Board 8 > mcflubbin's Baccano! watchthrough topic! [third time's the charm!]

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Blah blah blah Baccano! and stuff.

Sorry guys, this week was pretty tough, and I didn't really have time to keep the last topic bumped so it purged. ='(
But don't worry! I haven't forgotten! I will finish this damn watchthrough no matter how many topics it takes.

So yeah, I'm starting episode 5 right now.

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Episode 5: Jacuzzi Splot Cries, Gets Scared And Musters Reckless Valor
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So looking at the opening, I remember that the new old bearded guy’s name is Szilard. Huh. Also, I realize that I haven’t seen Luck in quite a while. Wonder what he’s up to.

1931. Jacuzzi is cornered by mobsters. He suggests that they suggest their quarrel peacefully, but the mobsters decline. Mobster #1 asks the other guy if this is the right guy, and Mobster #2 confirms that it is, because not many other people have a face tattoo. Hmm, I wonder why Jacuzzi's wanted. Anyways, Jacuzzi starts crying, and the mobsters tell him that the crying annoys them, so he does the only logical thing and tells them that it’s a nervous condition, not crying, and then calls them dumb jerks. Yeah, our friend Jacuzzi doesn’t do so well under pressure. Mobster #2 points a gun at Jacuzzi’s head, and starts asking him questions.

On the Unnamable Train, we’re back to the scene with Jacuzzi discovering the dead conductor. Nice and Donny walk in. Jacuzzi starts gushing about how relieved he is, but Nice and Donny don’t care. They do tell us, however, that Nick has been kidnapped by the blacksuits. Flashback to when Nick was kidnapped by the blacksuits! Nice and Donny are walking down a hallway (lol at the way Donny walks) and as they peer around the corner, they see Nick being….well, kidnapped. It’s hard to describe. He was sprinting down the hallway when all of a sudden a door opened and Nick got pulled inside. Jacuzzi starts freaking out about Nick and the conductor when all of a sudden they hear gunshots. “Who shoots guns on a train? They’re not hunting, they’re shooting at people! People! Killing ‘em! Murdering ‘em! We got to get out of here!” Jacuzzi exclaims.

Hey, we’re back at the alley again! Lots of Jacuzzi this episode. The mobsters are talking about gangs and stuff and beating up Jacuzzi. Aww, that’s sad. It’s like beating up a puppy. He’s about to get shot, but now we’re back on the train. Jacuzzi is kind of having a weird little monologue even though Nice and Donny are right there. In the end, he decides that they should try to save the passengers, and Nice is very impressed, but we’re back in the alley again. Jacuzzi begs to mobsters to stop, because he doesn’t want to kill them. Time for Jacuzzi to go into BAMF mode? Oh wait, no. Donny just crushed the dude’s gun hand and ick is his hand messed up now. He screams like a little girl. And wow there’s a bunch of people here now. The guy who got his hand crushed instructs the other mobsters to shoot, but they both fall to the ground dead with knives in the backs of their heads. Huh. Usually it’s a knife to the back. Well good for Baccano! for being trendsetters! Anyways, Nice throws a knife in the last dude’s forehead and it has a bomb attached to it. I don’t understand why the bomb was necessary since he was already dead, but whatever. Jacuzzi gets up and bolts. Oh, that was actually quite a pretty explosion.

Now we’re in 1930. Barnes is stabbed in the alley. Ennis is there. When he finally starts to stir, he’s at that secret old people meeting. Lizards wants to know why Ennis didn’t kill him. She says it’s because he could be useful, but Lizards says “*****, I call the shots around here.” Anyways, Lizards thinks that Barnes purposefully burnt down his shack to cover up his tracks and destroy all of the immortality medicine. Let me tell you, these are some seriously pissed off looking old people. Wait, what the ****? Lizards went all Majin Buu and absorbed Barnes. 0_o This show went from weird to freaky in less than 10 seconds. Apparently, he absorbed all of Barnes’s memory, too. He puts his hand on Ennis’s forehead to tell her about Barnes’s attackers. Lizards sends off Ennis to find Barnes’s assailants and Firo, and find the super secret formula of super secretness. Commercial time.

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tag again

Safety bump. I'm probably gonna be more paranoid with the bumping now to ensure that this one doesn't purge.
Hopefully I'll finish up Episode 5 today.

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1931! Gustavo (haven’t seen him in a while) is on the telephone. He’s talking to the head gang dude and Gustavo still hasn’t found Dallas. Gustavo looks like he’s ready to piss himself and the head gang guy looks pissed. Gustavo yells at his cronies and decides to go down to the newspaper office himself to get some damn information. Head gang guy is talking to some other guy with a weird voice. He says Gustavo is expendable, and then they start talking about that Huey character and the immortality formula. The weird voice guy says that he’s willing to lose his son for immortality, and of course, I have no idea who his son is. He looks like a young guy, so I’m gonna take a random guess and say Coleslaw.

Hey look, Firo’s gang initiation! The gang is from Italy. Lots of dialogue here. Firo pledges his loyalty to the something or another gang. But he has to prove his loyalty, so he stabs a table. Isaac and Miria announce that they’re going on a rescue mission. Natalie (Senator Beriam’s wife) tells Mary and Cole that they need to find a place to hide, and then tells Mary that once her father finds out what is going on, he’ll make things all better. Poor Natalie doesn’t know that her husband is willing to throw them under the bus for immortality (at least, I’m gonna assume it’s immortality, because it seems like that’s what everybody in this damn show wants).

Just as Coleslaw and Mary hide underneath a table (clever hiding spot) , the blacksuits show up. The main blacksuit (he introduces himself as Goose) approaches Natalie and asks her to come with them. She asks them to promise not to hurt the other passengers, and he basically tells her that it’s not up to him. Natalie looks shocked, even though this isn’t very shocking.

Gustavo walks into the newspaper place and grabs Nicholas by his collar. Before all of the people can grab their guns, the two Runorada people with Gustavo pull out their guns, and all of the people throw their hands up even though they outgun the Runoradas by a lot. Gustavo demands to know where Dallas is, and Nicholas smartly agrees to answer him. Nicholas reveals that the Gandor family is also after Dallas. He also tells Gustavo that Dallas has a younger sister that Dallas is quite fond of. Gustavo looks very puzzled as if he doesn’t know what to do with this information.

Knives! Maiza gets a knife, and Firo gets a knife. And it’s time for MORTAL KOMBAT!!! The guy who is acting as a referee with an awesome mustache says that the first person to stab the other wins, but if it’s a shot to the head or chest that he’ll kill them on the spot, kapeesh? A long standoff before Maiza charges! I’m no good at describing fight scenes, so I’ll just say that Firo manages to stab Maiza in the arm, so he’s victorious! Everyone congratulates Firo for being awesome, and mustache guy says that no one has ever gotten a scratch on Maiza, which I find pretty hard to believe considering how reckless Maiza was. The head gang guy fires off a celebratory shot into the air (they’re inside, mind you), and everyone cheers until they hear a woman scream upstairs. Not smart.

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Goose asks Natalie where Mary is. She lies and tells them that the whitesuits took them away. Goose expresses his sympathies (…), but says that it doesn’t change anything. Goose discovers the open window, and points a gun at the guy sitting by there. The guy quickly says that a mysterious woman in fatigues slipped out the window. We see the woman climbing on the other side. Chane is walking through the hallway and thinks she sees something out the window, but nope. Three blacksuits are using a radio, and they’re given orders to find the woman in fatigues. I don’t know her name, so I’ll just call her WIF. 2 blacksuits leave, leaving one poor, defenseless blacksuit all by his lonesome.

In the hallway, one blacksuit finds another blacksuit that looks completely shell-shocked. All of a sudden, the lights go out! The Rail Tracer is here! AHHHHH! The one dude just got enveloped in red smoke or some crazy **** and now he’s just gone. Is WIF the Rail Tracer? I don't know! What in the **** is going on with this show?

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Bump.
The 1st half of episode 6 should be up sometime today.

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Episode 6: The Rail Tracer Covertly, Repeatedly Slaughters Inside the Coaches
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God, this show has awesome episode titles. We start with Nicholas and black information broker talking with the president, whose appearance is obstructed by a stack of books. The president and black guy agree that it was wrong for Nicholas to tell Gustavo about Eve, and the responsibility falls completely on him. As Nicholas leaves, he secretly consults with shady Asian guy. They’re whispering secretly about something, but black guy overhears them talking and smiles.

We’re back to the end of last episode with the Rail Tracer and whatnot. The one surviving guy screams into the radio and disturbs the blacksuits who are interrogating Natalie. I am kind of unsure what happens next. The guy screaming into the radio starts shooting his gun, but he’s taken outside of the train by the Rail Tracer. I think that he’s impaled, but I’m not sure. Well, one thing’s for sure, he’s pretty dead. His blood is all over the place and his body is tossed aside. WIF is looking on in horror, so she’s not the Rail Tracer. I think that the Rail Tracer is after her now, because she screams and climbs away.

Well, 1930. Dallas and friends are talking to Luck. Dallas and Luck are talking about Firo or something. Dallas offers his “services” to Luck’s gang, but Luck declines. When Dallas inquires why, Luck goes on a rant (it’s surprisingly polite) about how Dallas is more trouble than he’s worth. Dallas looks legitimately upset by this. He’s about to say something when Luck’s big friend (if I remember from the opening, this is Keith) shows up. Keith cracks his knuckles and kicks ‘em to the curb. Dallas left the box with the immortality formula with Luck on accident, and Luck and Keith assume that it’s giggle juice, and leave the box on the table.

Coleslaw and Mary are walking down the hallway. Cole tells Mary to squeeze into the closet while he goes to check out what’s going on. Mary reluctantly agrees. After he leaves, he says he’s going to look for that Immortal. Jacuzzi and Nice bust out Nick, who is surprisingly unguarded. Flashback to earlier, when Ladd walks into the room where Nick is tied up, notices there are no guards, frees Lua (who was apparently captured by the blacksuits) and completely ignores Nick. During this whole scene, Donny looks like he’s constipated. Nick and Jacuzzi notice there’s blood on the floor.

Mary’s still in the closet. She hears footsteps. Like a dumb woman, she accidentally knocks something over and makes lots of noise. One of Ladd’s serial killer friends discovers her, and starts choking her, because he’s a serial killer. All of a sudden, he stops, because it turns out he was stabbed in the back by Chane. Mary screams and it’s commercial time.

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Oh ****, confrontation time. Jacuzzi’s group vs. Ladd’s group, let’s go! Too much dialogue, not enough ACTION! Well, Jacuzzi mentions the dead conductor, so Ladd decides to take his men on a field trip to see him. Hmm, a bit of an anticlimax. Is Jacuzzi some sort of secret awesome fighter or something? Because everyone keeps talking about him like he is. Anyways, Jacuzzi’s gang decides to investigate the room with the blood seeping out of it.

Isaac and Miria are reeling from getting hit with a car. Isaac decides that the best revenge would be to spit on the person’s car, and Miria agrees. Dallas’s guys ask him what they’re gonna do, so Dallas goes off on a rant about Firo (what is the deal with Dallas and Firo?). One of his dudes mentions Eve, and Dallas goes ballistic. Isaac and Miria are dancing in an alley in strange masks reminiscing about their most recent escapades. Confrontation between Isaac and Miria and Dallas’s group! Hopefully, this confrontation actually goes somewhere.

Eve is sadly looking at her pictures of Dallas. Gustavo and company are creeping outside of her window. Gustavo’s friend with glasses goes to the phone booth to try and lure out Eve so that they can snatch her. He says that the newspaper people have information on Dallas, but they have to meet in person. Oh, and the Asian information broker is watching everything going on. Eve and Samantha depart and, hey look, Eve gets kidnapped. Samantha gets thrown into a cage somewhere. Gustavo looks super creepy in this scene and Eve is mortified.

Jacuzzi finally opens they mystery door! Whatever was in there, it must have been pretty grotesque because it made Nick throw up out the train window. They realize that in the room, the roof is missing, and that there is a lot of blood. As Nick has his head out the window, he sees the Rail Tracer. He asks everyone else to look out the window, too, and they all see the Rail Tracer for a moment as well.

Ennis is walking in the street when she sees Miria being mugged. Ennis contemplates on whether or not she should assist her, and ultimately decides that she should. Isaac is getting beaten up by Dallas and two others while another guy restrains Miria. The guy restraining Miria sees Ennis and tells her to leave, but she kicks his damn face into the wall. The rest of the guys don’t even notice. She then goes and taps one of the attackers on the shoulder and punches him in his dumb face. When the other unimportant guy tries to hit Ennis, she dodges easily and chops the back of his neck. She corners Dallas, says that her main issue is with him (oh yeah, she’s looking for him, huh?) and promptly punches him in the stomach, knocking him out. I like Ennis. Isaac and Miria get up and start thanking Ennis quite vigorously for people who we’re just getting beaten up. Ennis recognizes them as the people she hit with her car earlier, but quickly pushes the thought from her mind. Isaac and Miria ask if there’s anything that they can do for Ennis, and she smiles and says that they can help her carry the unconscious men to her car.

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The president (behind his signature tower of books) just learned from Nicholas that Eve has been kidnapped, and he is not pleased. Black guy puts on his snarky “I told you so” attitude. Him and Nicholas have some kind of weird macho-off. The president tells Elean (the black guy’s name, that I have neglected to mention until now) to calm down. Nicholas apologizes and leaves. Ellion and the president start to talk about crap about him behind his back. The president theorizes that Nicholas is trying to start a gang war between the Gandors and the Runoradas to bring their secrets to light. He mentions something about a guy named Vino on the Unnamable Train, and I don’t know what he’s talking about.

Dallas is on the floor at the secret old people meeting place. Lizards is poking him with his stick, but he’s out cold. Lizards says he probably wouldn’t get much information from him, even if he devours him. Ennis prepares a syringe of something and jams the needle into Dallas’s arm. Lizards has a puzzled look on his face. Fin.

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Bump.
Hmm, only one tag in this topic. There was a lot more in my other one. Either nobody is reading this, or people got sick of tagging the same damn thing three times. >_>

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Tag!

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Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
Tag!

Okay, that makes me feel better.
Next write-up should be up later tonight, if not, tommorow for sure.

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Episode 7: Everything Starts Aboard the Advenna Avis
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This episode title isn’t as cool, but I can dig the alliteration. Well, turns out in the last episode, it wasn’t Keith, it was Berga. My apologies. Thanks for catching that, guys. We start in……1711? As if I wasn’t confused enough, they’re gonna do a time skip like this? Wow, okay, time to figure out what’s going on. We’re aboard a ship. Some guy with a lantern is milling around. He turns around and casually gets devoured. No biggie. I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see anything and walk away, even though I’m pretty sure that this is Lizards.

Now we’re at the day before. A man and a woman are talking on a bed. They’re talking very quietly, so can’t catch their names, but I think that his name is Greto or something and hers is Silvie. This is kind of just a guess though. Greto admits that he’s scared of something. Did he just mention Maiza and alchemy? What? In 1711? Ah, screw it, I’m not even gonna ask. Immortality and stuff, am I right? Greto ponders that humanity isn’t quite ready for eternal life, but apparently he’s the only one who thinks that way because everyone else is willing to castrate themselves to get some of that immortality ****.

Some lovey dovey crap between Greto and Silvie. Something about a Grand Panacea? I think I heard that wrong, but whatever. Lizards is yelling at some guys on the boat! He mad. He’s mad about Maiza summoning a demon or something. Are we talking about the same Maiza? Future Maiza really didn’t do anything that stood out as alchemy-y (regeneration notwithstanding, I mean, who can’t do that?). Hey look, Coleslaw is here, too! His father has pretty long hair. Some guy stands up and tells everyone to smile! No one listens to random guy, and I assume that he dies a little on the inside as a result.

Hey, it’s that Huey guy I’ve heard so much about! He walked Greto and Silvie’s room. Some weird dialogue that I can’t follow at all. Huey is a crazy. Something about demons and alchemy and childhood and blegh. Meanwhile, Maiza’s doing some alchemy stuff. He tells some guy to gather everybody. On another part of the ship (I assume), a man that looks suspiciously similar to Captain Hook realizes that some of his crew has disappeared (like the first scene of the episode), so he decides to go investigate. AGGGHHH! What was that? Some freaky thing is crawling on all fours. This looks like some monstrosity straight out of a horror movie (is it the Rail Tracer? O_o). It’s impossible to tell what it is because it’s covered by some rags. And oh crap, he just grabbed Captain Hook’s face and absorbed the hell out of him. You know, I never really made a connection between the Rail Tracer and Szilard’s absorbing powers until now. I feel kinda stupid now.

Everyone hears his screams and go running, but we’re back at Maiza’s little ritual. He gives a speech about summoning the devil to gain immortal life. During the speech I see Szilard, and I just realized something. Why, in 1930, is he still seeking immortal life when it’s apparent that he must have already acquired it to live for over 200 years? I’ll take a guess and say that it has something to do with his ability to absorb people to sustain his life.

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Anyways, Maiza begins the ritual with Greto and some other guy. Hey, what do you know, the ritual actually worked. They managed to summon the devil. Huh. Neat. You can’t see him, but you can hear his voice. The devil talks and gives Maiza a large pot filled with the elixir of life. Huh. I’m surprised that this worked. Maybe I should try it sometime. Anyways, Szilard brazenly comes forward and takes a swig of the elixir. After a brief moment of dramatic pause, Szilard throws the elixir to the ground and declares it a fake. The devil’s like “O Rly?” and then decapitates the **** out of Szilard using his magic devil powers. Everyone is shocked and mortified. BUT WAIT! He’s not dead. His head magically reattaches itself to his body. To the surprise of no one, all of the greedy bastards run up to take a drink of immortality. Also, Greto and Maiza are brothers. Just thought they’d throw that out there. Greto and Silvie hesitate, but eventually take a drink like everyone else.

The devil is laying down some ground rules. He poses an interesting question, “What do you do if you want to die?” Everyone looks around because they haven’t considered it like that (-______-). The devil says that if you wish to die, you have to go to another Immortal and ask for them to devour you. They can all devour people with their right hand simply by putting their hand on the person’s forehead and thinking about it, and when this happens, they obtain the person's memories as well. They can also transfer memories. I'm sure no one is never ever going to abuse these powers. Silvie is about to go down some creepy stairs as we head to commercial.

Well, I learned a lot during that last part. Also, the devil is a surprisingly cool guy in Baccano!

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I don’t feel like watching more Baccano today, so I hope this will suffice.

Episode 7 Halftime Show

Alright so right now I’m gonna discuss some things that I’ve seen so far in some greater detail. Let me start with the first half of episode 7. So far, this episode has answered a lot of my questions, but tons of new questions have taken their place.

My biggest question is about the Rail Tracer. What the **** is it? Is it even human? Is it the same thing or is it somehow related to the thing on the Advenna Avis? It’s important to note that the thing on the boat had absorbed people before Maiza summoned the devil. This means that the thing on the boat either has taken part in one of these alchemy rituals before, or it is something completely supernatural. Something that makes me doubt that the boat thing is the Rail Tracer is the fact that from what I can tell, the Rail Tracer doesn’t really absorb people. I think it just abducts them from the train, kills them (by impaling them?), and then tosses their body overboard. I’ve got my eyes on you, Rail Tracer.

Another thing I’m trying to figure out is why is the devil so goddamned pleasant. Something’s not right there. I’m sensing there’s more going on with the devil then him just showing up and granting a group of people immortality. Either there’s some sort of catch, or I’m just over thinking things. I’m just grasping at straws, but maybe the devil is somehow related to the thing on the Advenna Avis or something. I don’t know.

Also, if Szilard is immortal, then why the **** is he so adamant about perfecting the immortality formula? Is it because he doesn’t want his loved ones to keep on dying while he goes on living? That’s the only real explanation I can think of. I also just realized that everyone is the same age that they were when they drank the immortality stuff, which is why Coleslaw is still a little boy even though he’s over 200 years old. I remembered the scene from the first episode where Cole and Maiza have a stare down, and I realize that it’s because they remember each other from the boat.

Now I’m just gonna discuss some last disjointed thoughts/predictions. Firo and Luck are immortal. I’m thinking that they are going to drink the two bottles that Dallas left in Luck’s office. Where did Greto and Silvie go? Were they absorbed by someone or have they just been on the down low? Who is this Huey person and why does he have such a maniacal groups of followers? Lastly, if the Immortals can only die when they’re absorbed by another Immortal, so when there’s only one Immortal left, the poor bastard won’t ever be able to die. Just some food for though.

Gah, I just need to keep watching to figure out what’s going on for myself. >_>

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I can't wait to see your revised impression of the Rail Tracer. Go watch more.

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Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
I can't wait to see your revised impression of the Rail Tracer. Go watch more.

Oh jeez. The only other thing I can think of is that the Rail Tracer is an existing character, because I remember someone my previous topic saying that the Rail Tracer is the best character, which implies some sort of character development or something.

Anyways, I wish there were just more hours in the day. Hopefully, I'll finish episode 7 and start episode 8 over the weekend.

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Except for maybe the Huey stuff, pretty much all of your questions get answered.

The Rail Tracer is my favorite character as well. You're almost up to the reveal.

GoldSlime35 posted...
Except for maybe the Huey stuff, pretty much all of your questions get answered.

The Rail Tracer is my favorite character as well. You're almost up to the reveal.

Yup, I'm pretty hyped. Anyways, let's do this.

Episode 7 Cont.

The next day, Szilard is mad at Maiza for not sharing the information about the immortality formula. A guy I don’t know just made a pretty long speech about how he agrees with Maiza. Another guy gets up and says he agrees with this guy (whose name is apparently Elma) and that Maiza should be the only one aware of the secret formula. Everyone else stands up and agrees. Szilard mad. Huey says something about how the decision isn’t terribly important, and they can think on it for a century or two. Maiza smiles, because this is funny. Back to the scene before commercial, where Silvie just got attacked by someone, and his hand is on her forehead, meaning he’s ready to devour her/give information to her, but I’m going to assume it’s the former. Because run-on sentences.

Anyways, Maiza and Greto are speaking privately about Maiza’s dilemma. He says that he thinks he should devour Szilard because they don’t really see eye to eye, which seems more like something Szilard would say. He also says that he wants to share half the information about the formula with Greto in case anything ever happens to him, but Greto is incredibly reluctant. Oh snap, as he’s transferring his memories, we can see that someone was snooping on them outside the door. Awk.

In the next scene, Maiza is standing over Szilard’s bed ready for some devouring. But that Elma guy comes in and talks him out of it, because he thinks that being the first to devour would set a bad precedent. Well, Maiza lifts up the covers of Szilard’s bed anyways to learn that Szilard isn’t even there! We see that Szilard is the one with his hand on Silvie’s forehead. He has a crazy look on his face. Oh ****, apparently he has already devoured Greto to learn about the immortality formula, and know he’s just devouring Silvie for the lulz. But wait! Not yet! Some guy I don’t know stops Szilard by slashing his arm. Szilard quickly runs away, but he’s cornered by Maiza, Elma, and two other guys. In order to distract Szilard, Elma does a handstand on the edge of the boat but loses his balance and falls into the ocean (-_______-). In the confusion, Szilard tries to grab Maiza, but ends up getting stabbed by the same guy who stabbed him before, and he falls into the sea.

Elma is floating in the water. The devil thinks that he’s interesting because he does handstands and doesn’t afraid of anything. He offers Elma one wish because he’s such a swell guy. Elma is suddenly on the boat again. He tells Silvie to smile, even though her lover is totally dead. The devil is now having a casual conversation with Huey away from all of the commotion. It shows some bits from the future. Maiza and Firo buying hats. Cole crawling under train tables. I think that’s Huey rotting in a jail cell. Is that….. Silvie? Is she a singer or something? Oh goodness, lol. The devil says that they’ll meet again and Huey smiles.

Back in the 1930s, Maiza and Luck are talking about gang stuff. They say Gustavo isn’t a very formidable opponent. After Maiza leaves, Luck states that he can sense Szilard’s present, because he can somehow do that.

Episode 7 fin.
What was Elma's wish anyways? To be back on the boat?

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Episode 8: Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them

We’re at a police station. Everyone’s excited because they have two new investigators on the case of a group of robbers. God, there’s more smoke in here than at Woodstock. Time for a slideshow presentation! They show a bunch of pictures of Isaac and Miria in a bunch of different costumes stealing things. The cops are legitimately surprised that a bunch of people who have time to pose for pictures haven’t been apprehended yet. Apparently, Isaac and Miria have stolen a good chunk of the head Genoard’s fortune. Good for them.

Back on the train, Isaac and Miria are walking through the hallways when they suddenly have a breakdown of epic proportions. We learn that the cause of their strife is the fact that they forgot to buy a gift for Ennis. Oh Isaac and Miria, you’re so outrageous. Elsewhere, Jacuzzi, Nice, and Nick all climb on top of the train (Donny helped them up, so he can’t make it up himself) to look for the Rail Tracer. Nice and Nick comment on how determined Jacuzzi looks.

Back in 1932, Eve is still in the custody of Gustavo, but is unharmed. Gustavo introduces himself and politely tells her that he won’t kill her. Aw, how sweet. He eats an apple (crucial detail) and explains why he kidnapped her while getting right up in her face and asking if she’s scared. As he leaves, he “accidentally” tells her that he’s the one who killed her father. Whoopsy. Eve pulls out the God card and says that Gustavo will be punished. She proceeds to pray, and we’re back in 1930.

Eve is crying while she’s looking at her picture of Dallas. You can hear Isaac and Miria talking about Eve outside of her window. They speculate that the man in the picture is her lover and something has tragically torn them apart. Eve walks outside and startles them, because they didn’t realize how loud they were being. Also, they’re dressed up as Native Americans. Even though they’re there to steal, Eve starts laughing at them. This confuses Isaac and Miria, since she was crying just a second ago. They ask her to tell them about her lover.

Back on the train, Jacuzzi’s group has a meeting. Nice observes that Isaac, Miria, Cole, Mary, and Natalie are all nowhere to be found. Jacuzzi suggests they split up. Huh. Jacuzzi never stood out as a “Fred” type character. He’s going to go with Donny, and Nice and Nick are going to do other stuff. Jacuzzi kisses Nice. Seems like an odd time, but whatever. At least we’ve found our Daphne.

Eve is describing her woes to Isaac and Miria. She thinks that the reason Dallas rarely comes home anymore is because they’re rich. When you’re rich, other people want more than just your friendship. Miria suggests that they just stop being rich (lol). Isaac and Miria then excuse themselves from Eve’s room and we head to commercial.

I know I’ve said it before, but Isaac and Miria are amazing.

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Isaac and Miria stumble upon a room full of dead bodies. They’re worried about Jacuzzi, but Isaac assures Miria that since his body isn’t here, that the Rail Tracer swallowed him whole, meaning that he’s still alive in the Rail Tracer’s stomach. We see a neat little image of cartoon Jacuzzi being swallowed by the Rail Tracer (a monster that looks like a green sock with googly eyes) in Isaac’s imagination. Isaac realizes the ridiculousness of what he just said, so he and Miria start to cry. We then see Jacuzzi and Donny charging down the hallway at Isaac and Miria, but they’re too busy mourning his death to see/hear him coming. The hallway is narrow, so there’s a bit of an awkward hold up because Donny is so huge. After happy reunions, they decide to go to somewhere where there’s more space to have a discussion. As they leave, we see that the Rail Tracer was in the room the whole time! Geez, it’s so scary looking.

They arrive in a snug, private little car. Isaac and Miria are blabbing on about The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. They tell Jacuzzi that he needs to be the hero. Jacuzzi says that he’s trying to save all of the passengers, dammit. But he then describes to them how gang violence stuff killed 8 of his guys, so he kind of went on a rampage. He destroyed 18 of the Russo’s speakeasies in one day. We see a nice little scene of Jacuzzi shooting a place up with a machine gun while crying his eyes out. Lol, Jacuzzi. Well, at least I know why he’s wanted now. He said he just wanted revenge for his friends, but he only made things worse. Isaac and Miria give a long, random, hilarious speech about how they believe in him and how he should just go with the flow. The look on Donny’s face shows that he thinks that these people be trippin’. Jacuzzi thanks them.

Back at Eve’s place, Isaac and Miria steal a bunch of her stuff to “alleviate” Eve’s unhappiness. Eve doesn’t look very upset. Isaac and Miria ask for Eve’s name, wish her happiness, and leave. Eve starts laughing again, and understandably so. The whole situation is hilarious. Back on the train, Isaac and Miria decide to track down the Rail Tracer. When Jacuzzi asks what they’re going to do specifically, Isaac says that they’re going to ask it nicely to stop, and if that doesn’t work, they’re going to run and hide. Hahahaha, amazingness. They leave, and Jacuzzi tells Donny that they shouldn’t let Isaac and Miria show them up, so they should become the biggest, baddest people on the train.

Isaac and Miria are helping Ennis load the thugs into her car. They ask where she’s taking them, and she says to the police. Isaac and Miria can’t go with her, because they’d probably be arrested. They tell Ennis that they’re trying to do good deeds to make up for the sins of their past. Ennis says she could never do that, and we see a brief flashback of Ennis absorbing somebody. Isaac and Miria assure Ennis that she should forget about her past, because she atoned for her sins by rescuing them. Ennis thanks them. Isaac and Miria give Ennis their names, and Ennis gives them her name. Like me, Isaac is confused that Ennis has no last name. Anyways, as Ennis leaves, Isaac and Miria jump up and down and bid her farewell. Ennis is truly touched, and she starts to cry.

Eve is sleeping, but as she wakes up, she sees Dallas on her bed. He apologizes for being gone so often, and then asks her if she would like to play billiards or something with him later. Eve’s face lights up, but they suddenly hear yelling in another room. They learn they’ve been robbed, and Eve starts praying. Dallas yells at Eve for believing in God, and he slams the door. What a jerkass. Back at Gustavo’s place, everyone is asleep. Gustavo is wearing his awesome manly pink jammies. The guard is asleep, so Eve slips out the door. Wow, they didn’t even tie her up or lock the door or anything. How useless are these people? The episode ends.

It's no surprise that an episode focusing on Isaac and Miria is excellent.

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Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
Next ep, maybe? Soon, anyway.

Took me a while to realize what you were talking about.
Anyways, the anticipation is killing me. Can't wait.

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Bump.
No write-up today, but I'll try my best to get one in tomorrow.

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Starting episode 9 right now!
Huh, just realized I'm already half way done with Baccano. Weird.

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Episode 9: Claire Stanfield Faithfully Carries Out the Mission
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…who the hell is Claire Stanfield? Bah, I’m sure I’ll figure it out later. Nicholas is talking with his Asian cohort. Something (a package of some sorts) has arrived, but not without incident. The Unnamable Train switched out more than just its engines, but it switched its passengers as well. Nebula is being very tight lipped about the situation, and I don’t know what’s going on (again…). Nicholas asks if Rachel (who?) was aboard the train, and the Asian says that she was. He says to wait for her report, but then she walks in. Guess what? Rachel is WIF! It looks like she has a broken leg. Hmm.

Now she’s talking to Mister President. He tells Nicholas to shut the hell up, this is no time for jokes. He asks her to recall what she knows about the train. He asks about the two factions, and then about the Rail Tracer, and she has a flashback to when she overheard Isaac and Miria talking about the Rail Tracer. Rachel says that she doesn’t know much, but she definitely saw a monster.

Ladd and co. made it to the conductor’s car. Ladd is having a field day rolling around in the conductor’s blood (not too far from the truth, actually), and even his serial killer friends are disgusted. Flashback to waaaay earlier in the conductor’s car when the Young Red Headed Conductor (YRHC) is about to get shot in the face by Mustachioed Conductor (MC). Wait! YRHC managed to kick the gun out of MC’s hand! Now he’s talking kinda crazily about the Rail Tracer. Is YRHC the Rail Tracer? I don’t know! Ahhhhhh! Well as fun as this suspense is, MC gets shot graphically in his face. Poor guy. Oh wait, he was kind of a dick. Never mind.

Another kinda stoner looking conductor walks in (KSLC). YRHC points a gun at him, and they have a casual conversation. YRHC realizes that he can’t really get any information out of KSLC, so he drops his gun and opens the back door of the train. During this time, KSLC thinks he’s clever and pulls out a gun of his own, thinking that he has the upper hand, but YRHC has disappeared. KSLC walks out and discovers that YRHC is gone. But no! Something grabs his legs! It’s the Rail Tracer! Hey, turns out YRHC is the Rail Tracer. Huh. That would have been my last guess an episode ago. Anyways, the Rail Tracer is holding KSLC under the train and asks him who he is. KSLC tries to shoot him, but the Rail Tracer just crushes his hand. KSLC starts to cry, but still doesn’t say anything. The Rail Tracer lowers him down, leading to what I can only assume to be a very violent and brutal death.

Ladd is literally tap dancing in MC’s blood. No biggie. Oh wait, KSLC isn’t dead. Also, he isn’t a conductor, he’s one of Ladd’s serial killer buddies. The Rail Tracer asks where he got the uniform, and he says he killed the old conductor to get it (what?!? Noooooooooo!). KSLC has gone coo coo and is laughing like a maniac. The Rail Tracer tells him that the old man’s name was Tony before finally killing him painfully. Ladd tells Lua to hide and reminds her that he’ll kill her one day. Neat. YRHC vows revenge on the Russo family, covers himself in KSLC’s blood to give himself a reddish appearance, and declares himself the Rail Tracer. Dem commercials.

In this episode: revelations. The last person I would have expected. But how did he get all of these supernatural abilities? I guess I’ll find out soon enough.

Also, I’m holding a candlelight vigil tonight at 7:00 for Tony and Sir-Gnaws-A-Lot, two souls gone before their time. Please show your support.

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Tony ='(

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Argh, no time to finish the episode today. Tomorrow for sure.

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this is probably the best anime I've ever watched

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neonreaper posted...
this is probably the best anime I've ever watched

Well, this is only my second anime, soooooo.... yeah, it's pretty high up there haha.

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Gonna finish the episode sometime tonight.

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And we’re back! At the newspaper office, Rachel tells the president that the Rail Tracer appeared to be wearing a conductor’s uniform. She says that it spoke to her. It said “Ticket please” and Rachel knows this means that the Rail Tracer somehow knew she boarded without a ticket. Uh, did he say that when the scene actually happened? I think I’m losing it, because I don’t remember that at all. Anyways, the president concludes that the monster is Vino. Um… that name sounds really familiar, but whatever. The president explains that it always seems like Vino is in more than one place at once, so it makes sense that he'd be a conductor since he travels all the time. Rachel says she’s heard of Vino. Oh, and now it’s story time with the president! Vino, also known as Claire Stanfield (the one from the episode title, but you already knew that) was practically raised by the father of the Gandor family. Also, Claire is a dude. Yeah, I was pretty shocked when I found out. Anyways, he was always like a fourth brother to Keith, Berga, and Luck. He then ran away and joined the circus, which explains his increased strength and agility, skills that are useful for an assassin and whatnot.

Back on the FP, a group of whitesuits has defeated a group of blacksuits. One of the whitesuit jerkasses is doing his crazy laugh thing. Another whitesuit says that while the other guy gets enough pleasure out of just killing people, he has another motive, which he says as he goes through a dead guy’s wallet. The other crazy dude has disappeared and the lights go out. The window is open. The Rail Tracer attacks! Elsewhere, the president explains that Vino likes to completely destroy the body when he kills somebody. Because he is thorough, dammit.

Now we skipped forward in time quite a bit, because we’re at the scene where everyone is getting off the FP, I believe.. A man walks up to Luck and hands him a telegram. Luck turns to Keith and tells him that he was right. Later, the 3 Gandors meet Claire in the street. Claire tells them that they should stop calling him that and start calling him Vino, or better yet, the Rail Tracer, and Luck and Berga both have an “is this guy for realz?” look on their faces, but neither of them say anything. Vino asks who they want him to kill next. He also mentions that they all might be going to a wedding soon. Dot dot dot. No comment.

Rachel and the president are still discussing Vino. The president states that Vino probably kills according to his own sense of justice. Rachel disagrees, because she saw him kill a young boy (obviously Cole, not many other young boys on the train). The President says that she could just go ask the young boy herself, and Rachel is shocked. She asks him how that’s possible, but he avoids the question and asks about her injury, so we take a flashback to 1930.

Dallas and co. finally wake up at the secret old people meeting. They’re handcuffed of course, which shows that old people are obviously more competent than the Runoradas, who can’t even imprison a little girl right. Szilard introduces himself to Dallas, and says he wants to ask them a few questions, and after that, he’ll kill them. Dallas tells them to take their best shot. Szilard bends down and absorbs one of Dallas’s friends as a scare tactic. It works, believe it or not. Well, the interrogation no longer needs to continue, since Szilard already has all of the information he needs from the dude he absorbed. He suggests to Ennis that she makes Dallas and (remaining) friends get the formulas back from the Gandors. Apparently, the stuff Ennis had injected them with is some of the immortality formula (that he apparently has?). Even though it was Szilard’s idea, all of the old people are pissed. Szilard justifies his decision by saying that since they’re getting involved with the Mafia, they need some pawns. Besides, he can just devour them later, anyways. This guy is quite prepared.

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Natalie is still being detained. The door opens and Mary is thrown in. Hooray, Chane rescued Mary from those wretched whitesuits. Goose explains to Natalie that if they don’t receive a signal soon regarding the blacksuits’ negotiations with Mr. Beriam, they’re going to have to kill Mary. You know, I think that Mary and Natalie’s chances of making it through this train ride are…..well, they suck. Chane has a sad look on her face.

Back at the Gandor place, Ennis is creeping outside while random Gandor people play cards. Dallas and friends decide to just waltz in. Dallas says that he’s just looking for the box that he left here earlier. Random Gandor guy says that he’s gonna have to wait until Luck comes back to confirm the story, but Dallas’s people pulled out their guns! I was expecting something spectacular to happen, but nope, just your standard people getting shot up scene. Dallas is celebrating for finally winning, but then he’s shot in his dumb face, as are his cohorts. The guy who shot them was hiding behind the couch, and now he’s limping towards the phone. Immortal Dallas then stabs him in his unsuspecting face.

Ladd escorts Cole into an abandoned room for some reason. Cole is acting very childish to fool Ladd into thinking that he’s a child (I think). Apparently, Cole had asked Ladd for a favor, and that’s why they’re here now. Ladd says that the only reason he didn’t kill Cole is because he called him a young man, because lol. Ladd says that he’s either going to laugh or kill Cole, depending on what the favor is. Cole says that he wants Ladd to kill all of the people in the dining car, and the episode is over. Wait, what?Uh…..well, I’m gonna have to do another analysis thing, because there is much to discuss. >.>

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mcflubbin posted...
And we’re back! At the newspaper office, Rachel tells the president that the Rail Tracer appeared to be wearing a conductor’s uniform. She says that it spoke to her. It said “Ticket please” and Rachel knows this means that the Rail Tracer somehow knew she boarded without a ticket. Uh, did he say that when the scene actually happened? I think I’m losing it, because I don’t remember that at all.

IIRC, they don't reveal what he said until this episode.

Bump.

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GoldSlime35 posted...

IIRC, they don't reveal what he said until this episode.

Yay, I'm not deaf! Anyways, time for....

The Episode 9 Aftershow!

There is much to discuss! Lots of good stuff in episode 9. A lot of questions, particularly about the Rail Tracer, were answered. Of course whenever a question is answered, two more questions pop up in its place. So yeah, let’s start with the Rail Tracer. The reveal was unexpected to say the least. I don’t see how anybody could have predicted that. During the opening theme, I remember seeing YRHC and thinking “aw, poor guy got shot in the face in like, the second episode.” Ha, never crossed my mind that he would be the Rail Tracer. I also remember the scene where Jacuzzi walked in and discovered the dead conductor. It never really gave you a clear shot of the corpse, and I didn’t think anything of it. I thought that my eyes were just bad, but now I know that they left the shot purposefully vague. Clever.

So Vino is the Rail Tracer, and he’s a Gandor. The big question though is where he managed to get his powers. Well his powers are undefined as of this point, but he definitely has ‘em. He has glowing red eyes and he manages to do some weird stuff with red smoke to abduct people off of the train. He wasn’t on the Advenna Avis (or was he?) so he didn’t get any of that immortality stuff. It’s all very odd. Well now he’s on a murderous rampage to avenge Tony…… KILL THEM ALL, VINO! LET NOT A SINGLE RUSSO ESCAPE ALIVE!!! UTTERLY DESTROY THEM! Ahem, sorry. Emotions got the better of me, there. Tony needs vengeance, dammit.

Anyways, the most shocking thing about last episode was the ending with Czeslaw and Ladd. Cole just told Ladd to kill everyone in the dining car. Wait, what? Where did that come from? It never seemed to me that Cole had any malicious intent, but damn. What are his motives? Who is he? We need some backstory, ASAP. Another thing to note about Cole: not only will Ladd eventually shoot him in the face (as shown in the first episode), but apparently the Rail Tracer kills him as well as Rachel just described. He is shown getting off the train in one piece, since you know, he’s an Immortal and stuff. The president said that Vino kills according to his own sense of justice, so he must have discovered that Cole wanted all of the people in the dining car dead. Hmm, I guess I'll learn for sure later.

I was going to ask about Rachel’s leg, but I’m assuming that’s going to get explained soon. What else? Oh right, why is Szilard trying to find the immortality formula if he already has some in this possession? Szilard’s motivations are still pretty mysterious. I also noted that it looks like Ennis is starting to lean away from Szilard, even though he’s her creator. Just an observation. Anything else? Oh yeah, where the hell has Firo been? At the beginning, I thought that he was going to be a main character, but he hasn’t been anywhere in like, 4 episodes. Get on the ball, Firo!

That’s it for now, I think. I just gotta keep on watching.

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I think Szilard only had an incomplete version. That Barnes guy from earlier made a completed version, but it was stolen by Dallas. I don't think Claire has any special powers, its just his agility/strength from joining the circus. I watched the series 2 years ago, so I could be wrong though.

Pretty sure everything else that you were wondering about gets answered.

So he's just a guy with glowing red eyes? Hmmmm. What's the deal with the weird red smoke then, or is that just for effect?

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Episode 10: Czeslaw Meyer is Forced to Rework His Tremble-Before-the-Specter-of-Immortals Strategy

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Yeah, time for some Baccano! Let’s go! We start at a prison in….Newfoundland. Well, sure, why not. It’s Senator Beriam! He’s visiting that loony Huey guy with the funny accent. Beriam says that some of Huey’s followers are causing quite a few….problems for him. Beriam explains the situation to Huey. Huey’s peeps are holding up the Flying Femalegenitaliafoot, and his wife and daughter are aboard. Huey is perplexed, and asks Manfred (that’s Senator Beriam’s first name, by the way) why he even cares, since Huey thought that he only cared about money and power, not about his family.

Manfred: “This is no joke, you piece of ****.”

Aw yeah, Manfred laying the verbal smackdown. Huey says some stuff about how the mission won’t fail since his daughter is on the train. I took a minute to consider who it could be, and the first person that popped into my head was Chane. There is quite a resemblance. He then spoils my sleuthing fun, and tells me that it’s Chane. Woot! I got a prediction right for once. It was a pretty obvious prediction, yeah, but I was correct nonetheless. Moral victories. Anyways, apparently Huey can control Chane’s actions through some kind of mind control or something. Weird. Wait, how is Chane alive? Isn’t Huey over 200 years old? Bleh, whatever. Anyways, Chane (controlled by Huey, I guess) walks out of Natalie’s room and into the hallway. Goose smiles.

Back to the end of last episode, Ladd is shocked, and notes that Cole is definitely not a little kid. Cole offers Ladd $20,000 to kill all of the people in the dining car, but Ladd is still a bit cautious. Cole tries to sweeten the deal by telling him that he has lots of explosives. Wow, Cole has a damn complicated plan. He wants Ladd to kill all of the people on the dining car. After that, he wants to set off some of the explosives as a diversion. When the train is forced to stop, Ladd and Cole would hop off and head to New York to cash in on the remaining explosives and the explosion on the train/dining car massacre would be blamed on the blacksuits. That is….really elaborate. Ladd is still suspicious, and asks why Cole even needs him if he could just do it himself. Cole says he has to collect the bodies of one of the passengers, and he would prefer it not be in pieces, if you know what I mean. Cole is ****ing devious. Like, he deserves 180 years in the naughty chair. Cole asks if he has a deal, and Ladd responds by shooting him in the face. Dick move, but not unexpected.

In 1932, Gustavo (in his pink heart jammies, of course) learns that Eve has escaped. He believes that this is the work of the Gandors, because there’s no way his guards could be that incompetent, right? Eve is running down the street, but someone pulls her into the car. It’s Elean! He apologizes to her, even though he didn’t really do anything wrong, Nicholas did. Elean says that he’ll make it up to her by giving her a piece of information about Dallas. Apparently, Dallas’s disappearance has to do with the Gandors. Eve asks if that’s the Mafia family, and Elean says yes. Eve asks him to take her to the Gandors so she can talk with them right away.

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1930! Isaac and Miria are walking and talking. At the same time, Dallas and co. walk out of the Gandor place with the box. Dallas says that he plans to extort the old people, because that’ll definitely work. Isaac and Miria overhear this, and decide that armed men in the middle of the night with a mysterious box are pretty suspicious. Isaac decides to dress up in one of his costumes and pop out at them, with the intent…..to scare them. Needless to say, it doesn’t work great. Dallas thinks he’s an idiot, but suddenly Miria pops out behind him, and chucks a smoke bomb at his head. Did…..Isaac and Miria just run away with the box with the immortality formula? I couldn’t tell, but if they did, that’s ****ing hilarious. In her car, Ennis sees Isaac and Miria run out of the alley. She goes to investigate, and sees the costume on the ground. She knows that it must be Isaac’s.

Back on the train, Cole is revived and Ladd and friends are now absent. Cole pulls himself together, and says that he has to find the other Immortal before it can find him. Hmm, some interesting stuff as we head to commercial.

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Bump.
I'll finish up this episode tomorrow.

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Eve and Elean are at the Gandor place. The person who greets them at the door is Chick, the creepy guy from the first episode with the scissors. Chick is…..polishing his scissors collection. How normal and not scary at all. The 3 Gandor brothers walk in, and ask what it is that they want, exactly. Elean is trying to be cautious about what he says, but before he can respond, Eve introduces herself as Dallas’s little sister.

Berga: “You mean Dallas, the filthy punk?”

The very same! Anyways, Eve ignores him and asks Luck where Dallas is. During this whole scene, Elean looks like he’s going to faint. The 3 Gandors gaze at each other and stare into space evasively. After a moment, Luck asks her if she can handle the truth, and she says yes. As Luck’s about to spill the beans, we hear gunshots! Gustavo and his dudes are opening fire on the Gandors! Aw yeah, I like where this is going.

But of course, we’re gonna have to wait to see what happens, because we have to see what our friend Jacuzzi is up to. We’re at the scene where Nice and Nick split up from Jacuzzi and Donny, except this time from Nice and Nick’s perspective. Jacuzzi just kissed Nice and then left. Nick didn’t know that Nice and Jacuzzi had something going on, and Nice says that that was their first kiss, and then runs off to the train roof, flustered.

Nick: “Come on, Boss! You two have been an item for 10 years and that was the first time he laid one on ya? I mean there’s gentleman, but then there’s just plain stupid!”

Nice covers her ears because she doesn’t want to hear it. She’s almost blown away by the wind, but her and Nick keep crawling on the roof.

In the train hallway, one of Ladd’s guys asks why he shot Cole, because it seemed like a pretty decent offer. Ladd says that it’s because Cole was too smug, and just asking to get blasted in the face. One of Ladd’s guys tells him to look up on the roof. He does, and he sees Chane on the roof a few cars away, knife in hand. On another part of the roof, Nick and Nice see Chane as well. Nice notes that they can’t move, so they’re stuck there. Ladd crawls up onto the roof himself and he loads his gun, ready to shoot. Meanwhile, Huey is using his witchcraft telepathy to have a conversation with Chane. He asks if she’s aware that Goose and the others plan to kill her soon. She says she knows, and that after they free ????, they’ll have no use for her. I’m sorry, I have no idea what she said. It sounded like “Tio”, but I don’t know. She also says that what they truly desire is the secret of immortality themselves. Not only that, but apparently Chane gave up her voice to protect the secret that Huey gave her. Chane also says that she is willing to protect Huey, because he is the only person who loves her. Well, that scene was pretty informative and bizarre.

During this whole thingamajig, Ladd charges at Chane. He passes by Nick and Nice, but I’m not sure if he noticed them or not. He gets right up in her face and fires, but Chane manages to block the bullet with her knife. She then chucks her knife at Ladd, but he manages to crush it under his foot. Chane charges Ladd, blocking his bullets as she does so. They have an interesting fight scene, and Ladd is suddenly hit from behind by a railroad sign. He laughs as he twirls around, and I assume that he manages to safely land back on the train. Chane chases after him. As Nick and Nice are left to wonder what the hell just happened, a blacksuit finds them and has them at gunpoint, telling them to put their hands up.

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Gustavo and friends march into the Gandor place to find only the 3 Gandor brothers calmly playing cards. He’s surprised to see Luck, because he’s supposed to be dead. Gustavo accuses Luck of taking Eve Genoard, and before he can deny, Eve (who was in hiding with Elean and Chick) runs out and says that that isn’t true. Gustavo says he has all of the proof he needs and shoots Luck in the head. Gustavo starts to gloat and Eve is mortified. Luck regenerates, much to Gustavo’s chagrin. Everybody is shocked and stuff, and Luck punches Gustavo in the face.

Isaac and Miria are disappointed that the box they stole only contained liquor. They get over it quickly, however, and start getting pumped for their next heist: stealing from the Martello family. They walk down the street, chanting “Martello! Martello! We’ll get dough from Martello!” Mind you, this is the middle of the night, and they’re being incredibly loud. Ennis isn’t very far away, so she overhears them. Anyways, they walk into a jewelry store dressed up as religious people. They say the “password”, so the suspicious shopkeeper lady takes them to a secret door that leads them to an elegant dancing hall. Isaac reminds Miria to act natural. Ennis also manages to find her way in, and the first things she sees are Isaac and Miria running around a table, being as unnatural as possible.

Isaac and Miria find a secret room, with little holes in the floor. The waitress (who looks like Chun-Li) yells at them and rushes at them. Chun-Li has so much momentum that she runs into Isaac, and her bosoms violently smash into Isaac’s face. Downstairs, we see Firo’s initiation ceremony and holy crap I see where this is going. The head guy fires the gun up in celebration (explaining all of the holes in the floor/ceiling) and then we hear Miria scream. Chun-Li runs downstairs and says there’s a problem. Firo (hey, haven’t seen him in a while!) and Maiza run upstairs to see Miria crying over Isaac, who was shot. Miria is having a breakdown, though Isaac seems to be doing pretty well for a guy who just got shot. Firo recognizes them as the people who bumped into them at the store earlier, and apologizes because he didn’t know that Isaac was a priest and Miria was a nun. No one is really taking any urgent action to help Isaac. Like, what are you guys waiting for? Casual conversation isn’t going to stop the blood loss, you know. Anyways, Ennis witnesses this whole scene, and possibly recognizes Firo from the scene at the fire.

Whew, that episode was a doozy.

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Bumpo.
Starting Episode 11 soon.

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Episode 11: Chane Laforet Remains Silent in the Face of Two Mysterious People
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It’s 1930, and everyone is having a grand ‘ol time celebrating Firo’s big accomplishment. The 3 Gandor brothers are there having fun, as well as Isaac and Miria. Didn’t Isaac get shot just a minute ago? Well, whatever. While everyone else is living it up, Firo and Maiza are talking on the roof. They’re talking about miracles. Speaking of miracles, Firo asks how Maiza’s knife wound healed up so quickly. Oh snap, here we go. Maiza hesitates, so Firo says that he can totally keep a secret. Maiza says Firo’s not ready, so Firo’s like “okay.” That was anticlimactic. Anyways, Firo sees Ennis run by, so he runs after her. Maiza doesn’t really give a ****. He finds her in the street and she attempts to attack him, but he manages to wrestle her to the ground. She looks pretty angry, but Firo gives her the button thing back, and Ennis looks a bit dumbfounded.

The blacksuits are talking over the radio. Apparently, plan “Kill Chane” is in action. Some nameless dudes get the order to shoot her down while she’s fighting with Ladd on the roof, but before they can, Ladd jumps down! Believe it or not, he kills them all. I know, I was pretty shocked too. It was pretty out of character. Well, out of the goodness of his heart, he leaves one alive so that he can interrogate him. Anyways, he wonders aloud why they would want to kill one of their own. In another part of the train, Cole finds himself in a quiet, bloody car, so he sits down to consider his options. Suddenly, Vino is standing there, covered in blood with dem crazy eyes. Cole starts to act all innocent, and introduces himself as Benjamin. Vino says there’s no need to lie, and then says his real name. Cole realizes that “oh ****, this guy must be the Rail Tracer.” Vino sits down and he throws his arm around Cole. He says that he knows that Cole isn’t a little boy, and that he knows that Cole plans to kill a lot of people, so Vino starts to choke him. Hmm, the last time somebody in this show got choked, it didn’t end very well, unfortunately.

The blacksuits have Nick and Nice tied up. Nick is trying to explain that there’s some kinda red monster on the train, but the blacksuits don’t buy it. On the outside of the train, Rachel sees The Rail Tracer holding Cole above the tracks. He lowers Cole’s hand into the moving track and his fingers splatter in all different directions. Rachel looks on in disgust as Cole screams. Chane is walking down the hallway menacingly with two knives, which must mean that Chane means business. She climbs onto the roof again, but Ladd is right behind her now. He basically recites her whole life story to her, information he presumably got from the blacksuit that he left alive. Well, that guy is dead now. Not that it really matters. Ladd ends up touching a nerve when he mentions the possibility that Huey is just using Chane, so she attacks him. After a minor scuffle, nothing really gets done and Chane manages to create a distance between them again. Ladd vows that the first thing he’s gonna do when he gets off of the train is kill Huey Laforet just for kicks and giggles. Ladd lunges forward and manages to get the upper hand by kicking Chane off the train. He thinks it’s over, but she manages to hang on. He continues to taunt her by talking about Huey, so she attempts to lunge forward but she can’t. Why? Because the Rail Tracer is here!

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Maiza is kinda chilling by himself in the crowded ballroom. A mysterious figure sits across from him. It’s Szilard! Maiza looks stupefied. Maiza tells everybody to leave. When they ask why, Maiza says that Szilard has killed 13 of his closest friends. Wow, that is pretty harsh. Szilard corrects him though by saying that he’s actually killed 5 more since then, so it’s actually 18 now. Maiza’s friends start to shoot at Szilard. Chun-Li screams. Firo hears the gunshots, so he runs back to help, but Ennis tackles him and says that he’ll get himself killed. Everybody is surprised that Szilard is still alive. As we head to commercial, we see Szilard pull out a machine gun and open fire on Maiza’s friends. Damn.

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