2 - Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2

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    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!