E53 - Perfect Game

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    H-Hey...
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    Those houses will drop on us.
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    You think one of those houses... is Eren's?
[00:32] ---
    Eren's house...
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    ...is eavesdropping!
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    Sasha, could you smack Conny?
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    I don't think he knows our location.
[00:45] ---
    Yeah.
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    He's making Shiganshina a sea of flames
    by scattering burning debris.
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    That bastard...
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    This time, you think you
    can burn down my city?!
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    A-Armin! The fire! Your orders?!
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    Hurry it up!
[01:07] ---
    I can tell.
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    You're standing there shaking so much,
    you can't do a damn thing.
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    Jean, can you take my place?
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    I just have no idea.... what to do...
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    I was wrong reading Bertholdt,
    and look where it got us.
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    Jean! You're better suited for this!
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    The river! Move to the river!
[01:38] ---
    Everyone aboard Eren! Conserve our gas!
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    Eren.
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    At some point, we'll have to
    get Bertholdt's attention,
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    but until then, don't let him see you.
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    Armin.
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    I'm all right at reading situations,
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    but I'm coming up empty
    with a plan to get us out of this.
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    In the end, we're all counting on you.
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    "Perfect Game"
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    We're done cleaning up here.
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    The only small ones left
    are the ones way at the front.
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    Still, how will we take down the Beast Titan?
[04:00] ---
    He's perfectly content sitting
    way over there, not moving an inch.
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    Yeah, it seems he's a coward.
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    Not like he's ever had balls to begin with.
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    You take a break.
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    We'll mop up the rest of the small ones.
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    Let's go!
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    Roger!
[04:19] ---
    Shit...
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    What was that explosion?
[04:23] ---
    What happened to those guys?
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    Did Hange and the others avoid it?
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    I've gotta hurry to that side and...
[04:59] ---
    Hmm...
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    That one was a little bit high...
[05:05] ---
    Oh, leave it right there.
[05:11] ---
    Well, the first pitch was a warm-up.
[05:15] ---
    I'm going for a perfect game!
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    Frontal bombardment!
[05:22] ---
    All troops, take cover!
[05:24] ---
    Huh?
[05:25] ---
    What was that?
[05:25] ---
    Shit! You guys!
[05:56] ---
    What the hell was that sound?!
[05:58] ---
    Does the enemy have cannons?!
[06:00] ---
    If so, there's a hundred of 'em!
[06:02] ---
    Calm down! You're scaring the horses!
[06:05] ---
    The Titan's throwing boulders!
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    Captain Levi!
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    All of you, retreat to
    the wall with the horses!
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    Roger!
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    Hurry! Stay outta the line of fire!
[06:24] ---
    Hey, stand up! You wanna die?!
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    Commander!
[06:30] ---
    How's it looking?
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    Terrible.
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    His throws have destroyed
    the front line of houses.
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    If he keeps on throwing,
    everything will get leveled.
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    We won't have anywhere left to hide.
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    We can't retreat to the
    other side of the wall?
[06:46] ---
    No...
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    The Colossal Titan is
    already heading this way.
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    Spreading fire all along his path.
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    Supposing we scale the wall to evade
    the stones, we'd have to leave the horses.
[07:00] ---
    If we retreat here, there's
    no hope for victory.
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    What happened to Hange's group?
[07:06] ---
    Is Eren all right?
[07:08] ---
    I don't know.
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    But the majority of them
    were caught in that explosion.
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    We've been dealt a serious blow.
[07:17] ---
    The Beast Titan directed the small Titans
    so our soldiers would group up in one place.
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    As such, while engaging the small Titans,
    Dirk Squad, Marlene Squad, and Klaus Squad
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    were all wiped out by the bombardment.
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    In other words, our remaining forces
    this side of the gate...
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    ...consists of you new Scout recruits,
    Captain Levi, and...
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    ...me.
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    We're doomed!
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    Erwin... Do you have any sort of plan?
[07:57] ---
    Yell at him, Eren!
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    Don't let Bertholdt get
    any closer to the wall!
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    He noticed!
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    What?! That bastard's ignoring us!
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    Hey! What now, Jean?! At this rate...
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    I know that!
[08:23] ---
    Eren! Go stop his lanky legs!
[08:29] ---
    But still! How the hell
    are we gonna defeat him?!
[08:33] ---
    His gusts of hot steam make
    our ODM gear useless! Right?!
[08:38] ---
    You don't think I know that?!
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    But right now, we've got
    no choice but to try!
[08:44] ---
    We've gotta figure out his weakness!
[08:46] ---
    I'll do it. You guys distract him.
[08:49] ---
    Conny, your Thunder Spear.
[08:51] ---
    R-Right!
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    Armin, we need you to observe him from afar.
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    So quit your moping.
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    We gotta believe there's a way to beat him!
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    Right!
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    Now! Scatter!
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    Don't you dare look down on me!
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    You're nothing more...
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    ...than a big damn wretched oaf!
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    H-He's shoving him!
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    Go, Eren! Knock him over!
[09:38] ---
    There has to be some sort of way!
[09:45] ---
    What?
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    Eren!
[10:02] ---
    Hey... Is that Eren?
[10:05] ---
    He got himself flung on top of the wall?
[10:08] ---
    By him...
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    Eren's not moving...
[10:15] ---
    He's not dead! Focus on the monster at hand!
[10:19] ---
    That might have been pushing it too far...
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    If we run at him without a plan,
    that's what happens.
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    Unless...
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    Unless we can somehow turn the tables on him,
    this recovery operation, all of our lives,
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    and the future of humanity will be doomed!
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    Having said that, I'm not about to sit
    around while we all get slaughtered!
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    Let's go on the attack!
[10:47] ---
    He doesn't know about Thunder Spears yet!
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    Conny, Sasha, and I will distract him!
[10:52] ---
    Mikasa will strike in the opening!
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    Roger!
[10:57] ---
    Hey, moron! I'll poke out your stupid eyes!
[11:00] ---
    You huge idiot!
[11:02] ---
    You massive pervert lord!
[11:05] ---
    This distraction is so obvious...
[11:08] ---
    But if we nail him with a Thunder Spear...!
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    Guys!
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    Is it useless?
[11:35] ---
    His hot steam even knocked
    away the Thunder Spears!
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    Conny!
[11:41] ---
    Shit! Breathing it in burned my throat!
[11:45] ---
    Mikasa! You're bleeding!
[11:47] ---
    I'm fine. A bit of shrapnel from
    the Thunder Spears got me.
[11:51] ---
    Thought of anything yet?
[11:54] ---
    Huh?
[11:55] ---
    Have any clues for a counterattack?
[12:01] ---
    Not one...
SIGN    "Information Available for Public Disclosure" "The Colossal Titan's Steam" "A Titan's special powers are produced by using its own body as a resource. In that way, it is thought the steam emitted by the Colossal Titan consumes muscle tissue and therefore must be finite."
[12:38] ---
    The Beast Titan has a good
    guess where we're at.
[12:41] ---
    This place will look like a honeycomb soon.
[12:44] ---
    Erwin.
[12:46] ---
    If you're saying we've got no chance to
    counterattack, let's get ready to flee.
[12:52] ---
    Wake Eren sprawled out up there.
[12:54] ---
    Ride him and flee with
    as many people as possible.
[12:58] ---
    At least we'll have some survivors.
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    Hey! The horse got away!
[13:04] ---
    That was your job!
[13:06] ---
    Shut up! Like it matters!
[13:08] ---
    Excuse me?!
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    Those Scouts were insanely strong
    and they died in an instant!
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    You know as well as I do!
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    What good is protecting horses...
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    ...when there's nobody
    left to ride them home?!
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    It all made sense at one point...
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    If humanity just hid behind the walls,
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    we'd someday get slaughtered
    by Titans out of nowhere.
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    Somebody has to bite the bullet
    and risk taking action.
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    In order for others to not become victims,
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    we needed people to become
    the victims themselves.
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    Who will be that brave soldier?
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    When I was asked that, I actually
    believed I could be that someone!
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    But I never thought...
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    ...that being sent to my death...
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    ...would turn out to be so
    utterly meaningless in the end!
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    Now that I think about it,
[14:09] ---
    I bet almost everyone ends up
    saying the same thing as me.
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    Why did I ever think that I'd...
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    ...somehow be different?
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    What if whoever's left of the recruits
    and Hange's group scatter on horses...
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    ...and try to make it home?
[14:31] ---
    By using them as a decoy,
    you guys could escape on Eren.
[14:36] ---
    Levi. What would you do?
[14:39] ---
    I'm facing the Beast Titan.
    I'll draw him away--
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    Impossible.
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    You won't even get close.
[14:47] ---
    Probably not.
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    But if you and Eren return
    home alive, there's still hope.
[14:54] ---
    Isn't that the best we can
    ask for at this point?
[14:58] ---
    What a huge defeat...
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    To be perfectly honest,
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    I doubt a single one of us
    is making it back alive.
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    Yes, assuming we had no way to counterattack.
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    Is there a way?
[15:16] ---
    Yes.
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    Why didn't you say that sooner?
[15:20] ---
    Why'd you keep your shitty mouth shut?
[15:24] ---
    If the plan goes well, you may be able
    to take down the Beast Titan.
[15:30] ---
    But it will take the recruits...
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    ...and myself to give our lives.
[15:39] ---
    It's like you said.
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    Either way, most of us will die.
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    No, it's almost guaranteed
    we'll all be wiped out.
[15:50] ---
    In which case, we can stake our heroic
    deaths on a slim chance of victory.
[15:57] ---
    For this to work...
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    To ask these young ones to die,
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    it would take an expert con man
    and a whole slew of lies.
[16:06] ---
    If I do not lead the vanguard,
    none of them will follow.
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    And I will die before anyone else.
[16:14] ---
    Without ever learning
    what's in the basement...
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    Huh?
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    I...
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    I want to go to the basement.
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    Everything I've done till now...
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    ...was because I thought this day would come.
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    That someday, I could check if I was right.
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    So many times... I thought death
    would be so much easier.
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    But always, the dream I shared with
    my father flashed through my mind.
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    And now, I'm close enough to the
    answers to reach out and grab them.
[17:03] ---
    They're right there...
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    But, Levi...
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    Can you see them? Our comrades?
[17:18] ---
    Our comrades are looking at us.
[17:21] ---
    They want to know what became
    of the hearts they gave.
[17:25] ---
    Because the fighting isn't over yet.
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    Is it all just inside my head?
[17:38] ---
    Nothing more than a childish delusion?
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    You've fought well.
[17:49] ---
    It's all thanks to you
    that we've come this far.
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    I'm making the choice.
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    Give up on your dream and die.
[18:01] ---
    Lead the recruits straight into hell.
[18:05] ---
    I will take down the Beast Titan.
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    Charge!
[18:36] ---
    Well, I figured they wouldn't
    lie down and die, but...
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    A suicide charge?
[18:44] ---
    Here I was thinking they
    could do better than that...
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    Now! Fire!
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    Smoke?
[18:56] ---
    Oh, it's those signal things...
[19:00] ---
    Tsk! It's coming, move!
[19:06] ---
    I'm announcing our final operation!
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    All troops, line up!
[19:13] ---
    We will be doing a cavalry charge.
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    Our goal: To rush the Beast Titan.
[19:18] ---
    Of course, we'll be making
    ourselves ideal targets.
[19:22] ---
    So we'll wait until he's ready to throw
    and fire our smoke signals together.
[19:27] ---
    That should reduce his accuracy somewhat.
[19:30] ---
    While we're acting as a decoy,
    Captain Levi will kill the Beast Titan.
[19:36] ---
    That is our plan.
[19:38] ---
    What?
[19:40] ---
    You want me to go after him
    with just ODM gear?
[19:43] ---
    He's standing in an empty area.
[19:45] ---
    There's not even a house or tree in sight.
[19:48] ---
    Wrong...
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    There happens to be a line of
    objects at just the right height.
[19:56] ---
    Sneak close using the Titans...
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    ...and assassinate the Beast Titan.
[20:09] ---
    I'm sorry...
[20:18] ---
    Standing and waiting just means
    we'll be showered by more boulders.
[20:22] ---
    Get ready on the double!
[20:25] ---
    Are we all... heading...
[20:29] ---
    ...to our deaths?
[20:31] ---
    Yes.
[20:33] ---
    If we're gonna die anyways,
    you're saying it's better...
[20:37] ---
    ...if we die fighting?
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    Yes.
[20:41] ---
    Wait... If we're gonna die anyways,
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    no matter how we die,
    even if it's disobeying orders,
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    it all means nothing, right?
[20:51] ---
    You're precisely right.
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    It's all meaningless.
[20:56] ---
    No matter what dreams or hopes you had...
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    No matter how blessed a life you've lived...
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    It's all the same if
    you're shredded by rocks.
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    Everyone will die someday.
[21:10] ---
    Does that mean life is meaningless?
[21:13] ---
    Was there even any meaning in our being born?
[21:17] ---
    Would you say that of our fallen comrades?
[21:20] ---
    Their lives...
[21:22] ---
    Were they meaningless?
[21:26] ---
    No, they weren't!
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    It's us who gives meaning
    to our comrade's lives!
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    The brave fallen! The anguished fallen!
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    The ones who will remember
    them... are us, the living!
[21:38] ---
    We die trusting the living who follow
    to find meaning in our lives!
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    That is the sole method in which we
    can rebel against this cruel world!
[21:50] ---
    My soldiers, rage!
[21:52] ---
    My soldiers, scream!
[21:54] ---
    My soldiers, fight!
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    For friends who gave up their hearts...
[23:43] ---
    For friends who gave up their dreams...
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    Until everything burns out,
    they will continue running...
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    ...inside the chaos and panic.
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    Next episode: "Hero."
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    "Hero"
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