A Literal *Fanny* Pack - Sleeping Dogs - Part 1

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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.

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My name is Leah.

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And my name is Cathy.

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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.

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And since Cathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,

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almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.

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We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.

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Alright it's finally here.

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Welcome to season 3.

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It has been quite a while.

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Anything you want to say right off the bat Cathy?

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Thank you for being patient as we were gone for a whole half a year, but I hope you're

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as excited as we are.

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Yes, it's been kind of nuts for us.

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Things have been weird.

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It's been a weird off season.

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But we're back.

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We're starting out first game of the season with Cathy's choice this year.

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She picked Sleeping Dogs.

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Why'd you pick it Cathy?

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I actually had it as a recommendation so shout out to my brother-in-law.

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And I'm Chinese.

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This game's Chinese.

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And so it's a perfect match.

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The motherland.

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We need to find one for my motherland.

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Yes, any Swedish games guys please drop in a recommendation.

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Should I do the out of context summary?

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Very enthusiastic yeah.

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Was actually you're excited.

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In this episode, we learn of a more secure place to put our cell phones.

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And apparently we might also be able to find some bok choy up there too.

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And we learned that the gang is dealing special K. Freeze dried strawberries.

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Some cereal.

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And everything.

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Alright, so scene one we're watching a drug deal that is being surveilled.

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And it goes wrong when a security guard stumbles upon the scene and is brutally murdered.

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And this spurs on a police chase which ends with our main character Wei being arrested.

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And then in jail he reconnects with one of his old friends Jackie.

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We start this game with so much violence with the murder scene.

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It's like John Wick cartoon form.

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But I'm also very excited as soon as we started talking in Cantonese in the beginning.

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I got really excited because I forgot that it takes place in Hong Kong.

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And so I was like I know that language.

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It's the Leonardo DiCaprio meme of just pointing his finger and I was like it's Cantonese.

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So pretty excited about that.

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Pretty excited about all the cursing that goes on because it's part of my vocabulary

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too.

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We have to fill this in.

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Any time the subtitles don't do it justice.

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You gotta let us know.

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I feel like all the mother F'ers that they say there's such a big variety of it in Cantonese

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and they're saying different versions of it.

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But it all gets translated into mother F'er.

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And so there's ones that include like mother reproductive parts and then male reproductive

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parts.

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Mother being that it's always referring to your mom.

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This is a quick reminder or if you're a new listener.

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Kathy does not curse.

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And I'm on a mission to get her to curse.

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And this is why she's saying reproductive parts and not dick.

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It's referring to the C words for both guys and females.

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Yeah.

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Same, same point.

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You're not gonna say it.

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But one day you will.

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I will curse in Chinese.

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And so that's not fair.

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What's the difference?

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Same difference.

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Anyways, I'm just very excited that there's a lot of cursing in my language.

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It's pretty exciting for all the ABCs out there.

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This is really good with TVB reference.

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So for all the listeners out there who know what I'm talking about, please let me know

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what you think.

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But anyways, back to the game.

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The start of it reminds me of like Heavy Rain.

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Like it has the same kind of vibe going on.

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And I don't know if it's aesthetic or what exactly it is.

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But it makes me think about Heavy Rain.

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It's funny you say that because Pendrew, who we'll meet later on in the scene, he just

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seems like a character model that was pulled straight out of Heavy Rain.

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Even the way he talks.

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He's got a weird Heavy Rain accent.

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So I kind of understand where you're coming from.

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There's something about this game that feels a little similar.

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The handler Raymond is like a parallel to Blake.

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From Heavy Rain, when he has to deal with Lauren, it's just like, don't want to do

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so.

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But in the end, you do kind of be their handler.

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I guess since we're dropping all these names, we should probably go through the scene and

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explain who they are.

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So in the holding cell, I guess, Wei runs into his friend Jackie.

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And he talks about them being from old prosperity.

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And some guy named Winston, who is now a red pole in the Sinan Yi.

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And I guess they go back a ways, all three of them.

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And then another person that they call Dog Eyes is also a red pole.

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But they don't seem to like him as much.

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Wei and Jackie end their connection with Wei implying that he's interested in joining up

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with them.

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And then pretty quickly, we learn that Wei is actually an undercover cop.

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And he was meant to make contact with Jackie as a way to infiltrate the Triad.

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And then this is where we meet Raymond and Pendrew.

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Pendrew's accent is, that's what really triggered me to think about Heavy Rain.

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Jackie, I feel like he's either really like best buds and is going to die for Wei, kind

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of like a Shinji situation, or it's going to be like, he's going to betray Wei because

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he's threatened.

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And so he's going to be like, I'm sorry, Wei, I have to do this.

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And he's going to die either way.

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He's already being used.

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Not great for Jackie so far.

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So Pendrew is, I don't know, a higher up, I guess.

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And then Raymond is Wei's handler.

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And basically, their goal is they want all the red poles in the Triad.

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And Pendrew says that previous attempts haven't panned out.

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They end their meeting and after Wei leaves, Raymond and Pendrew have a little conversation

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and Raymond expresses concern about Wei's discipline and references that he may hold

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a grudge against the Triad for what happened to his family.

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Uh oh, what's gonna go?

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None.

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Sorry.

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I mean, really weird.

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That's really weird recording again.

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Hey, first one of the season.

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It always is.

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Anyway, in scene two, Jackie introduces Wei to Winston.

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So on the way to meet Winston and the gang, Wei and Jackie, I don't know where they are.

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They're in a building.

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Jackie's clearly interested in this woman, Ju Mei.

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She just says, Jackie, you know, my parents don't want you to talk to me.

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My mother would not want their child to be talking with some mafia person, so I really

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don't blame her mom.

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But it also sounds like she's like 14 and he's like 30 and preying on her.

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Why?

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What?

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Why?

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Well, just like the whole exchange, it seems like she's she needs her parents to talk for

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her.

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What are they saying in Cantonese that we don't know here?

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I don't think it's anything bad, but it's just it's very getting secondhand embarrassment

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for Jackie.

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Okay.

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I was like, I did not pick up on her being that young.

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Is there something I didn't understand?

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Okay.

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No.

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Anyway, he gets rejected in sort of a backhanded kind of way.

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After a quick fight tutorial here, you finally make it to Winston.

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And it seems that the gang is pretty paranoid and they reference that they recently had

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a rat.

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And so he does not get a particularly warm welcome and he sort of shoulder checks Conroy.

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I always want to say Conrad is Conroy.

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But then later in the scene, he gets him back.

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They exchanged shoulder checks.

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So there's a little bit of a like sizing up going on.

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There's some of my dick is bigger than your dick.

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That's the closest that we've gotten you so far to cursing.

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So close.

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But anyways, so far in this game, though, I really do like all the details.

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I love how there's a roast duck hanging by the windows, which is pretty accurate.

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I have yet to take you to a roast duck place, Leah.

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So we need to go grab some roast duck.

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I do like how similar this is to Yakuza.

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It feels very nostalgic in a way to Y-Zero with the whole fighting tutorials and this,

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but the sound of people getting hurt or like the fighting scenes where the guy just, he's

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just like screaming and groaning.

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And it's just so funny because it's like high pitch.

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I don't know what's up with that.

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And I could not stop laughing every single time.

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You were loving it.

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I think I prefer in Yakuza when they land just butt to the sky and it freeze frames

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on them.

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I think that that takes the cake for me.

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Okay.

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I think this scene is the first time I believe that we hear a reference to Wei's sister.

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Apparently she was hot and she hung out with dog eyes and now she's dead.

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We learned a lot about her in like two sentences.

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Did you have any thoughts about Mimi at this point?

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I'm kind of concerned about what's going on in his family background and if it's past

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is going to haunt him or what exactly is going to go on with the ties between the sister.

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And it's giving me crap from Yakuza.

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What's her name?

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The one with the tattoo.

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I forgot her name.

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Dang.

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We didn't like her so much.

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We just completely forgot her name.

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Yumi.

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Yumi.

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Yeah.

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I'm concerned if there's going to be some kind of parallel similar to how Yumi's in

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between things and how her past is going to haunt Wei.

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Agreed.

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I mean, I feel like we learned pretty quickly.

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Her death could be maybe what Raymond was referencing.

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Maybe there's more to it.

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But Winston is still sizing up Wei and says, are you fearless or just crazy?

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And Wei's response is so good.

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He just goes, try capable.

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I'm really liking Wei's character with all things happening about how he got here in

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whatever history he has, which we'll learn more about it.

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I think he's a pretty chill guy right now.

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Yeah.

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I like him too.

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And we do learn that he spent about 15 years, I think, in the States.

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It sounds like he was also an undercover cop in the States as well.

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So he's experienced.

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And now he's doing this with people that he knows personally.

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So it's going to be different.

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It's going to backfire.

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Yeah.

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Like you can totally see where Raymond's concern is coming from at this point.

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So after passing, I guess, the initial test, Wei is sent out on another test, a test run,

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and Dog Eyes interrupts this.

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He wants to share the night market with Winston, who currently owns it.

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And he also, there was some pretty nasty insults about Wei's sister out there.

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And then at the end of the interaction, Winston refuses to split the night market with him.

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And I just have to say, I noted your reaction after this Dog Eyes scene was just, kill him.

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Oh, yes.

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I'm mad.

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How can Wei be so calm when he should have like beat the crap out of Dog Eyes for saying

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such disrespectful things about his sister?

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Should have beat the crap out of him.

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You do see his face get mad, like he's pissed, but I agree.

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Kill him.

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Wei is the first person to have stabbed him, apparently, and with a pen.

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So somehow I feel like that would hurt worse than a knife because the shape of it.

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I hope it leaves a scar.

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I wonder if it left ink, like a tattoo.

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Do you think it would tattoo him?

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We're getting too deep into this already.

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It's only been five seconds talking about the pen stabbing, but we're already talking

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about it too much.

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All right, so Winston sends Jackie and Wei to the night market to ensure that everyone

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is aware that he owns it.

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And then on the way there, the two of them chat and we learn that Mimi overdosed and

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that's how she died and that Dog Eyes is the person that got her hooked.

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I hope Dog Eye dies for doing that to Mimi.

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General consensus deserves to die.

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And then while extorting some of the night market vendors, one of them responds.

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And I don't know why, that line just really got me.

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Kind of like the screeches got you.

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It's just the visual, you know.

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Is it a baby bok choy or full size?

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I hope it's a full size bok choy, but also the shape of the bok choy is that it's like

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leafy and you're just showing that thing out and it's pretty greenery.

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Moving on.

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While at the night market, Jackie says that they have an image to maintain and so Wei

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needs to get some new clothes.

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But Jackie's wearing a rather large fanny pack.

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Is that really the image that they're going for?

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I'm curious what year this is taking place in because if this was like the 80s, I could

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see the fanny pack working, but if this is now?

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It took place modern day, which would have been around 2012.

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Yeah the fanny pack is a no go.

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Especially in 2012.

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Anyway so the best options we had are a wife beater tank top, which they all seem to wear

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in some variety.

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And orange, sweatpants.

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That's the best we could do.

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And that is the image that they need to maintain.

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Okay so after the night market, Wei is sent to go make an example out of Ming, somebody

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who is I guess kind of a traitor.

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Winston says, this guy Ming asked me to look out for him while he did business.

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Special K mostly.

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And this is where when you have no context of the game so far, you think that they're

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stealing boxes of cereal.

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That's what I know special K as.

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Do we know what the K stands for?

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Soon we will, ketamine.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Why did they choose to say special K?

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It's not even that good.

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I'm looking at special K versus just ketamine.

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And I think special K according to the NIH, it says special K is a street drug made from

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the aesthetic ketamine and is abused by a select group of patients.

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But it's an actual term.

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That's funny I did not find that in my Google search.

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I only found the cereal.

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Alright so we're chasing down Ming and this lady at 30 minutes 30 seconds, she has absolutely

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no survival instincts to speak of.

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She's running in the same direction as both of them and is in the way for a solid minute

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before she stops.

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Anyway get out of the way.

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Wei gets a little carried away handling Ming and doesn't notice the police closing in who

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promptly arrest him.

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And this is when you were like again.

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You get arrested again.

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And he's just he's a little too good at being a criminal.

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So Inspector Ting is the one who's dealing all this and she's pretty pissed especially

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when Penway, what's the guy's name again?

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Pendrew you cannot.

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Last night you said Pendu.

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Pendu.

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Pendu.

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That's such a weird name the Pendrew.

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Sorry all the Pendrews out there.

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Not as weird as Pendu.

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He's Pendrew.

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So she's pretty pissed that Pendrew comes in but also he immediately spills the beans and

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says that well he's an undercover person.

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Do you want a microphone with that so everyone knows?

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That's pretty much Wei's reaction too.

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Yeah but she's a bit similar to Reimann where she's hesitant to work with him and I get

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it.

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They don't really know him.

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They haven't established any rapport and he's been arrested twice.

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From this interaction to me it seems like Inspector Ting is really good at her job and

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so Pendrew is kind of forced to reveal the truth to her but I like her so far.

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They let Wei go again and he goes to sleep and he has I guess nightmares where he hears

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quotes that we've experienced from the game so far.

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Maybe I'm predicting maybe actually say something in his dreams when he's I don't know sleeping

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with someone from the enemy.

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What a twist.

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Are we ready for scene three?

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It's a short scene.

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Yeah.

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Very short scene.

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Basically Ting is pissed but Wei extends an olive branch and offers to help bring down

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a drug dealer named Popstar.

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It's kind of I call it a classy burn and this is why I like her character so much.

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She's kind of surprised about Wei's olive branch and her quote is I'm used to Pendrew's

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people being more like him.

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I was also curious if they're gonna make Ting and Wei a couple for the romance plot that

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video game seemed to need.

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So after starting to track down Popstar, Wei and Jackie go on a little mission and they

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rip off some some cheap watches from dogeyes so a little hit there.

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He's not dead but they mess with him.

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Also it's pretty stupid to think that wearing a single mask and a hat is gonna help disguise

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himself as not one of Winston's people.

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I mean it's pretty obvious.

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Especially when you have Jackie in the background going yeah get him Wei!

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Get him!

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Right?

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What are you doing?

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But he's also a great hype man.

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He is.

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We'll give him that.

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So Wei continues to work with Ting and also builds some trust with Winston as dogeyes

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continues to push into their territory.

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So at the top of the scene Wei continues to help Tang take down Popstar.

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We're going to like a drug deal spot right?

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To hack the camera to then spy on the drug dealers I guess.

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And to hack the camera he needs his phone and he pulls his phone just straight out of

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his **** right out of the crack.

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At 58 minutes and 16 seconds.

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Like he really scooped it out of there.

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And the thing is he has a fanny pack but he's not using it so what is he carrying in the

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fanny pack that needs him to store his phone in his butt?

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Does he have a fanny pack?

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Wei?

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Actually.

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Actually I don't think he does.

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I don't think he does.

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For some reason I pictured him to have a fanny pack with those pants.

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But to your point, pockets.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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Anyway, anything before we get to the bus driving section?

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Well I also feel like he's doing a lot of work for like a lot of police work considering

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he's supposed to be a criminal and it might be one of those things where the police are

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just trying to kill troopers with one stone where they're having him do all their work

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so they don't need to get that thing done.

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And also being able to see where his loyalties lie.

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Yeah.

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I think so because the drug dealers that he's working to take down I believe are involved

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with their triad in some way so he's sort of playing both sides a little bit.

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Well not really playing both sides but playing the triad for sure.

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So they want to send another message to Dog Eyes.

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They're sent out to take a bus route back and one of the gang members, Conrad I believe,

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compliments Wei's fighting and then says,

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Yeah we have another guy with us a while back.

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He was good with his fists too.

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Came out of nowhere.

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Good story.

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Didn't talk much.

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He reminded me of him.

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Alive.

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Turned out he was a cop.

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That's why he couldn't kill anyone.

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See?

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So now we know how to spot a rat.

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Does he know?

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I think he's testing him to see what kind of reactions he has.

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And then it sounds like this guy, like poor buddy got found out and was tortured and then

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buried alive.

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Okay, back to catching Pop Star.

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Wei's able to get plenty of evidence and he gets taken down.

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I have a question.

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So there's a part in the scene where he needs to get closer to Pop Star and he has to get

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past security and to do this he pretends to be drunk and throws up.

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How do you just throw up on command like that without like, right?

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Sticking your fingers or anything in your throat.

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That is literally what I wrote down and what I was like, we need to talk about this because

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does he do this a lot?

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Is he, does he have an eating disorder?

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How is he able to do this so quickly?

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Or maybe he has experience of making his sister throw up just to get her to not OD or something?

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I don't know.

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You took that to a dark place.

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Oh, I just think it's, he's too good at it and it's suspicious.

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Yeah.

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How do you just throw up on command?

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He does take down Pop Star.

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So mission accomplished.

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And then we're back to Winston and he sends Wei to Club Bam Bam to tell some guy named

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Benny to stop dealing with dog eyes.

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And then outside the club when we're trying to get past security, there's like an advertisement

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in the background for I think a cologne and it's called Gulag.

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Smell this Gulag.

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And I don't know why that sounds like the most disgusting smelling.

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I am imagining the perfume or cologne being very gooey.

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To me it just, I don't know.

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It sounds like a dish, like a food.

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Gulag.

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Gulag was a system of Soviet labor camps and detention and transit camps and prisons.

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There's also Gulash, which is a soup or stew of meat and vegetable seasoned with paprika

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and other spices originates from Hungary.

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So I think we're going to not be buying that, that scent.

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We have to do karaoke.

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Apparently we have to do that in a lot of games I'm learning.

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Pretty conspicuous song choice.

00:24:02
Before we talk about that, can we talk about how lame the setup is though?

00:24:06
Like when he goes in, everything's lame, which means that I'm not surprised there's only

00:24:12
one choice for a song.

00:24:14
It makes Heavy Rain Club scene look way more popular than the stupid karaoke setup and

00:24:19
stupid dancing and stupid song to sing and stupid air guitar scenes.

00:24:23
The guitar solo was cringey.

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Right?

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It's very pathetic and as my niece says, chuggy.

00:24:33
We also noticed that when he's walking through the club, he's sort of bopping a little bit.

00:24:38
He's bopping his head.

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He likes it.

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He's got the gulag on and he's singing whatever the song is, I fought the law and the law

00:24:47
won.

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So proud of himself.

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He's in the zone and he's gonna take down Benny and he does eventually fight through

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a bunch of people and corners Benny in the bathroom.

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Did you notice when he's fighting all the goons in the bathroom, Benny's stupid head

00:25:05
popping up over the bathroom stall?

00:25:07
Oh I didn't notice that.

00:25:10
But I do want to circle back to one thing.

00:25:12
Talking about Rats and stuff, you notice how of all the zodiacs that the kung fu sifu has,

00:25:19
the only one he kept was the Jade Rat or the one that wasn't stolen was the Jade Rat?

00:25:24
Yeah.

00:25:25
I wonder if there's any symbolism in that.

00:25:28
We kind of skipped over that part.

00:25:30
It's not very important.

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But Wei runs into an American tourist who wants to go to this fighting school and it

00:25:37
turns out Wei used to train there.

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And then yeah, there's these Chinese calendar statues and the only one that he has is the

00:25:46
Yrtha Rat and the rest have been stolen.

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So yeah, there's been a lot of references to rats so far.

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And the thing is, we were born in the Yrtha Rat.

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Were we?

00:25:58
What does that mean?

00:25:59
Yeah.

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It just means if you were born in 96, that's our zodiac year.

00:26:06
So instead of-

00:26:07
Well yeah I know that.

00:26:08
What does it mean?

00:26:09
Oh.

00:26:10
Oh.

00:26:11
Um.

00:26:12
I don't know.

00:26:13
I mean we're just Yrtha Rats.

00:26:16
There's no- there's nothing about it.

00:26:18
Well I mean there is.

00:26:19
I just don't know enough about it.

00:26:20
I think that we're very smart, intelligent people.

00:26:24
Anything else about tourist Amanda slash Amy?

00:26:28
Who goes- okay.

00:26:29
We need to address this actually.

00:26:32
In what world are Amy and Amanda interchangeable?

00:26:37
Those are different names.

00:26:39
I mean they're both pretty white people names so.

00:26:43
How do you say my name's Amanda or Amy?

00:26:46
Like no.

00:26:48
Pick one.

00:26:49
Well maybe she has like a twin sister kind of situation so she goes with both names.

00:26:55
But that's kind of proving my point.

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If it goes that deep, why is it in the game?

00:27:01
Who cares?

00:27:03
Pick a name.

00:27:04
I don't know.

00:27:06
Right?

00:27:07
Also, why the motorcycle scene again cue flashbacks to Madison from Heavy Rain.

00:27:13
Oh no.

00:27:14
It's like do we even need this kind of scene?

00:27:17
No.

00:27:18
We don't.

00:27:19
It introduces the fighting skill which you can go and upgrade your fighting abilities.

00:27:26
Other than that.

00:27:27
Oh okay.

00:27:28
Uh you can definitely bang Amanda at some point.

00:27:32
What?

00:27:33
But it's not integral to the plot.

00:27:36
So I didn't include it in our gameplay.

00:27:39
Yeah please don't.

00:27:41
Anything else from scene four?

00:27:44
Nope.

00:27:46
So we've taken what like three or four shots at Dog Eyes already.

00:27:50
He's not gonna be happy.

00:27:53
I'm waiting for you to say kill him.

00:27:55
Oh kill him.

00:27:58
Alright fifth and final scene.

00:28:00
Are we ready for it?

00:28:01
It's another very short one but I felt like it needed to be its own one because Wei meets

00:28:07
with Raymond face to face for the first time.

00:28:10
Wei seems very tense and they sort of have a little power struggle between the two of

00:28:15
them and maybe even even though Pendrew's not here it seems like he's kind of involved

00:28:21
with the power struggle too in a way.

00:28:24
There's a point where he where Wei goes we are not the same and I don't blame him for

00:28:29
thinking that because although they both are police officers in a way, one's doing a lot

00:28:35
of dirty work while the other one's just monitoring so I can see why Wei has a lot of resentment.

00:28:40
I'm also curious though if maybe he blames him because he didn't stop Mimi or he arrested

00:28:47
her or I don't know maybe there's some kind of history going on that we just don't know.

00:28:54
Maybe a distrust of the system.

00:28:56
Yeah and maybe their relationship will get better maybe it'll get worse but I'm going

00:29:02
to put a theory out there that at some point maybe Pendrew's going to betray Wei and Wei

00:29:09
is going to seek Raymond out for help or Raymond's going to offer that help.

00:29:14
Yeah like there's definitely tension between them but you also kind of get the sense that

00:29:18
Raymond is kind of like Tang where they actually are trying to do their jobs well and like

00:29:24
we said you can see why Raymond is a little hesitant about the situation especially when

00:29:29
Wei comes into this meeting as hot as he did.

00:29:34
I'm really liking this game so far.

00:29:36
It really gives me that same excitement as watching YZO for the first time.

00:29:41
It was just like the storyline's pretty good.

00:29:44
I'm really excited to see what's going to happen and how it's going to compare to all

00:29:48
the other kind of mafia-ish games that we are going to be playing.

00:29:53
Now we do like a mafia game.

00:29:55
We are going to be tracking things in this gameplay series but Cathy I'm not going to

00:30:00
tell you what they are.

00:30:03
I'm not going to tell you until the summary episode because I feel like you could you

00:30:07
know kind of keep track a little bit on your own.

00:30:11
I will tell you one of the categories is a new category.

00:30:15
One of them is one that we've done before a time or two.

00:30:18
PPs.

00:30:19
It has to be PPs.

00:30:20
I was about to ask you what are we tracking this season or this game because you do some

00:30:26
crazy driving and I laughed at a few times where you just backed into something.

00:30:32
Yes, actually thank you for bringing that up.

00:30:34
I forgot to mention that especially on the way to the watch mission.

00:30:42
I need to issue an apology to hang- what is it?

00:30:46
Hangar 24.

00:30:47
Whoever made mafia, I'm sorry.

00:30:52
I will never again complain about the driving mechanics in mafia because compared to sleeping

00:31:00
dogs they are a dream.

00:31:04
The driving and sleeping dogs I don't think anything could be worse.

00:31:09
Once you hit a certain speed there is no steering.

00:31:13
You cannot turn.

00:31:14
It does what it wants.

00:31:15
When you reverse it, it inverts the camera.

00:31:20
It's sickening.

00:31:21
It's horrible.

00:31:23
I just have to say I'm sorry.

00:31:25
I will never ever complain about driving in mafia ever again.

00:31:29
It was so funny.

00:31:31
I was like, Leah, what are you doing?

00:31:33
But I laughed so hard at you.

00:31:35
I don't know.

00:31:36
I think at one point you just backed right into the wall or something and just kept going.

00:31:45
There was no other option.

00:31:48
And then the part where we have to race and the game took the controls back to do the

00:31:54
oh you completed the race.

00:31:56
Oh yeah.

00:31:57
That part.

00:31:58
It kept the gas going.

00:32:01
Unbeknownst to me I couldn't stop it and it just smashes straight into a pole and wages

00:32:06
ragdolls out the windshield.

00:32:09
It's pretty great.

00:32:10
That was too funny.

00:32:11
I was laughing so hard.

00:32:14
That was too funny.

00:32:15
Oh gosh.

00:32:16
That was too funny.

00:32:19
As much of a pain in the ass as the driving is in this game it is also quite entertaining.

00:32:24
We might have to throw a compilation up at the end of the season.

00:32:28
We're changing up a little bit for the gameplay release just so that we're not releasing so

00:32:33
many things on one day.

00:32:35
We're going to be releasing gameplay on Fridays instead of Thursdays now.

00:32:39
So tomorrow part two will be out and you can watch it in preparation for episode two next

00:32:45
week.

00:32:46
All right.

00:32:47
You want to count us off?

00:32:49
Yep.

00:32:50
Adacity on one three two one.

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00:33:09
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00:33:13
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