21 - Advance of the Fool

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[00:01] ---
    You idiot!
[00:03] ---
    You believed the word of the enemy,
    and lost the will to fight?!
[00:07] ---
    I am terribly sorry, sir.
[00:09] ---
    Don't let it get the better of you!
    Don't give up on living!
[00:13] ---
    If you're going to be my adjutant,
    you've got to be more firm!
[00:17] ---
    Yes, sir.
[00:19] ---
    I'm going to continue entrusting
    my back to you. Commit yourself.
[00:23] ---
    Colonel, you're no one to talk, sir.
[00:26] ---
    A commander who just waltzes on in like that.
[00:29] ---
    You shut up!
[00:30] ---
    Ow-w-w-w...
[00:32] ---
    And why are we even in the same room?
[00:36] ---
    Ordinarily, I'd have my own room,
    with a beautiful nurse!
[00:39] ---
    Please try to make do, sir.
[00:41] ---
    Having you in the same room
    makes it easier to guard you.
[00:44] ---
    About that!
[00:45] ---
    Why haven't they come to kill us?
[00:49] ---
    Why?!
[00:50] ---
    Why did you let that Flame
    bastard out of there alive?!
[00:53] ---
    He burned Lust to death!
[00:56] ---
    Lust... is dead...
[00:59] ---
    It's still not too late! Kill him!
[01:03] ---
    Roy Mustang... We can make use of him.
[01:07] ---
    Use him? You don't mean, him and the doorway?
[01:11] ---
    Don't you worry about him.
[01:13] ---
    Father has left him to me.
[01:20] ---
    Beckoned now by the snow-white backdrop,
[01:26] ---
    I go into a yet unseen world
[01:38] ---
    Lost as I traveled
[01:41] ---
    under a gray sky,
[01:44] ---
    with a different map each day,
    so many dreams ran together
[01:50] ---
    I wonder if someday,
    even with my modest stride,
[01:57] ---
    I'll be able to get beyond those clouds
[02:03] ---
    Falling raindrops provide
    a persistent diffuse reflection
[02:09] ---
    as though able to see into my heart,
    wounded for acting tough
[02:16] ---
    Beams of light crisscross
[02:21] ---
    and shoot on forever without
    announcing where they're headed
[02:28] ---
    Faint afterimages burn into my eyes
[02:34] ---
    Wherever I am under this sky,
[02:40] ---
    I should still arrive at a yet unseen world
[02:51] ---
    What do I do if I'm all rotten?
[02:53] ---
    Huh?
[02:54] ---
    My body, which is over there,
    isn't getting any nutrition!
[02:59] ---
    Even if I'm able to get back into that body...
[03:01] ---
    Brother... Winry...
[03:06] ---
    Eh? Hey, Ed!
[03:12] ---
    This is just a hypothesis,
    but when we tried to transmute Mom,
[03:16] ---
    you and I mixed our blood together
    for the soul information, right, Al?
[03:20] ---
    Mm-hmm.
[03:21] ---
    Now, the two of us were both
    taken over there, and decomposed.
[03:28] ---
    Isn't there some chance
    that during that process, Al,
[03:31] ---
    our spirits got some of their wires crossed?
[03:34] ---
    What do you mean?
[03:36] ---
    I mean, isn't there a chance that me, here,
[03:39] ---
    and your body, over there, are connected?
[03:42] ---
    I mean, look, for my age, I'm a little sh--
[03:48] ---
    ...sh--
[03:49] ---
    ...short...
[03:51] ---
    --He admitted it!
    --He's faced reality!
[03:55] ---
    So Ed, you're taking on
    growing for Al's body, too?
[03:59] ---
    That sure seems like a far-fetched idea.
[04:02] ---
    It's not either far-fetched!
[04:03] ---
    You don't grow because you don't drink milk!
[04:06] ---
    Not the milk thing again!
[04:08] ---
    --Of course! It makes your bones grow stronger!
    --Come to think of it, Brother is always sleeping.
[04:12] ---
    Could it be that he's sleeping
    enough for my share, too?
[04:16] ---
    --Drink it! Drink it!
    --No way! I can't!
[04:18] ---
    --Drink it!
    --I hate it!
[04:20] ---
    I hope that's it.
[04:21] ---
    --Drink it!
    --No way!
[04:27] ---
    Going to go visit the colonel?
[04:29] ---
    Mr. Havoc is injured, too.
[04:31] ---
    We wanted to make sure we paid our respects.
[04:33] ---
    If the colonel hadn't come, right now,
[04:35] ---
    who knows what would have happened to me?
[04:39] ---
    Sergeant Fuery, are you visiting them, too?
[04:42] ---
    I'm on an errand from the lieutenant.
[04:45] ---
    Based on the number of footsteps I counted
[04:47] ---
    once we got to the basement
    under the 3rd Laboratory,
[04:50] ---
    I figured the approximate distance
    from there to that large doorway.
[04:54] ---
    I couldn't be sure about the direction,
[04:56] ---
    so I used the lab as a central point,
    and drew a circle around it.
[05:02] ---
    Central Command Center?!
    And what's more, this building is...
[05:06] ---
    The Fuhrer's residence. Under there
    is where the Homunculi are...?
[05:11] ---
    So there's a chance that the Fuhrer
    is connected to that group, huh?
[05:17] ---
    If he's connected,
[05:19] ---
    then why did the Fuhrer go
    after Greed and company?
[05:23] ---
    That's strange, even if he wasn't connected.
[05:25] ---
    He wiped them out, without trying
    to get any information out of them.
[05:28] ---
    The Fuhrer is inscrutable.
[05:33] ---
    Whatever the case,
[05:34] ---
    the enemy has penetrated
    fairly high into the military.
[05:37] ---
    From here on, we should
    be careful confronting them.
[05:40] ---
    Fullmetal, watch yourself.
[05:47] ---
    The Homunculi and the Fuhrer...
[05:52] ---
    Looks like we made an even
    bigger catch than we expected.
[05:55] ---
    I get the feeling that it's too big, sir.
[05:57] ---
    It makes this all worth doing.
[06:00] ---
    Now, I'm going to work you guys ragged.
[06:03] ---
    Uh, about that, sir,
    you'll have to count me out.
[06:11] ---
    I can't feel my legs.
[06:17] ---
    I'm sorry.
[06:19] ---
    I'm retiring.
[06:27] ---
    Yo.
[06:29] ---
    Yo. Are you in here for something?
[06:31] ---
    My lower back. Medical examiners
    have to always stand,
[06:34] ---
    and it gets to an old guy like me.
[06:40] ---
    When I heard that it was you who
    burned that thing, something clicked.
[06:44] ---
    What are you plotting?
[06:46] ---
    You knew I was plotting something,
[06:48] ---
    and yet you still determined that
    other thing to be Lieutenant Ross?
[06:51] ---
    Thank goodness for old war buddies.
[06:53] ---
    We're not old war buddies.
    We're partners in crime, aren't we?
[06:57] ---
    You would burn them,
    and I would do the autopsies.
[07:00] ---
    Ishval was just one giant test site.
[07:08] ---
    You get too involved in this dangerous business,
[07:10] ---
    and you're gonna get hit with a backlash.
[07:13] ---
    I already have.
[07:18] ---
    Has something happened?
[07:21] ---
    One of my men.
[07:24] ---
    His lower half is paralyzed,
    from a spinal injury.
[07:33] ---
    Aw, and I only got permission
    to have one of these per day.
[07:39] ---
    Geez, it's laughable, being stuck
    by a woman and having to retire.
[07:45] ---
    What are you going to do once you're out?
[07:48] ---
    My family runs a general store.
    I can at least answer the phone.
[07:53] ---
    Can they do anything about it with automail?
[07:58] ---
    The nerve connections to the
    lower half of my body are cut off,
[08:01] ---
    so they can't do anything.
[08:04] ---
    The retired lifestyle sure doesn't suit you.
[08:12] ---
    Colonel.
[08:14] ---
    About Havoc's legs...
[08:16] ---
    I picked up some information
    from Chief Fullmetal.
[08:20] ---
    Doctor Marcoh... an alchemist
    with mastery in the medical field,
[08:25] ---
    and a Philosopher's Stone...
[08:27] ---
    Can I extend my leave a little longer, sir?
[08:31] ---
    Approved.
[08:32] ---
    Get going.
[08:38] ---
    Ah, Major!
[08:40] ---
    Are you back from your leave?
[08:43] ---
    How was your trip to the east?
[08:47] ---
    Don't tell him!
[08:50] ---
    It was a nice place,
    with lots of beautiful women.
[08:54] ---
    Oh, right, Major, this just came
    from the Provost Marshal's Office.
[08:59] ---
    It's a priority message to be
    delivered to State Alchemists.
[09:03] ---
    What's this...?
[09:08] ---
    How did it go?
[09:11] ---
    Once I told them I was a State Alchemist,
[09:12] ---
    they let me in without any problem.
[09:15] ---
    And the entrance to the basement?
[09:16] ---
    It wasn't there.
[09:19] ---
    But there were traces of it
    being closed up with alchemy.
[09:23] ---
    Not even they are dumb
    enough to leave an entrance.
[09:27] ---
    Oh. It looks like going to see the
    Homunculi won't be possible, then.
[09:33] ---
    They said that I was a precious sacrifice,
[09:36] ---
    and that they'd be screwed if I were to die.
[09:39] ---
    They said the same about me.
[09:40] ---
    I could be a sacrifice,
    since I'd opened the doorway.
[09:44] ---
    Sacrifices probably refer to alchemists
[09:47] ---
    that have the ability to open
    the doorway and make it back.
[09:50] ---
    I wonder what they have in mind
    by making sacrifices of us.
[09:54] ---
    Let's pry it out of those guys!
[09:56] ---
    Edward!
[09:58] ---
    Huh? Sergeant Brosh?
[10:00] ---
    Thank goodness.
[10:02] ---
    Hey, what's the matter?
[10:04] ---
    You'd better get back to the hotel, right away.
[10:06] ---
    If you'd like, I will escort you.
[10:10] ---
    This is a citywide announcement
    from the Provost Marshal's Office.
[10:13] ---
    It appears that Scar has
    once again surfaced in Central.
[10:16] ---
    Three are dead, all of them State Alchemists,
[10:18] ---
    as well as several others wounded.
[10:21] ---
    According to eyewitness reports,
[10:23] ---
    he is distinguished as being an Ishvalan,
[10:25] ---
    having a large cross-shaped
    scar on his forehead,
[10:27] ---
    as well as a tattoo over his entire right arm.
[10:33] ---
    A tattoo... on his right arm...!
[10:43] ---
    Scar killed Aunt and Uncle Rockbell?
[10:47] ---
    It's not like I've confirmed it yet, but yeah.
[10:50] ---
    Oh, man. Brother, we can't
    tell Winry about this.
[10:54] ---
    How could we tell her?!
[10:56] ---
    I don't want to see her face in tears again.
[11:00] ---
    Me, either.
[11:03] ---
    We're going to have to face
    Scar again, aren't we?
[11:06] ---
    To find out the truth?
[11:08] ---
    There's that, too, but also one other reason.
[11:12] ---
    To lure out the Homunculi.
[11:15] ---
    Those guys can't have us dying on them.
[11:18] ---
    So, if we get attacked by Scar,
    and get into a real emergency...
[11:22] ---
    They'll come forward? I don't
    think the chances are that good.
[11:26] ---
    It's better than doing nothing.
[11:28] ---
    But last time, it only took
    Scar a moment to beat us.
[11:34] ---
    We're probably stronger than we were before.
[11:37] ---
    Supposing the Homunculi do
    show up, how do we catch them?
[11:42] ---
    Not only are they strong,
    they're all but indestructible.
[11:45] ---
    Indestructible?! You mean...
[11:48] ---
    Immortal, right?
[11:51] ---
    Again through the window.
[11:54] ---
    We'll help you out with that mission!
[11:57] ---
    What?
[11:58] ---
    I'm not interested in the
    military entanglements,
[12:01] ---
    but if the Homunculi are immortal,
    that's another story.
[12:06] ---
    Huh? You doubt me somehow?
[12:10] ---
    I'm grateful to you for helping
    out with Lieutenant Ross. Still--
[12:13] ---
    The more friends you have, the better, right?
[12:17] ---
    I'm being serious, too. The fate
    of my clan is at stake here.
[12:27] ---
    Okay, fine. Just don't run
    away with the Homunculi!
[12:32] ---
    I'll keep my promise. I owe
    you for a meal, after all.
[12:36] ---
    A meal?
[12:41] ---
    A room service bill?!
[12:43] ---
    Thanks for treating!
[12:44] ---
    Like hell this is for one meal!
[12:48] ---
    Shut up! It's still early in
    the morning, and I can't sleep!
[12:52] ---
    Oh, that's right. You're going
    back to Rush Valley, huh?
[12:59] ---
    Hold on. Cancel that, and stay
    here in Central a little while longer.
[13:04] ---
    I mean, you know, maybe I'll damage my arm.
[13:09] ---
    I'll probably even destroy it.
[13:12] ---
    You're planning to destroy it?!
[13:14] ---
    Ah, Brother, your soul...!
[13:18] ---
    Good grief!
[13:20] ---
    Don't do anything too dangerous, okay?
[13:31] ---
    Doctor? Doctor, are you in?
[13:44] ---
    Damn.
[13:48] ---
    I see. Good work.
[13:54] ---
    A dead end, huh?
[14:02] ---
    Well, if you'll excuse me...
[14:09] ---
    Who was that?
[14:10] ---
    My mother, and someone from
    the Veterans Administration.
[14:15] ---
    I've made arrangements to retire.
[14:19] ---
    We're still not certain
    that you can't be treated.
[14:21] ---
    I'm not so dumb that I don't
    know when I'm of no use, sir.
[14:26] ---
    But...
[14:28] ---
    You don't need any pawns that can't move, right?
[14:35] ---
    What are you looking at me like that for?
[14:38] ---
    Leave me behind! Cut me loose!
[14:41] ---
    Do you have time to be concerned
    over one of your lowly underlings?!
[14:43] ---
    You've got a promise to keep
    to General Hughes, don't you?!
[14:46] ---
    --I don't need your pity!
    --Lieutenant Havoc!
[14:54] ---
    Let me pack it in!
[14:58] ---
    I'm begging you...
[15:06] ---
    All right.
[15:08] ---
    I'll leave you here.
[15:15] ---
    I'll leave you here, so you catch up to me.
[15:18] ---
    I'm going on ahead. I'll be
    waiting for you at the top.
[15:26] ---
    He wasn't about to cast even me aside,
    and I had given up on living.
[15:33] ---
    He then said he was entrusting his back to me.
[15:35] ---
    He doesn't abandon others.
[15:39] ---
    The fool.
[15:40] ---
    There's no way he can climb
    his way to the top of this country
[15:43] ---
    if he's going to be so soft, is there?
[15:47] ---
    I think it's okay to have
    at least one fool like that.
[15:57] ---
    Bring me my uniform.
[16:00] ---
    You're in no shape to leave the hospital yet.
[16:03] ---
    Just bring it.
[16:09] ---
    As you wish, sir.
[16:13] ---
    Ah! How could you do that to me?!
[16:16] ---
    I-I'm so sorry!
[16:18] ---
    Aw, now I'll have to close up for the day.
[16:22] ---
    You seem to be having some trouble!
[16:25] ---
    State Alchemist Edward Elric is here!
[16:34] ---
    That's amazing, kid!
[16:35] ---
    Thank you very much! How much
    would you like me to pay for this?
[16:39] ---
    Pay?
[16:40] ---
    That's not necessary, not necessary!
[16:43] ---
    I've broken a vase that's important to me.
[16:46] ---
    I wonder if you could fix it.
[16:48] ---
    Easily done!
[16:59] ---
    I'm Edward Elric!
[17:01] ---
    Your neighborhood State Alchemist, Edward Elric!
[17:07] ---
    --This, too, please!
    --Could you fix this?
[17:13] ---
    Looks like word about me
    is spreading all over town.
[17:16] ---
    Sure, as flashy as you're being.
[17:20] ---
    This isn't like you, Fullmetal.
[17:24] ---
    Colonel? Are you sure you
    should be out of the hospital?
[17:27] ---
    Maybe.
[17:30] ---
    I heard about Lieutenant Havoc.
    Knowing Doctor Marcoh--
[17:33] ---
    Wait.
[17:35] ---
    We're drawing attention. Get in.
[17:40] ---
    On second thought, get out.
[17:43] ---
    Dr. Marcoh is missing?
[17:45] ---
    They probably abducted him.
[17:50] ---
    By the way, Fullmetal,
    you did hear about Scar, right?
[17:55] ---
    What's with your behavior,
    all but begging him to find you?
[17:59] ---
    I want him to find me.
[18:02] ---
    I have to fight him once more.
[18:04] ---
    Don't be ridiculous!
[18:06] ---
    Did you forget what happened in East City?!
[18:08] ---
    Oh, my. Are you afraid of Scar?
[18:12] ---
    It's because you were useless
    against him last time, Colonel sir.
[18:16] ---
    Don't you mock me! It's clear and sunny today!
[18:20] ---
    No, instead, you're all weak
    and feeble, aren't you?
[18:22] ---
    You're still useless.
[18:24] ---
    You shut up!
[18:29] ---
    Well, he's here, isn't he?
[18:31] ---
    What's the matter? It's not even
    raining, and you're dripping.
[18:35] ---
    Wait, Lieutenant! Don't shoot!
[18:37] ---
    What are you talking about?!
[18:39] ---
    I'm gonna make like the colonel,
[18:40] ---
    and try my hand at a little fishing!
[18:49] ---
    Brother is using himself as bait
    to lure out the Homunculi.
[18:52] ---
    After all, he's a sacrifice to them,
[18:54] ---
    one that they can't allow to die.
[18:57] ---
    --That's crazy!
    --We don't want anyone else to get hurt.
[19:00] ---
    Using Brother or myself as bait
    was the only thing we could do!
[19:04] ---
    What are you going to do if Scar gets shot
[19:07] ---
    by the MPs before the Homunculi show up?!
[19:09] ---
    Colonel, you can make sure
    that doesn't happen, right?
[19:13] ---
    You're giving orders to me? You've got nerve!
[19:17] ---
    Once you catch the Homunculi, I want my cut!
[19:20] ---
    You got it!
[19:29] ---
    Sergeant Fuery's townhouse is nearby. Let's go!
[19:32] ---
    Yes, sir!
[19:36] ---
    It's starting.
[19:42] ---
    You two! Please stand aside!
[19:44] ---
    Don't shoot! You'll hit my brother!
[19:47] ---
    Damn, if Scar gets shot, we'll lose everything.
[19:51] ---
    Talk about maintaining a careful distance...
[19:53] ---
    He's wearing me down!
    What's taking so long, Homunculi?!
[19:57] ---
    Where's the Provost Marshal Office's channel...?
[20:00] ---
    Here it is! That's our Fuery for you.
[20:04] ---
    This is Sector 3 MP Patrol.
[20:07] ---
    We're currently engaging Scar!
    Request immediate backup!
[20:10] ---
    Wah! Hey, what are you doing?!
[20:14] ---
    There, now for Sector 17.
[20:17] ---
    This is starting to get fun. This is...
[20:19] ---
    What's going on here?!
    Scar is in Sector 17, too?!
[20:23] ---
    Then what's happening in Sector 3?!
[20:24] ---
    Colonel Douglas, he's appeared in Sector 8, too!
[20:27] ---
    What?!
[20:29] ---
    Central Provost Marshal's
    Office calling Sector 8,
[20:31] ---
    Scar and a young man are fighting each other.
[20:34] ---
    The young man is a
    State Alchemist! Hold your fire!
[20:37] ---
    There are false reports flying around!
[20:39] ---
    What? A fourth person has spotted Scar?
[20:40] ---
    This is Sector 3. Nothing
    to report on the streets.
[20:43] ---
    This is Sector 8! We've spotted Scar!
    Requesting immediate backup!
[20:52] ---
    Gluttony?
[20:53] ---
    I smell him, I smell him!
[20:55] ---
    I smell the Ishvalan!
[20:59] ---
    What is that presence? Do you feel it, Lan Fan?
[21:03] ---
    Yes.
[21:04] ---
    All right, let's go!
[21:08] ---
    Which one? Bodily destruction, or automail?
[21:12] ---
    Brother!
[21:20] ---
    Lucky!
[21:22] ---
    You cancelled out his decomposition energy?!
[21:25] ---
    That's so reckless!
[21:28] ---
    A tattoo on his right arm?
[21:30] ---
    You bastard, I knew it!
[21:34] ---
    I smell him, I smell him!
[21:42] ---
    Hi! Hello there! You're pretty
    unusual on the inside, huh?
[21:48] ---
    How many people do you have inside you?
[21:51] ---
    Who are you?
[21:53] ---
    It's no use trying to get away.
    You have a unique chi.
[21:56] ---
    I can follow you anywhere.
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    Enemy? Enemy?
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    Can I eat them?
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    Sure enough.
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    He's a Homunculus.
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    Oh, you can sense his presence, can you?
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    That's a pesky ability.
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    I'll have to eliminate it!
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    Lan Fan! Get out of here!
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    Lan Fan!
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    Let it all out, Let it all out
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    We don't have to act so brave
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    The graffiti flower that someone
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    was drawing on the wall trembles
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    Nobody knows their own uniqueness
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    Along the long, long road, there will be
    days where we lose things, find things,
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    become suddenly lonesome,
    and break down crying
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    Let's turn the tears and pain into stars
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    Let's light the lights that shine on tomorrow
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    Holding up our little hands to them,
    let's make stardust together
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    and a brightly shining eternity...
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    The day may come when we say goodbye
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    The seasons will still make their rounds
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    Though I may wander a little, I'll still walk
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    Still walk with you
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    Let's make sure that much doesn't change
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    The scream of the cut girl
    echoes throughout Central.
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    When the infringing force chances upon the past,
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    memories of violence are called to remembrance.
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    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
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    Episode 22: "Backs in the Distance."
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    The young man thought, "I want to protect her."