23 - Deus Ex Machina

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[00:06] ---
    You're finally here.
[00:09] ---
    I was tired of waiting for this moment.
[00:20] ---
    Who are you?
[00:22] ---
    I told you, didn't I?
[00:24] ---
    I am you, and you are me.
[00:36] ---
    Let's welcome home the man...
[00:38] ---
    who relied on his loved one's mercy...
[00:40] ---
    erased his memory, and ran away.
[00:44] ---
    Stop it!
[00:45] ---
    What do you mean?
[00:47] ---
    Re-l Mayer...
[00:49] ---
    your services are no longer needed.
[00:51] ---
    From here on out, it's between him and me.
[01:03] ---
    Idiot. Are you good for nothing?
[01:09] ---
    Daedalus! What's he doing?
[01:11] ---
    For the sake of the coming age,
[01:14] ---
    I have quietly arranged for
    the dome's destruction.
[01:18] ---
    He, too, seems to have awakened
    to the destructive impulse.
[01:22] ---
    As we have also.
[01:26] ---
    Stop! It's no use.
[01:31] ---
    Accept your fate.
[01:32] ---
    Even if you two survive, you'll never win.
[01:36] ---
    All the same, I'm not running
    away from the present moment.
[01:43] ---
    Even if what lies ahead is
    a more painful reality...
[01:50] ---
    I'm doing what I need to do.
[01:52] ---
    Promise me you'll come back, Vincent.
[01:57] ---
    Re-l...
[02:03] ---
    Re-l...
[04:03] ---
    Real?
[04:08] ---
    Now, take a good look.
[04:11] ---
    That's how you appear.
[04:14] ---
    It is the mask of a man who has
    avoided his fate.
[04:19] ---
    Let's make sure again.
[04:22] ---
    Did you really lose your memory?
[04:24] ---
    Or did you not
    have memories to begin with?
[04:29] ---
    Perhaps you're a fool
[04:32] ---
    who's deluded himself into
    believing his memory was simply lost.
[04:35] ---
    In the end you still don't
    have a clue, do you?
[04:40] ---
    No!
[04:41] ---
    My journey. That's what it took.
[04:45] ---
    The ruined world is coming back to life.
[04:49] ---
    I saw what was happening out there...
[04:52] ---
    heard it, touched it, tasted it,
    felt it with my very own soul.
[04:56] ---
    If I hadn't...
[04:58] ---
    I never would have thought
    of coming back here.
[05:01] ---
    Arks and cradles are certainly
    nurturing environments,
[05:04] ---
    but they don't provide an education.
[05:07] ---
    And facing the world on your own
    can be an eye opening experience.
[05:16] ---
    It seems you've managed to get my message.
[05:22] ---
    Tell me! What are we? What are Proxies?
[05:27] ---
    A Proxy.
[05:28] ---
    The answer lies in the name itself.
[05:31] ---
    We are the Creator's agents.
[05:35] ---
    The Creator...
[05:43] ---
    Proxy
[05:50] ---
    Vincent...
[06:14] ---
    That's when it all became clear to me...
[06:18] ---
    Where are we?
[06:23] ---
    The entire malicious trap set
    for us by the Creator.
[06:27] ---
    After his long suffering,
[06:29] ---
    the moment the agent completed his task...
[06:32] ---
    and the human race was restored...
[06:35] ---
    his body readjusted.
[06:37] ---
    That is the pulse of the awakening.
[06:40] ---
    The start of the Proxy elimination program.
[06:43] ---
    So, then the human race, you...
[06:46] ---
    But we cannot defy it.
[06:51] ---
    It's an extremely logical system.
[06:54] ---
    The irony is that...
[06:56] ---
    even though the Proxy is god's servant...
[06:59] ---
    once he has carried out his mission,
[07:02] ---
    he's superfluous in the promised
    land, which he's brought about.
[07:05] ---
    In fact, he's a monster, nothing
    more than an evil spirit.
[07:09] ---
    But what if the logical plan
    also caused a spirit to develop
[07:14] ---
    within this ark intended to be abandoned?
[07:18] ---
    Why did the Creator give us souls?
[07:22] ---
    We wouldn't suffer without souls.
[07:25] ---
    You know why.
[07:28] ---
    Right, there's no need to answer.
[07:32] ---
    Because the experiments we
    carried out taught us something.
[07:39] ---
    We realized we were worshipped,
    betrayed, and driven to despair...
[07:45] ---
    by these failed creations of ours.
[07:48] ---
    And yet we still love them.
[07:51] ---
    The Creator wanted to be loved as well.
[07:55] ---
    It's as if we sensed
    it from within our solitude.
[08:00] ---
    That is precisely why
    they must be punished.
[08:05] ---
    If you've restored the
    human race as they wanted,
[08:09] ---
    then what's left for us to do?
[08:13] ---
    Have you realized something...
[08:15] ---
    Vincent Law, the man without a memory?
[08:17] ---
    That proves you are the shadow
    who was taken prisoner in advance.
[08:23] ---
    He controlled you, caused the failed
    creations to have feelings and,
[08:26] ---
    once again, extinguished the human race,
[08:28] ---
    which had been restored.
[08:32] ---
    Then the human race...
[08:35] ---
    The shadow knows.
[08:37] ---
    He knows the fate of those who
    paid the price of wishing
[08:40] ---
    for a god in a godless world...
[08:43] ---
    that the human race
    would have to be destroyed.
[08:45] ---
    Because they led the world to
    its collapse and then ran away.
[08:50] ---
    Just as you ran away from Romdo,
    the world you yourself created...
[08:57] ---
    Vincent Law is the after image
    of the Proxy One who'd lost all hope.
[09:03] ---
    Or should I say, he is the
    "double" Ergo Proxy left behind here...
[09:07] ---
    merely an imposter.
[09:09] ---
    An imposter...
[09:11] ---
    But a very good imposter.
[09:15] ---
    Think about it.
[09:17] ---
    You also despaired and left this place...
[09:20] ---
    running away from everything.
[09:23] ---
    We're the same, you and me.
[09:26] ---
    Shut up.
[09:27] ---
    Then fight!
[09:40] ---
    Number 5, Number 8...
[09:41] ---
    silent.
[09:43] ---
    Reserve power has been shut down
    for the entire dome.
[09:46] ---
    There's no stopping its collapse.
[09:55] ---
    Daedalus.
[10:00] ---
    Yes! Follow your instincts!
[10:04] ---
    Set yourself free!
[10:11] ---
    I know how bad it feels to be
    rejected, as if you were nothing.
[10:25] ---
    I don't care who I was before I became me.
[10:28] ---
    I'm me and no one else.
[10:31] ---
    That is the only truth.
[10:35] ---
    There's only one truth, that's for sure.
[10:38] ---
    Those people who destroyed
    themselves left a message
[10:42] ---
    and we tore it up, threw it away,
[10:44] ---
    and then ran off, didn't we?
[10:47] ---
    That's right.
[10:51] ---
    Ergo Proxy is you as well as me.
[10:57] ---
    Proxy One.
[11:18] ---
    You've been forsaken.
[11:21] ---
    It's pointless.
[11:24] ---
    You haven't changed.
[11:25] ---
    You make me sick.
[11:29] ---
    You don't get it?
[11:30] ---
    Our roles are finished here.
[11:34] ---
    Romdo's finished.
[11:37] ---
    And the failed citizens simply go away.
[11:40] ---
    That's not true.
[11:42] ---
    There still must be something we can do.
[11:45] ---
    No. It's the end.
[11:47] ---
    This is the gods' fight.
[11:50] ---
    There's nothing we pseudo-humans can do.
[11:53] ---
    As cogs in the wheel,
    all we can do is shut our mouths.
[11:57] ---
    Yes, like Donov did.
[12:00] ---
    My grandfather wanted to meet the Creator.
[12:04] ---
    Even if that was the reason I was born...
[12:07] ---
    I don't care.
[12:09] ---
    All this time I've wanted to love
    my grandfather with my whole heart.
[12:15] ---
    I wanted to feel loved.
[12:18] ---
    Just to be loved.
[12:21] ---
    But the Regent refused to do even that.
[12:24] ---
    It was the same for him.
[12:27] ---
    The only one he could open up
    to was Vincent Law, no, Ergo Proxy.
[12:33] ---
    Just like you. I...
[12:37] ---
    Daedalus...
[12:41] ---
    It's too bad.
[12:42] ---
    Proxies can't live under blue skies.
[12:46] ---
    The Amrita cells won't permit it.
[12:48] ---
    What do you mean?
[12:50] ---
    They, too, are due to be
    wiped off the face of the planet.
[12:59] ---
    Is that where you were, my darling?
[13:03] ---
    Re-l 2 Real.
[13:06] ---
    Wonderful.
[13:08] ---
    You're complete.
[13:10] ---
    I've created a god!
[13:12] ---
    Come on, Real.
[13:14] ---
    Embrace me.
[13:16] ---
    Not that way.
[13:18] ---
    Don't go.
[13:22] ---
    Why does Real always leave me behind?
[13:26] ---
    Don't go.
[13:28] ---
    Daedalus!
[13:42] ---
    But Vincent Law is not you!
[13:45] ---
    They're imitations made by a failure.
    What's there to think twice about?!
[13:49] ---
    What do you know?!
[13:50] ---
    I know.
[13:52] ---
    I told you, I am...
[13:54] ---
    It's you! That's why you came back...
[13:57] ---
    to kill me!
[14:03] ---
    There's no need to save the world.
[14:05] ---
    Over there.
[14:06] ---
    But then what's the difference?
    Any more slaughter is...
[14:10] ---
    Stop it!
[14:12] ---
    The Proxy's job is done!
[14:20] ---
    Is that you again, Monad?
[14:25] ---
    Monad...
[14:27] ---
    At last, we meet.
[14:29] ---
    I've been looking for you forever.
[14:33] ---
    Stay out of this, Monad.
[14:35] ---
    True, the agent's job is done.
[14:39] ---
    And I've exterminated
    the reborn human race.
[14:44] ---
    The immortal victor has met his doom.
[14:48] ---
    Was this part of the plan as well?
[14:50] ---
    This was my vengeance.
[14:52] ---
    The rest is up to you.
[14:54] ---
    It becomes your world.
[14:57] ---
    You...
[14:59] ---
    Are you laying the entire
    burden on me again?
[15:04] ---
    You don't have to save this world.
[15:07] ---
    I know. It's more than you can do.
[15:11] ---
    So stop. It's OK.
[15:13] ---
    Cut it out, Monad.
[15:17] ---
    It's all over.
[15:19] ---
    I don't want to see anyone suffer anymore.
[15:22] ---
    Monad...
[15:23] ---
    You're running away again?
[15:27] ---
    Don't listen to anyone.
[15:31] ---
    You can close the sacred eye.
[15:33] ---
    Please don't, Monad...
[16:36] ---
    That's right.
[16:38] ---
    They were all told not
    to listen to the Proxy.
[16:43] ---
    But I want to help Vince.
[16:49] ---
    I wonder why I'm different from everybody.
[16:52] ---
    There's nothing different about you.
[16:58] ---
    Kristeva.
[16:59] ---
    When they say cogito
    has created a fledgling self,
[17:01] ---
    it means someone
    is following their own will.
[17:04] ---
    It doesn't mean they're ignoring the Proxy.
[17:07] ---
    You hear it too?
[17:11] ---
    You just need to do what
    your heart tells you.
[17:25] ---
    Where's my papa?
[17:29] ---
    He told me to give this to you.
[17:39] ---
    Let's hurry, Pino.
[17:41] ---
    Yep!
[17:53] ---
    Cogito was built into the Proxy Plan.
    It was mankind's safety valve.
[18:01] ---
    AutoReivs were just part of the Proxy Plan.
[18:06] ---
    Their revolt helped bring
    about the plan's ruin.
[18:11] ---
    That's enough, Daedalus.
[18:13] ---
    In other words...
[18:14] ---
    bringing back the human race through
    the Proxy Plan wasn't the first option.
[18:21] ---
    Everything here right now is an
    obstacle to the first option.
[18:27] ---
    That includes you and me.
[18:30] ---
    Despite all our pain...
[18:32] ---
    and love...
[18:34] ---
    even our souls are...
[18:36] ---
    Daedalus...
[18:37] ---
    Go, Re-l.
[18:39] ---
    There's still a truth you have
    to face, isn't there?
[18:46] ---
    That gave me trouble...
[18:49] ---
    but you're my favorite, Re-l.
[18:53] ---
    Daedalus.
[18:56] ---
    You don't have much time.
[18:59] ---
    Go straight through here,
[19:01] ---
    follow the maintenance rail and
    you'll come to the plug vent.
[19:05] ---
    Hurry.
[19:08] ---
    I'm sorry, Daedalus.
[19:11] ---
    I'm sick and tired of hearing
    you say that, Re-l.
[19:16] ---
    I'd better go, Daedalus.
[19:20] ---
    Yes.
[19:29] ---
    Run, Re-l!
[19:33] ---
    That's it.
[19:52] ---
    What is this brilliant light?
[19:54] ---
    It's the sacred light.
[19:57] ---
    A sign of the resurrection.
[20:02] ---
    The sun.
[20:04] ---
    Indeed.
[20:07] ---
    It always shines so beautifully here.
    The true blue sky goes on forever.
[20:16] ---
    That's why you don't have to
    worry about anything anymore.
[20:21] ---
    Yes.
[20:47] ---
    Wait...
[20:48] ---
    What is it?
[20:50] ---
    Why do you look so sad?
[20:54] ---
    Forget about everything.
[20:56] ---
    I'm sorry.
[21:00] ---
    Why?
[21:02] ---
    I can't let myself forget any more.
[21:12] ---
    I'm not talking about a mission or fate.
[21:16] ---
    I mean living with and facing
    one another, colliding with each other,
[21:21] ---
    supporting each other,
    holding each other...
[21:28] ---
    What's there to like about
    that sort of reality?
[21:32] ---
    A place where it's dark and cold,
[21:36] ---
    and there's no knowing what lies ahead.
[21:43] ---
    But that's our reality.
[21:49] ---
    It may be all those things you said,
    but there's someone waiting for me there.
[21:53] ---
    You mean her, right?
[21:58] ---
    I'm giving this back to you, Monad.
[22:07] ---
    Vincent.
[22:11] ---
    Goodbye, Real.
[22:24] ---
    Goodbye, my darling.
[22:30] ---
    No, you mustn't fly so high.
[22:37] ---
    Oh, I didn't realize the world
    could be so beautiful.
[22:41] ---
    But...
[22:44] ---
    which sky should I search for?
[22:49] ---
    I hear it.
[22:53] ---
    The plan...
[22:56] ---
    the cradle...
[23:00] ---
    You're the ones who
    were calling me, weren't you?
[23:07] ---
    Vincent...
[23:09] ---
    the future you chose really is...
[23:15] ---
    Let's welcome the Creator.
[23:18] ---
    No... don't.
[23:21] ---
    That sky...
[23:23] ---
    You'll...
[23:47] ---
    You came back?
[23:49] ---
    Yes.
[23:50] ---
    Vincent Law...
[23:52] ---
    you truly are the shadow.
[23:56] ---
    I was immortal but you killed me.
[23:59] ---
    You broke the pulse's spell.
[24:02] ---
    She plagued you and loved you.
[24:05] ---
    She liberated the
    ones who were flawed as well.
[24:10] ---
    Well said.
[24:13] ---
    A woman who sees the future, is that it?
[24:17] ---
    She certainly is your reality,
    Vincent Law.
[24:28] ---
    The sun returns, our world is over.
[24:33] ---
    But...
[24:38] ---
    Live, Vincent.
[24:41] ---
    Your living will be the
    Creator's punishment.
[25:04] ---
    Damn it. I've come this far...
[25:25] ---
    Shit. I guess this is it.
[25:29] ---
    Re-l Re-l!
[25:33] ---
    Re-l Re-l!
[25:36] ---
    Re-l Re-l!
[25:39] ---
    Pino!
[25:42] ---
    I believe.
[26:09] ---
    You're Raul's...
[26:11] ---
    I'm protecting Pino.
[26:13] ---
    He asked me to as my final duty
    as his Entourage.
[26:19] ---
    She found this for me as well.
[26:28] ---
    What about Vincent?
[26:30] ---
    Don't worry.
[26:31] ---
    I can hear his voice.
[26:37] ---
    I can see you, Vince!
[26:39] ---
    Distance 1,107 units!
[26:46] ---
    He sure is a pain in the ass.
[26:50] ---
    Guess we don't have much choice,
    shall we go pick him up?
[26:54] ---
    Yep!
[27:17] ---
    This is the world that
    faces us, a world called "reality."
[27:23] ---
    But together with Re-l
    and the other survivors,
[27:28] ---
    I face the world.
[27:36] ---
    A land on the road to recovery.
[27:40] ---
    For the first time in thousands
    of years, mankind returns...
[27:44] ---
    and now the real fight begins.
[27:48] ---
    I am Ergo Proxy.
[27:53] ---
    Agent of Death.
[27:56] ---