Summary:
It’s 6 months later, and a pimped out Reiji been sent off to a CG New York to kill Belacruz, the #2 guy in the Gambino family. With them out of the way, Inferno now has control of the East Coast. Claudia’s next plan is to meet up (again) with the Godo family to sell 25 kg of discounted cocaine to Godo Daisuke as a friendly gift. Isaac taunts Claudia for using her huge rack to secure Reiji’s loyalty, and she pays him back by arranging the exchange on Bloodies turf, putting the onus of security on Isaac’s shoulders.
Naturally, when Claudia and Reiji arrive to make the sale, they find that an assassin has already killed the Godo’s purchasing team and stolen the $5 million. We get a brief shot of a very Ellen-shaped silhouette, and Reiji also finds the body of hooker Judy Devens. When Reiji later returns to leave flowers where Judy died, he encounters Judy’s young “sister.” Natalie Portman Cal. Cal saw everything while she was walking a drunk Judy home that night, and she offers information about the killer if Reiji will be her partner. Reiji agrees, while musing about how he screws up lives.
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What a difference 6 months can make! Reiji went from being a typical blase male lead to becoming some kind of uber-pimp, bossing around Claudia and Lizzie, banging his stacked boss, fist bumping with lolis, and shooting gangsters at the opera while wearing a ruffled shirt. When Reiji remembered Ellen’s words about how he would eventually grow to feel nothing, it made me wonder if Ellen had taken a similar path. When Ellen first became Phantom did she go around wearing skanky clothes and doing generally diva things? Was she banging Scythe Master? And is she hanging out in Mongolia (we saw that brochure too many times for it to be a coincidence)?
I’m pretty sure that shadow was Ellen because it would set up a perfectly awkward situation between Cal and Reiji. They’d work at finding the killer, but when it’s revealed to be Ellen, Reiji will be stuck between his two/three ladies. I’m not sure why Claudia is still so interested in working with the Godo family, but she’s really making a move up the Inferno ladder. Things got a little hairy when Raymond put Isaac in his place, although all I could think was, “That wine is going to stain!” Lizzie drove the comedy up even further when she commented that Claudia was so tired from work, but really it was because Reiji was putting Claudia on a new workout plan.
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Well, as you remember she fed the Godoh Group 200 million worth of cocaine in her double-cross with which she got rid of Scythe Master. The point is that Claudia wants her own power base within Inferno, so she’s working to bring “her” Godoh Group into the fold.
Oh, I think I forgot that Claudia doesn’t know about Scythe Master hanging out with the Godo family.
Yeah. My guess is that Godoh #2, Mr. blond guy who doesn’t like Claudia, is probably the ones behind the assassination (using Ein/Ellen). Methinks things might get messy soon (again)
Given Ellen’s and Cal’s respective configurations, Isaac might have been more on the spot if he had taunted Claudia about nothing being able to really secure Reiji’s loyalty because she doesn’t have DFC.
Hmm, Ellen would have to at least be normal size rather than flat I think, although everyone falls short when compared to Claudia I suppose.