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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep. 23- Handler One (FINAL) · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle, I guess, and oh my god,
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Speaker 1: today we're gonna talk about the last episode of eighty six,
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Speaker 1: episode twenty three, Right, Yeah, I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what you're saying about that. Maybe you had a
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Speaker 1: really good time with eighty six. Maybe you're like, thank
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Speaker 1: god it's over so we can do something else. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe you should. You should tell me. You
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Speaker 1: could like write to me, like in an email and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is how I felt about eighty six, Michelle, I
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Speaker 1: hate you. Something like that. That would be nice. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, you can always find my email address in
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Speaker 1: the show notes. But anyway, I didn't even know if
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Speaker 1: I was gonna be able to get to recording this
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Speaker 1: this week because it's been really crazy and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And I went to Odicon and that was pretty good,
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Speaker 1: except that I'm a disaster person, so I was all
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Speaker 1: nauseous the whole time. But that's neither here nor there.
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Speaker 1: I suppose I just want to talk about eighty six,
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Speaker 1: so let's do that. So episode twenty three of eighty
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Speaker 1: six is called Handler one. Yay, that means Lena's probably
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Speaker 1: in this episode or something. And it starts not exactly
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Speaker 1: the same spot that we left off in twenty two,
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Speaker 1: which was like when everybody was kind of making fun
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Speaker 1: of Shin and his conversation with Lena in that like
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Speaker 1: meeting room. But anyway, this episode starts out with a
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Speaker 1: church at a Christmas tree and it's snowing, and it's
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Speaker 1: December twenty fourth, twenty one forty nine, so about two
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Speaker 1: months later, we see like that kind of Christmas village
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Speaker 1: area for a minute, and then Ernst in his house
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Speaker 1: setting off confetti, wearing like reindeer ears and a red nose,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, welcome back. Teresa is also there, and
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Speaker 1: she a little bit more sedate, says welcome home and
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Speaker 1: sets off confetti as well. Spearhad is standing in the
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Speaker 1: doorway looking, you know, kind of confused, and Ernest continues,
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy you're back safe. It's important to get
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Speaker 1: off the front line so you can rest. I've got gifts.
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Speaker 1: Then we see shots of all of them holding their gifts,
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Speaker 1: and Ernst continues, Man, the year just flew by. This
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Speaker 1: is your second holy birth festival. I'm happy that this
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Speaker 1: time I actually get to give you your presents. They all
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Speaker 1: kind of smile at him. And start to walk past
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Speaker 1: him into the room because they're still standing by the door,
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Speaker 1: and as each one of them walks past him, they
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Speaker 1: all say to daima, which means I'm home in Japanese,
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Speaker 1: which I thought was really really cool because it's it's
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Speaker 1: a bigger deal something that you say when you walk
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Speaker 1: into your house, so it means that they feel like
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Speaker 1: they're home, which is so nice, and even Shinn says
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Speaker 1: it at the end, and Ernest looks really shocked for
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Speaker 1: a second, and then he kind of like smiles and sighs,
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Speaker 1: and Frederica is like, I'm happy for you. Ernth says yeah,
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Speaker 1: and Frederick is like time for a part, and ern says,
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Speaker 1: are your arithmetic drills done? Frederica kind of gasps, and
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Speaker 1: she's like, your punishments always teach me so much. We
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Speaker 1: cut to fire kind of roaring in a fireplace, and
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Speaker 1: there's like marshmallows on sticks kind of placed in front
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Speaker 1: of the grate like they're just leaning on it, which
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Speaker 1: seems dangerous, Like you gotta you gotta keep an eye
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Speaker 1: on those. Anyway. They're opening like their presence in the
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Speaker 1: living room as Ernest stands there watching and we see
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Speaker 1: that riding, got like a set of tools, and Karina
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Speaker 1: got this like really ugly pink purse. On you got
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Speaker 1: a spatula. I hope she got more than a spatula,
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Speaker 1: but that's all I saw. And then Sin got like
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Speaker 1: a bunch of cookbooks, which seems kind of mean because
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Speaker 1: we know he's not a very good cook. Anyway, we
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Speaker 1: cut to on you at cooking class, and everyone is
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Speaker 1: like super fucking impressed by how amazing all these multiple
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Speaker 1: dishes she made, look, which I thought was really interesting
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Speaker 1: because in that first time she was a cooking class,
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Speaker 1: she only made desserts, and I thought that was weird
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Speaker 1: because obviously Ana cookn cook whatever the fuck she wants to.
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Speaker 1: She's cooked before. But I think maybe cooking like kind
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Speaker 1: of non dessert food was more like tied to her past,
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Speaker 1: and she just didn't want to. So she's like opening
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Speaker 1: up and having a good time. And then we see
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Speaker 1: Corrina coming out of like a dressing room wearing like
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Speaker 1: a kind of black jacket with this really boring gray
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Speaker 1: top and this blue skirt, and the shop lady from
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Speaker 1: earlier way back. She looks super happy and she's like
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Speaker 1: nodding at her, and then Karina notices like some black
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Speaker 1: boots sitting on a shelf, and we cut to her
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Speaker 1: skipping off down the street happily wearing them.
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Speaker 2: Yeay.
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Speaker 1: Then we go to Shin and Frederica who are in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen. Frederica is cutting some French bread and it
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Speaker 1: looks like they have a recipe open to make French toasts,
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Speaker 1: and then Fredrika looks really upset because Shin got like
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Speaker 1: eggshells in the bowl. I should tell you right now
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Speaker 1: that there's no sound. We just have a song playing
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Speaker 1: over all of these shots. Anyway. I guess that he
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Speaker 1: gets the shells out, but I don't really know. And
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Speaker 1: then we see everyone sitting at the table except for Riding,
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Speaker 1: like with French toast in front of them, and Aju
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Speaker 1: drops her knife in shock, and then we see her
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Speaker 1: bring a plate to ride in who's in the garage
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Speaker 1: making a shelf, and they have some sort of exchange.
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Speaker 1: I guess about like, oh my god, what the fuck
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Speaker 1: Stion made this? I thought he couldn't cook kind of deal.
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Speaker 1: We go to THEO, who is using a set of
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Speaker 1: colored pencils, which we didn't see what he got, but
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Speaker 1: that's probably what it is, which is the most appropriate
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Speaker 1: gift that any of them have gotten. And he's finished drawing,
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Speaker 1: and he's drawn this like wide shot of like a
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Speaker 1: beach with all of Spearhead and Fido standing on it,
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Speaker 1: and he smiles. We get this quick time lapse of
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Speaker 1: the outside of Ernest's home, like over a few days,
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Speaker 1: like the sun coming up and going down, you know,
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Speaker 1: and then back to the fire in the fireplace again.
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Speaker 1: THEO is sitting in a chair and he's looking at
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Speaker 1: a tablet and Riding is leaning over him, and THEO
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Speaker 1: says independent Mobile Force, right, and it's like, basically, it
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Speaker 1: means we kick legion ass like we've always done. Okay, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The rest of them are there too in the room.
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Speaker 1: They're in the living room, and Ernst is like, yes,
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Speaker 1: this is a proposal for me as an individual to
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Speaker 1: grant your request to fight on the front lines. Oh,
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Speaker 1: the issue is the foreign officer who will serve as
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Speaker 1: your commander. They all kind of lean over THEO as
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Speaker 1: he clicks something on the tablets. Their faces don't change
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Speaker 1: at all when they see whatever it is, and Theo's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. Karina says fine by me, Andrew's
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Speaker 1: like yeah, righton says yep, and Ernst is like, Shin,
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Speaker 1: what do you think? Shin is just looking at the tablets,
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Speaker 1: and Frederica stares at him like kind of confused and
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Speaker 1: really annoyed, and he just continues to stare at it,
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Speaker 1: his mouth turned up just slightly on one side. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I I wonder who it is, right, I mean, I
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Speaker 1: have an idea of who it would be, because it
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Speaker 1: seems like it's pretty obvious, but who knows. I could
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Speaker 1: be wrong anyway. We cut to a plane flying overhead
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Speaker 1: of like a city or something and snowing, and Ernst
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Speaker 1: is in his office and he's looking up out of
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Speaker 1: the window at the plane, and someone is saying, Western
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Speaker 1: theatre forces sustained sixty percent losses. We're speeding up the
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Speaker 1: curriculum at all the officer training schools, specialist training schools
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Speaker 1: in boot camps to replace the lost man power. Fuck.
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Speaker 1: We see that General Richards and dark haired guy who
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Speaker 1: I finally figured out what his name is. It's Willem.
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Speaker 1: I just looked it up in like the eighty six wiki.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Internet, so now we know what his name is.
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Speaker 1: So they are standing in front of Ernst as he's
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Speaker 1: just continuing to look out the window as they talk,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of rude, but I think he's just
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Speaker 1: not in a great mood because he just heard that
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Speaker 1: sixty percent of their Western theater forces were killed. So
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Speaker 1: I get it anyway, Willem says, but they won't have
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Speaker 1: the training they need. General Richards like, and while the
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Speaker 1: Legion lost their combat forces, their manufacturing facilities were unharmed.
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Speaker 1: The war situation is only gonna get worse, Ernst says,
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Speaker 1: So unless something changes, humanity will be slowly worn down
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Speaker 1: until we finally lose correct. General Richards is like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Willem says, we'll maintain our defensive lines as we have
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Speaker 1: been while putting together an independent mobile unit that can
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Speaker 1: bring concentrated firepower down on the critical Legion areas. I
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Speaker 1: didn't expect you to put together the same plan we had.
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Speaker 1: General Richards is like a mobile straightforce comprised entirely of
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Speaker 1: eighty six If you'll forgive me for saying, so this
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like you. Ernst is still looking out the window,
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Speaker 1: by the way, and he says, sure, but they're the
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Speaker 1: ones who wanted it. He looks down at the table,
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Speaker 1: but has a tablet with Shin's info open on it,
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Speaker 1: and it says like a bunch of stuff about his powers.
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Speaker 1: But it's all like pretty not interesting, so I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you what it says. And he continues, they
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Speaker 1: have their own values. I don't have the right to
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Speaker 1: refuse them out of misplaced pity. If they still choose
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Speaker 1: the battlefield after all that's happened, I'd like them to
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Speaker 1: be able to stay together. Ah Uh, Willem says, will
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Speaker 1: the eighty six except this foreign officer, though Ernst is like,
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Speaker 1: I've talked to them already. Willem looks kind of confused,
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Speaker 1: and Ernst continues, I was worried as well, but I
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Speaker 1: guess I shouldn't have been. He puts his hands behind
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Speaker 1: his head and kind of leans back. After all, we
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Speaker 1: cut to the plane flying overhead, so we don't hear
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Speaker 1: what he says. But then we go back to them,
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Speaker 1: and Willem looks shocked, and General Richard just kind of smiles. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We briefly cut back to Shin's file on Ernst's desk,
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Speaker 1: and then to someone putting change in someone else's hands,
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Speaker 1: and that person's holding flowers. We see now that there's
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Speaker 1: a woman standing at a flower stall outside and Shin
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Speaker 1: is standing in front of her, holding like white lilies
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Speaker 1: and it's still snowing, and the woman says this is
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Speaker 1: from me. Shin's like, thank you. Shin now is walking
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Speaker 1: through a graveyard and he stops at a grave and says,
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Speaker 1: it's been a long time. Eugene. The grave says, Eugene
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Speaker 1: fronts twenty one thirty two to twenty one forty nine,
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Speaker 1: fought for his family and pride. We will remember him forever.
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Speaker 1: Oh uh, Shin continues, Sorry, I couldn't come sooner. He
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Speaker 1: lays the flowers down in front of the grave. Eugene,
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Speaker 1: the Western Front is just the same as it was
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Speaker 1: when you were here. It's still hanging in there somehow.
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Speaker 1: He kneels. You asked me before why I fought right.
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Speaker 1: To be honest, I still don't know. I don't have
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Speaker 1: a reason to fight the way you did. But there's
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Speaker 1: one thing I know, and that's I I promise to
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Speaker 1: take them all the way to the end, and a
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Speaker 1: battlefield isn't what I want them to see when they
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Speaker 1: get there. He notices something on the ground and he
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Speaker 1: picks it up, and it's an envelope wrapped in plastic
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Speaker 1: which is good because it's still snowing and it has
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Speaker 1: a pink whale sticker on it. He flips it over
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Speaker 1: and sees that the front has a picture of a
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Speaker 1: whale in the ocean, and he says, the ocean the
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Speaker 1: thing you wanted your sister to see someday. I don't
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Speaker 1: care about seeing it myself. We see a footstepping through
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Speaker 1: the snow, and then back to Shin. But I want
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Speaker 1: them to see it. I think if I can show
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Speaker 1: them something new, something they've never seen before, that'll be
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Speaker 1: enough of reason to fight for now. I'll come back.
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Speaker 1: When I do, I'll tell you about something you've never
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Speaker 1: seen before. So Shin is still not living for himself,
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Speaker 1: but at least he's gonna keep living, so I guess
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Speaker 1: that's a start. And he's just so fucking kind anyway.
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Speaker 1: He stands and he turns to see someone approaching, and
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Speaker 1: it's Marcel, and he looks like super sad and he's
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Speaker 1: doing his best, and he's doing his best not to
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Speaker 1: look at Shin, and Shin's like Marcel. Marcel walks a
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Speaker 1: little closer and says, Nina puts them there, Eugene's little sister.
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Speaker 1: He walks to the grave, and Chin kind of moves
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Speaker 1: out of the way, and he kneels down and picks
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Speaker 1: up the letter. She keeps writing letters to her dead brother.
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Speaker 1: Shin says, it's my fault. He walks past Marcel. Marcel
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Speaker 1: grips the letter tightly and frowns. Wait. Shin stops and
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Speaker 1: looks back. Marcel is now holding the letter over his eyes,
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Speaker 1: and he says, why do you just accept it? He
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Speaker 1: stands it was me these letters. I was the one
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Speaker 1: who made to write these letters to you. I was
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Speaker 1: just so angry and frustrated. But he didn't want to
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Speaker 1: blame myself, so I pretended it was all your faults.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He drops his knees with his hand over
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Speaker 1: his face. I'm so sorry. Shin walks back over and
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Speaker 1: kneels down in front of him. I'm sorry, Marcel gasps.
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Speaker 1: Shin's like, I need to apologize to you and to her.
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Speaker 1: Oh God, Shin, no, you don't. Shin is walking away
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Speaker 1: again now, and he passes Nina, who is going in
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Speaker 1: the direction of Eugene's grave, and she has flowers. I
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Speaker 1: think she also has white lilies, and we hear Sin
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Speaker 1: say aye, but then nothing and Nina reaches Eugene's grave
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Speaker 1: and Marcelle is still standing there and he shakes his head,
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Speaker 1: and Nina sees that there's a note next to her
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Speaker 1: letter and she picks it up. She gasps and then
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Speaker 1: looks back at Shin as he fades out into the snow,
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Speaker 1: and Marcelle says, it's good to see him smiling. Huh,
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Speaker 1: and I was like what. But Nina looks down and
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Speaker 1: we see that it's not a note, it's a picture
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Speaker 1: of Shin and Eugene together, and Eugene looks so happy
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Speaker 1: and Shin does not look happy at all. Nina smiles
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Speaker 1: and she holds it to her chest and she says
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Speaker 1: thank you really loudly, and I'm pretty sure Shin hears her.
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Speaker 1: We see him walking away for a second, and then
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Speaker 1: it flips to him at a different time but the
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Speaker 1: same shot, and we hear THEO say, Shin, you're not
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Speaker 1: gonna change your personal mark. Shin looks over at THEO,
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Speaker 1: who is pointing to the side of his Reagan leaf
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Speaker 1: and he's holding a pen in his hand, and we
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Speaker 1: see that they're like outside with like a bunch of
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Speaker 1: Ragan leaves and stuff, and Shin's like you don't like it.
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Speaker 1: THEO says, I don't mind painting it, but it's a
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Speaker 1: bit of a bad Omen. Andju and Karna are watching
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Speaker 1: a bit intrigued, and I think so is riding, And
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Speaker 1: THEO continues, this is a weird thing to say, but
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Speaker 1: do you really need to carry it anymore? Chin takes
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Speaker 1: a moment and then sighs, maybe you're right, but it
14:37
Speaker 1: can't be a bad omen after I've had it for
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Speaker 1: six years and I don't think of it as a
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Speaker 1: heavy burden. THEO says, sure, sure, and he starts drawing
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Speaker 1: it right, and it's like, looks like you're over some stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's how it seems to me. Shin maybe half laughs
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Speaker 1: and says, I couldn't say, but I think I can
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Speaker 1: see them off. Now. We kind of focus in on
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Speaker 1: Shin's jacket pop and then we see Shin's uniform other
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Speaker 1: uniform jacket pocket and he's at that memorial that they
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Speaker 1: made for the eighty six and everything, and it's March twentieth,
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Speaker 1: twenty one point fifty. He kneels in front of the
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Speaker 1: toolbox and opens it and he takes Ray's metal piece
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Speaker 1: out of his pocket and he goes to put it
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Speaker 1: in the box with the rest, and he just can't.
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Speaker 1: He kind of pauses and then draws back his hands
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Speaker 1: slightly and says brother. He closes his eyes and thinks,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to envision a future without my brother. I
15:33
Speaker 1: don't have anything to wish for anything I'm seeking. I
15:37
Speaker 1: still don't know what I'm living for. But the credits
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Speaker 1: start rolling. There's a flash to like all of their marks,
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Speaker 1: but Shins is still not finished, and THEO says, I'm
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Speaker 1: really gonna paint it. Okay. They are all just staring
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Speaker 1: at you In, and Shin stares back for a minute,
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Speaker 1: smiling kind of vaguely, and then to them he says
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Speaker 1: I and then it's just inaudible, but it looks like
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Speaker 1: it's two syllables. And I don't know what he said,
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Speaker 1: but right In looks mildly shocked and smiles like the
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Speaker 1: fucking idiots, And we hear Shin say I have people
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Speaker 1: who don't plan on leaving me behind. Ah. All of
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Speaker 1: them are smiling at him, and then we also cut
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Speaker 1: to Fido, Frederica, Ernst and Greth, and Shin continues, who
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Speaker 1: said I'm the one they want to stay by their side.
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Speaker 1: We see Lena aw. We go back to Shin, still
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Speaker 1: holding raised metal piece, and he continues, so I think
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Speaker 1: I'm okay. He puts the piece down in the toolbox.
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Speaker 1: I think I can get there alone, and then out loud,
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Speaker 1: he says thank you, and he closes the box. He stands,
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Speaker 1: and the screen like kind of brightens, and the background
16:49
Speaker 1: morphs to all of his dead comrades standing behind him,
16:53
Speaker 1: holding their heads in their hands, with their like eyes
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Speaker 1: glowing blue and their Legion like kind of behind them,
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Speaker 1: and just a umble of voices, and Shin turns to
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Speaker 1: them and says, I know I haven't forgotten you. I
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Speaker 1: We see some quick shots of him in a couple
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Speaker 1: of different uniforms, and then his mark, which is now finished,
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Speaker 1: and he continues, I'm the Reaper. We get a low
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Speaker 1: shot of him stepping forward to the exit of the memorial,
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Speaker 1: and then to a white bird kind of flying through
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Speaker 1: this night sky that's like really really sparkly, and Chin continues,
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Speaker 1: I'll fight because with the Legion keeping this world closed off,
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Speaker 1: I can't make it happen. Flying Legion approach the white
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Speaker 1: bird and it like soars through them and it reaches
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Speaker 1: blue skies where it's joined by five other birds, which
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Speaker 1: is pretty fucking cool because those only five of Spearhead totals,
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Speaker 1: so that means maybe we're including Lena. We see the
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Speaker 1: toolbox and Chin continues for their sake. Then we see
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Speaker 1: Spearhead for their sake. Then we see all of Spearhead
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Speaker 1: standing kind of next to each other outside and shin salutes,
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Speaker 1: and for her aw we get the title card Episode
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Speaker 1: twenty three, handler one. Yeah, back from the break Maybe
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Speaker 1: we cut two cracked and broken windows looking out on
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Speaker 1: a destroyed white city and it's snowing. It's December twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: twenty one forty nine. It's a little bit back now.
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Speaker 1: Tepi's cat bull is on the floor and has snow
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Speaker 1: on it, and we hear some like jingling or rustling,
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Speaker 1: and then Lena's standing in front of her bedroom windows
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Speaker 1: looking around. Her feet crunch on the broken glass as
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Speaker 1: she walks to her desk, and she picks up her
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Speaker 1: pegboard and kind of looks at her fondly, and then
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Speaker 1: she puts it back down and she says, it's thanks
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Speaker 1: to you that I was able to come back. She
18:47
Speaker 1: starts to take some things off of the board, and
18:51
Speaker 1: we see like some flashbacks of the fights in the city,
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Speaker 1: and then we see Lena holding some little faces in
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Speaker 1: her hands and she says, I won't forget. She clutches
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Speaker 1: them to her face like she's about to cry. And
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Speaker 1: then we see her closing the glass box with all
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Speaker 1: the faces in it, and she salutes at it. Back
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Speaker 1: on her board, we see that besides all of the
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Speaker 1: Spearhead members, there are only three others left. She looks
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Speaker 1: down and catches a glimpse of a picture of her
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Speaker 1: and her parents laying on the floor. Then we see
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Speaker 1: her in a graveyard where she pushes the snow off
19:24
Speaker 1: a grave and she puts a jacket over it. She
19:27
Speaker 1: kneels in front of the grave of return father. The
19:30
Speaker 1: grave says Baclav Milise three fifteen twenty one oh three
19:35
Speaker 1: to four thirteen twenty one forty, and then it's cut
19:38
Speaker 1: off because the jackets over it. She continues, allegian offensive
19:43
Speaker 1: began the night of the revolution festival. Many of my
19:46
Speaker 1: comrades fought, as did I. We see lots of guns
19:49
Speaker 1: and boots sticking up out of the snow. She continues.
19:54
Speaker 1: Many of the people in the eighty sixth district answered
19:56
Speaker 1: my call and fall with us. She's just kind of
19:58
Speaker 1: walking through the graveyard past all these like guns and boots.
20:02
Speaker 1: Now I won't forget. She looks up at a like
20:06
Speaker 1: dead mech. I think it's a juggernaut and continues, but
20:09
Speaker 1: the Republic is gone good. I guess this is that
20:14
Speaker 1: graveyard with like memorial in it that she was at
20:17
Speaker 1: way way back in Core one, and it's just fucked up.
20:21
Speaker 1: There's like dead mechs everywhere, and things are like crumbling
20:24
Speaker 1: and stuff, and she continues, it only took a week.
20:28
Speaker 1: We cut to some ice like frozen. I think it's
20:32
Speaker 1: that fountain that's you know that has sand Magnolia next
20:35
Speaker 1: to it, but I'm not really sure. So in the
20:38
Speaker 1: reflection of the ice, we see the Federacy's flag flying
20:41
Speaker 1: over it, and in the ice are a bunch of
20:44
Speaker 1: beer bottles and the sand Magnolia flag. We cut to
20:47
Speaker 1: that really large street that has the trolleys that usually
20:50
Speaker 1: go down it, and there's just some army vehicles on
20:52
Speaker 1: it now, and we see Lena's feet walk past, and
20:55
Speaker 1: she continues. We still manage to keep a defensive line going,
20:59
Speaker 1: and after two months past rescue came. She's walking down
21:02
Speaker 1: the street, and there's some other Alba on the other
21:05
Speaker 1: side walking, and she continues from the far east, past
21:09
Speaker 1: Legion held territory and her own borders. We see some
21:13
Speaker 1: people standing near some Max, not San Magnolia Max, like
21:16
Speaker 1: Federacy Max, and so I guess they are Federacy soldiers.
21:20
Speaker 1: And then there are some eighty six on the street
21:22
Speaker 1: and they wave to her as she passes, and Lena
21:24
Speaker 1: salutes and continues. They the Giad Federacy already knew about
21:30
Speaker 1: the oppression and the slaughter of the eighty six. We
21:32
Speaker 1: see some eighty six just kind of hanging around and
21:34
Speaker 1: talking outside, and then that sign in the background that
21:37
Speaker 1: used to say eighty six stay away, now it says
21:40
Speaker 1: white pigs stay away. And then we see a very
21:44
Speaker 1: fucked up sag Magnolia statue without a head and paint
21:48
Speaker 1: splattered on it, and Lanta continues, the survivors of the
21:51
Speaker 1: eighty sixth district were saved, and any who want to
21:55
Speaker 1: can become Federacy citizens. Okay, Now we see San Magnolia's
21:59
Speaker 1: statue head just on the ground, also pain all over it,
22:03
Speaker 1: and there's some graffiti next to it on the wall
22:05
Speaker 1: that says goodbye. And also oh my god or omg. Actually,
22:09
Speaker 1: then we see some eighty six standing around outside, including cyclops,
22:13
Speaker 1: and Lena says, the awful things have stopped. There are
22:17
Speaker 1: some Federacy folks talking to them all, but now she continues,
22:20
Speaker 1: the rescue forces remain here, providing us a modicum of support.
22:24
Speaker 1: But we cut two people waiting in a line to
22:27
Speaker 1: get food, you know, like outside, and it looks like
22:31
Speaker 1: they're getting soup and bread from like Federacy soldiers, and
22:35
Speaker 1: this one guy's like, hey, he got more than I did,
22:38
Speaker 1: and another Alba guy's like, do your jobs, and the
22:41
Speaker 1: third Alba guy says, can you college treat us equally? Fuck?
22:46
Speaker 1: The Federacy soldiers are just staring them down, like what
22:50
Speaker 1: the fuck, dude, we're feeding you, And there's this long
22:53
Speaker 1: pause and finally that first Alba like huffs and he's like,
22:56
Speaker 1: how did it end up like this? I could tell you,
23:00
Speaker 1: And then we cut to a person who we can't see,
23:03
Speaker 1: angrily stabbing a fork at an empty tray, and then
23:06
Speaker 1: a sign that says welcome to the Republic of San
23:09
Speaker 1: Magnolia and has like some kids, I'm like all the
23:11
Speaker 1: kids on it, and some like happy looking animals and
23:13
Speaker 1: it just has a red X through it. We hear
23:16
Speaker 1: Lena say, there can be no punishment for a citizenry
23:20
Speaker 1: that's not aware of its crimes? Is uncle right? Father? No?
23:25
Speaker 1: She is still walking and she exhales and looks down.
23:28
Speaker 1: Then she hears a mew and looks up and smiles.
23:32
Speaker 1: We cut to her in the same pose, but looking
23:34
Speaker 1: really really dour and definitely inside somewhere, and a voice
23:38
Speaker 1: says Colonel Malise TEPPI is like curling around her legs. Yay,
23:43
Speaker 1: Teppy's okay, And the voice says, is that and Lena's like,
23:48
Speaker 1: ignore it please. She is standing in an office before
23:53
Speaker 1: like that boss of hers that we saw that one
23:56
Speaker 1: other time, that like she really hates, and it's like
23:58
Speaker 1: a piece of shit, And there are these two Federacy
24:01
Speaker 1: people sitting at a table like kind of on the side,
24:04
Speaker 1: and her boss is like, I see as you know,
24:09
Speaker 1: it was the brave soldiers of the Federacy, equipped with
24:12
Speaker 1: the latest weaponry, who valiantly pushed back the battle lines
24:16
Speaker 1: and retook the first district where we find ourselves today. Correct,
24:21
Speaker 1: he's such a piece of shit. The two Federacy soldiers
24:25
Speaker 1: are like side eyeing him because he's a piece of shit,
24:29
Speaker 1: and Lena's like, yes, it's important to note that he
24:33
Speaker 1: used to have pictures on his desk of him like
24:35
Speaker 1: shaking hands with like important Republic people, and now he
24:38
Speaker 1: has pictures of him with like eighty six like smiling
24:43
Speaker 1: with them and stuff, because he's a piece of shit.
24:46
Speaker 1: And he continues, the Federacy has requested that we send
24:49
Speaker 1: an officer to help them break the stalemate north of
24:51
Speaker 1: District one and retake the land stolen by the Legion.
24:55
Speaker 1: I'm told you've volunteered to lead the unit assigned to
24:57
Speaker 1: this task. Is that correct? Yeah? Lena's like, that is correct.
25:03
Speaker 1: The guy stands and kind of chuckles, and he's like,
25:05
Speaker 1: as you're a superior officer, I knew you'd agree. Teppy
25:09
Speaker 1: just starts fucking hissing at him, and he continues, I
25:13
Speaker 1: feel the same good luck out there. Teppy hisses some more.
25:18
Speaker 1: We cut to Annette, who was working at a computer
25:20
Speaker 1: and she says, so you're going to the Federacy. Then
25:24
Speaker 1: Lena is laying in bed. Her powerade is like connected
25:28
Speaker 1: to like a laptop computer next to her with like
25:31
Speaker 1: a plug and stuff, and she says yeah, they are
25:35
Speaker 1: in a net's bedroom. I think a net makes kind
25:37
Speaker 1: of a noise that I didn't really know what it means,
25:40
Speaker 1: and Lena's like, You're not surprised. We get kind of
25:43
Speaker 1: a shot at the exterior and it looks like where
25:45
Speaker 1: Annette lives wasn't like affected by all of the bombing
25:49
Speaker 1: and horrible things, because it looks pretty okay, which is
25:52
Speaker 1: good for her. Yay anyway, Annette says, after all that's happened,
25:56
Speaker 1: if something like that could surprise me, I would have
25:59
Speaker 1: ditched you long ago. You kind of did, But okay, Lena,
26:02
Speaker 1: size Annett continues, ever since that day, You've been full
26:06
Speaker 1: of surprises. We get some flashbacks of Lena doing stuff,
26:10
Speaker 1: and then we see her like walking down the tracks
26:12
Speaker 1: as her unit and a net watch, and Anet continues,
26:16
Speaker 1: I've had a lifetime's worth of surprises already. She pauses
26:19
Speaker 1: for a second. What Lena's like, what is it? Annette says,
26:24
Speaker 1: why is that possible? She turns towards Lena because she
26:27
Speaker 1: was looking at her computer. This raid device the Federacy
26:30
Speaker 1: made for some reason. It has the same design as
26:32
Speaker 1: the Republic. She's showing Lena like a slightly broken Federacy
26:36
Speaker 1: raid device. Lena looks super confused, and Annette says, is
26:40
Speaker 1: it chance, No, there's no in hell, it's by chance.
26:45
Speaker 1: Lena's like, what do you mean. Annette says, the Federacy
26:49
Speaker 1: made it, but it's got our tech in it. You
26:52
Speaker 1: couldn't do this without help from a living eighty six.
26:54
Speaker 1: Lana gasps cool, and Annette says, but I can't imagine
26:59
Speaker 1: any eighties making contact with the Federacy before the Legion offensive.
27:03
Speaker 1: Lena's eyes widened and she looks over at her peg
27:06
Speaker 1: board and she kind of starts to move towards it
27:08
Speaker 1: and isn't paying attention and disconnects her power raid and
27:12
Speaker 1: that kind of like zaps her out of the moments. Anyway,
27:15
Speaker 1: the laptop starts to beep and that's like oh, and
27:17
Speaker 1: she like turns it off and Lena's like sorry. Annette
27:21
Speaker 1: pushes her chair back across the room to the main
27:23
Speaker 1: computer and is like, well, I guess the answers will
27:26
Speaker 1: be waiting for us there. Lena sits up. Annette, why
27:30
Speaker 1: do you have a Federacy breed device? And that's like
27:33
Speaker 1: because I volunteered. Lena looks confused. Annette continues, I'm being
27:37
Speaker 1: sent as a technology officer. She turns to Lena, I'm
27:41
Speaker 1: going to the Federacy too. Lena looks mildly surprised, and
27:45
Speaker 1: Annette continues, when you said you were going to do
27:47
Speaker 1: everything you could until the end. She stands, I stop
27:50
Speaker 1: feeling as though nothing I did would matter. It's not
27:53
Speaker 1: just me. We see some folks kind of outside and
27:58
Speaker 1: they are like standing in front of a large kind
28:00
Speaker 1: of metal sign. We can't see the sign, we can
28:03
Speaker 1: just see them and it's like two Alba's in an
28:05
Speaker 1: eighty six and they look like they're writing something, and
28:09
Speaker 1: Net continues the other's two. I think. So if you're
28:13
Speaker 1: using the powerade, I'll have to go with you. She
28:15
Speaker 1: sits on the bed next to Elena and takes off
28:17
Speaker 1: her glasses. We're together again, Lena. Lena looks shocked and
28:21
Speaker 1: then smiles and she's like yeah, and she like lunges
28:24
Speaker 1: at Annetta hugs her and she's like oh Mannette, and
28:28
Speaker 1: they both like fall back on the bed, like laughing.
28:31
Speaker 1: Then we cut to a close up of Lena's eyes
28:34
Speaker 1: looking at something like super stressed. So not the same scene,
28:39
Speaker 1: and William says, I'm sorry we're still putting things together.
28:43
Speaker 1: Elena's like, oh, we see that she's looking at a
28:47
Speaker 1: roster of I guess her new unit on the tablets,
28:50
Speaker 1: and most of the names, including the first five, are
28:53
Speaker 1: just totally blacked out, which seems not helpful at all.
28:56
Speaker 1: But we can see some familiar names, or at least one.
28:59
Speaker 1: We see she and Ida, which is Cyclops. She's number six,
29:04
Speaker 1: and then shana Aya is number seven, rito Aria is
29:08
Speaker 1: number nine. Recky, I don't know. The last name is
29:11
Speaker 1: number fifteen, So there, I guess are some people who
29:14
Speaker 1: survived her last unit that are gonna be on her
29:16
Speaker 1: new units. But other than that, we don't know anyone
29:19
Speaker 1: else's names because they're really fucking mean anyway. Lena is like,
29:23
Speaker 1: but this it is March twelfth, twenty one fifty. We
29:28
Speaker 1: see that Lena and Willem are sitting on like two
29:31
Speaker 1: opposing couches, facing each other, and Willem says, it's not
29:35
Speaker 1: that we don't respect your talents, Colonel Malise. You in
29:38
Speaker 1: the eighty six survived the Legion offensive. We're glad to
29:41
Speaker 1: have an officer like you. They both stand. Lena's like,
29:45
Speaker 1: thank you. I'll do my very best till the end.
29:48
Speaker 1: Willem says, I'll see you in the federacy, and he
29:51
Speaker 1: leaves the room. Lena stands there for a second and
29:54
Speaker 1: then she just like lunges for the tablet and picks
29:56
Speaker 1: it up, and she sighs totally unenthused, and then turns
30:02
Speaker 1: and looks at the empty desk in the room, and
30:04
Speaker 1: I believe it's her uncle's desk. That's the feeling I
30:08
Speaker 1: was getting there. Then we see her walking down the
30:11
Speaker 1: street and it looks bad, like we're seeing like the
30:14
Speaker 1: side of buildings, you know that she's passing, and they
30:17
Speaker 1: used to have stucco, but a lot of it's fallen off.
30:19
Speaker 1: And there's some like graffiti that says like Viva Alba,
30:22
Speaker 1: which is super fucking dumb. And then we see some
30:26
Speaker 1: like really like rough, not great looking Alba guys, one
30:30
Speaker 1: of them like drinking a beer kind of standing on
30:33
Speaker 1: the sidewalk, very much not in good shape. They just
30:37
Speaker 1: look like they've been through it and maybe they're homeless.
30:40
Speaker 1: It's not looking good around there, and she thinks of
30:43
Speaker 1: her uncle saying, I can buy you time if nothing else,
30:47
Speaker 1: it's time for you to be crushed, Lena. She approaches
30:52
Speaker 1: that like sign that those people were like drawing on
30:55
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago, maybe, And there's a bunch
30:57
Speaker 1: of people gathered around it, and we hear Carlstaal say,
31:01
Speaker 1: as you watch your naive dreams shatter against reality, it
31:05
Speaker 1: looks like a bunch of people are fixing the sign
31:09
Speaker 1: thought was ext out that used to say welcome to
31:11
Speaker 1: San Magnolia earlier. And Lena walks by and she's watching them,
31:17
Speaker 1: and she kind of stops and gasps. She sees a
31:20
Speaker 1: really small smiley face with like a person with a
31:22
Speaker 1: thumbs up on the sign, and she thinks, uncle, just
31:26
Speaker 1: give me a bit more time until my dream shatters.
31:30
Speaker 1: She starts to walk off again. And now we can
31:32
Speaker 1: clearly see that the sign that used to say welcome
31:34
Speaker 1: to the Republic of San Magnolia's has been kind of
31:37
Speaker 1: edited so it says will come true the Republic of
31:40
Speaker 1: San Magnolia. And there are lots of like little happy
31:43
Speaker 1: drawn faces on it, and some of them black hair,
31:46
Speaker 1: and like so very much like there are people here
31:49
Speaker 1: who want it change and they want the promise of
31:53
Speaker 1: San Magnolia to come true. And I thought that was
31:56
Speaker 1: really fucking cool anyway, at this point, the opening theme
32:00
Speaker 1: starts up and we see an automatic door opening with
32:05
Speaker 1: Lena and Greth standing on the other side, and Lena
32:08
Speaker 1: has a suitcase. Ernst is in his office with Willem
32:12
Speaker 1: and John Richards, and Ernest says like, welcome, welcome, We've
32:16
Speaker 1: been waiting for you, bloody Regina. He walks towards her.
32:20
Speaker 1: Lena gulps and he continues, Now, let's not waste any time.
32:25
Speaker 1: Credits are kind of rolling on the screen. Now, Ernest
32:28
Speaker 1: grabs her suitcase and he starts to roll it out.
32:31
Speaker 1: As he exits the room, we cut to Lena's mouth.
32:35
Speaker 1: She has her jaw clenched and she's shaking slightly, and
32:39
Speaker 1: Ernest says, there's a place I want to show you. Next,
32:43
Speaker 1: we see Lena holding her glass box of little faces
32:48
Speaker 1: and she lifts one hand off of it and puts
32:51
Speaker 1: it on the stone next to Kaye's name on the memorial,
32:55
Speaker 1: and we see some of the other names, including Eo.
32:59
Speaker 1: She Sayna, Keino, Kujo, Tosan, yoee Leka, Hannah or Hariya
33:06
Speaker 1: Sorry I'm not sure what I wrote, Hadu too, and Mary.
33:10
Speaker 1: She touches Hatuto's name now and we cut quickly too
33:15
Speaker 1: Spearhead minus shins marks on their juggernauts which are in
33:19
Speaker 1: this memorial. And I'm not really sure if she sees
33:22
Speaker 1: that or gets what it means, but she's standing in
33:25
Speaker 1: front of Fido. I think she gets what it means.
33:29
Speaker 1: And it's March twentieth, twenty one fifty. She drops to
33:33
Speaker 1: her knees in front of Shin's toolbox and she is
33:38
Speaker 1: holding their little faces in her hand, and her hand
33:41
Speaker 1: is just shaking slightly. She stares at them, and the
33:46
Speaker 1: glass box is sitting next to Shin's toolbox and it's open,
33:51
Speaker 1: and she says, I won't forget. I won't forget. I
33:56
Speaker 1: won't forget. Her eyes start to well with tears, and
34:00
Speaker 1: she holds their little paper faces to her face. I
34:04
Speaker 1: won't forget. We can't see her eyes, but she is
34:07
Speaker 1: clearly starting to cry. Now, I won't forget. It's unclear
34:11
Speaker 1: here what she does with the little faces, like, because
34:15
Speaker 1: she leaves the box, so does she leave their faces too.
34:19
Speaker 1: I couldn't really tell. But she gets up and she
34:22
Speaker 1: starts to walk out, and we get that same low
34:25
Speaker 1: angle shot that we had of Shin walking out of
34:28
Speaker 1: the memorial just a little while earlier, and then we
34:31
Speaker 1: see the camera rushing through the grass in the dark
34:34
Speaker 1: past these like Republic soldiers and we hear Lanna say,
34:39
Speaker 1: I'll fight until I reach the place they reached. It's
34:42
Speaker 1: passing some eighty six soldiers. Now when the sun is rising.
34:46
Speaker 1: She continues the place that can be found only those
34:48
Speaker 1: who kept going to the very end. The sun is
34:51
Speaker 1: up and the camera finally reaches spearhead which are facing
34:55
Speaker 1: away and there's red spider lily petals floating in the
35:01
Speaker 1: and then we kind of zoom through them to the
35:03
Speaker 1: sky and six whitebirds flying off, and Lena says to
35:08
Speaker 1: keep fighting. She stops walking and salutes. We go to
35:13
Speaker 1: an ending theme shot like one of those pictures of
35:18
Speaker 1: Shin's bench at the spear Hood bowers in Sabia with
35:21
Speaker 1: like a little light flare and orange just red on it,
35:25
Speaker 1: and then we hear Lena say, to live life to
35:27
Speaker 1: the fullest. There's a black screen now and has like
35:31
Speaker 1: little white brackets on the corners, and in the middle
35:34
Speaker 1: there is a square with like little squares in it
35:36
Speaker 1: that are moving like it's loading, and in the bottom
35:39
Speaker 1: like left side, it says standby mode. We hear a
35:42
Speaker 1: voice say keep them safe, and there are some like
35:46
Speaker 1: Fhido beeps, and then the screen says start up and
35:50
Speaker 1: three twenty twenty one fifty zero five thirty The camera
35:54
Speaker 1: comes on and we're kind of looking through Fido's perspective
35:57
Speaker 1: for a while. So we're in four three aspect ratio
36:00
Speaker 1: and Spearhead has their backs to him, and they're standing
36:04
Speaker 1: kind of in a line watching the sunrise over a city,
36:09
Speaker 1: and they all start to walk off, and then Shin
36:11
Speaker 1: reaches his hand up to the sky, kind of like
36:14
Speaker 1: over by a contrail, and then we cut to Ryden
36:18
Speaker 1: looking at Fido. This is still in Fido perspective, and
36:22
Speaker 1: Righton's fixing his hair and he says, I saw her too.
36:25
Speaker 1: Actually then I don't remember it well though, I can't
36:28
Speaker 1: imagine the look on his face. We have a couple
36:32
Speaker 1: of quick shots of Riding and Shin together, one of
36:35
Speaker 1: them at the train station when they were arguing, and
36:37
Speaker 1: like one of them younger, and then we cut to
36:40
Speaker 1: Onju walking and she says, they say there's a black
36:44
Speaker 1: cat with her. Fido beeps on you continues, if only
36:48
Speaker 1: it were kiddy, right. We get a couple of quick
36:50
Speaker 1: shots again, one of Daya and Onju and some of
36:53
Speaker 1: the others holding up TEPPI to I guess Fido's eye screen,
36:58
Speaker 1: and then one of tep be like meowing with his
37:01
Speaker 1: paws on a box, and then one of Aju's sitting
37:04
Speaker 1: out back crying after Diyah's death. Yay, and are says.
37:09
Speaker 1: Right next, we see THEO kneeling and showing the strawing
37:13
Speaker 1: that he did of Lena as a pig, you know,
37:16
Speaker 1: because that's how he draws her. And she's of course
37:18
Speaker 1: in uniform, and she's a speech trouble that says follow me,
37:22
Speaker 1: and THEO says this, fidn't make some beeps that sound
37:26
Speaker 1: like a no, but I'm not sure. THEO flips to
37:29
Speaker 1: the next page, and now he is a picture of
37:31
Speaker 1: Lena and she is in uniform but a person now,
37:35
Speaker 1: and she's riding a giant pig and Shin is running
37:38
Speaker 1: next to her and she's saying, let's go, and THEO says,
37:43
Speaker 1: what about this? Fido makes some more beeps, but I
37:46
Speaker 1: don't really know what these beeps mean, and THEO smiles
37:49
Speaker 1: deviously and he flips over the paper one more time
37:52
Speaker 1: and he's like, this is her and it's Lena like
37:57
Speaker 1: caressing Shin's hair and chin and kind of looking down
38:01
Speaker 1: at him as Shin's nose is bleeding, and she's saying,
38:06
Speaker 1: come on with little hearts, and they're both blushing and
38:09
Speaker 1: it is the most awesome drawing and I'm sure you've
38:12
Speaker 1: seen it and you were happy with it too, and
38:15
Speaker 1: if you haven't, you should probably look it up because
38:17
Speaker 1: it's great. And Fido beeps like super rapidly, like what
38:21
Speaker 1: the fuck, dude? Or maybe yeah, I'm not really sure,
38:25
Speaker 1: and we cut to a couple of really sad looking
38:27
Speaker 1: THEO shots, and THEO in present time chuckles wildly proud
38:32
Speaker 1: of himself, and then we see THEO running away from Karna,
38:36
Speaker 1: laughing as Karna is holding his sketchbook and saying, cut
38:40
Speaker 1: it out, THEO, cut it out. She like throws the
38:43
Speaker 1: sketchbook at him, and then we cut to another shot
38:46
Speaker 1: of her blushing and trying to fix her hair, and
38:49
Speaker 1: she's like, that won't happen with Shin. The two of
38:52
Speaker 1: them aren't like that. And I've known him longer, so
38:55
Speaker 1: she's even more of a little sister than me. We
38:58
Speaker 1: see a couple of shots of Karna and then Corna's
39:01
Speaker 1: like Victory's mine. Now we see Ernest T's kneeling down,
39:05
Speaker 1: looking off to the side, making like a square with
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Speaker 1: his hands, like the frame of shots, and he says
39:11
Speaker 1: the perfect boy meets girl. Then we see Willem, Greth
39:16
Speaker 1: and General Richards all looking at Fido, and Willim says,
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Speaker 1: beep beep. Fido nods and beeps, and Willem continues beep beep,
39:27
Speaker 1: Fido beeps, and William says, beep, and I guess that's
39:31
Speaker 1: nice that they can communicate. Next, we see Frederica running
39:36
Speaker 1: forward away from Fido and she's like, I'll surprise him too.
39:40
Speaker 1: Fido like grabs her and she squeals, and then we
39:44
Speaker 1: cut to Spearhead walking away from Fido, and THEO says,
39:49
Speaker 1: what was it, bloody, Regina yuck? Fido beeps and Shin
39:53
Speaker 1: turns back and Shin says, is that how it looks
39:57
Speaker 1: to you? Fido beeps, Shin kind of exhales and smiles.
40:01
Speaker 1: In the background, the rest of Spearhead's still moving off
40:04
Speaker 1: and they're talking about like it's she gonna recognize them
40:06
Speaker 1: and stuff, and then we cut to a couple of
40:08
Speaker 1: quick clips of Shin as a child, which is really
40:11
Speaker 1: confusing because Fido shouldn't have been there when he was
40:14
Speaker 1: like a year old, and then him running forward as
40:17
Speaker 1: a kid, which transitions to him running to catch up
40:20
Speaker 1: with the rest of Spearhead. Now, then we see a
40:23
Speaker 1: really wide shot of Spearhead standing in the field near
40:27
Speaker 1: that memorial that's kind of where they are, and Lena
40:30
Speaker 1: and Ernst are kind of walking over and Lena says,
40:33
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm late, mister president, and Ernst is like,
40:36
Speaker 1: no time spent remembering someone lost is time well spent. Now,
40:40
Speaker 1: let me introduce you to your new team. Lena's like,
40:43
Speaker 1: what right now? And I realized that the people who
40:47
Speaker 1: are kind of close that we're seeing in the wide
40:49
Speaker 1: shot are just some random officers. I think they're like
40:51
Speaker 1: greath and you know, Wilhelm and stuff. And Spearhead is
40:55
Speaker 1: actually like way away across the field. So Fido pans
40:58
Speaker 1: to them, which is why she is like immediately say oh,
41:01
Speaker 1: there they are, and we hear right and say, hey,
41:04
Speaker 1: is that really hurt? Shin steps forward and he's like,
41:07
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot's happened, right, and says he got
41:10
Speaker 1: that right. We get a quick upside down shot of
41:14
Speaker 1: Lena approaching Shin's Reagan leaf in the field of red
41:17
Speaker 1: spider lilies from last episode, and then back to Lena
41:21
Speaker 1: approaching now and she and Shin salutes and the sun
41:26
Speaker 1: breaks through the clouds, and then we see Fido's eye
41:30
Speaker 1: focusing in and we are out of his vision and
41:33
Speaker 1: back to just the normal aspect ratio, and all the
41:37
Speaker 1: Spearhead is saluting, and Lena says, I am Colonel lad
41:41
Speaker 1: Alina Malise of the San Magnolian Republic. It's an honor
41:44
Speaker 1: to meet you for the first time. Shin is quiet
41:47
Speaker 1: for a moment, and the rest of Spearhead is behind
41:50
Speaker 1: him trying to stifle their giggles, and Shin finally says,
41:55
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time we've met, it's the first
41:58
Speaker 1: time we've seen each other. Though. Lena partially drops her
42:02
Speaker 1: salute hand in confusion, and Chin says it's been a
42:06
Speaker 1: long time handler one. Lena is super fucking confused, and
42:10
Speaker 1: she further drops her hand, and Chin continues, I'm a
42:14
Speaker 1: captain in the GIAD Fetter Sea and the former combat
42:17
Speaker 1: commander of Spearhead Squadron. Shin a Nosen. Lena looks like
42:23
Speaker 1: she's seen a ghost, but in a nice way, and
42:26
Speaker 1: also like she's about to cry and everyone else looks
42:30
Speaker 1: so happy, And we get a close up on her
42:33
Speaker 1: eyes and they're just welding with tears, and we see
42:37
Speaker 1: that in her hands, she's still holding their little faces
42:40
Speaker 1: because she didn't give up hope. But she loosens her
42:43
Speaker 1: grip on them and she says, Shin, she lets go
42:48
Speaker 1: of them, and they get caught in the breeze along
42:50
Speaker 1: with some of her tears, and we see now the
42:53
Speaker 1: tears are just streaming down her face and she eventually
42:57
Speaker 1: figures out how to smile, and Shin also smiles, probably
43:01
Speaker 1: the most honestly happy smile we've seen him make, and
43:06
Speaker 1: he's also blushing slightly. At this point, Teppi pops out
43:10
Speaker 1: of Lena's bag and meows, and Fido beeps, and Teppi
43:14
Speaker 1: runs over and Fido like runs over at them and
43:17
Speaker 1: like jumps, like startling. Lena like almost hits into them
43:20
Speaker 1: and like blows off her hat and Shin puts up
43:23
Speaker 1: his arm in front of her to protect her, and
43:25
Speaker 1: Rydan's like, you really are a fool. We're kind of
43:29
Speaker 1: rotating the camera around in a circle now so we
43:31
Speaker 1: can focus on whoever's talking Lena, and then people in
43:33
Speaker 1: spearhead basically it's pretty cool, and Lena says, Rydan THEO
43:39
Speaker 1: has caught the little faces and he's like, is this us?
43:43
Speaker 1: And Lena says theo Andju says thank you for the cat,
43:48
Speaker 1: and Lena's like, on you, and Karina says, I'm glad
43:53
Speaker 1: you're alive, and Lena's like Karna. Fredrika, who is still
43:58
Speaker 1: being held by Fido's arm, says how about we get
44:00
Speaker 1: a photo to remember today? And they're all like, yeah, okay,
44:04
Speaker 1: and the camera flashes and goes to whites and then
44:07
Speaker 1: we cuts to it rushing down the train tracks, kind
44:11
Speaker 1: of like the beginning of the first episode, except the
44:13
Speaker 1: sky is blue and they're all there standing at the
44:16
Speaker 1: end of it, and Lena says, I followed you for
44:19
Speaker 1: so long, and Shin's like, I know. They are all
44:23
Speaker 1: holding their individual little pictures now looking at him, and
44:27
Speaker 1: Lena continues, I finally caught up, and Jin's like yeah.
44:32
Speaker 1: They all kind of look up, kind of off in
44:34
Speaker 1: the distance, and Lena says, from now on. She looks
44:38
Speaker 1: over at Shin, who's standing next to her. He looks
44:41
Speaker 1: over at her too, I'll fight with you. Shin nods,
44:45
Speaker 1: and they both look back at the horizon again. We
44:49
Speaker 1: cut to their shadows and we see that Shin and
44:52
Speaker 1: Lena's hands are starting to move closer to each other
44:55
Speaker 1: and they're positioning kind of looks like an eight and
44:58
Speaker 1: a six when they closer and closer, And then we
45:02
Speaker 1: cut to the show title card and the eight and
45:04
Speaker 1: the six make it all the way to each other,
45:07
Speaker 1: and then we see the picture that they just took
45:09
Speaker 1: and written on it is I won't forget, but the
45:13
Speaker 1: ice crossed out and says we so we won't forget.
45:17
Speaker 1: And that's the end of season one. Yeah, so, uh,
45:21
Speaker 1: closing thoughts on eighty six, Yeah, that was a really
45:25
Speaker 1: great last episode. In my opinion, I cried for a
45:28
Speaker 1: lot of it. Kind of mean to make Lena go
45:32
Speaker 1: through all that to find that out, you know, but
45:36
Speaker 1: fun for them, and I'm just super fucking happy that
45:39
Speaker 1: they can be together. But it was really sad there
45:42
Speaker 1: for a moment when she, like I thought that she
45:44
Speaker 1: really believed that they died when she saw that memorial,
45:47
Speaker 1: because come on, who else would have made it all
45:49
Speaker 1: the way out there. But I just loved that she
45:54
Speaker 1: just wasn't ready to give up, and that she still
45:58
Speaker 1: had their little picture in her hands. To me, that's
46:04
Speaker 1: just it's the amount of faith that she had in them.
46:08
Speaker 1: And you know, it's hard to give up on someone
46:11
Speaker 1: that you love, and it's hard to admit that they're dead.
46:14
Speaker 1: But I'm glad she didn't have to. I'm glad that
46:18
Speaker 1: the people who really inspired her and saved her she
46:22
Speaker 1: was able to save as well. They have been mutually
46:26
Speaker 1: beneficial to each other and they'll make a great team
46:30
Speaker 1: going forward. And I'm definitely gonna read the rest of
46:33
Speaker 1: the light novels now. I don't know. I just thought
46:38
Speaker 1: that was really good, and I think it's interesting that
46:41
Speaker 1: Shin is like, I don't have anything to live for,
46:44
Speaker 1: but he does. He wants to see this war end.
46:48
Speaker 1: He wants to take his comrades as far as he
46:52
Speaker 1: can go, and he wants to save them, you know,
46:55
Speaker 1: because some of them are still their brains are still
46:58
Speaker 1: in legion bodies and stuff. So that's one of those
47:02
Speaker 1: things where it's like you have the goal, maybe you
47:05
Speaker 1: think you're supposed to have a more lofty goal, or
47:08
Speaker 1: maybe you're supposed to have a more normal goal, like
47:11
Speaker 1: seeing the ocean, but that's not Whatever you have is
47:14
Speaker 1: good enough, you know. And I don't know, And I'm
47:17
Speaker 1: glad that they can Snon Lena, can you know, be
47:21
Speaker 1: inspired by each other to continue. I think that's probably
47:24
Speaker 1: like the coolest thing, that they both are inspired by
47:28
Speaker 1: each other. I don't know. I think they're a good couple.
47:32
Speaker 1: And yeah, this really got me emotionally, that is. Yeah.
47:39
Speaker 1: So there had been some rumors going around that there
47:41
Speaker 1: was gonna be a season two, that there were some
47:43
Speaker 1: people talking about stuff and setting things up. But it's
47:46
Speaker 1: been a little while since I heard that. I don't
47:48
Speaker 1: actually believe it's gonna happen, but who knows. Right, it
47:52
Speaker 1: would be cool as long as they can end season
47:54
Speaker 1: two on a satisfying note like this, because in my opinion,
47:59
Speaker 1: well for the moment, most parts. Often I don't like
48:02
Speaker 1: the way seasons or series end. They just they don't
48:06
Speaker 1: end well, or they they're not final enough, or they're
48:10
Speaker 1: stupid and they don't wrap things up in the right way.
48:14
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is like, in my opinion, one
48:16
Speaker 1: of the best ends of a season I've ever seen.
48:19
Speaker 1: I just think it's perfect. I want more, but I'm
48:24
Speaker 1: happy with the way that it ended, and I only
48:28
Speaker 1: want more if it's gonna be as good as those.
48:30
Speaker 1: If not, you can you can keep it. It's fine.
48:33
Speaker 1: So that's two in a row of shows that we've
48:36
Speaker 1: watched that I've been exceedingly happy with the way that
48:39
Speaker 1: they ended. Yeah, this is definitely in my top anime. Yeah.
48:45
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's not much I really need to
48:47
Speaker 1: say about it. A lot of it's spelled itself out
48:51
Speaker 1: or we've talked about in the past. But I just
48:55
Speaker 1: like that Shin's not alone and neither is Lena, and
48:59
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna fucking save the world because they're
49:02
Speaker 1: really tough. Yeah, that's what I think. But that's really it.
49:09
Speaker 1: I don't have much else to say about it, and
49:11
Speaker 1: I feel a little bad, but there's only so much
49:14
Speaker 1: I can do. And I think the Republic's gonna be okay.
49:18
Speaker 1: You know, I think, like any country that's really shitty,
49:21
Speaker 1: not everyone in the country is bad, and Carl Staal
49:25
Speaker 1: is wrong. You know. It was never the will of
49:28
Speaker 1: the people. It was the will of the government that
49:30
Speaker 1: convinced some of the people and or I'm sure some
49:34
Speaker 1: of the people were just shitty to begin with, but
49:37
Speaker 1: most people are good. Well, I'm gonna maintain that and
49:41
Speaker 1: they're gonna be okay. But people like that general person
49:47
Speaker 1: that's Lena's boss, I don't think he should be allowed
49:49
Speaker 1: to be in power. It's kind of a disaster. But yeah,
49:54
Speaker 1: I don't know. The Federacy's pretty nice forticiding that they
49:58
Speaker 1: wanted to save them despite the horrible atrocities they've committed.
50:04
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's my take on things. I guess
50:07
Speaker 1: be nice to people. Racism is bad, things like that,
50:12
Speaker 1: you know, normal stuff. So yeah, be nice to people.
50:15
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you anyway, That's just
50:19
Speaker 1: that's eighty six for you. I really enjoyed it. So
50:26
Speaker 1: what am I doing next? I don't know. I really
50:30
Speaker 1: really really don't know. I'm gonna take a couple of
50:33
Speaker 1: months off to get myself better because I still feel
50:36
Speaker 1: really terrible all the time, and maybe things are gonna
50:39
Speaker 1: be okay or maybe they're not, and start back up
50:43
Speaker 1: with a new show in the middle of October. I'm
50:46
Speaker 1: thinking right now, October sixteenth, either that or the following week.
50:50
Speaker 1: It'll kind of coincide with the beginning of the Fall
50:54
Speaker 1: anime season. As of right now, my best guess is
50:59
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna do Heidoro. It's twelve or thirteen episodes,
51:03
Speaker 1: I can't really remember, and it's just fucking insane, and
51:07
Speaker 1: it'd probably be really fun to do, and it's a
51:10
Speaker 1: great manga if you want to get into it, so
51:13
Speaker 1: I'll probably do that. I'm also considering doing Lane. I
51:16
Speaker 1: still really want to, but last time I checked, I
51:18
Speaker 1: couldn't find a legal way to stream it, which I
51:22
Speaker 1: feel like is a problem. I don't want you to
51:24
Speaker 1: have trouble finding something, so I probably won't do that
51:28
Speaker 1: unless something changes. And I'm also considering ger and Lagan
51:31
Speaker 1: because that would be really fucking cool. So if out
51:35
Speaker 1: of those three, you have any ones that you really
51:38
Speaker 1: really want me to do, please let me know. Like
51:42
Speaker 1: I just want you to be happy, and I'd be
51:44
Speaker 1: happy doing any of them, so please let me know.
51:47
Speaker 1: Or if you have another suggestion, you can tell me
51:51
Speaker 1: and I might consider it or not, or I might
51:54
Speaker 1: end up having to do it because I feel like
51:55
Speaker 1: if I don't, then you won't be happy. I don't know,
51:58
Speaker 1: but really, my fucking email address is in these show notes,
52:03
Speaker 1: so feel free to reach out to me, and you
52:05
Speaker 1: could also tell me how you felt about eighty six. Yeah,
52:08
Speaker 1: you could talk to me. I talk back usually anyway.
52:13
Speaker 1: That's it. That was eighty six. I hope you enjoyed it,
52:17
Speaker 1: and if you didn't, it's over and you never have
52:20
Speaker 1: to watch it or hear me talk about it again.
52:23
Speaker 1: One more thing. It is August twelfth in my world.
52:27
Speaker 1: In your world it is not August twelfth anymore. But
52:30
Speaker 1: when I am recording it, it is the twelfth of August,
52:32
Speaker 1: which is Ashlink's birthday. Happy birthday, ashlnks.
52:37
Speaker 2: I hate myself so much, but now you know anyway,
52:41
Speaker 2: I hope you have a really good whatever, and I'm
52:43
Speaker 2: gonna go celebrate the rest of Ashlink's birthday the only
52:46
Speaker 2: way I know how, which is just.
52:47
Speaker 1: Being sad about things or something, or maybe I'll draw,
52:51
Speaker 1: who knows. I will see you in a couple of months,
52:54
Speaker 1: So be good to yourselves or whatever you do that
52:59
Speaker 1: is not bad. Yeah later, webs