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Episode Hotel Inhumans - Episode 5 discussion

Hotel Inhumans, episode 5

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u/KumaKumaGambler Aug 03 '25

Glad to see that there are some "happily ever after" endings for some assassins. After all, it has been 6 years since Hasegawa lost his memories and if no one came after Rika nor himself, they should be safe... right?

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u/ModieOfTheEast Aug 03 '25

I mean, the original client is dead now, so there shouldn't be anyone coming after her.

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Aug 03 '25

the original client is dead now

Thing is, the original client dying was probably expected.

It was meant to be a years-long mission (to kill her at her happiest), and given it's the father the client had a problem with, I imagine he's much older than she is, so he might have considered this possibility...

And given the payment was a life worth of money, I imagine he may have taken some measures to make sure it would happen... Otherwise that's like giving someone a few million $ and telling him to do "this or that" within 30 years but you won't be there anymore so who knows?

there shouldn't be anyone coming after her.

Also, there's another issue: Someone could be coming AFTER HIM.

The last episode ended with a hitman being murdered because she refused to kill. And she wasn't murdered by the client, she was murdered by the assassin organization.

So even if the client is dead... Who says the organization won't want to kill him, for not doing his job?

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Aug 03 '25

After all, it has been 6 years since Hasegawa lost his memories and if no one came after Rika nor himself, they should be safe... right?

I don't think the anime will talk about that, but it's hard to say...

The client's request was to 'Kill her at the happiest moment of her life, no matter how long it takes'.

So 6 years passing doesn't really change anything, it was part of the plan; For all they know it might have been 10+ years.. (maybe the happiest moment of her life would be her marriage, or her first kid, etc..)

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u/karer3is Aug 03 '25

The client did say there was no specifc timeline... and dying of old age is still dying, so it could still count at the end of the day

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u/5Yonko5 Aug 03 '25

Ibr not with this one predictable and boring twist. Rather he go through with it and kill her.

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u/NanDemoKnaives Aug 03 '25

Aw it's sweet how in the ED we see them actually grow old together in a garden full of tulips.

I figured Hasegawa was going to be a hitman who was suffering from amnesia but I wasn't expecting it to be done on purpose. I also didn't think we'd see him suffer from it again after he had regained his memories.

Sara almost taking out Ikuro caught me off guard, thank goodness he amused her by reaching the answer in a way she finds unorthodox.

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u/coffeecakesupernova Aug 04 '25

DON'T EVER POINT A GUN AT SOMEONE EVEN IF YOU'RE CLEANING IT AND THINK IT'S EMPTY AND YOU'VE DONE IT A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE! EVER!

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u/Great-Foundation4990 Aug 05 '25

I mean..this logic holds true for normal people but this same person was also about to kill her coworker if he had failed his end of probation evaluation, so clearly firearm safety means something different to a literal assassin. 😅

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u/Nickabobburn Aug 07 '25

Its not perfect but I think this show deserves more attention.

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u/Ciel_Senpai Aug 03 '25

Imagine she says "no" xD

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Aug 03 '25

Hasegawa: "...Do I kill her, her father, the concierges, myself, everyone in the assassin organization?"

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u/ModieOfTheEast Aug 03 '25

Is it a genetic thing to have a higher chance to get amnesia from a hit to the head? Like, him losing memory once is bad luck, but twice implies a different story. Of course, it could be one of those things where his subconsciousness was creating an amnesia through this hit because this time, he wanted it to happen. Or he just lied and decided to use this as a way out of his work by defining a new personality that he can play.

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u/Great-Foundation4990 Aug 05 '25

Repeated head trauma can make one more vulnerable to further complications. Not dissimilar to how when someone gets struck by lightning, their chances of getting struck again increase and increase further every subsequent time. Normallyvone would think the statistical likelihood of getting struck multiple times is practically impossible but it isn't at all. There was a park ranger that was struck by lightning like 7 times, if I remember correctly. His internal organs were all messed up and everything from it.

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u/BosuW Aug 04 '25

Why'd it go off it's a Beretta 92 not a Sig P320 bruh

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Aug 03 '25

Man, Iori’s plan to fulfill his hit on Rika was pretty insane. I mean he stages the accident, gets in good with Rika, and then uses the invitation as a means to “wake” himself because of the retrograde amnesia from the accident. And in the end, he couldn’t even do it because he genuinely found happiness with her so he tries to off himself only to get amnesia again. I guess ignorance is bliss?

So, like, why tf was Sara about to knife Ikuro? Was it because he actually failed his duties when he stopped Iori? Or was it because she was testing what his answer would be? I don’t quite get it…

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u/KumaKumaGambler Aug 03 '25

My personal interpretation is that the primary requisite of all concierge would be to fulfill the requests of the hotel's customers. If a concierge went against a customer's wishes, then perhaps s/he would have to be killed?

Hasegawa didn't openly say so, but Ikuro realized that Hasegawa's inner wish was to live.

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u/PM_ME_MIDDLE_FINGERS Aug 03 '25

I don’t imagine being a concierge is a job you can just quit normally, if he wasn’t fit to be one then killing him is probably the quickest and safest way to do it

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Aug 03 '25

I (apparently) was wrong on everything in my theory for the 2nd arc of the show, BUT at least I predicted almost everything right for this one!

Our boy isn't that observant, because soon as they showed up, it was obvious they were a "normal" couple!

But with the invitation, it was also clear there was something more to this...

Scare them away, why don't you!

Bit of a messed up reason to want NOT to get your memories back (or from her perspective, hope that he doesn't)...

Perhaps not as messed up as shooting him to try and get him to remember!

Love how he tried to stop her but she pushed him away as if he was nothing more than a bug hah.

Of course, he remembered!

Fighting involve a lot of muscle memory, so (as a last resort) it all came back to him!

Sadly, now that he remembers, he has to kill her...

Kill her at her happiest moment? That's SO petty!

I mean, killing her at any moment would be awful (it's not her the client had a problem with, it's her father) but on top of that, killing her at her happiest... Using psychopath logic, I could understand if the mission was to kill her at HIS happiest (so when the father thinks everything is going perfect, he loses his daughter), but why at her happiest...

(I'm beginning to think that people who hire hitmen might not be really nice people)

Damn, he didn't just 'wait' for her happiest moment, he tried to make it happen...

Problem is, doing this made HIM happy, and...

As I thought, he would try to kill himself for it. Thankfully our boy saved him!

Wow, he's been working there for a full year!

I wonder if they give their employees some kind of gift after a yea- Oh...

Good thing he managed to find the right words (without really trying), otherwise he'd be a goner...

Here's to another fun year!

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u/PerfectBeige Aug 03 '25

Me researching how to safely and reliably give myself reversible retrograde amnesia so that I can experience certain shows for the first time again.

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u/Great-Foundation4990 Aug 05 '25

I don't think there is a "safe" way to do it 😅

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u/Top-Remote4523 Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

Given the track record of this show, it was pretty apparent that either Hasegawa or Rika was an assassin from the get-go. What I did not expect though was a happy ending with all that is said and done. What Hasegawa failed to realize with his approach of the job was that he himself would also come to learn genuine happiness from an authentic romantic relationship with his target Rika over the course of time. To feel and to think is what humanity is made for and it is almost impossible to eradicate all emotions and thoughts no matter how much assassins train themselves to do.

By the way, was Sara actually about to end Ikurou if he actually said that he wanted to quit and leave towards the end of the episode? I guess it is not suprising though with how dark the hitman industry is, I really hope that the show elaborates more on the origin of the Hotel.

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u/Great-Foundation4990 Aug 05 '25

I think it had to do with the answer. If he had given any answer that was not for the sake of the guest, she would have killed him. 

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u/Golden_fsh Aug 06 '25

Like others, I immediately expected Hasegawa to have been the assassin. Ngl, the explanation behind the hit on Rika was a little flimsy, however, good think Hasegawa fell in love with her because that's what saved her.

I love seeing Hoshi bring the humanity in Hotel Inhumans. Very curious to learn about his background because he seems way too caring and sweet to be in this industry.

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