frail thing. He smiles, sadly puts his hand on his face.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Blanca stands and tries to kind of touch his hand
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to comfort him, and Uie Lung brushes him away and says,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I don't need your sympathy, and he just like runs
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: out of the room. Geez. We go back to Ash
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and the gang and they're standing around a blue prince
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that is lying on a table, and Ash says, after
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: we get in, we'll move in groups. Leaders memorize the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: blueprint and all the escape roots. They'll be waiting for
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: an ambush. Kane's like, we're ready for it. Ash says,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: we won't die in vain. We're all coming back alive.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: We go back to Blonde, who is in his room.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: He's standing at his desk and he's like looking at
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: some green book and he puts it down and we
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: hear ue Lung say, where are you going? Blanca looks
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: over and ue LUNGI is standing in the doorway. Blanca says,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'd like to ender contract whoa. Ue Lung says, you're
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: going to Ash, aren't you. Blanca is at this point
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: putting some things in a suitcase, probably clothes, and says
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the odds are against him for real. This time he's
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: jumping headfirst into a trap with a gunshot wound. Ue
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Lung's like, so you're letting your emotions control you. I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: didn't know you had it in you. Blanca says, it's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: like he once said, I'm tired of playing the role
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I've been given. Ui Lung pauses and then he's like,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: what if I said no? Blanca says, mister yue Lung,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you learned to hate, but you couldn't learn to love.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I was like that too, but I didn't know hatred either.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I had no motions whatsoever. We're kind of panning down
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the interior contents of the suitcase, and in it, besides
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: clothes is Ernest Hemingway's a farewell to arms, Blanca continues.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I was the government's tool, just as you were the Lees.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: We see Blanca in his military type uniform and we
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: hear him say around the time that I joined Spetsna's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I met my wife Natalia. We cut to him and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Natalia in a field like staring at each other. And
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: she has short blonde hair, and she looks way too
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: much like ash. But that's okay. I'm not going to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: freak out about that, Blanca continues. But the government strongly
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: opposed our marriage. Her father had been executed in the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Soviet days as a political criminal. For the first time ever,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I disobeyed the government. She was the first person to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: ever teach me human feelings. What I didn't want to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: lose her. They are now close together, like right about
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to kiss, Blanca continues. One day I was sent on
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a mission to crimea. We to a black screen and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: then we cut to Natasha or Natalie. I'm so confused
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: about what her name is laying on the floor like,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: surrounded by debris and bleeding in several areas of her body.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And Blanca says, and Natasha was caught in a terrorist
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: attack and killed a terrorist group in the Middle East.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Took responsibility, but it was just really too peculiar. Uelung's like,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you thought the government did it. Blanca is now looking
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: out the window, and he says, who can say, No
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: one knows the truth. He turns around, mister Yuelong, you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: must not take a g O komota away from Ash.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: That would only make him another one of us. Yue
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Lung exhales sharply, and Blanca continues, an unloved, unloved, pathetic
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: being living only on hatred and emptiness. Uelung size. Blanca says,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he chose to love and die rather than to hate
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and rule. You can't be loved unless you love. At
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: least he knows how to do that. Ue Lung looks
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: so just destroyed by this, and he says, go and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: he turns away, Just go to Ash. Blanc is like,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: there will be someone who'll care for you and love you.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Uelung turns back. That'll never happen. Blanca starts to leave.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: You just don't realize it. He stops and turns back, Sayonada,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: please take care. Okay. I want to talk about this
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and how it plays off the other scene with Blanca
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and Ash. So first of all, I don't believe that
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Blanca didn't have emotions for a second. I don't think
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that's how this works. But that's a whole other thing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And I am very, very scared that Ash looked a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: lot like his wife. And I don't get why sometimes
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: she's called Natalie and sometimes she's called Natasha. I don't
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: understand that at all. But I guess I'm trying to
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: think of what I need to say here because I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: literally the night before last night, I woke up at
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: like like six am, so not that early, and I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: just started crying about this conversation and about Blanca telling
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Ash that he couldn't use AG as his salvation. He
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist to be a salvation. Basically, I thought it
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: was an interesting one point eighty from Blanca there talking
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: about how he can't use this kid, and then saying
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: like Ash obviously needs AG. He needs to not be
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: like the two of them, just these kind of unloving,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: uncaring monsters. But I wanted to point out that I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: think they're a little bit wrong there. I think Blanca
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and maybe ue Long see AG as this thing that
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: changed Ash and like like softened him or something, and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's true. I think that he really
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: needed AG because he really needed someone to just and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I've said this before, like see him like a human
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and make him less lonely. But it's not like he
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: wasn't compassionate before that, you know, like, and I don't
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: think that if he were to lose AG, he would
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: be this heartless monster. We just haven't seen that. He's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: lost so many people and he's just kind of kept,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you know, caring and shit. I mean he he didn't
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: have any sort of real relationship with his father or
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: his mom at all. Fucking Griffin left to go to war,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: and of course, when originally this was supposed to happen,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he was actually drafted. So it's not like
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: he really abandoned Ash, but either way feel like being abandoned.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: But Ash still went out of his way to find
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: him and to pull him out of that Va hospital
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: he was in and try to take care of him,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: which might have been ill advised, but was totally caring.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And kind of beyond the means of what a basically
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: homeless teenager should be doing, because he absolutely cared about him.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: What am I trying to say? It's not touched on
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in the anime, but in the manga, there's a point
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: where when Dino and Arthur realized that Ash has a brother,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and Dino is like, so that's why he needed so
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: much money, Arthur very heavy handedly implies that Ash had
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: still been having sex with Dino for money. So if
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: that's true, and we don't know if it is, because
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Arthur is just kind of an asshole and he also
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: might have misunderstood the situation, but if Ash is like still,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you know, prostituting himself to pay for his brother's care,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: like what the fuck? But what I'm trying to say
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is this is not someone who has ever shown that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: he's not compassionate and that he can't love. And then
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: he lost his brother, he lost Skip, he's lost Shorter,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and he still isn't just this cold, horrible thing. He's
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: not going to be that way if he loses age, like,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: because that's not him. And this whole thing with Ue
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Lung talking about Ash as a monster and then talking
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: about himself as a monster. I think what's really happening
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: here is and I've touched on this a little bit already,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: but Ue Lung he needs to have someone who is
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: like him. It makes him feel less lonely. The idea
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: that Ash is someone who's experienced kind of similar trauma
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: in his life, and if he is like him, that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: means that Ue Lung isn't wrong in the actions that
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: he's taking. I think that the way Ue Lung talks
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: about himself as a monster is different than the way
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that Ash talks about himself as a monster. I think
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that Ash, when he says that he's a monster, like
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: he did just a couple scenes ago, he is talking
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: about his actions that he's taken have made him into
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a monster, kind of which you know makes perfect sense.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: But and you're gonna be like, of course, but I
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: don't think U a Lung means it the same way.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I think U a Lung ease himself as a monster
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: like that is his nature, right, and that gives him
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: kind of an excuse for all of the shit he
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: is doing. And if Ash isn't a monster, then maybe
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you alone is just a bad person, and maybe he
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: just deserves to be alone, and I don't think you
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: alone can handle that. I hope that made sense. I
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: think I'm gonna stop there with that, But I think
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he is just trying to prove that's deep down at
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the very base of Ash is just a monster, so
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: that they can be similar. Anyway, back to the story,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: we go to someone who is breaking open a wooden
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: crate and there are like guns inside, obviously, so that's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: what's in crates in the show. Probably. We see that
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of the gang members are kind of right
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: outside of the warehouse and Sing is like, grab your weapons,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: it's time to get going. Everyone's kind of like running
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: around and getting stuff, and Fly and Ash are kind
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: of standing back under a street light, just kind of
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: watching this go down, and Fly says, damn, what's going on.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Ash is like, we're busting in these smirks. A car honks,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and Ash looks over and he sees that Blanca is
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: leaning on a car across the street. Blanca says hey,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Ash looks surprised, and then we cut to everybody kind
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: of rushing around again, getting ready to do whatever the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: hell they're going to do, and then to Blanca and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Ash who are standing together now with the car, and
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Blanca says, you're looking busy. Ash is like, what are
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you doing here? Blanca says, want to hire me? Ash
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: is like what? Blanca continues, I got fired? So how
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: about fifty million bucks? Ash is just kind of like
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: slack jawed and he's like, fifty mil are you crazy?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Blanca says, okay, how about five hundred dollars plus dinner.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Ash looks entirely confused, and Blanca continues cost the side,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: like really help out it. Ash kind of frowns and
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: then pouts and then says, I mean I guess we
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: could use another driver. Blanca's like it's a deal. Then.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: So Blanca and Ash are now getting into his car,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and Blanca says, so where too? I assume that there
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: was something in between that, but I don't really know.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Ash's eyes narrow, and he says the National Mental Health Institute.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Blanca starts the car and says okay, and they speed off.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: They're driving and Ash says, this is the wrong way
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: You're Where are you going? Blanc is like, we got
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: to make a quick stop first. They pull up to
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a corner and Blanca stops the car and says, AG's hospitalized.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Here he's out of the ICU and in the general ward.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Now the cops come around to check at twelve o'clock.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: On the dots, Ash looks, I don't know, concerned, I'm
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: not sure. Blanca holds something out to him, like a
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: white thing. It's clothing obviously, and says, go, you might
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: never get a chance to see him again. Ash looks
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: down and sighs, like I just did. And then we
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: see him exiting the car wearing like a white kind
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: of doctor's coat, lab coat thing. Blanca rolls down the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: window and says, twelve o'clock. Got it, Cinderella. The magical
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: fade at twelve. We now see Ash walking down a
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: dimly little hallway inside the hospital, and it's quiet because
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: it's eleven something I guess. He reaches a room and
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: stands there in front of the door, trying to kind
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: of work up the courage to open it, and him
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and Him start playing in the background, and he finally
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: slowly reaches out and grabs the handle and gently pulls open.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Inside we see that ag is laying in bed. He's
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: asleep because it's late, and there's a tube in his nose.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Ash walks into the room and over to the bed
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and he just stands there quietly. We get a side
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: shot of Ash. He's kind of like in the left
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: corner of the screen and there's nothing else except him.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: It's really interesting, and his hair is over his eyes,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: so we like can't see his emotional states. And he says,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I what have I done? He slowly puts his hands
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: over his face. He was right, He starts to shake.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I should have known. We cut to a close up
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of Ag as he sleeps, and we hear Ash just
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: sobbing in the background. AG, who maybe isn't completely asleep, thinks,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: somebody someone's crying. We see Ash again as he is
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: leaning over the bed, just kind of holding himself and sobbing,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: and AG thinks, what a sad voice. I wonder what
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: he's so sad about. I know that voice. We kind
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: of flash to the clock on the wall and see
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: that it is like eleven fifty eight PM. Kind of
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: maybe not that good at reading clocks at this point.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's been a couple of minutes or something, and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Ashes stopped sobbing, but he's still crying and like a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: tear is running down his cheek, and he says Sioonada,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and he turns to leave, and AG thinks, Siada, what
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: does he mean? Are you going somewhere? His hand kind
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: of starts to twitch like he's trying to get control
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: of his body, and he thinks, I have to say something.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Come on, voice, come on, and then he makes a fist.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: We go to Ash, who is walking back down the hallway.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Behind him, we can see Ag peek out of the doorway,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: kind of struggling to stand, and he says Ash. Ash
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: stops and he turns and he's surprised to see Age,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: who is breathing like really hard and kind of racing
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: himself against the wall and he looks like he's in pain,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and Ash says Hechi. Ag just kind of pulls himself
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: along the wall to get closer to Ash and he's
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: calling out him, and Ash gasps and says, no, don't move,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: and he starts to run towards him, which makes more
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: sense than AG going towards him, and Ag says, Ash,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: where are you? And his legs just give out and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: he kind of collapses into a sitting position and Ashes
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: like AG and he like kind of plunges for him
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and reaches out and Ag out towards him, and they're
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: like inches away from a touching, like maybe two inches,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and then they hear running down the hall and we
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: see that from behind Ag, Charlie and Shunci are approaching
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: and Charlie says Ash. Ag gasps and he pulls back
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: his hand and he says, go Ash, you'll get caught.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Ash gasps and he does not want to move, and
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Ag says hurry, and then he starts to cry, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: he says go Ash looks shocked and hurt, and he
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: also starts to cry. He turns and he takes off
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: running just as Shoonichi and Charlie reach Ag. Shunichi embraces
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Ag and he's like a chun. Charlie kind of checks
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: to make sure Age's okay, but then he starts to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: turn to go after Ash, and Agi reaches out and
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: grabs him by the waist and says, don't go after him,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: please let him go, and he just sits on the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: floor sobs. We see Kong standing by a door looking
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: through like a little window. He's in a room, obviously,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and we hear someone say help me. Kong yells at
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the door basically, where are you taking him? And he's
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: like banging on the door like trying to get out,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: and then we see Bones like in another room and
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: he's like stop. And then we cut to two orderlies
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: who are forcing a young gang member down the hall
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: and the gang members like let go of me, let go.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: And then we see Max in his room sell thing
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and he punches the door and he's like really really
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: roughed up and he just kind of falls to his knees,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: like his fist still on the door, and he says,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I can't die now. Fuck. We go to an operating
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: room and there are some doctors working on someone. We
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: can't see who they are, but that's probably that gang
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: member that they were dragging off, so that's great. Dino
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and Gregory are watching from like an observation room above
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and we hear Fox say what's the surgery about. Dino
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: looks behind him and says, it doesn't concern you. He
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: is smoking a cigar. By the way, Fox smirks banana fish.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Dino was about to take a puff from his cigar,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: but he stops. Fox continues, truth drugs are pretty convenient,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, there are truth drugs. I wasn't one
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: hundred percent sure. I'm not gonna get into that, but
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: they kind of might work or might not work. It
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: really depends on a lot of factors. And also they
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: can be dangerous. But you know, we haven't found a
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: truth serum that is like one hundred percent effective or
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: works on every situation or anything, but they do kind
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: of sort of exist anyway. Dino's like, Colonel Fox, this
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: is a relevant to your job. You have better things
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: to do than snoop around. He turns to face him,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: because he had still been watching the operation. If you
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: call yourself a professional, that is. Fox is like, of course, monsieur,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I'll make sure that the hostage is tell me where
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: your son and Dino cuts him off. No need, I've
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: already taken that to my own hands. He'll come tomorrow
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: morning at seven am. Fuck. Fox is like, I'm much obliged.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Dino turns back to the window. Don't make me regret
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: hiring you this time. Fox is like, I'm glad I'll
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: be able to see your son again. We cut to
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: a park, which I'm pretty sure a central park. Ash
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: is laying in the grass. It's night, by the way,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: because it's still night. He just ran out of AG's
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: room crying, so now he's just in the grass, yay,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: and Blanca is loading a gun. Ash sits up, but
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: he's holding his abdomen and he looks like he's in pain.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Blanca says, stay still or you'll start bleeding again. I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: guess he started bleeding and they had to stop to
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: take care of him. Yay. Ash is like, there's no time.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: We cut two an image on a phone Ash's phone
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: of Max strapped to a chair wearing headphones. I don't
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: know what that's about, and just looking like really really
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: roughed up. Blanc is like, this is bad. Ash flips
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: to another picture of four gang members on their knees,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: blindfolded with their hands behind their backs and like three
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: mercenary guys standing over them with guns. Awesome. Blanc is like,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: so that's why you're in such a hurry. So what
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: are you gonna do? We owe to a guy standing
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: in a room with his arms crossed, like an older
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: looking man. He's tapping his hand on his arm and
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: he looks pretty dishoveled. And the door opens and he
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: looks over and Robert walks in with Jessica and he says,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: got it, and the guy's like great, Jessica says email,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: goals in and ask him for a comment. Guy says
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: got it. Jessica throws on her jacket and turns to leave.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Says Robert, I'm borrowing your car. Robert's like, wait, you
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: don't mean She probably does mean that. Yes. We cut
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: to Gregory as he throws open a door and says, Papa.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: He walks into Dino's bedroom. It's obviously nighttime and Dino
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: is in bed, and he says, what is it at
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: this time of night. Gregory hands him a tablet and
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: says this. Dino looks at it and he starts to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: sweat and says, I'll be over in a second. Call
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: my lawyer. Don't answer the media. Gregory's like, got it.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Dino says, call Fox. We go back to Blanca and
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Ash in the park and Blanca says that's quite bold.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Ash just like it's the only thing I could do.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: He's looking away and he doesn't seem thrilled about any
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: of this. He continues, they're gonna kill the hostages, whether
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: I hand over the data or not. So Jessica and
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I came up with this plan. Blanc is like, it's
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: pretty risky. We go to Dino in Fox in some room,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: and Dino says, the project must be suspended. The data
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: has been leaked to the press. It'll be in next
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: week's issue of Newsweek. Fox is like, so your son
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: abandoned the hostages. He puts his hand on his chin.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: That's unexpected. Dino says, you guard this place, execute the hostages,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and send their bodies to him. Make sure he feels
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: the full weight of what he's done. At this point,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the credits start to appear on the screen. We cut
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to Sing and another Chinatown gang dude like in a tree.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Sing is looking through binoculars and the other guy has
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a walkie talkie and he says, there he is. It's Goalzeene.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: We see cars leaving the National Mental Health Institute, several
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: black cars, and then we see Kane and one of
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: his guys like in a kind of wooded area, and
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Kane says he's coming. We see the first car. The
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: guys in it are like rounding a corner and they
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: look really confused, and then we see what's confusing them.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: A tractor trailer and a pickup truck are completely blocking
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: the road, like all the way, like they're parked across it.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: And one of the guys is like a car crash,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: and then like a bunch of the gang members like
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: pop out from behind the cars and start shooting at
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: this car, and the car like spins out because they
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: hit one of its tires, so it's like not facing
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: forward anymore, and the guys are probably dead. And Goalzine's
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: car is the next car and they have to break
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: like super hard to avoid hitting it, so now they
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: can't even get past this car, and now they were
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: being fired on two Gregory says, pop a get down,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: and he like pushes Goalsane down to the floor. The
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: car is just getting shot like the fuck up, and
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: now Gregory and Dino are like behind it taking cover.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Gregory turns to someone and says, take Papa somewhere safe.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Then he starts to return fire, but he pretty quickly
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: gets shot like three times in the chest. Oh my god, Gregory,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: poor Gregory, I guess, and Dino's like, oh my god,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited. This is the only time Gregory's name
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: has been said in the anime, and he really is Gregory. Yeay,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I feel validated finally. Sorry. Anyway, at this point, the
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: ending theme starts to play and A gun appears behind
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Dino's head and we see that it is ash and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: he says, don't move, Yes, you're coming with me. Dino moves,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: he turns his head towards him and says, I didn't
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: think you were as foolish. He stands, you know, splid
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: gunpoint though, and we see the Blancas there now and
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: they've you know, stopped firing obviously, and Blanca says, we
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: meet again, sir. He's kind of like smiling politely. He's
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: so weird, and Dino's like to think i'd see you
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: in this situation. You've sunk in quite low working as
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: an underdog for these punks. Blanc is like, I mean
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: that's what I was to begin with anyway. Ash Andy
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Gang lead Dino back towards the institute at gunpoint, and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: doctor Mannerheim and Fox are like watching them approach from
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: one of the windows in the building and doctor Mannerheim says,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I can't believe it, colonel, and Fox is like, what
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: a surprise. I'm amazed, Doctor, get ready to escape. Doctor
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Mannerheim is confused, and Fox continues, get me your research
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: data and as many samples of the drug as you
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: can at this point. Ash and Golzin enter the building
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: and the staff is there standing around like scared and
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: not knowing what to do, and Ash says, get me,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: doctor Mannerheim. We hear Fox say you can talk to me. Instead,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: we see that he's standing like above, kind of on
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the balcony area that we know about from previous shots
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: of this place. He continues, so we meet again, young Air.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: He starts to walk down the stairs. What are your demands?
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Ash says, release all the hostages now, Fox smirks. I
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: see his face falls. Here's my answer. He pulls out
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: a gun and he just shoots Golding twice in the chest.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Ash is like horrified and Dino falls to the ground
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: in slow motion as his blood kind of like spurts everywhere,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: and then we go with the title card for whom
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: the bell holes. I guess it was Dino and that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the end. Yay, So closing thoughts, I think I said
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: most of what I needed to say during the episode,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: which was intentional this time. But fucking Dino just got shot,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool. I mean, I was gonna say
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I'd prefer if Ash had done it, but I actually
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: don't care who kills Dino or anything. I just don't
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: want him around messing sit up anymore, you know, running sex,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: trafficking things and using mind control drugs on people in
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: other countries, like, get him out of here. But I
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: was really shocked that Fox shot him, and I have
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: no idea why I was shocked because Fox obviously his
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: kind of plan is like get Dino out of there
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and use Ash to control the Corsican mafia. But for
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: some reason, I just didn't expect him to go like,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: oh okay, and then just shoot him so that he
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: didn't have to negotiate with Ash anymore. So yeah, so
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: obviously it looks like we're heading towards some sort of
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: big fight conclusion thing, which is good because next week
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: is the last episode, which is, I should warn you.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Instead of being twenty two minutes, it's thirty one minutes.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: I guess just didn't have any commercial breaks in Japan
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: or something, and it feels long. Yeah, next week's episode
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a lot. But yeah, I really liked
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: this episode. I am still incredibly hurt that Ash and
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Agy couldn't even touch each other. They were so close
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to just touching, which makes me all the more sad.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Because I know that they both wanted that, and knowing
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: that Ash has such a big problem with being touched
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: by people, it's just really sad, like he has this
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: person that offers him so much comfort and he just couldn't.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: And I know he blames himself for putting Ag in
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: that situation, but he's told Ag so many times that
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: he's dangerous and that the people around him get hurt.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: AG made the decision to stay because Ag cares about
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: him more than he cares about his safety. It seems.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would feel the same way Ash feels.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I would feel like it was my fault, but I'm
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: saying it is not, at least not entirely, and that
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I hope that he realizes that. Anyway, That's really all
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I got. I don't know how well it was explained
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: in the anime, really, but like the idea that they
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: were like, we're gonna kill the hostages if you don't
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: show up, or if you publish the thing, will kill them,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and then Ash was just like, I guess we're just
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: publishing all of the stuff in an effort to get
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Goalsing to leave the National Mental Health Institute so that
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: they could fucking basically barricade them and catch goalsing. I
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: thought that was a really interesting, good plan. Yeah, anyway,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: really that's pretty much it, but I did want to say,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: here is the plan going forward. So next week we
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: have the really terrible twenty fourth episode, the last episode
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: of Banana Fish that we're going to cover, obviously, and
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: then I will do three more Banana Fish weeks. I
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: am sorry if you don't like Banana Fish, but no
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: one told me that they didn't want me to do this,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: so we're doing it. And so these three weeks we'll
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: cover those one shots that come after this that are
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: just don't exist in the anime. So first week we'll
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: do Angelize, second week we will do Garden of Lights,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and that's going to be really upsetting, and then the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: third week we will probably wrap things up with Private Opinion.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I have a lot to say about all of these.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: So if you listen next week and you're like I
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: feel like there was so much more that Michelle could
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: have said that she didn't say, it's cause I'm waiting.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, after that, I will probably take a couple
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: of weeks off maybe I'm not sure yet, and I
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: will pick back up with a different anime, but I'm
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: not sure which one. It's either going to be Serial
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Experiments Lane, Doro Hedoro, or eighty six. If you have
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: a preference, you should let me know. I'm leaning away
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: from Serial Experiments Lane primarily because it has no way
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to legally stream it for some reason, like nobody has
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: the license in the US, so I feel like that
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: would be harder. The other two are also really interesting
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: weird series. Well, Dora Hedoro is weird, eighty six is
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: interesting whatever written by female, either Mangaca or writers that
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I do kind of want to share. And Dora Heidoro
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: has an upcoming season sometime in twenty twenty five, so
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: that could be kind of cool because you could watch
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: it with me, and then you could watch the new
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: season when it comes out. I don't know. I'm saying.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: If you have a preference, you can email me your preference,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: or you can tell me that I should just stop
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: doing this because this season just made you hate me.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Whatever you want, I don't know, just something anyway that's
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be it for me. I've said too much stuff already,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: So I hope you have like a really good whatever,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna see you next week. Maybe unless we
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: all die later. Weeps.