21:56 A sly fox who, by the end of this episode, has probably lost his job after word gets out about the battle in and around the airport.
19:47 And there's that bit after Chronicle has had his meeting with Mandela where he's leaving and he calls him a sly fox. He actually calls him a tanuki in the Japanese. And tanuki are specifically like shapeshifters and tricksters. And then there's that scene later where Mandela is talking to USO and Oliver, and they're like, if you're so neutral, why are there Zanskar mobile suits and mobile armors here in the base? And Mandela is like, oh, are there? I wasn't aware of that, even though he saw them land. Well, I guess you're leaving now. He's maybe not as reliable as he seems to be. He's very nice and friendly to everybody, but a bit of a shapeshifter.
21:14 I mean, I basically agree with you. I get why he's doing it, but it doesn't fit with the level of warmth and friendliness that he shows to USO when he first arrives. There is in his interactions with Oliver and USO, at first, the feeling of, like, we're friends. I was old comrades with your mom and your dad. Like, I'm your buddy. I'm trying to help you. We have to work within these specific rules in order to make that happen. There are certain things that I can't do for you, but, hey, here are these tickets. And then to just slip back into that corporate Persona, put on the mask and reflexively lie about something so small, I don't know, puts me on guard. He is a sly fox.