The Hunted (Christopher Lambert, Part 2: W/ Jack Badelaire)

·1 hr 4 min·5 clips

The hosts reveal they split the episode because guest Jack Badelaire's sexual energy risked causing spontaneous pregnancies in their live audience.

This episode is the second part of a review of the 1995 action film 'The Hunted', focusing on its final act. The hosts humorously open by claiming they split the episode due to guest Jack Badelaire's overwhelming 'sexual energy'. They recap that samurai Takeda has taken Paul Racine to his island fortress, where Takeda's teenage students are training. The hosts discuss a scene where blacksmith Oshima tricks Paul into doing menial tasks, leading to an anecdote about Christopher Lambert accidentally drinking sake instead of water in an unscripted moment. They analyze the backstory reveal that Karina was sex trafficked by Yakuza boss Nomura, whom Kinjo kills. The hosts highlight Kinjo's line 'how much blood must I bathe in to get clean?' as a key moment of moral conflict. Paul confronts Takeda, accusing him of using him as bait and orchestrating the train massacre, exposing Takeda's obsession. Kinjo attacks the island, slaughtering Takeda's students in a sequence the hosts compare to 'Star Wars' youngling slaughter. Takeda and Kinjo fight in the rain, with Takeda dying after his sword breaks. Paul intervenes, defeating Kinjo not through skill but by collapsing a structure and using a rock, which the hosts praise for subverting white savior tropes. The episode concludes with trivia about writer/director J.F. Lawton and a preview of next week's film, 'Assault on Precinct 13'. The tone is comedic and analytical, with frequent digressions into film references and behind-the-scenes details.

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Kinjo's blood-soaked reckoning gives The Hunted's final act its bitter center.

The final act of The Hunted lands on Kinjo's disgust as Nomura's sex-trafficking scheme leaves him with Junko slipping away, bloodshed spreading through the clan, and one last job that has destroyed the idea of a clean exit.

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You get Kinjo's blood-soaked last job, the show's deeply weird BIM-meter confession, and a final-act discussion that keeps wobbling at the edges.

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