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