Ghost in the Shell: Arise

• Season 1
• 1 - Border 1: Ghost Pain
• 2 - Border 2: Ghost Whispers
• 3 - Border 3: Ghost Tears
• 4 - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone
• 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
• Movie
• 0 - Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (English Dub)

Season 1

1 - Border 1: Ghost Pain

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[00:58] ---
    I'm amazed we got permission
    to exhume the body.
[01:00] ---
    It's backward. They disregarded our
    investigation by burying him to begin with.
[01:04] ---
    Yes, sir. Still, a military cemetery...
[01:09] ---
    It's ridiculously expensive to dispose
    of a prosthetic body that can't be reused.
[01:13] ---
    Thanks to their cost-cutting,
    we can recover the cyberbrain.
[01:17] ---
    Where are the engineers?
[01:20] ---
    Drawing straws at HQ.
[01:22] ---
    Apparently, connecting to a
    dead criminal's cyberbrain is "creepy."
[01:26] ---
    We don't know yet that he's a criminal.
[01:28] ---
    Chief Aramaki!
[01:30] ---
    We'll check the contents,
    then take it back to headquarters.
[01:38] ---
    What are you waiting for? Put it down!
[01:42] ---
    Sorry, sir!
[01:45] ---
    Don't open that coffin!
[03:37] ---
    This is from your unit.
[04:25] ---
    Are you military?
[04:30] ---
    I'm Aramaki, with Public Security Section 9.
[04:33] ---
    We're investigating
    Lieutenant Colonel Mamuro's murder.
[04:37] ---
    I'm seizing his cyberbrain
    and prosthetic body as evidence.
[04:39] ---
    He's also suspected of taking bribes,
    and we're investigating that too.
[04:44] ---
    Public Security has no
    right to ransack this place.
[04:46] ---
    We'll bury him again when the case is closed.
[04:49] ---
    And how do I know you won't pull
    a cover-up, or fabricate evidence?
[04:52] ---
    The military is in the middle of its
    first major shakeup since the war.
[04:57] ---
    It would be more suspicious if
    this only got an internal investigation.
[05:01] ---
    If he were still with us, Mamuro
    would have been the first to say so.
[05:05] ---
    You knew him?
[05:07] ---
    Yes, back when I was an Army man.
[05:09] ---
    There's not a soldier in the
    world more squeaky-clean than he was.
[05:18] ---
    Your name and unit?
[05:22] ---
    Major Motoko Kusanagi, Unit 501.
[05:27] ---
    501? So you were his subordinate.
[05:33] ---
    Open it up.
[05:35] ---
    Can I ask your rank?
[05:38] ---
    I was in the old
    Investigations Section. That's all.
[05:40] ---
    They sold off whatever wouldn't
    fit in the coffin to a junk shop.
[05:56] ---
    That's not his body!
[06:22] ---
    Get down!
[07:16] ---
    Finally back on base, you delinquent?
[07:19] ---
    Why did you authorize
    Public Security's involvement?!
[07:22] ---
    Since I can't dismiss the possibility that
    Mamuro was corrupt, I had no choice.
[07:26] ---
    Unit 501 should be investigating this!
[07:30] ---
    The higher-ups told us to stay out of it.
[07:34] ---
    Someone set a trap at his grave.
[07:37] ---
    Ignore it.
[07:38] ---
    His cyberbrain is gone!
[07:40] ---
    This isn't the time to stir up a hornet's nest.
[07:44] ---
    Then you believe that he
    was taking dirty money?
[07:47] ---
    He got mugged downtown. That much is fact.
[07:51] ---
    Not an honorable death, but compared
    to indictment, maybe he got lucky.
[07:56] ---
    Thanks to him, our letters of
    recommendation are on hold, too.
[08:00] ---
    Concentrate on your work for now.
[08:02] ---
    Work?
[08:04] ---
    I distinctly remember asking you
    to analyze that infected hardware.
[08:09] ---
    Not possible. I just got
    back to Japan today, you know.
[08:15] ---
    True enough.
[08:17] ---
    I'll do the assignment.
[08:18] ---
    In return, give me leave to go
    off-base and authorize direct debit.
[08:22] ---
    Such a problem child.
[08:24] ---
    I'm only going to find out who set the trap.
[08:27] ---
    Very well. I'll take care
    of it in Mamuro's place.
[08:31] ---
    Thanks, Kurutsu.
[08:35] ---
    Don't forget your meeting with the brass.
[10:04] ---
    Giichi Mamuro, member of
    a special unit of the GSDA,
[10:07] ---
    was murdered on the fifth of this month.
[10:10] ---
    --Niihama police say the investigation
    into his possible corruption is ongoing.
    --Lieutenant Colonel Mamuro is
    suspected of taking large bribes...
[10:13] ---
    ...while serving as a security official
    in Harimadara's weapons export--
[10:53] ---
    Access records of his movements
    on the day of his death
[10:55] ---
    and all data from city surveillance cameras.
[11:26] ---
    He was tailed.
[11:28] ---
    Scan anyone who traveled the same
    route he did before time of death.
[11:37] ---
    Three...
[11:49] ---
    A fourth?
[12:23] ---
    Three men and a mobile
    land mine were following him?
[12:33] ---
    "Funds transferred."
[12:39] ---
    What is this?
[12:42] ---
    Any pain?
[12:44] ---
    Not right now, no.
[12:46] ---
    It's similar to the phantom
    pain particular to cyborgs,
[12:50] ---
    but that shouldn't affect you.
[12:52] ---
    Could be a bad contact in
    your nervous components.
[12:55] ---
    Any other abnormalities?
[13:03] ---
    No.
[13:05] ---
    We should do a full-body checkup to be safe.
[13:07] ---
    Thank you, but I have a meeting to go to.
[13:16] ---
    Goodness, you have visitors.
[13:20] ---
    They announced themselves
    as Public Security Section 9.
[13:22] ---
    Say I'm not here.
[13:27] ---
    As both a Special Cyborg and a
    recognized wizard-class programmer,
[13:32] ---
    new regulations apply to you
    under the revised Weapons Act.
[13:36] ---
    The Prosthetics Maintenance Rule
    now applies to issuing identification,
[13:41] ---
    possessing cash, opening bank accounts,
    or other ownership of assets.
[13:45] ---
    In Lt. Col. Mamuro's letter
    on my reclassification,
[13:48] ---
    he guaranteed my financial autonomy.
[13:51] ---
    If he's proven corrupt,
    he'll receive a dishonorable discharge,
[13:55] ---
    and all such documents will be void.
[13:58] ---
    You expect me to endure a position
[14:00] ---
    where I have to file paperwork
    every time I open my wallet?
[14:04] ---
    The cost of prosthetic bodies far exceeds
    standard health insurance payouts.
[14:07] ---
    You ought to do your duty to the government
    which guarantees your right to life.
[14:12] ---
    This is the consent form for your monitoring
    and custody post-restructuring.
[14:16] ---
    Make an effort to understand
    your circumstances.
[14:31] ---
    During the war,
    Japan allocated a sky-high budget
[14:34] ---
    to promote cyborg development.
[14:37] ---
    Did they tell you to become
    Army property to foot the bill?
[14:42] ---
    There were large deposits
    made to Mamuro's accounts.
[14:45] ---
    But after his murder,
    someone withdrew all that money.
[14:51] ---
    What do you want?
[14:53] ---
    Major Kusanagi, of Unit 501. No criminal record.
[14:58] ---
    You work with the Army and
    Public Security as a special consultant.
[15:02] ---
    You specialize in solving cybercrimes.
[15:12] ---
    I request that you track down the missing
    money and analyze the coffin records.
[15:16] ---
    Since it's an official investigation,
    you should be given leave to go off-base.
[15:20] ---
    What's the pay?
[15:22] ---
    I'll give you the regular
    consulting fee, as a civilian.
[15:26] ---
    That'll be an issue, you know.
[15:28] ---
    A soldier famous for his integrity being
    shot to death in secret is a bigger issue.
[15:43] ---
    --Hey!
    --How dare you?!
[15:45] ---
    Tomorrow morning, I'll send you a
    liaison who'll double as a bodyguard.
[15:50] ---
    Think she's in?
[15:51] ---
    She's as in the dark as we are.
[15:53] ---
    If she wants to be free,
    she'll have to find out the truth.
[16:02] ---
    Still don't want the 501 to investigate?
[16:05] ---
    Make one wrong move,
    and our unit could get dissolved.
[16:09] ---
    Public Security offered me an assignment.
[16:11] ---
    Will you accept?
[16:12] ---
    Lend me a hand.
[16:14] ---
    If you can't get it done alone,
    you'll be at the end of the line.
[16:17] ---
    No one else will be able to protect you then.
[16:20] ---
    Being protected isn't what I learned to do here!
[16:24] ---
    I learned to make the most of my strengths!
[16:28] ---
    I'll grant permission for you to use Server 6.
[16:31] ---
    Thanks.
[16:33] ---
    Just don't forget the job I gave you.
[16:42] ---
    List the people working on the case.
[16:45] ---
    But this is clearly related
    to the LTC's mugging!
[16:49] ---
    We know he met up with the prostitute.
    We need a warrant for her cust--
[16:53] ---
    It's military jurisdiction! You keep out of it!
[16:56] ---
    You just forget this case,
    you hear me? That's an order!
[17:03] ---
    Then what's a special
    investigator even for, dammit?!
[17:08] ---
    "Mamuro was being followed."
[17:13] ---
    What?!
[17:34] ---
    --Hey!
    --St-Stop right there!
[17:53] ---
    There you are!
[18:04] ---
    Well, if it isn't the little
    tomboy from the lab.
[18:13] ---
    The one who infiltrated me... is in that car...!
[18:23] ---
    You fool! That makes you a deserter!
[18:31] ---
    Stop, Raizo!
[18:33] ---
    You all right, Kusanagi?
[18:35] ---
    Instructor Ibachi...
[18:37] ---
    Don't think you can do whatever you want
    just because you were Mamuro's favorite!
[18:41] ---
    Your selfish actions put
    the whole unit in danger!
[18:45] ---
    That's enough! I'll be the one to lecture her.
[18:51] ---
    That bitch only survived as a test subject.
[18:59] ---
    The number is a fake. He's a slippery customer.
[19:02] ---
    We've proven there was an infiltrator, at least.
[19:06] ---
    What does Kurutsu say?
[19:07] ---
    "Ignore it."
[19:10] ---
    Is your prosthetic body acting up?
[19:15] ---
    I don't know.
[19:16] ---
    Goodness, another visitor.
[19:18] ---
    You've got a strange one here to see you.
[19:24] ---
    What is this?
[19:31] ---
    It uses signal lights? How old is this thing?
[19:37] ---
    Here, come with me.
[19:51] ---
    Construct your learning base yourself.
[20:01] ---
    Hello, nice to meet you!
[20:03] ---
    I'm an autonomous-follower logistics system--
    a "Logistics Conveyer Machine."
[20:09] ---
    You're Section 9's "liaison
    who'll double as a bodyguard"?
[20:13] ---
    Chief Aramaki calls me a "Logicoma"!
[20:16] ---
    You'll be receiving information
    through me, Major Kusanagi.
[20:21] ---
    No synching. Explain things orally or as data.
[20:25] ---
    Um... Any Army case information on
    the group identified as illicit arms dealers
[20:30] ---
    would be very useful to Chief Aramaki
    in tracking down a mobile land mine!
[20:35] ---
    The Army? Arms dealers?
[20:38] ---
    Yes, sir!
[20:42] ---
    You disappear. I'll take it from here.
[20:45] ---
    Order acknowledged!
[20:50] ---
    Optical camouflage?
[21:00] ---
    Stay here and guard my bike.
[21:02] ---
    Right!
[21:07] ---
    Come on, walk straight!
    Look, we're almost there.
[21:17] ---
    Hi there!
[21:19] ---
    Come on in.
[21:20] ---
    It's not even dinnertime, and
    this guy's three sheets to the wind!
[21:23] ---
    Get him something cold, okay?
[21:26] ---
    Come on, get it together! Sit straight!
[21:42] ---
    I fold.
[21:43] ---
    Gonna go hit the can.
[21:45] ---
    Hey, no fair!
[21:46] ---
    But you had a great hand!
[21:55] ---
    There.
[22:02] ---
    Warning! Warning!
[22:04] ---
    Someone approaching, extremely close!
[22:09] ---
    Don't move. Who sent you?!
[22:31] ---
    Were you the ones who killed Lt. Col. Mamuro?
[22:34] ---
    Huh? Are you Public Security?
[22:35] ---
    Answer me!
[22:37] ---
    First you check the Army database!
    Code 24, Ops H2976...
[22:43] ---
    ...code name Paz!
[22:46] ---
    You're undercover?!
[22:49] ---
    Yeah, the group I'm in with was hired for a hit.
[22:54] ---
    They said the target was a full cyborg
[22:55] ---
    and his cyberbrain had to be destroyed,
    so we'd use mobile land mines.
[22:58] ---
    Three of 'em--and I'm talking military-grade.
[23:01] ---
    Lt. Col. Mamuro's murder?
[23:04] ---
    Who knows? Apparently
    somebody beat our guys to it,
[23:08] ---
    and we let the mines get away.
[23:10] ---
    Where did the mines come from?
[23:12] ---
    Maneuver Area 6.
[23:14] ---
    That place is a joke. Might as well
    set foxes to guard a henhouse.
[23:21] ---
    Feel like proving it with me?
[23:25] ---
    This ain't the best job,
    but I can't just drop it.
[23:28] ---
    I'd be in danger, and I'd
    cause trouble for my CO.
[23:33] ---
    Is your CO trustworthy?
[23:36] ---
    Used to be.
[23:40] ---
    I see.
[23:43] ---
    Thanks for your cooperation.
[23:46] ---
    I wish I had your freedom of movement.
[23:59] ---
    You can't analyze it?
[24:01] ---
    It might just be noise.
[24:23] ---
    No full-body cyborg gets to leave
    this organization and go independent.
[24:28] ---
    You're just a girl with a little
    talent for cyber warfare.
[24:33] ---
    Mamuro's death was an inevitability.
[24:35] ---
    Don't step out of line, or I'll take you out.
[24:40] ---
    Kurutsu and Ibachi can't shield you from me.
[24:44] ---
    An inevitability...
[25:21] ---
    "Maneuver Area 6"
[25:37] ---
    Their security's a joke, all right.
[25:53] ---
    All that's left is to connect the dots...
[25:56] ---
    Look, I've got authorization!
    And all I'm gonna do is ask questions!
[26:00] ---
    Take your complaints to the station.
[26:03] ---
    Where does he get off? It ain't like
    I've never been deployed, dammit...
[26:14] ---
    This is bullshit! They're not even he--
[26:19] ---
    Ah, sorry. I'm a special investigator
    with the Niihama police.
[26:23] ---
    I was told I could find these two here.
[26:26] ---
    I have some questions for
    First Lieutenant Moto Seta
[26:29] ---
    and Captain Amuri Noto here--
[26:31] ---
    Thanks. You just connected some dots.
[26:35] ---
    And I see some others just connected.
    How about showing yourself?
[26:48] ---
    Batou the Ranger?
[26:51] ---
    Long time no see. Gotta say I
    didn't figure you for this one.
[26:56] ---
    What do you mean?
[26:57] ---
    The man you killed seven days
    ago was a comrade of mine!
[27:02] ---
    I just got back to Japan three days ago.
[27:05] ---
    Oh, really?!
[27:27] ---
    I've told you your sleepless eye's
    weakness is how easy it is to infiltrate.
[27:33] ---
    Still afraid of taking friendly
    fire out in the jungle?
[27:37] ---
    I'm an electronic warfare specialist too!
[27:39] ---
    I can't believe you infiltrated
    me in the middle of a fight!
[27:42] ---
    You're just about the only
    one who'd infiltrate me.
[27:46] ---
    So, why are you after me?
[27:49] ---
    Don't play dumb!
[27:50] ---
    You're the one who got this
    place's mobile land mines!
[27:58] ---
    What the hell?!
[28:07] ---
    Wait!
[28:09] ---
    Don't shoot! Run!
[28:22] ---
    Don't!
[28:50] ---
    Those guys aren't with you?!
[28:52] ---
    Seriously, what are you talking about?
[28:54] ---
    Hey, look!
[29:00] ---
    They found us!
[29:02] ---
    They want to eliminate us here.
[29:04] ---
    And their excuse will be a
    "training exercise accident"?
[29:06] ---
    I can't stop 'em with this puny gun!
[29:12] ---
    We'll just have to run!
[29:19] ---
    Now we climb!
[29:20] ---
    Climb this?!
[29:22] ---
    Damn straight!
[29:24] ---
    We'll hold them off, so get moving!
[29:26] ---
    --Okay, fine.
    --Hello!
[29:28] ---
    What's that?!
[29:32] ---
    We're surrounded.
[29:36] ---
    I told you, move it!
[29:38] ---
    I know, I know!
[29:49] ---
    Get in!
[30:10] ---
    I thought you couldn't drop your job?
[30:12] ---
    This makes a nice change of pace.
[30:33] ---
    You asked the military police for help?
[30:37] ---
    To escort a suspect.
[30:40] ---
    What's this about?
[30:48] ---
    This makes no sense.
[30:50] ---
    Firstly: the missing money went
    to your account, Major Kusanagi.
[30:56] ---
    Secondly: the bullet you fired on
    the mobile land mine at the graveyard
[31:00] ---
    matched the one that killed Lt. Col. Mamuro.
[31:03] ---
    Seven days ago, a prostitute
    here in town was shot to death.
[31:07] ---
    The bullet matched the one that killed Mamuro.
[31:10] ---
    Mamuro had met with her,
    and according to the other working girls,
[31:14] ---
    he was asking questions
    about one of her clients.
[31:17] ---
    Seven days ago, one of my fellow Rangers
[31:20] ---
    was killed by a mobile land mine,
    along with his family.
[31:26] ---
    He'd been in contact with Mamuro, too.
[31:29] ---
    And when I traced the land mine to
    its source, it led me to the major here.
[31:35] ---
    By the way, she says she got
    back to Japan three days ago,
[31:38] ---
    but Immigration records
    say it was seven days ago.
[31:41] ---
    The three mines my group was supposed to use
[31:43] ---
    were the same model as the one
    Section 9 dug up at the graveyard.
[31:47] ---
    Assuming one of those three was
    buried and another killed the Ranger,
[31:51] ---
    there's one more left unaccounted for.
[31:53] ---
    At the moment, all the clues
    point to you murdering Mamuro
[31:57] ---
    and stealing his money.
[32:01] ---
    Right after I landed, I got a message
    and an attaché case from him.
[32:07] ---
    I'm sorry, Major Kusanagi. I doubt
    I'll be in this world much longer.
[32:14] ---
    I wanted to get justice.
[32:17] ---
    I've left your recommendation
    in someone else's care.
[32:21] ---
    You're the most promising squad
    member I know. I wish you luck.
[32:26] ---
    In the case, I found data on an internal
    weapons exportation racket...
[32:31] ---
    ...and this gun.
[32:33] ---
    You've moved a lot of money
    in the past few days.
[32:38] ---
    Who are you sending it to?
[32:40] ---
    The widow of the man who raised me.
[32:44] ---
    She's taken care of me since I was little,
    but she's in a nursing home now.
[32:50] ---
    What's her name?
[32:53] ---
    What is this woman's name?
[33:09] ---
    Phantom pain, huh?
[33:11] ---
    Even after you mechanize your body,
    your brain never forgets the original.
[33:16] ---
    Pain in the ass.
[33:17] ---
    I don't have an "original" body.
[33:20] ---
    What?
[33:21] ---
    Have you heard of Doctor Bakeru's
    emergency medicine system?
[33:25] ---
    That thing where someone
    with a full prosthetic body
[33:27] ---
    uses their life-support
    system on somebody else?
[33:31] ---
    The person who raised me used it on
    me while I was in my mother's womb.
[33:42] ---
    Supposedly a chemical weapon killed a
    large number of civilians way back when.
[33:48] ---
    A pregnant woman and the man
    assumed to be her husband both died.
[33:52] ---
    We don't even know their names.
[33:54] ---
    Because someone with that particular
    lifesaver happened to be on the scene,
[33:57] ---
    the fetus's brain alone survived.
[34:00] ---
    You're saying you were
    made a full cyborg at birth?!
[34:03] ---
    I lack any memory of a body.
[34:06] ---
    So perhaps you could call this "ghost pain,"
    created by false memories.
[34:18] ---
    This is surveillance footage
    from Maneuver Area 6.
[34:22] ---
    Your subordinate is in it.
[34:24] ---
    If you refuse to hand her over,
[34:27] ---
    I'll present you with a summons
    signed by the Defense Minister himself.
[34:30] ---
    I'll submit a written report at a
    later date. I can't hand her over.
[34:35] ---
    Vixen.
[34:37] ---
    I'll make you regret this.
[34:46] ---
    That's Shujiro Kanzaki. He's in
    charge of Maneuver Area 6,
[34:50] ---
    and he leads a team of special agents.
[34:53] ---
    He's also the Army's dirty go-between
    with the Ministry of Defense.
[34:56] ---
    Don't worry. I'll protect you.
[35:03] ---
    What's wrong?
[35:06] ---
    It's nothing.
[35:21] ---
    It's been empty from the beginning?
    Then where's the gun?!
[35:26] ---
    Why did I think there were
    whistle-blowing documents in it?!
[35:30] ---
    And the lieutenant colonel...?
[35:50] ---
    What's real? What's the truth?
[36:00] ---
    Where's Mamuro's cyberbrain?
[36:06] ---
    Wait, Kusanagi.
[36:08] ---
    Calm down.
[36:10] ---
    The hardware Kurutsu had me analyze
    matched his Net synch pattern.
[36:16] ---
    He and I were infected with
    the same virus, weren't we?
[36:20] ---
    With something hypothesized
    to be a cyber-virus.
[36:22] ---
    We speculate that it's a
    self-destructing Stuxnet-type
[36:25] ---
    which causes unknown dysfunction.
[36:28] ---
    "Unknown dysfunction"...
    You mean false memories.
[36:32] ---
    It was purely a hypothesis.
[36:33] ---
    At least, until we checked into your behavior.
[36:36] ---
    I just got back to Japan today, you know.
[36:40] ---
    True enough.
[36:42] ---
    When did I come back to Japan?
[36:44] ---
    Approximately 180 hours ago.
    In other words, seven days.
[36:48] ---
    And yet you continue to claim
    it was another day altogether.
[36:53] ---
    Route of transmission?
[36:55] ---
    It must have been contact
    with Mamuro's cyberbrain.
[36:57] ---
    Which is still with his prosthetic body.
[37:01] ---
    His coffin was a trap.
[37:04] ---
    And the records Public Security got of
    his burial show no signs of tampering.
[37:10] ---
    So that's how it is...
[37:13] ---
    Logicoma, synch with me.
[37:15] ---
    Are you sure?
[37:17] ---
    Just get on with it. Record my field
    of vision and play it back in real time.
[37:22] ---
    Roger!
[37:27] ---
    I see things that shouldn't be there.
[37:37] ---
    I don't see things that should be there.
[38:04] ---
    Here, the whole time...?
[38:08] ---
    "Special agent" "The LTC is innocent"
[38:28] ---
    This is a warrant for Major Kusanagi's arrest.
[38:33] ---
    Surrender her immediately.
[38:37] ---
    "Special agent" "The LTC is innocent"
[38:38] ---
    What happened to this room?!
[38:59] ---
    The records weren't tampered with.
[39:02] ---
    They just buried the truth under a lie.
[39:41] ---
    I've found it...
[39:43] ---
    My reality.
[39:55] ---
    Drive.
[40:07] ---
    The lieutenant colonel came
    to you to blow the whistle.
[40:10] ---
    Didn't he, Mr. Sadamoto,
    Vice-Minister of Defense?
[40:14] ---
    Yes.
[40:15] ---
    But you ordered a cover-up.
[40:17] ---
    Because it couldn't be made public!
[40:19] ---
    We ignored treaties and sold arms to
    Third World countries during the war
[40:22] ---
    to relieve its financial burden on us.
[40:25] ---
    That's governmental weapons smuggling!
[40:28] ---
    --Harimadara was at the center of it,
    and as their security official,
    --Vice-Minister, what's the matter?
[40:31] ---
    --Lt. Col. Mamuro found out
    about the illegal trade.
    --Vice-Minister!
[40:34] ---
    What is it?
[40:35] ---
    --Do you realize how much
    --He's in danger!
[40:37] ---
    the missile business has helped
    our country's finances?!
[40:40] ---
    The lieutenant colonel learned of
    your cover-up and investigated.
[40:42] ---
    The prostitute you frequented.
    The Ranger who escorted you.
[40:46] ---
    When he got info from them,
    he decided to blow the whistle on you.
[40:50] ---
    So you ordered Captain Kanzaki to kill him.
[40:54] ---
    I just ordered him to solve the situation!
[40:56] ---
    Yes, a few people suffered, but I
    don't know who killed Mamuro.
[41:01] ---
    Hell, maybe he really was mugged.
[41:04] ---
    You claim even you don't know?
[41:06] ---
    No, and I don't want to!
[41:08] ---
    That arms dealing will be purged
    during restructuring anyway,
[41:11] ---
    and we're deliberating next-generation
    weapons to replace missiles.
[41:15] ---
    But this mess kills the job Harimadara
    has lined up for when I leave office!
[41:20] ---
    You're quite the chatterbox.
    A desire to confess?
[41:23] ---
    Maybe so. Either way, you'll never tell anyone!
[41:35] ---
    Stop!
[41:39] ---
    Someone help!
[41:52] ---
    Should've blown him away.
[41:54] ---
    Wasn't being more than a killing
    machine the whole point of getting out?
[41:59] ---
    In the end, I had no place to go.
[42:02] ---
    They traced us through the
    remote control. They're coming.
[42:06] ---
    You go on. They're mine.
[42:10] ---
    There are two of them.
[42:11] ---
    Fine with me. We'll see who's the better killer.
[42:17] ---
    Take care.
[42:19] ---
    You too.
[42:21] ---
    I hate to say it, but they're not the
    only ones to benefit from his death.
[42:28] ---
    Yes. Thank you.
[43:35] ---
    You're the ones who killed
    the lieutenant colonel!
[44:09] ---
    I warned you that if you stepped
    out of line, I'd take you out.
[45:53] ---
    That's enough of that.
[46:00] ---
    You've reached your limit, Kusanagi.
[46:11] ---
    Raizo and Ibachi were luring the
    enemy here with the money as bait.
[46:17] ---
    We've eliminated six spies.
[46:20] ---
    That's plenty.
[46:22] ---
    Kanzaki funneled money into Mamuro's
    account, I moved it... and you used it.
[46:29] ---
    That's right.
[46:31] ---
    The gun used on the prostitute was
    the beginning of the enemy plot.
[46:36] ---
    Blowing up the Ranger, the phony bribery...
    All the blame was placed on Mamuro.
[46:47] ---
    And he intended to bring the
    Vice-Minister down with him.
[46:51] ---
    It was the worst possible choice.
[46:53] ---
    Unit 501 would have gone on the Army
    purge list in retaliation for the scandal.
[47:00] ---
    So you let him die. All of you.
[47:24] ---
    If it weren't for the memory virus,
    maybe we could have saved him.
[47:29] ---
    But as things stood,
    the only option was to secure
[47:32] ---
    Mamuro's cyberbrain, the mine,
    and the money before he got blown up.
[47:43] ---
    But what neither we nor the
    enemy accounted for was you.
[47:50] ---
    As soon as I arrived and got the data,
    I went after the lieutenant colonel.
[48:08] ---
    And you were infected by his cyberbrain.
[48:24] ---
    Even as you gathered the evidence,
    you were continually losing memories.
[48:30] ---
    "The LTC is innocent"
[48:34] ---
    What organization developed the virus?
[48:37] ---
    Unclear. All we know is that a
    foreign broker brought it here
[48:41] ---
    and that people call it "Fire-Starter."
[48:45] ---
    Was it a foreign power
    that cooked up the scandal?
[48:49] ---
    Our enemy is the global
    military-industrial complex itself.
[48:52] ---
    What would dragging down
    one vice-minister accomplish?
[48:55] ---
    Did you take the disc he left me?
[48:59] ---
    I did that to protect you.
[49:01] ---
    You used me as bait for the enemy!
[49:03] ---
    I did that to protect the organization.
[49:05] ---
    Why did you stand back and watch him die?
[49:08] ---
    I did that to protect myself.
[49:19] ---
    You stick with me, Kusanagi.
    I'll build a future for you.
[49:34] ---
    The pain is gone now.
[49:41] ---
    Section 9 and the review committee
[49:44] ---
    have formally cleared
    Lt. Col. Mamuro of suspicion.
[49:47] ---
    Thus, as his recommendation was renewed
    by a third party, we will implement it.
[49:52] ---
    Due to your excellent record, we also grant
    you the post-reorganization major rank.
[49:57] ---
    In addition, in accordance with
    the will of your late legal guardian,
[50:01] ---
    you'll receive a testamentary trust.
[50:04] ---
    It's an inheritance from
    the person who raised you.
[50:07] ---
    A portion of it is earmarked for the
    purchase of your prosthetic body.
[50:10] ---
    Which means that your
    body is now your property,
[50:13] ---
    and is outside Army jurisdiction.
[50:18] ---
    You're quite sure about this?
[50:20] ---
    The virus may be an unknown,
[50:22] ---
    but we've identified the
    architecture of the false memories.
[50:25] ---
    Do it.
[50:27] ---
    Very well. We'll attempt memory eradication.
[51:18] ---
    Will you go?
[51:19] ---
    Yes.
[51:21] ---
    Make sure to pay your respects to your parents.
[51:25] ---
    Thanks.
[51:35] ---
    I'm going.
[51:58] ---
    We'll find a replacement.
[52:08] ---
    Want a ride?
[52:10] ---
    Consider it my thanks for telling us
    the location of Mamuro's cyberbrain.
[52:13] ---
    I'll take the bus.
[52:15] ---
    Then I'll just give you the results.
[52:17] ---
    Captain Kanzaki was replaced.
    Mr. Sadamoto will be tried in closed court.
[52:21] ---
    I promise to make the lieutenant
    colonel's findings public one day.
[52:26] ---
    I see. By the way--are you the one
    he gave my recommendation to?
[52:32] ---
    Hard to say. A man in my
    position gets a lot of those.
[52:36] ---
    In fact, one of them outlined plans
[52:38] ---
    to create a new special unit within
    the international rescue team.
[52:43] ---
    I'd like someone who's got
    experience as a special consultant.
[52:48] ---
    Intriguing, but I don't want to work under
    a man who digs up people's graves.
[52:53] ---
    You dug up something even deeper.
[52:57] ---
    If you're serious about going independent,
    you should have your own team.
[53:01] ---
    The regulations say a unit needs a minimum
    of one commander and six members.
[53:09] ---
    I'll keep that in mind.
[53:12] ---
    May it be a team not for defense of self
    or state, but for taking the offensive.
[53:19] ---
    (mem mem mem mem mem)
[53:25] ---
    (memories memories memories)
[53:31] ---
    (memories memories memories memories)
[53:37] ---
    (my memories my memories my memories)
[53:42] ---
    Fragmented memories
[53:56] ---
    Here flowers (here birds); this is the sky
[54:06] ---
    Clouds, grass, the house I grew up in
[54:13] ---
    I search (and search) through the photos
[54:21] ---
    But I'm nowhere to be found
[54:29] ---
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
[54:38] ---
    Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there?
[54:43] ---
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
[54:51] ---
    Fragmented beautiful memories
[55:05] ---
    Look right (look left); where is this (place)?
[55:15] ---
    Buildings, streets, hustle and bustle
[55:22] ---
    I walk (and walk) through it all
[55:30] ---
    But I'm nowhere to be found
[55:38] ---
    The world, the world, the world, the world
[55:47] ---
    The world, the world
[55:52] ---
    The world, the world, the world...
[55:59] ---
    (Just) keeps on going
[56:05] ---
    Sweeping (skies)
[56:11] ---
    Vibrant (greenery)
[56:17] ---
    Mountains and (seas and)
[56:23] ---
    The wind (from the past)
[56:29] ---
    To the future (blows)
[56:35] ---
    Leaving me (behind)
[56:41] ---
    Deserted here (all alone)
[56:47] ---
    Whoosh
[56:55] ---
    (me me me me)
[57:01] ---
    (me me why me why me)
[57:07] ---
    Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there?
[57:11] ---
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
[57:20] ---
    Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there?
[57:25] ---
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
    Why am I not there? Why am I not there?
[57:34] ---
    Why am I not there?
[57:44] ---
    Six people, huh?
[57:46] ---
    Hmm, whom shall I scout...?

2 - Border 2: Ghost Whispers

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[00:23] ---
    "Supreme Court"
[00:30] ---
    Kazuya Soga, get out here!
[00:32] ---
    --Griffin Unit, ten minutes to airstrike.
    --Eagle clear.
[00:34] ---
    --Griffin Unit,
    --Fox negative.
[00:36] ---
    --ten minutes to airstrike.
    --Griffin here. Roger that.
[00:39] ---
    --Griffin Unit, ten minutes to airstrike.
    --It's clear!
[00:52] ---
    --Tossing hand grenade.
    --Wait! They've got hostages.
[00:56] ---
    Request support!
[01:19] ---
    We hereby issue the final verdict
    on defendant Kazuya Soga.
[01:28] ---
    It is evident that the defendant
    committed crimes against humanity
[01:33] ---
    during the fighting in Qhardistan.
[01:38] ---
    Therefore, this war crimes court
    hereby sentences him to death.
[03:33] ---
    Strange... Why am I awake when
    everyone else is sleep-learning?
[03:37] ---
    Lend me that clever little brain of yours.
[03:45] ---
    Who are you?
[03:50] ---
    Who is that updating my synchronization?
[03:54] ---
    You and me...?
[03:56] ---
    Huh?
[03:58] ---
    We're doing this to clear our
    names and Colonel Soga's!
[04:01] ---
    Get the module into the vehicle!
[04:15] ---
    It's a secret.
[04:24] ---
    Last night, all of Public Security's systems
    went down for just 1.8 seconds.
[04:30] ---
    Mistake? Error? Hacking?
[04:33] ---
    We're investigating.
[04:35] ---
    But there's a possibility that this one
    Logicoma synched with something.
[04:40] ---
    "Something"?
[04:41] ---
    I want you to find out what--and how
    it's related to the system going down.
[04:47] ---
    What freak would bother accessing
    an AI with an outdated neurochip,
[04:50] ---
    not to mention a conveyer
    that can only walk and talk?
[04:56] ---
    In any case, we're leaving the
    others off and isolating this one.
[05:00] ---
    I'd like you to investigate it, too.
[05:03] ---
    In other words, you're worried
    it was an inside job.
[05:06] ---
    All right, I'll use a civilian facility.
[05:09] ---
    I would have liked to go to an
    independent squad with this...
[05:13] ---
    Still looking for the perfect personnel?
[05:16] ---
    It is my team. I intend to take care.
[05:19] ---
    People can get addicted to
    the carefree consultant life.
[05:23] ---
    Or are you waiting to form it until
    it's a higher priority for the brass?
[05:28] ---
    If you want the squad to last,
    don't get overly ambitious.
[05:40] ---
    Your parallel commands are randomized?
[05:45] ---
    Is there a point to that?
[05:46] ---
    It's best for our learning.
[05:52] ---
    It's outside my system standards.
[05:54] ---
    Can you explain the data you received verbally?
[05:58] ---
    Um, I feel like it was
    something really important...
[06:02] ---
    I see it was completely integrated.
[06:05] ---
    Whoever did this, they're good.
[06:09] ---
    I feel sort of fluttery.
[06:11] ---
    There's no record of the infiltrator.
[06:13] ---
    Not only were you fully integrated,
[06:15] ---
    you got yourself bitten by false memories too.
[06:18] ---
    I got bitten?!
[06:22] ---
    Precious experience points!
[06:32] ---
    Bingo.
[06:33] ---
    Wow, that was inside me?! I'm amazing!
[06:37] ---
    Yeah, yeah. They really are good.
[06:41] ---
    I'm saying that for a soldier,
[06:43] ---
    killing your own countrymen
    is as low as you can sink!
[06:46] ---
    What's this?
[06:47] ---
    We're doing it to prove
    our innocence, and the colonel's!
[06:51] ---
    Just get the module--
[07:10] ---
    A traffic control error?
[07:16] ---
    What, what, what?!
[07:18] ---
    Logicoma!
[07:22] ---
    Sheesh!
[07:35] ---
    Why is everyone suddenly crazy?!
[08:54] ---
    Motoko Kusanagi...
[08:56] ---
    Kusanagi? The major with the 501?
[08:59] ---
    Pretty sure she's independent now.
[09:02] ---
    Call in all deployed
    personnel as reinforcements.
[09:06] ---
    An assault?
[09:08] ---
    It's raining military-grade bullets.
[09:10] ---
    They took advantage of a traffic control error.
[09:12] ---
    Assuming you aren't
    setting me up, send backup.
[09:17] ---
    The attackers are battle cyborgs.
    One of them is Batou, the sleepless eye.
[09:21] ---
    What?!
[09:22] ---
    I found a strange code in the data
    planted in the Logicoma's AI.
[09:28] ---
    So that's their objective.
[09:30] ---
    Put the Logicoma in self-defense mode.
    I'll have backup there in fifteen minutes.
[09:34] ---
    Fifteen?!
[09:35] ---
    The traffic network is being taken over.
[09:39] ---
    Report.
[09:40] ---
    Domination expanding throughout the city.
[09:46] ---
    Well, hurry up and stop it!
[09:48] ---
    We don't have enough processing speed.
[09:52] ---
    Huh?
[09:53] ---
    Penetration increasing.
    Defensive advance ineffective.
[10:03] ---
    Locking down the airport now.
[10:04] ---
    --We have a malfunction in the new
    control system, cause unknown.
    --Divert all flights to surrounding airports.
[10:07] ---
    --Flight A885, the airport is
    --Send those with extra fuel furthest away.
[10:09] ---
    --shut down due to a crash.
    --Tell Tokyo Control to return
    all landing planes to...
[10:11] ---
    Both air-traffic control and the new
    street traffic system are affected.
[10:16] ---
    80% of the street system has been
    taken over by an outside operator.
[10:24] ---
    This is crazy--what enormous
    system is our hacker using?!
[10:30] ---
    Major, fifteen minutes will be a problem.
[10:33] ---
    You're joking!
[10:34] ---
    This isn't an error. It's a crime.
[10:42] ---
    Large-scale domination?!
    Who has a system like that?!
[10:56] ---
    Give me weapons!
[11:00] ---
    Why are you empty?!
[11:02] ---
    I was being inspected.
[11:04] ---
    Guess I'll set up an ambush.
[11:15] ---
    You hear that, Borma?
    Get it done in ten minutes.
[11:18] ---
    Don't let Public Security
    use the de-parallelizing code.
[11:21] ---
    Borma!
[11:25] ---
    You bitch!
[12:01] ---
    Where'd they get that crap?
[12:07] ---
    The range of domination is
    still expanding, you know.
[12:10] ---
    The only solution is to get the module.
[12:13] ---
    Who are you? You've been spying
    on me since I left Public Security.
[12:17] ---
    To ask for your help. I want you to
    trust me and hand over the conveyer.
[12:21] ---
    I recognize your voice from yesterday...!
[12:24] ---
    Yes. I'm the one who infiltrated him.
[12:39] ---
    And Public Security's system going down?
[12:41] ---
    That wasn't me.
[12:43] ---
    That was the first move of the group
[12:46] ---
    using a special military module to carry
    out a large-scale cyber operation.
[12:50] ---
    "Operation"?
[13:07] ---
    Here I go!
[13:29] ---
    Logicoma!
[13:36] ---
    The enemy stole the module's
    de-parallelizing code from me.
[13:41] ---
    All I could do was replicate the code
[13:44] ---
    and copy it to an isolation-capable
    AI they couldn't interfere with.
[13:50] ---
    You, in other words.
[13:52] ---
    I knew it! I do carry an incredible secret!
[13:57] ---
    --Indeed.
    --Oh, dear.
[13:59] ---
    Logicoma, full speed. Get us to the exit!
[14:01] ---
    Aye aye, sir!
[14:12] ---
    --Face front!
    --Aaand... stop!
[14:19] ---
    --Hey!
    --Huh?
[14:21] ---
    Huh?
[14:22] ---
    Huh...?
[14:30] ---
    Shield!
[14:39] ---
    Huh?! I'm not broken.
[15:02] ---
    Where'd this "military module" come from?
[15:05] ---
    It's a Mass Field-Hacking Unit jointly
    developed with seven leading companies
[15:08] ---
    in the old Silicon Valley.
[15:11] ---
    Military joint production?
    Are you an American agent?
[15:16] ---
    I'm Special Forces.
[15:19] ---
    My code name is "VV." I'm supporting
    you in hope of your cooperation.
[15:26] ---
    Great, now we've got two enemies.
[15:30] ---
    So that agent came to take back the module.
[15:34] ---
    But don't let her throw you.
[15:36] ---
    All we have to do is destroy the Public
    Security machine, and it's checkmate.
[15:41] ---
    How's the domination coming?
[15:43] ---
    We're close to target values.
[15:45] ---
    We won't let 'em get away with anything else.
[15:47] ---
    Get me a line and connect to the colonel.
[15:51] ---
    This war crimes court hereby sentences...
[16:03] ---
    Colonel Soga, how dare you?!
[16:04] ---
    Who the hell are you?!
[16:06] ---
    The Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense.
    I want to talk to that man!
[16:10] ---
    Vice-Minister Kasuga.
    I'm flattered by your concern.
[16:15] ---
    But I create my own circumstances.
[16:18] ---
    --Excuse me?
    --Those who obstruct my Net
    will disappear from this city.
[16:27] ---
    I only desire one thing...
[16:36] ---
    To make our truths known!
[16:48] ---
    Aramaki, I assume you've heard of Soga?
[16:51] ---
    Kazuya Soga, the war criminal in
    the Qhardistan massacre, correct?
[16:55] ---
    He's the man behind this traffic chaos.
[16:59] ---
    He's still connected to the Net even
    after we tossed him in an isolation cell.
[17:04] ---
    Can't the great Section 9 stop him?!
[17:07] ---
    He's on an independent line
    via military satellite.
[17:10] ---
    We'd have to open a hole in our tactical
    defenses: either kill the line with him,
[17:14] ---
    or shoot down the satellite.
[17:16] ---
    Out of the question!
[17:18] ---
    Then our hands are tied for the moment.
[17:21] ---
    Even with all Home Affairs and civilian Als
    working at full capacity, we wouldn't have
[17:25] ---
    the processing power to break his command
    and take back the traffic control systems.
[17:30] ---
    They made him a scapegoat
    when he refused to testify in court.
[17:34] ---
    I did what I could to commute his sentence...
[17:40] ---
    But I never thought he'd mobilize his unit!
[17:42] ---
    His motive is clear, anyway.
[17:45] ---
    To an honest soldier, a postwar
    military purge is a state betrayal.
[17:51] ---
    Well, have a seat.
[17:54] ---
    Where did his unit get those weapons?
[17:57] ---
    The lower-ranking NCOs are on strike right now,
[18:00] ---
    so it wouldn't surprise anyone
    if a whole arsenal disappeared.
[18:05] ---
    One last thing, then: What's he after?
[18:11] ---
    He's demanding access to a military database...
[18:15] ---
    ...called "Pandora."
[18:17] ---
    State secrets?
[18:20] ---
    Does he mean to bring the details of an
    Army operation before the war crimes court?
[18:26] ---
    That's not all.
[18:29] ---
    He wants to air the Army's and Public
    Security's dirty laundry to the world
[18:32] ---
    in exchange for this city's twenty
    million cars and the people in them.
[18:36] ---
    He wants Japan itself to be
    judged just like he was judged?
[18:41] ---
    Other countries would use war crimes
    as a pretext for all sorts of demands...
[18:46] ---
    We might as well be under occupation again.
[18:49] ---
    As the war's greatest losers, our country
    would be the world's puppet state.
[18:55] ---
    It doesn't even bear discussing!
    We'll never give in to that demand!
[18:59] ---
    Are you speaking on behalf of Home Affairs?
[19:02] ---
    N-No! But...
[19:10] ---
    Colonel Kazuya Soga?
[19:12] ---
    He commanded an op in Qhardistan
    that won him high praise.
[19:17] ---
    Then he was accused of conducting
    a massacre during the op
[19:19] ---
    and convicted as a war criminal.
    He's currently in custody.
[19:23] ---
    A hero during the war, and a criminal afterward.
[19:27] ---
    And Soga's sympathizers are using
    the module to seek his release?
[19:32] ---
    Major--
[19:33] ---
    She's an informant. I brought
    her in on a provisional basis.
[19:37] ---
    What exactly is this "module"?
[19:40] ---
    It creates processing power on the
    level of a giant nationwide system.
[19:45] ---
    They must have used it to parallelize
    something low-capacity in huge quantities.
[19:50] ---
    Your opinion?
[19:52] ---
    I agree with Major Kusanagi.
[19:54] ---
    And is your objective to retrieve the module?
[19:57] ---
    Or destroy it.
[20:00] ---
    The most effective method is to use
    the code I evacuated into your AI
[20:06] ---
    from somewhere free of enemy interference.
[20:09] ---
    Why was it stolen in the first place?
[20:12] ---
    The module was a model brought here for
    top-secret standards sharing with Japan.
[20:17] ---
    I take it your colleagues are making a
    top-secret investigation of the theft?
[20:22] ---
    I'll leave that to your imagination.
[20:25] ---
    Along with how you pinpointed
    the enemy's smuggling point?
[20:29] ---
    Both issues are the purview of the
    Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense,
[20:32] ---
    but he didn't mention them
    when I spoke to him just now.
[20:36] ---
    Evidently something's being hushed up.
[20:39] ---
    Another reason I want you
[20:40] ---
    to tell the Ministry of Home Affairs
    to give my squad top priority.
[20:45] ---
    Since when do you have a squad?!
[20:48] ---
    I'm about to form one. Based on skill,
    with no ranks, and given top priority.
[20:53] ---
    Bad plan! Special forces
    teams aren't mercenaries!
[20:56] ---
    If you take advantage of a
    disaster for your own gain,
[20:59] ---
    the defense world will treat you like a vulture!
[21:02] ---
    I'm not interested in teams out for money
[21:04] ---
    or ministry bigwigs gunning
    for postwar concessions.
[21:09] ---
    Tell me this: How are the
    Home Affairs higher-ups?
[21:12] ---
    Having themselves an "elite panic"
    with the Ministry of Defense.
[21:16] ---
    They're afraid the public
    will panic if word gets out,
[21:19] ---
    so other than a few of my units,
    they won't order anyone to act.
[21:23] ---
    We're the only ones who can act right now.
[21:25] ---
    A team formed on a fixed standard that
    will be necessary everywhere in every age.
[21:43] ---
    So it's finally taking off.
[22:12] ---
    Whoops, survived again.
[22:15] ---
    Playing Russian roulette in a virtual reality?
[22:23] ---
    Do you reproduce the sensation of the
    bullet penetrating your cranium, too?
[22:27] ---
    You've got a sickness.
[22:30] ---
    Kusanagi from the 501!
    When did you sneak in here?!
[22:33] ---
    I'm independent. The op in Qhardistan,
    the American Army module, and Soga...
[22:39] ---
    Tell me what you know, or take
    a real-life bullet. Your choice.
[22:43] ---
    Hold on! Why come to me?
[22:45] ---
    You served under Soga in Qhardistan.
[22:48] ---
    There's a record of Ishikawa
    calling you on your private line.
[22:52] ---
    Hey, I turned down the job with the 78th!
    The pay wasn't good enough.
[22:57] ---
    The Marines' ace sniper turned into
    a compulsive gambler after the war?
[23:00] ---
    Is that why your unit's leave-time
    budget's been cooked to high hell?
[23:05] ---
    How did you know--
[23:07] ---
    If your postwar days are about
    turning your life into cash,
[23:11] ---
    I'll play your game.
[23:13] ---
    Join my spec ops team in the next five seconds,
[23:17] ---
    or the money you embezzled gets
    transferred to Maritime Command.
[23:22] ---
    Bitch.
[23:24] ---
    I'll pay you a salary.
[23:30] ---
    The radio's still up, right? Divert everyone
    before we lose the whole system.
[24:07] ---
    So you're the MP?
[24:09] ---
    What'd she threaten you with to bring you in?
[24:12] ---
    Oh, I volunteered.
[24:14] ---
    I've been waiting for the
    Major to start up her team.
[24:18] ---
    You're a messed-up guy.
[24:27] ---
    How can you control this
    with the domination going on?
[24:30] ---
    This antique has some special specifications.
[24:33] ---
    It's in a whole different class from
    your friend's old clunker there!
[24:43] ---
    Since we can't cut Soga's Net,
    we'll have to physically seize the module.
[24:48] ---
    This facility is the most likely
    candidate for our enemy's base.
[24:52] ---
    I see; you'll only give us our target's location.
[24:54] ---
    You don't want to get your own hands dirty.
[24:57] ---
    I'm a neat freak.
[24:59] ---
    An old communications equipment company, eh?
[25:02] ---
    Not much for a sniper to do if
    they're holed up in a server room.
[25:07] ---
    Don't worry, I'll smoke out
    plenty of targets for you.
[25:23] ---
    Bingo? Seriously?
[25:24] ---
    Just one squad, and they get their
    own ground support chopper...
[25:29] ---
    Good grief.
[25:57] ---
    We're going, Logicoma.
[25:58] ---
    Huh? But I'm not done with the sensors...
[26:02] ---
    What?! Really?!
[26:09] ---
    --Safe...
    --You're slow!
[26:20] ---
    Paz, status?
[26:21] ---
    Not sure whether it went well or not, but I'm in.
[26:25] ---
    So are we. Report if you find the module.
[26:29] ---
    Let's do this.
[26:30] ---
    No use!
[26:42] ---
    A barrier maze?
[26:48] ---
    This processing speed...
[26:50] ---
    You people can't stop my Net.
[26:56] ---
    In about an hour, Pandora's lid will open.
[27:00] ---
    It's impossible to stop me before then.
[27:05] ---
    You want revenge against
    the country that badly?
[27:10] ---
    I'm uncovering the truth.
[28:06] ---
    The op to move the refugees in Qhardistan
[28:10] ---
    was the 78th Composite Unit's final mission.
[28:13] ---
    Which was an extermination op you led?
[28:15] ---
    No!
[28:17] ---
    This is...
[28:23] ---
    They were unarmed refugees.
[28:26] ---
    Afterward, a conglomerate occupied their land.
[28:30] ---
    Someone ordered their slaughter
    to benefit the national interest.
[28:49] ---
    Give me water!
[29:17] ---
    This is the first step.
[29:20] ---
    I'll put all the nations who led the
    world into war in that same position.
[29:25] ---
    Soga! You've been inf--
[29:35] ---
    Soga?
[29:41] ---
    This is...
[29:42] ---
    A gap in the maze, maybe?
[29:45] ---
    How did she leave the
    barrier maze? No--she didn't.
[29:57] ---
    Soga can't see me?
[29:59] ---
    I did manage to land in a gap.
[30:11] ---
    An accident-prevention AI?!
[30:14] ---
    He's parallelized all the Als
    in Japan's traffic network!
[30:40] ---
    That was close.
[30:41] ---
    My barrier won't last long. Let's hurry.
[30:46] ---
    It's been three minutes since we
    lost contact with Major Kusanagi.
[30:50] ---
    Call from the Ministry of Defense.
[30:52] ---
    A DoS attack on the Pandora
    barrier began four minutes ago.
[30:56] ---
    We can't keep up with it.
[31:00] ---
    Sounds like it was a mistake to
    give Public Security free rein!
[31:03] ---
    You invited this by carelessly stirring Soga up!
[31:10] ---
    Major! Are you all right? What's the situation?
[31:13] ---
    Soga took over the traffic control
    system through the module.
[31:17] ---
    But the threat to kill if we
    didn't release Pandora was fake.
[31:22] ---
    He intends to use the vast
    system power he's gained
[31:24] ---
    to break Pandora wide open.
[31:27] ---
    I see...
[31:30] ---
    In that case, there are steps we can take.
[31:33] ---
    You keep working to recover the module.
[31:40] ---
    Nice timing!
[31:42] ---
    The deal with the government should be a bluff.
[31:44] ---
    Colonel Soga went too far.
[31:47] ---
    This started as a plan for the
    Vice-Minister to sell Pandora!
[31:50] ---
    We can't survive turning
    the whole world against us!
[31:54] ---
    If you've got cold feet, run. Nobody'll stop you.
[31:58] ---
    Negotiate a deal or whatever.
[32:00] ---
    I sure will!
[32:03] ---
    If you're in this for money, run without a fight.
[32:13] ---
    Hey! Home Affairs just gave us money!
[32:17] ---
    Give it to someone who cares!
[32:20] ---
    We're withdrawing. I'll buy some time.
[32:23] ---
    The colonel didn't even wait
    to clear the 78th's name.
[32:27] ---
    Why do you figure that is?
[32:30] ---
    Kasuga!
[32:33] ---
    The colonel got scapegoated...!
[32:35] ---
    Let's go!
[32:37] ---
    I'll meet up with you once I've stalled them.
[32:39] ---
    Do it fast.
[32:41] ---
    Paz, do you read me?
[32:42] ---
    More or less.
[32:43] ---
    Do you know an intelligence
    man named Ishikawa?
[32:45] ---
    Sure do.
[32:50] ---
    If you find him, use a cable
    to get him to the cyber lobby.
[32:53] ---
    Roger!
[32:54] ---
    I'm hanging up before they detect our line.
[32:56] ---
    Shit. The colonel's got domination,
    but they're still roaming free!
[33:05] ---
    Don't underestimate me. I can locate
    even a super-wizard-class hacker
[33:08] ---
    if they make a call during domination!
[33:11] ---
    The Major's got business with you.
    Let me connect you, and nobody gets hurt.
[33:17] ---
    Try it, kiddo. I'll play with you.
[33:32] ---
    Be a good boy, and you won't get hurt.
[33:35] ---
    You mean you won't.
[33:39] ---
    She was playing me with that call?
    Damn gorilla woman!
[33:44] ---
    Who are you calling a gorilla?
[33:49] ---
    Major Kusanagi!
[33:57] ---
    Planning to stick me with a virus?
[33:59] ---
    The opposite. I think you're already infected.
[34:02] ---
    What?
[34:03] ---
    It's a makeshift vaccine, so you'll
    have to put up with any bugs.
[34:16] ---
    I've lost contact with Ishikawa.
[34:19] ---
    I'll go.
[34:20] ---
    I'll take the module and go on ahead.
    We rendezvous at the trap!
[34:24] ---
    Roger!
[34:26] ---
    Drive.
[34:29] ---
    Shit. You, Saito?!
[34:32] ---
    We're all pros here. No holding a grudge.
[34:36] ---
    If you're a pro, join the side that pays best.
[34:38] ---
    Home Affairs paid us.
    I'll give you a triple share.
[34:42] ---
    Take it from my account!
[34:45] ---
    For real?!
[34:54] ---
    Ishikawa!
[34:55] ---
    C'mon, let's get back to guarding the module.
[34:58] ---
    Don't move.
[35:00] ---
    Hey! Ishikawa?!
[35:05] ---
    Major!
[35:07] ---
    They all left. Only one car stayed behind.
[35:12] ---
    --It didn't work!
    --Damn, they pulled out already?
[35:15] ---
    They've got good judgment.
[35:17] ---
    Paz, you go in VV's car.
    I'll go with the Logicoma!
[35:26] ---
    Saito!
[35:40] ---
    You transferred them money?!
[35:43] ---
    Why would you swallow
    the enemy's bluff so easily?
[35:46] ---
    This is the result of our negotiation with Soga.
[35:49] ---
    We planned to put the money
    toward the Economic Amnesty Act,
[35:52] ---
    but it came from vet pensions that
    got slashed in the Army budget cuts.
[35:56] ---
    Do you honestly think
    that's what they're after?!
[36:00] ---
    Just whose cause are we
    supposed to be working for here?
[36:04] ---
    The funds will be traced, and the Ministry
    of Defense is taking responsibility.
[36:08] ---
    Our people stay out of this, got it?
[36:14] ---
    Did you check up on the
    enemy's parallel circuitry?
[36:17] ---
    The onboard Als of twenty million
    vehicles in this city are in enemy control.
[36:21] ---
    Including my car.
[36:22] ---
    The system is so overpowered we can
    hardly manage to move one chopper.
[36:27] ---
    But there is a way to turn
    the tables, if only temporarily.
[36:32] ---
    Tell me.
[36:49] ---
    Charge!
[36:54] ---
    Here already?!
[36:59] ---
    Logicoma, the tires!
[37:10] ---
    Cut between them. You take right!
[37:26] ---
    A car?! How can they move
    during our domination?
[37:31] ---
    Here we go, Paz.
[37:47] ---
    He's taken over my car!
[37:50] ---
    "Special specifications," my ass!
[37:53] ---
    He quit everything to focus some
    crazy pressure on me! It's too much!
[37:58] ---
    Ishikawa!
[38:00] ---
    Damn gorilla woman's calling.
[38:08] ---
    Ishikawa?
[38:15] ---
    Shit. Never figured the
    colonel'd try to brain-fry me!
[38:17] ---
    I can't believe it--did he really?!
[38:20] ---
    We're about to find out what the truth is.
[38:28] ---
    I have control!
[38:35] ---
    Ishikawa's cooperating with 'em?
[38:57] ---
    Saito!
[38:59] ---
    Sorry, lady, but they sweetened the pot.
[39:03] ---
    Good work, Saito!
[39:07] ---
    We're almost to the trap. Once we get there...
[39:11] ---
    We win!
[39:13] ---
    You damn gambling-freak mercenary!
[39:39] ---
    Huh? I can't see them anymore.
[39:53] ---
    This makes no sense.
[39:55] ---
    Where are they?!
[39:57] ---
    Five minutes to infiltration of Pandora.
[40:03] ---
    There's no record that I've been hacked,
    so why did they vanish?!
[40:07] ---
    They didn't overwrite your vision.
[40:10] ---
    Can you move?!
[40:11] ---
    I lost my right arm, but don't worry--
    we're still in the game.
[40:14] ---
    So what was their trick?
[40:17] ---
    They used our own skills to
    fake us out. Slick of them.
[40:21] ---
    It's an old type of optical
    camouflage holograph.
[40:24] ---
    I'd have missed it if we weren't going so slowly.
[40:26] ---
    I'll send you the location.
[40:28] ---
    Securing the module is top priority.
    We're out of time.
[40:32] ---
    They figured it out?
[40:35] ---
    They're damn persistent!
[41:07] ---
    --Fire!
    --Aye!
[41:40] ---
    We don't have your mobility,
    so it'll take us a bit.
[41:43] ---
    No problem. Logicoma, you stay there.
[41:47] ---
    Wait until we get to you!
[41:54] ---
    Skilled as always.
[41:56] ---
    But you're not the only one good
    at infiltrating vision, 501 Major...
[42:01] ---
    No, just "Major" now.
[42:21] ---
    Paz!
[42:23] ---
    VV, get the module, fast!
[42:30] ---
    Ten seconds to infiltration of Pandora.
[42:32] ---
    9, 8, 7, 6...
[42:50] ---
    "Slow Down for Roadblocks"
[42:55] ---
    We set up 317 roadblocks, from Wards 1
    through 38. Do we keep going?
[43:02] ---
    Mobilize all forces and
    put up as many as you can.
[43:05] ---
    We'll tie up all vehicles' onboard computers
    with accident-avoidance processes.
[43:09] ---
    The fate of our nation is at stake.
[43:12] ---
    I feel bad for the MLIT,
[43:14] ---
    but I'm going to cause the
    worst gridlock in thirty years.
[43:27] ---
    Aramaki from Public Security?
[43:34] ---
    This is his doing?
[43:52] ---
    Paz!
[44:04] ---
    You're too late. Soga's opening
    up Pandora as we speak.
[44:09] ---
    Nope. His power is down.
[44:13] ---
    Public Security's stopped more than
    30% of the vehicles that were in motion.
[44:29] ---
    Both you and Colonel Soga
    had been deliberately infected.
[45:14] ---
    There is no "truth" about
    that refugee transport op.
[45:18] ---
    You killed those people
    and ordered an airstrike.
[45:22] ---
    You did it because all the "refugees"
    you were trying to safeguard
[45:26] ---
    were armed guerillas.
[45:36] ---
    It's the MOD's responsibility now.
[45:38] ---
    Either do something about him,
    or destroy Pandora right now!
[45:42] ---
    Obviously out of the question!
[45:46] ---
    Because you want me to open Pandora?
[45:49] ---
    What?
[45:52] ---
    Don't!
[45:55] ---
    You bastard!
[45:59] ---
    Wait! Don't shoot!
[46:02] ---
    It was the Administrative Vice-Minister
    who gave me the module.
[46:05] ---
    That agent's objective is the same.
[46:08] ---
    Make sure you don't use
    the de-parallelizing code.
[46:11] ---
    What?
[46:14] ---
    I can't stop the infiltration.
[46:16] ---
    This is the only way!
[46:19] ---
    Stop!
[46:28] ---
    I gave you a copy of the vaccine.
[46:31] ---
    It's imperfect, but you'll be able
    to tell which memories are false.
[46:35] ---
    It's unlikely we'll be able to
    eradicate them, but I'll give you a hand.
[46:39] ---
    Not interested.
[46:42] ---
    It's the only memory that lets me feel
    like I'm not just a dog trained to kill!
[46:50] ---
    You're just a whiny bitch, then.
[46:55] ---
    What happened, Major?!
[46:56] ---
    It's over. Send a rescue squad.
[46:59] ---
    What do you mean, "over"?!
[47:02] ---
    Pandora's been infiltrated!
[47:03] ---
    The data's being leaked to
    a different Net than Soga's!
[47:11] ---
    Step away from the module!
[47:23] ---
    Don't resist. I feel an affinity with you.
[47:27] ---
    You, who haven't had a flesh-and-blood
    body for as long as you can remember.
[47:41] ---
    You bitch...
[47:53] ---
    That attack barrier is meaningless.
[47:58] ---
    My brain has to be synchronized, like his.
[48:06] ---
    A neurochip? You're...
[48:11] ---
    I must find out where it came from--
[48:13] ---
    this thing which infected me
    and gave me true self-awareness.
[48:20] ---
    Even if I have to access the whole world's
    organizations and their secrets...
[48:26] ---
    ...I shall.
[48:42] ---
    You're an artificial intelligence
    pretending to be human...
[48:46] ---
    What for?!
[48:49] ---
    I just have to know.
[48:52] ---
    My Ghost whi--spered--that--to--me--
[49:01] ---
    Ghost...
[49:08] ---
    Huh?
[49:09] ---
    A certain intelligence agency admitted
[49:11] ---
    that one of its Als was infected
    with an unknown virus on the Net
[49:15] ---
    and began acting outside of their control.
[49:18] ---
    And it absconded with the module,
[49:20] ---
    then manipulated the Vice-Minister.
[49:23] ---
    He made too many dangerous
    deals during the war.
[49:27] ---
    He intended to sell the contents
    of Pandora and flee the country.
[49:31] ---
    That's why he manipulated Soga
    and sent in a team of his own pawns.
[49:36] ---
    But Soga seized control of the situation,
    so the AI planned a recovery strategy.
[49:40] ---
    "A rogue AI did it all" --how very convenient.
[49:44] ---
    Even if it's half true, I'm sure they
    let things lie to try to profit from her.
[49:47] ---
    Though it seems they're not the
    only ones to try to profit from this.
[49:52] ---
    You're the one who came to me.
[49:54] ---
    With the result that you made
    your team a fait accompli
[49:57] ---
    with the highest possible priority.
[50:00] ---
    Want to re-register as part of Section 9?
[50:04] ---
    They'll cancel this registration if you
    can't get enough people together.
[50:08] ---
    No thanks.
[50:10] ---
    I appreciate your help
    with the paperwork, though.
[50:32] ---
    It'll close in five minutes. Decide before then.
[50:35] ---
    Sit there and get sentenced in one
    of the speed-trials the system loves,
[50:39] ---
    or join my squad.
[50:42] ---
    You say that to everyone you've
    been in shooting matches with?
[50:46] ---
    I can only get people infected
    with the memory virus released.
[50:49] ---
    Though those three are the ones I want anyway.
[50:53] ---
    They'll accept that after we just
    picked a fight with the government?
[50:56] ---
    If I, Section 9, and a certain
    country's intelligence agency
[50:59] ---
    testify about the false memories.
[51:02] ---
    Ishikawa and Borma agreed.
[51:04] ---
    As for Saito, when I paid him a little
    visit before he could go to ground,
[51:08] ---
    he begged me to let him join.
[51:14] ---
    You're some piece of work.
[51:16] ---
    So, you're telling me to be
    Public Security's errand boy?
[51:19] ---
    It's an independent offensive unit
    based on skill, with no ranks,
[51:23] ---
    and it has top priority.
[51:25] ---
    I'll give you memories of being
    more than a dog trained to kill.
[51:34] ---
    These fake memories--can you really erase 'em?
[51:38] ---
    I can try.
[52:17] ---
    Creeping black clouds
[52:27] ---
    Your eyes are beautiful
[52:36] ---
    You're going to join those ranks, then
[52:46] ---
    Those ranks don't suit you
[52:54] ---
    Come on
[52:57] ---
    It's okay, come
[53:01] ---
    Hide here
[53:07] ---
    It's okay, look
[53:11] ---
    It's a battlefield outside
[53:17] ---
    Afternoon, the sun shining through the window
[53:28] ---
    Back when you were just a child
[53:37] ---
    Don't give up that sight
[53:47] ---
    We won't hand over that sight
[53:54] ---
    Come on
[53:57] ---
    It's okay, come
[54:02] ---
    Hide here
[54:07] ---
    It's okay, look
[54:12] ---
    It's a battlefield outside
[54:18] ---
    They can't see us
[54:26] ---
    Not me, and not you
[54:36] ---
    Even if they could
[54:41] ---
    It would only be empty shells
[54:59] ---
    All the ones with loud voices are gone now
[55:05] ---
    See? It's quiet
[55:09] ---
    I love you, love you
[55:13] ---
    Shh
[55:15] ---
    I love you, I love you, I love you...
[55:20] ---
    I love you, I love you, I love you
[55:25] ---
    Love you...
[55:30] ---
    Love you

3 - Border 3: Ghost Tears

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[01:58] ---
    Major. Hey, Major!
[02:03] ---
    What was that? Virtual reality?
[02:05] ---
    I'm on vacation. Don't be so casual
    about entering my cyber lobby.
[02:09] ---
    My condolences. There's been a
    terrorist bombing in Nishinouchi.
[02:13] ---
    The vics were an executive at
    a foreign-owned water company,
[02:15] ---
    a Trade Ministry official,
    and a domestic weapons manufacturer.
[02:20] ---
    The top-priority entry in
    the terrorism prediction list
[02:22] ---
    you gave Public Security was right on target.
[02:25] ---
    I assume they were in a secret
    meeting to agree on water prices.
[02:28] ---
    Everything's in smithereens,
    including some Foreign Affairs guards.
[02:32] ---
    There was also an explosion at
    the Yamanote Dam, by the way.
[02:35] ---
    The dam?
[02:39] ---
    Dunno if it's related.
[02:41] ---
    But it essentially belongs to
    a foreign-owned water company,
[02:43] ---
    and there's a retired Trade official on staff.
[02:50] ---
    The bureaucrats' turf wars
    are intense in that industry.
[02:55] ---
    So, who asked for us?
[02:58] ---
    Section 9, as usual.
[03:00] ---
    They failed to put your list to good use,
    but they did track the perps.
[03:04] ---
    They say they can't secure 'em,
    though. Too outgunned.
[03:12] ---
    Call everyone in. I'm coming too.
[03:16] ---
    Work calls?
[03:20] ---
    I'm sorry.
[03:22] ---
    Five hours, seven minutes.
    That's a record-length vacation for you.
[03:27] ---
    Are you consulting for the police today?
    Or the Cyberbrain Development Bureau?
[03:32] ---
    I'll make it up to you.
[03:35] ---
    Don't forget what we talked about.
[03:38] ---
    Are you serious?
[03:39] ---
    Of course.
[03:40] ---
    You should get going. All your
    customers are impatient types, right?
[03:47] ---
    Yes.
[03:48] ---
    Wow, you've been with that guy for
    three months! That's a new record.
[03:57] ---
    Don't be so casual about using
    that Ghost infiltration key.
[05:08] ---
    Your precinct ID'd him as
    Detective Naoharu Mizuki.
[05:13] ---
    Is that right?
[05:14] ---
    Yeah. He's my senior.
[05:25] ---
    Is this all he had on him?
[05:27] ---
    His holster was empty.
[05:29] ---
    His piece must've been washed away or stolen.
[05:32] ---
    It's hard to believe the gun under
    his jacket would get washed away.
[05:36] ---
    And it'd be odd for someone to
    steal his gun but leave his wallet.
[05:45] ---
    A prosthetics specialist...
[05:48] ---
    He sure doesn't look cyborgized.
[05:51] ---
    Lieutenant, your guys rounded up all the
    unclaimed property in the area, right?
[05:54] ---
    Let's look for something else
    that ties back to him.
[05:56] ---
    You want me to be your errand boy?
[05:59] ---
    If the dam incident was really an accident, yes.
[06:01] ---
    Lieutenant! I found something odd.
[06:08] ---
    What are these?
[06:10] ---
    They look like prosthetics, but...
[06:21] ---
    Mermaid's Legs...
[06:30] ---
    Report.
[06:33] ---
    Lots of injured cops.
    Six perps still going strong.
[06:37] ---
    They're on their way to Ward 4.
[06:39] ---
    They see right through the police strategy.
[06:41] ---
    They secured an escape route ahead of time.
[06:44] ---
    This group is highly trained.
[06:47] ---
    They have a commander
    somewhere out there. Ishikawa!
[06:52] ---
    I picked up their line!
[06:58] ---
    The seventh one. This is their leader.
[07:33] ---
    This is a cutting-edge ghost lock.
    Don't waste time resisting.
[07:38] ---
    I'll make him order his friends to surrender.
[07:40] ---
    Ishikawa, run a forced recognition program.
[07:43] ---
    Roger.
[07:45] ---
    Abort the operation. Throw down
    your guns and surrender.
[07:49] ---
    Repeat: Abort the operation and surrender.
[07:57] ---
    Huh?
[08:01] ---
    Aw, no shootout?
[08:05] ---
    I captured one!
[08:09] ---
    Hey, you're pretty useful!
[08:13] ---
    We got the last one.
[08:15] ---
    Good. Hand them all over to Public Security.
[08:20] ---
    A virus alert?
[08:25] ---
    It's the man you captured!
[08:41] ---
    This pain...
[08:49] ---
    The ghost lock released?
[08:52] ---
    Major?
[08:53] ---
    Shit. Saito!
[08:59] ---
    Don't kill him!
[09:29] ---
    No more of that!
[09:34] ---
    Damn, it feels gross having someone
    infiltrate my Ghost--even the Major.
[09:39] ---
    Truer words...
[09:41] ---
    Your fault for aiming for the head.
[09:43] ---
    Don't hand them over yet. We'll take
    them to a lockup with cyber facilities.
[09:48] ---
    You telling me to play interrogation partner?
[09:50] ---
    I'm not interested in fake memories.
[09:53] ---
    Memories?
[09:54] ---
    I'm interested in their contaminated Ghosts.
[10:06] ---
    Sorry I had to call you down here.
[10:10] ---
    It's my civic duty.
[10:12] ---
    I understand you're in charge
    of the dam. Let's see...
[10:17] ---
    Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[10:20] ---
    Please, call me Thied.
[10:23] ---
    You've got quite the tough-looking secretary.
[10:26] ---
    He's very reliable.
[10:28] ---
    The conflicts continue in the
    Republic of Kuzan, where you're from.
[10:33] ---
    I hear the Qhardi ethnic minority in particular
    is still waging a war of independence.
[10:39] ---
    It's a heartbreaking war.
[10:41] ---
    You're Qhardi, correct?
[10:44] ---
    Yes. Like the majority of my comrades,
    I wish for a peaceful solution.
[10:51] ---
    So, the explosion at the dam...
[10:53] ---
    I'm told it was a valve malfunction.
[10:56] ---
    Your company sells water, right?
    For what type of use?
[11:01] ---
    It's for precision machinery businesses.
    That industry relies on 100% pure water.
[11:07] ---
    Precision machinery...
    Prosthetic manufacturing, for example?
[11:11] ---
    Yes.
[11:14] ---
    Chief...
[11:17] ---
    You idiot!
[11:19] ---
    The Trade Ministry got them
    invited to set up a plant here!
[11:22] ---
    You want to make an enemy
    of the local precinct, too?
[11:25] ---
    But...
[11:30] ---
    Stop, that's evidence!
[11:34] ---
    I'm very grateful to you for finding
    the goods stolen from our warehouse.
[11:40] ---
    Please, take them with you.
[11:42] ---
    Chief!
[11:43] ---
    Back off!
[11:46] ---
    A detective died, sir.
[11:47] ---
    You think I don't know that?
[11:49] ---
    You go to Nishinouchi and get me information.
[11:53] ---
    Nishinouchi? What's there?
[11:54] ---
    A bombing, apparently by Qhardi terrorists.
[11:59] ---
    Now listen: You consult your superiors
    before any moves on this case.
[12:02] ---
    Terrorism?
[12:04] ---
    If the explosion was intentional,
    and he wasn't a victim...
[12:09] ---
    What?
[12:10] ---
    Yes, sir! I'm on it!
[12:15] ---
    Don't make any trouble!
[12:21] ---
    They're a Qhardi weapons smuggling gang.
    I met them on an undercover op.
[12:26] ---
    Their goal is to send weapons
    to their comrades back home.
[12:30] ---
    They've got no reason to attack this country.
[12:32] ---
    Their statements were crystal clear:
[12:34] ---
    They're against the pricing agreement,
    so they bombed the meeting site.
[12:38] ---
    Are you telling me those are planted memories?
[12:41] ---
    I'm betting they're all infected.
[12:44] ---
    And that the virus interfered
    with my ghost lock.
[12:53] ---
    Well done. You subdued them brilliantly.
[12:56] ---
    We could do it even more easily if you
    adjusted your comm standards to ours.
[13:01] ---
    I read your report.
[13:03] ---
    A false memory virus that can infiltrate,
    hack, and brainwash simultaneously?
[13:08] ---
    It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
[13:11] ---
    Other than the symptoms at
    its onset, it leaves no trace.
[13:14] ---
    Electronic manipulation of
    memory is incredibly difficult.
[13:18] ---
    No one in the world has
    been confirmed successful.
[13:20] ---
    And yet past incidents tell us a
    maker and a broker clearly exist.
[13:25] ---
    Yes. Somewhere out there is
    the super-wizard-class programmer
[13:30] ---
    known as "Fire-Starter" who
    created this high-level cyber-virus.
[13:33] ---
    But until now, no organization in
    the world had uncovered his identity.
[13:37] ---
    Did you?
[13:38] ---
    A clue, anyway.
[13:46] ---
    What's this?
[13:47] ---
    All the terrorists had the same tattoo.
[13:50] ---
    It's a symbol used by Scylla, the hero
    who once led the Qhardi Separatist Army.
[13:56] ---
    I've heard of him. Word is he's
    a master of cyber warfare.
[13:59] ---
    Is he Fire-Starter?
[14:01] ---
    No way. He died during the war.
[14:04] ---
    You're going to find out whether that's true.
[14:06] ---
    I'll authorize limited access
    to Section 9's database.
[14:10] ---
    Read the details there.
[14:11] ---
    That's all?
[14:12] ---
    You're complaining?
[14:14] ---
    I gave you all the Logicomas I have,
    plus our weapons and permission to use them.
[14:19] ---
    Any lists I make are meaningless
    if the organization can't act.
[14:24] ---
    And?
[14:25] ---
    I want special authority
    and an approved budget.
[14:27] ---
    And make your flimsy comm lines backward
    compatible with ours while you're at it.
[14:33] ---
    Enough! Your team isn't regulation size,
    and I'm graciously turning a blind eye!
[14:39] ---
    This unit is standardized to the perfect specs.
[14:42] ---
    We don't need more people.
[14:43] ---
    Then the whole unit will go down
    the second you get hacked.
[14:46] ---
    Just like those terrorists did.
[14:49] ---
    Your "perfect specs" don't merit my trust.
[14:52] ---
    If you want authority and a budget,
    get at least one more member
[14:56] ---
    and accept cooperation from
    someone with different specs.
[15:01] ---
    If they won't give us money, we're stuck
    in this garbage dump for a while.
[15:07] ---
    I'm just glad we've got a lab to use.
[15:11] ---
    Yeah, high prosthetic performance
    takes superior maintenance...
[15:18] ---
    We'll have to pay for upgrades
    out of pocket. Costs a lot, though.
[15:24] ---
    Training ground instructors
    make pretty good money.
[15:29] ---
    Top-quality maintenance facilities,
    authority--we'll get it all.
[15:33] ---
    Stop wasting time bitching and solve our case!
[15:36] ---
    His nationality's unknown.
[15:37] ---
    He uses multiple bodies to conceal his identity,
[15:41] ---
    earning the name Skulla, aka Scylla.
[15:44] ---
    That's the name of a monster
    from Greek mythology.
[15:47] ---
    A pro at warfare who led a
    separatist army, and whiz hacker...
[15:51] ---
    Huh, his specialty is tunnel ops.
[15:54] ---
    "Tunnel ops"?
[15:55] ---
    That's when you bomb someplace's lifelines
[15:57] ---
    and then infiltrate them
    electronically during their restoration.
[16:01] ---
    Ultimately you wage a destructive
    cyber-attack from inside their defenses.
[16:05] ---
    The forces who tried to prevent
    independence took a major hit instead.
[16:10] ---
    But Kuzan joined forces with advanced nations
[16:13] ---
    to manipulate the Qhardis in
    order to contain its neighbors.
[16:16] ---
    It was a throwaway war of independence,
    and this country was especially involved.
[16:20] ---
    No one recognized the Qhardis'
    independence after the war,
[16:23] ---
    and the guerillas were
    disbanded and slaughtered.
[16:26] ---
    But their dead leader was actually alive,
[16:28] ---
    and he developed a special virus ahead
    of all the world's research institutions,
[16:32] ---
    then changed his name to
    Fire-Starter and began his revenge...
[16:36] ---
    I follow the logic, but is it really possible?
[16:38] ---
    In a conflict zone, you can do all
    the human experimentation you want.
[16:42] ---
    It's no wonder, really.
[16:44] ---
    Scylla is dead.
[16:47] ---
    A successor of his, then?
[16:48] ---
    Either way, the broker isn't peddling
    it without knowing what it does.
[16:53] ---
    So he wanted to use those guerillas to
    repeat his old tunnel operation here?
[16:58] ---
    It bothers me that no one
    was carrying a detonator.
[17:03] ---
    Borma, check out the crime scene.
[17:05] ---
    Roger.
[17:06] ---
    Paz, you and Saito pay the gang a visit.
    I want to know who trained them.
[17:11] ---
    Batou and Ishikawa, you look into
    the possibility of a tunnel op.
[17:14] ---
    Do you plan to dive into
    the guerillas' cyberbrains
[17:17] ---
    looking for the virus?
[17:20] ---
    I'll get a tune-up on my body first.
[17:27] ---
    A tune-up?
[17:28] ---
    It's her boyfriend.
    He's an ex-military prosthetics tech.
[17:31] ---
    No, isn't he a Navy sailor?
[17:33] ---
    That was the last one.
[17:35] ---
    They fought on a date, and she kicked his ass
    hard enough to put him in the hospital.
[17:40] ---
    What about that rich one
    from the Cyberbrain Bureau?
[17:42] ---
    He didn't last two weeks.
[17:44] ---
    So this is the sixth in six months?
    She's got a sickness.
[17:47] ---
    No, it's instinct. I never sleep
    with the same woman twice either.
[17:51] ---
    Because you always end up a
    hostage or a target for revenge?
[17:53] ---
    No, because it's my policy.
[17:56] ---
    At least do background checks on them!
    What if one of them's a trap?
[17:59] ---
    It's better than hearing, "I want a family."
[18:02] ---
    Yeah, after all, you could die at any time.
[18:04] ---
    This is no job for a family man.
[18:13] ---
    So the late detective's gun wasn't found?
[18:16] ---
    If Detective Mizuki had fired his weapon,
[18:19] ---
    it would prove this was a crime,
    and not an accident.
[18:22] ---
    You think someone wanted
    it to look like an accident?
[18:24] ---
    The cause of death was drowning,
    but he lost a lot of blood antemortem,
[18:28] ---
    and some of his bones are missing.
[18:32] ---
    So the body's too damaged to tell,
    but he may have been shot.
[18:37] ---
    Detective Mizuki was
    investigating weapons smuggling.
[18:41] ---
    His most recent meeting was
    with a Qhardi organization.
[18:44] ---
    I suspect he was killed because he found proof.
[18:48] ---
    You feel the dam explosion was intentional,
    set up to bury evidence?
[18:53] ---
    You've got a great imagination.
[18:56] ---
    You're turning me down, sir?
[18:58] ---
    No, I like it. I'll allow you to investigate.
[19:01] ---
    Try to find a connection between the incidents.
[19:05] ---
    All alone?
[19:06] ---
    You're complaining?
[19:08] ---
    I appreciate it, sir!
[19:14] ---
    Humans can never perfectly
    reproduce movements.
[19:17] ---
    A slight slope, our distance from our target,
    a few milligrams' weight difference...
[19:22] ---
    The brain calculates all these things
    to create yet-unknown movements.
[19:27] ---
    You have the most original brain I know of,
[19:29] ---
    and you understand the beauty
    of uniform standards.
[19:34] ---
    You're exaggerating.
[19:36] ---
    There's nothing wrong with you.
[19:38] ---
    It still hurts?
[19:43] ---
    Try moving your right leg.
[19:47] ---
    Lovely.
[19:50] ---
    What's "lovely"?
[19:51] ---
    Your leg.
[19:56] ---
    The pain is gone now.
[19:59] ---
    Send me a bill.
[20:00] ---
    I'll give you a discount. In return,
    don't forget our promise.
[20:04] ---
    You're a strange man.
[20:05] ---
    Not as strange as you.
[20:21] ---
    Hey, you. You're blocking my scan.
[20:24] ---
    Oh, sorry.
[20:26] ---
    What good are your natural
    eyes in the cyber age?
[20:29] ---
    It's not normally this hard to find the epicenter.
[20:32] ---
    You know a lot about the combustion process?
[20:35] ---
    I learned the basics overseas during the war.
[20:38] ---
    I see.
[20:40] ---
    Are you a full cyborg?
[20:42] ---
    Yeah, pretty close.
[20:44] ---
    I'm no expert, but unless you
    get a specialized skeleton,
[20:48] ---
    aren't the basics the same as a human body's?
[20:51] ---
    But his hands stayed open after he burned...
[20:53] ---
    What?
[20:55] ---
    When a natural human burns to death,
[20:57] ---
    his muscles contract, so he forms
    fists and he bends forward.
[21:00] ---
    The fetal position, or,
    you know, the boxer's pose.
[21:03] ---
    Heat rigor? Well, what about it?
[21:06] ---
    This guard's corpse is standing
    up straight, hands open.
[21:13] ---
    Must be some property of
    his prosthetics, or of the bomb.
[21:16] ---
    Prosthetics?
[21:24] ---
    Hello?
[21:27] ---
    Oh, a checkup?
[21:29] ---
    Two weeks?
[21:31] ---
    Got it. No, I'm working right now, sorry.
[21:35] ---
    "Checkup"?
[21:38] ---
    Sorry to bother you.
[21:48] ---
    C-4 and dynamite, glycerin,
    and chemical fertilizer...
[21:52] ---
    It's a hideout straight out of a book.
[21:55] ---
    Definitely a bomb maniac vibe...
    but I've got no clue what they actually used.
[22:02] ---
    Orders coming down their line!
[22:05] ---
    Someone calling himself Scylla just
    ordered some "Second Army" into action.
[22:08] ---
    Damn bastards! Public Security's
    moves are being leaked!
[22:17] ---
    The Waterworks Bureau's server blew,
    and took out the whole floor.
[22:20] ---
    What did they use?
[22:21] ---
    The accelerant at the Nishinouchi crime scene
[22:23] ---
    is spread all the way to
    the ceiling, even the ducts.
[22:26] ---
    We're talking omnidirectional blast.
    The air itself blew up.
[22:31] ---
    A fuel-air explosive?
[22:32] ---
    Then this is a dummy hideout. They've got
    a more advanced bomb lab somewhere.
[22:42] ---
    Damn guerilla hero is issuing a challenge.
[22:52] ---
    The Waterworks Bureau is starting repairs.
    Odds are the hacker's already in!
[22:57] ---
    Figure out their next target.
[22:59] ---
    Don't let them dig any more tunnels.
[23:21] ---
    I appreciate your cooperation.
[23:23] ---
    I'm used to police questioning.
[23:26] ---
    There've been a lot of
    prosthetics thefts recently.
[23:28] ---
    "Mermaid's Legs," eh?
[23:32] ---
    Not a very artistic name,
    but it's easy to understand.
[23:35] ---
    My female customers quite like it.
[23:37] ---
    Do you recognize these legs?
[23:42] ---
    They appear to be the mass-production model.
[23:44] ---
    Look at the tag.
[23:48] ---
    "Ariel."
[23:49] ---
    I've asked around, and there's
    no such model on the market.
[23:53] ---
    I don't carry it, either. It must be
    a licensed designer's brand name.
[23:57] ---
    Designers use the
    mass-production model as a base
[23:59] ---
    and then innovate to meet customer demands.
[24:02] ---
    Any ideas?
[24:04] ---
    I'll give you my list. One moment, please.
[24:08] ---
    Thank you.
[24:19] ---
    Cops love lists. He'll be conveniently
    absorbed in it for a while.
[24:22] ---
    Public Security took our dummy safe house.
[24:25] ---
    Are the comm lines here safe, Colonel Hozumi?
[24:29] ---
    Don't worry. It's one of
    Intelligence's independent lines.
[24:32] ---
    Why haven't you killed that detective?
[24:34] ---
    He's an odd duck, but he doesn't
    have any powerful backers.
[24:38] ---
    The real issue is that Ariel's been leaked.
[24:40] ---
    We retrieved the sample before it was
    analyzed, and the factory is taken care of.
[24:44] ---
    I didn't expect you to panic and blow it up.
[24:47] ---
    We're lucky Ariel was mounted in time.
    You almost seriously hindered our plan.
[24:53] ---
    Ariel is a way to smuggle explosives to
    the Qhardis! It's not for suicide bombers!
[24:59] ---
    Circumstances have changed.
[25:01] ---
    If previous overseas weapons
    development becomes domestic,
[25:04] ---
    distribution channels will vanish.
[25:07] ---
    The Qhardi soldiers are just sacrificial pawns?
[25:09] ---
    We're upgrading. Fire-Starter can
    create all the soldiers we want.
[25:14] ---
    Get the unit that was arrested released.
[25:17] ---
    I won't give you the data until then.
[25:20] ---
    They aren't even your compatriots.
[25:23] ---
    Scylla would never abandon them.
[25:27] ---
    Very well. There are three more usable Ariels.
[25:31] ---
    One of them is in your court.
[25:34] ---
    It really has to be her?
[25:37] ---
    Have you developed feelings for her?
    Activate the woman's Ariel.
[25:41] ---
    Release our allies first. Understand?
[26:09] ---
    Ride with me.
[26:17] ---
    You haven't told anyone that
    you and I killed Scylla, I trust?
[26:21] ---
    No.
[26:22] ---
    That op is a stain on both our records.
[26:24] ---
    It would be highly inconvenient
    for it to come up again now.
[26:27] ---
    I see you dived happily into the power
    games as soon as you made LTC.
[26:32] ---
    They used the military-industrial
    complex to profit from death.
[26:36] ---
    I'll wipe them out, make domestic
    weapons engineering big,
[26:39] ---
    and shut down their trade
    routes to foreign cartels.
[26:42] ---
    Lt. Col. Mamuro wanted that.
[26:45] ---
    I won't play your game.
[26:47] ---
    Scylla is a game you can't quit.
    She has to stay dead.
[26:53] ---
    You used this before.
[26:56] ---
    Bury it and whoever's using
    Scylla's name--permanently this time.
[27:00] ---
    Or else the brass will bury you,
    and that op with you.
[27:11] ---
    Becoming independent of the
    system doesn't make you free.
[27:15] ---
    You're like last century's programmers, who
    expected too much from the birth of the Net.
[27:20] ---
    Even Section 9 is only letting you
    have your own way to test you.
[27:24] ---
    When they need to, they'll restrain
    you with a Ghost infiltration key
[27:26] ---
    and dispose of you.
[27:28] ---
    I have no intention of letting
    anyone infiltrate my Ghost again.
[27:31] ---
    No matter who they are.
[27:40] ---
    That woman is Motoko Kusanagi?
[27:43] ---
    Yes, your senior. Can you win?
[27:49] ---
    If you wish.
[28:17] ---
    You really came?
[28:20] ---
    I did promise.
[28:22] ---
    I haven't prepared anything.
[28:24] ---
    I figured.
[28:31] ---
    But first, we'll take care of this.
[28:46] ---
    I checked out the Qhardi gang, but there's
    no trace of their tactical commander.
[28:50] ---
    Ah, but I've got the rental server they used.
[28:54] ---
    Multiple invaders into a public facility...
[28:57] ---
    Bastards have made good
    progress on their tunnels.
[28:59] ---
    Do you know where they're going yet?
[29:01] ---
    It's someplace to do with
    water and precision machinery.
[29:04] ---
    78 places in the city fit that description.
[29:07] ---
    Check them all.
[29:09] ---
    Damn... I'd make easier money
    being an Intelligence subcontractor.
[29:14] ---
    So, still in your "tune-up"?
[29:16] ---
    Yes. I'm dropping this connection for a while.
[29:20] ---
    I can hear noise. Your coworkers are
    in and out of your lobby nonstop, huh?
[29:25] ---
    I ran them all off.
[29:27] ---
    You think I'll ever get to be in your lobby?
[29:31] ---
    If you work with me.
[29:33] ---
    If I said I needed one
    more person, would you come?
[29:38] ---
    Tuning you up whenever I want
    is an attractive proposition,
[29:42] ---
    but I don't get involved with
    the military or the police.
[29:45] ---
    Oh.
[29:49] ---
    I did some first aid on
    your sensory components.
[29:52] ---
    Let's do the detail work in the lab.
[29:54] ---
    The pain is gone. I'll do the rest myself.
[30:02] ---
    Then let's get started.
[30:10] ---
    I remember when I first met you, you know.
[30:14] ---
    All the other engineers said you were
    the queen of customer complaints.
[30:19] ---
    Is that why they handed me
    off to a freelancer like you?
[30:22] ---
    Nope. The truth is, I asked them to.
[30:25] ---
    What?
[30:27] ---
    You couldn't decide whether you should
    treat your body as a thing or a person.
[30:34] ---
    That made me interested in you.
[30:43] ---
    At the facility I was in before,
[30:44] ---
    they thought I was an oddball for wanting
    to sleep in a bed and take showers.
[30:48] ---
    When I was prosthetized on
    the battlefield, they told me,
[30:52] ---
    "A cyborg doesn't need everyday life;
    he needs equipment."
[30:56] ---
    That's why I switched to
    prosthetics engineering.
[30:59] ---
    I wanted to be a tech who'd
    treat cyborgs like humans.
[31:04] ---
    As a kid, they gave me everyday-living
    training outside the facility.
[31:09] ---
    So I'd learn how to be more human.
[31:12] ---
    I don't really remember it.
    Everything was so bright...
[31:18] ---
    I remember I came back ahead of schedule.
[31:22] ---
    But... That day I decided
    to make my body orthodox.
[31:27] ---
    I wanted to look human.
[31:29] ---
    Your prosthetic body isn't a thing.
    It's your real body.
[31:33] ---
    It mustn't be treated as a thing...
    not by anyone.
[31:38] ---
    Not by me.
[31:41] ---
    I do wish that were true.
[31:43] ---
    I'll show you proof.
[31:45] ---
    Proof?
[31:49] ---
    It's a surprise.
[31:54] ---
    We're missing the key piece: the bomb.
[31:56] ---
    How did they get it into a
    heavily guarded meeting place?
[32:00] ---
    What about the perps?
[32:01] ---
    They say they're the ones who blew it up.
[32:04] ---
    Despite the fact that they
    have no memory of the bomb.
[32:07] ---
    They're fall guys. They probably
    have nothing to do with the bomb.
[32:11] ---
    We'll monitor all 78 locations until
    we can narrow down their target.
[32:15] ---
    Are you serious?!
[32:17] ---
    Contact me if something happens.
[32:22] ---
    You're wearing heels.
[32:24] ---
    Should we assume the ex-military
    prosthetics tech is joining the team?
[32:31] ---
    Maybe that's actually for real.
[32:45] ---
    This is what you wanted to show me?
[32:47] ---
    They're regular customers of mine.
[32:49] ---
    Their average age is 70.
[32:53] ---
    They're all full-body cyborgs...
[32:55] ---
    The affluent elderly are at the core
    of cyborg development these days.
[32:58] ---
    Not soldiers.
[33:00] ---
    They want prosthetic bodies to give them
    second lives, and fulfilling lifestyles.
[33:05] ---
    More and more foods for cyborgs are
    being developed to meet their needs, too.
[33:17] ---
    Try it.
[33:31] ---
    It's good.
[33:33] ---
    Is it your first time allocating
    memory to your sense of taste?
[33:37] ---
    The new bride is pregnant, by the way.
[33:41] ---
    Exciting, isn't it? A new world
    of humans that don't distinguish
[33:45] ---
    between prosthetic and flesh.
[33:48] ---
    You really are strange.
[33:58] ---
    Some people reject the future.
    And some are left behind by it, too.
[34:09] ---
    I want to bring the cyborg
    future to the third world.
[34:14] ---
    Will you come with me?
[34:17] ---
    You should use your power freely, not work
    under a bunch of master manipulators.
[34:26] ---
    The war is over, you know.
[34:29] ---
    No, it's still going.
[34:30] ---
    The nations it grew inconvenient
    for pulled out, that's all.
[34:37] ---
    I have things to do in this country.
[34:41] ---
    I see.
[34:43] ---
    Do you have free time later?
[34:45] ---
    If we share a lobby, we can
    meet whenever we want.
[34:48] ---
    I might touch your Ghost.
[34:51] ---
    I'll let down my barrier.
[34:53] ---
    --Are you sure?
    --If you infiltrate me, I may fry your brain.
[34:56] ---
    It might be worth it.
[35:21] ---
    This is your body.
[35:25] ---
    These are your hands.
[35:53] ---
    Motoko, run!
[36:29] ---
    Akira!
[36:32] ---
    Are you all right?
[36:34] ---
    Yeah...
[36:44] ---
    I'm sorry. This is my fault.
[37:26] ---
    My condolences.
[37:28] ---
    Paz is with Section 9 inspecting the scene.
[37:31] ---
    Your attacker was a pro, even if he did mess up.
[37:34] ---
    It's unclear whether this
    was tied to the bombing,
[37:36] ---
    but we'd normally give you
    police protection at this point.
[37:39] ---
    I don't need it. How is he?
[37:41] ---
    We'll send him home as soon
    as we're done questioning him.
[37:44] ---
    I'll assign someone to him, so don't worry.
[37:46] ---
    I see.
[37:47] ---
    The military authorities won't
    give me any information on Scylla.
[37:50] ---
    What's your connection to him?
[37:55] ---
    Call me whenever you need help.
[38:01] ---
    Scylla's revenge, eh?
[38:03] ---
    Good thing your boyfriend's a civilian.
    We don't have to suspect a leak.
[38:09] ---
    They got us.
[38:11] ---
    Number Three: a materials
    control center on the coast.
[38:15] ---
    I picked up a go order in Scylla's name
    30 seconds before the explosion.
[38:19] ---
    Then the whole line disappeared.
    At this rate, there's no point in surveillance.
[38:22] ---
    Find a weapons engineer on their
    customer list who's connected to this.
[38:26] ---
    Weapons engineer?
[38:28] ---
    Get info from the first victims, too. Hurry up.
[38:30] ---
    Find something. The virus,
    the bombs, the tactical commander,
[38:33] ---
    where the messages from "Scylla"
    come from--I don't care what.
[38:38] ---
    How about you finally tell us
    why you're so sure Scylla's dead?
[38:43] ---
    Excuse me.
[38:46] ---
    You!
[38:47] ---
    I was told I could find Major Kusanagi here.
[38:50] ---
    What is it?
[38:58] ---
    State your business.
[38:59] ---
    The list I got from him was a fake.
[39:03] ---
    And a detective working
    a weapons trafficking case
[39:05] ---
    was killed right after getting info from him.
[39:08] ---
    Techs get blamed for
    prosthetics-related incidents all the time.
[39:15] ---
    And the manager of the dam
    that exploded the other day...
[39:20] ---
    Hose outfitted her bodyguard, too.
[39:22] ---
    So what?!
[39:24] ---
    How did you feel, watching your
    lover get attacked in front of you?
[39:29] ---
    You're angry at the perp, and you feel guilty.
[39:33] ---
    You think it was your fault he got attacked.
[39:38] ---
    He was the same way. Anger and guilt.
[39:43] ---
    He's hiding something.
[39:45] ---
    The dam, the dead detective,
    the prosthetics, and even you, Major...
[39:50] ---
    Everything links back to Akira Hose.
[39:56] ---
    You're just a cheap detective
    snooping around with flesh eyes!
[39:58] ---
    Never show your face here again!
[40:04] ---
    Ouch.
[40:28] ---
    You're an idiot, Colonel!
[40:32] ---
    An attack barrier!
[40:33] ---
    Keep calm.
[40:35] ---
    If the domestic faction takes
    away your arms industry rights,
[40:38] ---
    you'll be killed by the cartels.
[40:40] ---
    Yet you're in a rush to kill
    me off and steal my data?
[40:44] ---
    So, you act like a heavyweight,
    but you couldn't get my people released?
[40:48] ---
    Where is the data?
[40:50] ---
    Our deal is over. I'm thankful for the info on her
[40:53] ---
    and for Scylla's revival,
    but I'm leaving this country.
[40:58] ---
    You do the same.
[40:59] ---
    No need.
[41:07] ---
    We've successfully packaged
    the virus with cyberbrains.
[41:13] ---
    We'll use your cyberbrain for the final upgrade.
[41:17] ---
    Become Scylla, just like you wanted to.
[41:29] ---
    "His hands stayed open after he burned," eh?
[41:53] ---
    It's just like the call said.
[41:54] ---
    Two Public Security officers killed,
    and Akira Hose's whereabouts unknown.
[41:58] ---
    The Major wasn't the target?
[42:00] ---
    Hey, look at this list.
[42:01] ---
    It's only a guess, but I think the FAEs
    were the prosthetic limbs themselves.
[42:07] ---
    There was another full-cyborg guard
    in that part of the building.
[42:11] ---
    The limbs' admin records have
    the same signature on them...
[42:17] ---
    What are you doing?
[42:21] ---
    Who is this man?!
[42:27] ---
    My attack barrier expands every second.
[42:30] ---
    If you don't want your brain fried, tell me!
[42:32] ---
    He'll die!
[42:34] ---
    He gave us power... He's the new Scylla!
[42:39] ---
    It was like magic. A battle-learning
    program left to us by the dead Scylla...
[42:45] ---
    He gave it to my cyberbrain,
    along with the virus.
[42:49] ---
    I'd never been trained, but now
    I can fight even your people!
[42:53] ---
    Give me a name.
[42:55] ---
    Akira Hose! He's Japanese, like you!
[43:08] ---
    Hose escaped. Any idea where?
[43:10] ---
    Why ask me?
[43:12] ---
    What are your eyes looking at right now?
[43:17] ---
    Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[43:19] ---
    She's boss of a Kuzan water company,
    and most likely the weapons ring's sponsor.
[43:26] ---
    So this is the tunnel exit!
[43:28] ---
    A domestic weapons company--
    Harimadara Heavy Industries!
[43:32] ---
    The execs are touring Factory One with
    the Senior Vice-Minister of Defense!
[43:36] ---
    Recommend a barrier,
    and give the data to Section 9.
[43:39] ---
    Paz, Borma, Saito, get over there.
[43:44] ---
    Call the bomb squad and a prosthetics tech.
[43:47] ---
    A destructive cyber-attack is more than likely.
[43:55] ---
    What's the meaning of this, Chief Aramaki?
[43:57] ---
    Evacuate immediately.
[43:59] ---
    You and this facility are targets.
[44:02] ---
    Wh-What's going on?!
[44:08] ---
    It's a bomb! Run!
[44:16] ---
    --Damn.
    --Shit!
[44:18] ---
    Paz, Borma! This way!
[44:23] ---
    Help me! Help me!
[44:34] ---
    Crap, the fire's closing up my throat.
[44:36] ---
    Mine too. That was close.
[44:39] ---
    Vice-Minister, are you all right?
[44:42] ---
    I'm fine.
[44:49] ---
    --Logicoma.
    --Yes, sir!
[44:53] ---
    That's one of our products...!
[44:59] ---
    Away from the windows!
[45:05] ---
    That's all the info on Colonel Hozumi.
[45:08] ---
    That's fine. We get a card,
    and you get a grace period.
[45:12] ---
    Please tell me what she has to do with Scylla!
[45:16] ---
    Find out from her.
    Your contaminated brain is intriguing,
[45:21] ---
    but I'm cutting our connection
    before the infection spreads.
[45:28] ---
    Goodbye.
[45:39] ---
    Contaminated, eh?
[45:41] ---
    I'm being bankrupted by a special
    tax on foreign companies?!
[45:45] ---
    How can this be allowed?!
[45:47] ---
    It's the kind of thing the
    domestic faction would do.
[45:51] ---
    What do you plan to do? Kill the colonel?
[45:56] ---
    She's all washed up. And so are you and I.
[46:06] ---
    Escape, and obey the domestic faction.
[46:08] ---
    Your company will be crushed under
    the pretext of this nation's taxes.
[46:13] ---
    You'll be killed by the cartels
    if you don't do something.
[46:18] ---
    You okay, Major?
[46:20] ---
    No problems. You go with that
    detective and subdue the guards.
[46:25] ---
    I'll take care of Scylla.
[46:34] ---
    Jeez, so stubborn. That's a scary lady.
[46:42] ---
    What? A Mateba, in this day and age?
[46:44] ---
    What's wrong with that?!
    It's the gun I trust the most.
[46:58] ---
    Blood traces. Someone was shot.
[47:08] ---
    A bullet...
[47:28] ---
    Ariel. So these are the prosthetic bombs.
[47:49] ---
    That wasn't you just now.
    Who the hell infiltrated my vision?!
[47:54] ---
    Don't move!
[47:58] ---
    In that quagmire of a war, Scylla was
    the only soldier I could empathize with.
[48:04] ---
    I've always wanted to
    ask you why he was killed.
[48:08] ---
    You didn't kill Scylla. I finally realized that.
[48:15] ---
    Go home. Or your Ariel will activate.
[48:20] ---
    Even I can't stop it.
[48:47] ---
    What's going on here? That bastard
    infiltrated my vision exactly the way you do!
[48:52] ---
    Answer me, Major!
[49:12] ---
    What's taking the Army so long?!
    We'll all die like this!
[49:16] ---
    It's been seized.
[49:17] ---
    It won't stop until we shut down
    whatever it's packaged with.
[49:21] ---
    Transplanted memories.
[49:22] ---
    What?
[49:23] ---
    The packaged cyberbrains are the virus's hosts.
[49:27] ---
    They converted the tactical program
    I set loose in Qhardistan to memory.
[49:31] ---
    My copy.
[49:37] ---
    What the hell are you saying?!
[49:47] ---
    Motoko.
[50:17] ---
    I came after you, but in
    the end, you captured me.
[50:22] ---
    It was my cyberbrain that was packaged.
[50:25] ---
    If you pull the trigger,
    you and your comrades will be saved.
[50:32] ---
    What you fell in love with was this world.
[50:39] ---
    Just keep on going,
    until the day you're betrayed.
[50:46] ---
    Scylla...
[50:49] ---
    I'm glad I met you.
[51:19] ---
    What?
[51:20] ---
    It stopped...
[51:31] ---
    It's ironic.
[51:32] ---
    They manage to survive a world war,
    then get stuck in an endless one,
[51:37] ---
    and finally end their own lives.
[51:39] ---
    Apparently there's no other way they can stop.
[51:43] ---
    Weren't you the same?
[51:46] ---
    Scylla was you.
[51:48] ---
    You helped the separatist army,
    then faked your death.
[51:52] ---
    Later, the guerillas you led were all killed.
[51:56] ---
    I can see why you wouldn't
    want to remember that op.
[52:00] ---
    Since then, I've stopped
    switching bodies so often.
[52:04] ---
    It gives me an identity crisis.
    I lose track of who I am...
[52:09] ---
    ...and then I want someone
    to tell me I'm not a robot.
[52:16] ---
    Is that why you insist on making original
    tweaks to your mass-production bases?
[52:21] ---
    It's amazing you even managed to control
    so many bodies in such a short time.
[52:25] ---
    I'm going to sleep a little. You can go.
[52:28] ---
    Call it cyborg solidarity.
[52:30] ---
    I'll keep watch and make sure they
    don't fit you with any sketchy parts.
[52:34] ---
    All right, suit yourself.
[52:37] ---
    You could at least say "thanks"!
[52:43] ---
    The bullet at the scene was fired
    from the lieutenant's gun.
[52:47] ---
    I also found Mizuki's weapon
    at the lieutenant's home.
[52:50] ---
    There was a huge deposit into his account, too.
[52:56] ---
    Good work. You can go.
[53:11] ---
    Arresting a fellow cop will
    make you some enemies.
[53:16] ---
    You'll be shot from behind
    by the guys at his local.
[53:20] ---
    I'll be sure to watch my back.
    Did you come just to say that?
[53:25] ---
    Will you join my team?
[53:29] ---
    It's an independent offensive
    unit with top priority.
[53:33] ---
    Oh, excuse me.
[53:36] ---
    Hello?
[53:38] ---
    What?! I thought it'd be another two weeks!
[53:40] ---
    No, sorry, got it. I'll be right there.
[53:44] ---
    This is big! Her water broke!
[53:48] ---
    Huh?
[53:49] ---
    We're gonna have a baby!
[53:51] ---
    Just wait, I'll be right there!
[53:53] ---
    We'll talk another time.
[53:55] ---
    I'm coming now!
[54:00] ---
    Natural, married, and a father?

4 - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone

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[00:35] ---
    Per the Special Anti-Terrorism Measures Act,
[00:37] ---
    we now place all terminals in the designated
    area under Public Security's electronic control.
[00:41] ---
    Anticipating that cyberterrorism against
    Harimadara Heavy Industries will lead
[00:44] ---
    --to a shutdown of operations, Home Affairs has...
    --HQ to Squad 357.
[00:47] ---
    Transfer command to Section 9.
[00:50] ---
    This is Priority One.
[00:54] ---
    Murderers!
[00:56] ---
    Murderers!!
[00:58] ---
    Give back our water!
[01:00] ---
    --Give back our water!!
    --Despite increasingly fierce protests,
[01:02] ---
    a contract has just been signed
[01:04] ---
    between a Kuzan water company
    and the Japanese giant Harimadara.
[01:25] ---
    "Give water to the war orphans!!"
[01:27] ---
    "Give water to the war orphans!"
[01:38] ---
    It's starting.
[01:40] ---
    All channels within the revised limits are clear.
[01:43] ---
    All Home Affairs and MLIT lines
    now under our control.
[01:46] ---
    Ready for domination.
[01:47] ---
    Begin.
[02:07] ---
    All lifelines, surveillance, etc. for
    the building and roads now dominated.
[02:13] ---
    Profiling cyberbrains and terminals
    of 4,022 people in the area.
[02:17] ---
    1,102 require follow-up.
[02:20] ---
    Aramaki! I'm not giving you my crime scene!
[02:24] ---
    This is Section 6. Who said you
    could infiltrate our comm lines?!
[02:29] ---
    We need to prevent casualties,
    not play departmental musical chairs!
[02:34] ---
    Or will you take the fall when we can't
    even pin down their means of attack?!
[02:39] ---
    Chief Aramaki, explain yourself.
[02:41] ---
    Vice-Minister Kitahara.
[02:43] ---
    I thought you were attending
    the celebratory banquet?
[02:47] ---
    What you warned me of is happening, then?
[02:50] ---
    We got an anonymous tip that a Qhardi
    group mobilized three hours ago.
[02:56] ---
    Anonymous?
[02:57] ---
    Can you trust it?
[03:00] ---
    Yes. The Yotsubashi Building
    area is definitely the target.
[03:05] ---
    The old ape's sure fired up,
    considering we're flying blind here.
[03:10] ---
    Batou, this is the outfit
    we've been after ever since
[03:14] ---
    the cyber-contamination
    at Harimadara four months ago.
[03:17] ---
    "We"? You mean you.
[03:20] ---
    Did you make this, Major?
[03:23] ---
    It ain't a toy, rookie.
[03:25] ---
    It's a military-grade virtual comm link.
[03:28] ---
    It's almost impossible for hackers to listen in.
[03:32] ---
    Section 9 forced the domination through.
    We'll have orders soon.
[03:35] ---
    Nab one of the terrorists.
    I want bait to draw out our prey.
[03:40] ---
    Is it that super-wizard-class
    hacker, Fire-Starter?
[03:47] ---
    Isn't that just what you want?
[03:51] ---
    We don't even know if there's
    really someone pulling the strings.
[03:54] ---
    What I want is to formally
    establish my spec ops team.
[03:58] ---
    If you're scared of unknown enemies, drop out.
[04:00] ---
    Piss off.
[04:03] ---
    "Corporate Killers"
    Driving during a cyber-meeting?
[04:06] ---
    "Corporate Killers"
    You're gonna crash.
[04:07] ---
    You're the only one that green.
[04:10] ---
    Our status as an independent
    offensive unit is riding on this.
[04:13] ---
    Public Security handles the incident,
    and we handle what caused it.
[04:17] ---
    Go.
[05:23] ---
    The enemy just gave the go-ahead.
[05:25] ---
    Capture them!
[05:32] ---
    You deserve this...
    Greedy rich-country bastards!
[05:45] ---
    Today, we've followed
    the principle of free trade
[05:49] ---
    to maintain fair prices that will
    spur postwar economic recovery.
[05:59] ---
    This was his only weapon. Something's fishy.
[06:19] ---
    The riot squad opened fire?!
[06:48] ---
    The west team's slaughtering protesters.
[06:50] ---
    Some are even shooting other cops!
[06:53] ---
    It's the biggest simultaneous Ghost Hack ever.
[06:55] ---
    It's crazy, but it's the only explanation.
[06:58] ---
    There's no tech that'd
    control 100 people at once.
[07:02] ---
    The perps on my watch are all dead, too.
[07:04] ---
    Check the riot squad's lines and
    find out what caused the attack.
[07:08] ---
    There's a log that might be Starter's, but...
[07:10] ---
    Then this isn't hacking. It's a virus.
[07:13] ---
    I don't see one in the sequence.
[07:15] ---
    It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
[07:18] ---
    Someone must be sending packaged
    actions meant to control groups.
[07:42] ---
    You, eh?
[07:52] ---
    I made a deal with the devil for the
    sake of rebuilding and independence!
[07:57] ---
    Just like you wanted!
[08:00] ---
    And it invited a second
    slaughter by water and e-money
[08:03] ---
    to follow the first slaughter with guns!
[08:07] ---
    --You said cyberbrain tech
    and the prosthetics industry
    --I want a media blackout now.
[08:09] ---
    --would build us a future,
    --This is Priority One!
[08:11] ---
    but hope wasn't what they
    brought to Qhardistan!
[08:15] ---
    They merely sowed the seeds of betrayal
[08:18] ---
    that would grow to bleed
    away my people's pride!
[08:20] ---
    Have a taste of what that felt like!
[08:24] ---
    Then you'll have no choice
    but to grant me asylum!
[08:27] ---
    Because this is a civilized, pacifist nation!
[08:31] ---
    Oh, is it?
[09:11] ---
    Optical camouflage!
[09:13] ---
    You can't stop Fire-Starter.
[09:17] ---
    Someone hacked my line?!
[09:31] ---
    Major?!
[09:32] ---
    Saito!
[09:46] ---
    Shit.
[09:59] ---
    Hello!
[10:03] ---
    Give me a weapon!
[10:04] ---
    Okay!
[10:05] ---
    Major, I'll be right there!
[10:08] ---
    Don't be stupid. Go after
    the one who hacked me!
[10:26] ---
    On your knees!
[10:29] ---
    I'll shoot you dead if you resist.
[10:50] ---
    That was outta nowhere!
[10:51] ---
    This was your job, moron!
[10:57] ---
    Sorry! That was an accident.
[10:59] ---
    Equip some handrails!
[11:04] ---
    Do it, Saito.
[11:16] ---
    I let him get away, sorry!
[11:30] ---
    "Section 9 Office"
[11:31] ---
    Idiots!
[11:34] ---
    You finally take the job, and then you
    execute someone on the national Net?
[11:39] ---
    Who, me? You have no proof.
[11:42] ---
    Are you claiming you had no choice?
[11:44] ---
    You're a super-wizard-class
    hacker in an ace unit.
[11:48] ---
    Was the Army overestimating you
    when it rated you five stars?
[11:53] ---
    Tell me about the virus
    and that heavy cyborg girl.
[11:56] ---
    No cyber-virus was detected.
    The girl's name is Emma Tsuda.
[12:01] ---
    Apparently she's famous on
    the Net as a game app maker.
[12:05] ---
    Nine hours after her arrest,
    that's all you've got?
[12:08] ---
    I guess a former Special A Rank
    inspector for the Army like you
[12:12] ---
    gets to have lots of talented subordinates.
[12:14] ---
    My people's dedicated effort
    got multiple perps captured alive.
[12:20] ---
    Wow, great work arresting
    some mindless packaged drones.
[12:26] ---
    We could've stopped it if
    we'd had special authority.
[12:30] ---
    Then stop playing gangsters and join Section 9.
[12:34] ---
    Unless you work directly for Home Affairs,
[12:36] ---
    you do get official oversight
    and you don't get secrecy.
[12:40] ---
    Can you guarantee I'd be able to stay myself?
[12:43] ---
    Cutting-edge equipment can protect
    cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.
[12:47] ---
    And my Ghost? My beliefs?
[12:50] ---
    Depends on how skilled you are.
    I'll even consider a budget.
[12:54] ---
    Create an international
    counterterrorist agency for us
[12:57] ---
    with the same budget as the Rangers.
[13:02] ---
    I'm gonna go eat.
[13:07] ---
    Aramaki, it's been a while.
[13:13] ---
    Colonel Hozumi. What brings
    Army intelligence here?
[13:19] ---
    I'll take the girl now.
[13:22] ---
    Care to explain?
[13:24] ---
    They're from a squad I trust.
[13:28] ---
    Ex-major Motoko Kusanagi, of the 501.
[13:33] ---
    Hated your master so much
    you became a stray, eh?
[13:36] ---
    Your intel's dated. They recreated my rank.
[13:41] ---
    The cyber-virus used is
    crucial for us to investigate.
[13:46] ---
    Explain why it's crucial, please.
[13:49] ---
    It's a triple package of brainwashing,
    Ghost infiltration, and false memory creation.
[13:55] ---
    False memory? Last I checked,
    the government doesn't admit that's possible,
[13:59] ---
    despite all the reports.
[14:03] ---
    Virus units entered this
    country via a certain broker.
[14:08] ---
    Trust me: You won't even
    manage to indict that girl.
[14:13] ---
    Unfortunately, she's been
    transferred to Unit 501.
[14:17] ---
    When?
[14:18] ---
    The moment I agreed to
    their request for cooperation.
[14:21] ---
    I've never thought you were clever, but this?
[14:25] ---
    You'll regret any foolish stubbornness.
[14:37] ---
    Terror by false memories...
[14:40] ---
    Your claims are finally proven, Major.
[14:44] ---
    So is the existence of a virus
    that enables Ghost-hacking.
[14:48] ---
    Here's your next job:
    Escort the girl to Unit 501.
[14:52] ---
    What? There was really a request?
[14:54] ---
    Signed by the Defense Minister.
    Now give me one of your men in exchange.
[14:59] ---
    Did your scary ex-colleague
    make you want a guard?
[15:02] ---
    I want information sharing.
    Go renew old workplace friendships.
[15:06] ---
    Can I ask one thing?
[15:08] ---
    What is it?
[15:10] ---
    Assuming I did shoot her...
[15:13] ---
    ...why didn't you use my
    Ghost infiltration key to stop me?
[15:19] ---
    I can't answer hypothetical questions.
[15:23] ---
    I see.
[15:26] ---
    This is Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied,
    the one the Major killed.
[15:30] ---
    She's Qhardi, but she graduated from
    Kuzan Royal University as valedictorian.
[15:34] ---
    A big player in Kuzan water importation
    since the provisional government days.
[15:39] ---
    But she supported terrorism when she realized
    the world would forsake her people, eh?
[15:45] ---
    She's smart and she's got motive,
    but she's not a hacker.
[15:48] ---
    Someone else packaged this.
[15:51] ---
    What about the girl we captured?
[15:55] ---
    Her name's Emma Tsuda.
    A 17-year-old war orphan.
[15:58] ---
    She makes hit cyberbrain games, which she
    copyrights under the name "Tin Man."
[16:03] ---
    "Tin Man"... As in The Wizard of Oz?
[16:06] ---
    What's that?
[16:08] ---
    --In spite of everything, I still believe
    --Supposing she's a teenage
    super-hacker, how does she fit in?
[16:13] ---
    --that people are really good at heart.
    --Don't tell me she's the one you're after?
[16:15] ---
    --I wish to go on living even after my death.
    --I'll know when I dive into her Ghost.
[16:19] ---
    Ishikawa, stay on the virus and the girl.
    Saito, you go to Section 9.
[16:23] ---
    Paz and Borma, you release the bait.
[16:26] ---
    Batou, Togusa, and I will escort the girl.
[16:29] ---
    We're starting the second round.
[16:32] ---
    Suggestion for you,
    Miss "Hothead Who Charges In Blind."
[16:37] ---
    How about I become team leader
    and lead us in a sensible retreat?
[16:42] ---
    Brave thing to say in my cyberbrain space.
[16:48] ---
    Step outside and let's fight!
[16:51] ---
    Whoa, knock it off, you guys!
[17:20] ---
    He's finally on the move.
[17:22] ---
    Thought I'd die of boredom!
[17:32] ---
    It might be cool if we could ride in you.
[17:34] ---
    The Major requested a personnel transport
    shaft from the Maintenance Department!
[17:38] ---
    Will we pilot you from inside?
[17:41] ---
    Isn't that our mobile arsenal?
    Where would the weapons go?
[17:45] ---
    We can just resupply each other.
    If we armed this guy, he could be our backup.
[17:51] ---
    Backup, eh?
[17:53] ---
    Why are we using an outdated Logistics model?
[17:56] ---
    Ape-Face couldn't get the budget the
    Major wanted, so he gave us these bots.
[18:01] ---
    Neurochip-type Als are hard
    to hack or infect, anyway.
[18:05] ---
    So basically, it was us or the junkyard?
[18:08] ---
    What? Not good enough for the
    ex-cop still wearing a necktie?
[18:14] ---
    My late father said looking
    classy shows faith in yourself.
[18:19] ---
    Watching you, ex-Ranger, I see what he meant.
[18:23] ---
    Bold words, kid.
[18:29] ---
    Mr. Batou suggested modifying us
    so people could ride us!
[18:33] ---
    I think it's a really great idea!
    What do you think, Major?
[18:38] ---
    Don't talk nonsense. I hate machines
    who pretend to have personalities.
[18:46] ---
    She's here.
[19:01] ---
    Did you hack my line to
    deliberately get yourself caught?
[19:05] ---
    What is "Fire-Starter"?
    Is it really the name of a hacker?
[19:10] ---
    Intelligence wants you. Military courts
    don't do plea bargains, you know.
[19:19] ---
    I smell seawater.
[19:22] ---
    We aren't even allowed near the sea.
[19:26] ---
    Programmers are like weapons:
    We're forbidden by law from moving freely.
[19:32] ---
    So you are the group's hacker.
    What are you after?
[19:35] ---
    Long ago, glassblowers had no freedom,
    because glasswork funded the state.
[19:42] ---
    If they left the country, they were blinded first.
[19:46] ---
    You're a refugee?
    That's why you started a massacre?
[19:52] ---
    Do you think cyberbrains make people happy?
[20:00] ---
    Are your memories trustworthy?
    Or were they planted by someone?
[20:06] ---
    When micromachine-based cyberization
    came to pass, experts worldwide warned us:
[20:13] ---
    "False memories will be used to commit crimes."
[20:17] ---
    Every organization wants
    that technology. My technology.
[20:21] ---
    You mean you successfully
    made memory-manipulation tech?
[20:25] ---
    Your memories might even be...
[20:31] ---
    I'm diving right here, right now!
[20:34] ---
    Saw that coming.
[20:36] ---
    We don't know what this virus is.
    What if you get infected?
[20:41] ---
    I'll blow it away, and her cyberbrain with it.
[20:43] ---
    A hacker who commits mass murder
    just to escape deserves assassination.
[20:49] ---
    During your dive?!
[20:51] ---
    Your cyber warfare style is twisted.
[20:53] ---
    I prefer the term "super-wizard-class."
[20:56] ---
    "Wizard"... Magician.
    Magician who can't go home...
[21:02] ---
    I'm diving straight in through her line.
[21:04] ---
    Uh-huh, ignore protocol.
[21:07] ---
    Hey, something's weird.
[21:12] ---
    You're being hacked!
    They're doing it through her cyberbrain!
[21:16] ---
    What's going on? This isn't just backfire!
[21:20] ---
    Emma... Danger... Emma...
[21:28] ---
    You...
[21:39] ---
    Major!
[21:44] ---
    I'm sorry, Emma... I'm sorry.
[21:48] ---
    It's okay. I wanted this.
[21:52] ---
    Don't cry, Brinda.
[21:56] ---
    There are two Ghosts in there?
[22:09] ---
    I heard about Section 9's meddling.
[22:12] ---
    You couldn't have shot her before
    she started blabbing about asylum?
[22:16] ---
    That shooting is currently under
    investigation, Deputy Director Amagata.
[22:20] ---
    I can imagine the profound
    effects this incident will have
[22:25] ---
    on the Next-Generation Weapons
    Review Committee you serve on.
[22:30] ---
    The year-end industry fair has been cancelled.
[22:33] ---
    And thanks to pressure from
    the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
[22:34] ---
    we won't be unveiling our
    prototype weapons, either.
[22:38] ---
    It's shaking the foundations of the company.
[22:41] ---
    I hear you're pressing for large-scale
    water sales even after Dr. Thied's death.
[22:46] ---
    I have a duty to fulfill my contract.
[22:49] ---
    And effective use of resources is
    key for an international company.
[22:54] ---
    There are some out there who
    can't even secure drinking water.
[22:57] ---
    If you just want to criticize my economics,
    I'm going back to work.
[23:09] ---
    You're not cut out for government work.
[23:12] ---
    Start an NPO and go live
    in some refugee camp.
[23:21] ---
    He's annoying.
[23:22] ---
    He's a classic ex-politician, and he owes
    me one from my intelligence days.
[23:27] ---
    Which means he's a reliable source.
[23:31] ---
    NPOs, camps... and Foreign Affairs?
[23:35] ---
    The council on weapons development!
[23:38] ---
    Was that the objective behind the
    cyberterrorism against Harimadara?
[23:42] ---
    Lately there's a debate about
    whether next-gen weapons
[23:43] ---
    should be produced domestically
    or developed abroad.
[23:48] ---
    The overseas faction'd be thrilled if
    a domestic manufacturer got attacked.
[23:53] ---
    Here we go: an NPO that
    "treats cyberization disorders."
[23:57] ---
    They disseminated cyberization
    and learning devices
[24:00] ---
    in refugee camps in Kuzan during the war.
[24:03] ---
    And domestically?
[24:04] ---
    Got a hit on that girl in the
    same NPO's treatment records.
[24:09] ---
    Cyberization rejection syndrome.
[24:11] ---
    Apparently she ran away
[24:13] ---
    from a war orphan facility because
    she rejected being cyberized.
[24:16] ---
    Not wanting a cyberbrain means you're sick?
[24:19] ---
    The white paper on cyberization
    the MHLW released after the war
[24:22] ---
    classifies it with anorexia.
[24:25] ---
    That's news to me.
[24:27] ---
    The cyberization business
    is insanely big money.
[24:31] ---
    Pretty predictable that people who
    don't want it get treated as sick.
[24:36] ---
    Could she be a genuine multiple personality?
[24:39] ---
    The prevailing theory is that
    personalities split but Ghosts don't.
[24:44] ---
    The issue is, what did that NPO
[24:46] ---
    have to do with a business deal
    motivated by military development?
[24:51] ---
    Go at the military-industrial complex
    from both ends: soldiers and companies.
[25:06] ---
    It's me. The others got caught.
[25:13] ---
    Don't worry, you'll see them in the afterlife.
[25:22] ---
    Hello!
[25:23] ---
    Y-You a cop?
[25:29] ---
    I-I prepared a confession.
    Let me call my lawyer--
[25:34] ---
    You're not getting that chance.
[25:37] ---
    You killed our bait, so you're
    gonna tell us everything.
[25:49] ---
    Started to miss your old home?
[25:54] ---
    I'm only here to bring in
    your witness, Lt. Col. Kurutsu.
[25:57] ---
    Tsumugi is standing by. Dive if you want to.
[26:02] ---
    Assuming she has a Ghost, that is.
[26:04] ---
    What do you mean?
[26:06] ---
    I'm stepping out.
[26:08] ---
    As a member of the committee, I need to
    be at Harimadara's product inspection.
[26:12] ---
    Still obsessed with getting promoted?
[26:15] ---
    It's something you ran away without doing.
[26:44] ---
    Nice to see you, Kusanagi.
[26:46] ---
    I didn't think we'd have another
    chance to work with you.
[26:49] ---
    Are these your men?
[26:51] ---
    Yes. Batou and Togusa.
[26:53] ---
    This is Tsumugi Dokuro.
    They're both cyber warfare tactical officers.
[26:58] ---
    "Both"? Are they sharing a body?
[27:02] ---
    She says they're two identical
    twins in one conjoined body.
[27:05] ---
    I dunno how they move.
[27:08] ---
    The world's full of surprises.
[27:13] ---
    Let's get started.
[27:24] ---
    So, only the body came back.
[27:27] ---
    What do you mean?
[27:28] ---
    She's a technical officer in
    Lt. Col. Kurutsu's command.
[27:32] ---
    She was investigating a hacker with
    a special neurochip-type cyberbrain.
[27:37] ---
    He's known as "Scarecrow,"
[27:39] ---
    and he's a suspect in the
    terrorist attack on Harimadara.
[27:42] ---
    Another Oz character?
[27:45] ---
    Huh?
[27:47] ---
    Our conclusion is that he's a
    special spy based on postwar tech.
[27:52] ---
    Emma was the one who reasoned it out.
[27:55] ---
    She hypothesized a hacker
    with the same disorder she had.
[27:58] ---
    Someone who had to incrementally
    replace his brain with neurochips
[28:01] ---
    and prosthetize his body to survive.
[28:03] ---
    She had that disorder?
[28:06] ---
    Personality attenuates, and selfhood can't
    be retained without auxiliary cyberbrains.
[28:11] ---
    Emma transformed her impairment into
    her signature trait, as did Scarecrow.
[28:16] ---
    Emma regularly used advanced
    cyberization to structure her selfhood,
[28:20] ---
    but Scarecrow is different.
[28:22] ---
    To compensate for his attenuated personality,
    he dubs the Ghosts of others,
[28:25] ---
    steals their bodies,
    and assumes their identities.
[28:28] ---
    Like the scarecrow who can't think
    inserting a false brain into his head.
[28:32] ---
    Seriously?
[28:33] ---
    In other words, this is...
[28:35] ---
    The body is Emma's, but it's
    being operated by a man's brain
[28:40] ---
    which is only one-third the normal size
    and cyberized with neurochips.
[28:44] ---
    So what I dived into was
    the girl's dubbed Ghost.
[28:49] ---
    What happened to her brain?
[28:52] ---
    Ghost Dubbing would've degraded it.
[28:54] ---
    It's either in the trash or
    sliced up in his research lab.
[28:57] ---
    That's awful...
[29:00] ---
    Poor Emma. I'm sorry.
[29:03] ---
    It's okay, Junior. Don't be afraid.
[29:06] ---
    I know the lions will come.
    The people with courage...
[29:10] ---
    Who are you? Tell me who you work for.
[29:13] ---
    I am a scarecrow. My brain is fading away.
[29:17] ---
    I am tin. My heart is fading away.
[29:20] ---
    Is that Emma talking, or her dubbed Ghost?
[29:25] ---
    Tin Girl, give me the scarecrow man's name.
[29:31] ---
    His name is Brinda Jr. Please, don't blame him.
[29:38] ---
    Got a hit at a postwar nursing home!
    And the same NPO is involved with it.
[29:43] ---
    Brinda Jr., age 32.
[29:45] ---
    After he was cyberized, he became an
    accountant at an employment agency.
[29:49] ---
    His personality's thin,
[29:50] ---
    but he memorized a 200-digit number
    in two seconds for an IQ test.
[29:54] ---
    That's textbook for someone
    with special cognitive abilities.
[29:57] ---
    Find out which organization
    set him up as a hacker.
[30:00] ---
    Roger.
[30:02] ---
    I'm diving into that man's Ghost.
[30:05] ---
    There are only a handful of proven
    double Ghosts in existence.
[30:09] ---
    We don't know the dangers.
[30:11] ---
    I want to know which Ghost has motive.
[30:14] ---
    You're doubting Emma? She's the victim here.
[30:17] ---
    Then I'll confirm that.
[30:19] ---
    Batou, be my backup in case they back-hack me.
[30:23] ---
    Two against two, eh?
[30:30] ---
    Togusa. Get all the records copied.
[30:33] ---
    Roger. Oh, here...
    Sorry, it's a call from my dad.
[30:39] ---
    Hey Dad, it's been a while. Yeah.
[30:42] ---
    Batou! Restrain Togusa!
[30:45] ---
    Got it. I'll become the Lion.
[30:53] ---
    A Mateba, still?
[30:57] ---
    Don't move!
[31:10] ---
    Major!
[31:12] ---
    Let's go.
[31:15] ---
    This is crazy! I found a Starter
    log on his comm--it's the virus!
[31:21] ---
    He must have kept the virus
    inactive within his neurochips.
[31:25] ---
    His infiltration was unexpectedly quick.
[31:27] ---
    So, it combines victims' memories of past
    hostility with objects in front of them
[31:31] ---
    to plant instantaneous false memories?
[32:04] ---
    I can get deadly, right?
[32:06] ---
    That was your last breath if you don't.
[32:10] ---
    Don't underestimate me!
[32:16] ---
    The scarecrow is the virus's host and
    Togusa's brain is the package, right?
[32:20] ---
    Yep. But the infection route's
    disturbingly selective.
[32:23] ---
    Only people around you are being infected.
[32:28] ---
    Does that mean the onset can be regulated?
[32:31] ---
    That'd be impossible without
    a third party to switch it on.
[32:35] ---
    Which I guess means it's a virus
    whose damage can be controlled.
[32:39] ---
    Then it's military.
    Reanalyze yesterday's infection data.
[32:43] ---
    We don't want to chase the virus; we want
    to chase the enemy in possession of it.
[32:47] ---
    I wish to go on living even after my death.
[32:50] ---
    Hidden data?
[32:52] ---
    For these 620 reasons, we oppose
    cyberization without free choice.
[32:59] ---
    Reason: We submit that
    software within the cyberbrain
[33:02] ---
    is vulnerable to third-party tampering.
[33:07] ---
    Reason: Electronic alteration
    of memory causes abnormalities
[33:12] ---
    in the totality of our independent
    will referred to as the "Ghost."
[33:18] ---
    Do you actually think a world without
    infection and infiltration is possible?!
[33:25] ---
    Tsumugi! You alive?
[33:27] ---
    I'm running a sim of the
    scarecrow's brain. Help me.
[33:30] ---
    You have Emma Tsuda's Ghost infiltration key,
    don't you? Make me a backdoor.
[33:34] ---
    I see, you're going to use
    Scarecrow's cyberbrain structure
[33:38] ---
    to approximate a vaccine?
[33:53] ---
    Reason: There are currently seventeen
    possible ways to alter our memories.
[33:59] ---
    Shit!
[34:01] ---
    Major! Why won't you use my
    Ghost infiltration key to stop this?!
[34:05] ---
    It's no use. Brinda won't let her.
[34:09] ---
    I will become anyone. I've inputted
    and erased many Ghosts.
[34:14] ---
    I disappeared, too... Who am I?
[34:18] ---
    Was Unit 501 a target, too?
    Aren't you a victim after all?!
[34:23] ---
    There was no other way.
[34:26] ---
    What are you after?
[34:42] ---
    Don't disappear, Emma.
[34:48] ---
    Let's go on living after our deaths, together.
[34:55] ---
    They're here.
[35:04] ---
    An attack barrier!
[35:07] ---
    Major!
[35:09] ---
    Colonel!
[35:11] ---
    They fought each other with attack barriers.
    One of them got forwarded.
[35:15] ---
    I can't believe it was stronger than ours...
[35:18] ---
    You were infiltrated for a moment.
[35:21] ---
    Delete all relevant operational
    headquarters from the cyberbrain Net.
[35:24] ---
    Go after Brinda. There's nothing left to do here.
[35:31] ---
    Damn stray dog...
[35:41] ---
    Looks like we pulled it off.
[35:43] ---
    The host and Starter are still active.
[36:02] ---
    We can see the ocean, Emma.
[36:06] ---
    This creeps even me out, Major.
[36:09] ---
    Report.
[36:10] ---
    Col. Hozumi from Army intelligence
    was the one to recruit Brinda Jr.
[36:15] ---
    "Scarecrow" is an op cooked up
    by their old Investigations Section
[36:18] ---
    during a period when they were
    working on Ghost Dub devices.
[36:22] ---
    Hozumi got on the Next-Gen Weapons
    Review Committee through Foreign Affairs.
[36:27] ---
    But she wasn't there long,
    and Kurutsu of Unit 501 took her seat
[36:33] ---
    at Vice-Minister Kitahara's recommendation.
[36:36] ---
    Unit 501 got a hold on Hozumi
    through military musical chairs, eh?
[36:41] ---
    Reason: We can prove
    that false memories
[36:45] ---
    compel us to commit murder, suicide,
[36:49] ---
    --and other criminal acts.
    --Which one built the pod?
[36:53] ---
    Unknown. But Army intelligence decided to
    rally by interfering with the Review Committee.
[36:59] ---
    I'd guess that somewhere in there,
    the two hackers became aware of each other.
[37:03] ---
    The attack on Harimadara is the connection?
[37:06] ---
    There's no evidence they did it.
[37:09] ---
    But Hozumi is in the overseas
    weapons development faction,
[37:13] ---
    and Harimadara's a domestic faction stronghold.
[37:15] ---
    Who shot our bait?
[37:17] ---
    A Kuzan water cartel hit man.
    Hozumi's playing with serious fire.
[37:24] ---
    She used the pretext of wartime industry
[37:26] ---
    to interfere in Kuzan's affairs while
    she was stationed there during the war.
[37:30] ---
    If she can't subdue the domestic faction
    and give the cartel the profits she promised,
[37:34] ---
    it'll retaliate against her.
[37:37] ---
    Starter analysis results?
[37:39] ---
    Couldn’t pin down the trigger,
    but I got my answer
[37:41] ---
    from the fact that we couldn't find
    the infection route into the building
[37:44] ---
    even though Section 9 had domination over it.
[37:49] ---
    It was a C4ISR network.
[37:51] ---
    A military communications system.
[37:54] ---
    Things are starting to come clear.
[37:56] ---
    Col. Hozumi's the one
    who activated Starter
[37:58] ---
    and patched the virus through
    to infect the VIP room's security.
[38:03] ---
    She was after the woman the guard shot.
[38:05] ---
    Senior Vice-Minister Kitahara,
    who's with the domestic faction.
[38:09] ---
    That massacre was a
    smokescreen for one murder?!
[38:12] ---
    Guess she's a born war-lover.
[38:14] ---
    Why snipe Tin Girl?
[38:16] ---
    That was a bluff.
[38:17] ---
    She must've wanted to get rid of us
    and get Tin Girl safely to the 501.
[38:22] ---
    So her little visit to Section 9
    was a smokescreen, too?
[38:26] ---
    She backed down so easily because
    she was after Unit 501 from the start.
[38:30] ---
    So she could set up anti-cyberbrainist
    Emma Tsuda as the massacre's ringleader.
[38:35] ---
    Harimadara, the Vice-Minister, the 501...
    She had a threefold plan to take them all out!
[38:41] ---
    What about the Ghost of
    the girl who got dubbed?
[38:43] ---
    If she does have her own will,
    why'd she knowingly let Hozumi use her?
[38:49] ---
    Just from the circumstances, the scarecrow
    is the one you've been after.
[38:54] ---
    He didn't necessarily write the virus.
    Hozumi said there was a broker.
[38:59] ---
    If she told the truth,
    someone out there made and sold it.
[39:02] ---
    That's who I'm after.
[39:04] ---
    This is all speculation. Right now,
    there's only one way for us to get proof.
[39:10] ---
    I assume you have Togusa's location.
    We'll meet en route.
[39:13] ---
    We're going to capture both Ghosts--
    the scarecrow's, and the girl's.
[39:18] ---
    Togusa's the problem.
[39:20] ---
    Blowing a married teammate's
    brains out ain't my job.
[39:24] ---
    We know for sure this infection
    plants false memories, right?
[39:28] ---
    You saw him talking to his dead father.
[39:31] ---
    There should be a shared form.
[39:33] ---
    I'll get infected, so you ID it and
    version up your makeshift vaccine.
[39:38] ---
    You want to mirror your own brain?
[39:39] ---
    Worst case scenario, blow my brains out.
[39:43] ---
    So that's my job?
[39:45] ---
    If you don't like it, make me the leader.
[39:48] ---
    A checkpoint?
[39:51] ---
    You're on the wanted list
    as a suspected terrorist!
[39:54] ---
    Shit, it's Section 9! The ape
    used to be in Army intelligence.
[39:58] ---
    He cut a deal with Hozumi, and he's framing us!
[40:01] ---
    She may just want us to think so.
    I'll send Section 9 our intel.
[40:06] ---
    After all this, you're still relying on him?!
[40:08] ---
    --No.
    --Why, then?!
[40:11] ---
    My Ghost is whispering that I should do it.
[40:30] ---
    Wait! Where are you going?!
[40:35] ---
    Stop!
[40:38] ---
    We promised we'd go far away.
[40:47] ---
    Goodbye.
[41:10] ---
    I released the package!
[41:13] ---
    I'm going on ahead.
[41:15] ---
    I told you to shoot if things went south!
    Take a damn gun with you...
[41:22] ---
    Major...
[41:27] ---
    She's in pieces!
[41:28] ---
    If she's a neurochip version, she's still alive.
[41:34] ---
    We'll go on living.
[41:46] ---
    It's a Ghost Dub, not a transfer?!
[41:59] ---
    That's a Harimadara prototype!
[42:04] ---
    Major!
[42:05] ---
    Two Ghosts have been dubbed into that thing.
[42:08] ---
    We're going to stop it! Logicomas,
    give me everything you've got!
[42:11] ---
    Yes, sir!
[42:15] ---
    Where the hell would they
    abandon their own lives to go?
[42:20] ---
    The ocean.
[42:22] ---
    Huh?
[42:23] ---
    They're not going anywhere! This ends here!
[43:12] ---
    Next-gen weapon or not, its brains are rookies.
[43:15] ---
    Aim for the eyes and legs,
    and it's a piece of cake.
[43:31] ---
    For real?!
[44:22] ---
    Got you now!
[44:35] ---
    What's that?
[44:36] ---
    It's Army intelligence! The bastards
    requested an artillery strike!
[44:46] ---
    You've cut off your sensory system?!
[44:49] ---
    Crap!
[44:59] ---
    You discarded intensity regions...
[45:02] ---
    Recognition systems, memory fields,
    the Net that maintains your architecture...
[45:28] ---
    You even jettisoned your own Ghost!
[45:30] ---
    You want a life you've
    stripped all meaning from?!
[46:49] ---
    Goodbye.
[47:19] ---
    It's over.
[47:20] ---
    Return to base. We're going
    to Kuzan, by way of Benares.
[47:26] ---
    The world's cyber economy has only just begun.
[47:30] ---
    I'll pay whatever it takes
    to reconcile with the cartel--
[47:45] ---
    On your knees, hands in the air!
[47:48] ---
    Oh, the wanted poster. Told you so.
[48:00] ---
    You're just like that Section 9 chief.
[48:02] ---
    Never happy unless you're
    digging up what's dead and buried.
[48:07] ---
    It's something you ran away without doing.
[48:12] ---
    Nothing's going to change, Kusanagi.
[48:16] ---
    We're an independent offensive unit.
[48:19] ---
    We stand independent of the system,
[48:20] ---
    and we have truly discrete
    personalities that don't get packaged.
[48:25] ---
    When we're officially approved
    as top priority, we'll root out
[48:28] ---
    all the sorry bastards who conspire
    because they're afraid of a scandal.
[48:35] ---
    And you count me as one of them?
[48:39] ---
    I never changed your channel. Contact me
    whenever you want to come home.
[48:59] ---
    You're free to go. We voided the
    wanted notice Col. Hozumi put out.
[49:03] ---
    Vice-Minister of Defense Kitahara
    wants to thank you.
[49:08] ---
    Is that some sort of joke?
[49:10] ---
    A political one.
[49:12] ---
    Section 9 just went through
    Col. Hozumi's possessions
[49:16] ---
    and confiscated a Ghost Dub device
    and an outline of the Scarecrow op.
[49:20] ---
    They couldn't arrest her, though.
[49:22] ---
    No--but then she confessed.
[49:29] ---
    Her chopper was shot down
    with Kuzan weapons.
[49:34] ---
    She's afraid enough of the cartel's revenge
[49:37] ---
    to request protective
    custody and a plea bargain.
[49:40] ---
    So she'll get off scot-free.
[49:42] ---
    I'll make sure she doesn't.
[49:43] ---
    The NPO she worked with is a front
    for dirty cyberbrain business.
[49:48] ---
    Not only that, we've detected Starter
    in her cyberbrain, just like your intel said.
[49:54] ---
    She got a lot of people injured or killed,
    and I'll make her pay for that--
[49:58] ---
    even if I can't take her to court yet.
[50:02] ---
    Where did she get the virus?
[50:04] ---
    Through a broker, she says. She claims
    to know nothing about its author.
[50:09] ---
    I see.
[50:11] ---
    Was it really the cartel
    who tried to kill Hozumi?
[50:15] ---
    Even if it was someone who wanted
    to prevent us from investigating her,
[50:19] ---
    I'm sure any trace of them is long gone.
[50:34] ---
    Major.
[50:36] ---
    All of you came? I didn't know
    I had such admirable subordinates.
[50:41] ---
    You could've been attacked while in custody.
[50:45] ---
    We've been keeping an eye on all
    the suspicious characters who came by.
[50:49] ---
    One more thing. I told the
    Minister of Home Affairs
[50:52] ---
    that your team contributed
    to deterring the virus.
[50:56] ---
    Use your vaunted cyberbrain to read
    Public Security Commission report N2077.
[51:01] ---
    As of tomorrow, you get special authority.
[51:05] ---
    Without official oversight.
[51:08] ---
    This case isn't over.
[51:10] ---
    Investigate the high-level hacking
    virus and any organizations involved,
[51:15] ---
    and plan to attend plenty
    of funerals along the way.
[51:18] ---
    I shot Thied.
[51:20] ---
    You must have had a hunch that an
    intelligence bigwig was behind this,
[51:23] ---
    meaning you would've wanted
    an intel advantage at any cost.
[51:26] ---
    So why didn't you stop me?!
[51:29] ---
    Because I don't have
    your Ghost infiltration key.
[51:36] ---
    No organization will ever have it.
[51:40] ---
    I promised your late commander that.
[52:08] ---
    Bottom line, all we figured out
    was that someone out there
[52:11] ---
    used a couple of anti-cyberbrainist hackers
    and a miserable water company chick.
[52:18] ---
    We may be looking for a crime
    worth sacrificing lives over,
[52:21] ---
    but all we have are money-mad war profiteers
[52:24] ---
    and a man and girl obsessed
    with casting things away.
[52:27] ---
    For now, that is.
[52:30] ---
    Which one had agency, the man or the girl?
    Did they even have real will?
[52:39] ---
    When they blocked my infiltration, at least.
[52:43] ---
    But they fled with nowhere to go,
    then had to transfer into that weapon.
[52:50] ---
    That think-tank's cyberbrain
    had a massive output system.
[52:55] ---
    Hmm?
[52:56] ---
    What if the reason they cast away
    what made them themselves
[52:59] ---
    was to output the last thing left into the Net?
[53:04] ---
    You think that's where they were going?
[53:06] ---
    Pouring the last shreds of their Ghosts
    into the Net... Is that even possible?
[53:12] ---
    It's been researched,
    but it's impossible to prove.
[53:18] ---
    But in the moment their Ghosts were lost,
    I got the feeling they'd fused.
[53:23] ---
    That two lives had become one...
[53:26] ---
    That isn't like you. Ghosts are the
    most independent things in this world.
[53:31] ---
    Even the ones being controlled are
    fundamentally, eternally standalone.
[53:36] ---
    Like our squad, yeah?
[53:41] ---
    Yeah.
[53:43] ---
    Well? The floaters are all ready.
    I got a set of two.
[53:48] ---
    Even someone with a
    titanium skull wouldn't drown.
[53:51] ---
    You seriously want to swim
    in the ocean in midwinter?
[53:54] ---
    Gotta shake off those
    memories of almost drowning.
[53:57] ---
    Plus it ain't too often I get
    to see you in a swimsuit.
[54:00] ---
    That's your real goal?
[54:01] ---
    --Huh?
    --Unbelievable.
[54:03] ---
    No, no! I'm doing this all for you!
[54:09] ---
    I'll take a rain check.
[54:11] ---
    I'm telling you, you got it all wrong!
[54:45] ---
    Wavering sorrow and hatred
[54:51] ---
    It all dims over time
[54:57] ---
    Creaky (spirits)
[55:02] ---
    We're taken, we're taken away
[55:08] ---
    Away
[55:11] ---
    Broken-off memory freezes in the sky
[55:18] ---
    This heart rent asunder
[55:23] ---
    Splitting in two (splitting)
[55:28] ---
    We're making, we're making our way
[55:35] ---
    Nowhere
[55:36] ---
    We split in two (slipping)
[55:41] ---
    We're slipping, we're slipping away
[55:48] ---
    No way home...
[55:58] ---
    (Ghosts...)
[56:16] ---
    Broken (spirits)
[56:21] ---
    We're breaking, we're breaking away
[56:28] ---
    Away
[56:30] ---
    Vanishing (slipping)
[56:34] ---
    We're going, we're going insane
[56:41] ---
    No way...
[56:44] ---
    Severed souls sleep
[56:50] ---
    Unable to dream
[56:56] ---
    Wandering (spirits)
[57:01] ---
    We're calling, we're calling your name
[57:07] ---
    Your name
[57:09] ---
    We split in two (slipping)
[57:14] ---
    We're sleeping while slipping away
[57:21] ---
    No way home...
[57:31] ---
    (Ghosts... left to roam...)
[57:44] ---
    (Lost... no way home...)
[57:57] ---
    (Ghosts... left to roam...)
[58:07] ---
    (Lost... ghosts... no way home)
[58:23] ---
    (Ghosts...)

Season 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] ---
    

9 - PYROPHORIC CULT, 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] ---
    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] ---
    

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