Without a Trace

Limitless Podcast Transcript [S2E1]

Johnny: Oh, definitely, what the hell? I swear, I think he can crush skulls with his fist alone.

Yuta: Oh, without a doubt. I think the only thing that saved him was the fact that the Aces had a mutual agreement to never actually kill anyone.

Johnny: Right, the court case for Han was crazy enough, I can't believe he won. Turning everything into self defense? God damn. I really thought that they were going to lock him up.

Mark: Same, but what happened to Diamonds?

Yuta: Diamonds fought with Spades a little bit until the Christmas day incident. I think you're all familiar.

Mark: Yeah, but for the viewers who don't know about it, basically there was a show down in Central Park between Diamonds, Spades, and the then villain Absolute Zero. Things were looking pretty bad, lots of property damage and civilian casualties everywhere, and while Spades was on civilian duty, Diamonds focused on Absolute Zero. Near the end of the fight, Timekeeper was able to intervene, but details from there are muddled. All we know is that Diamonds was dead.

Yuta: Yeah, it was a really dark Christmas that year. Spades even went inactive for a long while after that. We thought that that was the end of the Aces.

Mark: We all thought so! One Ace was dead, another one paraplegic, one who wanted nothing to do with it, and another just completely disappeared.

Johnny: Man, what I would pay to see Twitter again that day, I never knew they were so divided on the Aces.

Yuta: It was kind of disheartening, the Aces had really only done more good than bad, it was just that Christmas day that screwed everything over. Do you remember how the media absolutely harassed Han about it? It was ridiculous, and all he said was that anything the Aces did was none of his concern. Talk about cold, makes me wonder what happened between the four for them to have grown so distant. In their earlier days people would talk about how they would just have basic mundane conversations with each other while fighting criminals. Hell, remember when Spades loudly proclaimed that Clubs left the stove on? And how Hearts was worrying about rent? It's crazy, I think a lot of people forget that these vigilantes were actual people under the masks. Then they just... fell apart.

Mark: Yeah, it was just... batshit crazy. Then, out of nowhere, like maybe half a year later, Spades was spotted in the red-light district beating the hell out of a serial sexual assaulter.

Johnny: Good for Spades.

Yuta: Yeah, fuck sexual assaulters.

Mark: I will never forget the video because the person who took it was like "Yaaas beat the shit out of him" like five times.

Johnny: Oh god, the memes on that.

Mark: Gold!! No, but seriously, that was like a pivot point for Spades.

Yuta: No, because it really is. Up until that day Spades was known to be the people's favorite, always focusing on how the Aces were perceived by the media and the public and always knowing when to hold back but, fucking hell, what Spades did to that guy was horrific. Granted, he deserved it, but many people who saw the video said that they had to go to therapy after because they couldn't get the guy's screams out of his head.

Johnny: They had to get therapy? Please, he had to get therapy. I heard that the guy's constantly afraid that Spades will come finish the job one day.

Mark: Yeah, but that's super unlikely. One thing that Spades has stuck to was the Aces' original "No Kill" rule and thank god for that. If only we knew the Christmas say incident was the beginning of a whole new vigilante I think this ban would've come much sooner.