#griffin callenreese

I’ve watched the sixth episode of “Banana Fish”. They decided to make things even more dramatic. The whole company moves from Max’s hideout to Ash’s home. A real home, where he lived as a child and where his father with a wife – Jennifer still lives. We get to know more about Ash’s family, for example, he and Griffin are only half-brothers, they have different mothers. Ash’s and his father don’t have good relationships – the father can’t say a simple word to his son, he only yells, he accuses him of all sins and says that if any of his “friends” sleep with him, they have to pay. Well, later after Max tells him that he was Griffin’s friend and they served together, the father tells a story of Ash’s childhood: he was raped by a baseball trainer, everybody in the village loved. Police did nothing and victim-blamed him (a seven-year-old boy!). Well, father told him, that if something like this happens – don’t fight, but make the abuser pay. Ash was assaulted more by the same coach, but a year later shot him with father’s gun. Police found child bones in the coach’s basement. To protect the boy against the rumour, the father sent him to live with his sister, but Ash ran away, was caught by Galzine and we know what happened next. They thought Ash was not enough traumatized? Seriously? Now they want us to think that he’s okay? Well, getting back to the plot – Dino’s people find them and take Ash’s family hostage, but he’s not so easy himself: he puts up a fight, Shorter and Max help him, but Jennifer is killed and Ash’s father shot (but still alive) and now our company has to leave as fast as possible, Ash is afraid that his father can die too. To continue their investigation about Banana Fish they go to Los Angeles, to see what’s on that mysterious address given Ash by a dying man (they’ve also seen this address written in the photo album near the picture of a man who killed Griffin (turns out, they had served together)). It’s only a fourth part of the series and so many events have already happened!

I’ve watched the fourth episode of “Banana Fish”. (Spoilers!) Eiji, the doctor and his assistant are trapped by Arthur and mafia and threatened, so Eiji has to tell them about the drug, but then Shorter saves them, but then Griff (Ash’s older brother) recognized a doctor who came with the mafia and said something like: “You! Bana fish!”, and then this doctor shot him and he died in the hospital. Eiji feels very guilty because he feels responsible for Ash. Ash, in his turn, has more problems in prison, Max decided to move to another cell, so Ash had a new cellmate and Ash almost killed him, because this man tried to rape him (we see again how good can Ash fight, even with an opponent which exceeds him in physical strength). Then Ash has to fight mafia (three people at the same time) and again almost killed one of them. Then Max, who found the fighting scene, tells Ash about his brother and Ash, being very angry, attacks Max too, but they are both alright at the end. At the very end, they even reconcile, drink together and mourn Griffin, after all, they both loved him.

“That’s real? Uncle Shorter told me that it was just a—a thing in fantasies!”

“Nope.”

From a scene of mayfly by RyeFo✨

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