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Banana Fish Ep. 18- Islands in the Stream · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Yay. I guess. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: not having a really good day, I guess. So I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna do the best I can to make this okay.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I ever make these okay, but
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Speaker 1: if I do, I'm gonna try to do at least
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Speaker 1: that decent of quality, I guess. If not, I hope
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Speaker 1: it's as bad as usual. I don't know, guys. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't really have anything interesting to talk about. I know,
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Speaker 1: I've been kind of just talking about Donda non before
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Speaker 1: a lot of the episodes, but like, I don't fucking care.
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Speaker 1: This week it was fine. Sorry, Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm just it's just not been not been good today. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't matter because we're gonna talk about Banana Fish
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Speaker 1: episode eighteen, which I am so excited to talk about,
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Speaker 1: so hopefully I can find that enter and make this okay. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's let's see maybe. So episode eighteen is called Islands
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Speaker 1: in the Stream, which I am not going to explain
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Speaker 1: to you because it's relevant to the episode and we'll
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Speaker 1: just talk about it as it comes up. But it's
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Speaker 1: one of the few episode titles that you know, actually
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Speaker 1: makes sense with the episode, so good on them. So
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Speaker 1: if you remember at the end of the last episode,
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Speaker 1: fucking kipperd was fucking shot in the head by Blanca,
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Speaker 1: that new dude that we have in the show now,
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Speaker 1: and then like we ended with him like walking down
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Speaker 1: the street. So this happens, I guess not directly after that,
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Speaker 1: but soon after, maybe the next day. In fact, definitely
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Speaker 1: the next day. So we start the episode with like
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Speaker 1: a bunch of cars like driving on a highway and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And there's also like a blue like tractor trailer truck
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Speaker 1: that's like carrying something that looks like maybe it's oil
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Speaker 1: or some sort of fuel because it's got that shape
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Speaker 1: to it, like that it has liquid in it, you know.
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Speaker 1: And we hear a voice say, did you get a
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Speaker 1: hold of Kippard? Oh, and we see that it is
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Speaker 1: Colonel Holestock. He's in the back seat of this car
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Speaker 1: I guess it's driving on the highway and he's talking
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Speaker 1: on the phone and he says fine then and then
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Speaker 1: to the driver he's like, you better keep your loins
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Speaker 1: in check too. What The driver like smiles and he's like,
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Speaker 1: are you kidding? I know how he and he is
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Speaker 1: shot in the head right through the front windshield. So
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Speaker 1: obviously he loses control of the car because he's dead now,
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Speaker 1: and they fucking smash into the truck and then we
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Speaker 1: see this giant explosion. Yay, I think that means that
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Speaker 1: hole Stock is dead. And then we know the opening. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was a little bit too excited, but whatever. Back
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Speaker 1: from the opening, we open on Ash who is asleep
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Speaker 1: in bed on his stomach, kind of tangled up in
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Speaker 1: some blankets. Then we hear Ag saying Ash, Ash, and
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Speaker 1: he's standing over him, and he's like, this is the
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Speaker 1: fifth time. Wake up already. It's way past noon. Let
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Speaker 1: him sleep. He told you that he was going prostituting,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was out late. Ash like kind of
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Speaker 1: stirs and he like makes a sound, but he's like
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Speaker 1: not getting up and I don't think he's awake at
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Speaker 1: all at this point, and Age's like, geez, how do
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Speaker 1: you stay alive like this? And he's like pulling the
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Speaker 1: covers and like trying to get Ash to wake up,
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Speaker 1: and he continues, I made breakfast. I'm waking you up
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Speaker 1: if it's the last thing I do. He like pulls
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Speaker 1: Ash along with the covers, and then we cut to
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Speaker 1: Ag closing the shower curtain and he says, a shower
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Speaker 1: should wake you up. And he's starting to leave the
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Speaker 1: bathroom and he says, just make sure you take off
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Speaker 1: your underwear, okay, And he closes the door and he
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Speaker 1: stops and he's like hmm. He goes back into the
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Speaker 1: bathroom and he opens the shower curtain again and he
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Speaker 1: sees Ash laying in the tub on his side, like
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Speaker 1: kind of curled up, just totally asleep, and he sighs.
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Speaker 1: We then cut to a bowl of salad and then
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Speaker 1: some yogurts and some like fruits, and a croissant and
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Speaker 1: some bacon eggs on a table. That's a nice spread. Agy,
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Speaker 1: good job, really nice breakfast, and Ag says, here avocado
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Speaker 1: and trim salad your favorite. Oh I also probably like that.
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Speaker 1: Eat and you'll wake up. Ash is sort of awake,
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Speaker 1: I guess. I mean he's sitting up and he takes
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Speaker 1: a bite, but he looks so out of it, like
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Speaker 1: he is chewing so mechanically, and Ag, who is now
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Speaker 1: with the refrigerator, says, hold on, let me get you
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Speaker 1: some milk. He opens the milk and he looks back
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Speaker 1: over and Ash is just asleep in the food, still
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Speaker 1: holding his fork. We cut to the shower head being
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Speaker 1: turned on and we hear AG say, how's that. Ash
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Speaker 1: is kind of s in the tub as the water
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Speaker 1: just rains down on him. He still doesn't look like
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Speaker 1: he's awake. By the way, I also wonder if he
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Speaker 1: still has his underwear on, but we don't know, and
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Speaker 1: Age's like, breakfast is in five minutes, Okay, he walks out.
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Speaker 1: Ash is still not really there for a second, but
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Speaker 1: then he like kind of looks up. I guess the
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Speaker 1: water finally gets to him and he moves his hair
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Speaker 1: away from his face and size. We go to Ag
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Speaker 1: reading the New York Journal and he looks over as
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Speaker 1: he hears the door open. Ash emerges, fully dressed and
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Speaker 1: with a towel that he's using to dry his hair,
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Speaker 1: and Age's like, finally Ash opens the fridge and he's like,
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Speaker 1: when'd you get up? Age says, eight thirty? What do
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Speaker 1: you have low blood pressure or something? He smirks, you're
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Speaker 1: like a frail little girl. And Ash is like, only
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Speaker 1: the elderly get up early. Why don't you start some
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Speaker 1: early morning croquet? He smirks, and he drinks some milk
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Speaker 1: straight out of the carton. AG is like gripping the
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Speaker 1: newspaper angrily now and he thinks, damn it, he's fully awake. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's your fault. You woke him up. Ash sits down
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Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, avocado's from salad. Ag looks over
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Speaker 1: and Ash continues, someone's already eaten some and AG's like,
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Speaker 1: it was you. Ash takes a bite, totally unfazed, like
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Speaker 1: he's not just stressing the hell out of Ag, and
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Speaker 1: he's like, this is really good. You'd make a really
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Speaker 1: good wife. Okay. Ag takes a brief pause to regain
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Speaker 1: his composure, and then he looks back the newspaper and says,
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Speaker 1: I've never heard of an American that hates hamburgers, and
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Speaker 1: Ash is like, what's wrong with that? Not all Japanese
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Speaker 1: people like not toe either. AG frowns and he thinks
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Speaker 1: he's still mad about the NATO and Ash's like, let
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Speaker 1: me see the paper. Ag says, read it later, and
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Speaker 1: Ash just like, you take way too long to read,
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Speaker 1: pig bro, Why don't you go learn English with some
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Speaker 1: ask Tome Street first? Okay, And he's pulling like a
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Speaker 1: really convincingly concerned face. AG kind of growls, but eventually
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Speaker 1: he just hands the newspaper over to Ash and as
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Speaker 1: just like thanks, I'll buy you a comic book. Later.
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Speaker 1: Ag kind of like leans over the table, like trying
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Speaker 1: to look at the paper, and he's like, what's in there?
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Speaker 1: What's the news? And Ash is like, don't worry, big bro,
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Speaker 1: and he pushes AG's face out of the way and
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Speaker 1: he's like, keep your nose out of it. As Ash
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Speaker 1: reads the newspaper, Ag stands behind him with the floor
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Speaker 1: lamp raised, trying to decide whether he should hit him
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Speaker 1: or not. And the doorbell rings and Ash's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: someone's at the door. Ag, still standing behind him with
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Speaker 1: the lamp, is like, I'm not your maid, and Ash's like, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of course you're not. And Ag just kind of goes
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Speaker 1: to the door anyway, and we hear like the door open.
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Speaker 1: And as this is happening, Ash is looking kind of
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Speaker 1: contentedly at the newspaper. For a minutes. He was having
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Speaker 1: a really nice time stressing out Ag apparently, but then
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Speaker 1: and his expression gets really serious. He puts down the
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Speaker 1: paper and thinks it's not in the news yet. Who
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Speaker 1: killed Kippard? And why we get a quick flash of
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Speaker 1: the previous episode where kipperd is getting shot and stuff
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Speaker 1: and Ash thinks that was definitely the work of a pro.
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Speaker 1: Then we hear AG say ebase on and Ash looks up.
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Speaker 1: We see Shoonichi and Eba standing I guess, like in
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Speaker 1: the hall or something, and Shnici's like, I was worried
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Speaker 1: to death. Ag looks kind of ashamed and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and Shanci says, I'm just glad you're safe. Ash,
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Speaker 1: I guess arrives in the doorway and he's just kind
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Speaker 1: of watching them, and then Max appears behind Ash and
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Speaker 1: he's like, yo, can I bar you for a minute.
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Speaker 1: We go to what might be a coffee shop. I
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Speaker 1: don't really know, but there are people looks like they're
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Speaker 1: drinking beverages and it doesn't look like a bar, and
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Speaker 1: Max and Ash are sitting at like a table with
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Speaker 1: their beverages and Max says, I showed you report to
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Speaker 1: a psychopharmacologist. He was impressed, but then he realizes Ash
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Speaker 1: is like not really there, and he's like, hey, are
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Speaker 1: you listening? Ashley just kind of staring at the table solemnly,
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Speaker 1: and he looks up and he's like what Yeah. Then
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Speaker 1: he kind of looks down again, and there's a TV
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Speaker 1: in the background with a headline on it that says
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Speaker 1: breaking news, explosion on Highway eighty seven. It's actually Interstate
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Speaker 1: eighty seven, not Highway eighty seven, but I'll give him that.
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Speaker 1: And we hear the newscasters say there's been an accident
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Speaker 1: on I eighty seven. Colonel Thomas Holstock died in the crash.
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Speaker 1: Ash looks over. Max's like divine punishment maybe, and Ash's like, no,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't an accident. We cut to a rundown room
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Speaker 1: with a long table in the middle and a really
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Speaker 1: nice radiator because radiators are awesome, and Max and Ash
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Speaker 1: are in the room and Max says, from here and
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Speaker 1: he's looking out the window, and Ash says, KIPPERD and Holstock,
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Speaker 1: there's no way this is a coincidence. The killer just
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Speaker 1: made it look like an accident. Good job, Ash. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to tell you that Ash is wearing
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Speaker 1: the jean jacket from the manga that he always wears,
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Speaker 1: so I was really happy about that. Anyway, He continues,
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Speaker 1: if he's skilled enough to shoot Kipperd from here, it's possible,
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Speaker 1: and he thinks could it be? And he gasps because
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Speaker 1: he sees a green book laying on a box on
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Speaker 1: the floor, and we cut closer to it and we
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Speaker 1: see that it is Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway.
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Speaker 1: There's the title. Ash looks terrified and he thinks, Blanca.
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Speaker 1: We cut to Blanca in a rope in some room
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Speaker 1: on the phone and he says, I'm glad to hear
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Speaker 1: you're satisfied. Good day, and he hangs up. We see
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Speaker 1: a picture on the desk in the room and it's
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Speaker 1: of Ash and Ag just like hanging out and talking
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Speaker 1: outside somewhere. Blanca smiles and he says things are about
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Speaker 1: to get busy for you, Blanca. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: you're doing, but like you should stop please. We cut
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Speaker 1: to the White House, and I don't mean a white house,
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Speaker 1: I mean the White House and its exterior shots. We
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Speaker 1: hear smiles say it's a crucial trump card, and we
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Speaker 1: see he's on the phone like looking out the window,
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Speaker 1: and he continues to just let it go to waste.
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Speaker 1: Is the foundation is pretty much in his hands. Now,
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Speaker 1: what shall we do? Your excellency, I don't know who
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Speaker 1: you call, Your excellency, but are we trying to suggest
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Speaker 1: that this is the president or like a I don't
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Speaker 1: know anyway, that's all we get that. Now we are
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Speaker 1: looking at the window of an apartment with blinds closed,
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Speaker 1: like from the outside through what looks like a telescope,
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Speaker 1: like we've got kind of a round view of it.
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Speaker 1: And we hear Blanca say, that's his hideout right there,
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Speaker 1: just opposite of your office. Fuck, that wasn't so hard.
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Speaker 1: Dino is looking through the telescope and he's like he
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Speaker 1: never ceases to amaze me. Grous Yue Lung is also
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Speaker 1: there and he's like, it's darkest under the lamp post
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Speaker 1: or so, they say. I don't know anyone who says that,
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Speaker 1: and Blanc is like, and he is. Dino says, mister
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Speaker 1: Lee Yue Lung of the Lee Conglomerates. He's the one
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Speaker 1: who devised this plan. Blanc is like, I see, it's
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Speaker 1: in honor to meet you. Yue Lung says, what are
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Speaker 1: you going to show us today? Blanc is like, you'll see.
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Speaker 1: Just wait. They all look out the window and we
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Speaker 1: are now seeing them from outside of the window that
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Speaker 1: they are in the I guess apartment building, and Blanca
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Speaker 1: continues he won't be able to keep from trying to
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Speaker 1: find out. Ue Lung's like, I see you know Ash
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Speaker 1: very well, and Blanca says, I guess I do. He
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Speaker 1: takes off his glasses and he says, I'm the one
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Speaker 1: who taught him. I mean sort of we kind of
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Speaker 1: already knew that, but oh, if this dude is this
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Speaker 1: good at finding people at shooting people, it would make
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Speaker 1: sense as to why Ash is so good at those
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Speaker 1: things too. We go to Ash, who is sitting on
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Speaker 1: the couch in the apartments. He's looking pretty stressed and
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Speaker 1: at the floor, and he thinks, if my guess is right,
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Speaker 1: he walks to the window and he pulls open the
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Speaker 1: curtains and he just stands there for minutes and then thinks,
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Speaker 1: was that wrong, Ash? Were you expected to get shot?
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Speaker 1: What the fuck? Then Ag opens the door from the
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Speaker 1: other room and he's holding a couple of mugs and
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Speaker 1: he says, Ash want some, and Ash is like, stay back,
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Speaker 1: and it's too late, and Ag is just like shot,
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Speaker 1: just like that in the right shoulder, and he falls backwards,
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Speaker 1: dropping the mugs, and Ash lunges onto him to protect him.
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Speaker 1: So they're on the floor and there's bullets flying through
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Speaker 1: the window, like landing around them, and it's actually really sweet.
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Speaker 1: And Bones and Kong, who are also in the other room,
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Speaker 1: come to the doorway and they're like boss, and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: turn off the light and they do. Ash lifts up
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Speaker 1: Ag and he says, now run. They make it into
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Speaker 1: the other room and Age sits on the couch, Win saying,
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Speaker 1: and he's grabbing his shoulder because he's just been shot
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Speaker 1: in the shoulder, and Bones is like, you're you're okay.
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Speaker 1: Heg's like, yeah, it just nicked me. Ash is not
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Speaker 1: near Ag at this point, like Bones and Kong are.
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Speaker 1: He's looking at the door and he thinks there's no
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Speaker 1: doubt anymore. He looks over at Ag and he continues
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Speaker 1: and his target is. At this point, Ash's phone starts
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Speaker 1: to buzz and he gasps, oh God. Blanca is on
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Speaker 1: the phone. We hear him say hello, little kitten, you've
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Speaker 1: grown up. Ash taking the call in another room, maybe
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Speaker 1: the kitchen or our pantry, says you bastard. Blanc is like,
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard that from you in the longest time.
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Speaker 1: Seems you haven't changed much. Hold on Ashes waiting, we
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Speaker 1: hear Yue Lung on the phone. Now, Hello, Ash, Ash gasps, okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean I guess he didn't know that ue Lung
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Speaker 1: was involved anyway, yue Lung says, you've received our warning.
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Speaker 1: We've hired him, and his target is your friend, A
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Speaker 1: g Okamura. He smiles. Ash's eyes widen. Yeah. Uelung continues.
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Speaker 1: Negotiations will begin tomorrow night at nine pm. Peer eight
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Speaker 1: Warehouse twelve. By the way, Peer eight is a fishing
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Speaker 1: peer in Brooklyn, which is probably not really what they
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Speaker 1: were going for, but whatever, and Ash says, put Blanca
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Speaker 1: back on. Blanca takes over. Yes, honey, fucking be serious, Blanca.
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Speaker 1: And then he moves his ear away from the phone, smiling,
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Speaker 1: and Ash yells, you said you were tired, you goddamn liar.
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Speaker 1: What happened to your Caribbean life?
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 1: He is breathing really hard, and Blanca's like, don't worry,
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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying my retirement. The Caribbean is great, the bright sun,
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Speaker 1: chocolate colored women. And Ash says, I hope your parts
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Speaker 1: rot and fall off, and he slams down the phone
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Speaker 1: and he exhales, I just want to point out this
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Speaker 1: because I don't know where else to put It's like
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Speaker 1: that was the weirdest phone conversation because you gotta understand
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Speaker 1: Ash is freaking out because age, you just got shot,
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Speaker 1: and Blanca is like amused. But it like no one
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Speaker 1: else sees this as like a life and death diver situation.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like Ash is throwing a tantrum right the
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Speaker 1: way that Blanca is responding by like kind of moving
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Speaker 1: the phone away from his ear and like smirking while
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Speaker 1: Ash is yelling at him. It's really distressing because, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it makes it kind of look like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: Ash is complaining about something really stupid, like he didn't
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Speaker 1: get the color car for his birthday that he wanted
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Speaker 1: or something not, like his friend has just been shot.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, super interesting and upsetting. Continuing right along, you
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Speaker 1: go to a flashback. Now it's like a wooded area.
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Speaker 1: It actually looks nice, like the colors are like really
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Speaker 1: bright and vibrant, and we see Blanca sitting on a
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Speaker 1: bench and Ash is standing nearby, and he is younger
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Speaker 1: obviously I can tell you that he's fourteen. Here, his
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Speaker 1: hair is shorter, he's shorter in general, and he says
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Speaker 1: to Blanca, is that book any good? Blanca is reading
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Speaker 1: a book obviously, and he says that's for you to
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Speaker 1: decide yourself. And Ash says, what's it called? Blanca is
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Speaker 1: like islands in the stream. Want to read it? It
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Speaker 1: depicts the solitude of humans? Oh, very banana fish. Ash
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Speaker 1: looks away and he says, yeah, I think Cash know
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Speaker 1: something about solitude already. Blanca closes the book and says, now,
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Speaker 1: I take it back, read it when you've grown up
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Speaker 1: a bit more. We see them walking off together and
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Speaker 1: Ashes like, what's that supposed to mean? Back to now?
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Speaker 1: Or I guess. A little bit later, Ash is staring
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Speaker 1: out the window and it's raining and it's really dark,
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Speaker 1: so either just a really big rainstorm where it's night now,
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Speaker 1: and he thinks, why you why? After all this time,
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Speaker 1: I'm no match, not against him. He closes his eyes,
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Speaker 1: kind of looking a little resigned, and he thinks, what
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Speaker 1: should I do? He looks outside again. What can I do?
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Speaker 1: I don't know actually what he can do besides go
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Speaker 1: to the meeting, I guess because he can't have Ag die. Right.
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Speaker 1: We now see Ag sitting in bed and he looks
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Speaker 1: up as he hears the door open, and it's Ash,
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Speaker 1: of course, and he's closing the door behind him, and
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Speaker 1: he walks over and he says, how is it? And
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Speaker 1: AG's like, it's not bad, it's nothing. Really. Ash puts
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Speaker 1: his hand on AG's forehead and he says, got a fever.
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Speaker 1: I guess not, but you better rest. Gunshot wounds can
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Speaker 1: cause fevers. I don't actually think that's true. I tried
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Speaker 1: to look it up unless there's an actual infection. I
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Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna get a fever from a gunshot wound,
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Speaker 1: but I could be wrong. So Ash walks over to
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Speaker 1: the window and he opens the curtains and AG says
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Speaker 1: is it safe to have them open now? And Ash
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Speaker 1: just like yeah. AG looks down, seems like there's trouble again,
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Speaker 1: and Ash is like, it's nothing. I hadn't expected, fucking liar.
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Speaker 1: He opens a can of beer and he says, go
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Speaker 1: to sleep. AG pauses for a second and he says, Ash,
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Speaker 1: you should come to Japan.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Ash looks over what and in the background him and
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Speaker 1: him starts to play, which I haven't mentioned before, is
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Speaker 1: like my favorite Ash AG song from the soundtrack. I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry that I knew what it was immediately. I meant
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Speaker 1: to point it out last episode during a really nice
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Speaker 1: scene but him and him spelled him and HYM, which
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Speaker 1: I wonder if it was supposed to have it n
20:16
Speaker 1: after the m to make it like him, like a
20:18
Speaker 1: song him, but I don't really know. But it's like
20:21
Speaker 1: this really quiet kind of piano piece. I just I
20:26
Speaker 1: love them, and I love them with the song playing anyway,
20:30
Speaker 1: and this is a big deal for me, this scene.
20:32
Speaker 1: So AG says when this is all over, come to
20:36
Speaker 1: Japan with me. Oh my god, and that she says, me,
20:41
Speaker 1: go to Japan. Where'd you get that idea? Me? I've
20:45
Speaker 1: been saying it for weeks, obviously not to you guys,
20:48
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to spoil anything. But literally, when
20:50
Speaker 1: I was watching this for the first time, I was like,
20:53
Speaker 1: just take him to Japan, Please get him out of here. Anyway.
20:56
Speaker 1: So I was like fucking so excited and just crying
21:01
Speaker 1: when Age said that. So whatever. Anyway, Ag is confused
21:05
Speaker 1: as to why that's such a strange idea, and he says,
21:10
Speaker 1: I want you to see my country. Besides, you wouldn't
21:14
Speaker 1: need a gun to live. Oh, Ash looks away. I
21:18
Speaker 1: wouldn't have anything to do in Japan. Killing is all
21:21
Speaker 1: I know. AG's like, come on, don't say that you
21:25
Speaker 1: could do anything. How about becoming a model? I think
21:28
Speaker 1: they'd love you. And As just like, yeah, right, modeling's
21:35
Speaker 1: a tough world. It's nothing like kids, porno.
21:37
Speaker 2: Fuck.
21:38
Speaker 1: Ash really probably that appropriate. He's trying to be nice.
21:42
Speaker 1: AG looks away and he says, I didn't mean it
21:45
Speaker 1: like that. I'm sorry. Ash just like, no, I'm sorry,
21:50
Speaker 1: and he's kind of blushing slightly, and he says, I
21:52
Speaker 1: don't know why I said that. I do. Actually he
21:55
Speaker 1: puts the can down, which we can see now that
21:58
Speaker 1: he's kind of crushed slightly because this is actually kind
22:01
Speaker 1: of an upsetting conversation for him, and he starts to
22:04
Speaker 1: walk over to AG and he says, what's Japan like
22:08
Speaker 1: Heg's like, hmmm, well, there's lots of people in cars.
22:12
Speaker 1: Ash sits on the bed next to AG and he's like,
22:15
Speaker 1: why go then, it's just the same as here. AG says, well,
22:18
Speaker 1: I mean Tokyo is my Hometown's not like that, and
22:21
Speaker 1: Ash's like, where is it. AG says Izumo City in Shimane.
22:27
Speaker 1: Izumo is the land of gods, and Ash says, giz Mo.
22:32
Speaker 1: AG kind of chuckles and he's like, no, no, not
22:35
Speaker 1: like from Gremlins. It's e zoo Mo. And Ash says
22:40
Speaker 1: e zoo Mo. AG's like that's right. There are eight
22:45
Speaker 1: million gods in Japan. There's even one for toilets and
22:48
Speaker 1: one that makes you poor. And Ash's like, well, I
22:50
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't visit me. He's smiling slightly, but his
22:55
Speaker 1: eyes aren't really smiling, like he has this like intense
22:59
Speaker 1: heavyess to him, which makes sense, and he continues Japan, Huh, yeah,
23:06
Speaker 1: I'd like to go someday, and Age says, well, I'd
23:09
Speaker 1: love to take you. I bet everyone there would be
23:12
Speaker 1: so surprised. My little sister would probably faint and Ash
23:16
Speaker 1: is like whatever. They both kind of like laugh for
23:19
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then we cut to Ag asleep,
23:23
Speaker 1: I guess a little bit later, and Ash is just
23:26
Speaker 1: like standing and looking at him, and he thinks, I
23:29
Speaker 1: will never forgive anyone who hurts you, no matter who
23:34
Speaker 1: it is. He kneels down and he kind of rests
23:38
Speaker 1: his head on the bed when like on his arms,
23:42
Speaker 1: and he continues, I won't let anyone hurt you. We
23:47
Speaker 1: cut to Ash holding an under the tongue thermometer and
23:51
Speaker 1: it reads one to one point three. So I guess
23:54
Speaker 1: AG does have a fever from the gunshot wound. So
23:59
Speaker 1: I guess it's it's true. I mean, it's not really true,
24:01
Speaker 1: but still, and we hear AG say, I feel so pathetic.
24:05
Speaker 1: You don't ever get a fever when you get shot,
24:08
Speaker 1: and Ash just like, I'm just used to it, don't worry.
24:11
Speaker 1: Ag is in bed by the way. Ash continues, sorry
24:16
Speaker 1: that I can't call you a doctor, and she's like,
24:19
Speaker 1: it's fine, I'm just gonna sleep it off. Ash puts
24:22
Speaker 1: on his jean jacket that I like so much and says,
24:26
Speaker 1: eBay's coming over. AG's like, huh. Ash says, I thought
24:31
Speaker 1: that since you're not feeling well, you might want to
24:33
Speaker 1: speak Japanese to someone. I'm going out to meet Max.
24:38
Speaker 1: He's smiling, but it's not the way you really smile.
24:41
Speaker 1: It's the way that someone said smiles because they have
24:44
Speaker 1: to smile so that they don't let their boyfriend know
24:48
Speaker 1: that they're going out to a meeting that might mean
24:51
Speaker 1: that they never come back. Yeah. AG thinks I can
24:55
Speaker 1: tell that you're lying. AG like talking, but we like
25:01
Speaker 1: can't really hear it over AG's thoughts, and he continues
25:04
Speaker 1: because whenever you lie, you become terribly calm. We see
25:09
Speaker 1: Ash opening the door. AG continues, you're hiding something important.
25:15
Speaker 1: Ash is like saying goodbye in the background, and AG thinks,
25:18
Speaker 1: see you later. All I can do is trust those words.
25:22
Speaker 1: Ash closes the door. AG closes his eyes and he
25:26
Speaker 1: you know, folds his hand like he's praying, and he continues,
25:30
Speaker 1: please God keep him safe, Please, oh my God. AG.
25:38
Speaker 1: I just want to pause there and say that, I mean,
25:41
Speaker 1: we've seen this multiple times, but AG is like so
25:44
Speaker 1: on with emotional IQ and with Ash, he's just so
25:49
Speaker 1: spot on about the way that he's acting. And I
25:52
Speaker 1: also wanted to really quickly talk about the whole thing
25:56
Speaker 1: with Ash's weird comments about kitty porn a couple of
26:00
Speaker 1: minutes ago. A. I don't think he likes being objectified, obviously.
26:05
Speaker 1: I think that being told that he is attractive makes
26:09
Speaker 1: him probably really uncomfortable and not really happy based on,
26:14
Speaker 1: you know, everything that we've seen. And also I don't
26:17
Speaker 1: think he wants to get his hopes up that he
26:19
Speaker 1: could ever go to Japan, And it made more sense
26:22
Speaker 1: to kind of push a g away and make it
26:24
Speaker 1: sound like that's not something that he wants than to
26:27
Speaker 1: admit that realistically, he doesn't know if that could really happen. So, yeah,
26:36
Speaker 1: that's what I think was going on over there, So yep,
26:39
Speaker 1: let's get right back to it. We cut to two
26:43
Speaker 1: large metal doors sliding open. It's night, of course, and Ash,
26:48
Speaker 1: who was on the other side of the big metal doors,
26:51
Speaker 1: walks into an empty, blue tinted warehouse, and then spotlights
26:58
Speaker 1: come on, directed specifically to him, and we hear guns cock.
27:02
Speaker 1: Ash shields his face from the light and he looks
27:05
Speaker 1: up at this catwalk that's above him and it has
27:08
Speaker 1: like lots of dudes with guns on it, obviously, and
27:11
Speaker 1: we hear Dino say finally, and Uelung's like, to think
27:16
Speaker 1: you'd come so docilely, It's true that your teacher is
27:19
Speaker 1: very skilled, but you're not even gonna put up a fight.
27:23
Speaker 1: Ash says, he's on a completely different level. This isn't
27:26
Speaker 1: about winning or losing. We hear Blanca say it's an
27:29
Speaker 1: honor to hear that. Ash turns to see Blanca standing
27:33
Speaker 1: just outside the doors, and he's like, hey, how'd you
27:36
Speaker 1: like islands in the stream? Ash is like, enough of
27:40
Speaker 1: this shit. You're gonna kill me, so kill me. Stuff
27:43
Speaker 1: me whatever, just do it. Fuck, I do not want
27:46
Speaker 1: you to be taxed dermid ue Lung raises a gun,
27:49
Speaker 1: points it at Ash obviously and says, you're acting tough tonight.
27:54
Speaker 1: It's so unlike you. I don't think it is unlike him,
27:58
Speaker 1: but I guess one of the main time juey Lung
28:01
Speaker 1: saw him was when he was crying in Dino's like
28:05
Speaker 1: torture execution room, so maybe it is unlike him to him. Whatever.
28:10
Speaker 1: Ash smirks, and he says, can you shoot that little girl?
28:16
Speaker 1: Yuei Lung is smiling super politely, and he's like, I'm
28:21
Speaker 1: not the one who's gonna do the shooting. You are.
28:24
Speaker 1: You're gonna shoot yourself right in the head. Ash's eyes widen.
28:28
Speaker 1: Ue Lung holds out the gun towards him and says,
28:32
Speaker 1: if you do, I'll swear never to lay a single
28:35
Speaker 1: finger on ag. There's a pause, and then he says, can.
28:40
Speaker 2: You do it?
28:41
Speaker 1: Ash just takes the gun right out of his hands
28:43
Speaker 1: and puts it to his head and unblinking, just pulls
28:45
Speaker 1: the trigger. Nothing happens. Uilung gasps. There's a pause as
28:50
Speaker 1: Dino and Blanca look on mostly expressionless. Ash takes the
28:55
Speaker 1: gun down from his head, says it's not loaded. He
28:58
Speaker 1: reaches his hand out towards Juelung, give me a bullet,
29:01
Speaker 1: jesus U. Alung looks so confused, but then he gets
29:06
Speaker 1: like super pissed off, and he like bats the gun
29:08
Speaker 1: out of Ash's hand and it crashes to the ground
29:11
Speaker 1: and it echoes loudly throughout the warehouse. And I don't
29:14
Speaker 1: understand because literally, you just asked him to kill himself.
29:16
Speaker 1: Why are you so pissed off now you? Alung says,
29:19
Speaker 1: why would you do that for someone like him? Why
29:21
Speaker 1: is it so easy for you? Ash is like, what,
29:25
Speaker 1: You're the one who told me to shoot myself. Uelung
29:28
Speaker 1: kind of like flinches because he didn't expect Ash to
29:31
Speaker 1: just try to shoot himself. I guess I think he's
29:35
Speaker 1: the only one that didn't expect this, But he like
29:37
Speaker 1: really didn't expect it, so this was a terrible plan
29:40
Speaker 1: on his end. Blanca at this point puts his hand
29:43
Speaker 1: on Youuelung's shoulder and says, give it up. He really
29:47
Speaker 1: doesn't understand what you're saying. Uelung looks pretty upset though,
29:51
Speaker 1: because he is stupid. Blanca continues, so, now, what are
29:56
Speaker 1: the conditions you alung. Size says, hand over all of
30:00
Speaker 1: the information you've gathered on banana fish and give us
30:03
Speaker 1: Professor Dawson, Poor Professor Dawson, you have forty eight hours.
30:10
Speaker 1: If you're late, ag Opa Mura will die. Ash is
30:14
Speaker 1: just kind of listening quietly at this point. You will,
30:16
Speaker 1: then continues, Oh, and once that's done, you're going back
30:21
Speaker 1: to them. Sure, Ash's eyes widen. Same Ash, the moucheur,
30:27
Speaker 1: who hasn't ever been called this in the translation before,
30:30
Speaker 1: which is super annoying even though they've been saying it
30:32
Speaker 1: the whole time. Dino cuts in and says, we're just
30:36
Speaker 1: going back to the way things were. I'll let you
30:39
Speaker 1: work for me as the lowest of prostitutes. You'll experience
30:43
Speaker 1: things that no other war could ever endure.
30:48
Speaker 2: What no.
30:50
Speaker 1: Ash is just kind of staring at him with like
30:54
Speaker 1: this look of disdain on his face, which, yeah, me too. U.
30:59
Speaker 1: Alon cuts back in and accept these terms, and agy
31:02
Speaker 1: will remain safe. He'll go back to Japan, he'll live
31:05
Speaker 1: a peaceful life, and in time he'll forget you. You'll
31:12
Speaker 1: lose everything, of course, the truth you sought, your brother's revenge,
31:17
Speaker 1: your friend's trusts, and your freedom. Ash's kind of just
31:21
Speaker 1: looking at the floor and he just says fine, UEI
31:24
Speaker 1: Lung looks so confused now when he's like, you're fine
31:29
Speaker 1: with that, you'll lose everything, You'll go back to that hell,
31:33
Speaker 1: and Ash cuts him off and says, shut the fuck up.
31:36
Speaker 1: I said I'll do you sneak. Ue Lung's face kind
31:40
Speaker 1: of falls and he starts to walk away, and he's
31:42
Speaker 1: just like it's a deal. Then they all start to
31:45
Speaker 1: walk out at this point, leaving Ash just standing there
31:49
Speaker 1: and Ash says, wait, Blanca. Blanca turns back and Ash continues,
31:55
Speaker 1: let me punch you before you go. Blanca says, well
31:58
Speaker 1: that makes you feel better, and Ash is like like, hell,
32:01
Speaker 1: it will, of course not, but at least it will
32:03
Speaker 1: be some sort of compensation. Blanc is like, I've told
32:07
Speaker 1: you time and time again to control that temper of yours. Seriously,
32:12
Speaker 1: is temper? Blanca looks to Dino may I. Dino's like,
32:18
Speaker 1: go ahead, but don't damage him too much. I still
32:21
Speaker 1: want to play with him later. What the fuck, Dino, seriously,
32:26
Speaker 1: what the fuck? That is not appropriate? Oh my god,
32:31
Speaker 1: poor Ash. Anyway, Blanc is like, don't worry, but I
32:35
Speaker 1: can't just stand there and let him punch me either.
32:38
Speaker 1: Blanca starts to take his jacket off, and Ash is
32:40
Speaker 1: taking his jacket off too, and he walks towards Ash
32:44
Speaker 1: and continues, well, he motions forward, come on. He's kind
32:49
Speaker 1: of smiling at this point, and Ash just kind of sidesteps,
32:53
Speaker 1: like he's not coming at him at all, like not
32:55
Speaker 1: like a person who really wants to beat someone up,
32:57
Speaker 1: like someone who is scared that he's about to get
32:59
Speaker 1: beat up. And Blanca says, what's wrong. You can't punch
33:04
Speaker 1: me from all the way over there, and he just
33:06
Speaker 1: kind of like lunges at Ash and he almost like
33:09
Speaker 1: hand chops Ash in the throat and Ash dodges and
33:11
Speaker 1: backs off, and Blanca says, your defence isn't too bad,
33:16
Speaker 1: and then we see that Ash's neck is actually bleeding.
33:18
Speaker 1: So Blanca did kind of graze him, I guess, with
33:21
Speaker 1: his fingernails and ashes like damn it, and he runs
33:24
Speaker 1: at Blanca and kicks him, but Blanca blocks and punches
33:27
Speaker 1: Ash in the face. Blanc is like, your punches are
33:31
Speaker 1: too light. I told you to keep your body well trained.
33:34
Speaker 1: Ash wipes his mouth and spits out some blood and
33:37
Speaker 1: He's just like, shut up. I don't want to be
33:39
Speaker 1: some musclemaniac like you. He runs and he round house
33:43
Speaker 1: kicks at Blanca, but Blanca evades pretty effortlessly, and then
33:47
Speaker 1: he just elbows Ash like right in the chest, which
33:50
Speaker 1: looks like it really fucking hurts, because Ash kind of
33:53
Speaker 1: like falls back and collapses and he's just on the ground,
33:57
Speaker 1: like barely kind of holding himself up with his elbows,
34:01
Speaker 1: clutching his chest and gasping. Blanca says, that's one of
34:05
Speaker 1: the vitals I taught you about. If I'd really meant it,
34:08
Speaker 1: your heart would have been crushed by now. Yuiy Lung
34:11
Speaker 1: says to Dino, incredible. Ash looks like a baby next
34:15
Speaker 1: to him, and Dino's like, that's the difference between a
34:18
Speaker 1: professional and an amateur. He should know so much that fool.
34:23
Speaker 1: So Ash is like not getting back up at this point,
34:26
Speaker 1: and Blanca is like, I'd like to have a word
34:28
Speaker 1: with him, like could you save him or something? Maybe
34:32
Speaker 1: like they can leave and you can save him. Dino's like,
34:35
Speaker 1: of course, well we'll give you some privacy, huh. He
34:39
Speaker 1: starts to walk away and newey Lung doesn't move, and
34:42
Speaker 1: then he's like you don't need to worry. He's a
34:45
Speaker 1: first class professional. He won't let his emotions take over.
34:49
Speaker 1: They walk out and shut the doors, leaving Blanca and
34:52
Speaker 1: Ash alone in the warehouse. Blanca kneels next to Ash,
34:56
Speaker 1: who is laying on his back on the floor now,
34:59
Speaker 1: and he says, this will be the last time I
35:01
Speaker 1: give you a word of advice. When I heard that
35:04
Speaker 1: you turned against the mature, I was surprised. I thought
35:08
Speaker 1: you had already gotten over your past. What it's his
35:11
Speaker 1: fucking present, Blanca, But I understood why when I saw
35:14
Speaker 1: that Japanese boy. You need to give it up. Though, Ash,
35:18
Speaker 1: who was looking at him super intently during his speech,
35:23
Speaker 1: just kind of looks away, and Blanca continues, A rabbit
35:26
Speaker 1: and a Lynx can't ever be friends. I know you
35:30
Speaker 1: heard what the macheur said, but he doesn't mean it.
35:33
Speaker 1: He's the one that discovered you and tried to polish
35:35
Speaker 1: you to be a successor. I was originally going to
35:39
Speaker 1: decline when he asked me to train you. We get
35:42
Speaker 1: a click flashback of fourteen year old Ash standing next
35:45
Speaker 1: to Dino with like a super concerned look on his
35:48
Speaker 1: face because he's Ash, and Blanca continues but when I
35:53
Speaker 1: first met you, I felt that this world was the
35:55
Speaker 1: only place that you could belong. So I decided to
35:58
Speaker 1: teach you the means to survive ouch. Ash, at this
36:03
Speaker 1: point has like propped himself up and is like leaning
36:05
Speaker 1: against kind of sitting against the wall. Blanca continues, you
36:09
Speaker 1: were a fine pupil, and I don't want to lose
36:11
Speaker 1: you either, Ash. I don't want to see you ruin yourself.
36:15
Speaker 1: Go back to the missiear you'll have wealth, power, everything.
36:20
Speaker 1: All you have to do is give up this one thing.
36:24
Speaker 1: And Ash is like, who are you to tell me
36:27
Speaker 1: that everything I can get at that old man's place
36:30
Speaker 1: is fake? And you're telling me to just play the
36:33
Speaker 1: role I'm given to pretend I don't notice. Blanca, pretty
36:38
Speaker 1: sadly at this point, says that's right. Ash continues, then
36:42
Speaker 1: why'd you hide away in the Caribbean like a Harmit
36:45
Speaker 1: isn't it because you hated the role that you were given.
36:48
Speaker 1: Blanca doesn't say anything or even look at Ash at
36:51
Speaker 1: this point, and Ash continues, leave me alone. He lies
36:54
Speaker 1: back down on the floor. I'm happy now because I
36:58
Speaker 1: know there's at least one guy, one person who cares
37:02
Speaker 1: about me, and doesn't want anything in return. He closes
37:08
Speaker 1: his eyes and kind of smiles like really peacefully. I continues,
37:13
Speaker 1: I can't believe how lucky I am. It's the best
37:16
Speaker 1: feeling in the world. Fuck. Blanca says, but it will
37:24
Speaker 1: lead to your destruction, and Ashes like, it's better than
37:28
Speaker 1: living a lie. Blanca says, I see, and he stands,
37:33
Speaker 1: then have it your way, and he starts to walk away.
37:36
Speaker 1: Ash says Blanca. Blanca stops and looks back, Ashes like,
37:41
Speaker 1: I just have one thing to ask you. Blanca says,
37:45
Speaker 1: what is it? Ash says he's don't kill him. Blanca's
37:52
Speaker 1: eyes widened, like maybe he's finally understanding what's going on,
37:58
Speaker 1: and Ash looks like he's about to cry, and he says,
38:02
Speaker 1: I'm begging you. Sone hurt him, please. Blanca says, it
38:09
Speaker 1: means that much to you. That's why you said you
38:12
Speaker 1: wanted to punch me. That's not something I can do.
38:18
Speaker 1: I've got to follow through on the role that I've
38:20
Speaker 1: been given. He starts to walk away, but he thinks,
38:24
Speaker 1: but no matter what happens, I'll be praying for you.
38:28
Speaker 1: He leaves Ash alone in the dark on the floor.
38:35
Speaker 1: It took Blanca like a really long time to figure
38:41
Speaker 1: out that Ash was serious. I guess it's so interesting because,
38:45
Speaker 1: in my opinion, Ash is almost never anything but serious.
38:49
Speaker 1: So it's like these people are fucking sociopaths or something,
38:53
Speaker 1: and they just don't see how you could care about
38:56
Speaker 1: someone else enough that you risk your own life for
38:59
Speaker 1: them in any sort of way. It's very odd. It
39:03
Speaker 1: kind of honestly, I feel like Ash in this scene,
39:08
Speaker 1: and like the phone scene that I was talking about earlier,
39:10
Speaker 1: he's like the only person who's saying at all, and
39:13
Speaker 1: this is like fucking totally messed up murderer. And you
39:19
Speaker 1: have these like three well these two adults and Yue
39:22
Speaker 1: Lung who are just like so far gone with the
39:27
Speaker 1: way that they relate to other people that they just
39:29
Speaker 1: can't see this. And I know that something is going
39:32
Speaker 1: on with Blanca obviously, the way that he is acting
39:35
Speaker 1: towards Ash. He very much does not want to see
39:39
Speaker 1: him get hurt, obviously, but he's just willing to let
39:42
Speaker 1: all this happen, and he knows what's happened. So it's
39:48
Speaker 1: just so weird. Yeah, So I'm gonna continue and then
39:56
Speaker 1: I'll talk more about this at the end. I guess
40:00
Speaker 1: to the exterior of some sort of gated facility and
40:03
Speaker 1: it's still night and some guard is like walking around
40:06
Speaker 1: the perimeter with like a flashlight, and Ash jumps out
40:10
Speaker 1: of bush and just grabs him and covers his mouth
40:13
Speaker 1: before he can call for help. We see the guard
40:15
Speaker 1: like drop to the ground, hopefully just knocked out and
40:18
Speaker 1: not dead, And then we go to a flashback. Agi
40:21
Speaker 1: is asleep and Ash is sitting on the other bed
40:25
Speaker 1: looking at him, and then we go to the kitchen
40:28
Speaker 1: with him, Shooniji and Alex, and Ash says, I'm sorry
40:32
Speaker 1: for getting him hurt. He'll be safe from now on.
40:37
Speaker 1: Shunichi's like, what do you mean, and Ash says, Alex,
40:41
Speaker 1: I'll be gone for a while. I'm leaving the rest
40:44
Speaker 1: up to you. Fuck Alex and Shunichi just look kind
40:49
Speaker 1: of horrivied, And then we cut to a dark room
40:53
Speaker 1: and we hear some sort of commotion outside of the door,
40:56
Speaker 1: like maybe a guard being taken down, and the door
40:59
Speaker 1: opens and there's like light that spills in from the
41:01
Speaker 1: hallway and we see that Ash is there obviously, and
41:04
Speaker 1: it's Alexis's room. Uh oh, he is asleep in bed.
41:08
Speaker 1: Then we go back to the flashback, and Shunici says,
41:12
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Ash, who was kind of
41:15
Speaker 1: starting to walk away this point, stops and says eBay
41:18
Speaker 1: Son when this is all over, will you take me
41:22
Speaker 1: to Japan? I want to see the country he was
41:24
Speaker 1: born in. What Yeah, just murder me. Later he walks
41:33
Speaker 1: out and closes the door. Then we see ag running
41:39
Speaker 1: frantically barefoot through the lobby and out onto the sidewalk,
41:44
Speaker 1: and the ending theme starts to play, and he is
41:48
Speaker 1: breathing hard and looking around, and it starts to rain,
41:52
Speaker 1: and we're watching this now through the front windshield of
41:56
Speaker 1: a car, and Bones Alex Khan and Shannichi come out
42:00
Speaker 1: to get him, and they like lead him back inside,
42:03
Speaker 1: and Ash is obviously watching this all happen from the car.
42:07
Speaker 1: We go to Max and not George, which I figured
42:11
Speaker 1: out his name, guys, because I found it in the manga.
42:13
Speaker 1: His name is Steve. So we're gonn to Max and
42:15
Speaker 1: Steve the other reporter that we just didn't have a
42:18
Speaker 1: name for that I don't actually think ever gets a name.
42:22
Speaker 1: So Max and Steve are just staring in disbelief, and
42:25
Speaker 1: we see that Ash is standing in front of them
42:27
Speaker 1: with a gun raised towards them. Steve lunges forward and
42:31
Speaker 1: Max like stops him though, and Steve says, have you
42:33
Speaker 1: lost your mind? Do you realize how much work went
42:36
Speaker 1: into And Max is just like, shut up, he's serious.
42:39
Speaker 1: Ash does look serious in a very terrified sort of way,
42:45
Speaker 1: and Max says, is it Agy? Is he in danger?
42:51
Speaker 2: Yeah?
42:51
Speaker 1: Everybody basically just gets it at this point, except for
42:54
Speaker 1: the antagonist to retardle. Ash just says absolutely nothing, and
42:58
Speaker 1: Max just around and opens a drawer and Steve is like, Max,
43:03
Speaker 1: are you serious? Max says, shut up. He's like putting
43:07
Speaker 1: lots of papers into a Manila envelope and he slides
43:10
Speaker 1: the envelope to Ash on the floor and he says,
43:13
Speaker 1: go go save your friend. Ash looks hurt like by
43:19
Speaker 1: his own actions, and he grabs the folder and he
43:22
Speaker 1: just takes off. Now we see a peer and Ash
43:27
Speaker 1: is standing in front of the car that he drove
43:30
Speaker 1: there in, but I don't even know whose car that is,
43:32
Speaker 1: and several other like black cars pull up, Yue Lung
43:38
Speaker 1: and some like attendant dude get out and it's raining
43:41
Speaker 1: still an Ash is actually really wet now, and the dude,
43:45
Speaker 1: the attendant dude is like holding an umbrella over Ui Lung,
43:48
Speaker 1: and ue Lung says, you're punctual, do you have it?
43:52
Speaker 1: Ash kind of shows that he has the folder like
43:56
Speaker 1: inside his jacket, and then we see that alex is
44:00
Speaker 1: sitting in the back seat of that car, and Uelong says, good,
44:05
Speaker 1: I knew you could do it. He looks over and
44:08
Speaker 1: the camera pans the Dino, who is there now too,
44:10
Speaker 1: also under an umbrella that I think is being held
44:12
Speaker 1: by Gregory, but we don't actually see him. Uelon continues,
44:16
Speaker 1: it's all done, monseur. Dino removes his hat for some
44:19
Speaker 1: reason and says, wonderful work, mister yue Lung, very admirable.
44:25
Speaker 1: Two guys take Alexis out of the car, and Ash's
44:29
Speaker 1: hands are tied behind his back and he's let into
44:32
Speaker 1: another car, and Blanca says, my job here is done,
44:36
Speaker 1: and Dino's like, good work. Blanca looks over and sees
44:41
Speaker 1: Ash in the back seat of one of the cars,
44:43
Speaker 1: and Ash just looks so lost and blank, maybe kind
44:50
Speaker 1: of sad, like resigned. It's just a very defeated expression,
44:56
Speaker 1: just kind of just nothing, just he just knows what's
44:59
Speaker 1: coming and there's nothing he can do, and then we
45:04
Speaker 1: go to the title card islands in the Stream, and
45:07
Speaker 1: that's the end of the episode. Fuck okay, closing thoughts. Ouch,
45:13
Speaker 1: So if you were expecting Ash to figure this out,
45:20
Speaker 1: like someone to stop him, No, that's not how this goes,
45:26
Speaker 1: you know, because that's how this story is. Nobody really
45:32
Speaker 1: saves him. He has to do that himself or not
45:36
Speaker 1: do that himself. In this case, you know, he couldn't
45:40
Speaker 1: even tell Ag because if he told Ag, Ag would
45:44
Speaker 1: have stopped him, and then Ag would have probably been killed.
45:48
Speaker 1: So this is this is the only way that Age
45:51
Speaker 1: doesn't get killed basically. But yeah, when I was watching
45:56
Speaker 1: the scene where we were just talking about like what
46:00
Speaker 1: the terms of the agreement were, I had an anxiety
46:03
Speaker 1: attack the first time, like serious anxiety attack, Like I
46:06
Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever had like a full blown
46:09
Speaker 1: anxiety attack while watching anime before or anything. But I
46:13
Speaker 1: was just like, you gotta be fucking kidding me, Like
46:15
Speaker 1: you can't put him back there, like out of all
46:19
Speaker 1: the things, like the given over all the stuff about
46:23
Speaker 1: banana fish and poor Alexis, who doesn't really know what's
46:25
Speaker 1: going on anyway, Unfortunately, that's like bad enough, but to
46:32
Speaker 1: include that he has to go back to, you know,
46:34
Speaker 1: working for Dino as a prostitute, like losing his freedom,
46:41
Speaker 1: which is like literally the only thing he wanted. He
46:43
Speaker 1: never actually cared about this as revenge. I don't think
46:46
Speaker 1: he just wanted to be free. So taking that specifically
46:51
Speaker 1: away from him, not that he's had freedom yet, but
46:54
Speaker 1: taking it so succinctly away is just fucking terrifying. Yeah,
47:01
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I mean, it's got a lot
47:05
Speaker 1: of courage to decide to just literally give up his
47:10
Speaker 1: entire life for agi. I mean, he was gonna let
47:13
Speaker 1: himself get shot or shoot himself, but I think it's
47:16
Speaker 1: a little different because we already know that he's not
47:18
Speaker 1: afraid to die really and it would be really short,
47:24
Speaker 1: you know, gunshot, that's it. This it's getting really upsetting.
47:28
Speaker 1: But to just give the rest of your life over
47:31
Speaker 1: to someone who's just horrifically abused you, I don't know.
47:35
Speaker 1: It's Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot. I guess,
47:39
Speaker 1: this is what I'm trying to say. And it's not
47:41
Speaker 1: like you don't know, and I'm not saying anything that's
47:42
Speaker 1: like super innovative or smart, but yeah, it just really
47:47
Speaker 1: really fucked me.
47:47
Speaker 2: Up.
47:48
Speaker 1: So we're just in this situation now where I guess
47:52
Speaker 1: just bad things, right, just bad things. So I'm trying
47:57
Speaker 1: to think about the other things I wanted to say
47:59
Speaker 1: about this episode. Yeah, so it's obvious that, like I
48:03
Speaker 1: was saying a little bit earlier, Blanca, you know, trained Ash,
48:07
Speaker 1: so he's gotten know, like his past and stuff, right.
48:12
Speaker 1: I mean he said something like I thought you'd gotten
48:15
Speaker 1: over your past, like, and it's just like, do you
48:18
Speaker 1: have any idea how much of his past was just that?
48:22
Speaker 1: And how nothing has really gotten any better. I mean
48:25
Speaker 1: it's got a little better, but not good. Like he
48:29
Speaker 1: abandoned him more or less. I mean, he was just
48:32
Speaker 1: training him and getting paid, but he left him with
48:36
Speaker 1: these people, Like how dare you come back and just
48:39
Speaker 1: make it worse? You know, probably because he's not a
48:43
Speaker 1: great person, but whatever, And I mean, there's not much
48:46
Speaker 1: else left to say here, I don't think, except that
48:49
Speaker 1: everyone knows that Ash and ag really like each other.
48:52
Speaker 1: And the whole scene where Ash is just like happy
48:57
Speaker 1: because somebody cares about me, which is like, so oh
49:00
Speaker 1: fucking sad, Like so sad, because that's just gonna be
49:06
Speaker 1: enough because honestly, his whole life is just really sucked.
49:08
Speaker 1: And I think that this last year, because it's been
49:11
Speaker 1: about a year now, I think that he's kind of
49:14
Speaker 1: gotten to know Agy and like have somebody in his
49:17
Speaker 1: life that like actually cares about him and like wants
49:20
Speaker 1: to know what's going on with him and doesn't see
49:23
Speaker 1: him as like a killer or or or just a
49:28
Speaker 1: kid or a gang boss, but just sees him like
49:32
Speaker 1: as a complete person. It's probably been the best time
49:36
Speaker 1: of his life, and that's incredibly sad. So I'm really sad.
49:42
Speaker 2: Now, I'm so stupid. I don't know if this's gonna
49:47
Speaker 2: stay in the show or not, but like I totally
49:50
Speaker 2: get why he just give everything up for age, And honestly,
49:57
Speaker 2: I don't know, like if it was it Agan Blanca
50:02
Speaker 2: was like, We're just gonna kill everybody in your gang
50:04
Speaker 2: or something if you don't come with us. I don't
50:07
Speaker 2: know that Ash would have had a different response, honestly,
50:11
Speaker 2: because he's not a bad person, you know. Oh and
50:19
Speaker 2: the idea that when I mean you a lung is
50:22
Speaker 2: so fucked up.
50:24
Speaker 1: I don't think you a lung has ever had a
50:26
Speaker 1: person that they cared about. But when he was just like, oh,
50:30
Speaker 1: you know, Ag eventually just forget about you and stuff
50:33
Speaker 1: like that. He'd never forget about him and I don't
50:39
Speaker 1: think he would lose his trust, you know. Okay, so
50:49
Speaker 1: let me come out of this little So the other
50:53
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to say is like, Okay, so we're
50:55
Speaker 1: gona have episode nineteen coming up, which obviously is gonna
50:58
Speaker 1: have some resolution to this. I want to say a word.
51:02
Speaker 1: It's like musical that makes sense, Like you've got like
51:05
Speaker 1: a unresolved like note and you need to come down
51:09
Speaker 1: to like a I don't know, sorry, I'm forgetting just
51:13
Speaker 1: music theory right now, like a one or a five
51:16
Speaker 1: chord or something, so that it kind of evens out
51:19
Speaker 1: like we're kind of on an unresolved note. It's it's
51:20
Speaker 1: a cliffhanger, but I don't know why I'm thinking in
51:22
Speaker 1: music terms. So we're obviously, hopefully gonna have some resolution
51:28
Speaker 1: to this part of this arc. What do you think
51:32
Speaker 1: it's gonna be, Cauz. When I was going into episode nineteen,
51:36
Speaker 1: I had some theories about what was gonna happen in
51:39
Speaker 1: the next episode that I believe are based specifically on
51:42
Speaker 1: my understanding of show Joe. So if you haven't watched it,
51:46
Speaker 1: yet and you actually like this, or you have watched
51:49
Speaker 1: it yet and you had ideas, like can you just
51:52
Speaker 1: fucking like email me what you think is gonna happen
51:55
Speaker 1: in nineteen like, because I'm interested. If I'm just like
51:58
Speaker 1: super smart and on it, or if it's just like
52:00
Speaker 1: totally obvious, what's gonna happen. So now that I've said that,
52:04
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, guys. I mean, so anyway,
52:09
Speaker 1: this has been a lot, and this combined with like
52:12
Speaker 1: how shitty I feel today has been real interesting. So anyway,
52:16
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, and I hope that you don't hate
52:20
Speaker 1: me so much for like crying during these because I
52:22
Speaker 1: feel super stupid. But I hope that even if you do,
52:26
Speaker 1: you have a really good whatever. And I'm gonna catch
52:30
Speaker 1: you next week later weeps