# Movie
# 0 - Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (English Dub)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYDKQX9Z6/ghost-in-the-shell-arise)
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**[03:14] ---**
We have a follow-up report
from live at the scene
**[03:17] ---**
of today's armed occupation of the East Asian
Economic Federation's Far East trade embassy.
**[03:22] ---**
You're the ideal person
for the job, Major Kusanagi.
**[03:26] ---**
Thank you, Special Advisor Fujimoto.
**[03:32] ---**
Our victory is close at hand, Lt. Col. Kurutsu.
**[03:35] ---**
I agree, Ambassador Wong.
**[03:42] ---**
Our interview is just a formality.
**[03:46] ---**
These days Als and administrators
do the deliberations.
**[03:50] ---**
Won't this conversation affect the outcome?
**[03:53] ---**
Humans need not be daunted by machines.
**[03:58] ---**
Your unit aligns perfectly with
a critical governmental problem.
**[04:11] ---**
When the war ended,
the world entered an era of change.
**[04:16] ---**
This country is no exception.
**[04:22] ---**
The war accelerated cyberbrain
and prosthetic development.
**[04:26] ---**
The cybercrimes resulting
from that process are serious,
**[04:30] ---**
but the real problem is more fundamental.
**[04:36] ---**
The cyberbrain and prosthetics businesses
**[04:38] ---**
spawned the largest
profit-seeking system in history.
**[04:43] ---**
The massive amount of data
now shared in real time
**[04:45] ---**
has gone beyond what
any country can manage.
**[04:53] ---**
Even assuming that conglomerates will
eliminate all nations and races one day,
**[04:58] ---**
the state's role isn't over yet.
**[05:02] ---**
Yes. The anarchical system
calling itself the "global economy"
**[05:08] ---**
will destroy any private financial security,
which is the foundation of the state.
**[05:13] ---**
Fall back!
**[05:28] ---**
Cyberbrains and prosthetics are the bridge
**[05:30] ---**
connecting the systems of munitions
industry and household economics.
**[05:35] ---**
Government regulations are
meaningless at this point.
**[05:41] ---**
While no executive organ exists
which can truly contain the system,
**[05:45] ---**
that doesn't mean it transcends
laws established by the state.
**[05:50] ---**
Systems which break the law
must be taken care of directly.
**[05:59] ---**
Informatization forces us to choose
between becoming the system
**[06:02] ---**
and subordinating ourselves to it.
**[06:05] ---**
What we need now...
**[06:07] ---**
...is an executive organ to offensively
pass judgment on the system.
**[06:12] ---**
...is a network to integrate with the system
and sort people appropriately.
**[06:22] ---**
We recognize you and your organization
**[06:25] ---**
as an enterprise we should welcome,
Lt. Col. Kurutsu.
**[06:30] ---**
Anti-terror activities under
direct governmental authority.
**[06:33] ---**
State-of-the-art cyber investigation. The power
to bring charges for corporate crimes.
**[06:37] ---**
Nothing is taboo for your unit.
**[06:41] ---**
You done yet, Major?
**[06:42] ---**
In a few minutes. What's the sitrep?
**[06:46] ---**
One hour into the raid, it's a circus over here.
**[06:52] ---**
Dammit! It's Ape-Face from
Public Security Section 9.
**[06:58] ---**
Isn't Chief Aramaki the one that requested us?
**[07:02] ---**
He wants us working for him.
**[07:05] ---**
That doesn't suit our separatist leader.
**[07:08] ---**
The ape's assumed authority.
**[07:11] ---**
What now, Major? Want me
to break into Section 9's Net?
**[07:14] ---**
I'll negotiate. Just wait for me.
**[07:22] ---**
The Prime Minister would like to
see this incident resolved promptly.
**[07:27] ---**
And you've just been given
the authority to do it.
**[07:33] ---**
Thank you, sir.
**[07:41] ---**
Do you like this country?
**[07:44] ---**
Enough to exert my full abilities, at least.
**[07:49] ---**
The country should work
to earn your love, then.
**[07:54] ---**
I'll begin immediately.
**[07:59] ---**
Oh, and...
**[08:01] ---**
Sir?
**[08:05] ---**
Your smile is too perfect.
**[08:08] ---**
You don't need to devote so much
of your prosthetic memory to it.
**[08:12] ---**
I've never given a programmed smile, sir.
**[08:18] ---**
I have no intention of questioning
your soul--your Ghost.
**[08:25] ---**
I'm heading to the scene.
**[08:37] ---**
Good luck.
**[08:44] ---**
Ishikawa, information.
**[08:46] ---**
I see a report from federal council
session 320 approving the budget.
**[08:51] ---**
Nice work, Major.
**[08:56] ---**
Get in my lobby. We're taking this case.
**[09:23] ---**
Kusanagi. I didn't expect to see you here.
**[09:28] ---**
Did you come to wag your tail
for our antiquated government?
**[09:31] ---**
And you? Going to become a corporate
profit-seeking machine, Kurutsu?
**[09:37] ---**
Most of the military is going to be privatized.
**[09:40] ---**
This is a war. Side with the losers,
and you have no future.
**[09:44] ---**
The war is over. I won't let them
put a serial number on my Ghost, too.
**[09:52] ---**
Everyone is replaceable and expendable.
**[09:56] ---**
We'll soon find out which of us
is the disposable one.
**[10:25] ---**
ETA seven minutes. I assume you have my info.
**[10:47] ---**
Eleven soldiers who opposed downgrading
Defense from "Ministry" to "Agency"
**[10:51] ---**
have occupied the East Asian Economic
Federation's Far East trade embassy.
**[10:56] ---**
Here are their current positions,
backgrounds, and affiliations.
**[11:02] ---**
Um...
**[11:04] ---**
All eleven are prosthetized, and two of 'em
have heavy-class converted prosthetics.
**[11:10] ---**
Nothing the riot police oughta fool with.
**[11:16] ---**
Out of 42 hostages, 36 are confined
in the hall with the bombs.
**[11:21] ---**
The others are higher-ups who
escaped into the panic room.
**[11:24] ---**
They're probably the real targets.
**[11:27] ---**
If that door opens, we're screwed.
**[11:29] ---**
They'll either hole up in there for a year
or start staging public executions.
**[11:34] ---**
What are their demands?
**[11:36] ---**
They want the government to keep
the Ministry and suspend military trials.
**[11:39] ---**
They didn't ask for their own escape.
**[11:41] ---**
They just want their own little battlefield.
**[11:46] ---**
Execute domination on my signal.
We're going in.
**[11:49] ---**
Wait, just the seven of us?!
**[11:51] ---**
We have a sniper, cyberbrain hacking
for support, and Logicomas for shields.
**[11:55] ---**
The riot police at the perimeter
will keep enemy reinforcements away.
**[11:58] ---**
You need anything else?
**[12:00] ---**
Seriously?
**[12:02] ---**
Guess the rookie can't do anything
without a textbook and a necktie.
**[12:07] ---**
It must be rough, being the
only one with a natural body.
**[12:09] ---**
Why not take this chance to go full cyborg?
**[12:12] ---**
If you die, I'll call your pretty wife for you.
**[12:16] ---**
I can at least collect your last words
before your cyberbrain's blown away.
**[12:21] ---**
Call me if you want someone
to make your death painless.
**[12:26] ---**
Screw you jerks!
Fine, I'll do it and show you all!
**[12:31] ---**
You're top-notch parts I collected.
**[12:35] ---**
If you can't perform anymore, I'll purge you.
**[12:39] ---**
But most of you would wind up
in jail or shot in the back
**[12:45] ---**
if you weren't on my squad.
**[12:48] ---**
Don't forget that.
**[12:50] ---**
Get in position and prepare to go in.
**[12:55] ---**
She's calling us machine parts now?
**[12:58] ---**
Our unworldly princess probably
meant that as a pep talk.
**[13:03] ---**
That's demonic.
**[13:04] ---**
Damn gorilla.
**[13:06] ---**
She's a cruel woman.
**[13:08] ---**
It just means she trusts us.
**[13:11] ---**
Dammit, I seriously might get killed.
**[13:16] ---**
We need more personnel to storm them!
**[13:19] ---**
Where's Special Forces?
Where are the Rangers?!
**[13:23] ---**
Everyone refused to come.
**[13:24] ---**
They don't want to shoot their own people
to save some foreign war merchants.
**[13:29] ---**
Tell them to help these guys by stopping
them from committing more crimes!
**[13:33] ---**
Any squads associated with them
will be charged with conspiracy!
**[13:37] ---**
Pull out the negotiators, Chief.
**[13:40] ---**
You're finally here, Major?
**[13:42] ---**
Sorry, but you'll need to stand down.
**[13:45] ---**
Oh, so that suspicious squad budget
the council just passed was yours?
**[13:51] ---**
It's not like you to rely on politicians.
**[13:54] ---**
I saved myself some hassle
by negotiating with the top.
**[13:59] ---**
"Directly under the Prime Minister"
only means something on paper.
**[14:02] ---**
I recommend a squad that
follows international law.
**[14:06] ---**
A "shell squad within the international
rescue team," I think you said?
**[14:12] ---**
We'd already have one if it weren't for the war.
**[14:15] ---**
It would nip crimes in the bud, and stop
incidents like this before they happened.
**[14:21] ---**
Nice thought, but I'll take this
case over your fantasy squad.
**[14:26] ---**
When are you going in?
**[14:28] ---**
In 20 seconds.
**[14:29] ---**
We'll try not to kill anyone, so you'll
have something to do afterward.
**[14:37] ---**
She's like a kid with a new toy.
**[15:01] ---**
Dominate now.
**[15:09] ---**
Our comm lines just got dominated!
**[15:11] ---**
I like a good opponent. Bring it on!
**[15:26] ---**
My sights... She's infiltrated my vision!
**[16:25] ---**
Hey, what's wrong?
**[16:47] ---**
Hello!
**[16:52] ---**
Bastards!
**[17:00] ---**
Logicomas, protect the hostages.
**[17:02] ---**
Order acknowledged!
**[17:12] ---**
Are you my prey?
**[17:17] ---**
Move it! Don't turn over the hostages!
**[17:19] ---**
Do whatever it takes to buy time!
**[17:21] ---**
Hello.
**[17:40] ---**
See? I contribute.
**[17:45] ---**
Go down, dammit!
**[18:01] ---**
Where are you aiming? Don't kill them!
**[18:07] ---**
Don't monitor my vision all the time!
**[18:09] ---**
Break your kill shot habit. The war is over.
**[18:12] ---**
All these guys are still fighting it.
**[18:21] ---**
Die!
**[18:30] ---**
Bummer for you.
**[18:35] ---**
Guess your conversion was all about might.
**[18:38] ---**
I bet when you went full cyborg
after almost dying on the battlefield,
**[18:41] ---**
you thought you'd become your best self.
**[18:50] ---**
I did, too.
**[19:00] ---**
All done here, Major.
**[19:03] ---**
How's the panic room?
**[19:05] ---**
The door's fine. Two men on the move.
**[19:08] ---**
Batou and I will box them in.
**[19:10] ---**
Free the hostages and put everyone
you've captured in the hall.
**[19:17] ---**
Should we go in, too?
**[19:19] ---**
You like playing the clown?
**[19:22] ---**
As long as we beat the central authorities
to inspecting the scene, we're fine.
**[19:27] ---**
Seven people stealing the perps
we used 200 to surround...
**[19:32] ---**
Now that's entertainment.
**[19:39] ---**
"A Stalemate at the Occupied Embassy"
**[19:43] ---**
He's all right, Mr. Prime Minister.
**[19:48] ---**
I'll issue a directive.
**[19:59] ---**
Batou?
**[20:00] ---**
Major? Where's the enemy?
**[20:09] ---**
Ishikawa, what's going on?
**[20:11] ---**
I was jammed for a second.
There's a twelfth person on the property.
**[20:15] ---**
A twelfth? Find them!
**[20:20] ---**
Look.
**[20:40] ---**
Friendly fire?
**[21:00] ---**
Come on, everyone outside!
**[21:06] ---**
Something's off. We're one person short.
**[21:09] ---**
There's been some noise on the comm line...
**[21:23] ---**
Hey, don't touch those!
**[21:36] ---**
The hostages' cyberbrains are
contaminated! This pattern is...
**[21:40] ---**
The false memory virus.
**[21:42] ---**
It's Fire-Starter! Give them the virtual vaccine!
**[21:46] ---**
I thought they were ghost locked!
Why can they move?!
**[21:52] ---**
I found the twelfth perp!
**[21:54] ---**
They're the host for the packaged virus.
Destroy their cyberbrain!
**[22:00] ---**
It's been a while since I got permission to kill.
**[22:34] ---**
Mr. Prime Minister, wait!
**[22:50] ---**
My ear!
**[22:52] ---**
That was a flesh part! I'll kill that bastard!
**[23:06] ---**
This is horrible...
**[23:13] ---**
A false cyberbrain... This is just a
remote-control doll with no Ghost!
**[23:19] ---**
Where's the twelfth perp?
**[23:20] ---**
I lost track. I'm searching now.
**[23:25] ---**
The government's "state of emergency" alert?
**[23:28] ---**
Secret talks at Yagasaki Hotel? Bombing?
**[23:32] ---**
What the hell are you
talking about?! Who died?!
**[24:08] ---**
The first assassination of a sitting
Prime Minister in our nation's history
**[24:12] ---**
happened while Japanese soldiers occupied
an East Asian Federation embassy.
**[24:15] ---**
The relationship between
these events is unknown,
**[24:19] ---**
but authorities requested an analysis
of the Ministry faction's military Nets
**[24:23] ---**
from Vice-Minister Yoko Kitahara in her
interim role due to the Minister's resignation.
**[24:26] ---**
The administration is expected to force
the downgrade to Defense Agency,
**[24:29] ---**
increasing the bad feeling between
government and military groups.
**[24:57] ---**
"Which of us is disposable"...
**[25:01] ---**
Did someone use you and throw you away?
**[25:08] ---**
I'll find them and put them on
the slab next to you, Kurutsu.
**[25:14] ---**
The PM's talks were with Ambassador Wong
from the Far East trade embassy.
**[25:18] ---**
Investigate the simultaneous
embassy occupation
**[25:21] ---**
without making any assumptions.
**[25:22] ---**
--Yes, sir!
--Find out what's been going on at the PM's residence.
**[25:26] ---**
Put surveillance on anyone who makes
noise about their immunity to arrest.
**[25:29] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[25:44] ---**
We should have stopped this
from happening somehow!
**[25:52] ---**
All patched up?
**[25:53] ---**
Amazing what having a budget
will do for maintenance.
**[25:57] ---**
Who knows what'll happen with the
budget now that the PM's dead, though.
**[26:01] ---**
Give me two hours to fine-tune.
**[26:03] ---**
I'm gonna blow the brains
out of whoever shot me!
**[26:06] ---**
You go after the one with
the Major's body, Saito.
**[26:09] ---**
You're the only one who saw her.
**[26:10] ---**
I'll do both!
**[26:12] ---**
So what now, Major?
**[26:15] ---**
Paz, you're on the embassy.
Borma, you're on the bomb site.
**[26:18] ---**
Figure out whether this was
an operation on two fronts.
**[26:20] ---**
What about Kurutsu and
company's cyberbrains?
**[26:23] ---**
They're too damaged for me to read.
I'll investigate her death and the virus.
**[26:28] ---**
Let's say the chick with your body model
unleashed the virus. Can I kill her?
**[26:33] ---**
Do corpses give us info on the ringleader?
Quit the kill shot habit, idiot.
**[26:38] ---**
Are the rookie and I
goin' after the perps, then?
**[26:41] ---**
They oughta be halfway
around the world by now.
**[26:44] ---**
Nah, if their goal is to
mess with domestic affairs,
**[26:46] ---**
they'll have operatives in our government
who can't move right away.
**[26:49] ---**
In which case, there's a third party
who used these guys and then iced them.
**[26:55] ---**
I'll pray they're foreigners.
I'm sick of killing my countrymen.
**[27:00] ---**
Do background checks on everyone.
Don't get tripped up by petty spy battles.
**[27:09] ---**
Special Advisor Fujimoto...
**[27:17] ---**
I came for the DNA testing on his body.
**[27:21] ---**
He's not recognizable anymore, after all...
**[27:25] ---**
I promise to find the culprit.
**[27:28] ---**
My mind is so mixed up
**[27:30] ---**
that when they question me,
I can't even remember yesterday.
**[27:33] ---**
Or what Father and I last talked about...
**[27:36] ---**
I've experienced that, on the battlefield.
**[27:40] ---**
Did your memories come back?
**[27:44] ---**
All of them. I'll never forget again.
**[27:53] ---**
Right before he died, he issued
some kind of directive to me.
**[27:58] ---**
But someone jammed the signal.
**[28:06] ---**
Please... I want you to tell me
his last message for me.
**[28:16] ---**
Oh, and...
**[28:18] ---**
Could we have dinner sometime?
**[28:21] ---**
Pardon?
**[28:22] ---**
I'd like to talk to you again, if that's all right.
**[28:27] ---**
There aren't many restaurants I can go to.
**[28:39] ---**
Ishikawa, I assume you heard.
**[28:41] ---**
Yep. I'll find evidence.
**[28:53] ---**
Want me to keep tabs on him, too?
**[28:55] ---**
Get the perps' Net and don't
do anything uncalled-for.
**[28:58] ---**
Who tries to pick up women
the day after his dad dies?
**[29:02] ---**
Not to mention the *Major*!
**[29:04] ---**
They probably hit it off from the start.
**[29:06] ---**
Rich third-generation politicians
don't meet her type every day.
**[29:10] ---**
Now let's get to work, old-timer.
Can't waste our new authority.
**[29:28] ---**
It's been 900 hours since
I last saw someone move.
**[29:31] ---**
I heard about Unit 501 being privatized,
**[29:34] ---**
but I didn't realize it would
become an automated factory.
**[29:37] ---**
Everyone went to work for Harimadara.
**[29:39] ---**
What did you want? A factory tour?
**[29:43] ---**
Why was Kurutsu at that meeting?
**[29:46] ---**
For profit and survival.
**[29:48] ---**
Ambassador Wong and the PM
**[29:50] ---**
were working on an agreement to avoid
a prosthetics development dead end.
**[29:53] ---**
To keep production lines going
**[29:55] ---**
by deliberately delaying
technological improvements.
**[29:58] ---**
Doesn't the government give research grants
so that development won't dead-end?
**[30:03] ---**
It's the opposite.
Most of the existing prosthetics
**[30:06] ---**
will be impossible to version up
within the next generation.
**[30:09] ---**
Others weren't full cyborgs from birth like you.
**[30:13] ---**
You were developed on
the premise of further growth,
**[30:16] ---**
thanks to the keen insight
of your designer, Dr. Kusanagi.
**[30:20] ---**
So you're making parts here?
**[30:23] ---**
Yes, to keep us alive.
**[30:26] ---**
Technology conservation
keeps vested interests going,
**[30:29] ---**
while a technological revolution means
control of an enormous market share.
**[30:32] ---**
Kurutsu bet on the former, and was
annihilated by the latter's system.
**[30:38] ---**
That makes a strong motive
**[30:39] ---**
for the perp to kill the ambassador
and the PM in the same hit.
**[30:45] ---**
Thanks for telling me.
**[30:47] ---**
You should say hello to your parents.
**[30:50] ---**
Another time.
**[30:51] ---**
Come whenever you like. Much like us,
they're not going anywhere.
**[31:00] ---**
Koichi Sawada, former Army
armored division signal man.
**[31:04] ---**
Would a military Net admin really hole up here?
**[31:07] ---**
If the access logs left in the perps'
cyberbrains are right, he did.
**[31:16] ---**
Logicoma.
**[31:17] ---**
I see one person's heat signature.
**[31:20] ---**
And nobody's dead?
**[31:22] ---**
My investigation doesn't go that far.
**[31:24] ---**
Dead men tell no tales. He'd better be alive,
or we're back where we started.
**[31:47] ---**
You're a dangerous guest.
**[31:51] ---**
Learn to shut your door.
**[31:56] ---**
I thought someone might come to
speak with me. Did you need something?
**[32:01] ---**
Koichi Sawada, I presume?
We're part of a special squad.
**[32:03] ---**
We'd like to ask you a few questions
about the Prime Minister's assassination.
**[32:11] ---**
What's that data?
**[32:12] ---**
Soldiers' last words.
**[32:14] ---**
They have no money to pass down,
so they only send their dying messages.
**[32:20] ---**
They program them to be automatically
sent to me after they kill themselves.
**[32:25] ---**
Since they have no families, they choose me,
an admin they've never even met.
**[32:29] ---**
I wish they'd at least come talk to me...
**[32:32] ---**
Is someone dead?
**[32:34] ---**
Somewhere out there, yeah.
You stand by until we get back.
**[32:38] ---**
Okay!
**[32:41] ---**
Get any transmissions that hinted
at the Prime Minister's assassination?
**[32:44] ---**
Not once. I do have the
occupiers' testaments, though.
**[32:51] ---**
Are there any you've lost contact with?
**[32:52] ---**
Plenty. I'll forward you a list.
**[32:55] ---**
Anybody you figure was in command?
**[32:58] ---**
Hmm, Army Colonel Haruyoshi Nada
would have the most clout.
**[33:03] ---**
He was an informal advisor
to Vice-Minister Kitahara,
**[33:06] ---**
but he disappeared before the incident.
**[33:10] ---**
You come talk to me first, too.
**[33:13] ---**
Why me?
**[33:15] ---**
Most suicides are full cyborgs.
**[33:18] ---**
Cyberbrain standards change,
meaning they can't use the newer prosthetics,
**[33:22] ---**
so they fall apart while still alive.
**[33:30] ---**
Like me.
**[33:33] ---**
Without my role to play as a relay point,
I would have killed myself, too.
**[33:42] ---**
If the cyberbrain version you chose
doesn't fit the tide of the times later,
**[33:48] ---**
this is what prosthetization dooms you to.
**[33:55] ---**
What did you do with the dead person?
**[33:57] ---**
We couldn't do anything.
**[33:59] ---**
If he can't be repaired,
I recommend recovering his data!
**[34:03] ---**
You can't recover his life
or his Ghost if he's dead.
**[34:07] ---**
What a badly designed unit.
Have you ever died, Mr. Batou?
**[34:13] ---**
I was supposed to, but I wound
up a full cyborg instead.
**[34:17] ---**
Are you working as one of the
Major's parts so that you can die?
**[34:21] ---**
Hey, now!
**[34:26] ---**
A stud like me doesn't die too easily. Got it?
**[34:30] ---**
Yes! Thank you for another
valuable learning experience!
**[34:38] ---**
Request it through Foreign Affairs.
**[34:41] ---**
We're victims here. I won't allow you
to "strip them of military affiliation."
**[34:46] ---**
I want compensation from the government.
**[34:52] ---**
That "victim" is trouble.
**[34:54] ---**
That was Robert Lee,
the Far East Trade Representative.
**[34:57] ---**
He's also an infamous fixer.
**[34:59] ---**
He almost got deported once
at the Americans' request,
**[35:03] ---**
but he weaseled his way out of it.
**[35:06] ---**
He's got balls. For all he knows,
he might be attacked again.
**[35:09] ---**
He's probably got a lot of secrets
he doesn't want exposed.
**[35:13] ---**
Makes me want to know who
arranged the PM's secret talks.
**[35:18] ---**
And who leaked their location.
**[35:21] ---**
Tell the Major I'm always open
to a joint investigation.
**[35:44] ---**
Standards are the national
borders for corporations,
**[35:46] ---**
just as they are for cyberbrains and prosthetics.
**[35:50] ---**
No country relinquishes
its borders just because
**[35:52] ---**
national boundaries give
rise to technology gaps.
**[35:55] ---**
Lt. Col. Kurutsu and I were trying
to find the way to the next epoch.
**[36:00] ---**
Aren't you the ones who've
profited from a system
**[36:03] ---**
that transcends those borders,
Deputy Director Amagata?
**[36:07] ---**
That's no longer my title.
**[36:09] ---**
Kurutsu told me the same thing--
that a day was bound to come
**[36:12] ---**
when cyberbrain Nets would
transcend even corporate borders.
**[36:16] ---**
That's a long way off yet.
**[36:18] ---**
If you feel you're in danger, I recommend
our protection and monitoring.
**[36:24] ---**
That's not necessary. Your former
colleagues will protect my company.
**[36:37] ---**
Major.
**[36:39] ---**
You've got the info?
**[36:40] ---**
No joy with the jamming yet, but I did
find a data transfer from Kurutsu.
**[36:46] ---**
It was an outside transmission,
automatically sent one minute after the blast.
**[36:49] ---**
And it wasn't some testament
sent to the military Net, either.
**[36:53] ---**
Give me the address. I'll go.
**[37:08] ---**
So, all the members of the 501
are corporate employees now?
**[37:12] ---**
Or are you research subjects?
**[37:14] ---**
Please stay out of this, Kusanagi.
**[37:17] ---**
Instructor Ibachi.
**[37:19] ---**
We'll get justice for Kurutsu.
Don't involve yourself any further.
**[37:24] ---**
You're an outcast with no developmental
organization who just self-modifies.
**[37:29] ---**
Get in our way, and I really
will take you out this time.
**[37:45] ---**
Keep tabs on everyone at
Harimadara from the 501.
**[37:48] ---**
Expect them to obstruct our investigation.
**[37:49] ---**
Roger. They probably want to retaliate anyway.
**[37:54] ---**
I found the plan for averting
dead ends in some government docs.
**[37:57] ---**
There's a security plan set up based on
what happened over 20 years ago
**[38:01] ---**
when they tried the same national policy.
**[38:03] ---**
Security? What happened?
**[38:05] ---**
A ton of people went missing.
**[38:08] ---**
At the top of the list are a prosthetics
researcher and his pregnant wife.
**[38:11] ---**
They were last seen at the site
of a chemical weapons explosion.
**[38:19] ---**
Some organization is keeping their
bodies for research... Are you listening?
**[38:28] ---**
I'll have my Als analyze the data.
Find out the connection with these crimes.
**[38:42] ---**
They tell me you're with another unit now.
**[38:48] ---**
We have more non-military companies
interviewing here recently.
**[38:51] ---**
Now we foster a broader range of personnel.
**[38:54] ---**
Are they good purchases for the corporations?
**[38:57] ---**
The point is that we can promise
these children a future.
**[39:03] ---**
They're over there.
**[39:13] ---**
Hello.
**[39:14] ---**
Hello. What's your name?
**[39:17] ---**
Chris.
**[39:19] ---**
I'm Motoko Kusanagi. I used to live here.
**[39:24] ---**
Do you feel nostalgic?
**[39:26] ---**
Yes, I suppose it does bring back memories.
**[39:30] ---**
Do you know Kurutsu?
**[39:32] ---**
Everyone here does. She was
going to build a future for us.
**[39:36] ---**
But she died.
**[39:39] ---**
May I listen to her message?
**[39:41] ---**
Yes.
**[39:52] ---**
If you are watching this, it means
I'm no longer of this world.
**[40:00] ---**
Check your individual Nets for the rights,
assets, and duties I've assigned you.
**[40:07] ---**
I'm sure you're worried, but there is a future.
**[40:09] ---**
If you believe in the Third World,
we'll meet again one day.
**[40:15] ---**
"Third World"?
**[40:18] ---**
A world not of people or things, but of data.
**[40:21] ---**
Do you believe that
there's someplace we can go
**[40:26] ---**
even if we become unable to swap
prosthetics and we can't go on living?
**[40:32] ---**
That's not something I know.
**[40:34] ---**
Is this the only message?
**[40:37] ---**
Yes.
**[40:40] ---**
Will we meet again?
**[40:44] ---**
Good idea. Let's.
**[40:56] ---**
Why meet up to talk? Are you
implying my cyber lobby is bugged?
**[41:01] ---**
No, it's just... It's important
to talk over a meal sometimes
**[41:03] ---**
instead of just doing it
via cyberbrain, you know?
**[41:06] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[41:08] ---**
You're the one who chose to bring this
flesh guy into our unified-spec team.
**[41:19] ---**
Our rookie's afraid you
might secretly be a robot.
**[41:25] ---**
I didn't go that far! I just want to
deepen our understanding and trust--
**[41:28] ---**
He says this is a terrible working environment:
**[41:30] ---**
No vacation, no fun, and no cherry
blossom viewing even though it's spring.
**[41:33] ---**
I didn't say that!
**[41:47] ---**
So, about the Ministry faction...
**[41:49] ---**
The eleven hostage-takers,
plus Colonel Nada and seven MIAs,
**[41:53] ---**
all left the same testament.
**[41:56] ---**
Meaning they're all lying low somewhere,
and they're likely to strike again.
**[42:01] ---**
Colonel Nada's testament has
an extra line, and it's a weird one.
**[42:05] ---**
He said he'd "received a gift
from the Third World."
**[42:09] ---**
Doesn't that mean he got
the virus from the broker?
**[42:13] ---**
No... It's weird.
**[42:21] ---**
"Third World"? Is this some occult thing?
**[42:24] ---**
Find out if anyone at the Ministry of Defense
or affiliated companies uses that phrase.
**[42:29] ---**
Hire some more people, dammit.
**[42:31] ---**
I will if I find optimal parts.
**[42:33] ---**
Calling us parts again?
**[42:35] ---**
Got a problem?
**[42:36] ---**
The rookie says you're a crappy leader
who talks about people like things.
**[42:42] ---**
Seriously, I didn't go that far!
**[42:44] ---**
Report for ya, Major.
**[42:45] ---**
From the confiscated rifle and what I've
seen at the crime scene, it was an RMC.
**[42:50] ---**
They used a remotely controlled
machine gun, not a human sniper.
**[42:53] ---**
Someone did the shot, the virus,
*and* remote-controlled a body at the same time?
**[42:57] ---**
That's not the Major's body model--
that's the Major!
**[43:00] ---**
Just makes me wanna kill her more.
**[43:02] ---**
Also, I keep sensing someone watching me.
**[43:07] ---**
What a coincidence--so do I.
**[43:16] ---**
Me, too, actually.
**[43:17] ---**
Ape-Face from Section 9?
**[43:19] ---**
No, this feels different.
**[43:21] ---**
I found something that's probably related.
**[43:24] ---**
Come to my lobby, and I'll show
you something interesting.
**[43:30] ---**
What'd you wanna show us?
**[43:32] ---**
I used a forensic search to reproduce the
movements of objects caught in the blast.
**[43:55] ---**
This is pyro reverse measurement--
it's like replaying the explosion backwards.
**[44:00] ---**
Pretty amazing.
**[44:17] ---**
The case with the bomb in it
used fingerprint recognition.
**[44:20] ---**
Only the Prime Minister
or his aides could open it.
**[44:28] ---**
A surveillance cam?
**[44:30] ---**
It's military, but it's got a
limited range of transmission.
**[44:33] ---**
I did random testing with some white noise.
**[44:35] ---**
This is cheap encryption by AI.
**[44:39] ---**
Okay, I'm connected to our Peeping Tom's Net.
**[44:48] ---**
I want your name and outfit!
**[44:50] ---**
And FYI, my assassin's itching to kill someone.
**[45:06] ---**
I'm with the Treaty Review Department,
Section D! Contact them!
**[45:10] ---**
He's on loan to Foreign Affairs
from Public Security.
**[45:15] ---**
They're involved with the PM's secret talks?
**[45:34] ---**
I'm Akiyama, Treaty Review
Department section leader.
**[45:37] ---**
Give me the short and sweet explanation.
**[45:40] ---**
We captured her on camera a month ago.
**[45:42] ---**
Fire-Starter, the supposedly impossible trifecta
**[45:46] ---**
of brainwashing, Ghost infiltration,
and false memories...
**[45:49] ---**
She's the seller. A crazy bitch who
goes by the same name as the virus.
**[45:54] ---**
You approached her to get the virus,
and you fell into her trap.
**[45:58] ---**
So you put tabs on me, since we
have the same body. You're a fool.
**[46:02] ---**
You're a super-wizard-class hacker.
I'd be stupid *not* to suspect you.
**[46:12] ---**
It was two officers that she manipulated.
**[46:14] ---**
Officers?
**[46:15] ---**
People who helped implement
the PM's established policies.
**[46:19] ---**
One of them was Colonel Haruyoshi Nada.
**[46:21] ---**
The one who went missing before the incident?
**[46:23] ---**
His job was to isolate the radical
elements within the Ministry faction.
**[46:28] ---**
And then he up and pulled the trigger
on a two-pronged terrorist attack!
**[46:32] ---**
It's like he had a personality transplant.
**[46:34] ---**
He was infected by the virus.
Would the broker go that far, though?
**[46:39] ---**
Enemies of the PM must have
bought the virus at auction.
**[46:43] ---**
I want to find out who they were,
and get hold of them *and* the broker.
**[46:47] ---**
Who was the other officer?
**[46:53] ---**
Yoko Kitahara, Vice-Minister of Defense.
**[47:00] ---**
Wh-What's the meaning of this?!
**[47:06] ---**
Don't move!
**[47:07] ---**
You protocol-ignoring scumbags!
You're under arrest for unlawful investigation!
**[47:12] ---**
Knock it off.
**[47:17] ---**
I... never expected this...
**[47:20] ---**
Let's hear your story.
**[47:26] ---**
She was infected by Nada, and she
induced the Ministry faction's flare-up.
**[47:31] ---**
She manipulated public opinion
for the "Agency" downgrade
**[47:33] ---**
and the layoffs of several thousand
troops in the restructuring.
**[47:36] ---**
Was she involved in the PM's assassination?
**[47:39] ---**
Not that we've discovered.
**[47:41] ---**
So a Foreign Affairs squad
**[47:43] ---**
and the backbone of the MoD got
used in a plot to assassinate the PM.
**[47:47] ---**
The virus itself hasn't been found.
**[47:49] ---**
If it's all this woman's scheme...
**[47:52] ---**
I saw this from the cyberbrain
infringement stage.
**[47:55] ---**
I'm aware that I'm a victim.
**[47:57] ---**
Who orchestrated this to
make this look like my set-up?
**[48:00] ---**
Excuse me?!
**[48:01] ---**
He's not Section 9, is he?
**[48:04] ---**
That's Kuwahara, head of
intelligence's strategy office.
**[48:06] ---**
He's after the broker who could be your twin.
**[48:09] ---**
Aramaki!
**[48:10] ---**
So it was the intelligence bureau that
outbid the treaties bureau for the virus?
**[48:15] ---**
I've got nothing to do with the treaties bureau.
**[48:18] ---**
The purchase was a ruse to arrest the broker,
**[48:20] ---**
and she got away from us
before we could secure the virus.
**[48:23] ---**
I'll pretend I believe that.
**[48:25] ---**
Right now we need everyone
working together on this.
**[48:29] ---**
Quit being stubborn and
team up with us, Major.
**[48:34] ---**
An organization that locks up
witnesses to protect itself
**[48:37] ---**
deserves to be punished along with the perps.
**[48:39] ---**
You're just some upstart rogue squad!
**[48:42] ---**
I'll call you when we take her down,
so you can have something to do afterward.
**[48:57] ---**
That squad has traced things
back to Kitahara, Fire-Starter.
**[49:02] ---**
They're nuisances. Can't you
take them over with your virus?
**[49:06] ---**
No need to panic.
**[49:08] ---**
Intelligence and the Treaty Review
Department are both under my thumb,
**[49:11] ---**
and the truth is the biggest trap,
the biggest tragedy, of all.
**[49:14] ---**
Simply taking advantage of people's
patriotism isn't a foolproof plan.
**[49:19] ---**
We should eliminate any possibility
of them tracing this back to us.
**[49:22] ---**
That will cost you.
**[49:46] ---**
Motoko Kusanagi...
Now, when shall I steal your name?
**[49:55] ---**
Prime Minister Fujimoto definitely
issued some sort of directive.
**[50:00] ---**
And our only related lead is that
Vice-Minister Kitahara remembers
**[50:05] ---**
a ghost ship of unknown origin
off the coast of Niihama.
**[50:09] ---**
Nada's hideout... And yet
intelligence isn't making a move.
**[50:13] ---**
If Nada's infected like
the treaties bureau says...
**[50:18] ---**
Odds are ten to one it's a trap.
**[50:21] ---**
The ship's likely location is near
a cluster of undersea cables.
**[50:25] ---**
Could be a spy vessel.
**[50:28] ---**
This is all the info we have, thanks to
intelligence stealing Kitahara from us.
**[50:31] ---**
Now what?
**[50:32] ---**
We find out the rest by taking over the ship.
**[50:37] ---**
You just love storming
enemy positions, don't you?
**[50:40] ---**
Quit the squad if you've got doubts.
**[50:43] ---**
Everything ties back to the PM.
**[50:46] ---**
Will you get to the truth, or back
out now? Let your Ghosts decide.
**[51:40] ---**
There's a new home
where you're headed, yeah?
**[51:44] ---**
Not a bloody battlefield
or a tight corner to die in.
**[51:53] ---**
I plan to get us a position
that suits us, if nothing else.
**[52:09] ---**
Just stand by. We don't
know what we're facing.
**[52:13] ---**
"An offensive unit with top priority"...
**[52:17] ---**
Plenty have talked about it,
but nobody's made it a reality...
**[52:22] ---**
...until now.
**[52:30] ---**
No sign of anyone onboard.
**[52:51] ---**
Incoming!
**[52:57] ---**
They're pulling out the tanks from the get-go?!
**[53:01] ---**
I knew I should've stayed home!
**[53:03] ---**
Saito!
**[53:06] ---**
I can't pick them up!
**[53:10] ---**
Shit.
**[53:13] ---**
That's type-2902 thermo-optical camouflage--
Kyo-Re's newest release!
**[53:18] ---**
How much capital would it take to get
that for your tanks *and* your troops?
**[53:26] ---**
I'm taking the ship. Cover me!
**[53:30] ---**
How, exactly?!
**[53:32] ---**
I'll show you how it's done, rookie.
**[53:49] ---**
Go!
**[54:50] ---**
Go, Major!
**[55:12] ---**
I've reached the intermediate security server.
**[55:15] ---**
I have eyes on the barrier's gate array.
**[55:19] ---**
It's a variant on Army tactical defense barriers.
**[55:22] ---**
Lots of entrances, but only one exit...
This'll be a pain.
**[55:28] ---**
Opening a tunnel.
**[55:30] ---**
Shit, it's full of null data.
They're giving me the slip!
**[55:34] ---**
This fake looks familiar. The real data
is on the other side of the nulls.
**[55:37] ---**
I'll look for a way around.
**[55:39] ---**
I don't want to wait. I'll just force it open.
**[55:52] ---**
The broadcast van's active protection
burned out! Close the connection!
**[55:56] ---**
Too late!
**[56:13] ---**
What?
**[56:17] ---**
Jeez, how many hidden servers do you have?
**[56:20] ---**
I don't storm a place unarmed.
**[56:23] ---**
I've taken control. The info--
**[56:27] ---**
What is this?
**[56:30] ---**
Signals 2, 6, and 7 lost.
**[56:33] ---**
Number and positioning
of enemy troops unknown.
**[56:35] ---**
They've taken our fire-control room!
**[57:01] ---**
Okay, I've got him.
**[57:07] ---**
We're done here, too.
**[57:14] ---**
Hit the deck!
**[57:20] ---**
*Another* one?!
**[57:22] ---**
Mr. Batou!
**[57:29] ---**
Stop!
**[57:31] ---**
When are you gonna get a cockpit?!
**[57:33] ---**
The request is being processed!
**[57:36] ---**
Military restructuring...?
**[57:38] ---**
Why my team? Who the hell--
**[57:46] ---**
So that's how it is?
**[57:52] ---**
Get out of there now, Major!
**[57:55] ---**
What's your status, Major?!
**[58:04] ---**
Hey, what the hell's going on?!
**[58:06] ---**
I know we took over the ship.
**[58:08] ---**
Somebody's remote-controlling
these from nearby.
**[58:13] ---**
Saito! Find them and kill them!
**[58:17] ---**
Give me more intel!
**[58:23] ---**
That bitch!
**[58:27] ---**
Oh, you're good. You can
work for me when she's dead.
**[58:38] ---**
Dammit. She got away, guys!
**[58:50] ---**
Why isn't anyone shooting at us?
Isn't their goal to recapture the ship?
**[58:55] ---**
Everyone all right?
**[58:56] ---**
Major?!
**[58:58] ---**
What the--
**[58:59] ---**
Did she use Ghost infiltration keys?
**[59:01] ---**
She assembled us by force.
**[59:03] ---**
There's no time, so I'll make this brief.
**[59:06] ---**
I'm redoing the investigation
with a new hypothesis in mind.
**[59:10] ---**
There's no need for us all to bear the risk.
**[59:13] ---**
Major...?
**[59:14] ---**
It's not her. Just projected data.
**[59:16] ---**
I just declared this squad disbanded.
**[59:20] ---**
Say what?!
**[59:21] ---**
I'll leave recommendation
letters with Chief Aramaki.
**[59:23] ---**
Choose for yourselves
where you want to transfer to.
**[59:27] ---**
You're top-notch parts.
**[59:30] ---**
When you're all together,
you perform better than I could alone.
**[59:39] ---**
That's all. Obey your Ghosts.
**[59:45] ---**
Her lobby's been shut down.
**[59:46] ---**
She purged herself.
**[59:49] ---**
She might've just cut us off.
**[59:52] ---**
It's messed up either way.
**[1:00:02] ---**
My ghost lock ain't working!
**[1:00:16] ---**
A remote-controlled body...
**[1:00:42] ---**
Was Colonel Nada captured?
**[1:00:46] ---**
You're upset that the hearing
was indefinitely postponed?
**[1:00:51] ---**
I don't even know what the truth is myself!
**[1:00:54] ---**
I'm not upset.
**[1:01:39] ---**
Send the repair bill to the Ministry of
Commerce or the Far East trade embassy.
**[1:01:43] ---**
I'm borrowing another car.
**[1:01:46] ---**
"Fire-Starter"... Was that just the
virus's code name during development,
**[1:01:51] ---**
or is it your own name?
**[1:01:54] ---**
Is there a difference?
**[1:01:57] ---**
I abandoned the spy vessel, just like
you asked. What more do you want?!
**[1:02:02] ---**
We don't know whether
Kusanagi is dead or alive.
**[1:02:05] ---**
Search your Net for her.
**[1:02:09] ---**
Cooperate... Or else the biggest
scandal since the war is going public.
**[1:02:26] ---**
"Section 9 Office"
**[1:02:29] ---**
Vice-Minister Kitahara was assassinated,
and Colonel Nada is still status unknown.
**[1:02:35] ---**
That makes your case hard to corroborate,
**[1:02:37] ---**
and you've also lost your
investigative privileges.
**[1:02:40] ---**
But you can stay on the investigation
if you do it as members of Section 9.
**[1:02:45] ---**
Not interested.
**[1:02:48] ---**
I'm outta here.
**[1:02:49] ---**
Hey, wait--
**[1:02:50] ---**
You guys are fine with this?!
**[1:02:59] ---**
Where do you want to restart from?
**[1:03:02] ---**
If the boat didn't give us anything,
**[1:03:05] ---**
I'd look into anybody involved
who refuses to testify.
**[1:03:08] ---**
You mean Robert Lee, the Far East trade rep.
**[1:03:11] ---**
He's a formidable opponent.
Use Section 9's Net.
**[1:03:15] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[1:03:21] ---**
What you cultivated is starting to thrive.
**[1:03:24] ---**
I won't let it be cut down, Major.
**[1:03:35] ---**
There was this intel...
**[1:03:38] ---**
Two developers, a married couple, went MIA
during the old project to avert dead-ending.
**[1:03:43] ---**
I just did some digging.
**[1:03:44] ---**
Their bodies are being kept by
Unit 501 for research purposes.
**[1:03:50] ---**
You better not tell me the wife was pregnant.
**[1:03:53] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[1:03:57] ---**
Someone who's been a full cyborg since birth.
**[1:04:01] ---**
They're the Major's parents?
**[1:04:03] ---**
I can't be sure. The bodies are so
contaminated they can't even be ID'd.
**[1:04:11] ---**
She was born without a body of her own,
and raised as Army equipment.
**[1:04:16] ---**
It's not that she has nothing to lose...
**[1:04:18] ---**
It's that she never had anything she could lose.
**[1:04:23] ---**
Until the war ended and she
went independent, you're saying?
**[1:04:28] ---**
So your take is that those vics
who might be her parents
**[1:04:31] ---**
are the reason she's gone rogue?
**[1:04:33] ---**
This is the Major.
**[1:04:35] ---**
They're probably secondary to
something bigger she's after.
**[1:04:39] ---**
This is just me speculating, but I think
she saw something real bad on that ship.
**[1:04:44] ---**
Bad enough to make her purge all of us.
**[1:04:48] ---**
If you're implying she wants
to protect us, that's a laugh.
**[1:04:51] ---**
She calls us "parts"!
**[1:04:54] ---**
She talks like we're things, but she
doesn't *treat* us like things.
**[1:04:58] ---**
Full cyborgs are parts anyway, really.
**[1:05:02] ---**
Gotta join some organization
who'll do your maintenance,
**[1:05:05] ---**
or fall apart while you're still alive.
**[1:05:20] ---**
Where are you going?
**[1:05:23] ---**
I'm not the type to obey my Ghost.
**[1:05:26] ---**
What I can see with my own eyes is all there is.
**[1:05:33] ---**
One ship, two tanks, and seven infantrymen.
**[1:05:37] ---**
That was one expensive trap.
**[1:06:09] ---**
What were they looking at?
**[1:06:26] ---**
I came to talk.
**[1:06:34] ---**
Sorry for asking you here out of the blue.
**[1:06:37] ---**
I hear you want to work for us again.
**[1:06:39] ---**
If you give me intel on
Major Kusanagi, I'll consider it.
**[1:06:46] ---**
You're the one doing the talking.
**[1:06:51] ---**
My role as a relay point... is...
**[1:06:56] ---**
Koichi Sawada, formerly of
the Army's armored division.
**[1:07:00] ---**
That name matches one of the Ministry loyalists
**[1:07:03] ---**
who died yesterday on a spy
ship of unknown affiliation.
**[1:07:06] ---**
I...
**[1:07:11] ---**
You've been implanted with false memories...
**[1:07:14] ---**
...Colonel Haruyoshi Nada.
**[1:07:20] ---**
"Uesawa Electrical Engineering
Kenichi Pazu"
**[1:07:33] ---**
Damn you, Ishikawa, do you think you can get
away with making enemies of your old unit?!
**[1:07:39] ---**
This is filled with micromachines that
increase pain sensitivity 7,000-fold.
**[1:07:43] ---**
It takes them five minutes
to reach your cyberbrain.
**[1:07:45] ---**
It ain't the kind of thing you can withstand.
**[1:07:47] ---**
Stop! Stop!
**[1:07:50] ---**
Stop!
**[1:08:14] ---**
From the inside?!
**[1:08:40] ---**
Get in!
**[1:08:46] ---**
The East Asian Federation bigwigs
and the cyborg with the Major's model
**[1:08:49] ---**
have been together from the beginning.
**[1:08:51] ---**
That rules out a terror strike on two fronts.
**[1:08:54] ---**
Why were you at the embassy?
**[1:08:57] ---**
I managed to play back a scrap of the data
**[1:09:00] ---**
from that oversized e-paper at the bomb site.
**[1:09:06] ---**
A 3D map of the embassy?
**[1:09:08] ---**
Then the point of the PM's secret talks was...?
**[1:09:13] ---**
The ship was being used
for domestic espionage
**[1:09:15] ---**
under a secret deal with the Americans.
**[1:09:18] ---**
Forget a scandal--this is
a national security issue!
**[1:09:22] ---**
But you gave it up.
Why go so far to set up the Major?
**[1:09:25] ---**
Who's the Prime Minister's enemy?!
**[1:09:27] ---**
The PM wanted to use
the Defense Ministry faction
**[1:09:29] ---**
to oust the rebels in the Ministry of Commerce.
**[1:09:32] ---**
That's all I know! Please, give me the antidote!
**[1:09:46] ---**
It's a vitamin injection, idiot.
**[1:10:03] ---**
*He's* Colonel Nada?
**[1:10:06] ---**
Maybe his sympathy for the rank
and file spawned his false memories.
**[1:10:10] ---**
You think the host's desire and guilt
form the core of the false memories?
**[1:10:16] ---**
And they left him alive as a card to play when
they wanted to intimidate the government.
**[1:10:21] ---**
Unbelievable.
**[1:10:24] ---**
After the incident,
Representative Lee took over
**[1:10:26] ---**
a rare earth mine that had
been under Wong's jurisdiction.
**[1:10:30] ---**
They were outwardly cooperative,
but they were competitors.
**[1:10:35] ---**
This is all about war merchants
trying to crush each other.
**[1:10:38] ---**
The PM must've helped with the
Ambassador's plan to kill the Representative.
**[1:10:44] ---**
And the Representative counterattacked.
**[1:10:47] ---**
Our broker provided both sides with the virus.
**[1:10:52] ---**
Probably playing a double game.
**[1:10:54] ---**
When you get down to it, this was a war
between the PM and the Federation!
**[1:11:07] ---**
Got it.
**[1:11:08] ---**
Someone's ordered the Major's arrest.
**[1:11:12] ---**
Where are you going?
**[1:11:15] ---**
Even the Major decided to go this one alone.
I know you guys won't act.
**[1:11:22] ---**
Don't underestimate me.
**[1:11:24] ---**
I'll leave the Major to you. Do *not* let her die.
**[1:11:49] ---**
Major Kusanagi?
**[1:11:52] ---**
Section 9 told me to call them if you showed up.
**[1:11:57] ---**
You want to keep this secret even from them?
**[1:11:59] ---**
That depends on you, Special Advisor Fujimoto.
**[1:12:35] ---**
You carried the enemy's bomb to your father.
**[1:12:40] ---**
Oh, God...
**[1:12:43] ---**
One more thing. My squad's budget--
I couldn't trace some of it.
**[1:12:48] ---**
Where did that money come from?
**[1:12:53] ---**
I think it's a surplus from
privatizing a military wing...
**[1:12:56] ---**
From breaking up a post called Unit 501.
**[1:13:03] ---**
Please, put my memories back how they were!
**[1:13:07] ---**
I can't bear these memories!
**[1:13:10] ---**
I choose the truth.
**[1:13:13] ---**
I don't want to exchange
my memories for fabricated ones,
**[1:13:15] ---**
no matter how much my heart might wish it.
**[1:13:18] ---**
Never again.
**[1:13:39] ---**
A remote-controlled body...
**[1:13:48] ---**
Kurutsu!
**[1:14:19] ---**
Show me to the server floor.
**[1:15:04] ---**
A virus development Net...
transmitting externally?!
**[1:15:24] ---**
An attack barrier *and* a barrier maze.
**[1:15:26] ---**
Clearly that info is something
worth protecting to you two.
**[1:15:29] ---**
Your brain associated us
with our old bodies, I see.
**[1:15:32] ---**
We're sorry, but we're going to restrain you.
**[1:15:35] ---**
On Kurutsu's orders?
**[1:15:36] ---**
No, it's our collective will.
**[1:15:38] ---**
Kurutsu is only one part.
**[1:15:40] ---**
Then she *is* alive.
**[1:15:44] ---**
Please don't fight, Kusanagi.
**[1:15:46] ---**
We don't want to see you killed.
**[1:16:28] ---**
That's enough. Leave it be, Kusanagi.
**[1:16:38] ---**
Outcast.
**[1:16:53] ---**
Out of my way!
**[1:17:40] ---**
You've reached your limit, Kusanagi.
**[1:18:02] ---**
Major!
**[1:18:25] ---**
Yo. Awake now? I cracked your
secret lab to use it. No complaining.
**[1:18:31] ---**
It ain't like you to lower your body's
functionality with implanted weapons.
**[1:18:37] ---**
Why did you come?
**[1:18:39] ---**
How about you just be honest and say,
**[1:18:41] ---**
"As your leader I couldn't
order you to come with me,
**[1:18:43] ---**
but as a human with a Ghost
I wanted to give you the choice"?
**[1:18:48] ---**
Run.
**[1:18:49] ---**
Sure, once you're out of the maze.
**[1:18:51] ---**
Until then, we're gonna do our own thing.
**[1:19:04] ---**
I hope you can take responsibility for this!
**[1:19:06] ---**
Don't worry. I'll use members of the unit.
**[1:19:09] ---**
I'll have my subsidiaries give you soldiers.
Go through as many as you like.
**[1:19:14] ---**
You don't mind battlefield-level casualties?
**[1:19:18] ---**
It can't be helped.
This is a 500-billion-dollar business.
**[1:19:21] ---**
Fools out to change the
world are a minority group.
**[1:19:25] ---**
Isn't getting rid of those fast
what your "democracy" is about?
**[1:19:47] ---**
Don't resist, Kusanagi.
**[1:19:49] ---**
We don't want to see your brain fried.
**[1:19:51] ---**
My barrier isn't that cheap.
**[1:20:01] ---**
To think you reverse-breached the barrier...
**[1:20:03] ---**
There'll be no going back for any of us.
**[1:20:05] ---**
Tell me the real Kurutsu's location
and objective before that happens.
**[1:20:10] ---**
We don't know her location.
Her having multiple bodies was top-secret.
**[1:20:15] ---**
Her objective is the same as ever:
survive no matter who wins this.
**[1:20:21] ---**
I assume you know this, but the
East Asian Federation's objectives
**[1:20:24] ---**
are a technological revolution through
dead-ending and a monopoly on the market.
**[1:20:28] ---**
Some children aren't facing a dead end yet.
**[1:20:32] ---**
You'd turn them into merchandise?!
**[1:20:35] ---**
They are our successors,
to whom we should leave everything.
**[1:20:38] ---**
They will become next-generation models
**[1:20:40] ---**
and make long-term versioning up a reality.
**[1:20:43] ---**
And you'll make them repeat all this?
Sell even their Ghosts?!
**[1:21:26] ---**
Why, you...!
**[1:21:59] ---**
You were always free.
**[1:22:02] ---**
Constantly trying to create a future.
**[1:22:04] ---**
We envy you that.
**[1:22:07] ---**
You protected me...?!
**[1:22:09] ---**
Our brains are at their limit anyway.
**[1:22:12] ---**
We'll shift to the Third World
before they expire.
**[1:22:15] ---**
Pray that we become part of the sea of data.
**[1:22:19] ---**
Someday, someone may
be born who accesses you.
**[1:22:50] ---**
There!
**[1:23:28] ---**
Saito!
**[1:23:29] ---**
How dare that bastard screw with me?!
**[1:23:40] ---**
Hey guys, everybody alive?
**[1:23:41] ---**
We can't repair you if you die, you know!
**[1:23:44] ---**
We studs don't die!
**[1:24:17] ---**
Why are you just standing there?
I'll replace you if you don't perform better.
**[1:24:22] ---**
I was just about to show
my stuff, gorilla woman.
**[1:24:53] ---**
Major!
**[1:25:06] ---**
You outcast scum!
**[1:25:30] ---**
Major, are you all right?
**[1:25:57] ---**
Normal prosthetics are the best, am I right?
**[1:26:00] ---**
I told you to run, you thrill-seeking idiots.
**[1:26:05] ---**
You're the kind of parts
I won't be able to collect again!
**[1:26:11] ---**
We've got an important job still undone.
**[1:26:22] ---**
What good will arresting me do?
**[1:26:25] ---**
The same game will just start up again
after this administration dissolves.
**[1:26:29] ---**
Several retiring Ministers have
already said that to me today,
**[1:26:31] ---**
but I won't let it happen.
**[1:26:33] ---**
We've used money and technology
to fight an unscrupulous system.
**[1:26:38] ---**
It's no different from you with your guns.
**[1:26:40] ---**
We hate crime. You breed
criminals for the sake of profits.
**[1:26:47] ---**
You'll understand one day.
**[1:27:42] ---**
That's where you've been?
**[1:27:58] ---**
You're late. She's just leaving.
**[1:28:31] ---**
Kurutsu!
**[1:28:34] ---**
Kurutsu is dead.
**[1:28:36] ---**
Even controlling the same body, I can't
behave with the same personality again.
**[1:28:42] ---**
It's a mystery even to me.
**[1:28:45] ---**
How long have you been doing that?
**[1:28:47] ---**
Since the beginning.
**[1:28:49] ---**
I've been compensating for the
growth failure with micromachines,
**[1:28:52] ---**
and though I can't be prosthetized,
I've operated many prosthetic bodies.
**[1:28:57] ---**
But you're the only one
whose name I couldn't use.
**[1:29:00] ---**
And Fire-Starter? Were you the developer?
**[1:29:16] ---**
One day you'll understand
**[1:29:18] ---**
the diversity of information packages,
and the birth of a new world...
**[1:29:25] ---**
I'm going there... Going where everyone else is.
**[1:30:02] ---**
I pity you, remaining in a world like this
when you were once freer than anyone.
**[1:30:38] ---**
Did you get to say goodbye?
**[1:30:42] ---**
Why did you use her?
**[1:30:45] ---**
Two possibilities existed to avert the dead
end of cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.
**[1:30:51] ---**
You and she were those possibilities. That's all.
**[1:30:56] ---**
Take him.
**[1:31:01] ---**
You should stop searching for the names
of the dead. There's nothing to be gained.
**[1:31:06] ---**
Take it from someone who's spent
a long time as one of the dead.
**[1:31:14] ---**
What is it?
**[1:31:15] ---**
Won't you take us with you?
**[1:31:17] ---**
Where should we go?!
**[1:31:19] ---**
What do you want?
**[1:31:22] ---**
To gain uniform standards
by selling your bodies and Ghosts
**[1:31:26] ---**
and sacrificing those who were given nothing?
**[1:31:29] ---**
You all have cyberbrains.
You have Ghosts you should be obeying.
**[1:31:35] ---**
You seek more than that from other people--
what do you plan to offer in return?
**[1:31:40] ---**
Build a future.
**[1:31:51] ---**
It's just the government's "official position."
It doesn't conflict with our trade.
**[1:31:56] ---**
Excellent. When the slave state fails
to serve, the aristocracy state starves.
**[1:32:02] ---**
The slave trade benefits from labor shortages.
**[1:32:25] ---**
You really gonna do this, Major?
**[1:32:43] ---**
So, here we have the
Far East Trade Representative,
**[1:32:45] ---**
Vice-Minister of Commerce Ito,
and some union officials.
**[1:32:49] ---**
How dare you?
**[1:32:50] ---**
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Defense Agency are watching this.
**[1:32:53] ---**
I'll have Vice-Minister Ito here
**[1:32:56] ---**
testify in a court of law about
the Prime Minister's assassination.
**[1:32:59] ---**
I'm ruined...
**[1:33:00] ---**
Impossible.
**[1:33:02] ---**
He applied for asylum and was accepted.
He even signed the written oath.
**[1:33:06] ---**
When?!
**[1:33:07] ---**
I don't have to answer that.
**[1:33:08] ---**
The papers are at the embassy.
I'll forward them to you.
**[1:33:12] ---**
The previous Prime Minister's
wishes survive. You'll be assassinated.
**[1:33:16] ---**
Ha! This is a civilized, pacifist nation.
**[1:33:20] ---**
Oh, is it?
**[1:33:29] ---**
Outside the window!
**[1:33:34] ---**
H-Help!
**[1:33:35] ---**
Hold your fire!
**[1:34:13] ---**
*Off in the distance, a ray of light shines down*
**[1:34:26] ---**
*I rub the eyes I'd closed for so long*
**[1:34:37] ---**
*The naïve ones are calling me*
**[1:34:51] ---**
*I flex and bend my heavy, rusted limbs*
**[1:35:06] ---**
*I need a reason to walk inch by slow inch
down that never-ending path*
**[1:35:21] ---**
*I can still move*
**[1:35:34] ---**
*I can still see*
**[1:35:43] ---**
Cherry blossom viewing together is nice, huh?
**[1:35:46] ---**
This is an assignment.
**[1:35:46] ---**
*Long ago, the illusions had names*
**[1:35:48] ---**
A 24-hour cherry blossom stakeout.
**[1:35:56] ---**
Time for work, Major.
In South Niihama District 4--
**[1:35:59] ---**
*As terribly precious things do*
Nope.
**[1:36:01] ---**
*As terribly precious things do*
I got you the budget, so get to work.
**[1:36:04] ---**
*As terribly precious things do*
Logicoma!
**[1:36:05] ---**
*As terribly precious things do*
Aye! We saw the report that
**[1:36:08] ---**
the council passed your budget!
**[1:36:10] ---**
Okay. Flower stakeout suspended!
**[1:36:11] ---**
*The great ones have left without us*
Okay. Flower stakeout suspended!
**[1:36:15] ---**
*The great ones have left without us*
Let's go!
**[1:36:17] ---**
*The great ones have left without us*
**[1:36:21] ---**
*The great ones have left without us*
You're top-notch parts I collected.
**[1:36:24] ---**
*Spread their wings and taken off for that white shining place*
Perform, and handle this case!
**[1:36:29] ---**
*Spread their wings and taken off for that white shining place
*
**[1:36:39] ---**
*They climb higher and higher
in the endlessly blue sky*
**[1:36:55] ---**
*But I can see them*
**[1:37:08] ---**
*We'll meet again*
**[1:37:20] ---**
*But I can see them*
**[1:37:32] ---**
*We'll meet again*
**[1:37:45] ---**
*I have a reason to walk inch by slow inch
down that never-ending path*
**[1:38:01] ---**
*I can still move*
**[1:38:13] ---**
*I can still see*
**[1:38:25] ---**
*I can still move*
**[1:38:38] ---**
*I can still see*
**[1:38:50] ---**
*I can still move*
**[1:39:03] ---**
*I can still see*
**[1:39:15] ---**
*I can still move*