[ Ash is silent for a few beats. He doesn't like to get this close to the truth. He's even twisting some parts of it to skip Banana Fish.

But Max is going to get implicated. He's going to go down with Ash if he uses his 'let them think what they want' approach. ]

I ran with it because I couldn't fucking run anywhere!

[ It's an angry hiss, but his stomach twists. It's basically the truth. ]

Around the time he got off the tax evasion charges. A lot of people were pointing cameras in our faces. Look at some of the pictures. Really look at them and wonder why the hell it looks like I decided to have an eye exam right before going to a fucking concert!