Season 2
- 1 - Ghost Stands Alone, Part 1
- 2 - Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2
- 3 - Ghost Pain, Part 1
- 4 - Ghost Pain, Part 2
- 5 - Ghost Whispers, Part 1
- 6 - Ghost Whispers, Part 2
- 7 - Ghost Tears, Part 1
- 8 - Ghost Tears, Part 2
- 9 - PYROPHORIC CULT, Part 1
- 10 - PYROPHORIC CULT, Part 2
1 - Ghost Stands Alone, Part 1
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:22] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:28] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[00:33] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[00:38] ---
What are you?
[00:45] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[00:51] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[00:56] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:08] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:19] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:31] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[01:43] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:09] ---
Give back our water!
[02:11] ---
Give back our water!
[02:13] ---
Give back our water!
[02:14] ---
Give back our water!
[02:16] ---
Give back our water!
[02:19] ---
HQ to Squad 357.
Transfer command to Section 9.
[02:24] ---
This is Priority One.
[02:28] ---
Murderers!
[02:30] ---
Murderers!
[02:32] ---
Give back our water!
[02:32] ---
Despite increasingly fierce protests,
[02:36] ---
a contract has just been signed
[02:38] ---
between a Kuzan water company
and the Japanese giant Harimadara.
[02:46] ---
We've followed the principle of free trade
[02:49] ---
to maintain fair prices that will
spur postwar economic recovery.
[02:52] ---
Give water to the war orphans!!
[03:06] ---
It's starting.
[03:19] ---
All lifelines, surveillance, etc. for
the building and roads now dominated.
[03:24] ---
Profiling cyberbrains and terminals
of 4,022 people in the area.
[03:30] ---
Aramaki! I'm not giving you my crime scene!
[03:34] ---
This is Section 6. Who said you
could infiltrate our comm lines?!
[03:38] ---
We need to prevent casualties,
not play departmental musical chairs!
[03:43] ---
Or will you take the fall when we can't
even pin down their means of attack?!
[03:48] ---
Chief Aramaki, explain yourself.
[03:51] ---
Vice-Minister Kitahara.
[03:53] ---
I thought you were attending
the celebratory banquet?
[03:57] ---
What you warned me of is happening, then?
[03:59] ---
We got an anonymous tip that a
Qhardi group mobilized three hours ago.
[04:05] ---
Anonymous?
[04:07] ---
Can you trust it?
[04:09] ---
Yes. The Yotsubashi Building
area is definitely the target.
[04:15] ---
The old ape's sure fired up,
considering we're flying blind here.
[04:20] ---
Batou, this is the outfit
we've been after ever since
[04:23] ---
the cyber-contamination at
Harimadara four months ago.
[04:26] ---
Section 9 forced the domination through.
We'll have orders soon.
[04:29] ---
Nab one of the terrorists.
I want bait to draw out our prey.
[04:34] ---
Is it that super-wizard-class hacker, Fire-Starter?
[04:41] ---
Isn't that just what you want?
[04:44] ---
We don't even know if there's
really someone pulling the strings.
[04:47] ---
What I want is to formally
establish my spec ops team.
[04:50] ---
If you're scared of unknown enemies, drop out.
[04:53] ---
Piss off.
[04:58] ---
Corporate Killers
[04:58] ---
Driving during a cyber-meeting?
[05:00] ---
You're gonna crash.
[05:01] ---
You're the only one that green.
[05:05] ---
Our status as an independent
offensive unit is riding on this.
[05:08] ---
Public Security handles the incident,
and we handle what caused it.
[05:11] ---
Go.
[05:15] ---
Ghost Stands Alone, Part 1
[05:26] ---
You deserve this...
greedy rich-country bastards!
[05:43] ---
This was his only weapon.
Something's fishy.
[06:13] ---
The west team's slaughtering protesters.
[06:16] ---
Some are even shooting other cops!
[06:18] ---
It's the biggest simultaneous Ghost-hack ever.
[06:22] ---
There's no tech that'd
control 100 people at once.
[06:25] ---
The perps are all dead, too.
[06:28] ---
Check the riot squad's lines and
find out what caused the attack.
[06:31] ---
There's a log that might be Starter's, but...
[06:33] ---
Then this isn't hacking. It's a virus.
[06:36] ---
I don't see one in the sequence.
[06:38] ---
It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
[06:41] ---
Someone must be sending packaged
actions meant to control groups.
[07:01] ---
You, eh?
[07:11] ---
I made a deal with the devil for the
sake of rebuilding and independence!
[07:15] ---
Just like you wanted!
[07:19] ---
And it invited a second slaughter
by water and e-money
[07:23] ---
to follow the first slaughter with guns!
[07:26] ---
I want a media blackout now.
[07:26] ---
You said cyberbrain tech and the prosthetics
[07:28] ---
This is Priority One!
[07:28] ---
You said cyberbrain tech and the prosthetics
[07:30] ---
industry would build us a future, but hope
wasn't what they brought to Qhardistan!
[07:34] ---
They merely sowed the seeds of betrayal
[07:37] ---
that would grow to bleed
away my people's pride!
[07:39] ---
Have a taste of what that felt like!
[07:43] ---
Then you'll have no choice
but to grant me asylum!
[07:46] ---
Because this is a civilized, pacifist nation!
[07:51] ---
Oh, is it?
[08:10] ---
Optical camouflage!
[08:13] ---
You can't stop Fire-Starter.
[08:17] ---
Someone hacked my line?!
[08:31] ---
Major?!
[08:32] ---
Saito!
[08:45] ---
Shit.
[08:48] ---
Major, I'll be right there!
[08:50] ---
Don't be stupid. Go after
the one who hacked me!
[08:58] ---
Hello!
[09:03] ---
Give me a weapon!
[09:04] ---
Okay!
[09:26] ---
On your knees!
[09:29] ---
I'll shoot you dead if you resist.
[09:49] ---
That was outta nowhere!
[09:51] ---
This was your job, moron!
[09:56] ---
Sorry! That was an accident.
[09:59] ---
Equip some handrails!
[10:04] ---
Do it, Saito.
[10:15] ---
I let him get away, sorry!
[10:28] ---
Section 9 Office
[10:29] ---
Idiots!
[10:32] ---
You finally take the job, and then you
execute someone on the national Net?
[10:37] ---
Who, me? You have no proof.
[10:40] ---
Are you claiming you had no choice?
[10:42] ---
You're a super-wizard-class
hacker in an ace unit.
[10:45] ---
Was the Army overestimating you
when it rated you five stars?
[10:51] ---
Tell me about the virus
and that heavy cyborg girl.
[10:54] ---
No cyber-virus was detected.
The girl's name is Emma Tsuda.
[10:59] ---
Apparently she's famous on
the Net as a game app maker.
[11:03] ---
Nine hours after her arrest,
that's all you've got?
[11:06] ---
I guess a former Special A Rank
inspector for the Army like you
[11:10] ---
gets to have lots of talented subordinates.
[11:12] ---
My people's dedicated effort
got multiple perps captured alive.
[11:17] ---
Wow, great work arresting
some mindless packaged drones.
[11:24] ---
We could've stopped it if
we'd had special authority.
[11:28] ---
Then stop playing gangsters and join Section 9.
[11:32] ---
Unless you work directly for Home Affairs,
[11:34] ---
you do get official oversight
and you don't get secrecy.
[11:38] ---
Can you guarantee I'd be able to stay myself?
[11:41] ---
Cutting-edge equipment can protect
cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.
[11:45] ---
And my Ghost? My beliefs?
[11:47] ---
Depends how skilled you are.
I'll even consider a budget.
[11:52] ---
Create an international
counterterrorist agency for us
[11:55] ---
with the same budget as the Rangers.
[12:00] ---
I'm gonna go eat.
[12:05] ---
Aramaki, it's been a while.
[12:11] ---
Colonel Hozumi. What brings
Army intelligence here?
[12:17] ---
I'll take the girl now.
[12:19] ---
Care to explain?
[12:22] ---
They're from a squad I trust.
[12:26] ---
Ex-major Motoko Kusanagi, of the 501.
[12:31] ---
Hated your master so much
you became a stray, eh?
[12:34] ---
Your intel's dated. They recreated my rank.
[12:39] ---
The cyber-virus used is
crucial for us to investigate.
[12:44] ---
Explain why it's crucial, please.
[12:47] ---
It's a triple package of brainwashing,
[12:49] ---
Ghost infiltration, and false memory creation.
[12:52] ---
False memory? Last I checked,
the government doesn't admit that's possible,
[12:57] ---
despite all the reports.
[13:01] ---
Virus units entered this country
via a certain broker.
[13:05] ---
Trust me: You won't even
manage to indict that girl.
[13:11] ---
Unfortunately, she's been
transferred to Unit 501.
[13:14] ---
When?
[13:15] ---
The moment I agreed to
their request for cooperation.
[13:19] ---
I've never thought you were clever, but this?
[13:23] ---
You'll regret any foolish stubbornness.
[13:34] ---
Terror by false memories...
[13:37] ---
Your claims are finally proven, Major.
[13:41] ---
So is the existence of a virus
that enables Ghost-hacking.
[13:45] ---
Here's your next job:
Escort the girl to Unit 501.
[13:49] ---
What? There was really a request?
[13:51] ---
Signed by the Defense Minister.
Now give me one of your men in exchange.
[13:56] ---
Did your scary ex-colleague
make you want a guard?
[13:59] ---
I want information sharing.
Go renew old workplace friendships.
[14:03] ---
Can I ask one thing?
[14:05] ---
What is it?
[14:07] ---
Assuming I did shoot her...
[14:10] ---
...why didn't you use my
Ghost infiltration key to stop me?
[14:16] ---
I can't answer hypothetical questions.
[14:20] ---
I see.
[14:23] ---
This is Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied,
the one the Major killed.
[14:27] ---
She's Qhardi, but she graduated from
Kuzan Royal University as valedictorian.
[14:31] ---
A big player in Kuzan water importation
since the provisional government days.
[14:36] ---
But she supported terrorism when she realized
the world would forsake her people, eh?
[14:42] ---
She's smart and she's got motive,
but she's not a hacker.
[14:45] ---
Someone else packaged this.
[14:48] ---
What about the girl we captured?
[14:52] ---
Her name's Emma Tsuda.
A 17-year-old war orphan.
[14:56] ---
She makes hit cyberbrain games, which she
copyrights under the name "Tin Man."
[15:00] ---
"Tin Man"... As in The Wizard of Oz?
[15:03] ---
What's that?
[15:05] ---
Supposing she's a teenage
super-hacker, how does she fit in?
[15:10] ---
Don't tell me she's the one you're after?
[15:13] ---
I'll know when I dive into her Ghost.
[15:16] ---
Ishikawa, stay on the virus and the girl.
Saito, you go to Section 9.
[15:20] ---
Paz and Borma, you release the bait.
[15:23] ---
Batou, Togusa, and I will escort the girl.
[15:26] ---
We're starting the second round.
[15:29] ---
Suggestion for you,
Miss "Hothead Who Charges In Blind."
[15:34] ---
How about I become team leader
and lead us in a sensible retreat?
[15:39] ---
Brave thing to say in my cyberbrain space.
[15:45] ---
Step outside and let's fight!
[15:48] ---
Whoa, knock it off, you guys!
[16:03] ---
It might be cool if we could ride in you.
[16:06] ---
The Major requested a personnel transport
shaft from the Maintenance Department!
[16:10] ---
Will we pilot you from inside?
[16:13] ---
Isn't that our mobile arsenal?
Where would the weapons go?
[16:17] ---
We can just resupply each other. If we
armed this guy, he could be our backup.
[16:22] ---
Backup, eh?
[16:24] ---
Why are we using an outdated Logistics model?
[16:27] ---
Neurochip-type Als are hard to hack or infect.
[16:32] ---
So basically, it was us or the junkyard?
[16:34] ---
What? Not good enough for the
ex-cop still wearing a necktie?
[16:41] ---
My late father said looking
classy shows faith in yourself.
[16:46] ---
Watching you, ex-Ranger, I see what he meant.
[16:50] ---
Bold words, kid.
[17:11] ---
He's finally on the move.
[17:15] ---
I can imagine the profound
effects this incident will have
[17:20] ---
on the Next-Generation Weapons
Review Committee you serve on.
[17:24] ---
Thanks to pressure from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
[17:26] ---
we won't be unveiling our
prototype weapons, either.
[17:30] ---
It's shaking the foundations of the company.
[17:33] ---
I hear you're pressing for large-scale
water sales even after Dr. Thied's death.
[17:38] ---
I have a duty to fulfill my contract.
[17:41] ---
There are some out there who
can't even secure drinking water.
[17:45] ---
If you just want to criticize my economics,
I'm going back to work.
[17:55] ---
You're not cut out for government work.
[17:59] ---
Start an NPO and go live
in some refugee camp.
[18:05] ---
NPOs, camps... and Foreign Affairs?
[18:09] ---
The council on weapons development!
[18:12] ---
Was that the objective behind the
cyberterrorism against Harimadara?
[18:15] ---
There's a debate about
whether next-gen weapons
[18:17] ---
should be produced domestically
or developed abroad.
[18:21] ---
The overseas faction'd be thrilled if
a domestic manufacturer got attacked.
[18:26] ---
Here we go: an NPO that
"treats cyberization disorders."
[18:31] ---
They disseminated cyberization
and learning devices
[18:33] ---
in refugee camps in Kuzan during the war.
[18:37] ---
And domestically?
[18:38] ---
Got a hit on that girl in the same
NPO's treatment records.
[18:43] ---
Cyberization rejection syndrome.
[18:45] ---
Apparently she ran away
from a war orphan facility
[18:47] ---
because she rejected being cyberized.
[18:49] ---
The issue is, what did that NPO have to do
[18:51] ---
with a business deal motivated
by military development?
[18:56] ---
Go at the military-industrial complex
from both ends: soldiers and companies.
[19:07] ---
Did you hack my line to
deliberately get yourself caught?
[19:12] ---
What is "Fire-Starter"?
Is it really the name of a hacker?
[19:17] ---
Intelligence wants you. Military courts
don't do plea bargains, you know.
[19:25] ---
I smell seawater.
[19:28] ---
We aren't even allowed near the sea.
[19:33] ---
Programmers are like weapons:
we're forbidden by law from moving freely.
[19:38] ---
Long ago, glassblowers had no freedom,
because glasswork funded the state.
[19:44] ---
If they left the country,
they were blinded first.
[19:49] ---
You're a refugee?
That's why you started a massacre?
[19:55] ---
Do you think cyberbrains make people happy?
[20:02] ---
Are your memories trustworthy?
Or were they planted by someone?
[20:14] ---
It's me. The others got caught.
[20:20] ---
Don't worry, you'll see them in the afterlife.
[20:26] ---
You a cop?
[20:31] ---
I-I prepared a confession.
Let me call my lawyer--
[20:36] ---
You're not getting that chance.
[20:40] ---
You killed our bait, so you're
gonna tell us everything.
[20:46] ---
When micromachine-based cyberization
came to pass, experts worldwide warned us:
[20:53] ---
"False memories will be
used to commit crimes."
[20:57] ---
Every organization wants
that technology. My technology.
[21:01] ---
You mean you successfully made
memory-manipulation tech?
[21:06] ---
Your memories might even be--
[21:10] ---
I'm diving right here, right now!
[21:13] ---
Saw that coming.
[21:16] ---
We don't know what this virus is.
What if you get infected?
[21:20] ---
I'll blow it away, and her cyberbrain with it.
[21:23] ---
During your dive?!
[21:25] ---
Your cyber warfare style is twisted.
[21:27] ---
I prefer the term "super-wizard-class."
[21:30] ---
"Wizard"... Magician.
Magician who can't go home...
[21:36] ---
I'm diving straight in through her line.
[21:38] ---
Uh-huh, ignore protocol.
[21:41] ---
Hey, something's weird.
[21:46] ---
You're being hacked!
They're doing it through her cyberbrain!
[21:50] ---
What's going on?
This isn't just backfire!
[21:54] ---
Emma... Danger... Emma...
[22:03] ---
You...
[22:13] ---
Major!
[22:21] ---
There are two Ghosts in there?
[22:37] ---
Wavering sorrow and hatred
[22:44] ---
It all dims over time
[22:49] ---
Creaky (spirits)
[22:54] ---
We're taken, we're taken away
[23:01] ---
Away
[23:02] ---
We split in two (slipping)
[23:07] ---
We're slipping, we're slipping away
[23:14] ---
No way home...
[23:21] ---
(Lost... no way home...)
[23:34] ---
(Ghosts...)
[23:55] ---
Who is Emma?
[23:57] ---
The team is starting to analyze
this when Scarecrow interferes!
[24:00] ---
Who is Scarecrow?!
[24:02] ---
What is the hidden motive
behind this incident?!
[24:04] ---
Huh?
2 - Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:29] ---
It's the biggest simultaneous Ghost-hack ever.
[00:34] ---
You can't stop Fire-Starter.
[00:37] ---
Someone hacked my line?!
[00:38] ---
As in The Wizard of Oz?
[00:40] ---
What's that?
[00:42] ---
Supposing she's a teenage
super-hacker, how does she fit in?
[00:47] ---
I'm diving right here, right now!
[00:58] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[01:03] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[01:08] ---
What are you?
[01:15] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[01:21] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[01:26] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:38] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:49] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[02:02] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[02:13] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:37] ---
Started to miss your old home?
[02:41] ---
I'm only here to bring in
your witness, Lt. Col. Kurutsu.
[02:45] ---
Tsumugi is standing by. Dive if you want to.
[02:49] ---
Assuming she has a Ghost, that is.
[02:52] ---
What do you mean?
[02:54] ---
I'm stepping out.
[02:55] ---
As a member of the committee, I need
to be at Harimadara's product inspection.
[03:00] ---
Still obsessed with getting promoted?
[03:03] ---
It's something you ran away without doing.
[03:09] ---
Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2
[03:34] ---
Nice to see you, Kusanagi.
[03:36] ---
I didn't think we'd have
another chance to work with you.
[03:39] ---
Are these your men?
[03:41] ---
Yes. Batou and Togusa.
[03:44] ---
This is Tsumugi Dokuro. They're both
cyber warfare tactical officers.
[03:48] ---
"Both"? Are they sharing a body?
[03:52] ---
She says they're two identical
twins in one conjoined body.
[03:56] ---
I dunno how they move.
[03:59] ---
The world's full of surprises.
[04:04] ---
Let's get started.
[04:14] ---
So, only the body came back.
[04:16] ---
What do you mean?
[04:18] ---
She's a technical officer in
Lt. Col. Kurutsu's command.
[04:22] ---
She was investigating a hacker with
a special neurochip-type cyberbrain.
[04:27] ---
He's known as "Scarecrow,"
[04:29] ---
and he's a suspect in the
terrorist attack on Harimadara.
[04:32] ---
Another Oz character?
[04:35] ---
Huh?
[04:36] ---
Our conclusion is that he's a
special spy based on postwar tech.
[04:42] ---
Emma was the one who reasoned it out.
[04:45] ---
She hypothesized a hacker
with the same disorder she had.
[04:48] ---
Someone who had to incrementally
replace his brain with neurochips
[04:51] ---
and prosthetize his body to survive.
[04:53] ---
She had that disorder?
[04:56] ---
Personality attenuates, and selfhood can't
be retained without auxiliary cyberbrains.
[05:01] ---
Emma transformed her impairment into
her signature trait, as did Scarecrow.
[05:06] ---
Emma regularly used advanced
cyberization to structure her selfhood,
[05:09] ---
but Scarecrow is different.
[05:11] ---
To compensate for his attenuated personality,
he dubs the Ghosts of others,
[05:14] ---
steals their bodies,
and assumes their identities.
[05:18] ---
Like the scarecrow who can't think
inserting a false brain into his head.
[05:21] ---
Seriously?
[05:23] ---
In other words, this is...
[05:26] ---
Poor Emma. I'm sorry.
[05:29] ---
It's okay, Junior. Don't be afraid.
[05:32] ---
I know the lions will come.
The people with courage...
[05:36] ---
Who are you? Tell me who you work for.
[05:40] ---
I am a scarecrow. My brain is fading away.
[05:43] ---
I am tin. My heart is fading away.
[05:46] ---
Is that Emma talking, or her dubbed Ghost?
[05:51] ---
Tin Girl, give me the scarecrow man's name.
[05:56] ---
His name is Brinda Jr. Please, don't blame him.
[06:02] ---
Got a hit at a postwar nursing home!
And the same NPO is involved with it.
[06:06] ---
Brinda Jr., age 32.
[06:08] ---
After he was cyberized, he became an
accountant at an employment agency.
[06:12] ---
His personality's thin,
[06:13] ---
but he memorized a 200-digit number
in two seconds for an IQ test.
[06:17] ---
That's textbook for someone
with special cognitive abilities.
[06:20] ---
Find out which organization
set him up as a hacker.
[06:25] ---
I'm diving into that man's Ghost.
[06:33] ---
Togusa. Get all the records copied.
[06:36] ---
Roger. Oh, here...
Sorry, it's a call from my dad.
[06:41] ---
Hey Dad, it's been a while.
[06:43] ---
Batou! Restrain Togusa!
[06:46] ---
Got it. I'll become the Lion.
[06:53] ---
A Mateba, still?
[07:06] ---
Major!
[07:09] ---
This is crazy! I found a Starter
log on his comm--it's the virus!
[07:32] ---
The scarecrow is the virus's host and
Togusa's brain is the package, right?
[07:35] ---
Yep. But the infection route's
disturbingly selective.
[07:39] ---
Only people around you are being infected.
[07:42] ---
Does that mean the onset can be regulated?
[07:45] ---
That'd be impossible without
a third party to switch it on.
[07:49] ---
Which I guess means it's a virus
whose damage can be controlled.
[07:53] ---
Then it's military.
Reanalyze yesterday's infection data.
[07:57] ---
We don't want to chase the virus; we want
to chase the enemy in possession of it.
[08:03] ---
Tsumugi! You alive?
[08:05] ---
I'm running a sim of the
scarecrow's brain. Help me.
[08:08] ---
You have Emma Tsuda's Ghost infiltration key,
don't you? Make me a backdoor.
[08:12] ---
I see, you're going to use
Scarecrow's cyberbrain structure
[08:16] ---
to approximate a vaccine?
[08:24] ---
Reason: There are currently seventeen
possible ways to alter our memories.
[08:30] ---
Shit!
[08:32] ---
Major! Why won't you use my
Ghost infiltration key to stop this?!
[08:36] ---
It's no use. Brinda won't let her.
[08:40] ---
I will become anyone.
I've inputted and erased many Ghosts.
[08:45] ---
I disappeared, too... Who am I?
[08:49] ---
Was Unit 501 a target, too?
Aren't you a victim after all?!
[08:55] ---
There was no other way.
[08:57] ---
What are you after?
[09:13] ---
Don't disappear, Emma.
[09:19] ---
Let's go on living after our deaths, together.
[09:30] ---
An attack barrier!
[09:33] ---
Major!
[09:43] ---
Looks like we pulled it off.
[09:45] ---
The host and Starter are still active.
[10:00] ---
We can see the ocean, Emma.
[10:04] ---
This creeps even me out, Major.
[10:07] ---
Report.
[10:09] ---
Col. Hozumi from Army intelligence
was the one to recruit Brinda Jr.
[10:13] ---
"Scarecrow" is an op cooked up
by their old Investigations Section
[10:17] ---
during a period when they were
working on Ghost Dub devices.
[10:20] ---
Hozumi got on the Next-Gen Weapons
Review Committee through Foreign Affairs.
[10:26] ---
But she wasn't there long,
and Kurutsu of Unit 501 took her seat
[10:31] ---
at Vice-Minister Kitahara's recommendation.
[10:35] ---
Which one built the pod?
[10:37] ---
Unknown. But Army
intelligence decided to rally
[10:41] ---
by interfering with the Review Committee.
[10:44] ---
I'd guess that somewhere in there,
the two hackers became aware of each other.
[10:47] ---
The attack on Harimadara is the connection?
[10:50] ---
There's no evidence they did it.
[10:53] ---
But Hozumi is in the overseas
weapons development faction,
[10:57] ---
and Harimadara's a
domestic faction stronghold.
[10:59] ---
Who shot our bait?
[11:01] ---
A Kuzan water cartel hit man.
Hozumi's playing with serious fire.
[11:08] ---
She used the pretext of wartime industry
[11:10] ---
to interfere in Kuzan's affairs while
she was stationed there during the war.
[11:14] ---
If she can't subdue the domestic faction
and give the cartel the profits she promised,
[11:18] ---
it'll retaliate against her.
[11:21] ---
Starter analysis results?
[11:23] ---
Couldn't pin down the trigger,
but I got my answer
[11:25] ---
from the fact that we couldn't find
the infection route into the building
[11:28] ---
even though Section 9 had domination over it.
[11:33] ---
It was a C4ISR network.
[11:36] ---
A military communications system.
[11:38] ---
Things are starting to come clear.
[11:40] ---
Col. Hozumi's the one who activated Starter
[11:42] ---
and patched the virus through
to infect the VIP room's security.
[11:47] ---
She was after the woman the guard shot.
[11:49] ---
Senior Vice-Minister Kitahara,
who's with the domestic faction.
[11:53] ---
That massacre was a
smokescreen for one murder?!
[11:56] ---
Guess she's a born war-lover.
[11:58] ---
Why snipe Tin Girl?
[12:01] ---
That was a bluff.
[12:02] ---
She must've wanted to get rid of us
and get Tin Girl safely to the 501.
[12:07] ---
So her little visit to Section 9
was a smokescreen, too?
[12:10] ---
She backed down so easily because
she was after Unit 501 from the start.
[12:14] ---
So she could set up anti-cyberbrainist
Emma Tsuda as the massacre's ringleader.
[12:19] ---
What about the Ghost of
the girl who got dubbed?
[12:21] ---
If she does have her own will,
why'd she knowingly let Hozumi use her?
[12:26] ---
Just from the circumstances,
the scarecrow is the one you've been after.
[12:32] ---
He didn't necessarily write the virus.
Hozumi said there was a broker.
[12:36] ---
If she told the truth,
someone out there made and sold it.
[12:40] ---
That's who I'm after.
[12:43] ---
I assume you have Togusa's location.
We'll meet en route.
[12:48] ---
We know for sure this infection
plants false memories, right?
[12:52] ---
You saw him talking to his dead father.
[12:55] ---
There should be a shared form.
[12:57] ---
I'll get infected, so you ID it and
version up your makeshift vaccine.
[13:02] ---
You want to mirror your own brain?
[13:04] ---
Worst case scenario, blow my brains out.
[13:07] ---
So that's my job?
[13:09] ---
If you don't like it, make me the leader.
[13:14] ---
You're on the wanted list
as a suspected terrorist!
[13:17] ---
Shit, it's Section 9! The ape
used to be in Army intelligence.
[13:20] ---
He cut a deal with Hozumi, and he's framing us!
[13:23] ---
She may just want us to think so.
I'll send Section 9 our intel.
[13:28] ---
After all this, you're still relying on him?!
[13:31] ---
No.
[13:32] ---
Why, then?!
[13:34] ---
My Ghost is whispering that I should do it.
[13:53] ---
Wait! Where are you going?!
[13:57] ---
Stop!
[14:00] ---
We promised we'd go far away.
[14:09] ---
Goodbye.
[14:29] ---
I released the package!
[14:35] ---
Major...
[14:40] ---
She's in pieces!
[14:41] ---
If she's a neurochip version, she's still alive.
[14:47] ---
We'll go on living.
[14:59] ---
It's a Ghost Dub, not a transfer?!
[15:14] ---
That's a Harimadara prototype!
[15:17] ---
Major!
[15:18] ---
Two Ghosts have been dubbed into that thing.
[15:21] ---
We're going to stop it! Logicomas,
give me everything you've got!
[15:24] ---
Yes, sir!
[16:07] ---
Next-gen weapon or not, its brains are rookies.
[16:23] ---
For real?!
[16:58] ---
Got you now!
[17:07] ---
What's that?
[17:08] ---
It's Army intelligence! The bastards
requested an artillery strike!
[17:19] ---
You've cut off your sensory system?!
[17:22] ---
Crap!
[17:32] ---
You discarded intensity regions...
[17:34] ---
Recognition systems, memory fields,
the Net that maintains your architecture...
[18:18] ---
You even jettisoned your own Ghost!
[18:21] ---
You want a life you've
stripped all meaning from?!
[18:40] ---
Goodbye.
[18:58] ---
It's over.
[18:59] ---
Return to base. We're going
to Kuzan, by way of Benares.
[19:05] ---
The world's cyber economy has only just begun.
[19:09] ---
I'll pay whatever it takes
to reconcile with the cartel--
[19:31] ---
You're free to go. We voided the
wanted notice Col. Hozumi put out.
[19:36] ---
Vice-Minister of Defense Kitahara
wants to thank you.
[19:40] ---
Is that some sort of joke?
[19:42] ---
A political one.
[19:45] ---
Section 9 just went through
Col. Hozumi's possessions
[19:48] ---
and confiscated a Ghost Dub device
and an outline of the Scarecrow op.
[19:53] ---
They couldn't arrest her, though.
[19:55] ---
No--but then she confessed.
[20:00] ---
Her chopper was shot down
with Kuzan weapons.
[20:06] ---
She's afraid enough of the cartel's revenge
[20:09] ---
to request protective custody
and a plea bargain.
[20:12] ---
So she'll get off scot-free.
[20:14] ---
I'll make sure she doesn't.
[20:16] ---
The NPO she worked with is a front
for dirty cyberbrain business.
[20:21] ---
Not only that, we've detected Starter
in her cyberbrain, just like your intel said.
[20:26] ---
She got a lot of people injured or killed,
and I'll make her pay for that--
[20:30] ---
even if I can't take her to court yet.
[20:38] ---
Major.
[20:39] ---
All of you came? I didn't know
I had such admirable subordinates.
[20:45] ---
You could've been attacked while in custody.
[20:48] ---
We've been keeping an eye on all
the suspicious characters who came by.
[20:53] ---
One more thing. I told the
Minister of Home Affairs
[20:56] ---
that your team contributed
to deterring the virus.
[20:59] ---
As of tomorrow, you get special authority.
[21:03] ---
Without official oversight.
[21:05] ---
This case isn't over.
[21:08] ---
Investigate the high-level hacking
virus and any organizations involved,
[21:13] ---
and plan to attend plenty
of funerals along the way.
[21:15] ---
I shot Thied.
[21:18] ---
You must have had a hunch that an
intelligence bigwig was behind this,
[21:21] ---
meaning you would've wanted
an intel advantage at any cost.
[21:24] ---
So why didn't you stop me?!
[21:27] ---
Because I don't have your
Ghost infiltration key.
[21:33] ---
No organization will ever have it.
[21:37] ---
I promised your late commander that.
[21:55] ---
Wavering sorrow and hatred
[22:02] ---
It all dims over time
[22:07] ---
Creaky (spirits)
[22:12] ---
We're taken, we're taken away
[22:19] ---
Away
[22:21] ---
We split in two (slipping)
[22:23] ---
Which one had agency, the man or the girl?
[22:26] ---
We're slipping, we're slipping away
[22:28] ---
Did they even have real will?
[22:32] ---
No way home...
[22:32] ---
When they blocked my infiltration, at least.
[22:36] ---
But they fled with nowhere to go,
then had to transfer into that weapon.
[22:45] ---
What if the reason they cast away
what made them themselves
[22:48] ---
was to output the last thing left into the Net?
[22:54] ---
In the moment their Ghosts were lost,
I got the feeling they'd fused.
[22:59] ---
That two lives had become one...
[23:02] ---
That isn't like you. Ghosts are the
most independent things in this world.
[23:07] ---
Even the ones being controlled are
fundamentally, eternally standalone.
[23:11] ---
Like our squad, yeah?
[23:17] ---
Yeah.
[23:19] ---
Well? The floaters are all ready.
I got a set of two.
[23:24] ---
Even someone with a titanium
skull wouldn't drown.
[23:27] ---
You seriously want to swim
in the ocean in midwinter?
[23:30] ---
Gotta shake off those
memories of almost drowning.
[23:33] ---
Plus it ain't too often I get
to see you in a swimsuit.
[23:36] ---
That's your real goal?
[23:37] ---
Huh?
[23:38] ---
Unbelievable.
[23:39] ---
No, no! I'm doing this all for you!
[23:45] ---
I'll take a rain check.
[23:47] ---
I'm telling you, you got it all wrong!
[23:55] ---
Rewind to the past.
[23:57] ---
A story from when Major Motoko
Kusanagi was still in Unit 501!
[24:01] ---
The mystery of Lt. Col. Mamuro's death
[24:02] ---
brings about the meeting of
the future shell squad members!
3 - Ghost Pain, Part 1
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:28] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[00:33] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[00:38] ---
What are you?
[00:45] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[00:51] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[00:56] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:08] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:19] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:31] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[01:43] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:33] ---
This is from your unit.
[02:54] ---
Ghost Pain, Part 1
[03:10] ---
I'm amazed we got permission
to exhume the body.
[03:13] ---
It's backward. They disregarded our
investigation by burying him to begin with.
[03:17] ---
Yes, sir. Still, a military cemetery...
[03:21] ---
It's ridiculously expensive to dispose of
a prosthetic body that can't be reused.
[03:26] ---
Thanks to their cost-cutting,
we can recover the cyberbrain.
[03:29] ---
Where are the engineers?
[03:32] ---
Drawing straws at HQ.
[03:34] ---
Apparently, connecting to a dead
criminal's cyberbrain is "creepy."
[03:38] ---
We don't know yet that he's a criminal.
[03:40] ---
Chief Aramaki!
[03:42] ---
We'll check the contents,
then take it back to headquarters.
[03:51] ---
What are you waiting for? Put it down!
[03:55] ---
Sorry, sir!
[03:57] ---
Don't open that coffin!
[04:12] ---
Are you military?
[04:17] ---
I'm Aramaki, with Public Security Section 9.
[04:20] ---
We're investigating
Lieutenant Colonel Mamuro's murder.
[04:22] ---
I'm seizing his cyberbrain
and prosthetic body as evidence.
[04:27] ---
You knew him?
[04:28] ---
Yes, back when I was an Army man.
[04:31] ---
There's not a soldier in the world
more squeaky-clean than he was.
[04:39] ---
Your name and unit?
[04:43] ---
Major Motoko Kusanagi, Unit 501.
[04:49] ---
501? So you were his subordinate.
[04:55] ---
Open it up.
[04:57] ---
Can I ask your rank?
[04:59] ---
I was in the old
Investigations Section. That's all.
[05:02] ---
They sold off whatever wouldn't
fit in the coffin to a junk shop.
[05:18] ---
That's not his body!
[05:44] ---
Get down!
[06:33] ---
Finally back on base, you delinquent?
[06:36] ---
Why did you authorize
Public Security's involvement?!
[06:39] ---
Since I can't dismiss the possibility that
Mamuro was corrupt, I had no choice.
[06:44] ---
Unit 501 should be investigating this!
[06:48] ---
The higher-ups told us to stay out of it.
[06:52] ---
Someone set a trap at his grave.
[06:54] ---
Ignore it.
[06:55] ---
His cyberbrain is gone!
[06:58] ---
This isn't the time to stir up a hornet's nest.
[07:01] ---
Then you believe that he
was taking dirty money?
[07:04] ---
He got mugged downtown. That much is fact.
[07:08] ---
Not an honorable death, but compared
to indictment, maybe he got lucky.
[07:14] ---
Thanks to him, our letters of
recommendation are on hold, too.
[07:17] ---
Concentrate on your work for now.
[07:20] ---
Work?
[07:22] ---
I distinctly remember asking you
to analyze that infected hardware.
[07:27] ---
Not possible. I just got back
to Japan today, you know.
[08:39] ---
Giichi Mamuro, member of
a special unit of the GSDA,
[08:42] ---
was murdered on the fifth of this month.
[08:45] ---
Niihama police say the investigation
into his possible corruption is ongoing.
[08:48] ---
Lieutenant Colonel Mamuro is
suspected of taking large bribes
[08:50] ---
while serving as a security official
in Harimadara's weapons export--
[09:05] ---
Access records of his
movements the day of his death
[09:08] ---
and all data from city surveillance cameras.
[09:32] ---
He was tailed.
[09:33] ---
Scan anyone who traveled the same
route he did before time of death.
[09:43] ---
Three...
[09:54] ---
A fourth?
[10:07] ---
Three men and a mobile
land mine were following him?
[10:23] ---
Funds transferred.
[10:28] ---
What is this?
[10:32] ---
Any pain?
[10:34] ---
Not right now, no.
[10:36] ---
It's similar to the phantom pain
particular to cyborgs,
[10:39] ---
but that shouldn't affect you.
[10:42] ---
Could be a bad contact in
your nervous components.
[10:44] ---
Any other abnormalities?
[10:49] ---
No.
[10:50] ---
We should do a full-body checkup to be safe.
[10:53] ---
Thank you, but I have a meeting to go to.
[11:02] ---
As both a Special Cyborg
[11:04] ---
Ministry of Defense
[11:04] ---
and a recognized wizard-class programmer,
[11:07] ---
new regulations apply to you
[11:09] ---
under the revised Weapons Act.
[11:10] ---
The Prosthetics Maintenance Rule
now applies to issuing identification,
[11:15] ---
possessing cash, opening bank accounts,
or other ownership of assets.
[11:20] ---
In Lt. Col. Mamuro's letter
on my reclassification,
[11:23] ---
he guaranteed my financial autonomy.
[11:26] ---
If he's proven corrupt,
he'll receive a dishonorable discharge,
[11:30] ---
and all such documents will be void.
[11:33] ---
You expect me to endure a position
[11:34] ---
where I have to file paperwork
every time I open my wallet?
[11:38] ---
The cost of prosthetic bodies far exceeds
standard health insurance payouts.
[11:42] ---
You ought to do your duty to the government
which guarantees your right to life.
[11:46] ---
This is the consent form for your
monitoring and custody post-restructuring.
[11:50] ---
Make an effort to understand
your circumstances.
[12:01] ---
During the war,
Japan allocated a sky-high budget
[12:04] ---
to promoting cyborg development.
[12:07] ---
Did they tell you to become
Army property to foot the bill?
[12:12] ---
There were large deposits
made to Mamuro's accounts.
[12:15] ---
But after his murder,
someone withdrew all that money.
[12:21] ---
What do you want?
[12:23] ---
Major Kusanagi, of Unit 501.
No criminal record.
[12:28] ---
You work with the Army and Public
Security as a special consultant.
[12:32] ---
You specialize in solving cybercrimes.
[12:42] ---
I request that you track down the missing
money and analyze the coffin records.
[12:47] ---
I'll give you the regular
consulting fee, as a civilian.
[12:51] ---
That'll be an issue, you know.
[12:53] ---
A soldier famous for his integrity being
shot to death in secret is a bigger issue.
[13:08] ---
Tomorrow morning, I'll send you a
liaison who'll double as a bodyguard.
[13:21] ---
Still don't want the 501 to investigate?
[13:24] ---
Make one wrong move,
and our unit could get dissolved.
[13:27] ---
Public Security offered me an assignment.
[13:30] ---
Will you accept?
[13:31] ---
Lend me a hand.
[13:32] ---
If you can't get it done alone,
you'll be at the end of the line.
[13:36] ---
No one else will be able to protect you then.
[13:39] ---
Being protected isn't
what I learned to do here!
[13:42] ---
I learned to make the most of my strengths!
[13:47] ---
I'll grant permission for you to use Server 6.
[13:50] ---
Thanks.
[13:52] ---
Just don't forget the job I gave you.
[14:02] ---
List the people working on the case.
[14:05] ---
But this is clearly related to the LTC's mugging!
[14:08] ---
We know he met up with the prostitute.
We need a warrant for her cust--
[14:12] ---
It's military jurisdiction! You keep out of it!
[14:16] ---
You just forget this case,
you hear me? That's an order!
[14:23] ---
Then what's a special investigator
even for, dammit?!
[14:28] ---
Mamuro was being followed.
[14:32] ---
What?!
[14:53] ---
Hey!
[14:54] ---
St-Stop right there!
[15:13] ---
There you are!
[15:24] ---
Well, if it isn't the little tomboy from the lab.
[15:33] ---
The one who infiltrated me... is in that car...!
[15:43] ---
You fool! That makes you a deserter!
[15:50] ---
Stop, Raizo!
[15:52] ---
You all right, Kusanagi?
[15:54] ---
Instructor Ibachi...
[15:56] ---
Don't think you can do whatever you want
just because you were Mamuro's favorite!
[16:01] ---
Your selfish actions put
the whole unit in danger!
[16:04] ---
That's enough! I'll be the one to lecture her.
[16:14] ---
The number is a fake. He's a slippery customer.
[16:17] ---
We've proven there was an infiltrator, at least.
[16:21] ---
What does Kurutsu say?
[16:22] ---
"Ignore it."
[16:26] ---
Is your prosthetic body acting up?
[16:30] ---
I don't know.
[16:31] ---
Goodness, another visitor.
[16:33] ---
You've got a strange one here to see you.
[16:40] ---
What is this?
[16:46] ---
It uses signal lights? How old is this thing?
[16:52] ---
Come with me.
[17:00] ---
Construct your learning base yourself.
[17:10] ---
Hello, nice to meet you!
[17:12] ---
I'm an autonomous-follower logistics system,
a "Logistics Conveyer Machine."
[17:18] ---
You're Section 9's "liaison
who'll double as a bodyguard"?
[17:22] ---
Chief Aramaki calls me a "Logicoma"!
[17:25] ---
You'll be receiving information
through me, Major Kusanagi.
[17:30] ---
No synching. Explain things orally or as data.
[17:34] ---
Um... Any Army case information on the
group identified as illicit arms dealers
[17:40] ---
would be very useful to Chief Aramaki
in tracking down a mobile land mine!
[17:44] ---
The Army? Arms dealers?
[17:47] ---
Yes, sir!
[17:52] ---
You disappear. I'll take it from here.
[17:54] ---
Order acknowledged!
[17:59] ---
Optical camouflage?
[18:12] ---
Hi there!
[18:14] ---
Come on in.
[18:15] ---
It's not even dinnertime, and this
guy's three sheets to the wind!
[18:18] ---
Get him something cold, okay?
[18:20] ---
Come on, get it together! Sit straight!
[18:40] ---
There.
[18:48] ---
Warning! Warning!
[18:49] ---
Someone approaching, extremely close!
[18:55] ---
Don't move. Who sent you?!
[19:16] ---
Were you the ones who killed Lt. Col. Mamuro?
[19:19] ---
Huh? Are you Public Security?
[19:21] ---
Answer me!
[19:22] ---
First you check the Army database!
Code 24, Ops H2976...
[19:28] ---
...code name Paz!
[19:32] ---
You're undercover?!
[19:34] ---
Yeah, the group I'm in with was hired for a hit.
[19:39] ---
They said the target was a full cyborg
[19:40] ---
and his cyberbrain had to be destroyed,
so we'd use mobile land mines.
[19:43] ---
Three of 'em--and I'm talking military-grade.
[19:47] ---
Lt. Col. Mamuro's murder?
[19:49] ---
Who knows? Apparently
somebody beat our guys to it,
[19:53] ---
and we let the mines get away.
[19:55] ---
Where did the mines come from?
[19:58] ---
Maneuver Area 6.
[20:00] ---
That place is a joke. Might as well
set foxes to guard a henhouse.
[20:06] ---
Feel like proving it with me?
[20:11] ---
This ain't the best job, but I can't just drop it.
[20:14] ---
I'd be in danger, and I'd
cause trouble for my CO.
[20:20] ---
I see.
[20:23] ---
Thanks for your cooperation.
[20:26] ---
I wish I had your freedom of movement.
[20:50] ---
Maneuver Area 6
[21:06] ---
Their security's a joke, all right.
[21:26] ---
All that's left is to connect the dots...
[21:29] ---
Look, I've got authorization!
And all I'm gonna do is ask questions!
[21:33] ---
Take your complaints to the station.
[21:36] ---
Where does he get off? It ain't like
I've never been deployed, dammit...
[21:47] ---
This is bullshit! They're not even he--
[21:52] ---
Ah, sorry. I'm a special investigator
with the Niihama police.
[21:56] ---
I was told I could find these two here.
[21:59] ---
I have some questions for
First Lieutenant Moto Seta
[22:01] ---
and Captain Amuri Noto here--
[22:04] ---
Thanks. You just connected some dots.
[22:08] ---
And I see some others just connected.
How about showing yourself?
[22:20] ---
Long time no see. Gotta say I
didn't figure you for this one.
[22:25] ---
(mem mem mem mem)
[22:28] ---
(memories memories)
[22:31] ---
(memories memories memories)
[22:34] ---
(my memories my memories my memories)
[22:37] ---
Fragmented memories
[22:50] ---
Here flowers (here birds); this is the sky
[23:01] ---
Clouds, grass, the house I grew up in
[23:07] ---
I search (and search) through the photos
[23:16] ---
But I'm nowhere to be found
[23:24] ---
Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
[23:33] ---
Why am I not there?
Why am I not there?
[23:37] ---
Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
[23:46] ---
Why am I not there?
Why am I not there?
[23:51] ---
Why am I not there?
[23:55] ---
Who killed Lt. Col. Mamuro?
[23:57] ---
Who are you, you jerk?!
[23:59] ---
The money trail, the bullets, the land mines--
it all leads back to Major Kusanagi.
[24:03] ---
The Major did it?!
[24:05] ---
4 - Ghost Pain, Part 2
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:26] ---
Don't open that coffin!
[00:29] ---
Why did you authorize
Public Security's involvement?!
[00:31] ---
Unit 501 should be investigating this!
[00:34] ---
But this is clearly related to the LTC's mugging!
[00:38] ---
Just because you were Mamuro's favorite!
[00:41] ---
Were you the ones who killed Lt. Col. Mamuro?
[00:45] ---
Maneuver Area 6.
[00:47] ---
All that's left is to connect the dots...
[00:53] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[00:58] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[01:03] ---
What are you?
[01:10] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[01:16] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[01:21] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:33] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:44] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:57] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[02:08] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:20] ---
Maneuver Area 6
[02:22] ---
Look, I've got authorization!
[02:24] ---
And all I'm gonna do is ask questions!
[02:27] ---
Take your complaints to the station.
[02:29] ---
Where does he get off? It ain't like
I've never been deployed, dammit...
[02:35] ---
This is bullshit! They're not even he--
[02:40] ---
Ah, sorry. I'm a special investigator
with the Niihama police.
[02:44] ---
I was told I could find these two here.
[02:47] ---
Thanks. You just connected some dots.
[02:51] ---
And I see some others just connected.
How about showing yourself?
[03:04] ---
Long time no see. Gotta say I
didn't figure you for this one.
[03:09] ---
Batou the Ranger?
[03:31] ---
I've told you your sleepless eye's
weakness is how easy it is to infiltrate.
[03:37] ---
So, why are you after me?
[03:39] ---
Don't play dumb!
[03:41] ---
You're the one who got this
place's mobile land mines!
[03:48] ---
What the hell?!
[03:56] ---
Wait!
[03:58] ---
Don't shoot! Run!
[04:10] ---
Don't!
[04:36] ---
Ghost Pain, Part 2
[04:43] ---
Those guys aren't with you?!
[04:45] ---
Seriously, what are you talking about?
[04:47] ---
Hey, look!
[04:53] ---
They found us!
[04:55] ---
They want to eliminate us here.
[04:57] ---
And their excuse will be a
"training exercise accident"?
[05:07] ---
Now we climb!
[05:08] ---
Climb this?!
[05:09] ---
Damn straight!
[05:11] ---
We'll hold them off, so get moving!
[05:14] ---
Okay, fine.
[05:15] ---
Hello!
[05:16] ---
What's that?!
[05:19] ---
We're surrounded.
[05:31] ---
Get in!
[05:52] ---
I thought you couldn't drop your job?
[05:54] ---
This makes a nice change of pace.
[06:12] ---
You asked the military police for help?
[06:16] ---
To escort a suspect.
[06:19] ---
What's this about?
[06:24] ---
Firstly: the missing money went
to your account, Major Kusanagi.
[06:30] ---
Secondly: the bullet you fired on
the mobile land mine at the graveyard
[06:34] ---
matched the one that killed Lt. Col. Mamuro.
[06:37] ---
Seven days ago, a prostitute
here in town was shot to death.
[06:42] ---
The bullet matched the one that killed Mamuro.
[06:44] ---
Mamuro had met with her,
and according to the other working girls,
[06:48] ---
he was asking questions
about one of her clients.
[06:51] ---
Seven days ago, one of my fellow Rangers
[06:55] ---
was killed by a mobile land mine,
along with his family.
[07:00] ---
He'd been in contact with Mamuro, too.
[07:04] ---
And when I traced the land mine to its source,
it led me to the major here.
[07:09] ---
By the way, she says she got
back to Japan three days ago,
[07:12] ---
but Immigration records
say it was seven days ago.
[07:15] ---
My group was supposed to use three mines.
[07:18] ---
Assuming one of those three was
buried and another killed the Ranger,
[07:22] ---
there's one more left unaccounted for.
[07:24] ---
At the moment, all the clues
point to you murdering Mamuro
[07:29] ---
and stealing his money.
[07:32] ---
I'm sorry, Major Kusanagi. I doubt
I'll be in this world much longer.
[07:38] ---
I wanted to get justice.
[07:41] ---
I've left your recommendation
in someone else's care.
[07:45] ---
You're the most promising squad
member I know. I wish you luck.
[07:51] ---
In the case, I found data on an
internal weapons exportation racket...
[07:57] ---
...and this gun.
[07:58] ---
You've moved a lot of money
in the past few days.
[08:03] ---
Who are you sending it to?
[08:05] ---
The widow of the man who raised me.
[08:09] ---
She's taken care of me since I was little,
but she's in a nursing home now.
[08:14] ---
What's her name?
[08:18] ---
What is this woman's name?
[08:31] ---
This is surveillance footage
from Maneuver Area 6.
[08:34] ---
Your subordinate is in it.
[08:37] ---
If you refuse to hand her over,
[08:39] ---
I'll present you with a summons
signed by the Defense Minister himself.
[08:42] ---
I'll submit a written report at a
later date. I can't hand her over.
[08:47] ---
Vixen.
[08:49] ---
I'll make you regret this.
[08:57] ---
That's Shujiro Kanzaki.
He's in charge of Maneuver Area 6,
[09:01] ---
and he leads a team of special agents.
[09:04] ---
He's also the Army's dirty go-between
with the Ministry of Defense.
[09:07] ---
Don't worry. I'll protect you.
[09:14] ---
What's wrong?
[09:17] ---
It's nothing.
[09:32] ---
It's been empty from the beginning?
Then where's the gun?!
[09:37] ---
Why did I think there were
whistle-blowing documents in it?!
[09:41] ---
And the lieutenant colonel...?
[09:55] ---
What's real? What's the truth?
[10:06] ---
Logicoma, synch with me.
[10:08] ---
Are you sure?
[10:09] ---
Just get on with it. Record my field
of vision and play it back in real time.
[10:15] ---
Roger!
[10:19] ---
I see things that shouldn't be there.
[10:22] ---
I don't see things that should be there.
[10:44] ---
Here, the whole time...?
[10:48] ---
Special agent
The LTC is innocent
[11:02] ---
Where's Mamuro's cyberbrain?
[11:06] ---
The hardware Kurutsu had me analyze
matched his Net synch pattern.
[11:12] ---
He and I were infected with
the same virus, weren't we?
[11:16] ---
With something hypothesized
to be a cyber-virus.
[11:18] ---
We speculate that it's a
self-destructing Stuxnet-type
[11:21] ---
which causes unknown dysfunction.
[11:24] ---
"Unknown dysfunction"...
You mean false memories.
[11:28] ---
Route of transmission?
[11:29] ---
It must have been contact
with Mamuro's cyberbrain.
[11:32] ---
Which is still with his prosthetic body.
[11:36] ---
His coffin was a trap.
[11:39] ---
And the records Public Security got of
his burial show no signs of tampering.
[11:45] ---
So that's how it is...
[11:58] ---
The records weren't tampered with.
[12:00] ---
They just buried the truth under a lie.
[12:39] ---
I've found it...
[12:42] ---
My reality.
[12:53] ---
Drive.
[13:04] ---
The lieutenant colonel came
to you to blow the whistle.
[13:08] ---
Didn't he, Mr. Sadamoto,
Vice-Minister of Defense?
[13:12] ---
Yes.
[13:13] ---
But you ordered a cover-up.
[13:15] ---
Because it couldn't be made public!
[13:17] ---
We ignored treaties and sold arms to
Third World countries during the war
[13:21] ---
to relieve its financial burden on us.
[13:23] ---
That's governmental weapons smuggling!
[13:26] ---
The lieutenant colonel learned
of your cover-up and investigated.
[13:29] ---
The prostitute you frequented.
The Ranger who escorted you.
[13:33] ---
When he got info from them,
he decided to blow the whistle on you.
[13:36] ---
So you ordered Captain Kanzaki to kill him.
[13:40] ---
I just ordered him to solve the situation!
[13:43] ---
Yes, a few people suffered,
but I don't know who killed Mamuro.
[13:48] ---
Hell, maybe he really was mugged.
[13:50] ---
You claim even you don't know?
[14:00] ---
Stop!
[14:03] ---
Someone help!
[14:09] ---
Should've blown him away.
[14:11] ---
Wasn't being more than a killing machine
the whole point of getting out?
[14:16] ---
They traced us through the
remote control. They're coming.
[14:20] ---
You go on. They're mine.
[14:23] ---
There are two of them.
[14:25] ---
Fine with me. We'll see who's the better killer.
[14:31] ---
Take care.
[14:33] ---
You too.
[14:35] ---
I hate to say it, but they're not the
only ones to benefit from his death.
[15:36] ---
You're the ones who killed
the lieutenant colonel!
[17:07] ---
That's enough of that.
[17:13] ---
You've reached your limit, Kusanagi.
[17:24] ---
Raizo and Ibachi were luring the
enemy here with the money as bait.
[17:30] ---
We've eliminated six spies.
[17:33] ---
That's plenty.
[17:35] ---
Kanzaki funneled money into Mamuro's
account, I moved it... and you used it.
[17:42] ---
That's right.
[17:44] ---
The gun used on the prostitute was
the beginning of the enemy plot.
[17:49] ---
Blowing up the Ranger, the phony bribery...
All the blame was placed on Mamuro.
[18:00] ---
And he intended to bring the
Vice-Minister down with him.
[18:04] ---
Unit 501 would have gone on the Army
purge list in retaliation for the scandal.
[18:11] ---
So you let him die. All of you.
[18:36] ---
If it weren't for the memory virus,
maybe we could have saved him.
[18:40] ---
But as things stood,
the only option was to secure
[18:44] ---
Mamuro's cyberbrain, the mine,
and the money before he got blown up.
[18:54] ---
But what neither we nor the
enemy accounted for was you.
[19:01] ---
As soon as I arrived and got the data,
I went after the lieutenant colonel.
[19:21] ---
And you were infected by his cyberbrain.
[19:33] ---
Even as you gathered the evidence,
you were continually losing memories.
[19:41] ---
The LTC is innocent
[19:43] ---
What organization developed the virus?
[19:46] ---
Unclear. All we know is that a
foreign broker brought it here
[19:50] ---
and that people call it "Fire-Starter."
[19:54] ---
Was it a foreign power
that cooked up the scandal?
[19:58] ---
Our enemy is the global
military-industrial complex itself.
[20:01] ---
What would dragging down
one vice-minister accomplish?
[20:04] ---
Did you take the disc he left me?
[20:08] ---
I did that to protect you.
[20:10] ---
You used me as bait for the enemy!
[20:12] ---
I did that to protect the organization.
[20:14] ---
Why did you stand back and watch him die?
[20:17] ---
I did that to protect myself.
[20:28] ---
You stick with me, Kusanagi.
I'll build a future for you.
[20:39] ---
The pain is gone now.
[20:46] ---
Section 9 and the review committee
[20:48] ---
have formally cleared
Lt. Col. Mamuro of suspicion.
[20:52] ---
Thus, as his recommendation was renewed
by a third party, we will implement it.
[20:57] ---
Due to your excellent record, we also grant
you the post-reorganization major rank.
[21:01] ---
In addition, in accordance with
the will of your late legal guardian,
[21:05] ---
you'll receive a testamentary trust.
[21:09] ---
It's an inheritance from
the person who raised you.
[21:12] ---
A portion of it is earmarked for
the purchase of your prosthetic body.
[21:14] ---
Which means that your body
is now your property,
[21:17] ---
and is outside Army jurisdiction.
[21:22] ---
You're quite sure about this?
[21:25] ---
The virus may be an unknown,
[21:26] ---
but we've identified the architecture
of the false memories.
[21:29] ---
Do it.
[21:31] ---
Very well. We'll attempt memory eradication.
[22:41] ---
Want a ride?
[22:43] ---
Consider it my thanks for telling us
the location of Mamuro's cyberbrain.
[22:47] ---
I'll take the bus.
[22:48] ---
Then I'll just give you the results.
[22:50] ---
Captain Kanzaki was replaced.
Mr. Sadamoto will be tried in closed court.
[22:55] ---
I promise to make the lieutenant
colonel's findings public one day.
[22:59] ---
I see. By the way--are you the one
he gave my recommendation to?
[23:06] ---
Hard to say. A man in my
position gets a lot of those.
[23:10] ---
In fact, one of them outlined plans
[23:12] ---
to create a new special unit
within the international rescue team.
[23:17] ---
I'd like someone who's got experience
being a special consultant.
[23:22] ---
Intriguing, but I don't want to work
under a man who digs up people's graves.
[23:27] ---
You dug up something even deeper.
[23:31] ---
If you're serious about going independent,
you should have your own team.
[23:34] ---
The regulations say a unit needs a minimum
of one commander and six members.
[23:43] ---
I'll keep that in mind.
[23:46] ---
May it be a team not for defense of self
or state, but for taking the offensive.
[23:55] ---
The war hero Colonel Soga
and his old Ranger unit!
[23:58] ---
What? Mr. Batou is one of the enemy?!
[24:00] ---
Can they stop the traffic domination?
[24:02] ---
Surprise! The key to the secret lies within me!
[24:05] ---
5 - Ghost Whispers, Part 1
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:28] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[00:33] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[00:38] ---
What are you?
[00:45] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[00:51] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[00:56] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:08] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:19] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:31] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[01:43] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:03] ---
Supreme Court
[02:10] ---
Kazuya Soga, get out here!
[02:12] ---
Griffin Unit, ten minutes to airstrike.
[02:13] ---
Eagle clear.
[02:14] ---
Fox negative.
[02:16] ---
Griffin Unit, ten minutes to airstrike.
[02:29] ---
Tossing hand grenade.
[02:30] ---
Wait! They've got hostages.
[02:56] ---
We hereby issue the final verdict
on defendant Kazuya Soga.
[03:04] ---
It is evident that the defendant
[03:08] ---
committed crimes against humanity
during the fighting in Qhardistan.
[03:14] ---
Therefore, this war crimes
court hereby sentences him...
[03:49] ---
Colonel Soga, how dare you?!
[03:51] ---
Who the hell are you?!
[03:53] ---
The Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense.
I want to talk to that man!
[03:56] ---
Vice-Minister Kasuga.
I'm flattered by your concern.
[04:01] ---
But I create my own circumstances.
[04:05] ---
Excuse me?
[04:05] ---
Those who obstruct my Net
will disappear from this city.
[04:11] ---
I only desire one thing...
[04:15] ---
To make our truths known!
[04:22] ---
Ghost Whispers, Part 1
[04:43] ---
Strange... Why am I awake when
everyone else is sleep-learning?
[04:47] ---
Lend me that clever little brain of yours.
[04:55] ---
Who are you?
[05:00] ---
Who is that updating my synchronization?
[05:04] ---
You and me...?
[05:06] ---
Huh?
[05:08] ---
We're doing this to clear our
names and Colonel Soga's!
[05:11] ---
Get the module into the vehicle!
[05:25] ---
Last night, all of Public Security's
systems went down for just 1.8 seconds.
[05:30] ---
Mistake? Error? Hacking?
[05:33] ---
We're investigating.
[05:35] ---
But there's a possibility that this one
Logicoma synched with something.
[05:40] ---
"Something"?
[05:41] ---
I want you to find out what--and how
it's related to the system going down.
[05:48] ---
What freak would bother accessing
an AI with an outdated neurochip,
[05:53] ---
not to mention a conveyer
that can only walk and talk?
[05:56] ---
In any case, we're leaving the
others off and isolating this one.
[06:01] ---
I'd like you to investigate it, too.
[06:03] ---
In other words, you're worried
it was an inside job.
[06:07] ---
All right, I'll use a civilian facility.
[06:09] ---
I would have liked to go to an
independent squad with this...
[06:13] ---
Still looking for the perfect personnel?
[06:16] ---
It is my team. I intend to take care.
[06:24] ---
Your parallel commands are randomized?
[06:29] ---
Is there a point to that?
[06:30] ---
It's best for our learning.
[06:37] ---
It's outside my system standards.
[06:39] ---
Can you explain the data
you received verbally?
[06:43] ---
Um, I feel like it was
something really important...
[06:47] ---
There's no record of the infiltrator.
[06:50] ---
Not only were you fully integrated,
[06:52] ---
you got yourself bitten by false memories too.
[06:55] ---
I got bitten?!
[06:59] ---
Precious experience points!
[07:07] ---
Bingo.
[07:08] ---
Wow, that was inside me?! I'm amazing!
[07:12] ---
Yeah, yeah. They really are good.
[07:16] ---
I'm saying that for a soldier,
[07:18] ---
killing your own countrymen
is as low as you can sink!
[07:32] ---
A traffic control error?
[07:38] ---
What, what, what?!
[07:41] ---
Logicoma!
[07:46] ---
Sheesh!
[07:58] ---
Why is everyone suddenly crazy?!
[09:05] ---
An assault?
[09:06] ---
It's raining military-grade bullets.
[09:08] ---
They took advantage of a traffic control error.
[09:11] ---
Assuming you aren't
setting me up, send backup.
[09:15] ---
The attackers are battle cyborgs.
One of them is Batou, the sleepless eye.
[09:20] ---
What?!
[09:21] ---
I found a strange code in the data
planted in the Logicoma's AI.
[09:26] ---
So that's their objective.
[09:29] ---
Put the Logicoma in self-defense mode.
I'll have backup there in fifteen minutes.
[09:32] ---
Fifteen?!
[09:34] ---
The traffic network is being taken over.
[09:37] ---
Report.
[09:38] ---
Domination expanding throughout the city.
[09:45] ---
Well, hurry up and stop it!
[09:47] ---
We don't have enough processing speed.
[10:00] ---
Flight NAN255, go around.
That runway is closed due to a crash.
[10:03] ---
80% of the street system
[10:03] ---
Climb and maintain 3,000 feet.
[10:05] ---
has been taken over by an outside operator.
[10:08] ---
This is crazy--what enormous
system is our hacker using?!
[10:14] ---
Major, fifteen minutes will be a problem.
[10:16] ---
You're joking!
[10:18] ---
This isn't an error. It's a crime.
[10:25] ---
Large-scale domination?!
Who has a system like that?!
[10:34] ---
Guess I'll set up an ambush.
[10:53] ---
You bitch!
[11:30] ---
Where'd they get that crap?
[11:39] ---
The range of domination is
still expanding, you know.
[11:42] ---
The only solution is to get the module.
[11:45] ---
Who are you? You've been spying
on me since I left Public Security.
[11:48] ---
To ask for your help.
I'm the one who infiltrated him.
[11:53] ---
I want you to trust me
and hand over the conveyer.
[12:04] ---
And Public Security's system going down?
[12:06] ---
That wasn't me.
[12:08] ---
That was the first move of the group
[12:10] ---
using a special military module to
carry out a large-scale cyber operation.
[12:14] ---
"Operation"?
[12:16] ---
The enemy stole the module's
de-parallelizing code from me.
[12:20] ---
All I could do was replicate the code
[12:24] ---
and copy it to an isolation-capable AI
they couldn't interfere with.
[12:35] ---
Logicoma!
[12:43] ---
Where'd this "military module" come from?
[12:46] ---
It's a Mass Field-Hacking Unit jointly
developed with seven leading companies
[12:49] ---
in the old Silicon Valley.
[12:55] ---
Military joint production?
[12:59] ---
Face front!
[13:00] ---
Aaand... stop!
[13:06] ---
Hey!
[13:06] ---
Huh?
[13:08] ---
Huh?
[13:10] ---
Huh...?
[13:16] ---
Shield!
[13:25] ---
Huh?! I'm not broken.
[13:48] ---
Are you an American agent?
[13:53] ---
I'm Special Forces.
[13:56] ---
My code name is "VV." I'm supporting
you in hope of your cooperation.
[14:03] ---
Great, now we've got two enemies.
[14:07] ---
So that agent came to take back the module.
[14:11] ---
But don't let her throw you.
[14:13] ---
All we have to do is destroy the Public
Security machine, and it's checkmate.
[14:18] ---
How's the domination coming?
[14:20] ---
We're close to target values.
[14:22] ---
We won't let 'em get away with anything else.
[14:24] ---
Get me a line and connect to the colonel.
[14:28] ---
Aramaki, I assume you've heard of Soga?
[14:30] ---
Kazuya Soga, the war criminal in
the Qhardistan massacre, correct?
[14:35] ---
He's the man behind this traffic chaos.
[14:40] ---
He's still connected to the Net even
after we tossed him in an isolation cell.
[14:45] ---
Well, have a seat.
[14:48] ---
They made him a scapegoat
when he refused to testify in court.
[14:53] ---
I did what I could to commute his sentence...
[14:58] ---
But I never thought he'd mobilize his unit!
[15:01] ---
What's he after?
[15:05] ---
He's demanding access to a
military database called "Pandora."
[15:12] ---
State secrets?
[15:15] ---
Does he mean to bring the details of an
Army operation before the war crimes court?
[15:21] ---
That's not all.
[15:23] ---
He wants to air Army's and Public
Security's dirty laundry to the world
[15:26] ---
in exchange for this city's twenty
million cars and the people in them.
[15:31] ---
He wants Japan itself to be
judged just like he was judged?
[15:39] ---
Colonel Kazuya Soga?
[15:41] ---
He commanded an op in Qhardistan
that won him high praise.
[15:46] ---
Then he was accused of conducting
a massacre during the op
[15:49] ---
and convicted as a war criminal.
He's currently in custody.
[15:53] ---
A hero during the war,
and a criminal afterward.
[15:56] ---
And Soga's sympathizers are using
the module to seek his release?
[16:01] ---
Major--
[16:02] ---
She's an informant. I brought
her in on a provisional basis.
[16:06] ---
What exactly is this "module"?
[16:09] ---
It creates processing power on the
level of a giant nationwide system.
[16:14] ---
They must have used it to parallelize
something low-capacity in huge quantities.
[16:20] ---
Your opinion?
[16:21] ---
I agree with Major Kusanagi.
[16:23] ---
And is your objective to retrieve the module?
[16:27] ---
Or destroy it.
[16:29] ---
The most effective method is to use
the code I evacuated into your AI
[16:35] ---
from somewhere free of enemy interference.
[16:39] ---
Why was it stolen in the first place?
[16:41] ---
The module was a model brought here for
top-secret standards sharing with Japan.
[16:47] ---
I take it your colleagues are making a
top-secret investigation of the theft?
[16:52] ---
I'll leave that to your imagination.
[16:55] ---
Along with how you pinpointed
the enemy's smuggling point?
[16:59] ---
Both issues are the purview of the
Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense,
[17:01] ---
but he didn't mention them
when I spoke to him just now.
[17:05] ---
Evidently something's being hushed up.
[17:08] ---
Another reason I want you to tell the Ministry
of Home Affairs to give my squad top priority.
[17:14] ---
Since when do you have a squad?!
[17:17] ---
I'm about to form one. Based on skill,
with no ranks, and given top priority.
[17:50] ---
Whoops, survived again.
[17:54] ---
Playing Russian roulette in a virtual reality?
[18:01] ---
Do you reproduce the sensation of the
bullet penetrating your cranium, too?
[18:05] ---
You've got a sickness.
[18:08] ---
Kusanagi from the 501!
When did you sneak in here?!
[18:11] ---
I'm independent. The op in Qhardistan,
the American Army module, and Soga...
[18:17] ---
Tell me what you know, or take
a real-life bullet. Your choice.
[18:21] ---
Hold on! Why come to me?
[18:24] ---
You served under Soga in Qhardistan.
[18:26] ---
There's a record of Ishikawa
calling you on your private line.
[18:30] ---
Hey, I turned down the job with the 78th!
The pay wasn't good enough.
[18:35] ---
The Marines' ace sniper turned into
a compulsive gambler after the war?
[18:39] ---
Is that why your unit's leave-time
budget's been cooked to high hell?
[18:43] ---
How did you know--
[18:45] ---
If your postwar days are
about turning your life into cash,
[18:49] ---
I'll play your game.
[18:51] ---
Join my spec ops team in the next five seconds,
[18:55] ---
or the money you embezzled gets
transferred to Maritime Command.
[19:00] ---
Bitch.
[19:02] ---
I'll pay you a salary.
[19:15] ---
So you're the MP?
[19:17] ---
What'd she threaten you with to bring you in?
[19:20] ---
Oh, I volunteered.
[19:22] ---
I've been waiting for the Major
to start up her team.
[19:26] ---
You're a messed-up guy.
[19:35] ---
How can you control this
with the domination going on?
[19:38] ---
This antique has some special specifications.
[19:40] ---
It's in a whole different class
from your friend's old clunker there!
[19:51] ---
Since we can't cut Soga's Net,
we'll have to physically seize the module.
[19:55] ---
This facility is the most likely
candidate for our enemy's base.
[19:59] ---
I see; you'll only give us our target's location.
[20:02] ---
You don't want to get your own hands dirty.
[20:05] ---
I'm a neat freak.
[20:07] ---
An old communications
equipment company, eh?
[20:10] ---
Not much for a sniper to do if
they're holed up in a server room.
[20:15] ---
Don't worry, I'll smoke out
plenty of targets for you.
[20:31] ---
Bingo? Seriously?
[20:32] ---
Just one squad, and they get their
own ground support chopper...
[20:36] ---
Good grief.
[21:05] ---
We're going, Logicoma.
[21:06] ---
Huh? But I'm not done with the sensors...
[21:09] ---
What?! Really?!
[21:16] ---
Safe...
[21:17] ---
You're slow!
[21:28] ---
Paz, status?
[21:29] ---
Not sure whether it went well or not, but I'm in.
[21:33] ---
So are we. Report if you find the module.
[21:37] ---
Let's do this.
[21:38] ---
No use!
[22:01] ---
A barrier maze?
[22:06] ---
This processing speed...
[22:09] ---
You people can't stop my Net.
[22:15] ---
In about an hour, Pandora's lid will open.
[22:19] ---
It's impossible to stop me before then.
[22:30] ---
Creeping black clouds
[22:40] ---
Your eyes are beautiful
[22:49] ---
You're going to join those ranks, then
[22:59] ---
Those ranks don't suit you
[23:07] ---
Come on
[23:10] ---
It's okay, come
[23:15] ---
Hide here
[23:20] ---
It's okay, look
[23:25] ---
It's a battlefield outside
[23:31] ---
I love you, love you
[23:35] ---
Shh
[23:37] ---
I love you, I love you, I love you...
[23:42] ---
Love you...
[23:47] ---
Love you
[23:55] ---
Their plan was to use the military
module to access Pandora.
[23:58] ---
What?!
[23:59] ---
Can the Major and her newly
formed squad stop Colonel Soga?
[24:03] ---
Hey, a traitor!
[24:05] ---
6 - Ghost Whispers, Part 2
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:27] ---
Those who obstruct my Net
will disappear from this city.
[00:32] ---
Just get the module--
[00:33] ---
Huh?
[00:35] ---
The only solution is to get the module.
[00:39] ---
Are you an American agent?
[00:40] ---
My code name is "VV."
[00:42] ---
I only desire one thing...
[00:46] ---
...access to "Pandora."
[00:48] ---
I'll pay you a salary.
[00:51] ---
Let's do this.
[00:51] ---
-No use!
[00:53] ---
You people can't stop my Net.
[00:59] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[01:04] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[01:09] ---
What are you?
[01:16] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[01:22] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[01:27] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:39] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:50] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[02:03] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[02:14] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:37] ---
A barrier maze?
[02:42] ---
This processing speed...
[02:45] ---
In about an hour, Pandora's lid will open.
[02:49] ---
It's impossible to stop me before then.
[02:53] ---
You want revenge against
the country that badly?
[02:59] ---
I'm uncovering the truth.
[03:50] ---
Ghost Whispers, Part 2
[03:58] ---
The op to move the refugees in Qhardistan
[04:01] ---
was the 78th Composite Unit's final mission.
[04:04] ---
Which was an extermination op you led?
[04:06] ---
No!
[04:08] ---
This is...
[04:12] ---
They were unarmed refugees.
[04:15] ---
Afterward, a conglomerate occupied their land.
[04:19] ---
Someone ordered their slaughter
to benefit the national interest.
[04:36] ---
Give me water!
[05:04] ---
This is the first step.
[05:07] ---
I'll put all the nations who led the
world into war in that same position.
[05:13] ---
Soga! You've been inf--
[05:22] ---
Soga?
[05:28] ---
This is... a gap in the maze, maybe?
[05:32] ---
How did she leave the
barrier maze? No--she didn't.
[05:44] ---
Soga can't see me?
[05:46] ---
I did manage to land in a gap.
[06:00] ---
He's parallelized all the Als
in Japan's traffic network!
[06:17] ---
That was close.
[06:19] ---
My barrier won't last long. Let's hurry.
[06:24] ---
Call from the Ministry of Defense.
[06:26] ---
A DoS attack on the Pandora
barrier began four minutes ago.
[06:30] ---
We can't keep up with it.
[06:35] ---
Major! Are you all right? What's the situation?
[06:38] ---
Soga took over the traffic control
system through the module.
[06:42] ---
But the threat to kill if we
didn't release Pandora was fake.
[06:47] ---
He intends to use the vast
system power he's gained
[06:49] ---
to break Pandora wide open.
[06:53] ---
I see...
[06:55] ---
In that case, there are steps we can take.
[06:58] ---
You keep working to recover the module.
[07:05] ---
Nice timing!
[07:07] ---
The deal with the government should be a bluff.
[07:10] ---
Colonel Soga went too far.
[07:12] ---
This started as a plan for the
Vice-Minister to sell Pandora!
[07:15] ---
We can't survive turning
the whole world against us!
[07:19] ---
If you've got cold feet, run. Nobody'll stop you.
[07:23] ---
Negotiate a deal or whatever.
[07:25] ---
I sure will!
[07:28] ---
If you're in this for money, run without a fight.
[07:39] ---
Hey! Home Affairs just gave us money!
[07:42] ---
Give it to someone who cares!
[07:45] ---
We're withdrawing. I'll buy some time.
[07:48] ---
The colonel didn't even wait
to clear the 78th's name.
[07:53] ---
Why do you figure that is?
[07:56] ---
Kasuga!
[07:58] ---
The colonel got scapegoated...!
[08:01] ---
Let's go!
[08:02] ---
I'll meet up with you once I've stalled them.
[08:04] ---
Do it fast.
[08:06] ---
Paz, do you read me?
[08:08] ---
More or less.
[08:09] ---
Do you know an intelligence
man named Ishikawa?
[08:11] ---
Sure do.
[08:15] ---
If you find him, use a cable
to get him to the cyber lobby.
[08:18] ---
Roger!
[08:19] ---
I'm hanging up before they detect our line.
[08:21] ---
Shit. The colonel's got domination,
but they're still roaming free!
[08:30] ---
Don't underestimate me. I can locate
even a super-wizard-class hacker
[08:33] ---
if they make a call during domination!
[08:37] ---
The Major's got business with you.
Let me connect you, and nobody gets hurt.
[08:42] ---
Try it, kiddo. I'll play with you.
[08:54] ---
Be a good boy, and you won't get hurt.
[08:57] ---
You mean you won't.
[09:01] ---
She was playing me with that call?
Damn gorilla woman!
[09:06] ---
Who are you calling a gorilla?
[09:16] ---
Planning to stick me with a virus?
[09:19] ---
The opposite. I think you're already infected.
[09:21] ---
What?
[09:23] ---
It's a makeshift vaccine, so you'll
have to put up with any bugs.
[09:36] ---
I've lost contact with Ishikawa.
[09:38] ---
I'll go.
[09:40] ---
I'll take the module and go on ahead.
We rendezvous at the trap!
[09:43] ---
Roger!
[09:45] ---
Drive.
[09:48] ---
Shit. You, Saito?!
[09:52] ---
We're all pros here. No holding a grudge.
[09:55] ---
If you're a pro, join the side that pays best.
[09:58] ---
Home Affairs paid us.
I'll give you a triple share.
[10:02] ---
Take it from my account!
[10:08] ---
Ishikawa!
[10:09] ---
C'mon, let's get back to guarding the module.
[10:11] ---
Don't move.
[10:13] ---
Hey! Ishikawa?!
[10:18] ---
Major! They all left.
Only one car stayed behind.
[10:26] ---
Damn, they pulled out already?
They've got good judgment.
[10:31] ---
Paz, you go in VV's car.
I'll go with the Logicoma!
[10:54] ---
Charge!
[10:58] ---
Here already?!
[11:04] ---
Logicoma, the tires!
[11:10] ---
Cut between them. You take right!
[11:24] ---
Here we go, Paz.
[11:40] ---
He's taken over my car!
[11:43] ---
"Special specifications," my ass!
[11:46] ---
He quit everything to focus some
crazy pressure on me! It's too much!
[11:51] ---
Ishikawa!
[11:53] ---
Damn gorilla woman's calling.
[12:00] ---
Ishikawa?
[12:06] ---
Shit. Never figured the
colonel'd try to brain-fry me!
[12:09] ---
I can't believe it--did he really?!
[12:12] ---
We're about to find out what the truth is.
[12:18] ---
I have control!
[12:23] ---
Ishikawa's cooperating with 'em?
[12:38] ---
Saito!
[12:39] ---
Sorry lady, but they sweetened the pot.
[12:42] ---
You damn gambling-freak mercenary!
[12:46] ---
Once we get there--
[12:47] ---
We win!
[13:09] ---
Huh? I can't see them anymore.
[13:23] ---
This makes no sense.
[13:25] ---
Where are they?!
[13:29] ---
There's no record that I've been hacked,
so why did they vanish?!
[13:33] ---
They didn't overwrite your vision.
[13:36] ---
Can you move?!
[13:38] ---
I lost my right arm, but don't worry--
we're still in the game.
[13:40] ---
So what was their trick?
[13:44] ---
They used our own skills to
fake us out. Slick of them.
[13:47] ---
It's an old type of optical
camouflage holograph.
[13:50] ---
I'd have missed it if we
weren't going so slowly.
[13:52] ---
I'll send you the location.
[13:54] ---
Securing the module is top priority.
We're out of time.
[13:58] ---
They figured it out?
[14:01] ---
They're damn persistent!
[14:22] ---
Fire!
[14:23] ---
Aye!
[14:44] ---
We don't have your mobility,
so it'll take us a bit.
[14:47] ---
No problem. Logicoma, you stay there.
[14:50] ---
Wait until we get to you!
[14:56] ---
Skilled as always.
[14:58] ---
But you're not the only one good
at infiltrating vision, 501 Major...
[15:03] ---
No, just "Major" now.
[15:18] ---
Paz!
[15:20] ---
VV, get the module, fast!
[15:41] ---
Paz!
[16:02] ---
We set up 317 roadblocks, from Wards 1
through 38. Do we keep going?
[16:08] ---
Mobilize all forces and
put up as many as you can.
[16:11] ---
We'll tie up all vehicles' onboard computers
with accident-avoidance processes.
[16:16] ---
I feel bad for the MLIT,
[16:18] ---
but I'm going to cause the
worst gridlock in thirty years.
[16:24] ---
Public Security's stopped more than
30% of the vehicles that were in motion.
[16:32] ---
Both you and Colonel Soga
had been deliberately infected.
[16:46] ---
There is no "truth" about
that refugee transport op.
[16:51] ---
You killed those people
and ordered an airstrike.
[16:54] ---
You did it because all the "refugees"
you were trying to safeguard
[16:59] ---
were armed guerillas.
[17:31] ---
It's the MOD's responsibility now.
[17:33] ---
Either do something about him,
or destroy Pandora right now!
[17:37] ---
Obviously out of the question!
[17:41] ---
Because you want me to open Pandora?
[17:44] ---
What?
[17:47] ---
Don't!
[17:50] ---
You bastard!
[17:54] ---
Wait! Don't shoot!
[17:57] ---
It was the Administrative Vice-Minister
who gave me the module.
[18:01] ---
That agent's objective is the same.
[18:03] ---
Make sure you don't use
the de-parallelizing code.
[18:07] ---
What?
[18:09] ---
I can't stop the infiltration.
This is the only way!
[18:14] ---
Stop!
[18:24] ---
I gave you a copy of the vaccine.
[18:26] ---
It's imperfect, but you'll be able
to tell which memories are false.
[18:30] ---
It's unlikely we'll be able to
eradicate them, but I'll give you a hand.
[18:34] ---
Not interested.
[18:37] ---
It's the only memory that lets me feel
like I'm not just a dog trained to kill!
[18:45] ---
You're just a whiny bitch, then.
[18:50] ---
What happened, Major?!
[18:51] ---
It's over. Send a rescue squad.
[18:54] ---
What do you mean, "over"?!
[18:57] ---
Pandora's been infiltrated!
[18:59] ---
The data's being leaked to
a different Net than Soga's!
[19:06] ---
Step away from the module!
[19:18] ---
Don't resist. I feel an affinity with you.
[19:23] ---
You, who haven't had a flesh-and-blood
body for as long as you can remember.
[19:36] ---
You bitch...
[19:48] ---
That attack barrier is meaningless.
[19:53] ---
My brain has to be synchronized, like his.
[20:01] ---
A neurochip? You're...
[20:06] ---
I must find out where it came from:
[20:08] ---
This thing which infected me
and gave me true self-awareness.
[20:15] ---
Even if I have to access the whole world's
organizations and their secrets...
[20:21] ---
I shall.
[20:38] ---
You're an artificial intelligence
pretending to be human...
[20:43] ---
What for?!
[20:45] ---
I just have to know.
[20:48] ---
My Ghost whi--spered--that--to--me--
[20:57] ---
Ghost...
[21:04] ---
Huh?
[21:05] ---
A certain intelligence agency admitted
[21:07] ---
that one of its Als was infected
with an unknown virus on the Net
[21:11] ---
and began acting outside of their control.
[21:14] ---
And it absconded with the module,
[21:17] ---
then manipulated the Vice-Minister.
[21:19] ---
He made too many dangerous
deals during the war.
[21:23] ---
He intended to sell the contents
of Pandora and flee the country.
[21:27] ---
That's why he manipulated Soga
and sent in a team of his own pawns.
[21:32] ---
But Soga seized control of the situation,
so the AI planned a recovery strategy.
[21:36] ---
"A rogue AI did it all" --how very convenient.
[21:40] ---
Even if it's half true, I'm sure *they
*let things lie to try to profit from her.
[21:44] ---
Though it seems they're not the
only ones to try to profit from this.
[21:48] ---
You're the one who came to me.
[21:50] ---
With the result that you made
your team a fait accompli
[21:53] ---
with the highest possible priority.
[21:56] ---
Want to re-register as part of Section 9?
[22:00] ---
They'll cancel this registration if you
can't get enough people together.
[22:04] ---
No thanks.
[22:06] ---
I appreciate your help
with the paperwork, though.
[22:28] ---
It'll close in five minutes. Decide before then.
[22:31] ---
Sit there and get sentenced in one
of the speed-trials the system loves,
[22:35] ---
or join my squad.
[22:38] ---
You say that to everyone you've
been in shooting matches with?
[22:42] ---
I can only get people infected
with the memory virus released.
[22:46] ---
Though those three are the ones I want anyway.
[22:49] ---
They'll accept that after we just
picked a fight with the government?
[22:52] ---
If I, Section 9, and a certain
country's intelligence agency
[22:56] ---
testify about the false memories.
[22:58] ---
Ishikawa and Borma agreed.
[23:01] ---
As for Saito, when I paid him a little
visit before he could go to ground,
[23:05] ---
he begged me to let him join.
[23:10] ---
You're some piece of work.
[23:12] ---
So, you're telling me to be
Public Security's errand boy?
[23:16] ---
It's an independent offensive unit
based on skill, with no ranks,
[23:19] ---
and it has top priority.
[23:21] ---
I'll give you memories of being
more than a dog trained to kill.
[23:30] ---
These fake memories--
can you really erase 'em?
[23:35] ---
I can try.
[23:55] ---
Whoa! The Major has a boyfriend?!
[23:58] ---
The squad searches for the culprit
behind a string of bombings
[24:01] ---
and their connection with Scylla,
the dead Qhardi hero.
[24:03] ---
The great detective Togusa!
[24:05] ---
7 - Ghost Tears, Part 1
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:28] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[00:33] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[00:38] ---
What are you?
[00:45] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[00:51] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[00:56] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:08] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:19] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:31] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[01:43] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[03:12] ---
Ghost Tears, Part 1
[03:36] ---
Major. Hey, Major!
[03:41] ---
What was that? Virtual reality?
[03:43] ---
I'm on vacation. Don't be so casual
about entering my cyber lobby.
[03:47] ---
My condolences. There's been a
terrorist bombing in Nishinouchi.
[03:51] ---
The vics were an executive at
a foreign-owned water company,
[03:54] ---
a Trade Ministry official, and a
domestic weapons manufacturer.
[03:58] ---
The top-priority entry in
the terrorism prediction list
[04:00] ---
you gave Public Security was right on target.
[04:03] ---
I assume they were in a secret
meeting to agree on water prices.
[04:06] ---
Everything's in smithereens,
including some Foreign Affairs guards.
[04:10] ---
There was also an explosion at
the Yamanote Dam, by the way.
[04:13] ---
The dam?
[04:17] ---
Dunno if it's related.
[04:19] ---
But it essentially belongs to
a foreign-owned water company,
[04:22] ---
and there's a retired Trade official on staff.
[04:28] ---
The bureaucrats' turf wars
are intense in that industry.
[04:33] ---
So, who asked for us?
[04:36] ---
Section 9, as usual.
[04:38] ---
They failed to put your list to good use,
but they did track the perps.
[04:42] ---
They say they can't secure 'em,
though. Too outgunned.
[04:51] ---
Call everyone in. I'm coming too.
[04:54] ---
Work calls?
[04:58] ---
I'm sorry.
[05:00] ---
Five hours, seven minutes.
That's a record-length vacation for you.
[05:05] ---
Are you consulting for the police today?
Or the Cyberbrain Development Bureau?
[05:10] ---
I'll make it up to you.
[05:13] ---
Don't forget what we talked about.
[05:16] ---
Are you serious?
[05:17] ---
Of course.
[05:18] ---
You should get going. All your
customers are impatient types, right?
[05:25] ---
Yes.
[05:26] ---
Wow, you've been with that guy for
three months! That's a new record.
[05:35] ---
Don't be so casual about using
that Ghost infiltration key.
[05:46] ---
Your precinct ID'd him as
Detective Naoharu Mizuki.
[05:50] ---
Is that right?
[05:52] ---
Yeah. He's my senior.
[06:02] ---
Is this all he had on him?
[06:04] ---
His holster was empty.
[06:07] ---
His piece must've been washed away or stolen.
[06:10] ---
It's hard to believe the gun under
his jacket would get washed away.
[06:13] ---
And it'd be odd for someone to
steal his gun but leave his wallet.
[06:22] ---
A prosthetics specialist...
[06:25] ---
He sure doesn't look cyborgized.
[06:28] ---
Lieutenant, your guys rounded up all
the unclaimed property in the area, right?
[06:31] ---
Let's look for something
else that ties back to him.
[06:34] ---
You want me to be your errand boy?
[06:36] ---
If the dam incident was really an accident, yes.
[06:38] ---
Lieutenant! I found something odd.
[06:46] ---
What are these?
[06:47] ---
They look like prosthetics, but...
[06:57] ---
Mermaid's Legs...
[07:07] ---
Report.
[07:10] ---
Lots of injured cops.
Six perps still going strong.
[07:14] ---
They're on their way to Ward 4.
[07:16] ---
They see right through the police strategy.
[07:19] ---
They secured an escape route ahead of time.
[07:22] ---
This group is highly trained.
[07:24] ---
They have a commander
somewhere out there. Ishikawa!
[07:30] ---
I picked up their line!
[07:35] ---
The seventh one. This is their leader.
[08:10] ---
This is a cutting-edge ghost lock.
Don't waste time resisting.
[08:15] ---
I'll make him order his friends to surrender.
[08:17] ---
Ishikawa, run a forced recognition program.
[08:20] ---
Roger.
[08:22] ---
Abort the operation.
Throw down your guns and surrender.
[08:26] ---
Repeat: Abort the operation and surrender.
[08:34] ---
Huh?
[08:38] ---
Aw, no shootout?
[08:42] ---
I captured one!
[08:46] ---
Hey, you're pretty useful!
[08:50] ---
We got the last one.
[08:52] ---
Good. Hand them all over to Public Security.
[08:57] ---
A virus alert?
[09:02] ---
It's the man you captured!
[09:18] ---
This pain...
[09:26] ---
The ghost lock released?
[09:29] ---
Major?
[09:30] ---
Shit. Saito!
[09:36] ---
Don't kill him!
[10:06] ---
No more of that!
[10:11] ---
Damn, it feels gross having someone
infiltrate my Ghost--even the Major.
[10:16] ---
Truer words.
[10:18] ---
Your fault for aiming for the head.
[10:20] ---
Don't hand them over yet. We'll take
them to a lockup with cyber facilities.
[10:25] ---
You telling me to play interrogation partner?
[10:27] ---
I'm not interested in fake memories.
[10:30] ---
Memories?
[10:31] ---
I'm interested in their contaminated Ghosts.
[10:41] ---
Sorry I had to call you down here.
[10:45] ---
It's my civic duty.
[10:47] ---
I understand you're in charge
of the dam. Let's see...
[10:51] ---
Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[10:54] ---
Please, call me Thied.
[10:57] ---
You've got quite the tough-looking secretary.
[10:59] ---
He's very reliable.
[11:01] ---
The conflicts continue in the
Republic of Kuzan, where you're from.
[11:06] ---
I hear the Qhardi ethnic minority in particular
is still waging a war of independence.
[11:13] ---
It's a heartbreaking war.
[11:15] ---
You're Qhardi, correct?
[11:17] ---
Yes. Like the majority of my comrades,
I wish for a peaceful solution.
[11:25] ---
So, the explosion at the dam...
[11:27] ---
I'm told it was a valve malfunction.
[11:29] ---
Your company sells water, right?
For what type of use?
[11:35] ---
It's for precision machinery businesses.
That industry relies on 100% pure water.
[11:40] ---
Precision machinery...
Prosthetic manufacturing, for example?
[11:44] ---
Yes.
[11:48] ---
Chief...
[11:51] ---
You idiot!
[11:52] ---
The Trade Ministry got them
invited to set up a plant here!
[11:55] ---
You want to make an enemy
of the local precinct, too?
[11:58] ---
But...
[12:04] ---
Stop, that's evidence!
[12:07] ---
I'm very grateful to you for finding
the goods stolen from our warehouse.
[12:13] ---
Please, take them with you.
[12:16] ---
Chief!
[12:17] ---
Back off!
[12:19] ---
A detective died, sir.
[12:21] ---
You think I don't know that?
[12:23] ---
You go to Nishinouchi and get me information.
[12:26] ---
Nishinouchi? What's there?
[12:28] ---
A bombing, apparently by Qhardi terrorists.
[12:32] ---
Now listen: You consult your superiors
before any moves on this case.
[12:35] ---
Terrorism?
[12:38] ---
If the explosion was intentional,
and he wasn't a victim...
[12:47] ---
They're a Qhardi weapons smuggling gang.
I met them on an undercover op.
[12:51] ---
Their goal is to send weapons
to their comrades back home.
[12:55] ---
They've got no reason to attack this country.
[12:57] ---
Their statements were crystal clear:
[12:59] ---
They're against the pricing agreement,
so they bombed the meeting site.
[13:03] ---
Are you telling me those are planted memories?
[13:06] ---
I'm betting they're all infected.
[13:09] ---
And that the virus interfered
with my ghost lock.
[13:18] ---
Well done. You subdued them brilliantly.
[13:21] ---
We could do it even more easily if you
adjusted your comm standards to ours.
[13:26] ---
I read your report.
[13:28] ---
A false memory virus that can infiltrate,
hack, and brainwash simultaneously?
[13:33] ---
It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
[13:36] ---
Other than the symptoms at
its onset, it leaves no trace.
[13:39] ---
Electronic manipulation of
memory is incredibly difficult.
[13:43] ---
No one in the world has
been confirmed successful.
[13:46] ---
And yet past incidents tell us a
maker and a broker clearly exist.
[13:50] ---
Yes. Somewhere out there is
the super-wizard-class programmer
[13:55] ---
known as "Fire-Starter" who
created this high-level cyber-virus.
[13:58] ---
But until now, no organization in
the world had uncovered his identity.
[14:02] ---
Did you?
[14:03] ---
A clue, anyway.
[14:09] ---
What's this?
[14:10] ---
All the terrorists had the same tattoo.
[14:13] ---
It's a symbol used by Scylla, the hero
who once led the Qhardi Separatist Army.
[14:18] ---
I've heard of him. Word is he's
a master of cyber warfare.
[14:22] ---
Is he Fire-Starter?
[14:24] ---
No way. He died during the war.
[14:27] ---
You're going to find out whether that's true.
[14:29] ---
I'll authorize limited access
to Section 9's database.
[14:32] ---
Read the details there.
[14:36] ---
His nationality's unknown.
[14:37] ---
He uses multiple bodies to conceal his identity,
[14:41] ---
earning him the name Scylla.
[14:43] ---
A pro at warfare who led a
separatist army, and whiz hacker...
[14:47] ---
Huh, his specialty is tunnel ops.
[14:50] ---
"Tunnel ops"?
[14:51] ---
That's when you bomb someplace's lifelines
[14:53] ---
and then infiltrate them
electronically during their restoration.
[14:57] ---
Ultimately you wage a destructive
cyber-attack from inside their defenses.
[15:01] ---
The forces who tried to prevent
independence took a major hit instead.
[15:06] ---
But Kuzan joined forces with advanced nations
[15:10] ---
to manipulate the Qhardis in
order to contain its neighbors.
[15:13] ---
No one recognized the Qhardis'
independence after the war,
[15:15] ---
and the guerillas were
disbanded and slaughtered.
[15:18] ---
But their dead leader was actually alive,
[15:20] ---
and he developed a special virus ahead
of all the world's research institutions,
[15:24] ---
then changed his name to
Fire-Starter and began his revenge...
[15:28] ---
I follow the logic, but is it really possible?
[15:30] ---
In a conflict zone, you can do all
the human experimentation you want.
[15:34] ---
It's no wonder, really.
[15:36] ---
Scylla is dead.
[15:39] ---
A successor of his, then?
[15:41] ---
Either way, the broker isn't peddling it
without knowing what it does.
[15:45] ---
So he wanted to use those guerillas to
repeat his old tunnel operation here?
[15:50] ---
It bothers me that no one
was carrying a detonator.
[15:55] ---
Borma, check out the crime scene.
[15:57] ---
Roger.
[15:58] ---
Paz, you and Saito pay the gang a visit.
I want to know who trained them.
[16:03] ---
Batou and Ishikawa, you look into
the possibility of a tunnel op.
[16:06] ---
Do you plan to dive into
the guerillas' cyberbrains
[16:09] ---
looking for the virus?
[16:13] ---
I'll get a tune-up on my body first.
[16:18] ---
So the late detective's gun wasn't found?
[16:22] ---
If Detective Mizuki had fired his weapon,
[16:25] ---
it would prove this was a crime,
and not an accident.
[16:28] ---
You think someone wanted
it to look like an accident?
[16:30] ---
The cause of death was drowning,
but he lost a lot of blood antemortem,
[16:34] ---
and some of his bones are missing.
[16:37] ---
So the body's too damaged to tell,
but he may have been shot.
[16:43] ---
Detective Mizuki was
investigating weapons smuggling.
[16:47] ---
His most recent meeting was
with a Qhardi organization.
[16:50] ---
I suspect he was killed because he found proof.
[16:53] ---
You feel the dam explosion was intentional,
set up to bury evidence?
[16:59] ---
You've got a great imagination.
[17:02] ---
You're turning me down, sir?
[17:04] ---
No, I like it. I'll allow you to investigate.
[17:07] ---
Try to find a connection between the incidents.
[17:10] ---
All alone?
[17:12] ---
You're complaining?
[17:14] ---
I appreciate it, sir!
[17:16] ---
A tune-up?
[17:18] ---
It's her boyfriend. He's an
ex-military prosthetics tech.
[17:21] ---
No, isn't he a Navy sailor?
[17:23] ---
That was the last one.
[17:25] ---
They fought on a date,
[17:26] ---
and she kicked his ass hard enough
to put him in the hospital.
[17:28] ---
What about that rich one
from the Cyberbrain Bureau?
[17:30] ---
He didn't last two weeks.
[17:33] ---
So this is the sixth in six months?
She's got a sickness.
[17:36] ---
No, it's instinct. I never sleep
with the same woman twice either.
[17:40] ---
Because you always end up a
hostage or a target for revenge?
[17:42] ---
No, because it's my policy.
[17:44] ---
At least do background checks on them!
What if one of them's a trap?
[17:48] ---
It's better than hearing "I want a family."
[17:51] ---
Yeah, after all, you could die at any time.
[17:53] ---
This is no job for a family man.
[17:57] ---
Humans can never perfectly
reproduce movements.
[18:00] ---
A slight slope, our distance from our target,
a few milligrams' weight difference...
[18:05] ---
The brain calculates all these things
to create yet-unknown movements.
[18:10] ---
You have the most original brain I know of,
[18:12] ---
and you understand the
beauty of uniform standards.
[18:17] ---
You're exaggerating.
[18:19] ---
There's nothing wrong with you.
[18:22] ---
It still hurts?
[18:26] ---
Try moving your right leg.
[18:30] ---
Lovely.
[18:33] ---
What's "lovely"?
[18:34] ---
Your leg.
[18:39] ---
The pain is gone now.
[18:42] ---
Send me a bill.
[18:44] ---
I'll give you a discount. In return,
don't forget our promise.
[18:47] ---
You're a strange man.
[18:49] ---
Not as strange as you.
[19:05] ---
Hey, you. You're blocking my scan.
[19:07] ---
Oh, sorry.
[19:09] ---
What good are your natural
eyes in the cyber age?
[19:13] ---
Are you a full cyborg?
[19:14] ---
Yeah, pretty close.
[19:17] ---
I'm no expert, but unless you
get a specialized skeleton,
[19:21] ---
aren't the basics the same as a human body's?
[19:23] ---
But his hands stayed open after he burned...
[19:26] ---
What?
[19:27] ---
When a natural human burns to death,
[19:29] ---
his muscles contract, so he forms
fists and he bends forward.
[19:33] ---
The fetal position, or,
you know, the boxer's pose.
[19:36] ---
Heat rigor? Well, what about it?
[19:39] ---
This guard's corpse is standing
up straight, hands open.
[19:45] ---
Must be some property of
his prosthetics, or of the bomb.
[19:48] ---
Prosthetics?
[19:56] ---
Hello?
[19:59] ---
Oh, a checkup?
[20:01] ---
Two weeks?
[20:03] ---
Got it. No, I'm working right now, sorry.
[20:07] ---
"Checkup"?
[20:13] ---
C-4 and dynamite,
glycerin and chemical fertilizer...
[20:17] ---
It's a hideout straight out of a book.
[20:20] ---
Definitely a bomb maniac vibe... but I've
got no clue what they actually used.
[20:35] ---
I appreciate your cooperation.
[20:37] ---
I'm used to police questioning.
[20:39] ---
There've been a lot of prosthetics thefts recently.
[20:42] ---
"Mermaid's Legs," eh?
[20:45] ---
Not a very artistic name,
but it's easy to understand.
[20:49] ---
My female customers quite like it.
[20:51] ---
Do you recognize these legs?
[20:56] ---
They appear to be the mass-production model.
[20:57] ---
Look at the tag.
[21:01] ---
"Ariel."
[21:03] ---
I've asked around, and there's
no such model on the market.
[21:06] ---
I don't carry it, either. It must be
a licensed designer's brand name.
[21:10] ---
Any ideas?
[21:12] ---
I'll give you my list. One moment, please.
[21:17] ---
Thank you.
[21:27] ---
Cops love lists. He'll be conveniently
absorbed in it for a while.
[21:31] ---
Public Security took our dummy safe house.
[21:34] ---
Are the comm lines here safe, Colonel Hozumi?
[21:40] ---
Orders coming down their line!
[21:43] ---
Someone calling himself Scylla just
ordered some "Second Army" into action.
[21:46] ---
Damn bastards! Public Security's
moves are being leaked!
[21:55] ---
The Waterworks Bureau's server blew,
and took out the whole floor.
[21:58] ---
What did they use?
[22:00] ---
The accelerant at the Nishinouchi crime scene
[22:01] ---
is spread all the way to
the ceiling, even the ducts.
[22:05] ---
We're talking omnidirectional blast.
The air itself blew up.
[22:09] ---
A fuel-air explosive?
[22:10] ---
Then this is a dummy hideout. They've got
a more advanced bomb lab somewhere.
[22:21] ---
Damn guerilla hero is issuing a challenge.
[23:56] ---
The Major's boyfriend is sketchy!
[23:58] ---
She insists that Scylla is dead. And all
the clues lead back to Akira Hose...
[24:03] ---
What?! Oh, no!
[24:05] ---
8 - Ghost Tears, Part 2
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:29] ---
Mermaid's Legs...
[00:31] ---
Wow, you've been with
that guy for three months!
[00:35] ---
It's a symbol used by Scylla, the hero
who once led the Qhardi Separatist Army.
[00:40] ---
Huh, his specialty is tunnel ops.
[00:43] ---
Scylla is dead.
[00:45] ---
Public Security's moves are being leaked!
[00:49] ---
We're talking omnidirectional blast.
The air itself blew up.
[00:53] ---
Do you recognize these legs?
[00:56] ---
I'll give you my list.
[00:58] ---
Damn guerilla hero is issuing a challenge.
[01:07] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[01:11] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[01:16] ---
What are you?
[01:23] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[01:29] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[01:34] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:46] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:57] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[02:09] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[02:21] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:36] ---
Cops love lists. He'll be conveniently
absorbed in it for a while.
[02:40] ---
Public Security took our dummy safe house.
[02:42] ---
Are the comm lines here safe, Colonel Hozumi?
[02:46] ---
Don't worry. It's one of
Intelligence's independent lines.
[02:49] ---
Why haven't you killed that detective?
[02:52] ---
He's an odd duck, but he doesn't
have any powerful backers.
[02:55] ---
The real issue is that Ariel's been leaked.
[02:57] ---
We retrieved the sample before it was analyzed,
and the factory is taken care of.
[03:01] ---
I didn't expect you to panic and blow it up.
[03:03] ---
You almost seriously hindered our plan.
[03:07] ---
Ariel is a way to smuggle explosives to
the Qhardis! It's not for suicide bombers!
[03:13] ---
If previous overseas weapons
development becomes domestic,
[03:16] ---
distribution channels will vanish.
[03:19] ---
The Qhardi soldiers are just sacrificial pawns?
[03:21] ---
We're upgrading. Fire-Starter
can create all the soldiers we want.
[03:26] ---
Get the unit that was arrested released.
[03:29] ---
I won't give you the data until then.
[03:33] ---
Very well. There are three more usable Ariels.
[03:37] ---
One of them is in your court.
[03:42] ---
Ghost Tears, Part 2
[03:58] ---
Ride with me.
[04:06] ---
You haven't told anyone that
you and I killed Scylla, I trust?
[04:10] ---
No.
[04:11] ---
That op is a stain on both our records.
[04:14] ---
It would be highly inconvenient
for it to come up again now.
[04:17] ---
I'll make domestic weapons engineering big,
[04:19] ---
and shut down their trade
routes to foreign cartels.
[04:23] ---
Lt. Col. Mamuro wanted that.
[04:25] ---
I won't play your game.
[04:28] ---
Scylla is a game you can't quit.
She has to stay dead.
[04:34] ---
You used this before.
[04:40] ---
Bury it and whoever's using
Scylla's name--permanently this time.
[04:43] ---
Or else the brass will bury you,
and that op with you.
[05:00] ---
You really came?
[05:03] ---
I did promise.
[05:10] ---
I checked out the Qhardi gang, but there's
no trace of their tactical commander.
[05:15] ---
Ah, but I've got the rental server they used.
[05:18] ---
Bastards have made good
progress on their tunnels.
[05:21] ---
Do you know where they're going yet?
[05:23] ---
It's someplace to do with
water and precision machinery.
[05:25] ---
78 places in the city fit that description.
[05:28] ---
Check them all.
[05:31] ---
Damn... I'd make easier money
being an Intelligence subcontractor.
[05:37] ---
I remember when I first met you, you know.
[05:41] ---
All the other engineers said you were
the queen of customer complaints.
[05:45] ---
Is that why they handed me
off to a freelancer like you?
[05:48] ---
Nope. The truth is, I asked them to.
[05:52] ---
What?
[05:54] ---
You couldn't decide whether you should
treat your body as a thing or a person.
[06:01] ---
That made me interested in you.
[06:06] ---
When I was prosthetized on
the battlefield, they told me,
[06:09] ---
"A cyborg doesn't need everyday life;
he needs equipment."
[06:13] ---
That's why I switched to
prosthetics engineering.
[06:16] ---
I wanted to be a tech who'd
treat cyborgs like humans.
[06:20] ---
Your prosthetic body isn't a thing.
It's your real body.
[06:24] ---
It mustn't be treated as
a thing... not by anyone.
[06:29] ---
Not by me.
[06:38] ---
We're missing the key piece: the bomb.
[06:41] ---
How did they get it into a
heavily guarded meeting place?
[06:45] ---
What about the perps?
[06:46] ---
They say they're the ones who blew it up.
[06:49] ---
Despite the fact that they
have no memory of the bomb.
[06:52] ---
We'll monitor all 78 locations until
we can narrow down their target.
[06:56] ---
Are you serious?!
[06:58] ---
Contact me if something happens.
[07:03] ---
You're wearing heels.
[07:05] ---
Should we assume the ex-military
prosthetics tech is joining the team?
[07:12] ---
Maybe that's actually for real.
[07:24] ---
They're regular customers of mine.
[07:26] ---
The affluent elderly are at the core
of cyborg development these days.
[07:30] ---
Not soldiers.
[07:31] ---
They want prosthetic bodies to give them
second lives, and fulfilling lifestyles.
[07:37] ---
More and more foods for cyborgs are
being developed to meet their needs, too.
[07:44] ---
Try it.
[07:58] ---
It's good.
[07:59] ---
Is it your first time allocating
memory to your sense of taste?
[08:04] ---
The new bride is pregnant, by the way.
[08:08] ---
Exciting, isn't it? A new world
of humans that don't distinguish
[08:11] ---
between prosthetic and flesh.
[08:15] ---
You really are strange.
[08:21] ---
Do you have free time later?
[08:23] ---
If we share a lobby, we can
meet whenever we want.
[08:27] ---
I might touch your Ghost.
[08:30] ---
I'll let down my barrier.
[08:32] ---
Are you sure?
[08:33] ---
If you infiltrate me, I may fry your brain.
[08:37] ---
It might be worth it.
[09:03] ---
This is your body.
[09:07] ---
These are your hands.
[09:26] ---
Motoko, run!
[09:55] ---
Akira!
[09:57] ---
Are you all right?
[10:00] ---
Yeah...
[10:09] ---
I'm sorry. This is my fault.
[10:33] ---
My condolences.
[10:36] ---
Paz is with Section 9 inspecting the scene.
[10:38] ---
Your attacker was a pro,
even if he did mess up.
[10:42] ---
How is he?
[10:44] ---
We'll send him home as soon
as we're done questioning him.
[10:46] ---
I'll assign someone to him, so don't worry.
[10:49] ---
I see.
[10:51] ---
The military authorities won't
give me any information on Scylla.
[10:54] ---
What's your connection to him?
[10:59] ---
Call me whenever you need help.
[11:05] ---
They got us.
[11:07] ---
Number Three: a materials
control center on the coast.
[11:11] ---
I picked up a go order in Scylla's name
30 seconds before the explosion.
[11:15] ---
Then the whole line disappeared.
At this rate there's no point in surveillance.
[11:19] ---
Find a weapons engineer on their
customer list who's connected to this.
[11:23] ---
Weapons engineer?
[11:24] ---
Get info from the first victims, too. Hurry up.
[11:26] ---
Find something. The virus,
the bombs, the tactical commander,
[11:29] ---
where the messages from "Scylla"
come from--I don't care what.
[11:34] ---
How about you finally tell us
why you're so sure Scylla's dead?
[11:40] ---
Excuse me.
[11:42] ---
You!
[11:44] ---
I was told I could find Major Kusanagi here.
[11:52] ---
State your business.
[11:54] ---
The list I got from him was a fake.
[11:58] ---
And a detective working
a weapons trafficking case
[12:00] ---
was killed right after getting info from him.
[12:03] ---
Techs get blamed for
prosthetics-related incidents all the time.
[12:10] ---
How did you feel, watching your
lover get attacked in front of you?
[12:15] ---
You're angry at the perp, and you feel guilty.
[12:19] ---
You think it was your fault he got attacked.
[12:25] ---
He was the same way. Anger and guilt.
[12:29] ---
He's hiding something.
[12:31] ---
The dam, the dead detective,
the prosthetics, and even you, Major...
[12:36] ---
Everything links back to Akira Hose.
[12:46] ---
You're an idiot, Colonel!
[12:50] ---
An attack barrier!
[12:52] ---
Keep calm.
[12:53] ---
If the domestic faction takes
away your arms industry rights,
[12:56] ---
you'll be killed by the cartels.
[12:59] ---
Yet you're in a rush to kill
me off and steal my data?
[13:02] ---
So, you act like a heavyweight,
but you couldn't get my people released?
[13:06] ---
Our deal is over.
[13:08] ---
I'm thankful for the info on her
and for Scylla's revival,
[13:12] ---
but I'm leaving this country.
[13:14] ---
You do the same.
[13:15] ---
No need.
[13:23] ---
We've successfully packaged
the virus with cyberbrains.
[13:29] ---
We'll use your cyberbrain for the final upgrade.
[13:33] ---
Become Scylla, just like you wanted to.
[13:45] ---
"His hands stayed open after he burned," eh?
[13:52] ---
The FAEs were the prosthetic limbs themselves.
[13:57] ---
The limbs' admin records have
the same signature on them...
[14:03] ---
What are you doing?
[14:07] ---
Who is this man?!
[14:12] ---
My attack barrier expands every second.
[14:15] ---
If you don't want your brain fried, tell me!
[14:16] ---
He'll die!
[14:19] ---
He gave us power... He's the new Scylla!
[14:24] ---
A battle-learning program
left to us by the dead Scylla...
[14:28] ---
He gave it to my cyberbrain,
along with the virus.
[14:31] ---
I'd never been trained, but now
I can fight even your people!
[14:36] ---
Give me a name.
[14:38] ---
Akira Hose! He's Japanese, like you!
[14:49] ---
It's just like the call said.
[14:51] ---
Two Public Security officers killed,
and Akira Hose's whereabouts unknown.
[15:00] ---
Hose escaped. Any idea where?
[15:03] ---
Why ask me?
[15:05] ---
What are your eyes looking at right now?
[15:10] ---
Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[15:13] ---
She's boss of a Kuzan water company,
and most likely the weapons ring's sponsor.
[15:19] ---
So this is the tunnel exit!
[15:22] ---
A domestic weapons company--
Harimadara Heavy Industries!
[15:26] ---
The execs are touring Factory One
with the Senior Vice-Minister of Defense!
[15:30] ---
Recommend a barrier,
and give the data to Section 9.
[15:33] ---
Paz, Borma, Saito, get over there.
[15:38] ---
Call the bomb squad and a prosthetics tech.
[15:41] ---
A destructive cyber-attack is more than likely.
[15:47] ---
What's the meaning of this, Chief Aramaki?
[15:49] ---
Evacuate immediately.
[15:51] ---
You and this facility are targets.
[15:54] ---
Wh-What's going on?!
[16:05] ---
Damn.
[16:07] ---
Shit!
[16:08] ---
Paz, Borma! This way!
[16:32] ---
Away from the windows!
[16:39] ---
That's all the info on Colonel Hozumi.
[16:41] ---
That's fine. We get a card,
and you get a grace period.
[16:46] ---
Please tell me what she has to do with Scylla!
[16:50] ---
Find out from her.
Your contaminated brain is intriguing,
[16:55] ---
but I'm cutting our connection
before the infection spreads.
[17:02] ---
Goodbye.
[17:07] ---
I'm being bankrupted by a
special tax on foreign companies?!
[17:11] ---
How can this be allowed?!
[17:13] ---
It's the kind of thing the
domestic faction would do.
[17:17] ---
What do you plan to do? Kill the colonel?
[17:21] ---
She's all washed up. And so are you and I.
[17:25] ---
Escape, and obey the domestic faction.
[17:29] ---
You'll be killed by the cartels
if you don't do something.
[17:34] ---
You okay, Major?
[17:35] ---
No problems. You go with that
detective and subdue the guards.
[17:41] ---
I'll take care of Scylla.
[17:46] ---
Jeez, so stubborn. That's a scary lady.
[17:57] ---
Blood traces. Someone was shot.
[18:07] ---
A bullet...
[18:22] ---
Ariel. So these are the prosthetic bombs.
[18:43] ---
That wasn't you just now.
Who the hell infiltrated my vision?!
[18:48] ---
Don't move!
[18:52] ---
In that quagmire of a war, Scylla was
the only soldier I could empathize with.
[18:58] ---
I've always wanted to
ask you why he was killed.
[19:02] ---
You didn't kill Scylla. I finally realized that.
[19:09] ---
Go home. Or your Ariel will activate.
[19:14] ---
Even I can't stop it.
[19:34] ---
What's going on here? That bastard
infiltrated my vision exactly how you do!
[19:38] ---
Answer me, Major!
[19:55] ---
It's been seized.
[19:57] ---
It won't stop until we shut down
whatever it's packaged with.
[20:00] ---
Transplanted memories.
[20:02] ---
What?
[20:03] ---
The packaged cyberbrains are the virus's hosts.
[20:06] ---
They converted the tactical program
I set loose in Qhardistan to memory.
[20:11] ---
My copy.
[20:21] ---
Motoko.
[20:50] ---
I came after you, but in
the end, you captured me.
[20:55] ---
It was my cyberbrain that was packaged.
[20:58] ---
If you pull the trigger,
you and your comrades will be saved.
[21:09] ---
Scylla...
[21:11] ---
I'm glad I met you.
[21:30] ---
What?
[21:35] ---
Scylla was you.
[21:38] ---
You helped the separatist army,
then faked your death.
[21:42] ---
Later, the guerillas you led were all killed.
[21:45] ---
I can see why you wouldn't
want to remember that op.
[21:48] ---
Since then, I've stopped
switching bodies so often.
[21:52] ---
It gives me an identity crisis.
I lose track of who I am...
[21:57] ---
...and then I want someone
to tell me I'm not a robot.
[22:05] ---
Is that why you insist on making original
tweaks to your mass-production bases?
[22:09] ---
It's amazing you even managed to control
so many bodies in such a short time.
[22:13] ---
I'm going to sleep a little. You can go.
[22:16] ---
Call it cyborg solidarity.
[22:18] ---
I'll keep watch and make sure they
don't fit you with any sketchy parts.
[22:22] ---
All right, suit yourself.
[22:26] ---
You could at least say "thanks"!
[22:31] ---
The bullet at the scene was
fired from the lieutenant's gun.
[22:35] ---
I also found Mizuki's weapon
at the lieutenant's home.
[22:38] ---
There was a huge deposit into his account, too.
[22:45] ---
Good work. You can go.
[22:59] ---
Arresting a fellow cop
will make you some enemies.
[23:04] ---
You'll be shot from behind
by the guys at his local.
[23:07] ---
I'll be sure to watch my back.
Did you come just to say that?
[23:13] ---
Will you join my team?
[23:17] ---
It's an independent offensive
unit with top priority.
[23:21] ---
Oh, excuse me.
[23:23] ---
Hello?
[23:25] ---
What?! I thought it'd be another two weeks!
[23:28] ---
No, sorry, got it. I'll be right there.
[23:32] ---
This is big! Her water broke!
[23:35] ---
Huh?
[23:36] ---
We're gonna have a baby!
[23:39] ---
Just wait, I'll be right there!
[23:41] ---
We'll talk another time.
[23:43] ---
I'm coming now!
[23:47] ---
Natural, married, and a father?
[23:56] ---
What happens after the incident
with Emma and Brinda, Jr.?
[23:58] ---
When Fire-Starter's broker comes to
light in the course of an investigation,
[24:01] ---
a joint op is carried out to capture him.
[24:04] ---
It's a trap!
[24:05] ---
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:28] ---
We've successfully packaged
the virus with cyberbrains.
[00:34] ---
Fire-Starter can create
all the soldiers we want.
[00:39] ---
The world's cyber economy has only just begun.
[00:43] ---
I'll pay whatever it takes
to reconcile with the cartel--
[00:55] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[01:00] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[01:05] ---
What are you?
[01:12] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[01:18] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[01:23] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:35] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:46] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:59] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[02:10] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:40] ---
True magic is the science of sciences.
[03:02] ---
PYROPHORIC CULT, Part 1
[03:21] ---
Could you move your car, sir?
[03:24] ---
I'm with Public Security.
[03:33] ---
How'd it go?
[03:35] ---
Bingo.
[03:38] ---
The bottom of the braincase has been warped
by high pressure from directly below.
[03:45] ---
It's charred. I can't analyze it like this.
[03:51] ---
We'll have to infiltrate the lab.
[03:53] ---
Flight 381 crashed because this guy
blew himself up with an Ariel.
[03:59] ---
Guess this was his target?
[04:00] ---
Foreign Cyberbrain Engineers Assumed Dead
[04:01] ---
Beats me.
[04:03] ---
The issue is, why'd he do it?
[04:07] ---
Who is he?
[04:11] ---
Tei Murasaka, male, age 32.
[04:15] ---
A stockbroker with dual Japanese
and American citizenship?
[04:18] ---
No criminal record. His address is...
[04:35] ---
Damn, someone beat us?
[04:37] ---
I love my job!
[04:39] ---
You've got to be kidding me.
[04:48] ---
What?!
[05:02] ---
Stop right there!
[05:10] ---
Shit!
[05:21] ---
Hello!
[05:26] ---
Behave yourself.
[05:37] ---
This guy...
[05:44] ---
You mind telling me why an American
agent beat us to the suspect's condo?
[05:50] ---
Because you moved too fast.
[05:53] ---
You'd already charged in by the time
[05:57] ---
the report made it through
Foreign Affairs to me.
[05:59] ---
Blame the bureaucracy for that.
[06:02] ---
Your team failed to call me directly.
[06:06] ---
Why didn't you tell me you'd connected
the attack on Flight 381 with Fire-Starter?
[06:14] ---
The intel came through my personal Net.
I can't reveal my source.
[06:18] ---
I see. Then let's make a deal.
[06:23] ---
The man you were after, Tei Murasaka,
[06:25] ---
isn't a stockbroker--he's an
American intelligence agent.
[06:30] ---
Who told you that?
[06:32] ---
His colleague.
[06:36] ---
Murasaka is indeed an agent of ours.
[06:40] ---
Nice to meet you, Major Kusanagi.
[06:43] ---
I'm Jeril, with American Army intelligence.
[06:50] ---
This is our recommended prosthetic body
for diplomatic activities. Is there a problem?
[06:55] ---
No.
[07:01] ---
Well? Have you been pursuing
Fire-Starter's broker, too?
[07:06] ---
Yes. We refer to him as "Pyromaniac,"
[07:11] ---
because his virus sales unleash
Fire-Starter damage wherever he goes.
[07:17] ---
I'd love to have your help capturing him.
[07:22] ---
If you're looking to catch a firebug,
aren't you asking the wrong department?
[07:28] ---
You're the only firefighter with a
record of success against Fire-Starter.
[07:33] ---
I believe that makes you the
right observer of our capture op.
[07:39] ---
Describe this op.
[07:41] ---
Pyromaniac is in Japan right now
[07:44] ---
to carry out a hit on
Colonel Hozumi for the cartel.
[07:48] ---
Our antivirus specialist Murasaka was
on his trail, but we abruptly lost contact.
[07:55] ---
And by the time you found him,
he'd already been infected
[07:58] ---
and made the terrorist attack on Flight 381.
[08:01] ---
Foreign Affairs passed along
a request for a joint operation.
[08:06] ---
You join in.
[08:09] ---
My team, under American Army command?
[08:12] ---
The deal's already been done.
[08:16] ---
Fine.
[08:18] ---
In exchange, I get to personally
interrogate Hozumi and analyze the virus.
[08:27] ---
So you're telling us to join the fire brigade?
[08:31] ---
You're not the relief pitcher type.
[08:33] ---
All we have to do is use the authority
they gave us to beat them to him.
[08:38] ---
We'll transfer Hozumi from the
Army Medical Center to the courthouse.
[08:41] ---
The theory is that Pyromaniac
will target her en route.
[08:46] ---
The Army's setting up an encirclement.
[08:48] ---
We'll predict the enemy's movements
and put out the sparks before they grow.
[08:54] ---
We're fire doors now?!
[08:56] ---
And under Yankee supervision, too.
[08:59] ---
But once a game starts,
it belongs to the players.
[09:04] ---
We'll be the ones to get Fire-Starter.
[09:07] ---
You plan to snatch their whole case?!
[09:09] ---
Problem?
[09:10] ---
Nah, I was getting sick of this dump anyway.
[09:15] ---
Borma, you keep following up
on the Flight 381 bombing.
[09:19] ---
Paz, go through Murasaka's
background with a fine-tooth comb.
[09:23] ---
Ishikawa, look for data on Pyromaniac,
and find out how he got Fire-Starter.
[09:27] ---
Batou, Togusa, and Saito, eliminate
every possible way to hit Hozumi.
[09:34] ---
What'll you do?
[09:36] ---
I'll get the bait we need to trap him.
[09:55] ---
How does it feel to be nothing
but a head, Colonel Hozumi?
[10:01] ---
The false signals aren't too bad. I wouldn't
call the experience pleasant, though.
[10:07] ---
What brings you here?
[10:10] ---
Your past ties to the cartel make you useful.
[10:16] ---
That's it? Just kill me.
[10:19] ---
Pyromaniac wants to get rid of
the information in your brain.
[10:24] ---
You'll be our bait to lure him out.
[10:28] ---
I'm a witness!
[10:30] ---
And as long as you stay within my
sight and my reach, I'll protect you.
[10:52] ---
The negotiations are complete.
[10:54] ---
Understood.
[10:55] ---
All as planned.
[11:11] ---
Only by struggle and toil
can we fulfill our duty,
[11:20] ---
and only information can bring true joy.
[12:00] ---
I made the barriers around
the facility nice and thick.
[12:03] ---
We're sure to pick up on any
infiltration by an outside Net.
[12:07] ---
Togusa here. I'm done checking
out the transport route.
[12:11] ---
No problems yet.
[12:14] ---
I'm almost done marking
the main sniper perches.
[12:18] ---
Now it all depends on
how good their snipers are.
[12:21] ---
Mr. Saito!
[12:22] ---
Where should we go next?
[12:26] ---
Wherever the wind blows, kid.
[12:28] ---
Oh, wow! Okay, I'll turn to windward!
[12:34] ---
Listen, what if he gets inside
disguised as a Public Security guy
[12:38] ---
or a prosthetics tech?
[12:40] ---
Hospital or not, this is an Army facility.
[12:44] ---
You worry too much, rookie.
[12:47] ---
Would we bother setting up a cordon
like this if the perp were that dumb?
[12:51] ---
Don't make me laugh.
[12:57] ---
The Prime Minister approved
your request to use Hozumi as bait.
[13:03] ---
But do not let her die.
[13:05] ---
She's got a lot of state secrets
in her un-cyberized regions.
[13:09] ---
I'm aware.
[13:10] ---
We've prepped the hospital area.
[13:14] ---
I've done all an "observer" can.
[13:17] ---
Major, I found out who Murasaka was tailing.
[13:21] ---
An upstanding citizen volunteered the info.
[13:24] ---
He was apparently after a cyber-drug
dealer by the name of Galvez Garcia.
[13:30] ---
Is he Pyromaniac?
[13:32] ---
Dunno.
[13:33] ---
But Murasaka dropped off the map
right after attempting contact with him.
[13:39] ---
That's all I got here. I'll keep digging.
[13:42] ---
Good.
[13:44] ---
This guy, eh?
[14:06] ---
Mr. Saito!
[14:09] ---
I made sure all the snipers are in position!
[14:22] ---
Department of Cyberbrain Neurology
[14:30] ---
I'm seeing delays in your storage cells.
[14:33] ---
Why don't I prescribe
[14:34] ---
some medicinal micromachines to slow
the cyberbrain sclerosis's progression?
[14:41] ---
We'll begin the transfer in twenty minutes.
[14:44] ---
Your security arrangements are watertight.
[14:47] ---
We could perfect them even
more if we were in command.
[14:52] ---
I can't allow that.
[14:56] ---
Now it's a matter of whether
our prey walks into our trap.
[14:59] ---
American spies and super-class-A hackers--
what reliable escorts.
[15:05] ---
We're not doing this for you. This is for us.
[15:10] ---
I'm cutting you off from all Nets for a while.
[15:14] ---
I'll get a good night's sleep.
[15:18] ---
What is this?
[15:19] ---
Cyberbrain contamination!
[15:20] ---
What?
[15:21] ---
It's him.
[15:23] ---
He's infiltrated...
[15:26] ---
Batou!
[15:27] ---
He hasn't tripped any warnings here!
[15:34] ---
Who is this guy?
[15:48] ---
Hey.
[15:50] ---
What's wrong? Are you okay?
[15:52] ---
Hey!
[15:59] ---
Shit! This again?!
[16:15] ---
A hacking?!
[16:20] ---
The Army's encrypted channel is being hacked!
[16:25] ---
Cut the connection,
or everyone's brains will be fried!
[16:28] ---
I can't! It's locked--
[16:41] ---
Is Hozumi all right?
[16:44] ---
You can't pierce a titanium
braincase with a 9 mm.
[16:49] ---
What do you intend to do?
[16:52] ---
Connect you to the Net,
using myself as a bypass.
[16:55] ---
Major!
[16:56] ---
I told you: She's my bait.
[16:59] ---
We'll lure Pyromaniac in and capture him.
[17:11] ---
Failure is unacceptable. Make it work.
[17:22] ---
Ishikawa! Access my cyberbrain now.
We have a job to do.
[17:28] ---
A rough one, too, if you're talking like that.
[17:39] ---
Use Hozumi as a decoy?!
Ape-Face is gonna throttle you.
[17:44] ---
I got permission.
[17:52] ---
Pyromaniac should come to fry Hozumi's brain
the second we connect her to the Net.
[17:58] ---
When he tries to access her,
keep her guarded and tie down his lines.
[18:02] ---
While he's distracted, I'll run a trace
and pinpoint his location.
[18:06] ---
You make it sound so easy.
[18:09] ---
Major!
[18:10] ---
You called and we came!
[18:11] ---
Yay!
[18:12] ---
We're starting now.
[18:13] ---
Okay!
[18:22] ---
Wow, amazing processing speed!
[18:24] ---
Attack barrier being hacked.
[18:26] ---
Gotta restore it!
[18:29] ---
You are the greatest sinner here.
[18:34] ---
You are the true servant of the Devil.
[18:37] ---
Quotes from Bryusov's The Fiery Angel?
[18:42] ---
I tied down his lines.
[18:44] ---
Let all be cast into the flames.
[18:48] ---
You're not getting away!
[18:51] ---
Major?!
[18:53] ---
Did he whiteout?
[18:55] ---
Does that mean he's dead?
[19:00] ---
Concentrate on your work! Time to initialize!
[19:05] ---
He packs too many punches!
What's going on here?!
[19:08] ---
He must be using the soldiers'
cyberbrains to clone the virus.
[19:17] ---
What the heck?
[19:22] ---
Logicomas, one of you
synchronize with my Net.
[19:25] ---
We'll clone his virus and counterattack.
[19:28] ---
Huh?! But that will halve
our processing power...
[19:33] ---
Just do it!
[19:34] ---
Right!
[19:34] ---
Oh, dear.
[19:36] ---
Pardon me!
[19:40] ---
Major, his transfer speed...
[19:44] ---
Yes. Pyromaniac is hacking us
from somewhere in this building.
[19:51] ---
I don't want to burden my lines.
Chief, call Batou and Togusa over here.
[19:56] ---
Have them search the building
until I pinpoint his location.
[20:00] ---
All right.
[20:26] ---
Where are you, Pyromaniac?
[20:29] ---
Major! The barrier can't take any more!
[20:32] ---
We're almost there. Hold out.
[20:43] ---
I found him!
[20:46] ---
Major?!
[20:55] ---
Police! Don't move!
[21:17] ---
Yes, the deal's come off as planned.
[21:23] ---
This is the key to the Third World.
[21:26] ---
Drive.
[21:33] ---
They say he was driven by layer upon
overwritten layer of false memories.
[21:39] ---
We didn't find any evidence
tying him to the virus's creator,
[21:42] ---
nor did we find Fire-Starter's original code.
[21:46] ---
He erased the source along with himself--
or rather, someone else did?
[21:51] ---
Unconfirmed. We'll have to wait
for the specialists' analysis.
[22:00] ---
When I accessed that man directly,
I didn't sense a Ghost.
[22:07] ---
Fire-Starter will spark the
evolution of all men's Ghosts.
[22:12] ---
Therefore, it must be protected.
[22:18] ---
It must use cyberbrains to version up,
then be returned to the Net.
[22:24] ---
I will go on living even after my death.
[22:35] ---
The original Fire-Starter...
[22:39] ---
I will track it down.
[23:56] ---
Galvez's body is discovered on Flight 381.
[23:59] ---
Who's Pyromaniac, then?!
[24:00] ---
Lt. Col. Kurutsu behaves suspiciously.
[24:02] ---
What's the truth behind this mystery?!
[24:05] ---
10 - PYROPHORIC CULT, Part 2
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[00:18] ---
A near future not quite so informatized
that nations and races have disappeared,
[00:21] ---
though corporate Nets have covered the planet
and electrons and light stream everywhere...
[00:29] ---
Arms, fingers, legs, nails
[00:33] ---
Ears, nose, mouth, hair
[00:39] ---
What are you?
[00:45] ---
You'll wake up back where you started
[00:51] ---
Now you're still in your usual dream
[00:56] ---
A touch, and this world vanishes
and takes you with it
[01:08] ---
Something reveals itself
after everything else disappears
[01:20] ---
Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
[01:32] ---
In this new world,
something keeps you yourself
[01:44] ---
It's what's yours, what you're
doing to yourself, for yourself
[02:07] ---
I will go on living even after my death.
[02:21] ---
PYROPHORIC CULT, Part 2
[02:30] ---
Explain this to me.
[02:32] ---
The "Pyromaniac" in custody isn't Galvez?
[02:35] ---
They've run ID checks on
the corpses at the crash site,
[02:38] ---
and they found one they think is Galvez.
[02:44] ---
A 97%-probability match...
[02:48] ---
Who the hell did we capture, then?
[02:51] ---
I don't know. Respected cyberbrain
engineers are looking into that,
[02:56] ---
as well as how he got Fire-Starter.
[03:02] ---
Lots of unfamiliar names on that list.
[03:04] ---
Most of the well-known engineers are dead,
since they were on Murasaka's flight.
[03:09] ---
I hear that almost all of those
were corporate advisors.
[03:14] ---
And connected to American intelligence, too.
[03:19] ---
Why do you know that?!
[03:20] ---
It's not something worth hiding, is it?
[03:24] ---
I assume the Americans planned to use them
to analyze Pyromaniac after the op--
[03:30] ---
here in Japan.
[03:31] ---
It was going to be a
joint investigation, but yes.
[03:34] ---
They were probably just political
opportunists on corporate retainers.
[03:38] ---
I doubt they could manage
a decent analysis anyway.
[03:43] ---
You're saying there's another way?
[03:45] ---
It'd be faster for me to look into it.
[03:49] ---
Or you could let me analyze Hozumi...
[03:51] ---
I can't let you do either.
You don't have authority.
[03:59] ---
So give me authority. And a budget.
[04:03] ---
I'm ironing things out with the Prime Minister.
[04:07] ---
Look through this.
[04:17] ---
What is this?
[04:18] ---
A job for your team.
[04:20] ---
Hozumi's being secretly handed over
to the Americans at 0100 hours.
[04:26] ---
You transport her.
[04:29] ---
We're giving top secret intel to the Americans?
[04:32] ---
The state secrets in her cyberbrain
will be returned to us,
[04:36] ---
and Hozumi will ostensibly be in exile.
[04:57] ---
Excuse me, ma'am,
do you have an appointment?
[05:01] ---
Yes. Here's my interview request form.
[05:14] ---
I didn't think we'd meet like this again.
Our fates must be tied.
[05:19] ---
Pyromaniac just set back the schedule.
Trust me, I didn't want to come here twice.
[05:25] ---
Everyone who uses the Fire-Starter virus
believes it will change the world.
[05:31] ---
You only believe in the reality before you,
so you wouldn't understand.
[05:36] ---
Thanks for your opinion,
but we're done chatting.
[05:39] ---
This is goodbye, ex-Colonel Hozumi.
[05:43] ---
The Net will give me life after death.
[05:54] ---
It's getting foggy!
[05:56] ---
Will our optical camouflage do any good?
[05:59] ---
If this snow keeps piling up,
fog won't be the issue.
[06:03] ---
Oh!
[06:05] ---
Men!
[06:06] ---
Time for our field trip.
[06:09] ---
She's in a bad mood.
[06:11] ---
Because it's a rookie job. We already took
care of most of the guys after Hozumi.
[06:18] ---
Her cyberbrain's gonna be scrapped.
Why not transport it like industrial waste?
[06:23] ---
She's being kept alive
because she's still useful.
[06:27] ---
While she's alive,
we have to treat her that way.
[06:32] ---
Awfully noble words for someone so pissed off.
[06:35] ---
Was the old ape snide at you?
[06:37] ---
No. Let's load her in the truck and get moving.
[06:48] ---
Major!
[06:51] ---
The job's going as planned, chief.
[06:54] ---
Pyromaniac just broke free.
[06:56] ---
He escaped?!
[07:00] ---
All security in the facility has been silenced.
[07:04] ---
Hold on, I'm looping in my men.
[07:06] ---
Go.
[07:08] ---
He gave all the engineers and two of
the American agents cyberbrain death.
[07:16] ---
Those are all the security codes, I swear!
[07:20] ---
Let all be cast into the flames.
[07:23] ---
No, don't--
[07:30] ---
He stole the security codes of
all the engineers we convened,
[07:34] ---
and now he's on the loose.
[07:36] ---
So he was after those codes the
whole time, and he let us catch him?
[07:43] ---
What's the next play?
[07:44] ---
We're working with the Americans
now to track him down.
[07:48] ---
You transport Hozumi as planned.
[07:52] ---
Pyromaniac is only acting on false memories
Fire-Starter overwrote him with.
[07:59] ---
If he shows up, let the
Americans make the arrest.
[08:04] ---
Avoid contact if at all possible.
[08:06] ---
And if impossible?
[08:09] ---
I authorize deadly force.
[08:12] ---
Now that we know we can't
get useful information from him,
[08:16] ---
don't take unnecessary risks.
[08:19] ---
Your answer?
[08:21] ---
Yes, sir.
[08:31] ---
You keep your promises.
Are you a fellow disciple of the flame?
[08:36] ---
No, you're just an extension
of my plans. I'm only using you.
[08:42] ---
Fire-Starter will spark the
evolution of all men's Ghosts.
[08:47] ---
Therefore, it must be protected.
[08:50] ---
It must use cyberbrains to version up...
[08:54] ---
Then be returned to the Net?
[08:56] ---
Yes.
[08:58] ---
I'll grant you your wish.
[09:00] ---
Then I shall fight for what I believe in.
[09:06] ---
To burn everything to ash...
[09:44] ---
Are we gonna hand over Hozumi
and call it a day, like the old ape said?
[09:48] ---
Unless there are complications.
[09:52] ---
If he lost his selfhood before he
was captured, how did he escape?
[09:58] ---
You're saying he had inside help?
[10:01] ---
It's likely.
[10:03] ---
If Pyromaniac erased the security cameras,
we might as well give up hope.
[10:09] ---
Anyway, our options are limited.
[10:12] ---
Without footage, finding him will
take good, old-fashioned legwork.
[10:16] ---
Ugh, crime scene investigation?
[10:19] ---
I'll let the new guy do the boring stuff.
[10:22] ---
You're a prince.
[10:36] ---
What just happened?!
[10:38] ---
Missiles!
[10:45] ---
It's a UCAV.
[10:47] ---
An American combat drone?!
[10:50] ---
I've been expecting you, Pyromaniac.
[11:03] ---
Someone leaked our location.
[11:05] ---
He must've gotten to the agents.
[11:21] ---
Come in, Chief. It's Kusanagi.
[11:24] ---
Looks like we're cut off from HQ.
[11:27] ---
We can't win without attacking
Pyromaniac. What now, Major?
[12:01] ---
Major, I can't get the right angle!
[12:04] ---
You three focus on shielding us!
[12:07] ---
Roger!
[12:23] ---
Huh? It's going home.
[12:26] ---
No.
[12:27] ---
He cut off our retreat and led us here.
Don't let your guard down.
[12:31] ---
Great, an American Army base?
Can't say I'm thrilled.
[12:36] ---
What?!
[12:41] ---
Major!
[12:47] ---
Shit.
[13:06] ---
We're here!
[13:08] ---
That was close, huh?
[13:09] ---
Those guys were American Special Forces.
[13:12] ---
With the virus controlling 'em
they're no smarter than Als,
[13:15] ---
but the optical camouflage is a problem.
[13:27] ---
Yep, we're surrounded.
[13:29] ---
He's obsessed. Who takes things this far?
[13:33] ---
They don't call you "maniac" for being sane.
[13:36] ---
This guy'll blow up a plane
just to get rid of engineers
[13:39] ---
who might make a Fire-Starter vaccine.
[13:43] ---
We've got the Major, who did make one,
and Hozumi, who knows the source.
[13:48] ---
He'd do whatever it took to kill them.
[13:51] ---
This is a bad joke.
[13:54] ---
Ishikawa.
[13:56] ---
Find a terminal and get
back our line to the Chief.
[13:59] ---
Take Paz and Togusa.
[14:01] ---
Borma, try to keep the soldiers at
a distance. Saito, ditto the chopper.
[14:05] ---
Batou, take two Logicomas and back them up.
[14:09] ---
I'm the decoy now?!
[14:11] ---
What're you gonna do?
Take Hozumi's head and run?
[14:15] ---
I'll use the last Logicoma as a booster
and seize Pyromaniac's Net.
[14:20] ---
Can you do that with just one?
[14:22] ---
I'll use my personal Net.
[14:24] ---
Personal?
[14:26] ---
I run hacking tests whenever
I build a security system.
[14:30] ---
I have a network made up
of the debuggers I use.
[14:34] ---
Section 9's security codes have
probably been overwritten.
[14:38] ---
I might have some trouble reconnecting.
[14:40] ---
Work as fast as you can.
[14:42] ---
We'll need the Chief's backroom
dealing if this turns into open battle.
[14:49] ---
Let's go!
[14:50] ---
Okay!
[14:53] ---
What if they storm you during your dive?!
We can't protect you from out there!
[14:58] ---
You can have command if they do!
[15:03] ---
Don't die.
[15:09] ---
Logicomas!
[15:09] ---
Okay!
[15:20] ---
Wow, is this your personal Net, Major?
[15:24] ---
Yes. The Nets run by corporate
admins don't even compare.
[15:28] ---
This is a battlefield where
distrustful barbarians gather.
[15:36] ---
Anyone want to join a game of mine?
[15:39] ---
Want to join?!
[16:05] ---
They took the bait.
[16:14] ---
Are you getting the hackers
to eradicate the virus?
[16:18] ---
Of course not. They're only breaking through
the soldiers' barriers to disable them.
[16:22] ---
Huh?! But the Army uses attack barriers!
[16:26] ---
So? Focus on your own work.
[16:30] ---
Someone is trying to crack you from outside.
[16:33] ---
He's here.
[16:35] ---
You maintain these connections.
[16:37] ---
Roger!
[16:48] ---
Phony cyberbrain space?
Looks like a Kuzan battlefield...
[16:56] ---
I still don't sense a Ghost.
So the virus itself is running him?
[17:02] ---
Is this what you saw--
or rather, Galvez's memory?
[17:08] ---
Who are you?
[17:10] ---
I am Galvez, and Emma, and Murasaka.
[17:15] ---
All Ghosts are me.
[17:18] ---
An aggregate of the false memories, then.
That's not what we call a "Ghost."
[17:23] ---
You're nothing but a vessel
created by the virus.
[17:29] ---
Looks like the Major's doing well.
[17:37] ---
Okay.
[17:50] ---
Did he get it?
[17:58] ---
Shit!
[18:04] ---
I have received a revelation from Fire-Starter.
That is my everything.
[18:11] ---
I must burn all threats to Fire-Starter.
[18:16] ---
So your goal is to eliminate all
possibility of erasing the virus.
[18:20] ---
Ultimately, you're another one of its puppets.
[18:24] ---
If your personality is nothing
but false memories it molded,
[18:29] ---
further conversation is meaningless.
[18:32] ---
Major, should we take control?
[18:34] ---
Our chances of bulldozing him
aren't good. Leave him to me.
[18:38] ---
Fire-Starter will spark the
evolution of all men's Ghosts.
[18:43] ---
Your cyberbrain will become
fuel to version up the flames.
[18:51] ---
I'm out of ammo!
[18:57] ---
Shit!
[19:02] ---
We're back online!
[19:06] ---
What is it?
[19:07] ---
This is Ishikawa, Chief. That Pyromaniac guy--
[19:15] ---
This is bad...
[19:21] ---
Uh-oh!
[19:27] ---
Major!
[19:30] ---
Major, time to withdraw!
[19:31] ---
She's still in her dive!
[19:35] ---
Dammit! I'm draggin' you with me!
[19:38] ---
You are the greatest sinner here.
[19:51] ---
Link with me, and go on
living even after your death.
[20:04] ---
Sorry, but I'm not that
pessimistic about the real world.
[20:09] ---
And I'm not at an age where
I worry about the afterlife.
[20:12] ---
It's over, Pyromaniac. Disappear.
[20:25] ---
Good work.
[20:43] ---
What the...?
[20:45] ---
Major!
[20:46] ---
Batou, is this your doing?
[20:49] ---
You took care of things?
[20:50] ---
Yes.
[20:52] ---
What happened to Pyromaniac?
[20:55] ---
He's extinct.
[21:08] ---
Pyromaniac's cyberbrain held nothing
but memories related to the hit on Hozumi
[21:14] ---
and a few deeply implanted
lines from The Fiery Angel.
[21:19] ---
This whole mess will be tied up in secret,
after some fairly involved negotiations.
[21:25] ---
I told you, you should've let me handle it.
[21:28] ---
Lay off.
[21:30] ---
Just be grateful you're not getting
punished for trashing an American base.
[21:36] ---
I'll have their agents stay out of
the Pyromaniac affair for now, too.
[21:40] ---
They knew about the Flight 381
bombing in advance, didn't they?
[21:46] ---
Fire-Starter switched hosts because
the Americans crowded Galvez.
[21:52] ---
They knew it was going to take
Murasaka and the engineers down,
[21:56] ---
but they waited until Pyromaniac had
security codes from around the globe.
[22:00] ---
Where did you hear that?
[22:02] ---
Did you think I'd come back
from a dive empty-handed?
[22:05] ---
I found an agent's memories in
Pyromaniac's auxiliary cyberbrain.
[22:10] ---
I'll do you a favor and pretend
I didn't hear that. Keep it to yourself.
[22:17] ---
Put on a uniform. We'll meet at the
Prime Minister's residence at 0900 hours.
[22:24] ---
He wants to personally thank your squad
[22:29] ---
for nabbing the terrorist behind Flight 381.
[22:37] ---
We've finished refining the virus.
[22:42] ---
Not much longer now...
[22:55] ---
You must be Kusanagi.
[22:59] ---
I hear you've done us a great service.
[23:02] ---
Thank you, sir.
[23:04] ---