Without a Trace

Limitless Podcast Transcript [S2E1]

Mark: I dunno dude, I'm more of a Grammarly kind of guy.

Johnny: Ew. Grammarly is basically just a capitalist version of basic grammar and spelling check.

Mark: Syntaxly is literally the same premise? Don't hate on Grammarly like that. Yuta, back me up.

Yuta: I use neither. If I have wordy and hard to follow sentences so be it, it's the reader's fault for not being able to pick up on my artistic intellect.

Johnny: Dude, what?

Mark: Just go with it.

Johnny: Okay then, anyway, back to the episode. Yuta, what can you tell us about Spades' history?

Yuta: What can't I tell? Basically, Spades was originally in a group of four, you can probably guess their names. Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs were the other three. The group was definitely a force to be reckoned with, you can pull up some of the old articles from when they were active, it was insane. They were like real celebrities, you know?

Mark: Well, Clubs later became a celebrity.

Yuta: Right, but that's besides the point. Either way, they worked as a great unit, any person observing can see the great camaraderie between them. According to popular rumors it's said that the group were originally school friends turned vigilantes when their fifth person in the friend group was murdered. The murder was brushed off as a suicide, however, but they knew their friend better than that.

Mark: Friend that was murdered? You wouldn't happen to be talking about the Eric Son case, would you?

Yuta: Yup. You have to admit that the whole thing was sketchy. The autopsy came out months later, there were signs of a struggle, even the suicide note was sketchy, his partner at the time said that it looked nothing like his handwriting. And then came the gun, it was right next to Son's hand but his prints on it were smudged. If this was a murderer who tried to hide their tracks, they did a seriously messy job with it. Either way, it was this ruling of the case that marked the beginning of the Aces, we don't know if they ever found the original killer though. Their leader, Hearts, always refused to comment on it. But that team, damn, the way they worked was insane. They each had their own specializations too, it's a shame what happened to Hearts.

Johnny: Right, the accident.

Yuta: Yeah, we only knew it was Hearts because her mask was in the back seat. That was just the beginning of the end for the Aces. With Hearts decommissioned for good, the remaining three fell into disarray. Hearts is bedridden now, no one knows where she is though, which is probably a good thing given that the Aces made more enemies than friends. Then there's Clubs, who would later leave and reveal his identity to the public right before the Vigilante Ban came out.

Mark: You mean the absolute heart throb Han Jisung who would later become a hit actor with the series All In on HBO Max that you can watch ahead of time before it airs on HBO with a basic membership that only costs $14.99 a month and you get premier access to new movies included in that?

Johnny: Did HBO Max DM you?

Mark: Yup. I saw a chance and took it, go give it a shot and tell us what you think about All In, the series started about two weeks ago and follows a mob gang that doubles as the police force for a cover, it's got an interesting narrative. But back to the episode. Han Jisung, damn, he like commands presence.

Yuta: Hell yeah, his movies are great. Can you imagine? Going from vigilante to a fucking movie star? You'd think someone would be out for his head, but I guess when you're that jacked no one would want to mess with you.