Sitting in a wheelchair Griffin is unresponsive to Ash’s questions. He enters the next room where his older brother, Griffin is staying. Golzine is watering his plants in his greenhouse when Abraham Dawson comes crashing through the doors to tell him “it’s gone”.Īsh discovers the pendant on the end of the chain contains a vial with a white powdery substance within. When Skip leaves Ash pulls out the chain the dying man gave to him.
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He also shares that Arthur may have had something to do with what happened. Happy to see him return, Skip updates Ash on the visit of the Japanese interviewers facilitated by police officer Charlie. They discuss the visit to Golzine, and Shorter parts some advice regarding Marvin before Ash speeds off on his bike.Īsh returns to his apartment where Skip is keeping lookout for him. On a street, Shorter Wong comes across Ash on his motorcycle. Golzine does not appear to comprehend what Ash is concerned about, but does tell him that he loves him. When told that man was a nobody, Ash is livid at this response to someone being killed and sweeps the cutlery off the table in anger. He wants to know why Golzine ordered for the man to be killed, Golzine feels Ash is concerned about people going behind his back. After exchanging a few words, Ash is escorted by Gregory to find Golzine at breakfast with his butler on hand, Ash is here for business. Ash is shocked to hear him utter the same nonsensical term "Banana Fish" he has heard before dying.Īsh comes across Marvin Crosby as he visits Dino Golzine at his manor to get to the truth of the matter. He tries to help him before the man uses his final words to tell Ash a street address, and hand him a vial of an unknown substance.
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After he is incapacitated by his friend Max Lobo, he simply mutters the words "Banana Fish."Īsh Lynx comes across a dying man in an alleyway. Sometime during the Iraq war, soldiers are talking amongst themselves before a man called Griffin, without warning lifts an assault rifle and shoots into them. Meanwhile, Eiji Okumura, a Japanese photographer's assistant, arrives in New York to complete a report on street gangs. The man speaks the words “banana fish” before dying - the same last words spoken by Ash’s brother Griffin, an Iraq War veteran who fired on his own squadron under mysterious circumstances, and who is now in a vegetative state. Ash Lynx, a 17-year-old leader of a street gang in New York City, is given a street address and a vial of an unknown substance by a mortally wounded man.